Teresa Kok Is Still On Their Target, But For a Different Reason Now
From Malaysia Wave
The powers that be has failed. They attempt to use Teresa Kok as the bogeyman for Malays has failed. Their attempt to create feeling of anger and dissatisfaction among the Malays against DAP has failed.
What’s more important, the Malay dissatisfaction they fail to create has also resulted in their failure to convince PAS members that Barisan Nasional is the answer to the security and the future of Islam in Malaysia. THIS IS THEIR BIGGEST FAILURE.
Teresa Kok has successfully fend off all attempts to paint her as Anti Islam and Anti Malay. She issued a statement denying her involvement in the “azan” controversy long before she was arrested under ISA. Her Press Secretary writes very good Bahasa Malaysia too, so her statement was well understood and accurate.
After Teresa’s release, she attended a Buka Puasa while wearing a skirt on the compound of the Masjid. Suddenly all hell broke loose. Her skirt was suddenly painted as an abomination and Teresa was painted as someone with complete disrespect to Islam for entering a mosque compound wearing a skirt.
We now see that the conspirator’s scheme has not ended. After their series of failure, they now try to exact revenge.on Teresa Kok. The skirt issue is to raise doubts about her among the Malays of her anti Islam stance.
The truth of the matter is that it is the fault of the Mosque committee. It may have happened as a small mistake. If any, the Masjid committee should have prepared a robe for Teresa before she entered to masjid’s compound. Or, if they had no robe, they should have informed Teresa that she should not enter the masjid’s compound since she is not properly attired. That’s the rule that applies to all Muslims anyways.
But, I doubt that the Masjid’s committee thought of it as an issue since the ceremony is conducted in the “COMPOUND” of the masjid. Technically, the compound of the Masjid is NOT THE MASJID. Why? Because you only perform “I’tikaf” when u enter the masjid. And, no one performs “I’tikaf” while they are still in the compound of the Masjid, that is until they enter the actual Masjid.
When I was in the USA, the Muslim community would build Islamic Centers. It consists of everything from kitchens, administration office, compounds, meeting hall, basketball court, parking lots, and of course Masjid. In other words, the “Masjid” is just one part of the same building. Despite entering the same building, you are not necessarily have entered the masjid. You have to go the area where it is designated as Masjid before u can perform I’tikaf and other forms of submission.
So, in truth, this is not even an issue. The Masjid committee didn’t complain. They allowed her to enter the Masjid, the PAS people didn’t complain. If u read Penarik Beca article on this issue, he didn’t complain either.
My guess is they are afraid of Teresa Kok meeting with Malays and Muslims to explain her innocence. This will turn a lot of their “local agents” among the community to look like liars.
They need to protect their news-carrier credibility for other projects. Because for this particular project, their news-carriers have pushed to their limits in painting Teresa Kok as an anti Islam. If the UMNO news-carrier is tainted, their ability to start a new project will be heavily impaired.
Plus, now all of function involving Teresa Kok in the Malay areas are heavily attended by the Malays. They want to hear for themselves from the mouth of Teresa rather than what they heard from rumors.