Heng to Ridhuan Tee – Who are you to tell me what to do?

When a woman is physically hurt and her dignity scandalised in the public for your brand of religion, it stops being a simple matter of religion. There is now also the issue of human rights to consider. Throw in the fact that such an act is fundamentally unconstitutional and completely contravenes the Criminal Procedure Code, it is now literally a national affair.

Demanding all who disagree with you to shut up, speaks lengths about your mentality, misogyny and dare I say, a deep-seated insecurity about your actual depth of religious knowledge and legislations in Malaysia. You have revealed an utter incapacity in your response to defend public caning, to justify the violation of human rights and Federal Constitution, other than having to resort to your usual rhetorics of “none of your business”, “you know nothing about Islam” and “you are not a Muslim”. Dear me, what convincing rationalisation indeed!

Dr Ridhuan Tee, as someone who has a doctorate and is a lecturer in a local university, I honestly expected a little more from you. I sincerely pray that you do not impart such unacademic style of brainwashing onto your students. God knows that one Ridhuan in Malaysia is already too much.

It must come as offensive and unacceptable to you that our Federal Constitution, the highest law of the land guarantees everyone the right to freedom of speech.

Let them not say that I did not practise what I preach about rhetoric. I will list out here a few points why I have to speak out pertaining this matter. Firstly, according to the Criminal Procedure Code Section 289 and Prisons Regulation 2000, no corporal punishment must ever be meted out against women. Secondly, the Federal Constitution has placed public order, and Penal Code the crimes of outrages on decency, under federal jurisdiction. Thirdly, understand that in a civilised society, punishments are intended to educate, not to humiliate and terrorise the offender; in such an event that an offender must be caned, it must be done behind closed doors, not in front of 100 eye-witnesses.

You thought that it would be more constructive that I voice out against the “communists’ treatments against the Uighur”, and I want to tell you that don’t “compare apples to oranges”.

Are we not in Malaysia, talking about Malaysians?

But if you have to draw an example from abroad, where was your voice when IS terrorists in Syria and Iraq were abducting girls to be used or sold as sex slaves to be raped and tortured.

My heart goes out to oppressed people anywhere in the world, but what credibility would I hold if I failed to tend to affairs of my country? And you attempting to demean me by claiming that I’m not an expert in this matter, is this not a tad too rich coming from someone who stands accused of plagiarism?

Datuk Heng Seai Kie
Wanita MCA Chairman

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