PAS Youth has slammed its counterpart in MCA for planning to build a human barricade to block Parliament in order to stop PAS parliamentarians from tabling a Private Member's Bill on hudud.

PAS Youth chief Suhaizan Kaiat said that such "threats" are “undemocratic” and reflective of MCA Youth's "provocative nature".

MCA Youth was also doing everything possible to block democratic means while PAS was adhering to democratic principles, Suhaizan said in a statement today.

“Such moves show that MCA is out-and-out anti-Islam and is a reflection of Umno's failure to teach MCA better.

“Umno must be responsible for MCA Youth's statement as it shows its ignorance and lack of respect for Muslims.

“Umno has long been silent on statements by MCA leaders that malign Islam and it shows Umno is not serious in defending Islam as the religion of the federation,” he said.
 
MCA Youth chief Chong Sin Woon (left) told a press conference yesterday that the party would form a human shield to block PAS from tabling the Bill, but stressed it is to uphold the Federal Constitution and not to go against Islam.

It will also launch a signature campaign on May 8, aiming to get a million signatures before June 9.

'Vulnerable to rape'
 
Meanwhile, Gerakan Wanita chief Tan Lian Hoe said the implementation of hudud would make women and children vulnerable to rape by Muslim men.

She said in Pakistan, which practises hudud, women who are raped find it difficult to prove the case as four male Muslim witnesses are required.
 
Tan (right) added that in such countries, women have been convicted of adultery in the absence of proof of rape, after falling pregnant as a result of the rape.

“It is impossible (that) if a rapist is doing the action of rape, they will call people to look at them.

“Medical examinations and pregnancy as result from rape are admissable as proof of self-guilt under hudud.
 
“Women and children are in danger of becoming easy targets for rape by Muslim men,” Tan told a press conference today.

Pakistan's practice has been roundly condemned internationally as being oppressive to women, with rape victims unable to secure convictions despite medical examinations proving rape.

In some cases, rape victims who fail to prove rape in Pakistan have been convicted of slander or adultery.

However, incidents recorded in early Islamic history show that physical evidence was used to prove rape, showing that jurists had moved away from the sole requirement of four male Muslim witnesses.
 
However, Kelantan's Syariah Criminal Enactment II (1993), which deals with hudud, does not explicitly touch on rape and only has clauses on theft, highway robbery, consensual extra-marital sex, false accusation of extra-marital sex and apostasy.
 
The PAS-led Kelantan government, through the PAS parliamentarians, intends to table a Private Member's Bill as early as the June sitting to pave the way for the implementation of the state enactment.

MCA has seven MPs, while Gerakan has one.