The MCA will leave the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition if hudud law is implemented by Umno.
“MCA’s stand is very clear. We will object strongly to hudud. If Umno wants to implement hudud, we will pull MCA out of Barisan Nasional - simple as that,” MCA president Datuk Sri Dr Chua Soi Lek told reporters here today.
“Our stand is very clear. Umno wants to implement hudud, MCA is no party to it, we’ll get out of it,” he added.
When asked to comment on Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin’s statement yesterday that Umno supported hudud law in principle, Dr Chua (picture) said: “That can be understood because all Muslim support the teachings of the Quran. But you must see his qualifying statement that Malaysia is not ready to implement hudud law. And that’s very clear.”
Yesterday, Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat said he was willing for the DAP to leave Pakatan Rakyat (PR) if it objected to his views about implementing hudud law.
Nik Aziz had also dismissed as laughable suggestions that Kelantan could now go ahead to implement hudud law in the state now that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was no longer the prime minister.
Instead, he challenged Datuk Seri Najib Razak to withdraw any objections the federal government still had over Kelantan’s longstanding plans to implement hudud.
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim also threw his weight behind Kelantan’s longstanding plans to implement hudud, saying that the laws proposed by the PAS government protected the rights of non-Muslims.
The PR de facto leader stressed however that the opposition pact had not discussed the matter and this was only a “personal opinion”.
Muhyiddin also said yesterday that Umno supported hudud law in principle as it was part and parcel of Islam but stressed that Malaysia was not ready for such laws to be enacted.
The deputy prime minister and Umno deputy president said there was a need to spread information about hudud law so that the people understood what it meant before the ruling party could even think of implementing it.
