PM NAJIB MUST
HONOURABLY RESIGN
By: Kassim Ahmad
24th July, 2016
After the indirection mention of his
name with two others related to him by the United States Department of Justice
two days ago, it is best that Prime Minister Najib honourably resigns. There
can be no use whatsoever for him to continue to hold office, seeing the
financial scandals that have surfaced involving him and his cronies. He should
own up and ask for forgiveness from the Malaysian people. The Malaysia people
are known for their magnanimous treatment of repentant wrongdoers.
The UMNO supreme council should call
into session an extraordinary UMNO general assembly which will accept his
resignation and recommends the calling of the 14th general
elections. Our Parliament should convene and call for the general election.
An UMNO general assembly should also
elect new delegates and a new supreme council. This new general assembly should
pass a resolution to root out corruption completely from the party and the
government. If Singapore can do it, why cannot we? A system of cadre-and-leader training must be
instituted to bring about a zero corruption system by giving rise to principled
politicians. Our people must not and should not accept less than that. We
should base ourselves on the shining example of Prophet Muhammad, the leader
who wrought an exemplary vessel of statecraft.
Our Federal Constitution should be
changed to reflect a just system of governance, as ordered by God in the Quran.
This would better suit our constitutional stipulation that “Islam is the
religion of the Federation.” With due respect to the famous jurists of the Reid
Commission which drafted our constitution, they seemed unaware of the Prophet’s
seminal constitutional document, known as the Medina Charter, the first written
constitution in the world.[1]
It should be noted that the Medina
Charter assigns the autonomous administration of religions to their respective its
adherents, thus at one stroke of the pen eliminates religious conflicts. The
state does not concern itself with religion.
Government,
as are other affairs, is carried out
through consultation by the community. This is far more satisfactory than the
Western concept of check and balance. It is strange that the two hand that God
gave us is made to fight one another! Why can they cooperate to enjoin good and
prevent evil? More over this check-and-balance theory has not been able to prevent
the rise of colonialism and the creation of the Zionist State of Israel, a
clear illegal and unjust occupation of Arab Palestine.
KASSIM AHMAD
is an Malaysian author. His website is www.kassimahmad.blogspot.com
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