GOMBAK: PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang believes Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mujahid Yusof Rawa is unaware of his own weakness when he criticised those who opposed the International Convention on the Discrimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) as “wild”.
Hadi when commenting on the issues related to ICERD said Islam’s definition of human rights was more complete and fair as compared to the flawed version from the international bodies.
"Islam has a more extensive definition (of rights) and fair, while the version adopted by international bodies is incomplete and unfair.
"(For example), the situations in Israel and Myanmar are ignored, although the Muslims have done nothing wrong. The focus should be on these countries instead and we as Muslims, we should not be weak or show our weaknesses,” he said.
He said this after giving a lecture titled The Future of Islamic Geopolitics at the Main Auditorium of Malaysia International Islamic University (IIUM) Gombak here, today.
Also present were PAS Deputy President Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man and IIUM Deputy Rector (Internationalisation and Global Network) Prof Dr Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf.
Earlier, Mujahid had criticised those who opposed to ICERD for being wild and irrational, acting as if the world was coming to an end.
He said that the international convention would serve as a platform to uphold Islam's superiority against any forces of oppression.
Abdul Hadi believed ICERD had links with the world domination agenda set out by a certain international organisation.
"Part of the agenda is to bring down the economy, politics and the public morals. There are agents in such international organisation and its affiliations such as the ICERD that many people are not aware of," he said.
Meanwhile, commenting on the statement by the Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman for the Terengganu state government not to interfere with the state football players who did not cover their aurat, Abdul Hadi reminded him not to go overboard.
"As far as I know, even teams from England and France allowed Muslim players to uphold their religious beliefs," he said.