PAS does NOT respect non-Muslim rights!! 🥂🍻

PAS, beer DOES NOT Kill, your Toxic Religiosity Does!!!!

Malaysiakini : ‘Muslims may not consider alcohol as essential food but many non-Muslims do.’ PAS respects non-Muslim rights, but beer brewing is not an 'essential service'

Kawak: PAS, please we non-Muslims in Malaysia don't trust whatever you say. Your record all the while has been anti-non-Muslims. This is not the first time beer has been made an issue by PAS.

To add salt to the wound, PAS has decreed non-Muslims cannot hold important government posts and voting for non-Muslim leaders is ‘haram’. PAS is the biggest bigot in Malaysia and is as dangerous and harmful as Covid-19 in Malaysian politics.

Beerismylife: By disallowing two breweries from resuming nominal operation, PAS, Umno and Bersatu are impinging on my rights as a non-Muslim to drink my beverage of choice.

I view beer as essential to me because I do not drink sugary drinks like Coke or Sprite. More importantly, I do not impinge on Muslims' rights to drink sugary drinks even though it causes diabetes and all sorts of health issues. You are free to destroy your own health with sugar and so am I with alcohol.

Politicians should not be using this as a platform to earn Brownie points with the citizens, especially in these dire times where the entire country is trying to survive the Covid-19 pandemic. Shame on you.

David Dass: Muslims may not consider alcohol as essential food but many non-Muslims do. Do not associate the consumption of alcohol with drunkenness and bad behaviour.
The consumption of wine as a table drink during meals is consistent with civilised behaviour and habits in many societies.

And there are differences. Hindus do not eat beef as they consider the cow sacred. Many Hindus are vegetarians as they consider all life sacred. The first miracle of Jesus Christ was converting water into wine. Wine is an important element in the celebration of the Catholic mass. Some wines are used for medicinal purposes. Our system allows for such differences.

Vijay47: Let us focus on just the preparation or manufacture of food and drinks. You hold that alcoholic drinks do not fall within the essential. What does then? Does food become essential only if it satisfies the Muslim palate? A mug of beer, a glass of whisky, in my case of vodka, with Sprite, yes ice please thank you, may not be the Islamic cup of tea. 

Why should that then intrude into my non-Muslim rights – remember your noble claim of respect for our rights?Again, the voice cries out “What is essential?” Must everyone partake of only nasi lemak? Should it be with sambal udang or ikan bilis? 

It is worse when it comes to drinks. Plain water or air sirap? Where does air sirap bandung fall into?  Things can be confusing and challenging when we needlessly compel ourselves to venture into the metaphysics of food and drinks.

I say keep it to the simple – to you, yours, to me, my Vodka, with Sprite, yes ice please thank you. And I assure you, a good time will be had by all.