No Valentine’s Day Crackdown
Local News
MP Khalid Samad of PAS has clarified that there will be no crackdown on Muslims celebrating Valentine’s Day in Pakatan Rakyat stats as claimed by PAS Youth chief Nasrudin Hasan recently.
Before that on Facebook, there were a video about Nasrudin giving speech that Muslim should not celebrates Valentine’s Day. She claimed that Valentine’s Day is just for Christian. She said that PAS will take action on those teenage who celebrates Valentine’s Day and do immoral activities on that day.
Khalid said the party was only concerned on youths who commit immoral activities on Valentine’s Day. Nasrudin view is personal and does not represent the state government. In fact, they actually never discussed any crackdown on Valentine’s Day in their recent PAS’s national political bureau.
Meanwhile, Council of Churches Malaysia secretary-general Reverend Hermen Shastri pointed out that celebration of Valentine’s day is a purely “secular” observation which has no ties to Christianity. Valentine’s Day is a purely secular observance and not celebrated in Malaysian churches or any other part of the world. The Council of Churches feels that the National Fatwa Council has unfairly portrayed Valentine’s Day as a Christian observance.
For my opinion, Valentine’s Day is celebrated by all races and it is a worldwide activity. You can choose not to celebrate it but not to conclude it as a Christian activity. Valentine’s Day is always romantic for those couples. For single, it doesn’t matter if it is a Valentine’s Day, life still goes on. I feel that Nasrudin shouldn’t make a conflict among Valentine’s Day with Islam. I support campaign which give counseling for youth for not doing immortal activities but give restriction for muslim for not celebrating an event is a bit too over.
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