This is what we called ''Democracy'' : PAS Kedah Withdraw Ramadan Bar Closure Plan

(Left 3)Malaysian PAS President,Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang announced to media that withdraw the Ramadan Bar Closure Plan in Kedah .

He added that PAS in Kedah will take care the benefits of all races.

Before 17th July 2011,one of a Malaysia State,Kedah which the place is under controlled by PAS (Parti Islam Semalaysia),planned to establish Bar Closure Plan during Ramadan month.But this plan was warm against by Non-Islamic people which are Chinese cummunity,Indian Community and Ethic Group.


The Ramadan Bar Closure Plan is purposely ensure that Muslim people can fast during sunshine and also as a respect to Muslim can rest or rest without any outside entertainment during Ramadan month.However,PAS have to take good care of Chinese and Indian who are the residents of Kedah state.According to Kedah's population,Kedah has 1,890,098 residents which including three major communities,there are 1,336,352 Malays (75.5%); 252,987 Chinese (14.2%); 122,911 Indians (6.9%), 35,293 Non-Citizens ; and 27,532 Ethic group (1.5%).



Therefore,PAS of Kedah called other state's PAS leaders and Non-Islam parties to have a meeting to discuss about the problem.Finally,this morning PAS President,Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang announced to media and public that Kedah will establish the Ramadan Bar Closure  Plan during Ramadan,But only effective for Muslim people.There would not be the problem if non-muslims go for entertainment at night.Those entertainment shops including bars are unnecessary force to close and they can still open at night but limited for non-muslims.They also need to ensure that prevent Muslim customer goes into entertainment shops during Ramadan.

Kedah Darul Aman

Parti Islam Semalaysia

As a Democratic Blogger,I think the way of PAS handle this kind of problem was very clever and effective because it did take care of all races of people who stayed in Kedah.Furthermore PAS is not like BN Goverment force to implement something without permission of Malaysian people or agree by Malaysian people.PAS really did the good job in this quite 'sensitive' problem.We cannot deny that Islam is our official religion in Malaysia but I  wanna make a clear that it doesn't mean I agree Malaysia should be Islamic country,Malaysia is full of races and religious country which promised by our First Prime Minister,Tunku Abdul Rahman.However,we also need to take care of Muslim's life during Ramadan month.Although only Kedah is the one of 13 states in Malaysia which established the Ramadan Bar Closure Plan,we can see the democracy way handled by PAS in Kedah.