{"id":2077,"date":"2019-03-18T14:21:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T06:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2019-03-20T05:31:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T21:31:28","slug":"malaysian-isil-terrorists-should-be-charged-for-waging-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2077","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian ISIL terrorists should be charged for waging war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 &#8211; Talk about Malaysia offering its citizens who joined ISIL in Syria to return home had gone to the international news last week. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/03\/malaysia-offers-citizens-conditional-return-isil-crumbles-190312012544910.html\">Aljazeera<\/a> reported that while some countries are attempting to strip former fighters and their families of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/02\/shamima-begum-family-challenge-revoking-uk-citizenship-190220064453623.html\">citizenship<\/a>\u00a0and prevent them from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/02\/pompeo-alabama-woman-joined-isil-return-190220205553875.html\">returning<\/a>, Malaysia says citizens will be allowed to come back, provided they comply with checks and enforcement and complete a one-month government-run rehabilitation programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>But they should be charged for waging war against the state<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malaysia has laws against waging war on the Yang Dipertuan Agong. We also have laws against activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before we look at the laws we have, let\u2019s first consider if ISIL is waging war against the YDP Agong or our parliamentary democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>ISIL declared worldwide caliphate<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In June 2014 the group proclaimed itself a \u2018worldwide caliphate\u2019 and began referring to itself as the Islamic State (ad-Dawlah al-Isl\u0101miyah; IS). As a caliphate, it claimed religious, political and military authority over all Muslims worldwide.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now who is the head of religion in Malaysia? Yes, the YDP Agong.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who is the head of military in Malaysia? Again, the YDP Agong.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And by declaring worldwide caliphate over Muslims all over the world on religious and military, not only ISIS is challenging the sovereign powers of the YDP Agong but also legitimacy of parliamentary democracy in Malaysia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s look at the laws of our country.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Offences Against the State<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Waging or attempting to wage war or abetting the waging of war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, a Ruler or Yang di-Pertua Negeri<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Penal Code Section 121. Whoever wages war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong or against any of the Rulers or Yang di-Pertua Negeri, or attempts to wage such war, or abets the waging of such war, shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life, and if not sentenced to death shall also be liable to fine.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whilst ISIL is far away, its claims of worldwide caliphate and the fact that they had been waging war and expanding their territories, are evidence of their intention to expand as far and wide as possible. If given time and strength, they would be in Malaysia. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or maybe they are already here, waging war in silence, training their Malaysian soldiers in Syria, and to bring them back \u2018peacefully\u2019 to stage a war in Malaysia.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2096\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2096 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lotfi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lotfi.jpg 620w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lotfi-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lotfi-181x100.jpg 181w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lotfi-350x194.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ustaz Lotfi Ariffin (second from right) with unidentified ISIL fighters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Offences against the authority of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Ruler or Yang di-Pertua Negeri<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Penal Code Section\u00a0<\/span>121B. Whoever compasses, imagines, invents or intends the deposition or deprivation of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong from the sovereignty of Malaysia or the deprivation or deposition of the Ruler, his heirs or successors, or of the Yang di-Pertua Negeri from the rule of a State, or the overawing by means of criminal force or the show of criminal force the Government of Malaysia or of any State, shall be punished with imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to fine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Abetting offences under section 121A or 121B<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Penal Code Section 121C. Whoever abets the commission of any of the offences punishable by section 121A or 121B shall be punished with the punishment provided for the said offences.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">122. Whoever collects or attempts to collect men, arms or ammunition, or otherwise prepares to wage war with the intention of either waging or being prepared to wage war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong or any of the Rulers or the Yang di-Pertua Negeri or abets the waging or the preparation of such war, shall be punished with imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty years, and shall also be liable to fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Concealed intent to facilitate a design to wage war<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are these ISIL terrorists coming back with concealed intent to facilitate a design to wage war? They went to wage war, as if that is not evident enough but w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e have laws for that too:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Concealing with intent to facilitate a design to wage war<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Penal Code Section 123. Whoever by any act, or by illegal omission, conceals or attempts to conceal the existence of a design to wage war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong or any of the Rulers or the Yang di-Pertua Negeri, intending by such concealment or attempted concealment to facilitate, or knowing it to be likely that such concealment or attempted concealment will facilitate, the waging of such war, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Challenging Parliamentary Democracy via worldwide caliphate<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have laws against that too:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Activity detrimental to parliamentary democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Penal Code Section 124b. Whoever, by any means, directly or indirectly, commits an activity detrimental to parliamentary democracy shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to twenty years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Are we saying that those who joined ISIL to support the idea of worldwide caliphate did not commit any act detrimental to parliamentary democracy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attempt to commit activity detrimental to parliamentary democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2097\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2097\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aliukaysjihad260614.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aliukaysjihad260614.jpg.png 250w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aliukaysjihad260614.jpg-137x100.png 137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akil UK&#8217;s, a musician turned ISIL militant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Penal Code Section 124c. Whoever attempts to commit an activity detrimental to parliamentary democracy or does any act preparatory thereto shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fifteen years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now with all of that, how can we even argue that those ISIL jihadis wanting to return to Malaysia are not criminals akin to traitors waging war against the state?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s hard to argue that what they did are not against any of the above laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So since we have established that they indeed were waging war against the state, we now have to ask if any attempt to allow them to return home legal?<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Intentional omission to give information of offences against section 121, 121a, 121b or 121c by a person bound to inform<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Penal Code Section 121D. Whoever knowing or having reason to believe that any offence punishable under section 121, 121a, 121b or 121C has been committed intentionally omits to give any information respecting that offence, which he is legally bound to give, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or with fine or with both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, PDRM? By you having known or having reason to believe that any offence punishable by section 121 had been committed intentionally, are you omitting from upholding the law under Section 121D<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AG must look into this before Malaysia bring back ISIL militant traitors to the country and create bigger problems in the long run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-NMT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 &#8211; Talk about Malaysia offering its citizens who joined ISIL in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anti-terrorism","category-nation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.9 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malaysian ISIL terrorists should be charged for waging war - New Malaysia Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2077\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malaysian ISIL terrorists should be charged for waging war\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 &#8211; 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