Rules are meant to manage the human activities. While men may or may not accept new values, ways to live a life in modern days according to their values surely still need to keep up with time.

When a new approach to life is adopted, those circumstances that required the previous rules are gone, and older rules rendered irrelavent. Insisting outdated rules simply curbs human development, and holds back progress.

Too philosophical ? It’s just a prelude to a series of jokes by he whose mind stopped thousand years ago. So, don’t take it too serious when you are asked to live as if you are still in the era of !Kung Bushman, and be careful not to fall from your chair.

We are blessed to live in Malaysia, not because we have bunches of zombies whose mindset do not evolve over time, but more importantly, because we have youngsters who stand up to voice their belief against outdated rules. A barely legal sweet young thing by the name of Tilia is one.

When she questioned problematic teachings of Islam which are no longer fit in our time, she was seen as criticizing Islam itself. I am very sure that just like others who are being labelled as “Liberals”, all she wanted was to make Islam the religion of peace more acceptable and well-loved in the modern age.

Women’s right. No matter how they try to justify it, the discrimination in the name of “protection”, and blaming everything evil on women is no longer acceptable in this age. Women enjoy equal rights as men, yet, they are making life difficult for women. Female incest victim must be imprisoned (might not be true Syariah but that’s what’s happening in Malaysia), married rape victim who got pregnant be convicted as berzina and must be stoned to death…

Polygamy, SMS talak, no matter how much they claimed it’s allowed but not encouraged, it is still allowed, hence a legal loophole for women to be exploited. Do I need to list all the reasons why they are unacceptable in the world today ?

Wheel may or may not need to be reinvent, but trains have evolved from charcoal-powered to electricity-powered. With the invention of Magnet-levitation (maglev) trains, wheels are a thing of a past. But its function is not at all lost. So why is form or substance more important here ?

Even in the enforcement of stoning to death, in which the convicted can walk away freely if they manage to climb out, females are discriminated against, as they are buried up to above their boobies, when men are only up to their waist. You call it justice ? We must work hard to stop Malaysians from being exploited in the name of a great faith by those with bad faith, because Negara Kita Tanggungjawab Kita.

Tilia stated that Islam did help women to gain more rights in the past, which must be credited. So why not maintain the will to progress, instead of keeping the orthodox interpretation of Islam which is now depriving women of their rights. One is past, one is present, but someone was still confused. Obviously Elfie has no understanding of time.

Yes, why Islam fails to be progressive like it was in the past ? Because they think we are still living in the past. Our voters live in current age. It’s time to update, dude !