IPOH: The Opposition thinks that controversial preacher and university lecturer, Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, needs a “mental check-up” for challenging non-Muslims in a recent column to enter a church or temple in their underwear only.
Ipoh Barat MP M. Kula Segaran, commenting on the offensive column, said Tee had again become a laughing stock in the country and the target of heavy criticism in the social media.
“Anyone in his right mind will never challenge others in this manner,” said Kula Segaran. “Only one who requires a mental check up will throw such a challenge.”
Tee was commenting on Selangor lawmaker Ng Sze Han’s Facebook posting welcoming all visitors to his Kinrara service centre regardless of their attire.
“These human tribes are uncivilized. No religion allows revealing outfits,” said Tee, a Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin lecturer. “Perhaps they should enter churches or temples only in their underwear if they don’t believe in a dressing ethic.”
Kula argued that Ng was only highlighting the fact that so long as a member of the public was decently dressed, his or her attire should not be an issue. “Tee could not understand the message and had challenged critics to wear only underwear to churches and temples.”
“The priority of government departments should be to provide good service to the public,” said Kula. “They should not try to make things difficult for them. The dress code has nothing to do with the service they are supposed to provide.”
He said that the growing controversy over the dress code imposed by various government departments had highlighted the need to do away with them for the public. The Cabinet disappointingly failed to take note that more and more “little Napoleons’ have emerged of late to make life difficult for the public, he said.
Many had criticized the requirement for females to cover the knees as unnecessarily strict, he noted. “Netizens argue that no one should impose his or her own religious values on others.”