I refer to the Malaysiakini article No talks, just file a police report .

There they go again - the all time typical of ‘holier than thou’ answers to voices of reason that however do not resonate with their accustomed way of thinking. ‘So-and-so is not a practising Muslim! So-and-so is Muslim only in name!’ someone screams.

But our friends fail to explain to us how the writer’s comments in this particular article are seriously flawed as far as the issue highlighted by her is concerned.

Yes, I am a Muslim, meaning, one who submits to God's will. Do I feel wiser about Islam after listening to her? Oh, a big ‘yes’, I must say and not just after reading this article.

It has been quite some time (after many other numerous enlightening articles as well) since I began to make that very important decision of taking charge of my destiny, in preparation for life in the hereafter, with the wholesome confidence that the wahyu written in the Quran is the ultimate and unquestionable guide bestowed on us by the Almighty Allah as one of His mercies to us human beings.

In fact, after comparing all the verses found inside the Quran against all that have been shoved into my head since young by the various ustadz/ustadzah of the few schools that I went to, I am more convinced that Islam is a religion of thought, reason and knowledge.

I feel liberated from the shackles of religious dogmas that do me no favour in wanting to be a progressive muttaqiin nor meaningfully connect my soul to the Almighty God.

That is why you will find that out of the more than six thousands verses found in the Quran, very, very few highlight what kind of punishment to execute for certain sins or wrongdoings. Don't believe me? Just read the Holy Quran.

Nowhere in the above article did the writer comment negatively about Islam, my dear detractors. Your emotional charges against her really reflect on the ‘real’ you.

They write about syariah law in the UK and also its Islamic banks? Well, have they ever bothered to ponder and compare the type of mentality, orientations and culture of thinking that spearheaded the birth and operational existence of these two institutions in UK against those in our country, Malaysia?

Would you think the prosecution an caning of the three unnamed Muslim females on charges of adultery would have occurred in the UK?

I can go on and on debating with them about Islamic banks in the UK but suffice to remind them that nobody in their right frame of mind is questioning Islam itself. It is in the implementation and the implementing Muslims themselves that we often find the numerous flaws in by them going astray against the true teachings found in the Holy Quran.