Heheh.. I find this article from The Star a bit amusing. Cigarette-smoking Imams, what a way to put it... Those mysterious imams that stand in the shadow of a mosque at night while smoking a cigarette. Something like X-Files' Cigarette-smoking man.
Way to go Nik Aziz! But lets concentrate on other pressing issues, like the upcoming election.
Imams, reps who smoke rapped
KOTA BARU: Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat lashed out against cigarette-smoking imams and elected representatives.
“I have advised some of them to stop smoking, especially when they are in public view, but they still continue (to do it). And they are setting a bad example for the younger generation,” he said.
He said PAS’ agenda to curtail smoking could not be realised fully as some elected representatives and imams refused to lead by example.
“They should at least try to quit smoking as everybody knows that cigarette smoke is unhealthy and can cause various chronic ailments, but they lack the will power,” Nik Abdul Aziz said at the state-level Youth Day celebrations.
One of the social behaviours which irks the 76-year-old PAS spiritual adviser the most is smoking in public and he has even reprimanded journalists who lighted up.
The state has done its part by outlawing local tobacco smokehouses and factories producing materials for cigarettes since 1990 but the rate of smoking is still high.
Nik Abdul Aziz also advised party members to exercise and carry out religious activities.
Earlier in his speech, he said youths should be wary of social ills like drug abuse and forms of entertainment that could cripple Islam.
Four youths won the 2007 state Youth Awards. They are Mohamad Rosli Abdullah, 36, (entrepreneur category); Mohd Nazri Ariffin, 37, (social); Mohd Fadli Shaari, 27, (ulama) category; and Baharuddin Ahmad, 31, a non-governmental organisation activist.
Each of them received a plaque, certificate and RM3,000 cash from the Mentri Besar.
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