Swearing is the new game in town

In a typical western court, a person swears on the Bible to "tell the truth and nothing but the truth" so help him God. In Buddhism, you create your own bad karma - and there's no such thing as swearing on the Buddha's picture or image to support your claim of the "truth". Chinese families were known to settle disputes by swearing in front of a deity. The divine retribution is very heavy on the sinner who lied.

In Islam, swearing on the Quran is not part of the teachings in Islam as Tuan Guru Nik Aziz had said and cannot be found in the Quran or Hadith. A Quran is meant to be recited, understood, and used as law for Islam religion, not to be sweared upon.

If Saiful/Amno say its part of Prophet Muhammad SAW teachings, the Quran during the Prophet's time isn't in book form like one can get today. It was passed on and memorized by Muhammad's disciples. Only during Khalifah Saidina Usman's time, that he decided to document the Quran as the people who memorize the Quran verses were getting old, beginning to forget the verses, and dying or old age.

If swearing can get Saiful proof his innocence and saudara Anwar's guilt, we should get all these people to swear immediately:
* Azilah Hadri & Sirul swear they did not kill Altantuya
* Aziz Buyong swear he did not strap C4 on Altantuya
* Rahim Noor swear he did not cause Anwar's black eye
* Muhammad 2x swear he did not bring out undeclared cash from Australia (although caught doing it!)
* Muhammad 2x swear he speekee no ingliiish
* Najib swear he did not summon Musa Hassan to instruct Musa Safri to order Azilah Hadri to kill Altantuya.
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*...and the list goes on.

Such irony isn't it? We have laws in Malaysia, civil and syariah. But at the same time, these Umno goons keep asking Anwar to swear on the Quran, like Saiful did. Even Tun Mahathir challenged Anwar to do the same to proof he is not guilty. Why not ask every criminal to swear while we're at it, then the courts, lawyers, prosecutors, judges can call it a day, since everyone is innocent. Welcome to Malaysia, where swearing by the good book has more weight than our Civil or Syariah laws. No pun intended despite how questionable the integrity and transparency of our judiciary is in right now.

Anwar made a wise decision not to play along. That would've made Islam look like a joke, where everyone can swear on the Quran and claim innocence. Now, it is Saiful who looks like a complete fool. No one beliefs him. I mean, if a 12 year old can protect himself from being sodomised by his teacher what is Saiful's excuse?