Muslims maids better for Muslim kids

Husin Tapa Dec 19, 05 4:05pm
I thank everyone who accused me of being this and that following my letter to Egalitarian Malay who was angry with the Immigration Department officials who told him that he should only employ a Muslim maid to care for their child.
Despite his complaint, Egalitarian Malay contends that he knows of Malay couples who employ non-Muslim maids to look after their children. As I said, the Muslim officials of the department were merely doing their job, for obvious reasons, for their fellow Muslims. Since enforcement in this area is unheard of, nobody is going to stop them from defying this rule and do like some (liberal) Muslims have done. Other than religious reasons, I was merely trying to tell them that as Muslims, they are duty-bound to help their fellow Muslims by creating jobs. This is one of the tenets of Fardu Kifayah i.e. helping your own kind. In simple terms, charity begins at home. Isn't everybody doing it? In so far as religion is concerned, let us (hyphothetically) say, your child is cared for by a nanny up to the age of 10 or 12. Let us put aside, for a moment, the dangers of the Internet, comic books, etc. During this period the non-Muslim maid would probably teach you good English, all the English nursery rhymes, Christmas carols, help you read all the volumes of Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, etc. On the other hand, a (good) Muslim maid would teach him or her how to read the Quran, how to Solat, the goodness of fasting during Ramadan and probably proper Islamic sex education. Egalitarian Malay (unless he is a Darwinist like many Malays now) surely knows that as a Muslims, there are Islamic parameters we must live by. Freedom in Islam is entirely different altogether. If some Muslims believe that Islamic freedom is very restrictive and out of date, I would say these people need to know a bit about the Jews whose Judaic laws and rules are far more restrictive than Islamic rules. Spend sometime reading about Judaic dietary rules and the rules on their rest day (Saturday).