Time to stop irresponsible campaigns boycotting legitimate businesses

Prof Mohd Tajuddin

I THINK it is high time that we as a nation propose a law that makes those who call for the boycott of any legitimate business a crime. I also think that it is high time that the “guardians of Islam” in this country meet and discuss a fatwa, or a religious ruling, that can be declared against any Muslim who calls or campaigns for a boycott with the intention of destroying the livelihoods of people who are innocent of any crime.

In the latest incident, Umno Youth, with its usual senselessness under incompetent leadership, has threatened a boycott of a legitimate business with 5,500 Malaysian workers over the simple mistake of displaying for sale socks with the the word “Allah” on them.