Drinking and Corruption

It made me laugh the last few days when annoucement was made that one of the Hulu Selangor by-election candidate, Zaid Ibrahim was a alcoholic muslim. What's funnier is that Zaid told it was when he was in UMNO while he's an alcoholic, and that most UMNO members drink as well.

So the whole comedy shows that the tactic and issue Muhyiddin and BN tried to use to jeopadise Zaid's reputation only back firing at themselve, and now Muhyiddin is busy looking for excuses and/or explaination to cover-up this.

What I am actually wanted to say here is that whether Zaid Ibrahim is an alcoholic affecting his status as a candidate and MP? Is drinking alcohol a serious offence in Malaysia, especially for Muslim?

I believe in every religious rule, there are many dos and don'ts. Of course drinking, accepting bribes, burgaries etc are not allow not only in Islam world, but I believe buddhist also not allow such things. So as compare to drinking alcohol and bribery/corruption, which is the more serious offence? If you say drinking alcohol is more serious, then I really don't know what to say about corruption or accepting bribes.

I wonder what if PKR/DAP/PAS now started using corruption as the campaign for Hulu Selangor by-election, what sort of action would BN or UMNO takes to stop opposition from mentioning such claims, which is true? Zaid Ibrahim never deny he drank before, and will UMNO/BN say the same that they USED TO ACCEPT BRIBES UNDER SO AND SO, BUT THEY CHANGED NOW? Do they have the guts to admit so?

So it's a very naive and childish act for Muhyiddin and BN to attack their opposition with something not so serious as compare to their own sins. We will just have to wait to see what explaination BN will give to his supporter on the drinking culture within BN, if not UMNO only.