Even China has banned gambling, says PAS backbencher

A PAS backbencher today asked those who oppose the state’s 4D ban to look at China, where gambling has been outlawed for the past 70-odd years for its social ills.

Hanif Ghazali (PAS-Tanjung Dawai) took to task those who said gambling was part of Chinese culture, saying one could look at how China had placed curbs on such activities since 1949.

Today, he said, China only allowed gambling at weddings, birthdays and other smaller events, and at gaming centres in the special autonomous regions of Macau and Hong Kong.

With the flourishing of Filipino online gambling websites, Beijing had also reached out to the Philippines, pleading with it to end the online gambling menace.

Defending the Kedah government’s decision not to renew the business licences of 4D outlets, Hanif said that as a Muslim, one must support the ban on all forms of betting and gaming to obey Islamic teachings.

“Can you imagine what gambling can do to the family institution?” he asked during the debate on the 2022 Supply Bill in the state assembly.

Source: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2021/11/16/even-china-has-banned-gambling-says-pas-backbencher/