KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 — PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said today that other states would be inspired to adopt hudud if Kelantan is able to enforce the Islamic penal law.

He admitted, however, that this would not be easy to implement in states where Malays were not the majority population.

“Insya’allah, (if we succeed) this will encourage other states and encourage non-Muslims as well to accept (hudud),” he told reporters when met at the Parliament lobby.

“PAS has always been consistent with its stand to uphold Islam as well as the rights of all races,” Hadi added.

Earlier this month, the Kelantan state assembly approved the Shariah Criminal Code (II) (1993) 2015 Enactment with 31 votes from PAS lawmakers supported by 12 from Umno.

Critics including federal ministers Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz and Nancy Shukri have said it would be impossible to implement hudud anywhere in Malaysia without amending the Federal Constitution, but PAS insisted otherwise.

Hadi has served notice to Parliament on two proposed private member’s Bills to allow Kelantan to roll out hudud, but de facto law minister Nancy said these may not make it into the order paper for the current session as there are many others on the schedule.

With DAP and PKR’s rejection, PAS and its 21 MPs in the lower House must rely on all of Umno’s MPs plus more from other non-Muslim parties in order to get a simple majority of 112 votes to get the bills passed.