Malaysian Suhaini bin Mohammad, posing as a Muslim religious leader and wanted by the authorities in Malaysia for false teachings that contradict Islam, is now in New Zealand.

His cult ideology, identified as SiHulk, claims that Muhammad is God and that God is a position rather than a divine entity.

According to Dr Zamihan Mat Zin Al-Ghari, an expert in deradicalisation and perverse thinking, Suhaini’s teaching does not present the message of Islam, which means that his activities have the potential to create social unrest because SiHulk members are posing as Muslims.

Suhaini’s cult page on social media contains alarming wording in the cult’s ‘phases of progression’ which includes covert conyeying of their messages and destruction of enemies.

A follower of Suhaini credited for supporting his ‘covert work’ is a Facebook user going by the name of Julia Yasmine JKelk.

She claimed that her Kiwi husband’s cousin is an Interpol anti-terrorism officer who “covers” New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore and that the Malaysian Police Force “have no right to touch us [the cult]”.

Her remark was in answer to a Facebook comment asking if SiHulk members were not afraid of being investigated by Interpol.

It is unclear if Julia’s comment meant that SiHulk is using insider connections to escape surveillance.

The founder of the cult, Suhaini, uses a Facebook page titled “So High Flyer” and the alias “Solomon Ibnu David”. His posts are random and sensational.

For example, Suhaini claims “Probably the entire Masl!m word is against SiHulk, but they will all be zombies” and “The luckiest person on Marikh (Mars) is the one who gets pregnant by an alien since the first human lab was setup there.”

In a YouTube post by SidangKalam TV in May 2021, the SiHulk leader made the disturbing claim that the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, had no genitalia and never had children.

Suhaini made a police report a few days later denouncing the claim he had made and declared that he accepted Islam’s article of faith that Muhammad was a messenger of God.

A week later, Suhaini made a Facebook post about a fatwa (Islamic legal ruling) against him and called on his followers to return at once to the original declaration of faith that there is only one God and that Prophet Muhammad is the messenger of God. He declared that the prophet married and had seven children.

Drink claims to cure illnesses

Suhaini is also known for selling a drink called SiHulk which claims to cure illnesses. The brand is being investigated by the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Costs of Living in Malaysia.

As reported by Free Malaysia Today, the deputy minister Fuziah Salleh says the investigation is necessary to curb any form of illegal or uncertified advertising of health products.

SiHulk manufacturing activities in Johor ceased after the revocation of the halal certificate and failure to comply with the standards set by the Johor State Islamic Religious Department (JAINJ).

A Facebook user uploaded a video of the cult leader explaining the steps to using the SiHulk drink. It involved sorcery practices such as the use of blood and a call to unseen beings.

A social media user shared that the cult leader had posted a video in January stating that the drink, which claims to be medicinal, is already sold in New Zealand.

There is evidence that SiHulk’s entry into New Zealand with 150 followers is engineered. In a recent Facebook post, Suhaini claimed that SiHulk followers were given a variety of visas to get into the country including work visas, student visas, tourist visas and business visas.

He had earlier uploaded pictures of a mass gathering of SiHulk members. Followers of SiHulk don the banner “ready to help” on their social media profile pages.

Applying for charitable status

The cult has applied to form a Charitable Trust in New Zealand titled “Society of Islamic Holisticism Universal Linkage Knowledge” (SIHULK).

Their principles include “upholding the sovereignty of Nation’s supremacy towards a New World” and “inculcating amongst the Muslims over the original principle in Islam that Allah (The Almighty God) is a title borne by the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. [an abbreviation of an Arabic phrase meaning ‘peace and blessings upon him’]”

This contradicts the police report he made in 2021. Suhani has also applied for the SiHulk Charitable Trust Board to be incorporated.

New Zealand Muslim communities from the Malay Archipelago are concerned that the deviant and unstable nature of this cult’s claims and activities, while posing as Muslims, is likely to cause social conflict and internal security issues within the country.

Some members of the Muslim community have raised concerns that the cult leader and his followers in New Zealand are planning to gain permanent residency on the grounds of political asylum by citing fear of persecution.

A statement released by Keluarga Kiwi, a Malay-Kiwi Muslim group, said that the cult had the “potential to cause mischief-making and discord. Should the SiHulk group be accepted as asylum seekers in Aotearoa New Zealand, we are concerned that this would lead to a lot of friction, disputes, multicultural restlessness, and conflicts among the wider Muslim community.”

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