Hanya Pemimpin Sabah Yang Bangkit Menentang PERKASA

Kuching
Wednesday, 16th Nov 2011

Orang macam ini tidak layak bermastautin di bumi berbilang kaum seperti Malaysia!

Di Dewan Rakyat Presiden PERKASA terkedu apabila soalan berkenaan desakan PERKASA mengharamkan guru beragama Kristian daripada mengajar di sekolah-sekolah kerajaan diajukan oleh pemimpin dari Sabah iaitu Bumburing yang juga timbalan presiden Pertubuhan Pasok Momogun Kadazandusun Bersatu (Upko) . Tapi yang hairannya kenapa pemimpin-pemimpin beragama Kristian daripada Sarawak berdiam diri.

Melihat daripada sepanduk yang dikibarkan oleh ahli PERKASA yang menuntut agar guru-guru beragama Kristian tidak dibenarkan mengajar di sekolah kerajaan darah saya berderau kerana terlampau marah  melihat  tindakan eksterim pertubuhan pimpinan Ibrahim Ali ini. Kalau kerajaan tidak mengharamkan pertubuhan ini, saya percaya di dalam masa kurang dari 5 tahun, Malaysia akan hancur atau paling kurang akan jadi macam Afghanistan atau negara-negara Islam yang lain.

Saya tidak pernah membayangkan bahawa di Malaysia pertubuhan yang bertindak sehingga menyebabkan kemarahan rakyat Malaysia daripada Agama Kristiann tidak diharamkan oleh kerajaan. Kalau dibuat perbandingan di antara BERSIH 2.0  dan PERKASA pertubuhan yang manakah yang eksterim dan bersifat perkauman? Ya, saya bersetuju dengan pembaca yang lain, iaitu PERKASA. Tetapi yang peliknya kenapa BERSIH 2.0 yang diharamkan dan tidak PERKASA. Saya juga ingin ajukan persoalan yang sama kepada Keris Mudin menteri yang bertanggungjawab mengharamkan BERSIH 2.0.

Mengulas tentang isu cadangana pengharaman guru beragama Kristian ditempatkan di sekolah-sekolah kerajaan oleh PERKASA, Ibrahim Ali mengulas berikut :-

Saya presiden PERKASA. Kami tidak pernah membuat gesaan ini, seperti ditegaskan semasa ucapan dasar AGM baru-baru ini, kami berjuang untuk keharmonian kaum. 

Seterusnya beliau cuba berdalih dengan berkata :-

"Saya percaya ini adalah satu soalan jahat dan tidak bertanggungjawab yang dibuat oleh mereka bagi mencipta pelbagai cerita dalam media baru. Ataupun ia telah dibuat oleh individu-individu tertentu sebagai pandangan peribadi mereka.

Tapi boleh ke kita percaya kepada Ibrahim Ali yang mempunyai peribadi yang penipu? Cuba lihat sendiri poster di bawah yang menunjukkan dengan jelas seruan PERKASA yang mengharamkan guru beragama Kristian daripada mengajar di sekolah-sekolah kerajaan :-

Ini berlaku di malaysiakah atau di Selatan Thailand atau Indonesia?

Suasana ini nampak asing berlaku di bumi Malaysia

Ah...Kenapa Keris Mudin tidak bertindak? Masih tidak jelaskah bahawa isu-isu sensitif sedang dibangkitkan?

Kita ingin mendengar pendirian pemimpin yang beragama Kristian terutamnya yang berasal dari Sarawak berkenaan dengan isu ini. Kita juga ingin tahu kenapa pemimpin-pemimpin ini masih berdiam diri? Di manakah semangat perjuangan "Agi Idup Agi Ngelaban" ? Adakah kedudukan lebih penting daripada membela bangsa sendiri daipada serangan pihak eksterim seperti PERKASA?

Mupok Aku

Terbukti bahawa UMNO di belakang Himpun

Kuching
Sunday, 23rd October 2011

Bukti kukuh bahawa UMNO di belakang HIMPUN. Di antara bukti yang paling ketara adalah sokongan media portal dan surat khabar UMNO yang menyokong perhimpunan tersebut. Di antaranya adalah blog bernilai 20 sen iaitu Papa Gomo

Lihat bagaimana suratkhabar kepunyaan UMNO ini  begitu Rasis tanpa memperdulikan sensitiviti penganut agama Kristian di Malaysia khasnya. Sekiranya ianya bukan milik UMNO, sudah lama suratkhabar ini terkubur. Saya hanya ada perkataan CILAKA untuk akhbar ini!

Saya tidak mahu mengulas lanjut tetapi cukuplah bahawa UMNO adalah di belakang Himpun. Sebagai rakyat Sarawak, saya ingin menggesa rakyat negeri ini terutamanya yang beragama Kristian serta bukan Islam yang lain agar tidak menyokong BN kerana BN tidak dapat melindungi kepentingan agama kristian. Dan kepada rakyat Sarawak yang beragama Islam saya juga inging menggesa agar mereka  tidak memberikan sokongan kepada BN kerana BN sudah gagal untuk mengekalkan persafahaman sesama rakyat yang terdiri daripada berbilang agama dan bangsa di negeri Bumi Kenyalang ini.

Sila lihat petikan Papa Gomo yang menyiarkan tajuk yang berbentuk provokasi di dalam blognya dengan tajuk " Individu Yang Memurtadkan Umat Islam Wajib Dibunuh" . Di dalam tulisannya 
Papa Gomo telah menyeru serta setuju dengan risalah yang diedarkan semasa perhimpunan HIMPUN semalam yang menggesa agar orang Kristian yang memurtadkan orang Islam di Selangor dibunuh. Kalaulah gesaan itu boleh dibuat, apakah pula gesaan yang boleh dibuat terhadap perbuatan orang Islam yang mengislamkan orang-orang Kristian di Malaysia? Tapi saya rasa orang Kristian tidak akan berbuat demikian ini kerana asas kepada agama Kristan adalah menyeru kepada kebaikan terhadap sesama manusia.

Nampak gayanya Papa Gomo sudah melampau sampai menyeru pembunuhan orang Kristian. Kita akan memerhatikan dari dekat apakah tindakan yang akan diambil oleh PM serta pihak berkuasa terhadap Papagomo. Kalau perbuatan ini dilakukan oleh orang Kristian terhadap Islam saya percaya sejuta Laporan Polis akan dibuat oleh  mereka ini.

Mupok Aku

East Malaysian Christian In Response To Himpunan Sejuta Umat (HIMPUN)

Kuching
Monday,17th October  2011

Article 11 of the Malaysia Constitution provides that every person has the right to profess and practice his own religion. Every person has the right to propagate his religion, but state law and, in respect of the Federal Territories, federal law may control or restrict the propagation of any religious doctrine or belief among Muslims. There is, however, freedom to carry on missionary work among non-Muslims. But lately this article has been abused by the Muslim. If Tun Jugah and those who supported Sarawak to join Malaysia are still alive until today I believed they may want Sarawak to pull out from Malaysia. As far as the Muslims are concerned, there are only two types of population, the Muslim and non-nuslim. There is no such religion as Christian, Buddhist or Hinduism. They are non-believers thus will go to hell!

Today I am going to write about the ill treatment of Christians by government in Malaysia.

Government of Malaysia leads by UMNO will typically tell foreigners that all members of all religions are treated ‘equally’ and get along amicably. That’s the image sold overseas, at any rate. The reality is quite different. Islam is the official state religion, so it enjoys all sorts of official and unofficial privileges, such as lavish state-built mosques, massive taxpayer-funded proselytization programmes for Muslims (but not for other belief systems), sprawling Government-run Islamic universities, a distinct pro-Islamic and pro-jihad tilt in the state-owned and influenced media, and more.

On a more personal level, Muslims in Malaysia have on numerous occasions destroyed churches, sometimes with official backing on the flimsiest of pretexts (like for supposed ‘code violations’). The same has also happened to Hindu and Buddhist temples. Bibles are sometimes seized in carload lots by the (Muslim) authorities on one technicality or another. New church construction is heavily discouraged, and it takes years if not decades for new churches to be approved and built. And they must be built in a ‘low profile’ manner if they are allowed to be built at all.

All of these restrictions and the drip-drip-drip of discrimination, or worse, creates a tense and foreboding atmosphere for Christians. It’s pointless for Christians — who are mostly Indians, Chinese and the natives of sabah and Sarawak — to petition the Malay (Muslim) government for any sort of redress of grievances, because the police, courts and judges here are all owned and operated by Muslims. So increasingly, the ‘infidels’ especially the Indian and Chinese are leaving — permanently but for the natives have to fight on their own. 

The Muslim-controlled government goes to strenuous lengths to make it appear that this country is a ‘harmonious’ mixture of various belief systems. The key word is ‘appear’. Malaysia is indeed a mix of different religions, but it is kept ‘harmonious’ only through Islamic coercion — official and otherwise — and the threat (sometimes actual acts) of violence. ‘Harmonious’ also is a code word in Malaysian political discourse for ‘Islam must remain culturally and politically dominant’. Malaysian Muslims are also never willing to state for the record that a Hindu, Buddhist or Christian is the equal of a Muslim. They cannot — their belief system specifically forbids it, and if a Muslim believes otherwise, he is automatically an apostate — a traitor to Islam.

This country is also becoming more ‘Islamified’ as the years go by — Muslims are become more pious, or at least make more of a show of it more by wearing hijabs, tudongs and other Islamic garb, attending mosque more often, and in other, less obvious but more sinister ways ). 

Additionally, and more importantly, the growing Islamification is increasing the numbers of Muslims in Malaysia through procreation, conversion and immigration, and compelling the non Muslims to leave. The departing non-Muslims — mostly Christians, but also Buddhists and Hindus — tend to be the most educated, entrepreneurial and productive Malaysians. This has the makings of a long term economic catastrophe for Malaysia, if the Muslims and their government could but clear the fog of Islam from their minds and come to honest grips with the problem. This ‘brain drain’ issue is well known inside Malaysia, but the real causes (Islamic-inspired bigotry, persecution, enforcement of sharia) are not discussed, or allowed to be discussed openly.

Why is the world silent? The silence is, as I see it, a combination of many factors: what happened in Malaysia is not as bad as in Indonesia, Egypt etc and why bother  , and a dash of NIMBY-ism (‘not in my back yard’) thrown in for good measure. Who cares about Christians in Malaysia getting their Bibles seized or their churches bulldozed or blocked from construction? 

Malaysian Insider reports this morning that The Himpunan Sejuta Umat (Himpun), or Gathering of a Million Faithful, is going to be held this Saturday, 23rd October 2011 at Dataran Merdeka Kuala Lumpur by  various right-wing groups such as Perkasa with the backing of both Umno and PAS Youth in what appears to be a coming together of conservative Muslims. The gathering is in respond to the Christians "challenging to the soveriegnty of Islam".

When I first looked at the photo (above), I thought they were bunch of Abu Bakar followers "the Muslim Extremists from Indonesia" , but after looking at it carefully only than I realised that they were the members of racist Perkasa.

To all Malaysian Christians, we must react rationally and not to lose our cool. Being followers of the peaceful religion, we must follow what has been thought in the Bible. As bible thought us to "make peace and not war" thus we must forgive them. We should never blame them as they only follow the teaching of their religion.

As a Christian, I am calling all my brothert and sisters in Christ , we must work together in order to defense ourselves from these extremist muslims. We just cannot keeping quiet and let them ransack or plunder our churches. The action of JAKIM raided the church in Selangor merely on suspicious, the action of Muslims spit out our holy communion, churches arson etc should not be allowed unchecked. Luckily what happened in West Malaysia did not happen here but it does not mean that we have to wait until it happen in sarawak. Being the majority we should help our brothers and sisters in Peninsular Malaysia from being unfairly treated by the majority muslim . We must help them, not through war or violent of course but through moral support. We cant just rely on Jabu, Masing and Mawan to fight for our right as enshrined by the constitution. For them their minister-ship is more important.

To all the West Malaysian Christians, We are Behind You.

Mupok Aku 

JAIS Raid On The Church: Where Is The Respect!!!

Kuching
Thursday, 11th Aug 2011

If JAIS can raid the churches merely on suspicious ground, can the churches raiding the mosques for converting Christian followers to Islam?

How is it that Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (“JAIS”) could barge into Church grounds with the assistance of Polis DiRaja Malaysia without the slightest credence of tolerance, dignity and respect that ought to be accorded to a Place of Worship!

What has become of our Constitutional Right to Freedom of Religion? What has become of our Rukun Negara, “Kepercayaan Kepada Tuhan”!!! When are they going to respect people of other faiths and places of worship?

How is a thanksgiving dinner a threat to society that warrants a raid by JAIS accompanied by the Police? Will such callous acts continue to spread to other Places of Worship?

How sad is it for all Malaysians that JAIS deems it fit to barge into a Place of Worship without even making a prior attempt to gently knock on the doors of Damansara Utama Methodist Church. If JAIS had only asked, I am sure the Church would have opened their doors and welcomed them.

For centuries, Christians in this country have been providing education, health care and alms to all, irregardless of race, colour, religion or creed. There was no mass conversion as a result of such good deeds undertaken by the Christians.

With such examples in place, why did JAIS act with such heavy handedness?

These are all questions which Malaysians of all race and religion should demand from JAIS.

JAIS must redeem themselves and apologise for their misconduct!

Not too long ago, we had two journalists from Al Islam magazine who entered a Church to investigate if there were conversion of Muslims taking place. They found none and instead proceeded to desecrate the Holy Eucharist. There was outrage and they apologise almost a year later. There the authorities had failed to act. History has now repeated itself!

These acts have been repeated far too often. The authorities must act to safeguard the constitutional rights of the minorities in this country.

Raid By JAIS An 'Uncivilised' Act: Islamic Renaissance Front

Kuching
Thursday, 11th Aug 2011

Jais action by raiding the church is similar with Taliban ruled in Afghanistan. Are we in Afghanistan? Surely not  but why did JAIS do this unvivilised act?

We, from the Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF) read the news regarding the proposed Faith Crime Act by the deputy education minister yesterday with trepidation.

The proposal came about as a response to Jais' unwarranted raid of Damansara Utama Methodist Church last week.

The raid conducted by Jais was purely based on suspicion that the Methodist Church was involved in an act of proselytisation. The Malaysian Aids Council however reiterated that the dinner was actually a fund-raiser for HIV/AIDS support programmes.

The whole issue boils down to one main issue. The so-called defenders of the faith believed that their action was espoused by the religion of Islam in preventing the believers from apostasy.

This uncivilised act of storming into a sacred place accompanied by the Mafia-like police was endorsed by none others than the insular and xenophobic NGOs like Perkasa and Pembela.

We believe that such an act of storming into a church without any warrant and based on mere suspicion was a travesty of justice and democratic principles. Freedom of assembly is enshrined in Article 10 of our constitution. Any act that violates this freedom is reprehensible.

We realise that this conflict stems from the static and stagnant approach to understanding Islamic law. The codified law in Islamic jurisprudence derived through the exercise of juristic reasoning of the latter years was considered sacred and beyond reproach. Hence the most rigid and literalist interpretations tend to prevail.

The defenders of faith failed to look at ample evidence in the Quran that gives the liberty to the people to freely follow their conviction.

Any individuals are given the right to accept or reject a particular faith based on his personal conviction.

"There shall be no coercion in matters of faith" [Qur'an, 2:256]

“And [thus it is] had thy Sustainer so willed, all those who live on earth would surely have attained to faith, all of them: dost thou, then, think that thou couldst compel people to believe” [Qur'an, 10:99]

This message of freedom of belief and the call to religious tolerance is reiterated time and time again in the Quran and through various Prophets. This has been the call of all the Prophets even before Prophet Muhammad. Refer the Quran [7:85-87, 39:39-40, 17:84].

Faith is a personal conviction. The state has no authority to interfere in one's choice of faith. One is answerable to God for the decision he or she makes in her life. Hitherto it is very perturbing that a lawmaker proposed for Faith Crime Act to be enacted by the government.

This act infringes on God given right for us to believe on our free will. No one has the authority to take this right from us. We are answerable to God alone in the life to come. We must ensure that our community embraces this freedom of religion and we will not succumb to any threat to remove this freedom away from us.

The principle of reciprocity is to be upheld since it gives a meaning to the concept of justice. In a modern multiracial society like us, where different faiths lives together, we have to respect the right of an individual to choose and convert to a faith that he or she believes in.

There should not be undue pressure or coercion for a person to believe in a faith he or she has no belief anymore. It would be a real tragedy and disaster when a state started imposing its authority in matters of faith.

Dr. Ahmad Farouk Musa
Chairman
Islamic Renaissance Front

JAIS Ought to Proof It Or Apologise

Kuching
Saturday, 6th Aug 2011

The Religion can be proposed but never imposed. That is respect for the sanctity of individual conscience..Dr Paul Tan Chee Ing

JAIS Must be responsibled with their action

The Catholic prelate says there can be no two ways about the latest round of accusations against Christians.
Catholic Bishop Dr Paul Tan Chee Ing today called on Jais to “quickly furnish proof of their claim that there has been proselytisation of Muslims by Christians as they have claimed.”

“I implore them not to procrastinate on this matter like the authorities are doing with respect to an alleged Christian plot in Penang recently to dethrone Islam,” said the titular head of the diocese of Melaka-Johor, who is concurrently president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Malaysia.

“Please quickly furnish proof of this claim so that Christians can take the appropriate corrective action and tender the requisite apologies, or do the obverse which is demand that an apology be issued for false accusation,” said Bishop Paul Tan (left) said in remarks made to Malaysiakini.

“This campaign of innuendo and insinuation against Christians' subscription to a cardinal tenet of our constitutional structure, which is the respect for Islam as the federation's official religion has gone on long enough,” he asserted.

“It's high time these claims be proven to be substantive in which case Christians can take the necessary corrective and contrite action, or demand that Christian bashing be condemned and stopped,” said the Jesuit-trained prelate.

He noted with “great distress that that person who has preferred these accusations is from PAS - a party that these days is inclined to unify the Malaysian people rather than divide along them along sectarian lines.”

“Although a former president of this party (Mohd Asri Muda) was responsible in the early 1970s for the base canard that Christians were a greater threat to Malaysia than the communists, the party has since markedly altered its perspective and stand on national questions,” said the bishop.

“Like many Malaysians, I wholeheartedly welcome this liberating development, which is why I am greatly distressed that the latest round of accusations against Christians emanates from their quarter.”

Is it true or false?

Bishop Paul Tan further noted that PAS is a party that upholds morality in public and private conduct.

Hassan Ali..Is He a PAS Man or an Agent Planted by Racist UMNO?

“No Christian worth his or her salt would ever be against this principle in life. Too often in politics, we are faced with people who make a pretense of public virtue while being squalid in private morals,” he continued.

“That this is not the case with PAS is something that their spiritual leader has sought by word and deed to transmit to the Malaysian people. We are greatly edified by his endeavour.

“This is why, ironically, the fact that the accusation stems from their quarter raises hope of its decisive and final adjudication: Is it true or is it false?” he said referring to Selangor exco Hasan Ali (left), who yesterday backed the Jais raid on the Damansara Utama Methodist Church.

“This uncertainty has been going on for too long now it has furnished grounds for agent provocateurs to foist their poisons on the body politic.

“This must stop either by Christians desisting from unconstitutional conduct or by their accusers being made to account for the falsity of their claims. There are no two ways about this.

“However, I must emphasise it is the right of a person to believe in whatever he or she chooses to. Religion can be proposed but never imposed. That is respect for the sanctity of individual conscience. ”

Mupok Aku

Ibrahim Ali Saga: CIA should Interfere

Kuching
Wednesday, 18th May 2011



After reading Ibrahim Ali aka Ibrahim Katak text of speech about the jihad war against the Christians In Malaysia which was published in the Free Malaysiakini today, I pray to God so that one night CIA will storms into his house and do like what they did to Osama in Pakistan.

Please read the text of his speech which was published in Freemalaysiakini:-

Given the uproar over his call for jihad against the Christians, Malaysiakini uploads the full 45-minute video of his speech.Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali's call to wage a 'perang salib' or holy war has generated much revulsion among many Malaysians, but not apparently so from government leaders.
Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein was quick to dismissed Ibrahim - his views do not represent all Muslims in Malaysia, he stressed.
The home minister, however, was conspicuously silent on whether the speech was seditious. Hishammuddin nevertheless took pains to point out that there too are extremists within the Chinese community, though he did not name them.
Meanwhile, his cabinet colleague, de facto law minister Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz went a step further. He told Malaysiakini yesterday that no action could be taken against Ibrahim as his remarks are now a Malaysian norm.
According to Nazri, no matter how unsettling such remarks are, Malaysians "need to live with" and "be mature" in dealing with such characters as Ibrahim.
At a 1Malaysia event last Saturday, Ibrahim, in railing against the alleged pledge by a group of Christian pastors to create a Christian state in Malaysia, blamed certain parties for undermining the "sovereignty" and "dignity" of Islam as the nation's official religion and Malays' special privileges.
He went as far as to accuse these parties of being agents of the banned Communist Party of Malaya, who are emboldened by support from PKR advisor and former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, Islamic party PAS and Malay liberals.
Some notable quotes

Among his more notable statements that night include:
"... Sebenarnya, darah saya sekarang ini tengah panas ni. Ini bukan main-main. Darah saya tengah panas, bulu roma saya sedang tegak ni... sebab majlis terakhir (saya) di Kelantan tadi, saya istihar, di hadapan polis, saya sebut kepada kakitangan keselamatan, kalau nak sampaikan ini ke Bukit Aman, silakan. Tolong tape apa yang saya cakap."
(... Actually, my blood is boiling now. I am not fooling around. My blood is boiling, and my hairs are standing on end... because at (my) last event in Kelantan, I declared, in front of the police, I told the security officials, if you want to inform Bukit Aman, be my guest. Please tape what I am saying.)
"Kalau ada pihak di Pulau Pinang, terutama diantara paderi Kristian, yang didokong oleh DAP Pulau Pinang, terus dengan agenda yang kita tahu, niat mereka ini, saya tawar... kalau nak perang salib boleh. Ini Salahuddin Ayyubi dari negara Malaysia," he said, comparing himself to legendary Muslim leader of the Crusades, Saladin.
(If there are those in Penang, especially among Christian priests, who are supported by DAP Penang, intending to continue with their agenda which we know, their intentions, this is my offer... we can have holy war. This is Salahuddin Ayyubi of Malaysia.)
"Sampai sekarang ini, usaha mencabar posisi, kedaulatan dan digniti kita umat Melayu Islam, terus menurus, dihayunkan di sana sini. Cabaran ke arah posisi kedaulatan digniti kita umat Melayu Islam, yang menjadi penduduk majoriti, yang menjadi penduduk dan ketuanan negara asal ini, mereka cabar terus menerus."
(Until now, efforts to challenge the position, sovereignty and dignity of Malay Muslims, continues, swung back and forth. The challenge directed at our sovereignty and dignity as Malay Muslims, who form the majority, who are the true sons of the soil, is relentless.)
"Bermula dengan isu-isu bangsa, sekarang berjangkit kepada isu-isu agama. Bila berjangkit kepada isu agama, ertinya jihad."
(Starting with race issues, it has spread to religious issues. When it spread to religious issues, it means 'jihad'.)
One version against many others
"Mula mula bila tercetus berita ini, keesokan hari semua nafi, dan seolah-olah tuduh pula Utusan (Malaysia) tidak bertanggungjawab. Tanya setiausaha agung Perkasa, tanya rakan-rakan Perkasa... saya salah seorang awal-awal lagi saya kata 'sah, benda ini betul'."
(When news of this first broke, the next day they all denied it, as if Utusan has been irresponsible. Ask Perkasa's secretary-general, ask Perkasa's friends... I am among the earliest to say 'confirmed, this is true'.)
This is despite denials from those who had attended the meeting of the pastors that no such pledge was made. Ibrahim however pointed to the police report made by a DAP member, Mohamed Razali, who was present at the event.
But while Mohamed said he had a different version, he did not reveal what exactly happened at the function.
Nevertheless, is Ibrahim's speech seditious? You be the judge. Hear for yourself what Ibrahim said in the full 45-minute video of his speech from that night here.

Mupok Aku

Memorendum to The King: Natives of Sarawak Warn Pertubuhan Kebajikan Al-Ehsan Islamaiah Malaysia To Respect The Rights Of Malaysian from other Faiths

Kuching
Saturday, 26th February 2011

Being Malaysian I am Reminding Arshad Kassim not to offend the feelings of Malaysians From the  other Faiths such as Christians, Hinduism and Buddhism.

Arshad Kassim : This is Malaysia thus Please think and act as Malaysia!

Federal Constituition  has never  mentioned that Malaysia is a Muslim country. Even though article 3 of the constituition does mention that Islam is the official religion of the Federation but no article in the contituition ever mentioned that Malaysia is an Islamic Country.

It was reported in Utusan Malaysia on Thursday, 24th Feb 2011 that the Pertubuhan Kebajikan Al-Ehsan Islamaiah Malaysia led by it Assistant Secretary General Arshad Kassim had submitted the Memorendum to the Agong, to complain about the Setting-Up of the  interfaith portfolio by YAB Lim Guan Eng, the Chief Minister of Pulau Pinang on 16 Feb 2011. According to Lim, the role of the potfolio was to to handle non-Muslim religious issues in the state. It will be chaired by Lim himself while Deputy Chief Minister II P. Ramasamy was appointed the deputy.

Islam Is The Religion Of the Federation. WhatBut can Malaysians Embrace  the Other Religions?

Article 3 of the Federal Constitution also clearly mentions that Malaysians are allowed to practice the other faiths other than Islam. As such action should be taken against any person or organisation that tries to instigate any religious conflict in the country. The action of this organisation is tantamount to instigating religious unrest should be handled accordingly.

This country is a multi-racial and multi-religious country. Muslims in this country must learn to live with Malaysians from  other religions. Actions that can offend the feelings of the non-muslims must be avoided. As a non-muslim myself who had studied and worked in Peninsular, I had never offended my muslim friends or colleagues. But how about our muslim friends. For those non-muslim who had ever attended the Religious Classes (Islam) might have heard how their Ustazah or Ustaz offended and belittle them for being a non-muslim or kafir/Infidel. Or one can ask the non-muslim soldiers how they are being treated for being non-muslim? I dont want to eloborate further here because I dont want to be percieved as an  anti  Islam.

A few days ago, I recieved the information from reliable source that the religious practices like morning prayer and religious talks by Christian priests were no longer allowed in the two popular mission schools in Kuching, the St Thomas and St Joseph School  by the Ministry of Education. The schools were no longer the elite school with good examination results as they have been plagued by the non-christian students,  who  most of them came from the nearby police stations and army camps. But what has our Christian Ministers done? 

But Why There Was No Police Report  Made Against This Group

This country is a multi-religious country. The action of this group of submitting the memorendum to the King and Governor of Pulau Pinang can incite religious unrest in the country therefore should be charged accordingly in court.

To all Sarawakians especially the christians, please  read more the history book so that we all awared the conditions that had been put forward by our forefather before they agreed to be part of Malaysia.

Mupok Aku

Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin warns of crackdown on religious hate

KUALA LUMPUR
Monday, 15th March 2010

Malaysia's king urged authorities Monday to take stern action against religious hatemongers amid government efforts to rebuild trust following a dispute over the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims.

The remarks by Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin in his annual speech to Parliament underscored lingering concerns about racial solidarity, two months after a string of attacks on mostly Christian churches apparently sparked by a spat over whether only Muslims should be allowed to use "Allah" to refer to God.

Malaysia's constitutional monarch did not specifically refer to the dispute or the attacks, but urged "all parties to take heed of black marks in our country's history and avoid raising sensitive issues that could jeopardize public peace and the people's harmonious lives."

Sultan Mizan said he wanted authorities to take "stern action" against people who exploit freedom of speech to cause conflicts. The text of the king's yearly speech to inaugurate a new parliamentary session is generally prepared by the government and reflects its policies.

The king did not elaborate, but government authorities have said that racial instigators could be detained under the Internal Security Act, which provides for indefinite detention without trial.

So far, 10 people have been charged in court in connection with some of the firebomb attacks and vandalism on 11 churches, a Sikh temple, three mosques and two Muslim prayer rooms in January. Most of them have been identified as Muslims and face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of attempting to destroy places of worship.

The attacks began on churches before spreading to other houses of worship shortly after Malaysia's High Court ruled on New Year's Eve that Christians can use "Allah" to refer to God in the Malay language-a decision that angered many among the ethnic Malay Muslim majority.

The government has appealed the verdict, arguing that the non-Muslim use of "Allah" can confuse Muslims and even lure them to convert. Christians say they have used the word for centuries in their literature.

The dispute has fueled accusations by minorities, who are mainly ethnic Chinese and Indians, that the Muslim-dominated government is slow to protect their interests compared to its strong defense of Islam, the official religion of nearly two-thirds of Malaysia's 28 million people. The government denies any unfair discrimination.

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Christians Reject Muslim Minister Proposal To Drop Word Allah

KUALA LUMPUR
Monday, 11th January 2010

Mind your own religion. How could you as a government servant  advised us to make decision not in our favour! General sir..SHUT-UP you and all your UMNO bigots!

Church representatives here today rejected a minister’s call to drop the claim to use the word “Allah” in the Christian sense.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom earlier today urged church leaders to adopt the same approach as a lay Sabah leader who reportedly said the word “Allah” should be reserved for Muslim use in Malaysia because they have been using it longest.

“Will we or the church, if we don’t use the word Allah, suddenly lose or increase followers in the Christian faith 10-fold?” Utusan Malaysia reported Datuk Clarence Bongkos Malakun, president of the Sabah Justice of the Peace Council, saying in a statement from Kota Kinabalu last night.

“It is time for us, the Christian community, particularly the Catholic make an evaluation based on the present situation for security and public peace and drop the word Allah to calm our Muslim brothers.

“Rather than insisting on the right to use the word Allah it is better if Catholics only use the word ‘Tuhan’ or ‘Tuhan Yang Maha Kuasa’,” said Bongkos Malukun.

Unlike the muslim where non-religious scholar can make decision on religious matter, in Christianity, religious matter only can be decided by the religious scholar. Who is Datuk Clarence Bongkos Malakun that proposed catholic to drop the word Allah? His comment was political mooted and made in dilusion. If we have to do so, means we have to rewritten the Iban's bible!...Bukittunggal.

He added that Christians in Malaysia should stick to the Federal Constitution and not follow those in Indonesia on the use of “Allah”.

Pastor Danil Raut, the president of the Sidang Injil Borneo (SIB) church in the peninsula, was highly critical of Bongkos Malukun’s statement and claimed it was not representative of the Christian community.

“He’s got the right to say his opinion but I definitely cannot agree with him,” Raut told The Malaysian Insider.

“So many people have been using the word before Merdeka. In the language of our people, the Lunbawang and Lundayeh, ‘Allah’ means God,” he added.

“This is stated in the Lundayeh Bible, not the Malay Bible,” he stressed.

Pastor Richard Samporoh agreed.

“I think his statement is very political,” Samporoh said. He noted that Bongkos Malukun used to be a state assemblyman and is a Christian but not a church minister and does not have the authority to speak for all Christians.

“Many people, including the politicians, have misunderstood the whole issue,” said Samporoh, who heads the SIB church in Shah Alam.

“We’re not demanding to use the word. We have been using it for almost 300 years. The case was only filed because of the ban from the Home Ministry,” he added.

Samporoh said he has been a pastor for over 30 years and the controversy only erupted recently, after the federal government banned the Catholic church from publishing the word “Allah” to refer to the Christian God in the Bahasa Malaysia section of its weekly paper.

Samporoh further claimed that there was an agreement between the federal government and the church in the 1980s that Christians be allowed to use the word in their worship.

“We can use the word ‘Allah’ in our Bible, but it cannot be sold in public bookstores,” he told The Malaysian Insider.

“I’m not very sure if there was a written agreement but it was during Musa Hitam’s time,” Samporoh replied when asked.

The Sabah-born pastor is also the adviser to the SIB church in the peninsula and strongly supports inter-faith dialogues.

“Understanding each other is the best way to resolve problems. I don’t think the Muslims understand what is going on,” he said.

Father Lawrence Andrew who edits the Catholic paper, Herald, was reluctant to comment on the issue.

“My official position is this: the case is in the courts. Let the court decide. I cannot comment on it,” he reponded when contacted.

But The Malaysian Insider understands that in the Roman Catholic church, only officials holding the rank of the bishop onwards have the authority to make decisions.

The Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur, Reverend Tan Sri Murphy Pakiam, who is the publisher of Herald, could not be reached for comment.

He is currently away in Johor for meeting of bishops with the Vatican’s representative who is based in Singapore.

Pakiam is also the president of the Malaysian Bishops Conference

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