"A planned gathering of a million Muslims here to rally against Christians “challenging the sovereignty of Islam” this Saturday. "
Is this a joke? or is someone making a mountain out of a molehill. The Islam religion is protected under the Consitution, there is law against proselytising, and there are only 10% and most of them in Sabah and Sarawak. And the so-called "faithfuls" are afraid of the Christians. Come on, where is your faith? But here again this may not be the issue.
Religion is again being used to rally the Malays thus diverting the attention of the rakyat from the more serious issues of corruption and bankruptcy. And as always, the Christians are being bullied and used as the whipping boys.
Really, I cannot see how 10% of Christians can rock or threaten their faith. Even Khalid Samad said that "the Christianisation threat is actually a “very weak” one as “the Christian faith is not very appealing to Muslims” and that "the organisers of the gathering should focus on “real threats” to the faith like “racism, secularism and materialism” and find solutions to these challenges.
The intended gathering on Sat.22 Oct is the follow up of the 'raid' conducted by the Selangor Islamic Affairs Department (Jais), at the Damansara Utama Methodist Church premises following a tip-off that proselytisation efforts were underway by a welfare group. And with the Selangor's sultan's decree of "yes there is evidence of proselytisation" and "no there is not enough evidence to convict", the fearful faithfuls have capitalised on this to further bully the Christians, even though the Sultan had also decreed that no one would be charged and the matter should be put to rest.
The following statements by Catholic Bishop Paul Tan Chee Ing, sums up how most of us Christians feel about the whole issue.
"If there is not enough evidence, there ought to be no imputation of wrongdoing – it’s as simple as that!” and
"I would have much preferred no statement at all to one that is neither here nor there,”
And finally, I would strongly advocate that all Christians remember this last statement
“It’s a good thing the general election is imminent, because there seems to be no let-up in this ugly campaign of innuendo and insinuation against Christians, so that the ballot box becomes our only recourse from persecution by vile slander.”
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