Is the continued seizure of 35,000 copies of the Bible in Bahasa Malaysia – 30,000 copies in Kuching Port and 5,000 copies in Port Klang – another example that the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak is not master of his own house and the hollowness of his 1Malaysia policy?
It is three days since the Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM) has come out with a statement expressing that it is “greatly disillusioned, fed-up and angered by the repeated detention of Bibles written in our national language, Bahasa Malaysia”.
The CFM Chairman Bishop Ng Boon Hing and its executive committee in a joint statement on Thursday revealed the power of the “Little Napoleons” in the bureaucracy which could even thwart and veto the Prime Minister’s order for the release of the Christian scriptures in Bahasa Malaysia.
Why has there been no action by Najib to ensure that his order to release the 5,000 Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia held in Port Klang since March 2009 are complied with without any more delay or hassle?
Instead, we have a Home Ministry official justifying the seizure of the Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia on the ground that it was based on a Cabinet decision made a quarter of a century ago in 1986.
However, despite the Cabinet decision in 1986, there had been no insuperable problem with the import of Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia for the next two decades.
The Prime Minister in 1986 was Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad but it was during the premiership of Tun Abdullah that the 1986 Cabinet decision became a most polarising issue, not only in Peninsular Malaysia but extending to Sabah and Sarawak as well, seriously undermining national unity and harmony.
Are the concerns and fears that Malays may be proselytised to become Christians if Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia are allowed really valid and genuine as to justify the belated implementation of the 1986 Cabinet decision two decades later? Can the authorities furnish statistics of how many Malays were converted to Christianity in the two decades from 1986?
It would appear that although Najib is the Prime Minister, he is working under the shadow of the fourth Prime Minister whose 1986 Cabinet decision has greater power and authority than the order from the current Prime Minister.
The prohibition of the use of Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia for Malaysian Christians, particularly those who are educated in the Bahasa Malaysia medium in the national education system, makes double mockery of Najib’s 1Malaysia’s nation-building policy as well as the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion.
Now, even the authority of Najib as Prime Minister is under question – whether he is master in his own house or beholden and subject to the fourth Prime Minister for a Cabinet decision made 25 years ago which should not have been made in the first place.
It is a test of Najib’s authority as Prime Minister, his commitment to 1Malaysia Policy and the constitutional guarantee of freedom religion whether the Prime Minister could ensure the release of the 35,000 Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia in Kuching Port and Port Klang without any more delay or hassle.
(Media Conference Statement in Sandakan on Saturday, 12th March 2011 at 3 pm)
#1 by Loh on Monday, 14 March 2011 - 2:02 pm
Mamakthir said in his memoir that he does not know where his ancestor came from India as if they came over here many generations ago, like the Chinese in Malacca or Trengganu some have their ancestors arriving Malaysia umpteen generations ago. It has been said that Mamakthir’s grandfather came from India. The impression created was the grandmother was Malay. It is now known that Mohamad Kutty was born in Trivandrum, India. So Mamakthir’s grandfather was no different from other Indians who came to Malaya with their wives staying back in India. Mamakthir is the first generation Indian born in Malaya, who claims the error of article 160 to pretend to be Malay.
Mamakthir’s father was a headmaster in an English school in Alor Star. His father could not have been sent by the British to UK to acquire tertiary education to become headmaster, and so he must have his education in India before he came over to Malaya.
Being an educated person Mohamad Kutty must have told his children his family history. Can be believe that he did not tell his children where their ancestor came from? As headmaster at the turn of the 20th century he certainly had the resources to visit his homeland in India. There was no advantage for Mohamad Kutty to claim to be Malay before the constitution of Malaya was created; so why he should severe his roots for no apparent advantage? Even Mamakthir chose to fill out the form stating that he was Indian Muslim at the medical college in Singapore. So Mohamad Kutty should have maintained his Indian ties just like Mamakthir is doing. Mamakthir chooses to give the impression that his Malayness is so unadulterated that he has chosen to forget his roots. But he visited his father homeland on a few occasions.
Why should he say he does not know his root in India in his memoir when he was the ‘son’ who visited his father’s home town under the banner “Welcome home our son”?
#2 by boh-liao on Monday, 14 March 2011 - 2:02 pm
UmnoBputras r so arrogant they don’t care abt others, they r d centre of d universe mah
Likewise, Berita Harian n Utusan Malaysia, their mouthpieces, also very arrogant n insensitive 2 other ppl, publishing lies n silly cartoons dat make M’sians seem so callous, arrogant, insensitive, nasty (when only d racist Malays r)
#3 by Loh on Monday, 14 March 2011 - 2:17 pm
Keismuddin said that the government applied to the High Court to stay on High Court decision which ruled that the ban on the word Allah was unconstitutional.
In the Perak legal tussle, the stay of the decision to declare the elected MB of Perak the legitimate MB was because an immediate appeal had been submitted, and that the decision of the appeal was imminent. The Appeal went through immediately.
The government chose to appeal the decision of High Court on Allah dispute without following through it immediately. So the stay granted by the high court is as good as overturning the High Court decision which ruled that the government in connection of the Allah ban is unconstitutional. If Najib is a capable PM, he should have reversed the cabinet decision in banning the use of Allah by non-Muslims. That decision is clearly unconstitutional. If Najib is not willing to be counted on the correct approach to religious freedom which has no relevant to placing Malays at the special position, can we trust him to promote 1Malaysia beyond using it as a slogan to gain votes from those who had nothing between their ears?
#4 by monsterball on Monday, 14 March 2011 - 3:25 pm
Idiotic Chua Soi Lek said “Malay Bible” and got F from everyone.
Imagine..an MCA President cannot differentiate..Bible in National language against what he described it is.
He spoke like advising Home Minster…not with a demanding personality.
Talk firm and bravely….he will have DPM advising him to shut up again.
#5 by cemerlang on Monday, 14 March 2011 - 7:45 pm
He has got a point. Get it printed and published and proof read in Malaysia like the three self churches in China. Get it re-edited a million times, waste papers a million times and when the authorities are satisfied, that is what they want you to read.
#6 by Loh on Monday, 14 March 2011 - 9:36 pm
The Anwar sodomy II trial centres on the claim that there were sperms in Saiful’s anus bearing DNA of another person Y. The prosecutor wants a match to that.
Liquid sperm is portable, and Saiful could have used a syringe to place the sperms inside. So sperms foundinside Saiful does not prove that there were inserted into it by another person. Unless the prosecutor has evidence to prove that sodomy did took place, the presence of sperms inside Saiful is no proof of sodomy. It is fascinating is that the government bothers to expend so much resources on a criminal case against nature when the action was claimed to be performed by two consenting adults. It does not prove that Saiful deserves his day in court since there was no evidence that the said sodomy was forced on him; and he would be guilty of the same act.
#7 by boh-liao on Tuesday, 15 March 2011 - 1:07 am
Ful of sai must hv a long long pen/is 2 penetrate his own @rshole n explode his own spermies in his rectum, rectal seks
Truly G Book of Records!
#8 by tak tahan on Tuesday, 15 March 2011 - 3:04 am
Aiyoh,is this also part of the Interlock’s compilation.Kia si lang eh umno hua nar!
#9 by yhsiew on Tuesday, 15 March 2011 - 10:07 am
///Malaysia broke human rights pledges, says watchdog report///
KUALA LUMPUR, March 15 — Malaysia failed to live up to the human rights standards it had committed to in 2006 in its pre-election pledge to the United Nations Human Rights Council (Council), a Commonwealth human rights watchdog said yesterday…….
Malaysia’s National Human Rights Commission remained weak, while discrimination based on RELIGION and ethnicity continued to be a major concern,” it added.
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/malaysia-broke-human-rights-pledges-says-watchdog-report/
#10 by monsterball on Wednesday, 16 March 2011 - 12:12 pm
Translated Bible….all released without Gvt. meeting.
All idiots can get Bibles transated into Bahasa Indon free of charge in hotels for decades..which Malaysian Muslims can read and understand easily.
I am sure thousands of Muslim travallers bring them home and read too…to compare the words of God .
Why be so afraid…when the Koran is so powerful and pure?
It is a chance to keep showing to the less educated Muslims…how great UMNO B is the protector to their religion.. playing dirty politics….every chance they can get..with their idiotic..dirty side shows.
#11 by Loh on Wednesday, 16 March 2011 - 1:11 pm
I suppose the ritual in Islam is comparatively more difficult to practice than Christianity. If there are more than one routes to reach God to gain His blessing, people might chose to give up the long route for the short cut. So fear makes people to be afraid of their own shadow.