Dear Cousin

This equates to Malaysians have been simply fooled as well as would swallow hook, line as well as sinker any crap thrown in their direction. And this is a single reason a supervision cant concede Christians to speak to Malays. Malays have been as well foolish to break down in to parts which sacrament is improved -- Islam or Christianity -- as well as they would simply be duped in to withdrawal Islam to turn Christians.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Dear Cousin,

I suspicion I should write to we as well as explain a stream debate raging in Malaysia regarding a new church raid by a Selangor Religious Department. This follows closely behind a claim which a meeting was hold in Penang not prolonged ago to plot turning Malaysia in to a Christian state.

For someone who has once lived as well as worked in Malaysia I am certain we have been utterly disturbed by this spin of events since we had delightfully found Malaysians to be a peaceful as well as accessible community. And we in sold found a Malays, Indonesians as well as Filipinos a unequivocally tractable people. Therefore, this hysteria about a Christian conspiracy is a distant depart from what we assimilate a Malays to be.

I suppose, similar to me, we have a unequivocally opposite tolerance level towards alternative religions. Well, when we have Jews, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Atheists as well as Agnostics in a family, we lend towards to be more liberal as well as passive when it comes to religion. But then, we have been in a minority as well as a infancy of Muslims would substantially view us as deviants.

Religion has never been tolerant. In England, I know, we do not have a complaint of religious conflicts. But then, Cousin, we have been seeking at a England of today. Was a England of a few hundred years ago any reducti! on extre me? Remember a time when Jews had to wear The Star of David upon their chest as well as were forced to live in ghettos? Not sufficient with that, a Jew! s were l ater diminished from England as well as for a prolonged time were criminialized from English soil.

Then we had a time when Catholics were arrested as well as burnt alive as well as later, when a Catholic succeeded a throne of England, Protestants were arrested as well as burnt alive. Even Queens suffered this fate. And this is Christian killing Christian, mind you, people who hold in a same God though did so differently (no opposite from a Sunni-Shiah incident in Islam today).

Maybe which was 400 years ago, we might say. Well, 400 years ago is not unequivocally which as well prolonged ago. And Islam was founded 600 years after Christianity so we can design Islam to be 600 years behind Christianity in some of a attitudes towards alternative sacrament -- usually similar to how Christianity was behind in a 1400s as well as 1500s.

Nevertheless, Muslims do not catch as well as bake alive those considered deviant Muslims or apostates. Countries similar to Malaysia usually catch them though hearing as well as send them for religious rehabilitation, similar to what happened to me behind in Sep 2008.

You contingency understand, Cousin, Islam is a central sacrament of Malaysia. And, according to a Federal Constitution, Malays have been automatically Muslims. Furthermore, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, etc., have been by law not authorised to evangelise to Muslims. That would be a crime in Malaysia. And if we give a Muslim a copy of a Bible to read, especially if a Bible is in a Malay language, which would be a critical offense.

Muslims have been not authorised to leave Islam as well as modify to alternative religions. Those which do, do so secretly. Invariably, they turn broom closet Christians, Hindus or Buddhists. They will not even brave discuss it their own family which they have been no longer Muslims. Many quit t! o altern ative countries rsther than than stay in Malaysia as ex-Muslims.

Actually, a Malaysian supervision will not wish to plainly admit this, though utterly a number of Malays have left Islam. Some have left Islam to turn Christians (not so most turn Hindus or Buddhists). But we do not know a genuine figures because! unequivocally fe w would plainly acknowledgement their dissenting view for fear of arrest.

Then we have most Malays who have been Muslims in name usually though have been not practising Muslims. They arrange of masquerade as Muslims though do not unequivocally hold in Islam. But they have to pretend they have been still Muslims or else they will get ostracised by society as well as disowned by their families.

So we see, Cousin, a Malaysian supervision needs to protect a Malays. If a Malays have been exposed to a teachings of alternative religions most might actually leave Islam. The supervision is scared which a Malays have been foolish as well as have been simply duped in to turning their backs upon Islam.

In Malaysia, we have an organisation whose job is to spread Islam as well as get non-Muslims to turn Muslims. It is saved by a supervision as well as paid for by a taxpayers. Mosques as well as alternative religious activities have been also government-taxpayers funded. So it is ideally legitimate.

That, I suppose, is a bone of row to most non-Muslims. The supervision propagates Islam as well as a taxpayers pay for this effort. But a non-Muslims might not propagate their sacrament to a Muslims even if they pay for this effort from their own pocket.

I know, to someone similar to you, this might sound intensely unfair as well as one-sided. The supervision propagates Islam as well as persuades non-Muslims to modify to Islam though a non-Muslims have been not authorised to do a same as well as if they do they would get arrested.

But which is how things have been done in Malaysia as well as for 54 years given Independence or Merdeka, a non-Malays have nev! er compl ained. For twelve ubiquitous elections, a non-Muslims have voted in a same government. In fact, a supervision depends upon a votes of a non-Muslims. If usually formed upon Muslim votes, a present supervision would have been kicked out a long, prolonged time ago.

So since have an emanate of this usually now? This state of affairs was acceptable for roughly 54 years. Now, suddenly, it has turn an issue. Why have an emanate out of it now when for 53 years a non-Muslims could live with t! his situ ation?

This is since most Malays have turn upset. They have been of a opinion which a non-Muslims have been commencement to bekurang ajar (insolent). When we suspicion we had no goal of gaining political power, we upheld a celebration in energy as well as tolerated a taste as well as harm as well as did not complete a single word of complaint. Now which we think a celebration in energy is at a end of a rule as well as might soon get kicked out, we start cheering as well as screaming about religious taste as well as persecution.

I suspect England managed to shift this sorry incident when they distant a church from a state. In Malaysia, however, church as well as state is still unequivocally much a single as well as a same. And which is since what we see in Malaysia currently is what we saw in England 500 years ago (minus a burning at a interest of course though replaced with detention though trial).

We contingency assimilate a single thing, Cousin, as well as this is a unequivocally critical indicate we contingency note. Malays might have been sent to propagandize for an preparation though this does not meant we have been intelligent usually since we have left to propagandize as well as have received an education.

You see, Cousin, Malaysias preparation complement does not learn us how to think. They usually learn us how to pass a exams. This is a basis of Malaysias preparation system. So we might have left all a approach up to university level though which does not meant we ha! ve been a thinker or which we have analytical skills (unless we had a advantage of a unfamiliar preparation from young).

This equates to Malaysians have been simply fooled as well as would swallow hook, line as well as sinker any crap thrown in their direction. And this is a single reason a supervision cant concede Christians to speak to Malays. Malays have been as well foolish to break down in to parts which sacrament is improved -- Islam or Christianity -- as well as they would simply be duped in to withdrawal Islam to turn Christians.

But since would this be so? If a Malays have been great Muslims as well as if Islam is a great religion, afterwards surely they would not be simply duped in to withdrawal Islam to turn Christians.

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Ah, b ut which is usually a problem. Most Malays have been not great Muslims. In fact, most Malays do not even assimilate Islam properly. Like robots, they usually blindly follow a rituals they have been taught though unequivocally bargain a substance as well as a foundation of a religion. Even dogs can be taught to do tricks as well as parrots taught how to speak. This does not meant dogs as well as parrots assimilate what they have been you do as well as can break down in to parts their actions.

This is a Malay, or rsther than a Malay-Muslim, dilemma. And since of that, a supervision needs to insulate as well as isolate Malays from a teachings of a alternative religions. If a supervision allows a Christians to evangelise Christianity to a Malays, there would be unequivocally critical risk which most Malays would turn Christians.

That is a gist to a whole matter.

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