KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 Pakatan Rakyat (PR) pronounced currently it will not await Saturday's entertainment of a million Muslims as Islam is not confronting a threat of Christianisation.Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim told a press discussion currently which there was no reason to fright a church as "we have all a energy as well as laws to enhance a bargain of Islam but it has not been done" by a Barisan Nasional (BN) government.
"Instead, those in energy only introduce fear. We have never believed which Islam is being threatened by Christianisation," a PKR de fato personality said.
The Himpunan Sejuta Umat (Himpun) or Gathering of a Million Faithful, is organized by assorted worried eremite groups job for Muslims to rise up opposite a "challenge of Christianisation."
The rally was mooted after a controversial raid upon a Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC) upon Aug 3 where it was alleged which Christians were proselytising to Muslims there.
About 1,000 Facebook users have reliable their assemblage so distant but should Himpun pull most some-more this weekend, it could pull Umno as well as PAS to find aptitude in between some-more eremite Malays.
With racial tensions already taking flight in a years following a 2008 general election, it could raise already simmering fears of Islamisation in between non-Muslims as well as some-more liberal Malays.
Anwar (picture) combined which after PAS pronounced final night it would not back Himpun as a organisers wanted it to be apolitical, PKR had additionally decided to follow fit as "there can be negative impact" to inter-faith relations.
"But you have constrained justification to suggest which Umno is concerned as a media ! is perso nification it up as well as they only await an event if it is backed by Umno," a Permatang Pauh MP said.
Distrust in between Muslims as well as Christians peaked when a Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) raided a Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC) in Petaling Jaya upon Aug 3, claiming it was proselytising Muslims.
This came after steady disputes in between church as well as mosque, such as a legal battle over a use of a word Allah to impute to a Christian god.
An initial justice ruling allowing a Catholic Church to use a tenure Allah had led to places of ceremony being firebombed in Jan final year.
The supervision additionally buckled underneath pressure as well as systematic a release of Malay-language bibles seized before Sarawakians, half of whom have been Christians, voted in a April 16 state polls.
Before a Jais raid, Umno's Utusan Malaysia as well as Malay rights run Perkasa indicted a DAP of conspiring to spin Malaysia into a Christian state.
Although DUMC has denied Jais's claims, Utusan Malaysia fanned a abandon with allegations which Christian groups in Kuala Lumpur as well as Johor were actively perplexing to convert Muslims.
Anwar combined currently which a party "advises a members not to attend a entertainment due to a ramifications of such an event" but pronounced which it would not take disciplinary movement opposite those who do.
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