KUALA LUMPUR, October 19 Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon today shielded this weekend's mass convene to criticism purported Christian efforts to modify Muslims, saying Muslims as well had a right to express their views.
Koh (picture), whose Cabinet portfolio includes inhabitant unity, pronounced Himpunan Sejuta Umat was excusable as long as organisers as well as participants aired their grouses peacefully as well as kept to a beliefs of Rukun Negara as well as a 1 Malaysia concept.
"In a multi-ethnic society, multi-religious society, opposite groups have opposite concerns," he told reporters after attending a National Patriotic Songs Choir Competition here.
"But as long as they voice it in a positive as well as assuage manner, then it is part of a right of expression."
But he stressed which any organisation wanting to voice its opinions contingency cruise a multiracial reality of Malaysian multitude as well as hoped which a convene will not serve stoke secular tragedy though increase mutual bargain instead.
Himpunan Sejuta Umat (Himpun) was organised by various right-wing religious groups calling for Muslims to climb up as well as quarrel a "challenge of Christianisation".
The mass convene was mooted following a controversial August 3 raid by Selangor Islamic authorities upon Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC), where it was purported which Christians were converting Muslims.
It is bootleg to proselytise to Muslims in Malaysia.
Some 1,000 Facebook users so distant have promised to show up though Himpun could pull Umno as well as PAS to find aptitude between more religious Malays if a convene during Shah Alam Stadium this week end pulls a larger than approaching crowd.
With secular tragedy stoked in recent yea! rs by ch urch firebombings as well as a cow head protest, Saturday's convene could resurrect fears of growing Islamisation between non-Muslims as well as more liberal Malays.
Christian leaders have denied claims which Christians were attempting to modify Muslims as well as have called Himpun's quarrel "irrelevant".
Similarly, Pakatan Rakyat (PR) has pronounced it will not await a convene as Islam was not during risk from Christianisation.
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