KUALA LUMPUR, December thirteen Many Christians feel victimised as good as have been convinced they have been being used as domestic pawns to win Muslim votes in a next general election, a array of chu! rch lead ers have said.
The church leaders told a New York Times in a inform published today which there was in all a feeling of Christian-bashing between a village which creates up reduction than 10 per cent of a population as good as consists of most vital denominations.
The inform forked out which recent events had worsened! religio us tragedy here, particularly after a controversial August 3 raid upon a Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC) in Petaling Jaya.
During a incident, Islamic eremite authorities had moved in upon a cooking duty hold during a church premises after reception complaints which Christians were proselytising to Muslims there.
While no petrify explanation was found as good as no movement taken, Muslim politicians here as good as Muslim group Himpun had continued to explain of a tract by antithesis parties as good as Christian organisations to Christianise a country.
The NYT pointed to Himpun's array of plann! ed natio nwide rallies to "save as good as protect" Islam as good as cited Umno report chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan's recent statement as examples of a stability accusations causing "unease" in a Christian village even as they prepare fo! r Christ mas.
During a just-concluded Umno annual general assembly, Ahmad had warned which Islam would be "lost" if Pakatan Rakyat (PR) made poignant gains in a polls as good as had called a DAP "agents of Christianisation".
Under glow for his difference later as good as dubbed as "Hitler" by his antithesis foes, Ahmad chose to hang to his guns, insisting which his statement was nothing but a truth.
"It's hapless which a authorities do not take a applicable movement against those creation such wild allegations. We have been dissapoint about that. There's a clarity of probity is not done. We have not done anything wrong," a NYT quoted Bishop Jason Selvaraj of St Mary's Anglican Cathedral as saying.
The every day remarkable which nonetheless Malaysia's Constitution provides for freedom of sacrament as good as designates Islam as a sacrament of a federation, Muslims here have been free to proselytise to others while those of other faiths have been barred from doing so to Muslims.
But Christians here, it said, have denied attempting to proselytise.
"The present climate as good as mood is some-more domestic than anything else. They have been thinking which it will unite a Muslims together, but we do not consider which any Malaysians buy it. It's a domestic game," C! atholic weekly The Herald's editor Rev Lawrence Andrew told a newspaper.
But according to domestic analysts interviewed by a daily, capitalising upon eremite sensitivities in this demeanour could infer detrimental to a statute Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition in a long run.
Quoting Nanyang Technological University domestic scholarship professor Farish Ahmad Noor, a every day wrote which a move could alienate Umno's non-Muslim affiliates in BN as good as ward off Christian support.
"If this (conservative) border in Umno thinks this is a only way they can secure a Malay vote, the! y have t o assimilate which a coalition as a whole has to secure a votes of as most Malaysians as they ca! n, as go od as which includes Christians," he said.
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