LETTERIt appears from a mainstream media which a luncheon meeting upon Wednesday in between Christian leaders as well as Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was usually over 3 issues viz. a appointment of heads of goal schools, teaching Bible Knowledge in schools as well as tax grant status for Christian organizations.
It's a big mystery given a media did not mention a mile-long list of grievances which Christians in Malaysia have, generally opposite name fanatics who often crop up to be land Government to release by sheer blackmail.
Needless to say, a emanate of a Government not permitting a tenure Allah as a Christian tenure for God in Malay print has been well-debated.
Also well-debated is a emanate of a Government not permitting a Holy Bible to be in Malay print.
Christians have additionally been accused of using their functions of charity as an elaborate cover to modify people of other conviction to their faith. Why don't people of other faiths, in which case, do functions of charity for their people? And whilst they have been during it, don't send a children to goal schools.
This is usually a tip of a proverbial iceberg.
Run! ning con tra to Article 3
The mom of all issues in a country is a increasing Islamisation in rebuttal of Article 3 of a Federal Constitution. The Article provides for leisure of ceremony whilst mentioning Islam though does not specifically state which a religion from a faraway deserts of Arabia has official status.
This is as it should be in a Federal Constitution given Islam, similar to Confucianism, has ossified as well as fossilized by time. The movement in Islam to embankment a 4 Hadiths Traditions (Saying/Interpretations) of a Prophet as well as go back to a Quran for a re-interpretation to suit ? la mode times has been still-born.
Malaysia is a physical state where there's subdivision of state as well as Church.
Nevertheless, Article 3 is being observed more often than not in a breach as well as this has created an uneasy incident where a Syariah Court, an defective court in law similar to a Native Court, has naively been allowed by a polite courts to explain jurisdiction over non-Muslims. The categorical problem is which a Judiciary is packed with 90 per cent of a members from a single village which lives in a superstitious fear of going to hell. We competence as well designate bomohs as Judges.
Article 3 is additionally not applicable, underneath a 1963 Malaysia Agreement, in Sabah as well as Sarawak.
The reality is which non-Muslims have been not picked as Governors in a dual states ever given a colonial British left. The final non-Muslim Governors in Sabah as well as Sarawak were British.
To add insult to injury, Putrajaya will move sky as well as earth to ensure which no non-Muslim ever becomes Chief Minister in Sabah or Sarawak.
This is function in dual states where a Natives, Dusun as well as Dayak respectively, have been overwhelmingly Christian when not pagan. There have been very couple of Muslims among a Dayak though more among a Dusun as well as confined to a couple of tribes similar! to a Bi saya, Orang Sungei think Bung Mokhtar as well as Ranau Dusuns.
Christian bins as well as bintes
Still all these have not prevented a National Registration Department (NRD) in Putrajaya from classifying thousands of Dusun as Muslim usually given they have a Bin or Binte in their names. Christians in Sabah generally have a Bin or Binte in their names.
It's not well known how a practice started. No prizes for guessing which some fanatic in a NRD competence have suggested to a Dusuns of aged which it was necessary to have a son of as well as daughter of in their names as well as expressed as Bin as well as Binte. Once carrying adopted Bin as well as Binte, it was usually a make a difference of executive policy for a NRD to stamp Islam upon a MyKads of Christians with a Bin as well as Binte in their names.
If a Christian with a Bin or Binte wants to have it private from his MyKad, he or she has to go to a Syariah Court as well as find a declaration which they have been not Muslims or which they had left Islam. The latter declaration is an impossibility given Muslims have been not allowed to leave Islam.
Why should a non-Muslim go to a Syariah Court to get a declaration which he or she is not a Muslim? This is in rebuttal of a physical inlet of a Federal Constitution as well as Article 3 which provides for leisure of worship. If a person says he's not a Muslim, he or she is not a Muslim. Period.
In neighbouring Sarawak, it was discovered recently which thousands of Dayak schoolchildren had been personal in their school annals as Malays. When these children turn 12 as well as request for a MyKad, they would probably be given a single hammered with a word Islam given they have been personal as Malay.
The Sabah as well as Sarawak examples upon Bin, Binte, MyKad, Islam as well as Malay have been justification which a fanatics in Putrajaya have ditched a old, slow as well as torturous method of carryi! ng out m issionary activities to modify people to Islam.
Remember Parameswara?
This reminds us of Parameswara, a Hindu founder of a Malacca Empire, who a single day declared which all his Hindu subjects were hereafter Muslims. This was after he married a daughter of a Sultan of Pasai in North Sumatra as well as embraced Islam. Parameswara, a interloper king from Palembang in Sumatra, had earlier killed a Crown Prince of Thailand in Tumasek (Singapore) as well as ruled in his place instead for six months. When got news which a Thai King was entrance for his head, he fled to a swamps of Malacca.
Did a concerns in Sabah as well as Sarawak underline in a luncheon talks in between Christian leaders as well as Najib?
It's a obvious actuality which a Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia have been denied accede to set up their Churches. The media has carried most stories of Orang Asli Churches being torn down. The make a difference has even gone to Court in some cases.
Like a Dusun as well as Dayak in Malaysian Borneo, a Orang Asli feel which Christianity is a conviction which allows them to keep their language, culture, etiquette as well as traditions.
This cannot be pronounced to be a same if they turn Muslim. It's same to cultural genocide.
Denied rights of Article 153
Another sore indicate is which a non-Muslim Natives in Sabah as well as Sarawak as well as a Orang Asli have been denied a benefits of Article 153 of a Federal Constitution as well as a New Economic Policy (NEP).
This is for no other reason than a actuality which they have been non-Muslims.
How can a son of a dirt be denied his legacy by reason of a profession of his Faith? It would seem which a Malay-speaking communities in Peninsular Malaysia, not famous in a Federal Constitution as Natives, crop up to have more rights than a loyal Natives in Malaysia. The Malay-speaking commun! ities in Peninsular Malaysia have been immigrants as well as a descendants of immigrants from a nearby islands in southeast Asia, a Indian sub-continent as well as parts of Arabia.
The NEP, among a 3 tenets, provides for 30 per cent of Malaysia's corporate economy which publicly-listed to be owned, tranquil as well as managed by a Natives of Sabah as well as Sarawak as well as a Orang Asli as well as a Malay-speaking communities in Peninsular Malaysia.
Similarly, Article 153 pot a Special Position for a Natives of Sabah as well as Sarawak as well as a Orang Asli as well as Malay-speaking communities in Peninsular Malaysia by way of a reasonable proportion in 4 specific areas viz. money coming in in to a polite service, money coming in in to institutions of aloft guidance owned by a Government as well as training privileges, supervision scholarships, as well as opportunities from a supervision to do business.
The Borneonisation of a polite service in Sabah as well as Sarawak, pledged by a 1963 Malaysia Agreement, has additionally seen a non-Muslim Natives being denied their fair share of jobs, generally which during a top. If as well as when complaints have been lodged upon a matter, a routine reply from Putrajaya in Parliament is which "the complainants have been not competent to hold such jobs".
Christian leaders in Malaysia must go beyond polite small talk as well as jokes during luncheon gatherings with a Government to get to grips with a most problems confronting members of a conviction in a country. This is what Christians design of their leaders.
Otherwise, a Government will turn around as well as explain which a Christians have been a happy lot in Malaysia as well as have few, if any, complaints opposite a administration.
Malaysia Chronicle
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