By Shannon Teoh
April 02, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, April 2 Sacked Selangor senior manager councillor Datuk Hasan Ali currently screened videos of 3 Malays who were allegedly converted by Christians, usually dual days after a convention for teachers upon a "threat of Christianisation" was hold in Johor.
A 47-year-old male as well as his mother spoke in a 42-minute video about how they were converted by a Christian integrate from Australia.
Hasan speaks to reporters at a press conference where he showed 'proof' of Malays who had converted to Christianity. Picture by Jack Ooi
A man, identified as Ahmad Syafiq Ridzuan, can be listened off-screen with usually his hand, holding Hasan's, seen in a video.
In a first video, a 47-year-old since a alias Ramli Abdullah pronounced he had fallen in to gangsterism as well as drug prior to meeting a integrate in 2002 when they gave him shelter.
"They treated me very well. Only after staying with them for a year then we found out it was a Christian organisation.
"They told me non-Christians would go to ruin though we would go to sky if we accept Jesus as my saviour," he said.
He added which after starting for discipleship precision in Singapore as well as operative with a "Raymond Koh" he described as a reverend from 2004 to 2008, he estimated there were thousands of Malays who had become Christians.
"But those we met directly, some-more than 300 or 400 Malays from Perlis to Johor as well as even Kelantan as well as Terengganu," Ramli pronounced in a video.
He additionally pronounced he worked for Harapan Komuniti, which called itself a non-faith-based NGO, which had 3 ! units H IV, mess as well as a celebration of a mass room for young kids by which Christians approached Muslims.
Harapan Komuniti was a NGO inextricable in a allegations which Muslims were being proselytised at a cooking hosted by a Damansara Utama Methodist Centre (DUMC) in Aug last year.
Its senior manager director is Raymond Koh, who had insisted which eremite authorities trespassed in to what was a "thanksgiving dinner" attended by 120 Malaysians of different races.
Both Ramli as well as his 42-year-old wife, whose faces were pixelated as well as voices altered, pronounced they have since returned to Islam after being counselled by Hasan's anti-proselytisation transformation Unit Selamatkan Akidah (USA).
According to Hasan's aide, a woman, since a alias "Zakiah Musa", returned to Islam first last year prior to convincing her father to stick upon her.
Former Selangor PAS arch Hasan has repeatedly indicted Christians of proselytising Muslims since first apropos part of a Selangor Pakatan Rakyat (PR) government in 2008.
Hasan, who was in charge of Islamic affairs when he was part of a PKR-led administration, refused to allow any recording of a video, observant he was duty-bound to protect all individuals involved.
The Gombak Setia assemblyman pronounced he had no serve explanation at this point though pronounced which it was already conspicuous which a trio had come forward since how those who modify are disowned by their family as well as Muslim friends.
"They asked me, how can a safety of their lives be guaranteed," he said.
The video's screening comes after a mercury rose in between Muslim as well as Christian groups over Saturday's convention upon a "Christian threat" organized by a Johor Mufti as well as Education departments which compulsory a attendance of over 300 eremite schoolteachers.
Its strange title "Strengthening a Faith: The Dangers of Liberalism as well as Pluralism as well as! a Threa t of Christianity towards Muslims. What is a Role of Teachers?" was altered to drop a anxiety to Christians after most cheer from non-Muslim eremite groups.
But a Mufti Department insisted a content would not be changed, heading to serve anger from a Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism as well as Taoism (MCCBCHST).
The interfaith organisation called upon Datuk Seri Najib Razak to "walk your talk" of mediation as well as togetherness underneath a 1 Malaysia aphorism though a budding minister merely responded by observant all faiths should not be unresponsive to any alternative as well as refused to condemnation Johor authorities.
This led to a Council of Churches Malaysia urging Christian ministers such as Datuk Seri Idris Jala, Datuk Seri Maximus Ongkili, Datuk Seri Peter Chin as well as Tan Sri Bernard Dompok to lift a issue in a Cabinet.
Christians form 9.2 per cent of Malaysia's 28.3 million-strong population.
In new years, a Christian as well as Muslim eremite communities have been engaged in a tug-of-war over a word "Allah", with a latter organisation arguing which a make use of should be disdainful to them upon a drift which Islam is monotheistic as well as a word "Allah" denotes a Muslim god.
Christians, however, have argued which "Allah" is an Arabic word which has been used by those of alternative eremite beliefs, together with a Jews, in anxiety to God in many alternative parts of a world, notably in Arab nations as well as Indonesia.
Conservative Muslim groups have additionally indicted Christians of attempting to modify Malays, ensuing in heightened tension in between supporters of a dual religions.
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