By Shannon Teoh
Apr 02, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 2 Sacked Selangor senior manager councillor Datuk Hasan Ali today screened videos of 3 Malays who were allegedly converted by Christians, just dual days after a convention for teachers upon a "threat of Christianisation" was hold in Johor.
A 47-year-old male as good as his mother spoke in a 42-minute video about how they were converted by a Christian couple from Australia.
Hasan speaks to reporters during 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 heard off-screen with only his hand, holding Hasan's, seen in a video.
In a initial video, a 47-year-old given a alias Ramli Abdullah pronounced he had depressed in to gangsterism as good as drug prior to assembly a couple 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 going for discipleship precision in Singapore as good as operative with a "Raymond Koh" he described as a reverend from 2004 to 2008, he estimated there were thousands of Malays who had turn Christians.
"But those we met directly, more than 300 or 400 Malays from Perlis to Johor as good as even Kelantan as good 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 HIV, mess as ! good as a celebration of a mass room for children by which Christians approached Muslims.
Harapan Komuniti was a NGO inextricable in a allegations which Muslims were being proselytised during a cooking hosted by a Damansara Utama Methodist Centre (DUMC) in August final year.
Its senior manager executive 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 good as his 42-year-old wife, whose faces were pixelated as good as voices altered, pronounced they have given returned to Islam after being counselled by Hasan's anti-proselytisation movement Unit Selamatkan Akidah (USA).
According to Hasan's aide, a woman, given a alias "Zakiah Musa", returned to Islam initial final year prior to convincing her husband to stick upon her.
Former Selangor PAS arch Hasan has repeatedly indicted Christians of proselytising Muslims given initial apropos partial of a Selangor Pakatan Rakyat (PR) government in 2008.
Hasan, who was in assign of Islamic affairs when he was partial of a PKR-led administration, refused to allow any recording of a video, observant he was duty-bound to strengthen all individuals involved.
The Gombak Setia representative pronounced he had no serve proof during this point though pronounced which it was already conspicuous which a trio had come brazen given how those who modify have been disowned by their family as good as Muslim friends.
"They asked me, how can a reserve of their lives be guaranteed," he said.
The video's screening comes after a mercury rose in between Muslim as good as Christian groups over Saturday's convention upon a "Christian threat" organised by a Johor Mufti as good as Education departments which required a attendance of over 300 eremite schoolteachers.
Its strange title "Strengthening a Faith: The Dangers of Liberalism as good as Pluralism as good a! s a Thre at of Christianity towards Muslims. What is a Role of Teachers?" was altered to dump a anxiety to Christians after much cheer from non-Muslim eremite groups.
But a Mufti Department insisted a content would not be changed, leading to serve annoy from a Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism as good as Taoism (MCCBCHST).
The interfaith organisation called upon Datuk Seri Najib Razak to "walk your talk" of mediation as good as unity under a 1 Malaysia aphorism though a budding minister merely responded by observant all faiths should not be unresponsive to each alternative as good 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 good as Tan Sri Bernard Dompok to raise 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 good as Muslim eremite communities have been engaged in a tug-of-war over a word "Allah", with a latter organisation arguing which a use should be disdainful to them upon a grounds which Islam is monotheistic as good 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 most alternative parts of a world, notably in Arab nations as good as Indonesia.
Conservative Muslim groups have additionally indicted Christians of attempting to modify Malays, resulting in heightened tension in between supporters of a dual religions.
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