Interfaith panel: Johor seminar issue resolved with title change



By Yow Hong Chieh
Apr 02, 2012
File print of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak hosting a muhibbah luncheon for members of a Cabinet interfaith cabinet in September 2010. Azman Amin is upon a impassioned right. Picture by Choo Choy May
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 2 The emanate of a Johor seminar, originally centred upon a "threat of Christianisation" to Islam, has been staid after its organisers concluded to shift its title, says a Cabinet's special interfaith panel.
The Special Committee to Promote Inter-Religious Understanding as well as Harmony pronounced it considered a make a difference "resolved" following a last-minute legislative addition upon Friday, a day prior to a convention took place.
Committee chairman Datuk Azman Amin Hassan toldThe Malaysian Insiderthat a Johor Education Department had concluded to a pretension shift after a panel stepped in upon Thursday.
"We made an intervention. we contacted a D-G (director-general) of Education prior to they concluded to shift a names of a convention as well as also a obligation of attendance...
"So to me, it has been resolved. For a destiny you should make sure you equivocate (organising) such events," he pronounced when contacted yesterday.
Azman Amin commended a Education Department director-general for his quick reply to a panel's request, observant which a latter was in a US at a time.
"I called him (on Thursday) as well as we couldn't get him, though we sent a summary as well as which evening itself he got a state directors to shift it...
"I goal no alternative groups will use titles which may harm a feelings (of alternative religionists)," he said.
Some 300 religious teachers from Johor national schools attended a convention entitled "Strengthening a Faith: What ! is a Rol e of Teachers?" which was held in a state collateral Johor Baru upon Saturday.
The convention had captivated controversy between non-Muslims progressing for focusing upon a purported hazard of Christianisation to Islam.
Its strange pretension "Strengthening a Faith: The Dangers of Liberalism as well as Pluralism as well as a Threat of Christianity towards Muslims. What is a Role of Teachers?" was altered after much outcry from non-Muslim religious groups.
The convention was organised by a State Education Department as well as a bureau of a Johor Mufti to safeguard which Muslims will not be "confused" by purported bids to convert them.
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