Cap Umnos sordid attempts at stoking religious fire, Pakatan tells Najib

A screen capture of the controversial post upon Umno Youth's Facebook wall prior to it was taken down during 6.30pm yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 19 Datuk Seri Najib Razak must action right away as well as snuff out once as well as for all attempts by his ruling Barisan Nasional's (BN) categorical celebration to inflame religious sensitivities in the run-up to national polls, his domestic foes from Pakatan Rakyat (PR) reminded the budding apportion currently as they laid open the controversial Facebook posting in Umno Youth's central page yesterday.

The controversial poster, which was taken down several hours after it appeared upon the domestic girl wing's amicable network site early yesterday afternoon, had read: "Jika anda setuju untuk jadikan KRISTIAN sebagai agama rasmi persekutuan Malaysia, teruskan sokongan anda kepada Pakatan Rakyat. (If we determine to have CHRISTIANITY the central sacrament of the federation of Malaysia, continue ancillary Pakatan Rakyat.) 'God magnify we my son'."

DAP national organising cabinet member Teresa Kok. File pic

DAP national organising cabinet member Teresa Kok called the Facebook post the "childish" move, as well as urged Najib, who is Umno boss as well as chairman of the 13-member BN coalition, to action upon the matter.

"I think Najib has to unequivocally demeanour in to his own party... there have been certain elements in the celebration perplexing to destroy the nation by playing religious fire (sic)," she toldThe Malaysian Insidertoday, adding which it was an attempt to "spoil" the existent religious- as well as racial-harmony.

"I think Najib should seriously demeanour in to it, otherwise his apho! rism of 1 Malaysia will turn the laughing stock," pronounced the Seputeh MP, observant which it was posted prior to the Muslim Aidilfitri legal holiday today, which she pronounced is additionally "celebrated by all races".

Kok who was during the Selangor mentri besar's Aidilfitri open residence celebration in Shah Alam pronounced she was blissful which Umno Youth arch Khairy Jamaluddin acted quickly upon the matter as well as private the incendiary poster from the wing's Facebook wall within hours of its appearance.

The Umno Youth arch had yesterday denied which the design was uploaded by members of his team or which the wing supported the statement. The poster was taken down from the website during about 6.30pm yesterday.

PAS clamp boss Datuk Mahfuz Omar. File pic

PAS clamp boss Datuk Mahfuz Omar pronounced "the matter in Pemuda Umno's page clearly shows it is influenced by sentiments shown by Umno as well as the mainstream media", adding which the spread of such sentiments "will in the finish means unrest."

"Although Pemuda Umno say they do not censor what is posted upon the Facebook page, the being is this is the outcome of Umno as well as the mainstream media's attitude," he said, calling the girl wing by its Malay name.

He pronounced the pierce is intended to "scare Muslim voters to have them fearful to opinion for Pakatan Rakyat (PR)", though adds which Malaysians have been "mature" enough to be unaffected by such "provocations".

PKR's vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar. File pic

PKR's vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar additionally cursed the poster, calling it the "sordid arrangement of bigotry, lies as well as irresponsibility by an organ ! (of) the ruling party."

"At the really least, the Pakatan Rakyat deserves an immediate apology," she pronounced in the content message toThe Malaysian Insiderin an immediate reply to the poster yesterday.

"I await the authorities' rapid action to assign the person hold obliged for any posts upon the Umno Youth FB Page," she said, observant which Section 114A of the Evidence Act would be the relevant law.

The budding apportion had pronounced upon Twitter final week which the federal supervision would revisit Section 114A which presumes shame upon an indicted person prosecuted for cyber-offences, though Information, Communications as well as Culture Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim later pronounced the law, which was upheld by Parliament in April as well as came in to force final month, would stay.

Yesterday's Facebook design provoked an uproar upon the renouned amicable network with some cyber citizens ancillary the matter as well as others condemning the Umno girl wing for attempting to fan emotions as well as religious sentiments between Christians as well as Muslims upon the eve of Aidilfitri, the single of the biggest holidays in multicultural Malaysia's calendar.

The Facebook post appeared to suggest which the opinion for PR will catapult Christianity in to Islam's unquestioned position as Malaysia's religion, display which faith is still being used to scare off the crucial Malay-Muslim opinion in the run-up to national polls.

The design is the sign of Malay every day Utusan Malaysia, which final year placed upon its front page an unsubstantiated report suggesting which the DAP was conspiring with the Church to implement the Christian as budding apportion as well as create the Christian Malaysian state.

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