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Old January 10th, 2010, 03:43 PM posted to rec.travel.asia
Magnus[_2_]
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Posted by RAKYAT MARHAEN

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 - A fourth Klang Valley church, this time in
Kampung Subang, was reportedly attacked with Molotov cocktail which
failed to explode while police have dismissed reports that cars with
Christian symbols having their windscreens smashed in the Bangsar
suburb today, hours after arson attacks on three churches.

Police have sent a team to investigate the latest church attack in
Kampung Subang which is linked to the controversial High Court ruling
allowing "Allah" to be used by Catholic weekly Herald in its Bahasa
Malaysia section that has outraged Muslim groups.

Selangor police chief DCP Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said the Molotov
cocktail failed to explode.

City police have also increased patrols in the middle-class Bangsar
suburb after people reported cars with Christian symbols such as
crucifixes and rosaries had their windscreens smashed. However, police
say no cars have been found smashed.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said in the morning
three churches were attacked from midnight - the Metro Tabernacle in
Desa Melawati, the Church of Assumption in Petaling Jaya Old Town and
the Life Chapel in Section 17, Petaling Jaya.

source:
http://malaysia.sompost.com/?p=13587
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Wow, it's the ideal country to visit for rich Westerners!
With Egypt, Irak or Afghanistan, of course.

:-((((
Mort
"Morons of the world unite!"
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Old January 10th, 2010, 06:26 PM posted to rec.travel.asia
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In article , says...
Wow, it's the ideal country to visit for rich Westerners!
With Egypt, Irak or Afghanistan, of course.


What is the problem with Egypt as a tourist destination?
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Old January 15th, 2010, 09:24 PM posted to rec.travel.asia
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Default 4th church attacked, police find no cars smashed

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:26:23 +0100, Alfred Molon
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In article , says...
Wow, it's the ideal country to visit for rich Westerners!
With Egypt, Irak or Afghanistan, of course.


What is the problem with Egypt as a tourist destination?
--

Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe


NINTH Church Vandalized in Malaysia as Tensions Rise
by SETH MYDANS


A ninth church was vandalized Monday in Malaysia in a series of arson
attacks that have raised religious tensions surrounding a dispute over
the use of the word 'Allah' by Christians in this mostly Muslim
nation.

"Allah is the common term for God in Malay-language Bibles, but the
government and many Muslim groups insist that the word should be
reserved for use in Islam. The attacks, which began on Friday, came
after a court ruling on Dec. 31 that overturned a government ban on
the use of 'Allah' by Christians. That ruling has been stayed while
the government appeals.

Only one of the churches has been seriously damaged, and some of the
attacks were minor. In Monday’s attack, the Sidang Injil Borneo Church
in the central state of Negeri Sembilan was slightly damaged when its
door was burned, according to local reports.

Government officials condemned the violence Monday but defended their
position, saying conditions are different in Malaysia from those in
neighboring Indonesia or in Arab nations where 'Allah' is the common
term for God.

"These outrageous incidents are acts of extremism and designed to
weaken our diverse communities’ shared commitment to strengthen racial
unity," The Home Ministry secretary, Gen. Mahmood Adam, told reporters
after briefing foreign diplomats on the situation. "They don’t
understand the situation here," he said of the diplomats. "They just
want to know why it can be allowed in other countries and not here."
He said he told them: "Be fair, you have to compare apples to apples,
oranges to oranges. Our landscape is different from other countries.
Malays here are different from other countries. The landscape here is
different from Indonesia so we can’t compare."

The violence has strained relations among Malays, who are mostly
Muslim and who make up 60 percent of the population, and the Chinese
and Indian minorities, who are Christian, Hindu and Buddhist.
Indonesia is less divided, with Muslims making up 90 percent of its
population of 240 million.

Some Muslims in Malaysia say they fear that Christians are trying to
win converts by using the word 'Allah.' They say Muslim believers
could be confused by the use.
On her blog last week, Marina Mahathir, a commentator and columnist,
disparaged this view as a 'copyright issue.'

She said a confident Muslim 'will not walk into a church, hear a
liturgy in Malay or Arabic where they use the word ‘Allah’ and then
think that he or she is in a mosque.'
Business leaders have voiced concern that further attacks could
threaten trade and investment.

The tourism minister, Ng Yen Yen, said foreign visitors could be
frightened away, although the ministry had not received any
information on the effects so far. "This is the communication era, so
information travels fast," she said. "Tourists will choose not to
visit a country faced with conflicts, especially religious conflicts."

In a sign of the country’s racial and religious complexity, a leading
Hindu organization said it would hold a candlelight vigil at a church
in solidarity with the Christian minority. Church officials urged
their parishioners not to participate in the vigil.
"It sends the wrong message as if the non-Muslims are going against
the Muslims," Father Phillips Muthu of Assumption Church told
Malaysiakini.com, an independent online news service.
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It's obvious that only NAZI pigs want to visit Malaysia!!!!!

:-((((((
Disgusted Mort
 




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