{"id":2140,"date":"2008-07-03T23:13:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T15:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/07\/03\/islamic-ngos-protest-against-building-houses-of-worship\/"},"modified":"2008-07-03T23:13:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T15:13:35","slug":"islamic-ngos-protest-against-building-houses-of-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/07\/03\/islamic-ngos-protest-against-building-houses-of-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic NGOs protest against building houses of worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the actual <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Thursday\/Frontpage\/20080703173433\/Article\/index_html\">statement<\/a> says:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Thursday\/Frontpage\/20080703173433\/Article\/index_html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Abdul Rahman said the memorandum also protested against the unrestricted construction of houses of worship of all races without consideration for racial sensitivities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The memorandum was given by a coalition of 100 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Selangor today. Some 200 representatives of the NGOs, led by Datuk Abdul Rahman Palil, handed the memorandum to the sultan\u2019s naval aide-de-camp (ADC) Commander Ahmad Ramli Kardi at Istana Bukit Kayangan.<\/p>\n<p>The statement above sounds very vague and not to mention dangerous. What is meant by &#8220;unrestricted&#8221; and &#8220;consideration for racial sensitivities&#8221;. In Bolehland, that is usually associated with a one-sided argument for the privileged race. <\/p>\n<p>I think these people should not butt in on issues that is not related to their religion. Its not as if the authorities are planning to demolish a mosque and build a gurdwara on it or using the temple to convert muslims. This is what makes the rest of Malaysians tick and become wary of their religion. <\/p>\n<p>Let each neighborhood have its own set of places of worship so that people don&#8217;t have to travel far. We have seen in Penang and Malacca where various institutions basically on the same street without problem for centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the actual statement says: Abdul Rahman said the memorandum also protested against the unrestricted construction of houses of worship of all races without consideration for racial sensitivities. The memorandum was given by a coalition of 100 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Selangor today. Some 200 representatives of the NGOs, led by Datuk Abdul Rahman Palil, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[112,113,302,147],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-religion","tag-discrimination","tag-intolerance","tag-religion","tag-selangor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}