{"id":2293,"date":"2008-08-11T16:45:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T08:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/08\/11\/update-of-forum-attack-by-thugs-3\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T16:55:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T08:55:27","slug":"update-of-forum-attack-by-thugs-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/08\/11\/update-of-forum-attack-by-thugs-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Update of forum attack by thugs (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samy Vellu gave his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Monday\/National\/2317973\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\">response<\/a> on the forum fiasco. He agrees that the forum should be held indoors and in private:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;There should be a more sensible approach to settle the issue and it should not be debated in public.&#8221;Such issues should be discussed behind closed doors where Muslims and non-Muslims can raise their grievances. The public forum on Saturday did not benefit any party and angered certain groups.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also mentioned that the subject of conversion was discussed  at the last BN supreme council meeting while he was a minister (that&#8217;s at least 6 months ago). Prime Minister gave assurance to find a solution that will not hurt both parties. Election time, so anything goes.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Samy Vellu earns the distinction for being the first (and only?) non-Muslim leader who disagrees with the public forum being organised. Well done.<\/p>\n<p>Utusan meanwhile carried calls for ISA (from certain party members) to be imposed on the forum organisers. The reports sounded one-sided since only one group people gave their views.<\/p>\n<p>More amazing is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utusan.com.my\/utusan\/info.asp?y=2008&amp;dt=0811&amp;pub=Utusan_Malaysia&amp;sec=Dalam_Negeri&amp;pg=dn_02.htm\" target=\"_blank\">revelation<\/a> by Ahmad Zahid that a civil-syariah joint committee being established under Prime Minister&#8217;s Department. He said that discussions have been made with Minister Zaid Ibrahim. The committee will focus on divorce, child custody, wealth allocation, etc. Now, the discussion for such cases is to be done out of court between the civil lawyer and syariah lawyer. The discussion CANNOT be revealed in public to avoid misunderstanding and public debate.<\/p>\n<p>Read part <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/08\/10\/update-of-forum-attack-by-thugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/08\/10\/update-of-forum-attack-by-thugs-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samy Vellu gave his response on the forum fiasco. He agrees that the forum should be held indoors and in private: &#8220;There should be a more sensible approach to settle the issue and it should not be debated in public.&#8221;Such issues should be discussed behind closed doors where Muslims and non-Muslims can raise their grievances. [&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":[92,117,112,113,27,302],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-religion","tag-conversion","tag-crime","tag-discrimination","tag-intolerance","tag-protest","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","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=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}