{"id":424,"date":"2007-07-20T16:15:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T08:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/07\/20\/stop-making-statements-on-secular-state-hishammuddin-tells-mca\/"},"modified":"2007-07-20T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T08:15:10","slug":"stop-making-statements-on-secular-state-hishammuddin-tells-mca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/07\/20\/stop-making-statements-on-secular-state-hishammuddin-tells-mca\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop making statements on secular state, Hishammuddin tells MCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>but NST still managed to print this article, since it does not go against Najib&#39;s comments.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Friday\/NewsBreak\/20070720153423\/Article\/index_html\">source<\/a><\/div>\n<div>BERNAMA<br \/>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>RANAU, Fri: <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Umno Youth chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein today asked MCA to stop making statements on Malaysia being a secular state.. <\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody><\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>He said though it was nothing new, such claims would not benefit anyone. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not naive enough to allow this issue to go on,&#8221; he told reporters when asked to comment on the issue after opening the Ranau Umno delegates conference.  <\/p>\n<p>MCA secretary-general Datuk Ong Ka Chuan had said the party had ample evidence to show that Malaysia was a secular state, including several important events leading to the country&#8217;s independence and formation of Malaysia.  <\/p>\n<p>He had cited notes prepared by the Colonial Office dated May 23, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Friday\/NewsBreak\/20070720153423\/Article\/index_html#\"> <font>1<\/font><\/a>957 at the London Conference Talks. <br \/> Various groups have also disagreed with Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak&#8217;s remarks that Malaysia was never a secular state, saying that the deputy Prime Minister had ignored the country&#8217;s constitutional history and social contract.  <\/p>\n<p>Bar Council Malaysia president Ambiga Sreenevasan had said one only need to look at the Articles in the Federal Constitution, the system of government and administration of justice to show that Malaysia was not an Islamic state.  <\/p>\n<p>Najib had said Malaysia is an Islamic state that adheres to the fundamentals of Islam and having a Constitution which states Islam as the official religion. <\/p>\n<p>He said that being an Islamic state did not mean that the rights of non-Muslims were not respected. \u2014 BERNAMA  <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>but NST still managed to print this article, since it does not go against Najib&#39;s comments. &nbsp; source BERNAMA&nbsp; RANAU, Fri: Umno Youth chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein today asked MCA to stop making statements on Malaysia being a secular state.. He said though it was nothing new, such claims would not benefit anyone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133,114,24,122,302,141],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-isa","tag-mca","tag-mic","tag-najib-tun-razak","tag-religion","tag-umno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}