{"id":909,"date":"2007-12-17T23:00:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/12\/17\/najib-says-cannot-create-non-muslim-affairs-dept\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T23:00:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T15:00:18","slug":"najib-says-cannot-create-non-muslim-affairs-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/12\/17\/najib-says-cannot-create-non-muslim-affairs-dept\/","title":{"rendered":"najib says cannot create non muslim affairs dept"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmm…as usual, i'm confused. just because other religions are not the official religion (correct term is "religion of the federation" ?), we can't allocate some resources? Why not for the sake of unity make some changes to the relevant acts and constitutions? i mean if we can bulldoze things like national service, water bill, etc, surely the people's reps can do this as well. we are talking about upholding rukunegara (kepercayaan kepada tuhan – believe in god), maybe that can be the supporting point. <\/p>\n

in the end, it is "hendak seribu daya, tak nak seribu dalih – where there is will, there is a way". <\/p>\n

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Non-Muslim Affairs Dept: Gov't looking into it
http:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/76159<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yoges Palaniappan | Dec 17, 07 6:50pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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The government will look into the request to set up a Non-Muslim Affairs Department under the Prime Minister's Department. <\/p>\n

\"\"Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak said the PM's Department does not have such a department because other religions are not the official religion of the country. <\/p>\n

"We have the Islamic Affairs Department in the PM's Department because Islam is our official religion," he told reporters in the Parliament lobby today. <\/p>\n

He was responding to the request<\/a><\/strong> by a coalition of Indian NGOs for the government to set up a Non-Muslim Affairs Department to handle sensitive issues such as conversions and temple demolitions.<\/p>\n

However, Najib stressed that the government is "very concerned" with the Indian community's plight especially issues pertaining to places of worship.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Hmm…as usual, i'm confused. just because other religions are not the official religion (correct term is "religion of the federation" ?), we can't allocate some resources? Why not for the sake of unity make some changes to the relevant acts and constitutions? i mean if we can bulldoze things like national service, water bill, etc, […]<\/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":[92,24,278,302,275],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-conversion","tag-mic","tag-ngo","tag-religion","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}