The only way to solve the Taman Medan issue and others like it in the future...... is not by going after the demonstrators or to disparage them and their religion, such actions will only make the situation more worse than it actually is. (future? yes..if you think that this kind of problem will go away if you whack the daylights out of the demonstrators then you are severely mistaken)
First we need to find out why the people protest, and contrary to what many says Malaysia is still a very tolerant and peaceful nation. Just because 50 of 30 Million Malaysians( 0.00016%) protest, that can't make 30 million people intolerant can it?
No need to go berserk like the English newspapers here, here, here. These people they just want to sell their newspapers. I don't read many of the rubbish their 'journalists' whipped up.
I like and in fact agree to what Ibrahim Ali has to say about it:
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First we need to find out why the people protest, and contrary to what many says Malaysia is still a very tolerant and peaceful nation. Just because 50 of 30 Million Malaysians( 0.00016%) protest, that can't make 30 million people intolerant can it?
No need to go berserk like the English newspapers here, here, here. These people they just want to sell their newspapers. I don't read many of the rubbish their 'journalists' whipped up.
I like and in fact agree to what Ibrahim Ali has to say about it:
Datuk Ibrahim Ali mempersoalkan tindakan penduduk Taman Medan, Petaling Jaya yang mendesak salib diturunkan dan bukannya membantah gereja yang dilaporkan beroperasi tanpa permit sejak Ogos lalu.
Presiden Perkasa itu berkata, tiada masalah bagi penganut Kristian untuk mempamerkan salib kerana ia tidak bertentangan dengan Perlembagaan Persekutuan yang memberi kebebasan beragama.
“Bagi Perkasa, saya tiada masalah. Kalau isu semata-mata kerana salib, saya tak setuju. Kalau orang faham saya, saya bukan macam yang orang tuduh.
“Dalam konteks salib, tiada undang-undang mengatakan salib tidak boleh diletakkan di batang pokok kelapa atau di kedai.
“Penduduk protes salib. Oleh kerana itu, saya tak setuju dengan penduduk ini. Kalau mereka protes premis tak ada permit, itu boleh,” katanya kepada The Malaysian Insider.
Ibrahim berkata, dalam kes bantahan salib di kawasan majoriti Melayu-Islam itu, pihak yang terbabit iaitu
gereja,
Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya (MBPJ),
dan
penduduk setempat yang perlu dipersalahkan.
Katanya, sekiranya pihak gereja dan MBPJ mengambil langkah awal, insiden bantahan penduduk berkenaan dapat dielakkan.
“Pertama, pihak gereja guna rumah kedai untuk rumah ibadat, kedua MBPJ tidak ambil tindakan, ketiga baru kita salahkan mereka yang membantah kerana satu dan dua.
“Jika tiada tindakan pertama dan kedua, maka tiada ketiga. Jika gereja tidak dibuat di rumah kedai atau MBPJ ambil tindakan, tak timbul masalah ini.
“Gereja dan MBPJ terlebih dahulu perlu pelihara sensitiviti agama dan kaum. Kita kena salahkan mereka (MBPJ). Mereka dah tahu tak ada lesen. Kalau tak ada lesen melanggar peraturan, mengapa diam, tak ambil tindakan sebelum ini?” katanya.
Beliau berkata ekoran tiada tindakan awal daripada MBPJ, pihak gereja membuat keputusan untuk meletakkan salib.
Katanya, penduduk Taman Medan seharusnya melakukan bantahan ketika gereja itu mula dibuka, bukannya ketika salib dinaikkan di kawasan itu.
“Maka bila sebelum ini tiada tindakan, mereka naikkan salib. Bila gereja dah berjalan, mereka letak salib, baru orang Islam pergi bertindak, pun tak betul juga.
“Bertindak dari awallah. Dah tahu itu gereja mengapa tak bantah? Mengapa baru bantah bila letak salib? Adakah kerana gereja boleh, yang tak bolehnya salib, begitu?
“Kalau isu wujud gereja tanpa lesen, itu salah. Letak salib itu kebebasan beragama, kebebasan yang dijamin dalam Perlembagaan,” katanya.
Read in full here.
Anyway the issue is now blown up...I hope reasonable neutral Malaysians Leaders would come out and say something to calm things down, no , no, not the investigate the demonstrators for sedition or make fun of their religion...something more calming lah and more neutral.
I offer no unsolicited solution for the Taman Medan problem but Next time I hope the Local Authorithies would enforce the Law quickly. If the Church is illegal, take action immediately like what the Local authorithies did here.
Had this been done the people in Taman Medan would not have demonstrated or protested the way they did.
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