Why an anti-Christian book is allowed but a book about Sabah leader is banned?

Sunday 15 June 2014

the UMNO government had allowed the Malay book entitled “Revelation of the Christian Agenda”, published by the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (MAIS), to be distributed at a day long seminar in UiTM, last month, but they refuse to lift the 36 year ban on a book entitled “The Golden Son of Kadazans”...

PETALING JAYA: Penampang MP Darell Leiking today said that the government is practising religious extremism and bigotry because they refuse to lift the 36 year ban on a book entitled “The Golden Son of Kadazans”.

Written by Bernard Sta Maria, the book documents the life and struggles of Peter J Mojuntin who was a Minister during Sabah Chief Minister Fuad Stephen’s administration.

Mojuntin who died with Fuad and four other Sabah Ministers in a plane crash enroute from Labuan to Kota Kinabalu on June 6, 1976 had been opposed to the increasing Islamisation of Sabah during the Tun Abdul Razak period.

However, the government had allowed the Malay book entitled “Revelation of the Christian Agenda”, published by the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (MAIS), to be distributed at a day long seminar in UiTM, last month.

“I am inclined to believe that there is much more than meets the eye in this particular case as the Minister seems to have a ‘strange’ reasoning for what ‘does and does not cause’ religious disharmony,” said the PKR MP.

“The Home Minister apparently has a narrow view of how the Federation of Malaysia should be managed as he seems to ‘condone’ religious extremists and bigots such as those threatening to burn the Bible and those giving anti-Christian seminars in local universities,” he added.

He said this in response to Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s written reply in parliament on Tuesday, to his questioning as to why the book on Mojuntin had been banned but the MAIS publication was deemed fit for distribution.

In his reply, Zahid told the Dewan Rakyat that the MAIS publication was based on research and discussed the methods of christianising the people, a matter of concern for the Muslims.

Zahid said that the ‘Golden Son of the Kadazans’ was banned to ensure public safety and because it was very critical of the federal government. - FMT Borneo Plus

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