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  • Wardina Minta Maaf Kepada Penganut Kristian

    Wardina Minta Maaf Kepada Penganut Kristian

    PETALING JAYA: Selebriti Wardina Safiyyah memohon maaf kepada penganut Kristian susulan kekecohan yang berlaku di Taman Medan pada Ahad lalu.

    Dia juga menyatakan rasa kesal dengan perbuatan saudara seagamanya yang seolah-olah membuli golongan minoriti.

    “Kepada penganut Kristian Taman Medan, sampaikan salam saya kepada Paderi juga permohonan maaf saya.

    “Kepada umat Islam di Taman Medan, sikap anda tidak menunjukkan yang anda umat Islam yang sebenar-benarnya,” katanya di laman Facebook.

    Wardina yang sedang menyambung pelajaran di Australia berkata, dia memahami perasaan menjadi golongan minoriti yang sering ditindas tanpa alasan yang wajar dan jelas.

    “Saya tahu bagaimana rasa menjadi golongan minoriti dan bertapa sakitnya bila dibuli hanya kerana keimanan kita terhadap agama dan erti sebenarnya apabila kita mendapat sokongan daripada orang yang bukan beragama Islam dan bersama dalam solidariti,” katanya.

    Di Australia, katanya, jika bukan Islam menyokong umat Islam, mereka akan berasa sangat bersyukur.

    “Jadi, saya harap kami dapat menghulurkan sokongan kepada penganut Kristian apabila mereka di layan dengan begitu biadap oleh sebilangan ‘saudara seislam kami sendiri,” tulisnya.

    #letthecrossstay

    Source: www.freemalaysiatoday.com

  • Petaling Jaya Residents Protest Outside Church Building, Say Cross Challenging Islam

    Petaling Jaya Residents Protest Outside Church Building, Say Cross Challenging Islam

    About 50 residents gathered outside a new church in Taman Medan, Petaling Jaya today to demand that the cross affixed to the house of worship be removed as it was “challenging Islam”, The Star Online reported today.

    According to the news portal, the locals demonstrated peacefully during the church service at 10am for the cross to be taken down.

    The protesters said the presence of a cross in a Muslim-majority area posed a challenge to the religion and could sway the faith of the youth, The Star Online reported.

    The news portal reported a village leader later pacified the group and spoke with the church’s priest on their behalf.

    “After meeting with the priest, the church agreed to take down the cross by next Sunday. If they have the authority to run, we cannot stop it,” the group’s leader, Datuk Abdullah Abu Bakar, was quoted as saying.

    “But we ask out of concern, being a Malay area, that they take down the cross.”

    Police reportedly arrived on the scene at 10.30am to manage the crowd, just as the Sunday service was ending.

    The Star Online reported that the cross was taken down by church leaders a few hours after the protest.

    This was not the first time a protest was held against a church.

    On November 2, 2014, Muslim NGO, Pertubuhan Sahabat organised a demonstration to protest the construction of the four-storey Praise Emmanuel Assembly church in Petaling Jaya.

    The NGO said there were already three churches in the vicinity, adding it was not appropriate in a neighbourhood that counted 70% of its residents as Muslim.

    The group had demonstrated at the church building site at Jalan PJS 8/9, saying that building a four-storey church in the area would be an insult to the Muslims living there.

     

    Source: www.themalaysianinsider.com

  • MDA Allows Local Tertiary Institutions To Show Film on Exiled Chinese Communists

    MDA Allows Local Tertiary Institutions To Show Film on Exiled Chinese Communists

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    SINGAPORE & JOHOR BARU – The Media Development Authority is giving leeway to institutions of higher learning to show films that are restricted or not allowed, including To Singapore With Love.

    It also said it has accepted a request from the Yale-NUS College to screen the film on Singapore’s political exiles, for classroom teaching and discussion only.

    The 70-minute documentary, by local film-maker Tan Pin Pin, 44, received a “Not Allowed for All Ratings (NAR)” classification from the MDA last Thursday.

    That was because the film’s contents “undermine national security” and distort the legitimate actions of security agencies as acts that victimise innocent individuals, the MDA had said.

    Films classified as NAR are not allowed for public exhibition or distribution.

    In its most recent statement on Friday, MDA said it “recognises that lecturers and students of media or related courses at tertiary institutions may require access to a wider variety of films, including films that are classified R21 or NAR.

    “Some leeway is provided to these institutions to screen films for educational purposes, on condition that these films have either been previously classified by the MDA, or prior approval has been sought from the MDA before the films are acquired.”

    Also on Friday, more than 350 Singaporeans crossed the Causeway to Johor Baru to catch Tan’s film, which was showing as part of an annual Freedom Film Festival.

    The film has already been shown in Petaling Jaya and will go to Kuantan and Penang next.

    In total, more than 410 people attended, with at least 20 on the waitlist. This was almost triple the number of participants that organisers were anticipating.

    Organisers had to book an extra, larger room to accommodate viewers.

    The documentary film includes interviews with nine political exiles who fled Singapore and now live in Britain and Thailand. Most were members or supporters of the Communist Party of Malaya, according to the MDA.

    It has been touring the international film circuit for about a year, and will make its way to the Philippines and London in the next few weeks.

    Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/singaporeans-arrive-johor-baru-screening-documentary-sin#9