Friday, January 10, 2014

Case Study: Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (JAIS) raid on Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM) (Series 1)

What happened?

2 January 2014   
1.    Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM) in Damansara Kim was raided by police, and Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (JAIS) at 1pm, JAIS confiscated more than 300 copies of bibles in Bahasa Malaysia and Iban language.
2.    JAIS claimed it was an attempt to convert muslim into Christian, not only that they tried to confuse muslim by Allah wording and Allah was a sacred word.
3.    BSM general-secretary Reverend Simon Wong complained JAIS team accompanied by two policemen raided the BSM offices without producing a search warrant or authorised letter were on aggressive behaviour during their course action.
4.    The raiding party took BSM chairman Lee Min Choon and office manager Sinclair Wong to the Damansara police station to record their statement and released later.
5.    Selangor State Exco in charge of religious affairs Salehan Mukhyi from PAS said the government was informed or awaken only after the ambush, he told Home Ministry (KDN) to explain why permit importation of Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia and Iban language, because there were a chop on those Bibles.

8 January 2014   
1.    JAIS took it action after tremendous complaints from the public said Salehan Mukhyi, who was also a Selangor Exco in charge of religious affairs. He said Jais raid on BSM not illegal and it followed SOP process.

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