vote BN? (read that as UMNO). they’ll confiscate your holy books!

enough is enough. say no to UMNO. no no, no UMNO! no to BN! um… UMNO is BN, BN is UMNO, so no to UMNO.

from malaysiakini:

On Jan 28, missionary Juliana Nicholas returned from a trip to the Philippines carrying with her two boxes containing 32 bibles meant for her church group.

Upon arrival at the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) in Kuala Lumpur, she was told to declare and open the contents of the boxes.

Having done so – and despite showing them a letter from her parish priest stating the texts were for use by the church – Nicholas was shocked to be hear subsequently that the bibles would be “referred" to the Internal Security Ministry’s Publications and Al-Quran Texts Control Division.

gee, so the bible is consider a threat to internal security of the country? in what ways? don’t tell me, they are scared the bible might fall into the hands of muslims, and muslims will get confused when reading it?

wait a minute… it’s not only the bible but even school children books are consider as threat to the country!

Earlier this year, the Internal Security Ministry confiscated English language Christian children’s books said to contain offensive caricatures of prophets from several bookshops in three states.

the reason given was that these caricatures might offend the sensitivities of muslim. sensitivities of muslim? what about the sensitivities of non muslim? they don’t count as this is UMNO led country!

it suddenly occurs to me – hishamuddin raising the keris during the UMNO general assembly. although many of us, esp. chinese, had said he shouldn’t do it, yet he was stuborn and said he will do it every year – did he think of our sensitivities then? not at all!

coming back to the confiscated bibles (which eventually were returned), go to bob’s blog to read the press statement from the council churches of malaysia and the christian federation or malaysia.

vote wisely, especially christians, if you don’t want to see your religous books being confiscated, your religious rights of practise being slowly, subtly eroded by UMNO.

say no to UMNO! say no to BN as a vote for any of the BN parties will be a vote for UMNO.