Bishop jabs ‘Mat’ Tyson
Bishop Paul Tan has criticised Muhammad Muhammad Taib for his shocking remarks on the alleged Christian propensity for violence.
RK Anand, FMT
PAS’ latest recruit has irked Bishop Paul Tan with his statement that Christians have done more killing in their time than the Muslims.
According to the head of the Johor and Malacca diocese, the remarks made by former Selangor menteri besar Muhammad Muhammad Taib during a ceramah here was “the sort of statement one would expect from a wild-eyed radical living in Timbuktu rather than a member of a responsible political party.”
In the course of remarks voiced in apparent regret that Islam had been misconstrued to be a militant religion, Muhammad Taib had said the misperception was the work of Jews and Caucasians who harbored evil intent against a peaceful religion.
Muhammad Taib – popularly known at ‘Mat’ Tyson – then compared the track records of Christians and Muslims, claiming that the former had done more killing than the latter.
‘Fantastic and shocking in their ignorance’
Commenting further, Tan said Muhammad’s remarks were “fantastic and shocking in their ignorance”.
The bishop added that he could not understand how a man of the former MB’s stature could utter such patent nonsense.
