Selangor govt advises Church to restore its cross
(FMT) – Police have also been asked to act against the unruly mob which forced the Taman Medan Church to bring down its cross on Sunday.
The Selangor Government has advised the Church in Taman Medan, Petaling Jaya, to return its cross to its original site “to stop this precedence of mob rule by politically-aligned extremists”. The cross was forced down by some 50 protesters on Sunday.
At the same time, the Selangor Government has called upon the Royal Malaysian Police “to take this matter very seriously to ensure the safety of worshipers was protected at all times, and that there will be no repeats of such cases in Selangor”.
Selangor Exco Elizabeth Wong, who co-chairs the State Committee on Non-Islam Affairs, was giving details on a meeting convened on Tuesday with representatives of the Community of Praise Petaling Jaya Church, advisors to the State Committee on Non-Islam Affairs (HESI), Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) councillors F K Tang and Peter Chong, Petaling Jaya Selatan MP Hee Loy Sian and Assemblypersons Hannah Yeoh and R Rajiv.
MBPJ had previously clarified that since 2008, the previous State Committee on Non-Islam Affairs (then known as State Committee on Non-Islam Places of Worship or RIBI) had allowed Churches to operate in commercial premises or offices without the need for application of permits, only by way of notification to the committee, said Wong. “This is based on the principle that Article 11 of the Federal Constitution embodies freedom of worship.”
