Inter-Faith Commission, Race and Religious Relations Act
After all those happenings, the bombings, the fire bombs thrown nationwide by those who claimed to be defending from being threatened but in actual fact they are the ones who are threatening the innocent and peace-loving people, it is time for all of us to stop all these for the sake of our nation building and national unity.
It is now time for us to implement measures in order to avoid the repeat of the similar racial and religious tensions that we had experienced since 2006.
The previously proposed Inter-Faith Commission (IFC) must be established in order to preserve religious harmony, inter-faith understanding and to discuss matters arising from conversion, conflict resolutions as well as regular inter-religious dialogues.
Umno and its Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition had all these while behaved in an arrogant way by refusing to discuss and promote dialogues over inter-religious matters by reasoning that such moves will downgrade Islam as an official religion of the country.
So far, todate Umno and BN had failed to bring any specific policy nor measures being carried out to prevent this problem being recurring. Umno and BN are reluctant to instill inter-faith policies for fear of being overcome politically and religiously.
At that time, they even tried to prevent the proposed IFC from being debated in public by threatening the people that ISA will be used against them if anyone were to mention of the subject again. This is arrogance and it is also clear that they fear of losing power.
Umno and BN are afraid of open and fair dialogues and that is why they will always tell us that an open inter-faith dialogue will may open it to "sensitive debate". They are trying to prevent religions from coming together to understand each other's needs and promote multi-religious harmony.
Then, the other most forgotten issue is the introduction and implementation of the Race and Religious Relations Act (previously only Race Relations Act, we proposed to add Religious to incorporate justice and protection for all religions). With this Act, if implemented will ensure all ethnics and places of worships are justly protected and defended in accordance to the court of law. With this Act, it will also ensure that no race and religion will have the right to reign supreme over the others, no race and religion would claim to be greater and powerful than others, by maintaining that Islam is an official religion of this country in accordance to the Federal Constitution.
With the IFC and the Race and Religious Relations Act in place, we are certain that the entire nation would move forward in the best situation ever. Everyone would be able to be ethnically treated in a just and fair manner, everyone would be able to promote and practice their respective religions in a free and fair environment and this will practically ensure national unity is beautifully preserved in a harmonious level.
The problem is can Umno and BN really achieve all these? We don't think so because they are already lack of self-confidence, doubtful of their own faith and intellect. That is why they do not want to respect other people's religion and will always refuse any peaceful solutions.
It is now time for us to implement measures in order to avoid the repeat of the similar racial and religious tensions that we had experienced since 2006.
The previously proposed Inter-Faith Commission (IFC) must be established in order to preserve religious harmony, inter-faith understanding and to discuss matters arising from conversion, conflict resolutions as well as regular inter-religious dialogues.
Umno and its Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition had all these while behaved in an arrogant way by refusing to discuss and promote dialogues over inter-religious matters by reasoning that such moves will downgrade Islam as an official religion of the country.
So far, todate Umno and BN had failed to bring any specific policy nor measures being carried out to prevent this problem being recurring. Umno and BN are reluctant to instill inter-faith policies for fear of being overcome politically and religiously.
At that time, they even tried to prevent the proposed IFC from being debated in public by threatening the people that ISA will be used against them if anyone were to mention of the subject again. This is arrogance and it is also clear that they fear of losing power.
Umno and BN are afraid of open and fair dialogues and that is why they will always tell us that an open inter-faith dialogue will may open it to "sensitive debate". They are trying to prevent religions from coming together to understand each other's needs and promote multi-religious harmony.
Then, the other most forgotten issue is the introduction and implementation of the Race and Religious Relations Act (previously only Race Relations Act, we proposed to add Religious to incorporate justice and protection for all religions). With this Act, if implemented will ensure all ethnics and places of worships are justly protected and defended in accordance to the court of law. With this Act, it will also ensure that no race and religion will have the right to reign supreme over the others, no race and religion would claim to be greater and powerful than others, by maintaining that Islam is an official religion of this country in accordance to the Federal Constitution.
With the IFC and the Race and Religious Relations Act in place, we are certain that the entire nation would move forward in the best situation ever. Everyone would be able to be ethnically treated in a just and fair manner, everyone would be able to promote and practice their respective religions in a free and fair environment and this will practically ensure national unity is beautifully preserved in a harmonious level.
The problem is can Umno and BN really achieve all these? We don't think so because they are already lack of self-confidence, doubtful of their own faith and intellect. That is why they do not want to respect other people's religion and will always refuse any peaceful solutions.
