Home minister warns The Star on the Malay bible coverage

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Home minister and Umno vice-president Datuk Hishammuddin Hussein had recently signed a warning letter issued to The Star newspaper over its extensive coverage on the detention of the 35,000 copies of the Malay language bible by the ministry.

The ministry's letter had asked the popular English daily to explain its news reporting on the said controversial bible story in a move seen as fighting the fires ahead of the upcoming Sarawak state election which may see a swing in votes in favour of the opposition coalition.

It looks very clear that the Umno-led BN federal government is working hard to prevent the truth from reaching to our people. The home ministry is taking up its efforts to purge the truth from going to the Sarawak people for fear of being defeated in the upcoming state election which is due to be call by middle of April.

The import of the Malay language bible is to serve the large numbers of Christian communities in Sarawak and Sabah. The Christians in these two states has been conducting their church services and prayer ceremonies in Malay language traditionally for decades.

And it has been seen that banning of these national language bibles from reaching the Christian communities there would have some political impact for both the BN and Pakatan Rakyat.

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