Brick hurled at Taman Menara Maju surau

The glass sliding door of a surau at Taman Menara Maju, Kg Jawa, Klang near here was found broken at about 6am Saturday after a brick was hurled at the surau.

Besides the broken sliding door, there were also stains of liquid in the 13-year-old surau.

Klang OCPD, ACP Mohamad Mat Yusop, when contacted here, confirmed the incident but refuted the possibility that it was linked to the burning of several churches in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya yesterday.

Mohamad also said that the stain was not that of urine as had been claimed and said that further investigation was being carried out to determine what actually caused the stain.

“A local resident who was going to the surau for the ‘Subuh’ prayers told police that he saw a male suspect, who was not wearing a shirt, running toward a lane about 200 meters from the surau.

“Preliminary investigation revealed that there were several cans of hard drinks at the lane concerned and we believe the incident occurred because the man (suspect) was drunk,” he said.

Mohamad said police also believed that the incident was not committed by outsiders based on the fact that the brick used to break the sliding door was similar to the ones found in the surau compound.

In this context, he appealed to the people not to link the incident with the burning of the churches and hoped that the people would remain calm



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This is the problem. Any attack on a mosque will now be seen as a Christian retaliation. The Police were right to dismiss the suggestion that the incident is related to the arson attackes on Churches. Right thinking Malaysians should come out in greater numbers so that the tiny renegade minority are corralled with no room to move. Islam is not under attack in Malaysia.

The Christians are not waging war on the Muslims. Muslims and non Muslims have lived in peace for generations. Do not allow opportunists - political or otherwise to exploit issues for their gain. We cannot live in a society where the mob rules by creating a climate of fear and intimidation. We say that we are a country where the Constitution is supreme, governed by the Rule of Law and where judges are independant. Let us act and behave as if that we true. Do not allow the mob to discredit the value of judgements on the basis that the Judge was of a particular ethnicity and religion. if we allow that then we give power to the mob and we then replace the rule of law with the rule of the mob. And where do we go from there ?