BN has non-Muslim portfolio too, says Guan Eng

Lim Guan Eng has defended Penang’s new non-Muslim executive council portfolio by pointing out that Barisan Nasional’s (BN) Perak maintained a similar initiative in 2009.

The Penang chief minister claimed today that Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir was responsible for continuing such a portfolio when he took over the state administration from Datuk Seri Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin after the BN coup in February that year.

“The non-Muslim portfolio (in Perak) created by Nizar was continued by Zambry who gave it to MCA’s Datuk Mah Hang Soon to handle.

“Datuk Mukhriz (Mahathir) said that I insulted islam by setting up such a portfolio. If so it is more serious that a Muslim like Zambry ‘insults’ Islam by continuing with such portfolio,” Lim told The Malaysian Insider today, referring to the Jerlun MP.

The Penang CM then questioned Utusan Malaysia’s motives for attacking his administration over the setting up of the non-Muslim portfolio.

“So why is Utusan attacking the Penang government then?” said Lim today.

On Wednesday, the Penang government announced a new executive council portfolio to handle non-Muslim religious issues in the state, then thought to be the first such portfolio in the country.

However, a Utusan Malaysia report later claimed the portfolio to be a “tool” that can be used to threaten Islam as the official religion of Malaysia.

The Umno-owned Malay daily said the portfolio — which comes under Lim’s purview — could discuss religious conversion, preaching, use of religious terms, construction of houses of worship and cemeteries. These, it said, could be used to put other religions on an equal footing with Islam.

Lim, who attended a PAS convention on Malay rights earlier today, also stressed that the Penang government was neither anti-Malay nor anti-Islam.




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Of course each religion as equal, if not higher value and relevancy, for the faithfuls of that particular religion. Any problem with that you moron and imbesciles.

What more explanation is needed to show that Utusan and UMNO have one main agenda i.e. publish and disseminate seditious news to work up the Malays..

And the UMNO head will keep twitting and talking about 1Malaysia when it is clearly an afront to their racist agenda..and wholly useless ultimately.

its another top spin by the divisive n destructive forces out to destroy malaysia, where is nation building n unity when journalists see the small picture n refused to acknowledged the failures of BN regarding rampant corruption n poor leadership of our economy. The star today said our economy is a pasar malam economy driven largely by migrant workers , unskilled n uneducated as seen in the plantation, construction, low end industries n kopitiAms, is this vision 2020/ malaysia boled lah