Sepertimana kita sedari, memang wujud sedikit ketegangan antara agama sejak kebelakangan ini. Dukacita sekali lagi dilaporkan berlaku penindasan ke atas Orang Asli di Gua Musang. Mereka diugut dan dicerobohi hak mereka untuk membina tempat ibadat yang membimbing manusia berkhidmat baik.
Menurut laporan ini, nampaknya kerajaan Negeri dan Pusat sekali lagi membisukan diri. Akan tetapi mereka lupa, adakah kebisuan itu boleh menutup ketidakpuasan rakyat? Adakah mereka mampu menutup kejadian penindasan seumpama ini di tutup daripada ketahuan dunia? Ini kerana mereka lupa perpatah Melayu menyebut: Bau Bacang Tidak Boleh Dibungkus dan Bangkai Gajah Tidak Boleh Ditutup Dengan Nyiru.
Sepertiman telah disarankan oleh Anwar Ibrahim, bahawa soal keagamaan perlu diselesaikan dengan bijaksana melalui perbincangan. Malangnya kerajaan BN tidak akur dengan kenyataan ini, malahan telah membatahkan simposium dialog antara bangsa bulan lalu pada saat terakhir.
Dengan penuh kesedaran kita menghormati setiap agama yang membena, dimanakah kuasa pegawai kerajaan cuba mengugut orang asli?
Adakah ini model kesederhaan Islam Hadhari?
Adakah ini secocok dengan Surah Al-Baqarah 256 pernah saya petikan minggu lalu dalam blog ini? Sila rujuk kepada: http://maibincang.blogspot.com/2007/06/jaminan-kebebasan-islam-oleh-al-baqarah.html.
Adakah dengan keputusan orang asli itu akan mengancam keselamatan dan ketenteraman awam? Kenapa orang politik tiba-tiba hilang keyakinan diri akan pegangan sendiri begitu fragile?
Adakah cara ini bijak untuk membena satu masyarakat yang harmoni ketika negara akan meraikan kemerderakaan 50 tahun?
Kenapa? Kenapa? Kenapa?
Petikan daripada: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/68515
Sabrina Chan Jun 12,
A pastor is crying foul over the demolition of a church in an Orang Asli settlement in Gua Musang, Kelantan on June 4.
According to Moses Soo, the Orang Asli community in Kampung Jias had embraced Christianity in February and wanted to erect a small church to mark their faith.
After consulting the Village Development and Security Committee and the Department of Orang Asli Affairs, they proceeded with the construction with the help of volunteers and donations.
Following this, Soo claimed that on several occasions, people from religious groups came to the site uninvited and took photographs of the construction and those involved in the work.
“They came in cars that had car plates indicating they belonged to Islamic religious groups. They looked scary and tough, but the villagers refused to stop work even though they were afraid of the people who came,” he told malaysiakini today.
On April 11, the Gua Musang district land office issued a stop work order. The letter stated that the construction was being carried out on state land without permission from the authorities.
The following day, the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship of Malaysia (NECF), in a letter to the land office, said the land belonged to the Orang Asli villagers.
“Their right is guaranteed under Section 2 6(1) and 7(1) of the Orang Asli Act 1954,” read the letter signed by NECF secretary-general Reverend Wong Kim Kong.
Copies of the letter were sent to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Kelantan Menteri Besar Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail.
Intimidation tactics
Soo said work on the church continued but the land office slapped them with another stop work order on April 19.
Five days later, the pastor claimed, several policemen had asked him to follow them to the police station without providing any reason.
“Three police officers stopped me while on my way to Gua Musang at about
“They insisted without reason that I should follow them back to the police station, which I declined as I was heading back to
He told malaysiakini that this was an attempt to “intimidate” him. He said the policemen then went to the village and took down the IC numbers of the volunteers involved in the building of the church.
On May 24, the land office issued a third notice informing the village headman Pedik Busu that the “illegal” structure would be demolished.
Soo said despite various efforts to block the demolishment, the church was finally torn down by bulldozers.
According to him, the land belonged to the headman of Kampung Jias but was donated to the community for the purpose of building the church.
On June 6, a police report was filed on the incident by the village headman.
2 comments:
To demolish a house of prayer is certainly easier than a'palace' in a kampung....
What a shame! To intimidate and then to demolish.....
Thank you Alliedmartster. Clearly you can see, Kelantan being administrated by so call "Extreme Islamic Party - Pas", they have been promised to rebuild the Church at government cost.
Vice-versa, you see any changes even a Deputy Chief Minister RESIGN as protest on UMNO interfere and stop a "Tokong" buliding?
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