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Interfaith outreach in Malaysia: Muslims break crosses, desecrate graves in Christian cemetery

Feb 8, 2014 10:16 am By Robert Spencer

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These vandals were just imitating Jesus, who according to Islamic tradition will return at the end of the world, at which time he “will fight for the cause of Islam. He will break the cross, kill pigs, and abolish the poll tax. Allah will destroy all religions except Islam” (Sunan Abu Dawud 27:4310).

Interfaith dialogue in modern, moderate Malaysia: “Unknown vandals desecrate eight graves in a Christian cemetery in Kuantan,” from Asia News, February 7 (thanks to C. Cantoni):

Kuala Lumpur (AsiaNews) – Person or persons unknown desecrated eight gravestones in a Christian cemetery in Tanjung Api, near Kuantan, capital of Kuantan District, in Malaysia’s Pahang State.

The attack was discovered this morning, when a cemetery employee found some damaged graves (pictured).

It is likely to fuel sectarian tensions in the Asian country, where Catholics and Muslims are already at loggerheads over the use of the word Allah for the Christian God, something that is currently before the courts.

Local witnesses said that some gravestones were completely smashed, and some crosses were broken. Flowerpots and other stone markers were also broken. It seems that perpetrators used a heavy tool to do the damage.

A cemetery administrator, who reported the incident to the police, now hopes the vandals will be brought to justice.

Tanjung Api cemetery covers an area of ​​1.5 acres state land and has been used by 36 Christian communities in Kuantan since 1997.

Although there is no actual evidence, sources told AsiaNews that the incident is probably linked to anti-Church banners and firebombs in late January.

“The area is accessible to everyone, all day, through a small door,” said Kuantan Tanjung Api Christian Cemetery Committee chairperson Datuk Jack How. “In all these years, we have never had any problems of this kind. Our guess is this occurred recently.”

The cemetery attack is the latest in a series of incidents against the Catholic community in Malaysia, where religious tensions have been on the rise.

Tensions are due to a confrontation between a Catholic weekly, the Malaysia Herald, its director Fr Andrew Lawrence, and the government over the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims.

In October, the Court of Appeal ruled that the Catholic weekly could not use the word Allah for the Christian God. The paper’s director appealed the decision, and a hearing is scheduled for 5 March.

“The priority today is to contain tensions,” said local senior Church leaders, who asked to remain anonymous. Things should become calm and quiet again, they insisted. “There is still much to do,” they added, given how delicate the situation is.

On the one hand, the goal is to protect the rights of the minority in court; on the other hand, everyone wants peaceful coexistence between the country’s various ethnic groups.

The nation of over 28 million people has a Muslim majority (60 per cent). Christians are the third largest religious group after Buddhists, with more than 2.6 million members

A Malay-Latin dictionary published 400 years ago shows that the term ‘Allah’ was used in the local language to refer to the Biblical God centuries ago.

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  1. mortimer says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 10:29 am

    Yes! Why punish these pious Muslims for merely practicing the religion of Allah? Why not reward them for their zeal?

    The progression of persecution is always the same: 1) they speak about persecution in their meetings, 2) they speak about persecution in public 3) they carry out acts of vandalism 4) they carry out acts of violence against ‘others’ 5) genocide.

  2. London Jim says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 11:04 am

    Very interesting. Especially the last part of the article.
    Got things to say ’bout cross pigs and jizya later.

  3. eib says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 11:31 am

    The image above should be sent to every single Western secularist who rails endlessly about the crimes of Christianity in the present and in history, along with the message, “don’t you appreciate the good work the Ummah is doing for you?”

  4. Jay Boo says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    Those who walk along the dark path of Satan’s messenger hide in the shadows.

  5. Salah says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 1:54 pm

    “Allah will destroy all religions except Islam” (Sunan Abu Dawud 27:4310).”

    Really?
    “This Christianization movement is too big to be dealt with, even by all arab countries combined” (Sheikh Al-Qataani on Al-Jazeera TV)

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/dying-islam-lislam-mourant.html

  6. Champ says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 2:17 pm

    “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” — 1 Corinthians 1:18

  7. Champ says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 4:18 pm

    Here are lyrics to a beautiful song entitled …

    “Jesus, Thank You”

    The mystery of the cross I cannot comprehend,
    The agonies of Calvary.
    You, the Perfect Holy One, crushed Your Son,
    Drank the bitter cup reserved for me.

    Your blood has washed away my sin,
    Jesus, thank You.
    The Father’s wrath completely satisfied,
    Jesus, thank You.
    Once Your enemy, now seated at Your table,
    Jesus, thank You.

    By Your perfect sacrifice I’ve been brought near,
    Your enemy made Your friend.
    Pouring out the riches of Your glorious grace,
    Your mercy and your kindness know no end.

    Your blood has washed away my sin,
    Jesus, thank You.
    The Father’s wrath completely satisfied,
    Jesus, thank You.
    Once Your enemy, now seated at Your table,
    Jesus, thank You.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    You may listen to this beautiful and touching song here …

  8. Defcon 4 says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 4:18 pm

    I’ve read the same thing has happened to Jewish cemeteries in Israel, committed by, wait for it, muslimes.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 1:29 am

      Yes. The Muslims living near the ancient and historic Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem continually desecrate and vandalise it; and what is more, they also *attack* – by stone-throwing, etc – those who come to mourn and visit the graves.

      During the period (1949-1967) when Muslim Jordan occupied all of historic Jerusalem, not only did they ethnically-cleanse it of every last Jew, and dynamite all the synagogues (some 48 of them) that had stood in the ancient Jewish Quarter of the Old City, but they *also* desecrated the Mount of Olives cemetery. They took a lot of the gravestones and *used them to build army latrines*.

      In his book about the campaign through the desert from Egypt to the land of Israel in 1917 during WWI, “The Desert Column”, which is based on the diaries he kept during the campaign, Australian lighthorseman Ion L Idriess, describes the Beduin Arab Muslims. He states that the Aussie troops dubbed these Muslims “the ghouls of the battlefield”. He recounts that not only did the Muslims attack and rob any wounded soldier (whether Allied or German or Turk) that they could find after a battle; they were also wont to dig up the bodies of soldiers killed in action who had been buried on or near the battlefield, strip them, and leave them lying.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Feb 9, 2014 at 1:20 pm

        I used to know a Lebanese Christian, he told me his village, in which his family had lived for generations, was ethnically cleansed through muslime terrorism. Once the muslimes took control of his village, they bulldozed the church and desecrated the graveyard.

    • deaghlan says

      Feb 13, 2014 at 5:23 pm

      Once again the Christian comunity has to be quiet across the globe in case it upsets a muslim. a youtube video was removed showing this behaviour. Why would G-d send His Son to die for sin then a few hundred years latter send some paedophile in His name. There was a general it is said who had a muslim problem and cured by covering muslim graves in pigs blood thus stopping any getting to heaven. muslims stopped the murdering of Christians… it.
      by covering the muslim

  9. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 1:35 am

    This report coming in from Malaysia shows us that when a Muslim jihadi uttering threats in connection with the Sochi Winter Olympics screamed and yelled and accused the Russian Federation of “satanic dances on the bones of our ancestors” he was *projecting*.

    As Muslims so often do, he was projecting onto non-Muslims the motives and attitudes of *Muslims*. For when Muslims desecrate the cemeteries and sacred places of non-Muslims, what else are they doing, but engaging in satanic dances on the bones of *our* ancestors??

  10. avery says

    Apr 7, 2014 at 1:03 am

    Malaysia is a third world banana republic with a dictatorship government that caters to the Muslim majority so don’t expect any arrests for the church fire bombings or graveyard vandalism. Now had this been a mosque fire bomb or vandalism you can be damn sure someone would be arrested and nonmuslims wouldn’t be safe on the streets for quite awhile. This is what happens with criminals and looters governing a country directed by a satanic cult.

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