Some 30 personnel from the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) raided a solat (prayer) centre in Jalan Batu Caves used by a group calling itself the Jamaat Ahmadiyya Muslim Malaysia.
The raid took place just after the group had finished its Friday congregational prayer.
The leader of the enforcement personnel produced a warrant to ransack the centre on the second floor of a budget hotel building.
Thirty seven people were loaded onto a lorry and a van and brought to the Jais headquarters in Shah Alam where they were given appointment dates for their statements to be recorded.
It is believed that the leader of the group who delivered the sermon will have to appear in court in October.
See a Harian Metro report here.
Harian Metro quotes a member of the Ahmadiyya group as saying “Now I want to ask if Jais says we are not Muslims, then we should not come under Jais’ jurisdiction. Where we want to pray is up to us.”
A Jais spokesperson said the raid was carried out under Section 97(1)(2) of the Islamic Legal Aministration Enactment 2003 – conducting a ceremony which may be conducted in a mosque without the permission of the Islamic Religious Council.
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Al Jazeera: Malaysia’s ‘Allah’ controversy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCQkgXAOET8
Al Jazeer’s “The Stream” discusses what the seizure of 321 Bibles containing the word ‘Allah’ means for minority rights in Malaysia.
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53 years BN with UMNO, Gerakan, MCA, MIC and 18 parties have no issue with hudud even when PAS was in BN. After Pakatan was formed we have Allah and Hudud issue all created by them. Now they want BN help to stop this issue when it is their own partner that start the issue. Is it not that they already have a consensus which we now know are … to deceive us into voting them at the last GE. Only 3 parties and they cannot agreed. What more if they have 18, it will become a sham. Now DAP… Read more »
Just like Selangor govt incompetent Jais Bible confiscation
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What this issue has got to do with anil netto anyway? Championing something ?
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