Via The Star:
A special task force is investigating the incident where wild boar heads were dumped at the compounds of two mosques.
The task force was set up immediately after the incident, said city police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Sabtu Osman, adding that all departments, including the Commercial Crime and Special Branch, were roped in to [...]
Two brothers and their friend were today charged in the Sessions Court here with burning a church early his month.
Raja Mohamad Faizal Raja Ibrahim, 24, his brother, Raja Mohamad Idzham, 22, and Azuwan Shah Ahmad, 23, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
They are alleged, together with several other persons still at large, to causing mischief [...]
The severed heads of four wild boars, each in a plastic rice sack, were found dumped at two mosques in Petaling Jaya Wednesday morning.
Residents who went to perform the ’subuh’ prayers, stumbled on two sacks containing the heads at the rear door of Jumhuriyah Mosque in Taman Dato Harun. A bucket containing RM30 in RM1 [...]
Malaysian police said two pig’s heads were found at a Malaysian mosque close to a neighborhood hit by an ethnic clash nine years ago following a series of arson and firebomb attacks on churches.
The discovery of the pig heads — an animal considered offensive to Muslims and whose consumption is prohibited — could further inflame [...]
Malaysia is often held up as the model of what a modern Muslim-majority nation can be. The ruling class, the bumiputra (literally “princes of the earth”) are largely, though not entirely, Muslim.
But when Malaysia’s High Court ruled in late December to lift a government ban on non-Muslims using the word “Allah,” Christian [...]
Media reports indicated, eight people have been detained to assist police in investigations into the arson attack on the Metro Tabernacle Church in Kuala Lumpur.
They were picked during an operation on Tuesday night, police sources said. All eight are expected to be remanded Wednesday to facilitate further investigations.
Metro Tabernacle Church was reported to be [...]
Government has been wrong on all counts in the ‘Allah’ case Malaysia Insider concluded – after looking at transcript of High Court judge Datuk Lau Bee Lan’s controversial ‘Allah’ ruling on Sunday.
The online news portal said it obtained a copy of her 57-page judgment where the judge lays out the reasons and the laws behind [...]
Jakim director-general Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz is wrong to say there cannot be two set of laws and rules to deal with ‘Allah’ said Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz.
“If that’s the case, we might as well close down the Syariah (courts) and use civil (courts) only,” he said yesterday after attending a Ponggal [...]
