`


THERE IS NO GOD EXCEPT ALLAH
read:
MALAYSIA Tanah Tumpah Darahku

LOVE MALAYSIA!!!


 


Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Mais tries to fend off conspiracy claims


September 07, 2011

Khalid Ibrahim was being targeted by a campaign seeking his ouster, claimed Khalid Samad. — File pic
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 — Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais) chairman Datuk Setia Mohamad Adzib Mohd Isa today confirmed meeting with several Islamic groups last month but denied it was part of a conspiracy to topple Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim.

The meeting, he said, was held to explain to several Islamic non-governmental organisations the controversial raid by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) on the Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC) on August 3.

“I, as the Mais head, and Jais explained what happened to the Islamic NGOs... not just them reading from the papers or The Malaysian Insider... but this was not a political meeting, merely to explain what actually happened,” he said when contacted this morning.

He also denied that the meeting discussed a memorandum to the Sultan, attacking Khalid Ibrahim’s leadership.

“We only explained. At the end, they said they have received accurate facts... Mais and Jais’ duty is to give out correct information,” said Adzib, who has often been labelled by Pakatan Rakyat (PR) lawmakers as pro-Umno.

Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad alleged in his blog last night that the state’s religious authorities, several Islamic NGOs and representatives from the Attorney-General’s Chambers held a secret meeting last month to discuss plans to topple the mentri besar.

Khalid also said the group had discussed sending a memorandum attacking Khalid Ibrahim on the issue of Christianisation to the Selangor Sultan.

But Adzib said today that the NGOs’ decision to prepare a memorandum for the Sultan was done independently of Jais and Mais.

“After the meeting, the prepared a memorandum and presented it to the Sultan... it was their decision,” he said.

When asked to confirm if the meeting was attended by representatives from the A-G’s Chambers, Adzib said some of the NGO members present in the meeting also served within government agencies like the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim).

“But they are also part of NGOs and they were representing the NGOs, not any government agency,” he said.

When contacted earlier today to explain his allegation, Khalid Samad claimed that prior to Election 2008, religious authorities had hardly interfered in the then Barisan Nasional (BN) state government’s administration.

“But in the era of a welfare-oriented mentri besar (Khalid), one who is clean of corruption and prioritises the people, any excuse is used to blast the mentri besar.

“There are those who are beginning to ask, ‘why was there silence before and now they are making noise?’. Then there are those who say that before they got a slice but now they do not even get dust... so that is why they are all chaotic, “ he said.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.