Spy on churches: MCA slams Ridhuan

MCA says Ridhuan Tee is advocating Muslims to break the law by pretending to be Christians to enter churches to spy.

PETALING JAYA: Senior lecturer at National Defence University Ridhuan Tee Abdullah has once again succeeded in riling up the MCA with his latest controversial religious remark calling on Muslims to infiltrate churches.

The party is upset with his ‘Muslims disguise as Christians’ call in which he had urged Muslims to pretend to be Christians so that they could enter churches to hear what was being discussed.

Ridhuan was reported in Sinar Harian earlier this week as saying: “I hope there are Muslims who can go enter churches in disguise to hear what is discussed”.

MCA’s Koo Chin Nam, who is the deputy chairman of the party’s Syariah Law & Policy Implementation Special Task Force, said Ridhuan’s latest inflammatory call may cause heaps of misunderstanding.

“He has grossly overstepped the boundary on the limitation of how much tolerance decent and peace-loving Malaysians can hold against narrow-minded bigots who clearly are out to sow distrust and instability in multiracial and multi-religious Malaysia,” Koo said in a statement today.

He added that the police should initiate investigations against Ridhuan for sedition and sowing public mischief.

He also said that Ridhuan’s proposal was tantamount to calling Muslims to unscrupulously commit identity theft.

“Has this university lecturer even contemplated that the actions he advocates could spiral out control if overzealous spies descend to vigilantism, hooliganism, urging disruption during church services – all of which contravene the law and civilized behaviour?

“If Ridhuan wants to do justice to Islam, he should reflect on himself, the goodness of Islam and cease his rants against churches.

“Stubbornly persisting to such provocative exhortation not only reflects his bigotry, but even worse, does a severe disservice to Islam, a religion which not only speaks of mercy and compassion, but also extols protection for non-Muslim places of worship,” added Koo.

Koo also pointed out that the “holier-than-thou Ridhuan” had in recent past called for the closure of vernacular schools, and labelled non-Muslims who oppose PAS’ goal to implement hudud law as “ultra-kiasu”.

He added that Ridhuan was a “limelight-seeker who wants and tries so hard with futility to forget his own Chinese roots by attacking his own genealogy and the faith of others as he has embraced another religion”

He simply wants to prove his “purity” by being more- religious-than-religious, said Koo.