KUALA LUMPUR - Perkasa vice-president Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman told Khairy Jamaluddin today to “shut up” after the Umno Youth chief purportedly insulted the Malay rights group.
Abdul Rashid did not specify how exactly Khairy, who is also the youth and sports minister, had insulted Perkasa, but the Umno man did reportedly train his guns on the Malay rights group’s ring leader Datuk Ibrahim Ali last October, claiming the latter’s alleged threat to burn Bibles was seditious.
“Umno has a Youth leader, but he’s useless,” Abdul Rashid told Perkasa Youth’s inaugural annual assembly.
“He even insulted us. Tell him to shut up lah,” added the former Election Commission (EC) chairman.
Khairy was quoted by The Star’s Malay-language portal Mstar as saying that in his personal opinion, “a statement to burn other people’s kitab (holy scriptures), that is sedition. Imagine if there is anyone who said the same about Al-Quran, that will certainly be sedition”.
Ibrahim’s alleged call in January last year to burn Malay-language Bibles containing the Arabic word for God, “Allah”, had raised a furore with lawmakers and civil groups who demanded that the Perkasa president be charged with sedition.
The Attorney-General’s Chambers, however, said last October that charges would not be pressed against Ibrahim because his remarks lacked a “seditious tendency” and were meant to defend the sanctity of Islam, not to incite religious disharmony. - Malay Mail
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