Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM) executive committee member Patricia Martinez has implored for the vilification of liberalism as a Jewish and Christian conspiracy to stop.
Taking the accusation that Valentine’s Day is a ‘liberal-Christian agenda for free-mingling of sexes and illicit sex’ by Muslim hardliners as an example, she said the occasion had nothing to do with Christianity in the first place.
She pointed out that like Islam, illicit sex in considered a sin in Christianity.
As for Saint Valentine, she said he is revered for solemnising the marriages of soldiers despite a ban on doing so, thus they do not commit illicit sex.
“That (accusation) is an absolute manipulation and is grossly unfair to non-Muslims.
"It is almost slanderous […] But Hallmark, Memory Lane, chocolate companies, hotels and restaurants, made Saint Valentine their patron saint.
“What happened was the Vatican and Anglican communion ‘downgraded’ him.
"We have never celebrated Saint Valentine’s Day. We never celebrated it; it is not a Christian day,” she told a forum on liberalism in Kuala Lumpur today. - M'kini
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