Religion, Politics and Business
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, in a desperate bid to divert attention away from what he knew would come to be alleged as party polls manipulation and fraud, saw it fit to raise the “Allah” issue. That it raised religious temperatures is an understatement that needs no further elaboration.
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I have always maintained religion and politics is an explosive mix which should never be considered by any justification.
It is not a question of being secular in thought and expression.
The younger Christian generation may not be aware of past (and present) Catholic and Protestant acrimony, violence and bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
One of the most violent terrorist group at the times were the Catholic IRA, the Irish Republican Army. Presently, the Northern Irish political party Sinn Fein is closely associated with the once militant IRA.
There can be no denying turmoil around the world have arrived out of religious representation and misrepresentations, religious interpretation and misinterpretations, for political expediency.
In predominantly Muslim Malaysia, religion is a highly sensitve issue even though the country is hailed as a model and moderate Muslim country.
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, in a desperate bid to divert attention away from what he knew would come to be alleged as party polls manipulation and fraud, saw it fit to raise the “Allah” issue.
That it raised religious temperatures is an understatement that needs no further elaboration.
It is a fact that the taboo word for the Pakatan Rakyat is “Hudud” and for the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional, the word “Allah”.
But Lim Guan Eng’s plot is lost when even it’s own coalition partner has come out to declare that ‘Non-Muslims can’t use Allah’.
Pakatan Rakyat can now lay claim to fame of having two religious parties in Malaysia, PAS and the fast rising powerful Christian influenced DAP, led by Brother Lim Guan Eng and his “Allah” exploits.
Even the party of Prime Minister hopeful and hopeless Anwar Ibrahim, Parti Keadilan Rakyat, has a staunch proponent of Christian evangelism, Jimmy Chua Jui Meng.
From “Voice of Hope“,
“Datuk Chua shared with us of how God has been gracious to him and his family. As a youth he had accepted Christ into his life, but through the years of studies, law practice and politics he drifted far from God. At the peak of his career, when he simply did not have time for God, he became greatly oppressed by demonic spirits. Unknown to him at that time, He had been subtly charmed and had ‘voodoo’ planted into his body. It was through fervent prayers and fasting by church leaders that he was delivered and had seven needles taken out of his body in the name of Jesus. This ordeal became the turning point in his life. Since then, his faith has been renewed and he has decided to follow his faithful Master, Jesus, doing just what a disciple of the Lord should do – preach the gospel to the nations.”
Ask Jimmy Chua and I am more then certain he will tell you the reason he joined PKR, revelation from God.
From Fantastic Christian Testimony Of Datuk Chua Jui Meng,
“But when I prayed, this is only the fourth testimony I’ve given because I was very reluctant earlier on to give testimonies, you know when I prayed in the spirit, the Lord told me to give a testimony, it’s the duty of a Christian but testify wisely. Therefore the secrets don’t leak out. [audience laughs and claps] Testify wisely. And then again, before last night’s meeting, I was praying, you know what the Spirit of the Lord said to me? “Speak from the heart. Speak from the heart.” And that is the absolute wisdom of God. But the story just now I told you, what I want to conclude with, God and Christ are absolutely fantastic, awesome, and glorious. Glory be to God.”
I cannot, however, see how Jimmy Chua can justify the above statement in his delusion filled political exhortation, “Who hijacked the Death Railway money?”
“The revelation by the Japanese Embassy that it had paid compensation to the Malaysian government for families of victims of the so called “Death Railway” project in the 1940s is shocking.
The sum of RM207 billion or whatever the amount must be revealed by Mahathir. He was close to the Japanese government and corporate sector when he promoted his Look East Policy aimed at enhancing trade with Japan.”
It came to pass his own coalition partner, PAS, had in it’s online portal Harakahdaily carried a clarification from the Japanese embassy denying any such sum compensated and occassion to have been disbursed.
