Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP) is shocked with Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng, for attempting to drag the good name of Sarawak Chief Minister YAB Datuk Pattingi Tan Sri Adenan Satem into his religion-based politics and his current political battles.<\/p>\n
In his press statement today, Penang CM Lim Guan Eng has asked \u201cWould UMNO, Including Ministers Like Khairy Jamaluddin, Dare To Lodge Police Reports And Condemn Sarawak Chief Minister.\u201d<\/p>\n
We would like to advise YAB Penang CM Lim Guan Eng that Sarawak is an equal partner with Peninsular Malaysia as enshrined by the Malaysia Act 1963 and the 18\/20 points agreement where point 1 itself states that:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile there was no objection to Islam being the national religion of Malaysia, there should be no State religion in North Borneo, and the provisions relating to Islam in the present Constitution of Malaya should not apply to North Borneo\u201d<\/p>\n
There is also the Federal Govt\u2019s 10 points agreement signed in 2011 that further protects Sarawak\u2019s right to religious freedom.<\/p>\n
This means that Sarawak and Sabah have full control of our religious practices and there is no restriction or ban on any words used by Christians and other non-Muslims here in Sarawak \u2013 a point that our Chief Minister of Sarawak has made numerous times in the past few months.<\/p>\n
Sarawak has not approved or gazetted any \u201cfatwas\u201d similar to what the Penang Mufti was reported to have stated that the Pakatan Rakyat Penang state government with the approval of the Penang ChieF Minister had agreed and gazetted in 2010. http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ml8zyze<\/p>\n
It defies logic that the Penang state government led by Lim Guan Eng gazetted and enforced the ban of 40 words for non Muslims in 2010 is now suddenly unenforceable for non Muslims.<\/p>\n
Therefore, we strongly object to Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng\u2019s attempt to drag Sarawak and our YAB Chief Minister of Sarawak into your unproductive religion-based politics. Please keep your religion-based politics to yourself.<\/p>\n
Similarly, we call upon Sarawak DAP to keep his party\u2019s Secretary General under control and advise him not to be jealous of Sarawak Chief Minister for his strong stance on this \u201cAllah\u201d issue.. DAP must also advise CM Lim Guan Eng not to interfere with Sarawak\u2019s politics and Sarawak\u2019s religious practices by trying to bring his race-based Peninsular Malaysia politics into Sarawak\u2026Don\u2019t tell us to do what he cannot do in Penang.<\/p>\n
We in Sarawak are happy as we are, as we have continuously enjoyed Peace, Harmony and Stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP) is shocked with Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng, for attempting to drag the good name of Sarawak Chief Minister YAB Datuk Pattingi Tan Sri Adenan Satem into his religion-based politics and his current political battles. In his press statement today, Penang CM Lim Guan Eng has asked \u201cWould UMNO, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1supp.org.my\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1supp.org.my\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1supp.org.my\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1supp.org.my\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1supp.org.my\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.1supp.org.my\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/www.1supp.org.my\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1supp.org.my\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1supp.org.my\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1supp.org.my\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1supp.org.my\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}