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Pig Heads Thrown Into Grounds of Malaysian Mosques

By Barry Porter
Posted: January 29, 2010.

Print: Bloomberg News

excerpt:

The incidents, including a series of fire-bombings, add to a perception that Malaysia is coming under the influence of extremists.

Last year, dozens of Muslims paraded with a bloodied head of a cow, a sacred animal in Hinduism, to protest the proposed relocation of a Hindu temple to their neighborhood.

Pop star Beyonce Knowles canceled a concert in Kuala Lumpur last October without explaining why after an Islamic political party protested her revealing stage clothes. A young mother is awaiting a caning sentence to be carried out in Malaysia as punishment for drinking a beer.

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1. Lee Spaner

This is what religion gets you.

posted on January 30, 2010
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2. john Wilkinson

On a side note, boy animals sure get the short end of our superstitous infatuation. I imagine the cows and pigs joining together to launch a sustained critical assault on the awful idea of faith.

posted on January 31, 2010
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Hey, don’t be fooled! There’s story behind this.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/lite/articles_headlines.php?id=malaysia/50981-pig-heads-left-at-mosque

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‘This is surely the Allah word controvesy.. They know they can’t win the case using the court of law. However, there is a clause says “in the name of peace and harmony” they can over rule the outcome of the court house.. So they tried the following to incite racial / religeous disharmony :
1. Instigate Christians by burning the churches but Christians just hold their peace
2. Instigate Punjabis by throwing rock on their temple. They too hold their peace.
3. Now they are instigating Malays and Muslims. Because, the history says Malays and Muslims are easily instigated to their (you kno who i mean) advantage. So Malay and Muslim brothers and sisters, do not fall in their trap. They are fooling us all this while..

When there is an unrest, the home minister will say that because of the Allah word controvery there are unrest so the government is veto’ing the court of law by banning the word Allah from being used by non-muslims.. The END.

This is their only cheapest trick of all time.. ‘

posted on February 3, 2010
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