Muafakat Nasional, Muslim consumer association raise concern Hindu temples “10 times more than mosques”
CONTROVERSIAL convert Muslim preacher Prof Mohd Ridhuan Tee Abdullah has come under fire from netizens as to how he derived his claim that “the 300,000 (Hindu) temples built in the country do not match their (Indian) population of just 1.5 million”.
Speaking in the capacity of Muafakat Nasional deputy president, the academician has earlier expressed concern that the number of temples in Malaysia has continued to register an increase.
“There are approximately 33,000 surau and mosques all over the country. This means that the number of Hindu temples is 10 times more (than surau and mosques put together),” he was quoted as saying by opposition-slant TV Pertiwi.
Muafakat Nasional hari ini melahirkan kebimbangan selepas jumlah kuil di Malaysia terus mencatatkan peningkatan.
Timbalan Presidennya, Prof Mohd Ridhuan Tee Abdullah berkata 300,000 kuil yang dibina tidak padan dengan populasi mereka sekadar 1.5 juta orang.
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“The issue is that their population is not that many but their place of worship is one too many. Moreover, most of them are located on government land.”
For the record, Ridhuan had on last month urged Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari to control the excessive number of illegally built Hindu temples which he described as kuil haram in the state.
“If not monitored, the state of Selangor will become ‘Darul Kuil’ and no longer ‘Darul Ehsan’ anymore,” justified the controversial preacher who in December 2022 was aggrieved upon his removal as a speaker on Islam in a Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) TV talk show.
Sadly, the ‘unconfirmed’ statistics of the lecturer of Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin in Kuala Terengganu was somehow endorsed by the Malaysian Muslim Consumer Association (PPIM) which urged the government to reinstate the monitoring body to ensure that temples do not continue to be built widely.
Its chief activist Datuk Nadzim Johan reckoned that the current complacency of the Malays could bring about adverse effect to their future generation.
Datuk Nadzim Johan (middle)
“We therefore request the government to aggressively re-mobilise the regulating bodies given that there are already more than 300,000 temples in Malaysia,” TV Pertiwi quoted him as saying.
“We (the Malays) are seemingly not bothered. We are still relaxing even when we’re getting weaker, insulted and our future looks messy.”
Below are some self-explanatory feedback by netizens:
Tear them down if they have been constructed illegally. Now is the time to teach them a lesson they duly deserve.
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