{"id":23566,"date":"2006-12-14T02:01:41","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T02:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/new-wp\/?p=23566"},"modified":"2006-12-14T02:01:41","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T02:01:41","slug":"narrow-views-affecting-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/narrow-views-affecting-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrow Views Affecting Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NARROW viewpoints affect unity, confuse the public and bring about the perception that Malays are not fair, Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia (Ikim) director-general Dr Syed Ali Tawfik al-Attas told Berita Minggu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Syed Ali said the action of certain Muslims who make narrow-minded statements or enforce rules that were not taught by religion was disturbing race relations in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said issues like not being allowed to wish Selamat Deepavali to Hindus and the ban on bringing in non-halal food to school were causing the Malays to be alienated from non-Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What is the problem with a non-Muslim bringing in food that contains pork? The food is specifically for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If this attitude persists, later someone will say that Muslims cannot live next to non-Muslims or that Muslims cannot socialise with non-Muslims.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Syed Ali added that there were so many instances these days of things that were considered haram or halal. However, he was confident that a majority of Malays were rational in their relations with other races and did not accept ignorant statements as the truth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARROW viewpoints affect unity, confuse the public and bring about the perception that Malays are not fair, Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia (Ikim) director-general Dr Syed Ali Tawfik al-Attas told Berita Minggu. Dr Syed Ali said the action of certain Muslims who make narrow-minded statements or enforce rules that were not taught by religion was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"_wpzoom_pinterest_image_url":"","_wpzoom_pinterest_hidden_image":"0","_wpzoom_pinterest_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buletin","category-226","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}