JAWI have Overstepped their Boundaries

A few months ago, there was someone who reported in the blog that his restaurant had been raided by officers from one religious organisation called JAWI.

The complainant as well as the restaurant owner was a muslim. The JAWI officers told and rather warmed him that he could not display any koranic verses in his restaurant since his restaurant did not have the halal certificate.

Despite his strong protest and objection to the irrational actions of the JAWI officers, the said officers just ignored him and took down from the walls all the framed-up koranic verses.

I am not too sure when the regulation was mooted and enforced to require a muslim to apply and display the halal certificate before being allowed to decorate his shop with koranic verses?

If this regulation is necessary, then JAWI must ensure that all muslim car owners should also apply for halal certificates to be hung up and displayed on their car screens before affixing the koranic verses on their cars!

Now Indian banana leaf restaurants are complaining that JAWI officers are harassing them in that they must not install or remove all Hindu dieties' altars or pictures in their shops otherwise muslims may be barred from patronising their shops! What sort of divisive policies that JAWI are coming out with to divide the already divided country.

I dread the day when JAWI disallowed our muslim friends to visit our homes decorated with pictures of our Dieties or God they worship.

Come on, what is our PM doing about his 1 Malaysia Policy. Is this another of his rhetorics - not walking the talk.

All Malaysians who love the country must stand up and oppose such anti-national policies that tend to drive the country to greater disharmony, disunity and misunderstanding.