TJ Ringkas:

Selangor mengambil langkah untuk tidak membenarkan semua parti pembangkang memberi ceramah di masjid dengan alasan mereka "berceramah politik".

Md Khir Toyo, MB baru(a) , mengatakan ceramah2 tersebut hanya akan memecah belahkan masyarakat.

KOMEN

Sudah tiba masanya pemimpin BA, khususnya PAS lebih banyak sedikit menyumbang ceramah di laman web. Tindakan kerajaan umno yang mencampuri urusan pentadbiran masjid agak mendukacitakan. Sewajarnya mereka mendakwa jika dirasakan ceramah tersebut memang berbau politik dan tidak betul. Islam mengajar kita dua perkara: Amar ma'ruf dan Nahi Munkar.

Mengapakah al Quran tidak menyebut amar ma'ruf sahaja? Tindakkan umno hari ini seolah-olah ia tidak mahu tingkah lakunya yang jijik dipersoalkan. Jika sikap ini berterusan, umno hanya menambahkan jurang dirinya sendiri dengan kariah masjid. Orang yang berperang dengan ugama dan masjid selalunya tidak akan selamat. Lihatlah apa yang berlaku kepada Abu Hasan Omar. Dia pergi dalam air mata tetapi ia sudah tidak berguna - baik untuk umno mahupun untuk rakyat jelata. Apakah Khir Toyo mahu menjadi Abu Hasan yang kedua?

http://www.lycos-asia.com/my/asia/malaysia/001015054335.rlim6gsn.html

Malaysian state bans opposition leaders from mosque lectures

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 15 (AFP) - 13:43 - A Malaysian state has banned all opposition leaders from delivering lectures at mosques on the grounds that they were making "political speeches", a report said Sunday.

Mohamad Khir Toyo, the chief minister of central Selangor state, was quoted as saying by The Sun that such lectures in places of worship would only divide the Malay community.

"I view the (lectures) in these places as more political than religious and the opposition uses these opportunities to make unfounded allegations which further confuses the community," he said.

The Selangor Islamic religious department banned Nik Aziz Nik Mat, Kelantan state chief minister and spiritual leader of the opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS), from speaking at a mosque in the state on Sunday.

The Kelantan government has criticised the ban as "un-Islamic and undemocratic."

But Mohamad Khir told Nik Aziz to concentrate on problems in his own state. He said the ban also applied to all opposition leaders.

"There is no need to come to other territories. It is best if he looks after his own backyard in Kelantan and focuses on matters relating to social ills, economy and crime among others," he added.

PAS has gained from a split in the Muslim community after the now-jailed Anwar Ibrahim was sacked as deputy premier and expelled from the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) in September 1998.

UMNO, the linchpin of the ruling coalition, is seeking to win back Malay votes after losing control of a second state assembly to PAS in last November's general election. Apart from Kelantan, PAS now also rules neighbouring Terengganu state.