ISLAMIC MILITANTS ATTACK CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MALAYSIA
 

Last Sunday, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church in Ipoh, Malaysia was "surrounded and attacked by about 1,000  Islamic militants". As reported by CWNews, the militants were protesting over what was thought to be the baptism of  Muslims who were converting to the Christian faith. The information turned out to be false, but the police had to  break up the demonstration.

What is troubling about this development is that Malaysia has large minorities of Indians and Chinese, many of whom  are Christian; and, until recent years, Islamic radicalism has had minimal influence in that generally Muslim country.  At the same time, however, the Malays (who are Muslims and make up the majority of the population in Malaysia) are  not permitted to attend Christian services or convert to Christianity. If they want to do so, they had better leave  the country.

That so many Islamic militants were poised to do great damage to (and perhaps even destroy) a Christian church in Ipoh  is a troubling development, in a country where Christian-Muslims relations have generally been good.

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