Ahlul Bayt News Agency - ABNA - The Malaysian government will not keep quiet to any form of insult against Islam in the country to avoid any untoward incidence.
Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Dr Mashitah Ibrahim said any form of insult against the religion should not be condoned and stern action should be taken against those who insulted Islam.
"I fear that something might happen if no stern action is taken," she told reporters at an Aidilfitri open house hosted by Yayasan Waqaf Malaysia here Monday.
She was commenting on several video-clips posted on the YouTube website of a priest giving a speech which insulted Islam.
A newspaper carried a report Monday which stated the protem president of the Muslim Bloggers Alliance, Zainol Abideen, as saying that the priest was Benjamin Stephen and that the speech was made in a church in Kuching, Sarawak (East Malaysia).
Mashitah said she regretted that such a thing could happen and urged the Sarawak Islamic Religious Department to investigate.
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