Teo says will continue visiting mosques despite Utusan attack
December 30, 2010Teo: If they consider it is fine for non-Muslims to attend, because should we close a door?KUALA LUMPUR, December 30 DAPs Serdang MP Teo Nie Ching says she will not skip mosques despite renewed attacks by Umnos Utusan Malaysia currently for participating in a mosque event.The initial time parliamentarian took partial in an gymnastics practice session during Masjid Taman Cheras Jaya in her subdivision recently.Teo certified which nonetheless her action might price her party Malay votes, she pronounced she would go on enchanting Muslim voters by village functions.Utusan Malaysia published a front-page story currently with a title Teo Nie Ching makes difficulty again along with a design of her exercising with organisation as well as women in a mosque compound during a new Maal Hijrah carnival.The journal additionally indicted her of wearing tight-fitting clothes. She is graphic wearing a white T-shirt as well as track pants, as were a alternative Muslim participants.In August, a first-term MP was criticised by Barisan Nasional (BN) politicians as well as conservative Muslim groups over her argumentative surau visit, after Utusan Malaysia published a front-page design of her addressing those who were praying during a Al-Huda Surau in Kajang Sentral.When we get an call in from a mosque, afterwards we will go, Teo told The Malaysian Insider today.If their (Utusan Malaysia)s attack is without basis, there is no way we should give in. It is a small as well as low-profile village function. This is an event to foster closer ties with my constituents, she added.In todays story Utusan Malaysia additionally criticised Teo for taking partial in a mixed-gender practice programme during a mosque.In August, Teo was likewise lambasted for entering a Al-Huda Surau with her hair uncovered.Women have been compulsory to cover their hair when entering a mosque.The DAP MP was additionally indicted of delivering a takzirah (! sermon) during her surau visit.The surau committee chairman, Azemi Ahmad, however, had insisted which Teo merely spoke about Selangors preparation loan scheme.Teos argumentative surau revisit had allegedly dissatisfied a Selangor Sultan as well as sparked a notice from a Selangor Islamic Religious Council (MAIS), who banned her from entering a prayer areas of any suraus or mosques in Selangor without its permission.Malay rights organisation Perkasa had demanded which Syariah laws be enacted to anathema non-Muslims from entering mosques as well as suraus.However, Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders, including PAS spiritual adviser Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat, had defended Teo over her mosque visit.Teo pronounced currently she was invited by a Masjid Taman Cheras Jaya to take partial in a gymnastics exercise.If they consider it is fine for non-Muslims to attend, because should we close a door? asked Teo.It was a duty organised by a mosque...at a outside compound of a mosque, she added.Despite a intensity backlash from a Malay electorate, Teo voiced confidence which Utusan Malaysias readership would eventually decrease due to its biased reporting.We might remove some Malay votes. But we do believe which eventually, Utusan Malaysia will remove its credibility, pronounced Teo.It is a biased journal which regularly plays up dangerous secular as well as eremite issues, she added.The recently-elected Selangor DAP state committee part of additionally forked out which several Malays had corroborated her during a conflict over her surau visit.Many Malay voters or friends visited my Facebook page as well as blog as well as showed their support, pronounced Teo.The reply from a throng there was very good. They welcomed me. we consider we was doing a right thing.
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