Malaysia decimates a Hindu temple.
Malaysian authorities have demolished a century-old Hindu temple in Kuala Lumpur, bulldozing the building as devotees cried and begged them to stop, Hindu groups said today. The Malaimel Sri Selva Kaliamman Temple was reduced to rubble after Kuala Lumpur’s city hall sent in bulldozers, they said.
The papers have carried the news faithfully but no outraged voices have been raised as expected. Good for Malaysia which is fast on the route to becoming another Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, the land of the “pure” that can’t stand diversity. This again reminds me of Naipaul’s Among the Believers and Beyond Belief. The former book in retrospect reads now more like an eerie prophecy than a travelogue. Like I wrote in my China post, Malaysia had preserved most Hindu traditions intact till Islam landed there. That the presence of an overwhelming number of Indian Hindu populace seems not to bother the government a bit. I guess they’re now looked at as infidels in true Islamic fashion.
Had a mosque been demolished… well, we know all about Ayodhya.
It’s always the Hindus to blame for they worship the damn idols.
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Sandeep,
There you go again. Here is something you missed
“Subramaniam said city hall tried in 2001 and again in 2004 to tear down the building, which was on government land, but had been dissuaded by politicians.”
In India, nobody even dares to touch an illegally constructed place of worship be it Hindu, Muslim or Christian.
I am for demolishing any illegal places of worship if it is not constructed in accordance with the laws of the land.
Believe me my opinion doesn’t change depending on the religion to which the place of worship is affiliated to.
ac
ac, the temple had been there for a century. And the Federation of Malaysia was formed only in 1963. I have no idea what exactly happened in this case but it seems likely that the government would have usurped the land. In any case even new nations are recognized well within a century.
Hey, why not start a consumer boycott against Spice telecom in which Telekom malaysia has an econmic interest? There’s no better way to show thesemorons their place in the food chain than exercising our collective economic muscle.
AC
Please read ‘This temple is a century old’. So where is the question of it being illegally built. If the govt wanted the land then all they had to do was to first relocate the temple - which is possible today and with a proper notice. Not the way they have gone about it.
Anonymous - Now that is a good idea.
I am not very tech savvy, but could somebody please set up a website or something that I can use to initiate the boycott? I’d be the first person to cancel my spice subscritption. Come to think of it, I’ll first start off an SMS flood for all my friends to kick off the campaign. I think there are sufficienct number of Hindus that are outraged by this crap to make TelekomMalaysia sit up and take notice.
Another temple to be demolished in Malaysia
http://www.usj.com.my/bulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=12384
be demolish and be replace by sub-standard building of no historical value. its surprising they didnt tear down that temple when they built mid valley, its somehow still there, and very oddly place. my guess its days are numbered as well.” 2. Fromsandeepsblog: “The papers have carried the news faithfully but no outraged voices have been raised as expected. Good for Malaysia which is fast on the route to becoming another Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, the land of the “pure” that can’t stand diversity”
decimated
There were protests AFTER the demolition, even from Muslims in Malaysia, where there are a lot decent people of all races.
But to put it into context, many roadside Hindu shrines have ‘grown’ into temples without the consent of the land owner(s) or the planning authorities. Where the land is not immediately needed, the authorities have been kind enough to defer demolition of illegal buildings. There was more than enough time in this case for the worshippers to buy the land and then seek planning approval.
That they did not do this may be due to the fact that the Tamil Hindu worshippers are mostly poor, with low education and unable or mostly unwillinging to spend their own money to buy the land. The ‘village’ Hinduism practised is quite different from that in proper Hindu temples of the north Indians in Malaysia. These north Indians (as well as the Sikhs and Christians) buy the sites first, plan and then build their shrines.
I put this unfortunate event down to many factors including a lack of organisational skills among the Tamil Hindus in the area.