Seksyen 23 residents prevail
Temple relocation shelved. Not a good day for Khalid Ibrahim. The Menteri Besar's dialogue with the Section 23 residents this morning went awfully awry.
Lessons for the govt:
1. Unilateral decisions don't pay, especially with a weak government/leadership
2. Democracy is alive (especially after a demonstration)
The residents/protesters' "victory" should inspire more demonstrations in Selangor in future, I reckon. Or more consultations between the Sgor govt and residents, especially the Malay-Muslim residents, before any action that may affect them is taken.
Or both.
source : rockybru.com.my
NIZAR POOH KEY MARK! AKU TABIK PENDUDUK SEKSYEN 23 SHAH ALAM LA!
"Ketika kekecohan pertemuan antara penduduk Seksyen 23 Shah Alam dengan Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Hal Ehwal Agama, Adat-adat Melayu, Infrastruktur dan Kemudahan Awam, Datuk Dr Hasan Mohd Ali dilaporkan menghadap Sultan Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah.Pertemuan di adakan di Istana Mestika kira-kira jam 12 tengahari Sabtu.Agendadaily difahamkan, Pesuruhjaya PAS Selangor itu mohon perkenan menghadap baginda Sultan dipercayai untuk memberi penjelasan berhubung kait isu semasa yang ada kaitan dengan tugas Dr Hasan.
Antaranya isu penjualan arak di tempat terbuka, perlantikan pegawai masjid sebagai penguatkuasa agama dan kontroversi pemindahan kuil daripada Seksyen 19 ke Seksyen 23 Shah Alam.Abdul Khalid ketika sidang media di kediamannya sebentar tadi bagi menjelaskan status kuil itu mengesahkan Dr Hasan ada mohon perkenan menghadap Sultan Selangor pagi ini."
House PK: Menurut sahabat saya Cucu Tok Selampit, Unit Amal PAS ada menghantar 5 ekor anjing untuk menjaga majlis itu namun mereka telah dihalau keluar oleh penduduk di situ kerana dalam majlis itu orang luar tidak dibenarkan masuk!
PAS dok kata orang lain pakai gangster tapi tengok la Unit Amal dia lagi macam sial, depa ni taraf gangster kampung yang jenis tengin' punya, awat tak tukat unit amal gangster tajaan DAP terus wahai PAS hoi?
Berbalik pada cerita tadi,hanya staf dan pegawai MBSA sahaja dibenarkan berada di situ! Majlis ini memang gamat sakan jadinya apabila Rodziah yang kuat sapu duit dan Khalid Gereja yang takde agama tu nak bagi ucapan! Mana tidaknya, sekarang ni mereka nak bagi ceramah!
Bila penduduk mahu berjumpa mereka dulu, mereka tak mau, maka penduduk hari ini tidak mahu mendengar bebelan mereka, penduduk hanya mahu berinteraksi dengan MB SElangor si Kalid Gagap sahaja!
Setelah selesai semua Kalid Gagap kata mereka tidak akan bangkitkan isu Kuil ini lagi! Jadi kita pun tunggu dan lihat lah nanti, terima kasih kepada sahabat saya Cucu Tok Selampit kerana sudin berkongsi cerita dengan saya dan pembaca sekalian, nantikan cerita penuh dari blog beliau sendiri nanti...
‘Muslim sensitivities’ an excuse for blatant racism?
Analysis by Syed Jaymal Zahiid
“Muslim sensitivity’ or outright racism? Residents from Section 23 clash during today’s town hall meet. — Picture by Jack Ooi
Yet Malay residents of Section 23 said they felt their religion, Islam, had been profoundly threatened by the temple relocation proposal by the Selangor Pakatan Rakyat government.
It prompted them to take to the streets with a cow’s head recently to defend their religion; it drove them to discard civic consciousness and adopt extreme measures, to go as far as insulting another religion, knowing full well such action could lead to physical confrontations.
“It would disrupt traffic flow,” said one female resident of Section 23 when asked what exactly these Muslim sensitivities are.
The female resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was one of the army of residents that attended a dialogue session held by the Selangor government this morning.
It was organised to resolve the deadlock but sadly, the event was fruitless after it transformed into a free-for-all verbal assault session, when the residents turned rowdy and began insulting Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim and other PR leaders.
Residents threw racial insults towards the leaders. They rejected any alternative proposals even before the leaders had managed to raise them. Some accused the leaders of insulting Islam if they were to go on with the relocation.
“We don’t like the smells. It would be noisy and the temples would usually get bigger so we just don’t want it to be near our homes,” said another resident, Roshan, 42, on why he was against the temple being built there.
When suggested that Malays in other parts of Selangor and Kuala Lumpur have no problems with Hindu temples being built near their houses, even when these areas are predominantly Malays, Roshan rebutted gushingly.
“I am from the May 13 generation,” he said, referring to the infamous racial riots four decades ago. “(Malays in these areas are fine because) the land there is limited,” he said.
Throughout the “dialogue”, residents insisted their rejection of the temple relocation had nothing to do with racism and that they were not extremists.
They boasted of their harmonious ties with their Indian counterparts but blame the temple relocation proposal and its proposer, the PR government, as the cause of the strained interracial bond.
The temple, originally located in Section 19, had been proposed to be relocated after an agreement with the city council and other relevant authorities, to Section 23, some 300 meters from the residential area after residents in Section 19 complained.
But many Malay Section 23 residents will have none of it. For them, building a Hindu temple in the midst of an industrial area to provide their Indian counterparts, which make up about 10 per cent of the Section 23 population, the right to practice their religion is a threat to the sanctity of Islam.
Notwithstanding, almost all the replies given by residents when interviewed by The Malaysian Insider cited traffic congestion as the main reason behind their rejection of the temple relocation.
They failed to define how a Hindu temple built some 300 metres away from their houses was insensitive towards Islam but one cannot but feel that as the fiasco goes on, more and more of these Muslim sensitivities will be raised in their arguments.
Syed Jaymal Zahiid is a reporter with The Malaysian Insider who covered this morning’s chaotic town hall meeting
Chaotic town hall meet produces no solution
By Neville Spykerman and Syed Jaymal Zahiid
MBSA officers step in to separate protesters as arguments become heated at the town hall meeting. — Picture by Jack Ooi
Proceedings barely got off the ground before the protesters started shouting and booing at Khalid, along with Khalid Samad (MP for Shah Alam), and Shah Alam mayor Mazalan Md Noor.
Despite calls for calm, the ruckus continued with the upset residents yelling “Penipu!” (liar!) and “Bodoh!” (stupid!) each time Khalid attempted to address them.
Tempers frayed at one point, with rowdy protesters standing on their chairs while shouting.
One Indian Section 23 resident confronted a cow-head protester, prompting MBSA enforcement officers to step in to defuse the situation.
Tensions appeared to ease after that, but the protesters started to get worked up again when Batu Tiga state assemblyman Rodziah Ismail took to the podium. The residents accused her of ignoring their views when planning the relocation of the temple, pelting her with shouts of “Tipu!”
Khalid Ibrahim has said the state government will now reconsider the location of the temple, and that the state development board (PKNS) would need to come up with an amicable solution. This did not placate the irate residents any.
The situation deteriorated further when protesters insulted an Indian attendee, telling him Indians could easily stand listening to the “azan” (Muslim call to prayers) five times daily. This triggered another round of altercations even as the mentri besar plead for calm.
Neighbours went at each other over the now-controversial relocation of the Sri Mahamariamman Temple. — Picture by Jack Ooi
Proceedings kept being halted by shouting protesters, who made up one-third of the attendees. Around 40 Indian residents from Section 23, who are in favour of the temple relocating there, were also at the meeting.
With no clear outcome possible from the emotionally-charged meet, aides led the mentri besar away. The meeting ended with the situation exactly as it was, with no resolution in sight.
Last Friday, a group of 50 protesters from the Section 23 area in Shah Alam held a demonstration in front of the state secretariat building to protest the planned relocation of the 150-year-old Sri Mahamariamman Temple to Section 23 from Section 19. They brandished a severed head of a cow at the protest.
The 150-year-old temple was built on a plantation which over the years was developed into housing estates by the Selangor Development Corporation (PKNS). No provisions were made to relocate the temple, which is now in the middle of a Muslim majority area.
Temple relocation shelved after chaotic town hall meet
By Neville Spykerman
SHAH ALAM, Sept 5 — Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim said today the proposed relocation of a Hindu temple to the Section 23 neighbourhood here has been shelved for now, following a chaotic town hall meeting this morning with residents.
The state government’s dialogue following the recent cow-head protest controversy descended into chaos, with around 300 residents from Section 23 jeering and mocking the meeting.
Kecoh…kecoh...kecoh
'MB bodoh’ dan 'Khalid Babi’ serta macam-macam kata kesat menyelubungi Dewan Bankuet Wisma Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam pagi Sabtu dimana berlangsung sesi dialog Menteri Besar Selangor Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim dengan penduduk Seksyen 23 berhubung isu pembinaan kuil.Kira-kira 300 penduduk termasuk 40 kaum India hadir dailog itu.Kalangan yang berang dengan keputusan kerajaan negeri hendak bina kuil Hindu dekat kawasan perumahan mereka juga boo kearah Ahli Parlimen Shah Alam Khalid Samad dan ADUN Batu Tiga PKR Rodziah Ismail.Malah satu ketika seorang penduduk tunjuk tapak kasut kearah Khalid dan ramai yang menjerit ‘ penipu’ semasa Rodziah berucap.Dailog selama sejam itu berakhir tanpa apa-apa keputusan dibuat.Sebelum itu penduduk tidak endahkan jaminan Menteri Besar kata nak kaji balik keputusan.Suasana juga agak tegang bila wakil penduduk India tetap mahukan kuil di Sek 23.Ia jadi lebih hangat bila dia kata orang India boleh tahan dengan laungan azan lima kali sehari.Khalid dalam sidang media di kediaman rasminya tengahari tadi, berkata kerajaan negeri membekukan sementara cadangan pemindahan kuil ke Sek 23 sehingga alternatif lain bagi menyelesaikan isu terbabit.
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