The daily reports on the attack on churches is alarming. If someone were to attack a mosque (Allah forbid), the entire government machinery would move into overdrive to catch the culprit.

Alas ,these are only churches. Why bother? It's they who need to fall in line. They need to apologise. It's they who need to cave in. Or else, the attackes will continue and churches will be attacked to no end.

De facto law Minister Nazri Aziz has, after all, come out with a "compromise" to show that he has decided to be "tolerant" and allow the use of the word Allah in East Malaysia.

What is troubling is the fact that Christians have now started to mobilise themselves and are taking turns to patrol their churches to ensure that no more untoward incidents of burning, splashing of paint, throwing stones, or what have you, happens.

Safeguard their property from who? Men who are doing this purportedly in the name of Allah, prompted by people who performing the Umrah.

It's blasphemy of the highest order.

My mind goes back to Kerling in the eighties. Are we to see a repeat of Kerling, where, in the  defence of their respective places of worship, our children where found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder?

Will the inspector general of police or the attorney general make a stand on the issue before anything of this magnitude happens, as it looks very like;y to happen soon?

Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has said the situation is under control. He means, only four churches at most were attacked on a single day. On other days, it was only one church at a time.

To get back to the issue of compromise and tolerance.

What tolerance are we talking about? You do not even tolerate my constitutional rights?  Nowhere in the Federal Constitution is there mention of the word Allah being confined to Muslims only.

No where in the Quran is there anything to say that non-Muslims can't use the  word Allah.

If you do not tolerate my freedoms, neither will I compromise my rights as enshrined in the Federal Constitution: the freedom of expression and the freedom of worship.

No one has the right to ask me to compromise my constitutional rights.