MP SPEAKS The Malaysian Insider in a report by Elizabeth Zachariah on Jan 28, headlined ‘Malaysia no longer land of peace and tolerance, says Pakistan website’, is an indictment and stain on the efficiency, professionalism and career of Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar.

This follows weeks and months of incessant incitement of racial and religious hatred, conflict and tensions with the police adopting a “hands-off” policy, resulting in the Molotov cocktail attack on a church in Penang on Monday, a day after provocative banners, ‘Allah is Great. Jesus is the son of Allah’ were hung outside five churches in Penang without knowledge of the church authorities, and the vandalism of eight gravestones in a Christian cemetery near Kuantan yesterday.

As the writer of the Pakistani website, Masood Khan, said: For the rest of the Muslim world, Malaysia used to be an island of peace and tolerance...