The azan controversy arose out of the police report lodged by Shah Alam, Umno committee member Mohd Azhar Othman over an article Local authorities ought to be sensitive to individual rights penned by Yang Pei Keng in the May/June edition of Infoline , which is published by the Malaysian Bar Council.

The portion which was alleged to have insulted Islam read: 'True, dogs may be noisy at times but that is a different issue.'

'As in the case of those developers building mosques in the vicinity of a non-Muslim community, while one recognises any community's right to perform its religious obligation by way of using a loudspeaker, to some, it is noise pollution created to the annoyance of those residing in the neighbourhood.'

From the two paragraphs, we can conclude three things:

• Dogs may be noisy at certain times;