YOURSAY 'What will the video show? A couple sitting in the shadows with their backs turned and their voices modified to protect their identities?'

Hasan to provide video evidence of 'baptised' Malays

your say David Dass: Under pressure of forced rehabilitation and other social sanctions, 'converts' may recant their newly-found faith. So like confessions obtained under threats and torture, such public recantations are suspect.

Do a few converts constitute such a national crisis that requires a jihad? Are there no wise men among our leaders who will acknowledge the inevitability of some conversions from one faith to the other - even without coercion or stealth devices?

Islam will not be threatened by a few conversions. Nor will any of the other great religions. There is no need for jihad.

Thinking: Hasan Ali, please look at your own house and see where your people have failed in their responsibilities.

If your children go to other men and call them "daddy" instead of you, it reflects your own failure as a father. Don't blame others.

So you're upset when a Muslim converts to Christianity. How do you think Christians feel about their people who convert to other religions?

But Christians don't go around blaming others. They look into their own faults and try to correct themselves.

Cloudnine: There are many out there who do not even have a religion. And there are many who have embraced a religion but do not practise sincerely. These are the people we should help and focus our energy on.

If you count them, there are millions. Religion, be it Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc, is not meant for us to quarrel over. We use it to civilise ourselves, learn the good values of love and caring, etc.

Trying to prove we are right and others wrong will lead nowhere.

Bert: "The identity of the couple will have to be protected and only their silhouettes shown in full," said Hasan.

Are you trying to say that if the so-called converts are fully exposed, their lives will be in danger? Don't tell us cock-and-bull stories. Anyone is free to convert to any religion (except from Islam), there is no question of a life in danger.

Anyone can produce a video clip these days. In today's world, any couple will 'act' for a few dollars, just to tarnish the image of others and for their own agenda. Anyway, what integrity do you have, Hasan Ali?

Nik V: This will only prove that the silhouettes were converted. If only the court of law could take a lesson from Hasan. That way, witnesses do not need to show their faces to those they accuse, and we soon will have the law of the jungle.

Artchan: Protect my identity, and also do not show my face, and I will let you record a video of me accusing a high-profile politician of murdering a Mongolian woman. Very clever idea, Hasan - except that only you would believe your own lies.

Myop101: Hasan Ali, if these people are willing to testify concerning someone who broke the law, why don't you assist them to report to police?

The police will be able to investigate the case and get them charged if the allegations are true. As of now, no one trusts the whole video episode and it only serves to tarnish your reputation further.

Pronto: People will act for the right amount of money. A lot of Malaysia are poor and they will do anything for money.

If true, asked them to name the person who converted them. Surely, they know their name. You can charged that guy because the law said so.

Ipoh Mali: More promises of evidence? No need for drama. I hope that Hasan can show the couple are in fact Muslims. And bring in the people who baptised them and show that they are indeed Christians.

Come on, you may be an idiot, but don't think we are. Come to think of it, why didn't Hasan Ali get the religious police to do something with his so-called evidence?

This is just another sandiwara. The last time he showed evidence was some video (Jais raid of Damansara Utama Methodist Church) that was inconclusive of what had exactly happened. At that time, he said he had evidence.

Then he showed some solar-powered bibles. But these are used by Christians, especially by their own people who can't read.

Kairos: There will always be Malays who will convert to Christianity. Evidence of a few Muslims becoming Christians does not mean that there is a mass exodus of Muslims into Christianity.

There are also Christians becoming Muslims and Hindus becoming Muslims and vice versa. If Hasan's purpose of showing the video is to frighten the Muslims or to intimidate the Christians, then as always he is trying to play the religious card to achieve his diabolical ends.

All right-thinking Malaysians must be able to see through this evil man's agenda and remain level headed.

It really amazes me that a few Muslims get converted and they raise a hue and cry about it. How insecure can they get? It does not speak well of their faith.

Joker: What will the video show? A couple sitting in the shadows with the backs turned and their voices modified to protect their identities?

What will they talk about? That they were approached by a Christian missionary disguised as a Muslim praying in a mosque who showed them God's word using a solar-powered Bible?

That they attended a church 'somewhere in the city' and that they were forced to in order to receive financial benefits?

Multi Racial: As a country, we need politicians who care for the country more then themselves. We need politicians who can bring development. We need politicians who promote integration.

Hasan Ali is just the opposite. It is obvious he cares about himself more than the country. When it comes to national integration, he will be the last person who want that to happen.

It is obvious his activities is funded by Umno to stir up racial and religion issues. We leave it to Malaysians to decide for themselves whether Hasan Ali is there to help or destroy.

Nil: Why wait? If there is proof. it would have been provided by now. So, I suppose the videos will be made in Thailand, too?

Dr Jacob George: It is shocking that the obsession for wealth, greed and power can produce such a personification of falsehood, misrepresentation, fabrication and evil and the urge to tear what we have built as a nation for over 54 years.

 

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