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YOURSAY ‘There are no sensitive issues - just sensitive people.’

Firm to remove Hindu deity bottles off shelves

Malaccan: The actions of these Muslims are neither stupid nor emotional but are calculated and malicious, intended to create hatred and promote Talibanisation in this nation. They are supported by the silence of the authorities and actively by Jakim (Malaysian Islamic Development Department).

Hindus could say it is an insult to have the commercial halal logo alongside the image of their deity. We all recognise it as a promotion of Malaysia as the label clearly states Batu Caves, which is associated with Hinduism.

It is only the religiously deviant, mentally challenged and socially destructive who think otherwise. Will Jakim now stop anything to be printed beside a halal logo?

Adsertor: This episode reflects the increasing intolerance in Malaysia by some NGOs having the Daesh/Isis mentality. I do not see anything wrong with promoting a tourist site on a drink or anything else.

If people do not like it, they can boycott the product. Why should they feel offended? Do people of other religions feel offended and boycott products with halal sign? They don't.

Hang Tuah PJ: My dear Muslims and non-Muslims brothers and sisters. Don’t you wonder why all these are happening in Selangor and Penang only?

Point taken that a halal product cannot have a picture of a deity on it but there is no necessity to demand such action against the manufacturer. He was not aware and as he is now aware, he is recalling the mineral water bottles. The matter should settle there.

Calling for action to be taken against the manufacturer is not how our Prophet Muhammad would have dealt with in such a situation. Why are Muslims making non-Muslims hate Islam?

So what if you are the majority? Our prophet took care of the minorities as well. My non-Muslims brothers and sisters, I know it is getting very hot under the collar, but then, that is what BN wants.  

They raise religious and racial tensions in Selangor and Penang so that they can take back Selangor “by hook or by crook”. Selangorians, KLites and Penangites, let's not fall into that trap.

Mosquitobrain: I'd suggest all products with Chinese, Tamil and English characters or words be banned and taken off the shelves. In this way, this group of narrow-minded people will not be offended.

It looks like things are getting out of hand. Nowadays, everything seems sensitive.

Let's not dwell on this too much. We better train our resources to prepare for hard times coming our way and other more important issues affecting our livelihood.

Hang Babeuf: “Keep halal logo away from non-Muslim symbols.”

Or, in other words and obversely, feel free to use - and, what’s more, it is obligatory to use - halal logos to create a symbolic bifurcation and practical dichotomisation of all Malaysian public space, real and virtual: i.e., to establish a symbolically protected conceptual segregation and “zonal apartheid” between the Muslim/Islamic and non-Muslim/non-Islamic domains.

All this in order to appease (ever-increasing and more exorbitant) “Malay sensitivities”. Everybody should be aware, now: that once you let this kind of thing to get going, there is, will and can be no end to it.

Ultimately, there will be only one question: have Malays placed themselves in an Islamic-demarcated ghetto? Or have they successfully confined all non-Muslims into a kafir/kotor ghetto? Or both?     

Dr Suresh Kumar: I have been told that some Hindus (local and overseas) were not too happy about the image of the deity appearing on these mineral water bottles.

I said to them, it's only an image, done in good faith to promote tourism as Batu Caves is on the world tourism map. If the temple committee could allow thousands of tourists to flock to Batu Caves, what is wrong with this image on the bottle?

I believe after the explanation by the manufacturer, all is well. To these hyper 'one-way' sensitive Muslims, what is the need for a police report? Was it a serious crime? What about the dragging of a cow’s head?

    

Last year, a Hindu deity image was used on a certain product in Australia. Sure, some Hindus protested in an amicable manner, it was promptly removed by the company and ended with a handshake and an apology. That was it. No police report, no screaming, not hate speeches.

That's what I call a civilised society.

Waktamnoko: I sincerely do not think that the mineral water firm had any ill intent on the matter. Maybe they thought they were doing their part to promote the country and hence did not see any harm in doing what they did.

The problem is that some of the NGOs concerned should have at least contacted the company, and explained their issue to the company. The problem could have been solved amicably, without resorting to unwanted publicity by the NGO.

As a Muslim, I was not the least bit offended by the logo. But the extent to which this particular NGO tried to gain political mileage on the issue was nauseating, to say the least.

YouAreNotAlone: I see there's still hope in Malaysia as I saw many Muslim commentators here are condemning this move by those pro-Umno Muslim extremists.

Thank you to our Muslim brothers and sisters out there who stand up and do the right thing to protect the rights of the minorities.

Spirit of Malaya: What a shame! After more than 50 years of independence, the country appears to be moving in the opposite direction. Something must be wrong with the present government.

Headhunter: To quote Zaid Ibrahim; the crackpots have taken over the government.     

Anticonmen: We are so petty, childish and fanatic about your God and my God, my God being true and your God being false, my God cannot be mixed with your God, etc.

Idon'tlikekangkung: The truth of the matter is that there are no sensitive issues - just sensitive people.

And in Malaysia there are those who do nothing more than sit and pontificate and debate religion. These people are incredibly easily insulted, for they are immensely sensitive.


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