MIC Youth has praised Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali for solving the Bible fiasco, when his predecessor has failed.

 

The wing's leader C Sivarraajh welcomed the "long overdue move" by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) to return all the items seized from the Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM).

 

"It is good that Azmin had found a solution when (former MB Abdul Khalid (Ibrahim) could not," he said.

 

He commended Azmin for impressing on the authorities for a resolution, when "Christians had almost given up hope of seeing the Bible returned".

 

"The seizure some 10 months ago had the 'Bible-saga' roiling through the political system with Jais refusing to hand over the seized copies.

 

"The handing over which was witnessed by Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, in the presence of Azmin and the state Islamic authorities, was the brainchild of Azmin (himself)," he said in a statement today.

 

Copies of the Malay and Iban language bibles – 351 of which were seized for containing the word "Allah" from the premises of BSM – were handed over today to the Association of Churches in Sarawak (ACS), on behalf of BSM.

 

The handing over of the bibles, however, came with conditions from Jais and is not to be distributed in Selangor.

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