SO AGAIN AND AGIN WE SEE SUCH MOVES TO SUBTLY CONVERT CHRISTIANS IN THE NAME OF MOTIVATION PROGRAMS….THIS TIME BY THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, MUHYIDDIN…..AND THEY SAY THAT CHRISTIANS ARE A THREAT ??? “Motivational programme? Thats a lie,” Chong said. “If it was so noble a programme as the minister claimed, why was it suddenly terminated after an outcry by the students parents?” he asked. Following reports that parents of students in SMK Balai Ringin in the Serian district were up in arms over Islamisation elements in the programme conducted in May, Muhyiddin had told Chong in a written reply in Parliament that the programme was aimed at increasing the academic performance of students from poor families. The information received from the Sarawak education department showed that the programme held on May 3 this year involving 50 children was a motivational programme and contained no elements to convert the religion of the students involved, stated the reply to Chongs June 6 question. Muhyiddin also said the school had since terminated the programme, which was sanctioned by the Rural and Regional Development ministry. Rubbishing the minister’s answer, Chong said the termination showed there was a hidden agenda in the programme. He said if Muhyiddin and the Sarawak education department believed the programme was in no way a guise to convert Christian rural students, they should have insisted that the programme be continued. “Even the name of the programme, Anak Angkat (adoption) carries a connotation,” he added. He also questioned the ministry’s reason for sending a Muslim NGO to Sarawaks rural areas to “adopt students knowing full well they are non-Muslims”. “Does the ministry lack non-Muslim officers and NGOs to send to these areas? Dont they know the background of these areas?” he asked. The programme was run by an NGO called the Organisation of Graduates and Educational Institutions Malaysia, or better known as Haluan. Chong said sending a Muslim NGO to carry out a programme laced with Islamic teachings was a clear attempt to indoctrinate the students. He said such programmes and Muslim NGOs like Haluan were creating social disorder “in our harmonious Sarawak environment”. Barisan Nasionals Balai Ringin assemblyman Snowdan Lawan also had reservations about Muhyiddins explanation. Snowdan said since the outcry over the programme, he was briefed by the deputy president of Haluan Prof Emeritus Datuk Dr Abu Azam Md Yassin. From how he explained it, it did sound like it was a motivational programme, and a good one at that. But from what I had gathered from the students and their parents, it looked like the programmes counsellors had taken it upon themselves to stray out of the module. They had gone out of topic by trying to go overboard with things Islam. It would be more appropriate for them to target the Muslim students rather than the Christian students. - See more at: themalaysianinsider/malaysia/article/sarawak-leaders-rubbish-muhyiddins-answer-on-anak-angkat-project#sthash.TtpzAw6B.dpuf
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