Baru baru ini sebuah gereja evangelis di Taman Medan diserbu orang islam kerana berang dengan tindakan mereka menaikkan lambang salib di kawasan berkenaan. Taman Medan merupakan kawasan majoriti orang islam. Tindakan puak evangelis ini jelas mencabar umat islam dikawasan berkenaan.
Setelah umat islam mengepung dan memprotes perbuatan biadap evangelis, akhirnya lambang berkenaan diturunkan. Walau tindakan umat islam ini dikecam oleh puak evangelis di media sosial, namun gerakan menentang evangelist bukan sahaja berlaku di Malaysia malah ianya turut berlaku di China dan Singapura.
Di China lagi hebat, banyak gereja evangelis diruntuhkan oleh Kerajaan China. Walaupun dituduh komunis tidak mempercayai agama, namun sebenarnya orang orang Cina di China mempercayai agama. Namun Kerajaan China tahu ajaran evangelist bukanlah fahaman agama semata mata sebaliknya gerakan ekstrimis dalam agama Nasrani. Malah Khatolik dan Protestan sendiri tidak seperti evangelis.
Kerajaan Singapura juga mengawal ketat ajaran evangelist ini. Kerana mereka begitu aggresif menyebarkan fahaman mereka tanpa memikirkan perasaan penganut agama lain.
“In the last five years, the [Singapore] Government has received numerous complaints about aggressive and insensitive evangelisation, carried out mostly by some Protestant churches and organisations. Some religious groups have also carried out acts and practices which offend other groups.
“University students have been harassed by over-zealous Christian students. In hospitals, some doctors and medical students have tried to convert critically ill patients to Christianity on their deathbeds.
“In August 1986, officials and devotees of a Hindu temple found posters announcing a Christian seminar pasted at the entrance of their temple. The Hindus also objected when Christian missionaries distributed pamphlets to devotees going into temples along Serangoon Road.
“Some Muslims also received extracts from an unidentified book containing inflammatory remarks. Feeling their religion threatened, the Muslims embarked on their own campaign to counter the Christian effort. Talks and sermons in mosques and Muslim gatherings harped on the danger posed by Christian evangelists.
“In 1986, ISD [Internal Security Department] called up the leaders of 11 Christian organisations which had been evangelising among Muslims, to advise them to avoid activities which could cause misunderstanding or conflict. A few ignored this advice.“ - SUMBER
Hanya Kerajaan Malaysia, masih belum melihat kesan disebalik fahaman evangelist. Di Malaysia, mereka ini berselindung disebalik NGO dan juga parti politik. Namun selepas kemenangan Pembangkang khususnya DAP di Selangor dan P.Pinang, gereja gereja kecil mula dibuka terutama dikawasan rumah kedai. Mereka membuka gereja kecil ini tanpa memikirkan perasaan penganut agama lain dikawasan terbabit. Sehinggalah perbuatan mereka di Taman Medan, barulah mereka berhadapan dengan tentangan umat islam.
Namun disebalik semua kemelut ini, pihak berkuasa agama islam terutama JAKIM terus berdiam diri. Malah tiada apa apa tindakan dibuat untuk mengawal masalah ini dari terus berlarutan. Tetapi jika bab anjing dan perempuan, cepat pula JAKIM ni nak bertindak. Tetapi bila bab pertahan agama, pegawai pegawai ni semua duduk diam. Takut hilang periuk nasi agaknya.
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