The lowest of lows

I received an email alert recently, and this was followed up by an email. It basically protested an article which was printed in a local religious magazine, Al-Islam, and it was supposedly done by two reporters that were tipped off on purported conversion of muslim men at a local catholic church in Penang. My reaction was not one that was seethe with anger, more of one that was filled with the awe that such idiotic journalist exist in the realms of seedy reporting.

My next reaction was, will the government actually take action on this paper? Will KDN revoke its license for this provocative action that reeks of insult and disrespect? What KDN and the government does depends largely on which channel we take. We don't take to the streets. That is most important, for doing so will invoke other complications.

Today, I saw widespread reaction to the report, and this one was reported in the nut graph.
A very composed and logical response was solicited from the church via its Bishop, Anthony Selvanayagam. Clearly, though insulted, the church has opted to react in a civil manner, preferring to leave the follow up of such an irresponsible act to the authorities.
Here, the administration is left to its choice of preferred handling of this matter, whether its a NFA or charge is yet to be seen.

Mahaguru 58 did raise the same matter in his blog posting and proceeded further to solicit response from various Muslim ummahs. Dissapointingly, though he feels that the act of intrusion by the two Al Islam journolist, he agrees that the two Malay journalists had done no harm to their 'Aqeedah' in the course of their duty as investigative journalists and had done so as allowed by the principles of our Islamic faith. Perhaps, the issue may have been sidetracked.
Clearly, the act to protect one's religion is hailed by its own. However, by disrespecting another is totally a different one.

I for one, would not llike to see over reaction to this matter. But by allowing a licensed publication a blatant right to disregard another's religion is totally unacceptable. I have many muslim friends, and I respect their religion as well as others. And I ask the same from them.
In the case of Al Islam, I ask no less than to ban this publication in order for it to know that Malaysia does not condone these kinds of insult to religion. Not just christian, any religion.