July 2009

VIGIL for HERALD

A silent vigil will be held this Friday in light of the HERALD case, details are as follows :-

All are urged to fast and pray this Friday 17th July for a fair and expeditious judgement.

9 Detained Over Alleged Conversion at UPM

SEPANG (July 15, 2009) : Two Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) students and seven friends, including six from Hong Kong, were detained by police for almost 20 hours following police reports alleging they had attempted to spread Christianity to Muslim undergraduates at the campus in Serdang.

It is learnt that the UPM students were visited by the foreigners and a local woman late on Wednesday at the university grounds and later proceeded to the canteen near their hostel at about 9pm.

Sepang police chief ACP Zahedi Ayub said today the group, made up of five men and four women aged between 19 and 24, began distributing pamphlets and leaflets which contained material on Christianity.

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Al Islam breached code of Ethics

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
source : ©The Nut Graph
By Deborah Loh

PETALING JAYA, 13 July 2009: Al Islam magazine clearly violated journalistic ethics when it went undercover at a Catholic mass and partook of the holy communion, the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) said today.

"I don't question the subject matter of the story, which was about finding out about alleged conversions of Muslims to Christianity. It is a valid subject as it is the concern of a particular community.

"But the magazine went the wrong way in reporting it by going undercover. It was a clear violation of journalistic ethics," CIJ executive director V Gayathry told The Nut Graph today.

"Undercover reporting cannot be the starting point and basis for journalism without trying other traditional methods. In this case, on such a story involving religion and faith, being sneaky by going undercover breeds further misconceptions and misunderstanding.

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