KUALA LUMPUR: The Cabinet has decided that the seizure of bibles by the Selangor Islamic Affairs Department (Jais) remains a state issue that should be resolved by the Selangor state government.
Speaking after the 16th Malaysia Strategic Outlook Conference 2014 in Kuala Lumpur Thursday, Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the Cabinet also agreed that it would be best to allow temperatures to cool and to stand by the 10-point solution announced by the Government in April 2011.
Under the 10-point solution announced by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Idris Jala, bibles in all languages can be imported into the country, including those in Bahasa Malaysia/Indonesia, and the bibles can also be printed locally in the peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak.
Jais had seized more than 300 copies of Malay and Iban language bibles from the Bible Society of Malaysia’s premises during a raid recently.
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