Loud and proud: Azrul describe himself as a Malaysian who believes in moving together for the future rather than harping on the past.
It is a given when people stand up for themselves, but it takes a whole lot more to stand up for others against one of your own.
WHEN the Selangor Islamic Affairs Department (Jais) raided the Bible Society of Malaysia’s office in Selangor and seized 321 copies of the Bible in Malay and Iban on Jan 2 and a group of angry Muslims wanted to march to a church in Klang in protest of their use of the word “Allah”, Azrul Mohd Khalib just about had enough.
For him, this, coupled with the call by Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali a year earlier for Muslims to burn Malay Bibles with the word “Allah”, were all ingredients for a potent confrontation.
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