Love your faith and thy neighbour


Disabled foreign beggars begging along Waterfall Road near the Nattukotai Chettiar Temple during Thaipusam in Penang.

Does professing your love for someone of another religion make you waver in your own? Some claim that is so. But this writer begs to differ.

THEY were lying prostrate on the street leading to the temple, their heads bowed and nodding as if in prayer. They hardly looked up.

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