Malay rights group abandons call to burn bibles

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After triggering a firestorm of protests against its threat to burn copies of Malay-language bibles last week, Malay rights group Perkasa yesterday backed down and said it no longer wants to torch the holy books.

“We do not plan any more to burn (bibles),” Perkasa Secretary-General Syed Hassan Syed Ali told The Malaysian Insider yesterday.

“We never planned to organise a (bible-burning) fest,” he added.

Last week, Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali had called on Muslims to burn Malay-language bibles that contain the word “Allah” and other religious Arabic script.