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KUALA LUMPUR, March 13, 2024: DAP’s Bangi MP Syahredzan Johan says there are many reasons for school canteens to remain open during the Ramadan month.

“School canteens remain open because of the presence of non-Muslim students and teachers who are not fasting.

“We should not forget about the incidents previously reported where non-Muslim students were made to eat in school bathrooms and other inappropriate places during the fasting month,” he added.

Syahredzan slammed the PAS ulama wing for accusing education minister Fadhlina Sidek of sparking an “unnecessary” controversy by stating that school canteens will continue operating during Ramadan.

Parents should not hesitate to sue any school principal and the Education Ministry should their children be forced to take their meals in toilets and other unhygienic and unsavoury places.

The above image says it all about multiracial Malaysia and freedom of religion:

DAP man raps PAS ulama wing for ‘politicising’ school canteens

FMT Reporters

-13 Mar 2024, 10:16 AM

Bangi MP Syahredzan Johan says there are many reasons for school canteens to remain open during the Ramadan month.

Bangi MP Syahredzan Johan responds to PAS ulama wing leader Ahmad Yahaya, who yesterday accused education minister Fadhlina Sidek of sparking an ‘unnecessary’ controversy by announcing that school canteens will continue operating during Ramadan.

PETALING JAYA: DAP’s Bangi MP Syahredzan Johan today criticised the PAS ulama wing for accusing education minister Fadhlina Sidek of sparking an “unnecessary” controversy by stating that school canteens will continue operating during Ramadan.

Syahredzan said there were many reasons for school canteens to remain open, including the presence of non-Muslim students and teachers who are not fasting.

“We should not forget about the incidents previously reported where non-Muslim students were made to eat in school bathrooms and other inappropriate places during the fasting month.

“Do PAS leaders like Ahmad Yahaya lack compassion for these children?” he said in a statement.

Yesterday, Malaysiakini reported Ahmad, the leader of PAS’s ulama wing, as saying that the education ministry should focus on educating Muslim students about the importance of fasting, and non-Muslim students about respecting the practice.

“This can happen in a harmonious way without a directive for canteens to remain open when (Muslim) students are observing the Ramadan month.

“This does not mean that we are stopping the non-Muslim students from eating during the day, but it is also a form of ‘education’ for them to respect the Ramadan month since their schooling years,” said Ahmad.

He added that non-Muslim students can bring food and drinks to school and eat in a space allocated for the purpose.

“That would suffice, without the need for a directive for canteens to remain open, which seems a bit excessive,” he said.

Ahmad also accused Fadhlina of hastily issuing the directive without respecting the Ramadan month.

Syahredzan said PAS and Perikatan Nasional (PN) had again demonstrated that their political stance is not in line with a multicultural and multi-religious country like Malaysia.

“It is evident that they are more inclined to issue statements that divide society rather than foster unity.

“I urge PAS and PN to stop politicising our children’s school canteens. Matters like this should not be tainted by their narrow politics,” he said.

On Facebook, students shown eating in school toilet

Children are seen taking their recess break in a shower room allegedly at SRK Sri Pristana in Sungai Buloh. — Pictures posted by Facebook user Guneswari Kelly

Tuesday, 23 Jul 2013 3:22 PM MYT

PETALING JAYA, July 23 — Pictures depicting non-Muslim primary school students allegedly forced to eat their recess meals in a toilet due to the ongoing Ramadan fasting month has Malaysians up in arms on the Internet.

Posted by a mother by the name of Guneswari Kelly on social network Facebook, the photographs appear to show several non-Muslim children and even adults at a school named as SRK Sri Pristana in Sungai Buloh taking their recess in the lavatory even as the school canteen went unoccupied.

According to her, the children were directed not to use the canteen — shown cordoned off in the pictures — as they would “dirty” the area. Instead, they were told to go to the school’s changing rooms and lavatories, and ordered to stay there for the duration of their recess.

“Is this fair? Can school treat like this. No food serve n no canteen. That bathroom is full of bacteria n smell becoz its a bathroom n next door toilet with the horrible smell,” Guneswari wrote in the post.

“Is it fair for a sekolah kebangsaan sri pristana treatment our non Muslim children like this during puasa month?”

Calls to the school for comment went unanswered.

Students are seen eating their recess meals inside the toilet.

The incident is reminiscent of a 2010 incident in Kedah, when the headmistress of Sekolah Menegah Kebangsaan Bukit Selambau accused Chinese pupils there of being insensitive towards their Muslim peers by eating in the school compound during the fasting month of Ramadan, before ordering them to “return to China” if they could not respect the culture of other races.

Although the school head later apologised, the incident and others in the same vein led to accusations of perceived tolerance for racism within the government and the civil service that some blamed on programmes conducted by the National Civics Bureau (BTN).

Following calls for her dismissal, the headmistress later apologised while the Education Department also formed a taskforce to probe the incident.

The latest incident also comes during a time of renewed religious tension in the country, with the Muslim-Christian tussle over the Arabic word “Allah” set to return to court after a four-year hiatus.

The 2009 High Court decision upholding the Catholic Church’s constitutional right to use the word “Allah” had shocked Muslims who considered the word to only refer to the Muslim God. It also led to Malaysia’s worst religious strife, with houses of worship throughout the country coming under attack.

Two weeks ago, a pair of bloggers also invited Muslim ire after they posted a photograph on Facebook touting a pork dish as an appetising meal with which to break the Ramadan fast. Pork is expressly forbidden to Muslims.

The two have since been charged for the deed, among others, while police also allege that their action led to the kidnap and assault of a youth in Shah Alam, for which four men were yesterday charged.

Muslims are obliged to observe a fast from dawn to dusk for 30 days during the holy month of Ramadan, which began this year on July 10.

Muslims are the country’s dominant religious group and represent over 60 per cent of Malaysia’s population of 28 million.

A cordon is seen around the sealed-off school canteen.

- NST