GEORGE TOWN: The Penang Islamic Religious Council, state education department and police are investigating claims that Bibles were distributed to students in front of a secondary school in Bukit Mertajam.
Penang Deputy Chief Minister I Ahmad Zakiyuddin Abdul Rahman said the state government was leaving it to the authorities to get to the bottom of the matter.
“I wish to reiterate that Islam is the official religion of the state of Penang as enshrined in the state constitution. Any attempt to upset racial and religious harmony in a multiracial and multireligious society will not be tolerated,” he said in a statement here today.
Yesterday, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mujahid Yusof Rawa, who is in charge of Islamic affairs, had admitted that the claims were true.
Proselytisation of Muslims is prohibited in the country.