PETALING JAYA, July 28 (Bernama) -- Cambodia has become the first country to receive copies of the holy Quran through the World Quran Endowment Programme of the Malaysian Armed Forces in collaboration with the Restu Foundation.
Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said 10,200 copies of the holy book obtained through donations collected from corporate bodies, armed forces personnel and individuals, would be distributed to the minority Muslim community in that country.
"This is an effort to show Malaysia's concern towards Muslim minorities in other countries," he told reporters after receiving the 10,200 copies of the Quran from chairman of the foundation, Datuk Latiff Mirasa, here Wednesday.
Five hundred copies of the 'mukadam' booklets and 1,000 prayer mats would also be sent to Cambodia to be distributed to the Muslim community there in preparation for the coming month of Ramadan, he said.
Ahmad Zahid said under the programme, copies of the holy Quran would also be given to other nations with minority Muslim communities like Japan, Korea and South Africa.
The Defence Minister arrived in Cambodia Wednesday for a three-day official visit to the country in a Malaysian Armed Forces carrier C130, accompanied by Major General Datuk Zulkiple Kassim, Defence Advisor to the Minister Brigadier General Datuk Md Dzahir Abdul Rashid Bakar and other senior Armed Forces officers.
Their arrival at the Pochetong Military Base at 7.35pm was received by Secretary of State, Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training Othsman Hassan and the Mufti of Cambodia, Oknha Sos Kamry.
Othsman Hassan is also President Chairman of the Higher Council of Islamic Religious Affairs in Cambodia.
8 comments:
are they trying to promote muslim or islam religion in cambodia? anyway what is the difference between the islam and muslim religion?
Bad days ahead for Cambodia's future.
First the Qurans, then weapons, then terrorism, then separation, then Cambodia becomes a muslim state.
The Cambodian people don't need the Quran...
The Cambodian people need proper history books and up-to-date science books!!!
To the three posters above,
How is it bad bays? Muslim have been living along side us for decades. We welcome them in our land like a brother and never have any issues whatsoever til this day. You think a Quran is going to make that of a different? And a Quran is going to make the Muslim an extremist? FYI, Muslim have just the same rights as everyone else in Cambodia.......except Huynh Sen and his cronies.
Please educate yourself before you let your fingers do the talking.
Mr. stupid educated 5:19 AM, you try to play Mr. nice guy but you can't pretend for long. Look at all the countries that have muslims minority; countries such as India, Philipines, Thailand, China, etc.. see the problems they have with the muslim population? They constantly want to break up the country to become an independent state often through vilence means. Do you want Cambodia to face the same problem? The muslims in Cambodia are now weak but if they get financial and military supports from muslim countries such as Indonasia, Malaysia, Soudi-Arabia, then you can kiss your ass and say good bye. They will not hesitate to kick your ass if given the chance. Just wait and see and hopefully I am wrong on this.
"What is the difference between Islam & Muslim?"
Islam is the religious beliefs of the Muslim people. Muslim is referring to the people & Islam is the religion base on the Queeran, ops, I meant Quran.
I'm glad to see some of you are leery of this religion and what it will do if the Muslims are in power.
KhmerIsrael
The Qur'an is the sacred words of
Mohammed;the Muslim is the one who
believes in Mohammed.
There are one and half billion
Muslims in the world.
The Christians have two and half
billion people.
The Buddhists have 600,000,000
people.
Buddha was the first religion founder in the world.
Jesus Christ was the second one;
and Mohammed was the third one.
The three religion founders are
good.
The communist states never believe
in any religions;the communism
doctrine hates religions.
Pol Pot wiped out any religions
in Cambodia.North Korea wiped out
religions.
but some of communist countries
keep religions just for its people,
not for the leaders:China,Vietnam,
Lao,and Cuba.
Cambodia keeps religions because
Hun Sen wants believers to calm
down.
Cambodia could be changed
into any religions:Islam,Hinduism,
or Christianity.Time changed,people changed their minds.
i think islam and muslim people have too much restrictions in their belief, etc! plus, i don't like the way they wear their clothes to cover their face and body! plus, they smell bad, too, i don't like that at all, you know!
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