Six Malaysian Muslims charged with sedition for parading cow head to protest Hindu temple plan

October 9th, 2009 SELANGOR - Authorities in the Malaysian state of Selangor have put off the demolition of the 130-year-old Sri Maha Mariamman temple, which is located in Jenjarom. A decision to put off the demolition was reached after an agreement between the temple committee, the developer and the Kuala Langat police, reports The Star.

September 17th, 2009 NAUBATPUR - This story stands out as an exemplar of Hindu-Muslim brotherherhood in communally trying times. Every year during Ramzan, a temple in this village becomes the hub of activity.

September 9th, 2009 SHAH ALAM - A Sessions Court in Malaysia has charged six persons with sedition in connection with last month's cow head protest. On August 28, nearly 50 protesters gathered at State Secretariat building's gate carrying a cow's decapitated head.

September 9th, 2009 Malaysia charges 12 Muslims for anti-Hindu protestSHAH ALAM, Malaysia — A Malaysian court charged 12 Muslims with criminal offenses Wednesday for parading a severed cow head to protest the construction of a Hindu temple in a case that stoked religious tensions in this multiethnic country. The 12 were among a large group of people who had marched from a mosque in Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor state, to the state chief minister's office on Aug.

September 8th, 2009 Malaysia court charges 6 Muslims with seditionSHAH ALAM, Malaysia — A Malaysian court charged six Muslims with sedition Wednesday for parading a severed cow head to protest the construction of a Hindu temple in a case that has stoked religious and racial tensions in this multiethnic country. The six also were expected to be charged — along with six others — with illegal assembly later Wednesday.

September 6th, 2009 SHAH ALAM - Following a heated meeting between the residents of Section 23 of Shah Alam and City Council enforcement officers, the controversial decision to relocate a Hindu temple from Section 19 to Section 23 has been temporarily shelved. "We have already asked Selangor State Development Corporation (PKNS) together with the Member of Parliament, state assemblyman and city council to identify another location," The Star Online quoted Selangor Mentri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, as saying.

August 28th, 2009 Malaysia Muslims protest proposed Hindu templeKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Dozens of Malaysian Muslims paraded Friday with the head of a cow, a sacred animal in Hinduism, in a dramatic protest against the proposed construction of a Hindu temple in their neighborhood. The unusual protest by some 50 people in Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor state, raises new fears of racial tensions in this multiethnic Muslim-majority country where Hindus comprise about 7 percent of the 27 million population.

July 19th, 2009 RAMPUR - A temple dedicated to Hindu god Shiva in a village here counts many Muslims among its devotees. Not only do they take part in some rituals but also donate for community feasts during every festival.

May 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - For those suffering from aviophobia, the fear of flying, divine help will be at hand soon with a grand temple with south Indian architecture coming up just outside the airport here. The choice of deity, too, for this unique initiative by an airport developer is apt - the temple is dedicated to the Hindu monkey god Hanuman, also called Pavanaputra, the son of the wind god.

April 27th, 2009 IPOH - Malaysian Indian woman M. Indira Gandhi has launched a poster campaign to find her husband who has taken away their infant child.

February 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former union minister Subramanian Swamy Monday moved the Supreme Court for an early settlement of the Ayodhya dispute between the Hindus and Muslims as to whether the site of the demolished Babri mosque was the birth place of Lord Ram. Swamy wants to have his say during adjudication of a bunch of lawsuits by Hindus and Muslims pending before the apex court.

January 15th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The daily rituals at 12th century Jagannath Temple in Orissa’s Puri city were delayed for over six hours Friday after a foreigner allegedly entered into the temple premises - an act seen as defiling the premises. The man who claimed himself to be Sebastian, 45, from Chile and a Hindu tried to enter the temple premises early Friday morning soon after the main gate opened, but was prevented by the policemen deployed there, the police said.

January 14th, 2009 PATNA - Muslims have joined hands with Hindus to lay the foundation of a new temple, dedicated to the sun god, in a Bihar town. The two communities got together to lay the foundation of a temple at Manikpur Bazar in Kurtha in Arwal district, about 80 km from the state capital.

January 13th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - A purification ritual was performed in a Hindu temple in Orissa Wednesday after a Dalit minister visited the place of worship, a priest said. Women and Child Welfare Minister Pramila Mallick entered the sanctum sanctorum of the Akhandalamani temple, a highly revered shrine of Hindu lord Shiva at Aradi village in Bhadrak district, some 150 km from here.

January 12th, 2009 IPOH - An ethnic Indian politician and Hindu community leader was killed while fighting off six machete-wielding robbers who broke into his home. N. Sidambaram, 64, was divisional treasurer of Ipoh Barat unit of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) in Perak state, The Star newspaper reported Tuesday.