Broken deities and hammered faith

by Indrani Kopal

In this special Tamil video feature malaysiakini.tv looks into the controversies surrounding the demolition of Hindu temples in the country.

According to Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) an average of one Hindu temple is demolished in every three weeks.

The organisation says that since February this year, a total of 69 temples have been demolished or threatened to be demolished by the authorities. Many of these temples are more than one hundred years old.

In addition, at least six temples in Shah Alam, Selangor have been forced to relocate.

Hindraf says that the acts of such demolition are unconstitutional and causes disharmony and dissent amongst the Hindus in the country.

Hindraf has given various notes of appeals and memorandums to state leaders, political leaders and even to the prime minister.

They hope the prime minister can take an active step in halting demolition of the Hindu temples.

In this 10-minute video feature, malaysiakini.tv looks into the issue and talks to the affected people.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• temple
• demolition
• malaysia
• hindu
• tamil
• indian
• malaysiakini

[dyayna]

Your undrstnding, if 'Kepercayaan Kepada Tuhan' means u can build Hindu temple wherever you like even on someone's land??that's government land la....pls understand.like one in batu cave.juz wonder my classmate told me that the temple was built there becoz one of their dewa fly form India and choose batu cave as a place to stay???weird?then a temple was built.luckily the govern reserve the cave for 'em.i hope gua niah won't be the next place for the dewa to stay.opss no..too little indian there.

[VedicHawaii]

Oh I see a little English translation. YUck!! Shocking!

[VedicHawaii]

I cannot understand the language, I am English speaking, but I know that this is WRONG!!!!!!!!!!

[jennelegant27]

hey ppl of Malaysia ....time for change...Down with the present government

[KAMAIPSI]

PO DA CUNNI

[saya1111]

continue from text below......

want to stop the demolish ur temple i think he

can.....SAMI VELLU are just

FUCKIN selfish to his own race...FOR ur information MALAY people are not feel a

little bit desire to demolish ur worship.

[saya1111]

halfPASSsiX iam know u r really mad with malay people that demolish ur

temple.....that malay dude just their job....the people u should blame now is ur BIG

DADDY SAME VELLU..he got the power right to build or demolish something....cause

he is BIG BOSS or MINISTER OF JKR....so sami vellu destroy their own race worship....If he (sami vellu)

[saya1111]

halfPASSsiX...iam know u are mad cause malay people are demolish ur temple....but they just only do their job....the person who really responsible of matter is your own big bad daddy SAMI VELLU is he islam or hindhu...FOR UR information that the demolish work it all under JKR roof right....

[punjabichambers]

MALAYSIA=MALAYA -The term derived from "MALAYUR" A TAMIL term, it is evident by Marco Polo, yes true Indians Kings were the one who name the malysian soil, now the present majority is doing injustice to the Indians.

Indians stand for ur rights,u have equal rights, coz u r no stranger to this land.

B.N playing gangster tats all, show them that the pen is mightier than the sword.

Their actions has backfired them, Indians around the world condem their act of destrying temples

[halfPASSsiX]

I have yet to see a masjid demolish by the goverment.disrespect toward other religion  by the malaysian goverment who iligally claim this as islamic country, not original constitution. disrespect for other riligion by demolishing even a roadside praying mini temple of he chinese and indian. wakeup indian and chinese. dare to stand for your right.The Hindu are the first to come to this land according to history. The Ganga Nagara and Langkasuka empire and even Paramiswara of Malaka were indian.