What’s Really in Selangor’s Guidelines for Non-Muslim Places of Worship? Exco Sets Record Straight

What’s really in Selangor’s guidelines for non-Muslim places of worship? Exco sets record straight

SHAH ALAM, June 7 — The Selangor state government has clarified several misconceptions surrounding the proposed review and optimisation of the Selangor State Manual on Guidelines and Standards for Community Facilities Planning relating to non-Islamic places of worship.State Human Resources and Poverty Eradication Committee chairman V. Pappraidu said one of the inaccurate claims is that non-Islamic places of worship will no longer be allowed dire…

Selangor ‘open to review’ of land size, heights of worship houses

Executive councillor V Papparaidu said the current state government had approved 57 plots for non-Muslim houses of worship while 40 more applications are being processed.

Selangor's non-Muslim worship guidelines stoke religious tensions and restrict third spaces

Parti Sosialis Malaysia Petaling Jaya (PSM PJ) expresses deep concern and firm opposition to the Selangor state government’s proposed guidelines that impose arbitrary physical restrictions and ban non-Muslim houses of worship (RISI) in new commercial zones. The state government’s proposal directly contradicts the supreme law of the nation, the Federal Constitution, which legitimises freedom of religion under Article 11 (1). We oppose these restr…