KLANG: Selangor senior exco member Datuk Teng Chang Khim (pic) says he will take full responsibility over the state’s guidelines on the construction of non-Muslim places of worship. The guidelines came into effect in January, and have many clauses that were deemed restrictive and not within the spirit of freedom of worship enshrined in the Federal Constitution. The Selangor Manual Guideline and Selangor State Planning Standard guidelines include a recommendation that non-Muslim places of worship should not be built within 50m of a home owned by Muslims. The guidelines also recommended that the height of new non-Muslim places of worship must be lower than the nearest mosque, and any such construction in areas with a multiracial population requires the consent of residents within a 200m radius. “For this, I take full responsibility and apologise to the people of Selangor,” Teng told The Star.

Source: The Star April 10, 2017 06:45 UTC