'Islamic design' for buddhist temple...Malaysia

[piscohot]

Kelantan: Islamic designs a must

A controversy is brewing over the proposal for the construction of a Buddhist building here after the PAS-led state government ruled that new buildings should include Islamic designs to reflect the state capital’s status as an Islamic city.

State Local Government, Culture, Arts and Tourism committee chairman Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan (pic) said developers must incorporate some Islamic elements in their plans or the proposals would be rejected.

“We will ensure development will be based on Islamic principles and features,” he told a press conference here yesterday.

He claimed the ruling was well-accepted by the majority of developers, including non-Muslim developers.

“I do not see it as an issue or something that could cause religious tension, as it only involves architecture and design.

“They have accepted the new ruling well,” he said.

Takiyuddin was commenting on an appeal by the Kelantan Buddhist Association for the state government to approve its building, to be constructed with Chinese features at Jalan Sultan Zainal Abidin here.

It is understood that the association had been told that its building design should have dome-shaped motifs, which have created a controversy in the Chinese media.

In an immediate reaction, Kota Baru MCA division chief Tan Ken Ten slammed the directive, which he said was an infringement of the rights of non-Muslims in the state.

“The ruling is an extreme attempt to impose one’s beliefs into other people’s culture or religious beliefs.

“The PAS government must be mindful that Malaysia is a multi-cultural and multi-religious society that respects the differences of each community. It should appreciate this diversity which makes this country unique,” Tan added.

State MCA Youth chief Gan Han Chuan said the Kelantan government was showing disrespect towards the non-Muslims with its new policy...

Islamic designs a must

So now, chinese temples, indian temples, sikh temples must look like mosques.
Aren't they afraid that the muslims there, who are so stupid (as believed by their own government), would walk into one of these temples by mistake and become an apostate?

[antineoETC]

Aren't they afraid that the muslims there, who are so stupid (as believed by their own government), would walk into one of these temples by mistake and become an apostate?

No, they are EXPECTING that Muslims will enter "by mistake", perform Islamic rituals which will lead to the buddhists being elbowed out and the building becoming a de facto mosque which status will then be recognised by law. The Muslim Malaysians (and Indonesians) are wannabe Arabs mired in self loathing that Islam came to their land long after the Islamic "golden age" was over (about when Islam in Spain was on its last legs) and they therefore have no historical claim on the "glories" of those times. This inferiority complex is leading them to seek affirmation from the Arabs by seeking to extirpate every last reminder of their non-Islamic past. Pathetic really.

[marduk]

Muslims don't even realize that the Dome of the Rock was designed to imitate Byzantine churches in the rest of Jerusalem, like the Holy Sepulcher. It's extremely obvious. "Islamic" architecture is really Christian architecture. Like everything else, Islam stole their architecture from other people who they obviously recognize as superior to them. The architecture didn't come from Allah, it came from Constantinople and Jerusalem. Was there anything in Arabia that resembled the "Islamic architecture" of of post-Muhammad Islam? Not one. Real Islamic architecture is crude squarish structures and tents.

Ottoman architecture or Turkish architecture is the architecture of the Ottoman Empire which emerged in Bursa and Edirne in 14th and 15th centuries. The architecture of the empire developed from the earlier Seljuk architecture and was influenced by the Byzantine architecture, Iranian as well as Islamic Mamluk traditions after the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Architecture

Incidentally, speaking of Muslims stealing stuff, the mathematical and astronomical knowledge that Muslims claim to have originated actually came from the Harranians they invaded who then called themselves Sabeans to get protection. They weren't even real Muslims. They just pretended to convert so they could get the economic benefits of free trade with the real Muslims. Arab Muslims couldn't count higher than 20, the number of fingers and toes on their body.