The former leader of the banned group al-Arqam, Hatijah Aam, has thrown her support behind last week’s raid on the Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM) by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais).
 
Hatijah, the widow of al-Arqam founder Ashaari Muhammad, said in a statement today that Jais had legal basis to defend ‘Allah’s majesty’, and Christians have no right to use the word.
 
“We know that Christians in Muslim-majority Malaysia have their own agenda for their insolence.
 
“(This is) a cunning agenda of propaganda to confuse Muslims, especially in Malaysia, in the long-term and the short-term,” said Hatijah, who is also executive chairperson of Global Ikhwan Sdn Bhd.

Better known as Ummu Jah, she had pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to revive al-Arqam in November last year, which Jais had banned as a deviant sect in 1994.