{"id":12192,"date":"2016-09-03T18:24:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T10:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=12192"},"modified":"2016-09-08T22:47:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:47:19","slug":"dato-sebastian-on-religious-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=12192","title":{"rendered":"Dato Sebastian on religious tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Assemblyman for Paisau, Dato\u2019 Sebastian Ting expressed regret and grave concern that a student has been reprimanded for wearing a cross, the symbol of Christianity, in a Serian school by the Principal.<\/p>\n<p>Ting who is also the Secretary General of Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP), \u00a0said the Principal who is from Penisulu Malaya, should or must be able to recognise the uniqueness of Sarawak, amongst others, the total acceptance of freedom of religion as enshrined in our Federation Constitution and the Constitution of Sarawak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Sarawak, we are different. We can live together in peace and harmony simply because of respect for each others&#8217; culture, religion and race. We practise total acceptance of each other. \u00a0More ever, there are over 40 percent of Christians here. The Christian is a religion that preaches goodness, respect and acceptance like others. The Principal should realize that he came to Sarawak to teach and not to stop individual from practicing the religion they want. Under our Constitution, we have the freedom of religion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ting said every religion is between the individual and his God and that is why in Sarawak, we are unique as there is a lot of respect for one another. Unnecessary interference of religious practice by young Students is very negative and therefore must not be allowed. It will\u00a0disturb the religious harmony we have here, he added.<\/p>\n<p>People are asking &#8221; Why must the Principal do that.?<\/p>\n<p>We sincerely hope that this issue will not surface again in future. For this case, most Sarawakians expect that it is only proper for this Principal to be transferred out of Sarawak.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12193\" alt=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed2-195x300.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed2-195x300.jpg 195w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed2.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Assemblyman for Paisau, Dato\u2019 Sebastian Ting expressed regret and grave concern that a student has been reprimanded for wearing a cross, the symbol of Christianity, in a Serian school by the Principal. Ting who is also the Secretary General of Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP), \u00a0said the Principal who is from Penisulu Malaya, should or must be able to recognise the uniqueness of Sarawak, amongst others, the total acceptance of freedom of religion as enshrined in our Federation Constitution and the Constitution of Sarawak. \u201cIn Sarawak, we are different.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=12192\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12194,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192\/revisions\/12194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}