SABAH churches have come out strongly against Education Minister Maszlee Malik for urging religious teachers from Peninsular Malaysia to turn the Borneo states as their “medan dakwah” or new fronts in their Islamic propagation activities.

The Sabah Council of Churches (SCC) said it was “appalling” for the minister to propose that the people’s money and civil servants be used to spread Islam in Sabah and Sarawak.