According to PAS information chief Nasrudin Hassan, Christian evangelists are ‘aggressive and cunning’ in their alleged plot to control the country’s politics. ― Picture by Yusof Mat Isa

KUALA LUMPUR, June 6 ― A PAS leader urged Muslims to protect their community and country from Christian evangelists today, claiming it is obligatory in Islam to defend one’s faith and combat elements that “threaten the Islamic way of life”.

According to PAS information chief Nasrudin Hassan, Christian evangelists are “aggressive and cunning” in their alleged plot to control the country’s politics.

“The Christian evangelists cannot be ignored. They are aggressive and cunning in planning the movement to control the country’s politics.

“[It is] extreme, and beyond enmity against Islam,” the Temerloh MP said in a brief personal statement.

Nasrudin did not provide any examples of the cunning and aggression or evidence to support his broad accusations.

According to him, Muslims must also master religious knowledge, which they must then practise and uphold in their lives to achieve their goal against the evangelists.

He also urged unity in fending off the group.

“Keep the congregation line close. Avoid feuds on petty things. Rise up to defend the community and country from the savagery of Christian evangelists,” he said.

The PAS lawmaker’s remark came after the Calvary Life Assembly church in Melaka was forced yesterday to cancel its Jerusalem’s Jubilee gathering on the advice of the police.

The organisers of the All Malaysian-Golden Gate Revival Convocation later said in a statement that the event scheduled was a gathering for churches in Malaysia and the Asia-Pacific to pray for Malaysia and the region, as well as to understand the spiritual connotation and meaning of Jerusalem in the Christian bible.

Home Minister Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi also invoked his powers to ban the event, on the basis that Muslims were offended by it.