COMMENT | Beef roti and the cross

COMMENT | Many are upset that a worker was sacked from a Chinese Muslim restaurant for wearing a cross. What? So all non-Muslims working in halal hotels and restaurants must be dismissed?

Other Muslims say no, that’s not the issue. They are upset the place was “deceiving” Muslim customers. How? Because workers - including the cross-wearer - were wearing songkoks while the place had no halal certificate?

But many Malay stalls and restaurants have not been halal certified, so much so that the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) had to urge them to do so.

What if one of these non-certified places hired a Myanmar worker who accidentally forgot to take off his Buddha pendant before coming to work? Or what if a Nepali Hindu worker there had a red pottu on his forehead? Would there be a similar outcry?

This is the second halal food blowup in just one month after Nasi Kandar Babi hit the news in late October. Is it a sign of growing religious intolerance?

Speaking of “deception”, does that mean non-Malay politicians...