https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/...nggal-festival/

GEORGE TOWN: Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P Ramasamy today slammed the education ministry for issuing a directive to all schools that Muslim students should not take part in Ponggal festivities, as they have been declared haram by the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim).

The directive by the ministry, dated Jan 13, was sent to all state education directors after a shariah expert panel from Jakim called for the ban.

The panel stressed that participation in the rice and milk boiling – a key ceremony during Ponggal – was strictly out of bounds for Muslims.

Ramasamy, who is also the Penang Education Committee chairman, told FMT Ponggal is not a religious ceremony, but merely a Tamil harvest festival celebrated by all faiths.

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Jakim power over all other ministry....even more powerful then PM office and Finance Ministry.....Ponggal Haram as with Tang Lung...

are u stupid fark.
if u don't have event than how can you start to learn cross culture.
in university from uSA also got learning other culture.

bodo mcm otak babi.

bodo, read wiki for answer.

Jawi is being forced upon and no one is forcing u to celebrate ponggal with the Tamils - learn the difference..

U need to compare an apple with an apple - don’t simply bark without a valid argument

this is in india, malaysia different. 

OK....... U konfirm same level as that idiot putra guy who ban cny in school. What a joke.

Btw, pls ask to ban non celebrating raya also.

Also since when non learn jawi cannot read q? In that case can tell jakim and pas to stop quoting q word on media cause feels like they want to convert non.

HAHAHA HAHA!!!

So if it's religion u don't step into non religion house la bodo.
when comes deepavali, makan u mau. bodo

what different thing.
If u step into chinese or indian house. the food can be sembahyang food before we served u too..  so u makan the food that we performed ritual in the morning ok. how u know some of them don't performed ritual with the food during morning when praying. eat some sand before u think u know everything.

Still remember Kelantan case?
All trader, non Muslim also must close during ramadan

i don't know who /K resident indian in kopitiam .
Of course there are many who don't read bible or quran , just like other religion too. so what u expect everyone to share the same story in kopitiam? some stupid even go copy indian newspaper which are deeper than u thought. Even Taiwan and China have their own custom compare with ours here. mana sama. Even muslim have different clan la.

That is related ISLAM, NO?

Bullshit. Chinese gave red packet, muslim gave green packet. U know Chameleon? u look in the mirror la.
Chinese make nyonya kuih to sembahyang, why u r eating them too? 

Who knows
Nobody defend or stand up for the minority there

Who can certain or be sure that it won't spread to whole msia?

Will the liberal, or perhaps YOU defend the minority?

Apparently yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_envelope

Good fortune can also be interpreted as part of religion. Cause in some countries its consider gawd blessing.

Dude,
you said let them be, as long as they don't affect non Muslim.

Then I told you
Kelantan gomen forcing non Muslim to close their business due to Ramadhan

Then you said
Kelantan only mah, not whole msia

Then I said
No people defending the minority, asking will you defence the minority

Now you said again
Let them be, they are not affected others.

Dude, what you trying to say? Lol.. wait until the extremist spread whole msia then only you defend minority?

fence sitter is the biggest batu api. Atheist is the one that is the weakest of the mankind.
they see people fight, let them fight.
there's a book that says that too. they judge on facts and figures not knowing that the universe out there and is also in them. They don't see right as right , wrong as wrong. only see gray. but they are in this world knowing their existence in the Upside Down world. 

actaully it does affect you.

what happen if one day you invite your friends to go your house celebrate, and your friends got mixture of muslims/non muslims? suddenly the polis is knocking on your door why you trying to proselytize your muslims friends.

but what if your friend is the one who feel you trying to spread your religion? he's the one that reported you?

then you see you're affected. when the law make someone doing something so mundane as illegal, everybody is affected.