KUALA LUMPUR, June 26 — An anonymous blog is calling for a “jihad” in response to a fake poster linking the Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM) to a “bible rally”, which it claimed would see attendees “bathe in the blood of Muslims”.

The Arabic word translates as “struggle” in English, though proponents of violence interpret it to mean “holy war”.

In a post on The Selangor Chronicle last Tuesday, the writer claimed that the rally would include PAS members, followers of other faiths as well as the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community to jointly demand that the government return Malay- and Iban-language bibles seized from BSM earlier this year.

“This huge rally will unite all religious believers to fight and bathe in the blood of Muslims in the peninsula in Dataran Merdeka,” the blog said.

“The rally is said to get unusual funding from foreign agencies and organisations that see Islam as a threat and Muslims as a group of people that need to be made fools of and oppressed all the time,” it added.

The blog post featured a poster of the so-called “Himpunan Bible” rally at Dataran Merdeka in the capital city that will coincide with the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on Sunday.

“The call for jihad appears to have arrived for Muslims in this country!!!” said the blog.

Yesterday, BSM denied any involvement in the rally, allegedly organised to protest against the Selangor religious authorities’ plan to destroy the over 300 copies of the Christian holy book that were confiscated last January.

Referring to a poster of the event being circulated on social media, BSM’s general secretary Reverend Dr Simon Wong insisted in a statement that the Christian group has not arranged for any rallies at Dataran Merdeka this weekend.

According to the poster sighted by The Malay Mail Online, participants are expected to march from the Gospel Hall Kuala Lumpur church on Jalan Hang Jebat to Dataran Merdeka.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Tan Sri Joseph Kurup called today for a police investigation into those behind the fake poster.

The Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) had seized 321 copies of the Malay and Iban language bibles containing the word “Allah” during a surprise raid on BSM’s premise in Petaling Jaya on January 2.

The enforcers later refused to abide by the instructions from the Selangor state government ordering the return of the books containing the Arabic word for God.

Last week, Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail said that no charges will be brought against the bible distributor, pointing out that the books were not “controlled items” and it was not a national security issue.

However, disagreeing with Abdul Gani, the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais), which controls Jais, insisted that there are grounds to “prosecute” BSM under the Selangor Non-Islamic Religions (Control of Propagation Among Muslims) Enactment 1988.

Mais had also said that it will apply to the court to dispose of the Christian holy scriptures.