Malaysia continues its slide towards fundamentalism.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian Christian officials accused Islamic authorities on Thursday of unlawfully entering a church and harassing guests at a community dinner.

The incident reignited criticism that authorities in the Muslim-majority country fail to respect the rights of Christian, Buddhist and Hindu minorities.

Government officials have repeatedly denied being unfair to minorities, despite complaints about a wide range of issues including court disputes involving religious conversions and restrictions against Malay-language Bibles.

At least 20 officers from the central Selangor state’s Islamic affairs department and police entered a Methodist church’s hall without a warrant Wednesday and took photographs and videos of a dinner attended by more than 100 people, said the church’s pastor, Daniel Ho.

The officers said they had received an unspecified complaint and recorded details of several Muslims at the dinner, Ho said in a statement.

Islamic authorities are sometimes wary about Muslims attending church-organized events because of fears of attempts to convert them, which would be illegal under Malaysian law.

An Islamic department official declined to comment.

The Rev. Hermen Shastri, general secretary of Malaysia’s Council of Churches, said the officials’ action “sets a dangerous precedent and makes a mockery of the sanctity of religious places.”