KUALA LUMPUR, April 4 — The High Court has declared a 35-year-old woman — born in Selangor to a Hindu father and an initially Buddhist mother — to be not a person professing the religion of Islam, ruling that her unilateral conversion to Islam at the age of four by her Muslim convert mother was invalid from the start.
The initially Buddhist mother said she decided to convert to Islam while waiting for the divorce proceedings with her initial husband to be concluded, as she intended to marry a Muslim man after the divorce. In that same year, the mother received her conversion card that recorded her as having converted to Islam.
In her affidavit, D herself said her mother and her stepfather allowed her to continue to practise and profess the Hindu religion, saying she frequently visited her father’s family and prayed in Hindu temples and celebrated Hindu festivals with them, and that she never professed the religion of Islam or adopted Islamic beliefs such as only eating halal food or pray according to the Muslim faith.
Forced to make a third application in January 2000 to seek the removal of the word “Islam” and her original name from the identity card, the NRD rejected this by saying Lina had to provide a Shariah court order that stated her as having renounced Islam. The Shariah High Court on July 20, 2017 rejected D’s application to be declared a non-Muslim, with the Shariah judge giving the opinion that she is clearly a Muslim as her identity documents show her religion to be Islam and as her name is a name commonly used by Muslims.
In this lawsuit filed in the civil High Court, D sought for a court declaration that she is “not a person professing the religion of Islam”, listing the reasons as including the consent of her father never being obtained for her conversion to Islam as a child and having never uttered the kalimah syahadah.
, who successfully obtained court orders declaring that she was born illegitimate to her late Buddhist mother and her Muslim father and that she is not a person professing the religion of Islam. The High Court said D had initially filed her case in the Shariah courts in 2013 “out of necessity”, as the law on the courts’ jurisdiction — for situations of “never was a Muslim” and “no longer a Muslim” — had yet to be made clear until the Federal Court’s 2021 decision in Rosliza’s case.
Why is that when it is about Islamic religious rules and la, so many non muslim and even muslim with no religious backround want to comment....
bior le dia nak jd kapir.tu antara dia dgn tuhan. apsal ler beriya sgt nk pertahankan keislaman dia
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Interference by civil courts unto the jurisdiction of Syariah courts!
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'There is no compulsion ......' Period.
STOP unilateral conversion.
Once you are in...your not yet born children....and all their children are stuck in this forever here in Malaysia... Unless they get out of Malaysia... So please...don't sign the contract here in Malaysia..
Pasti Fanatik2 Islamic bising ni. Padahal mereka tunggang isu je supaya nanti dpt undi. Lepas menang, Rasuah pun bole jadi Halal bagi mereka
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I don't think her ordeal is over just yet. Remember that the NRD loves to play hard ball with non-muslims. I bet she went through 'brother shah', the 'friendly comparative religion' advocate. 😜The guy just loves to tell stories of breaking idols and such. 😜😜
Checking out from Hotel California is a very tedious endless and costly procedure.
Coming soon, 'THREAT' from piss
Pas to held demo at Pdg Merbok, berbuka puasa and Sembahyang Terawih plus moreh. Per head rm50.00
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Waiting for “strong statement” from PAS….
Good just judgement from high court! And we read that some people in the government are not professionally carrying out their jobs.