There have been 2.6 million Christians in Malaysia as well as not a single a single of them is a Malay convert, or apostate, according to a latest race census expelled by a Statistics Department progressing this year.
The once-in-ten-years census, taken in 2010, is a many extensive since a first a single done in 1970.
For a first time, a census facilities extensive reporting upon sacrament demography.
In fact, 10 percent of a race text format is clinging to race distribution according to sacrament as well as ethnicity.The sum race together with non-citizens in 2010 is 28.3 million. Malaysian adults consist of Malays as well as alternative Bumiputeras (67.4%), Chinese (24.6%), Indians (7.3%) as well as Others (0.7%).
Islam is a many at large avowed sacrament in Malaysia (61.3 %) followed by Buddhism (19.8%), Christianity (9.2%) as well as Hinduism (6.3%).
According to a census, there have been 14,191,720 Malays as well as any as well as each a single of them is enumerated as a Muslim. Ther! e have been no Malay adherents in any of a 7 alternative religions in a census. Therefore, there have been no Malay Christians, murtads or apostates.
As distant as a Statistics Department is concerned, a Malay is regularly a Muslim. That sits very well with a clarification of Malays according to a Article 160 (2) of a Federal Constitution. So a Malay cannot profess anything else solely Islam.
What happens if Malay respondents to a race census give their sacrament as anything else alternative than Islam? This is unlikely. This is because a polite law courts have been known to have thrown their cases out or would not even consider to listen to them out.
The Syariah courts usually won't either! . So the y sojourn as Muslims as well as have been so reflected in a central statistics.
What if they demand they have left Islam? They would substantially be arrested as well as sent to a Pusat Permulihan Aqida, a state saved conviction rehabilitation confidence centres.
What if they refuse to recant? The race census does not entertain such questions.
Dr Mahathir Mohamad, in his memoirs - 'A Doctor in a House' (left) - points out: "I only could not imagine any Muslim forsaking his religion. He might not be much of a practising Muslim though his commitment to Islam sur! ely cann ot be shaken."
But this might not be so. For instance in a new inform by a Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia (UTM), it said dissenting view between Malays Muslim is a critical issue, especially between youth.
Black Metal
The inform additionally highlighted "rumours" that Malay-Muslims youngsters or teenagers have been tempted to change their religion. They include those who have been involved with groups that have been visibly contradictory to Islam such as a Islamic Creed, Jangan Ikut Tuhan or JIT (Do not follow God) as well as Black Metal.
It cited a mufti of Perak, Dr. Harunsani Zakaria as saying that about 250,000 Muslims have converted to alternative religions of that about 100,000 Malay Muslims have declared themselves to be Christians.
Harunsani's explain has since been discredited. But a fact remains that an different number of Malay Muslims have left a faith, although not indispensably to become Christians.
Apostasy between Malays is not confined to a young or acclimatisation to Christianity. For instance, Daud Mamat (62), Kamariah Ali (51), her late husband Mohamad Ya as well as Mad Yacob Ismail (62) have been Malays from Kelantan who have renounced Islam.
The four apostates were arrested in 1992 as well as ! charged in a Kelantan Syariah Court for teaching "deviant practices unsuitable with Islamic teachings" as well as condemned to jail.
In a long drawn out trial, they were additionally charged with contempt of a Syariah Court for refusing to attend plea classes that were partial of their progressing sentence.
They were any condemned to 3 years of rehabilitation at an Islamic Rehabilitation Camp. They took their box all a way up to a apex Federal Court as well as lost.
But there have been instances when Muslims were authorised to leave Islam.
Official census data might show there have been no Malays who have converted out of Islam notwithstanding evidence to a contrary. Jais, a Selangor Islamic Department, have a own reasons to be observant lest more Malays leave Islam.
But it contingency not resort to vigilante movement as it did recently when it raided a church in pursuit of suspected Malay apostates. Though a Sultan of Selangor has exonerated them, Jais has been reminded to action in accordance to a law.
Otherwise others, in this box Christians, might be left to suffer a collateral repairs of their mindless actions.
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