Jamil Khir says can seize any book that threatens Islam


Manji's books have right away been criminialized by a Home Ministry. File pic
KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 The Federal Territory Islamic Religious Department (Jawi) currently said it does not need any justice sequence to seize a book "Allah Liberty & Love Courage To Reconcile Faith & Freedom" by argumentative writer Irshad Manji, as its essence infringed Islamic laws.
According to Jawi senior enforcement assistant principal director Wan Jaafar Wan Ahmad, a physical condition was carried out in a final dual days according to a Syariah Criminal Offences (Federal Territories) Act upon offences relating to a sanctity of Islam as well as its institutions together with publications opposite IslamIic laws.
"No need for justice order. We have been not searching. Before entrance to seize, you had already obtained intelligence upon anticipating a book.
"If a person is accused as well as needs to be present in court, usually then you need a justice order," he said when contacted by Bernama today.
He was commenting upon a matter by ZI Publications, a publisher of a book, saying which a association was considering authorised movement opposite Jawi for a carrying out a physical condition at a book shop in a city.
The matter was released in news portal Malaysiakini yesterday, which, between others, said a owner as well as director of a company, Ezra Zaid, wanted to sue Jawi.
According to a portal, Ezra said a confiscation required a specific sequence by a courts, something which was never constructed in yesterday's raid. He additionally remarkable there was no official ban released by a Home Ministry or details of what eremite laws, if any, were breached.
When asked of a possible authorised movement opposite Jawi, Wan Jaafar said it was up to a association as! well as added it should not be a problem.
"[We] have been ready," he said.
Yesterday, a Home Ministry criminialized a announcement of a book upon a grounds which it misled a people as well as violated syariah laws.
Deputy Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop said a breach sequence was made according to Section 7(1) of a Printing Presses as well as Publications Act 1984 as a book's calm could shock a people as well as mistreat public confidence as well as order.
The book was criminialized after a method perceived complaints as well as comments from a Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim).
Irshad, a Ugandan-born Canadian citizen who is reported to await a lesbian, gay, bisexual as well as transgender (LGBT) movement, combined a controversy with her revisit to Malaysia to launch a book.
Meanwhile, a Minister in a Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom said Jawi had a power to seize any books or articles which threaten a faith of Muslims in a country.
He said each eremite agency as well as organisation recognized by a government had a right to seize any created work which could mistreat a faith of Muslims in a country.
"Jakim, State Islamic Religious Departments (Jain) as well as Jawi have a right to seize any book in which a essence touch upon a sensitivities of Muslims but prior accede from a Home Ministry," he told Bernama when met at a Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Mosque in Putrajaya today. Bernama
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