Zurairi AR, The Malaysian Insider
Freedom of sacrament must additionally embody a autocracy to change one's religion, a Muslim women's organisation pronounced today following a conflict sparked by a speech by PKR lawmaker Nurul Izzah Anwar upon a issue.
In a press matter to a media, Sisters in Islam (SIS) asked how Muslims demanding leisure for potential Islamic converts to enter a sacrament could during a same time repudiate exit to those seeking to leave Islam.
"Faith by compulsion might lead to hypocrisy," a organisation said.
When contacted byThe Malaysian Insidertoday, SIS programme manager Suri Kempe simplified which a NGO is not asking for anyone to "actively leave Islam", merely a leisure to leave a sacrament for those who no longer believed.
"Islam is not a one way street," Suri said.
The PKR vice president's matter during a public forum entitled "Islamic State: Which version, whose responsibility?" in Subang Jaya final Saturday, has resulted in attacks from multiform religious hawks as well as Umno politicians suggesting which her remarks meant she upheld Muslims renouncing Islam as well as branch "murtad" or apostate.
Nurul Izzah has since lodged a inform with Selangor religious officials to clarify a matter, as well as will take authorised movement opposite Umno-owned newspapers Utusan Malaysia as well as Berita Harian as good as a number of blogs for allegedly rambling her statement.
Apostasy as well as leisure of sacrament is a quarrelsome emanate in Malaysia, where a Malays who make up 60 per cent of a 28 million race have been constitutionally defined to additionally be Muslims.
While leisure of sacrament is guaranteed for non-Muslims underneath Article eleven of a Federal Constitution, all Malays have ! been Mus lims underneath a law.
Islamic laws forbid Muslims from renouncing their sacrament as well as a country's Islamic authorised complement has provisioned which a state must levy imperative low mark for apostasy.
The country's dual complement of both Islamic law as well as federal law has resulted in controversies to a leisure of sacrament underneath Article eleven when Muslims try to convert to alternative religions.
The prominent cases embody Lina Joy (Azalina Jailani), Revathi Massosai as well as Nyonya Tahir (Wong Ah Kiu).
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