Contravening Article 11 Federal Constitution; Anwar Ibrahim endorses Hudud.
T. Lawrence (33) of Lukut N. Sembilan passed away and the UMNO the bully Jabatan Ugama Islam enforcement personnel (and a Malay muslim Tiga Line mob) gathered around Lawrence’s house to attempt to snatch away this body from his Indian Christian family.
And the irony is that he had allegedly converted to Islam just one week before he had died in an accident which his family has no knowledge at all whatsoever.
The family was then forced to refer this matter to the (Syariah) courts. What justice will this Indian Christian family get in the Syariah courts where they have no right of representation and neither will any Syariah lawyer represent them? The Civil Courts are precluded from hearing this matter.
Article 4 of the Federal Constitution stipulates that the Federal Constitution is supreme law of Malaysia and Article 11 guarantees freedom of religion.
But in the implementation of the law by the racist and supremacist big bully UMNO Malay-sia, the Islamic Syariah law somehow becomes supreme, over and above Articles 4 and 11 of the Federal Constitution!
This is what we have for One Malay-sia.
And this is despite the “conciliatory guidelines laid out by the UMNO government led by Prime Minister Najib Razak earlier this year among others that the immediate family has to be notified by the Islamic authorities a cooling off period before the final conversion takes effect etc.
But when it comes to the implementation, the case of Lawrence is just yet another Corporal Moorthy, Shamala, Indra Ghandhi, Lina Joy’s case, where the religious supremacist UMNO the bully becomes the order of the day totally disregarding the Federal Constitution and the law and above with impunity.
As if the UMNO religious supremacy is not oppressive enough PKR Supremo Anwar Ibrahim today (The Star headlines 23/9/2011) backing the implementation of Hudud laws in Kelantan, vis a vis the aforesaid forced into Islam instances, the right to freedom of Religion enshrined in Article 11 of the Federal Constitution and read with Article 4 is akin to be endorsed to be subordinate only to the Syariah laws.
To this effect we take note that even the UMNO Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin who said “it is not suitable for our environment”.
Both UMNO and PKR may be playing politics to play to their alternately selected gallery but at the end of the day it is especially the Indian poor who suffers.
(see Tamil Nesan 23/9/2011 at 1st page & 18, The Star 23/9/2011
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