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You Can’t Leave Islam: Malaysia Federal Court Justice

May 30, 2007 | By Sniper One |

Turns out that not only can you be killed for leaving Islam, now you can’t even leave Islam.

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysia’s best known Christian convert, Lina Joy, lost a six-year battle on Wednesday to have the word “Islam” removed from her identity card, after the country’s highest court rejected the change.

The ruling threatens to further polarize Malaysian society between non-Muslims who feel that their constitutional right to religious freedom is being eroded, and Muslims who believe that civil courts have no right to meddle in Islamic affairs.

“You can’t at whim and fancy convert from one religion to another,” Federal Court Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim said in delivering judgment in the case, which has stirred religious tensions in the mainly Muslim nation.

That right folks, this is the same as a court saying that if you are Catholic, you can’t just stop being a Catholic because you want to. If you’re a Lutheran, you can’t stop being Lutheran.

This law is in direct violation of Sura (2:256)

“Let there be no compulsion in religion, for truth stands out from error”

Not that this Sura has ever stopped the condemning to death of apostates.

Sura (4:89) - “They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them”

Bukhari (52:260) - “…The Prophet said, ‘If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.’ “

This is another example of Islam doing as it pleases, and undermining the rights of all others.

 

More from Michelle Malkin:

Last August, I wrote about the plight of an ex-Muslim woman in Malaysia named Lina Joy. She had converted to Christianity and wanted to marry a Christian man. As the Abdul Rahman case made chillingly clear to the world, there are dire consequences for leaving Islam. Joy bravely went to court to stop being identified as a Muslim–and earned death threats and family disavowal for her apostasy.

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