Another Syariah Law/Court Victim?
From TheStar today. Read and comment.===== A 31-year-old woman, who had difficulty getting a National Registration Identity Card because of her disputed religious status, is in a bind because her daughter is also facing the same problem.
Tan Pei Ying, 31, also known by her Muslim name Lailah Mat Lan, claimed that she was adopted by a Muslim family when she was four.
She blamed her problem on her foster parents for having given her a Muslim name.
Tan said she had spent the past 10 years trying to change her religious status, including going to the Syariah Court, but to no avail.
She told reporters at a press conference organised by Bandar Baru Tampoi MCA branch chairman Michael Tay that the court instead ordered her to reconvert to Islam and relearn the Muslim way.
Now her 13-year-old daughter is facing difficulties in school because of their disputed status.
“I have tried almost everything, and I turn to MCA as my last resort,” said Tan.
Tay said he would help her get a letter to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi stating her dilemma. Image - Source
Labels: Legal Matters., Religion.
posted by The Malaysian. at 1/06/2007 05:01:00 PM
4 Comments:
"the court instead ordered her to reconvert to Islam and relearn the Muslim way."
are these guys FOR REAL?
She better get it sorted out real soon or the body snatchers will have a field day when the time comes.
These syariah court people should go work in Mogadishu, Somalia to join their colleagues there so that we have less problems here.
syariah cout, as far as i am concern, served no useful purpose in our country; they are synonymous with death body snatchers court, to hell with it; so she better get it sorted out pretty soon, if not, the body snatchers will come in again...
I know that some readers here are not critical of issues. When they read something, they just write without really comprehending the issue or trying to fathom whats the issue is really about i.e. they are not being critical.
ofcourse she better sort this out before she dies or her daughter dies.
i am curious though!
1. is the issue here is she dosent have a mycard/id card?
2. she has a birth cert,which of course states her race and religion and her parents details, and since she was adopted when she was at 4 years old her birth parents would have registered her for the birth cert to be chinese and a buddhist or whatever. is it the issue now that when she was 12, she couldnt get her id card issued to her? or was it issued and under what name and religion?
3. if she has no id card, where does it states that she is a moslem? her birth cert would have states her as a chinese and a buddhist.
4. she married when she was 17 i think. was she married as a moslem and to a moslem? or not? if she was married to a non moslem, did and could she get it registered without any problem? and the daughter, was she born as what race and religion and her birth cert says what? if she had married to a moslem man, her father has jurisdiction i think over her daughter as far as her religion is concern.
These are some of my questions. i have some more but i think these are enough for the moment.
the other readers dont think these are valid questions to know the answers to before they comment?
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