Malaysia has a population of just over 27 million. According to the Population and Housing Census figures, approximately 60.4% of the population practiced Islam, 19.2% Buddhism, 9.1% Christianity, 6.3% Hinduism, and 2.6% traditional Chinese religions. The remaining was accounted for by other faiths, including Animism, Folk religion, Sikhism and other faiths while 1.1% either reported as having no religion or did not provide any information. However, these figures may be misleading as professing the religion of Islam is a requirement for being a Malay in the sense of the Malaysian Constitution.
MALAYSIA'S RELIGIOSITY
Freedom of religion in Malaysia is a controversial issue. Islam is the official state religion and the Constitution of Malaysia provides for limited freedom of religion, notably placing control upon the 'propagation' of religion other than Islam to Muslims, a fundamental part of a number of other religions. However, questions including whether Malaysia is an Islamic state or secular state remain unresolved. It’s easy to convert to Islam but it is so difficult to return to non-Islam religions. Is this the freedom of religion means in Malaysia?
Force in religious believes by the authorities, is it the way to spread Islam?
Muslims who wish to convert from Islam face severe obstacles. For Muslims, particularly ethnic Malays, the right to leave the Islamic faith and adhere to another religion is a controversial question. The legal process of conversion is also unclear, in practice it is very difficult for Muslims to change their religion legally. It’s understood many Malays change their religion secretly.
The conversion cases :
T Saravanan/R Subashini
In 2006, T. Saravanan, a Muslim convert, sought to dissolve his marriage with his non-Muslim wife via the Syariah Court. His wife, R. Subashini, applied to Kuala Lumpur High Court for an injunction against her husband seeking divorce in the Syariah Court. The High Court dismissed her application. This was affirmed in the Court of Appeal, where the court also ordered Subashini to take her case to the Syariah Court. As of September, 2007, their case is pending in the Federal Court after an appeal by Subashini. Subashini is also seeking to stop or declare void the conversion of their children.
Revathi Masoosai
Revathi, an ethnic Indian woman, has been held in a rehabilitation center run by Islamic authorities since January 2007 because she wants the State to acknowledge she is a Hindu and not a Muslim. Revathi was born to Indian parents who had converted to Islam before her birth. She claims she was raised by her grandmother as a Hindu. She and Suresh were married according to Hindu rites in March 2004. Revathi was advised by the Malacca Islamic Religious Department to make an application at the Malacca Syariah High Court to confirm her status as a Hindu. She did as she was told.
However, the Syariah Court ordered her detained in a rehabilitation centre in Ulu Yam, Selangor under Melaka’s Syariah criminal laws for 100 days. This detention was extended in Revathi’s absence for a further 80 days supposedly because she had not “repented”. In the meanwhile, Revathi’s Muslim mother obtained a Syariah Court order granting her custody of Revathi and Suresh’s 15 month old baby. That order was enforced on Suresh’s Hindu family with the assistance of the police. The family is now torn apart - with the mother in detention, the child with the grandparents and the father in limbo without his family.
Lina Joy
In fact, Many Muslims who have converted to Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and other religions lead "double lives", hiding their new faith from friends and family. The Lina Joy case challenged this view of the situation by taking the problem of apostasy to the Federal Court in 2007. Lina Joy lost the case and was denied conversion to Christianity. This cleared the situation about the overlapping areas of jurisdiction between the Islamic and the secular courts in Malaysia. Also it is now clear that renouncing Islam is very difficult although not impossible in Malaysia.
Wong Ah Kiu
Legally known as Nyonya binti Tahir, was a Malaysian convert from Islam to Buddhism.Of mixed Chinese and ethnic Malay descent, she was taken in by her grandmother, a Malay Muslim married to a Chinese of Hainan origin who had converted to Islam; however, she was later adopted by a Chinese family and raised as a Buddhist. Her husband died in 1989 at the age of 87; knowing that she would be unable to be buried next to him as a Muslim, she filed two further applications for recognition of her change of religion in 1991 and 1998; these too were rejected. She left behind a written declaration that she was a Buddhist and wanted to be given a Buddhist rather than an Islamic funeral.
Maniam Moorthy (A member of the first group of Malaysians to successfully climb Mount Everest)
A Malaysian Indian born and raised Hindu, a controversy about his religion arose after his death; he was buried as a Muslim against the wishes of his wife in accordance with a Syariah Court ruling that he had converted to Islam without the knowledge of his family. Despite his conversion to Islam, Moorthy remained uncircumcised, still took part in Hindu festivals, ate pork, and drank alcohol; he appeared on television on 31 October 2005, being interviewed about his celebration of Deepavali. On 11 November 2005, he fell from his wheelchair, injuring his head and entering into a coma from which he would never recover.
Indrani Gandhi’s case :
Indra gandhi’s three young children were forcefully converted to Islam by her estranged husband. Indira's marriage is now is a limbo after her husband, K Patmanathan, 40, converted without her knowledge on March 11. She claimed that her husband, who has since assumed the name Mohd Ridzuan Abdullah, had also converted their three children - aged one to 12 - on April 12 without their presence and using only their birth certificates. Now Indra Gandhi fearing that she could not reconvert her children to Hindu. Read here- Anguished mom knocks on PM's door and here- Conversion row: Hindu Sangam turns to new cabinet.
And the latest case :
S Banggarma fighting to establish that she is a Hindu has denied a claim by the Social Welfare Department that she was converted to Islam by her father when she was one year old in 1983. Read here - 'Welfare home conversion': Lawyer wants proof
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ReplyDeletePerisik Rakyat should be changed to PENIPU RAKYAT. Please state your facts. All those cases are without you disclosing the actual facts. Please, we are not fools and stupid like most PR followers.
ReplyDeletekepada anoni kat atas ,,, kepala butuh mak bapak kau,,amacam sedap ke??
ReplyDeleteanoni
"Perisik Rakyat should be changed to PENIPU RAKYAT. Please state your facts."
ReplyDeleteKepala hotak hang anon !! Artikel ni 'posted by BANGSA MALAYSIA' la.
Bangang wal bengong la hang nie !
Produk UMNgok/Barisan Nazional..
mamat yang kat atas ni pasal lebih2.budaya mana yang dia bawak nie mengutuk kerajaan ni lah ,ape lah.
ReplyDeleteBAJET TAHUNAN UNTUK RUMAH IBADAT BUKAN ISLAM
ReplyDeletePada tahun 2006 dan 2007, peruntukan yang diluluskan untuk tujuan membina rumah ibadat bukan islam adalah sebanyak RM 2 juta setiap tahun. Pada tahun 2008 atas tujuan untuk memancing undi dalam pilihan raya umum ke-13 nanti, peruntukan tersebut telah ditambah kepada RM 3 juta.
Malangnya pada tahun 2009, Khalid Ibrahim tanpa merundingkan secara terperinci dengan exco kerajaan negeri termasuk kepimpinan PAS telah secar spontan gagap meluluskan peruntukan khas tahunan yang begitu tinggi iaitu RM 8 juta dalam Bajet 2009 untuk tujuan membina rumah ibadat bukan islam.
Untuk pengetahuan, bajet yang diluluskan hanya akan menyebabkan kuil-kuil Hindu dan tokong cina termasukyang dibina secara haram di seluruh ceruk Selangor tumbuh melata macam kambing berak tengah jalan bersepah merata-rata.
Yang kita tak sedaq, bajet tambahan untuk masjid dan surau kenapa tak diumumkan.? Pasai apa mesti YB islam macam Hassan Ali dan Khalid Samad membisu seribu bahasa dan tak persoal langsung musibah nie. Sah-sah Khalid Ibrahim jadi boneka cina DAP dan PKR saja.
Hanya kerana hendakkan sokongan orang bukan melayu depa sanggup gadai masa depan melayu dan Islam. Tahniah orang melayu yang melantik YB islam yang tak boleh diharap duduk dalam barisan exco chempiang Khalid Ibrahim.
perisik rakyat. aku taktau apa pendirian kau. kadang-kadang kau ni terlalu pro dan liberal.
ReplyDeletecuba ubah sikit atau tetapkan pendirian. supaya semua org yang baca ni tau apa pendirian kau
apa tak pro dan liberal..dah menatang ni dpt projek dgn puak2 UMNO,PAS dan PKR..mencacai mmg keje dia. dia ni sebenarnya hamlau penjahanam manusia..ayuh boikot blog sial ni!Sorry, ni last aku baca blog ni pah ni sori lah..tak layan lagi blog2 sial penipu dan penyebar fitnah ni!kerana ko habis PAS berkocak..ko mmg babi, sial!
ReplyDeleteAYUH kengkawan...BOIKOT Blog Sial ni!
aku pelik kenapa ramai mualaf nk tukar ke agama mereka balik. dan aku yakin penjelasan dan amalan dlm islam x sampai pd mereka. ade mualaf yg x tahu Allah SWT itu wujud dan ramai yg disish oleh keluarga sendiri dan paling menyayat hati mereka dibiarkan terumbang ambing oleh makhluk Allah yg beragama islam. utk anak lenggong yg terlampau mementingkan kuantiti masjid dari penyebaran islam yg menyeluruh. ko ni sebenarnya trgolong dari puak2 yg dh diberitahu dalam al-quran dimana Allah SWT ada berfirman yg pada akhir zaman masjid lebih banayk dari org yg beribadah.*benarlah kata2 Allah SWT*(maksudye mcm tu lah sikit lbih kurang). yg penting wahai anak lenggong ko mintak atau buat demo mcm korang buat semalam kt TGNA supaya DSNAR tu martabatkan islam bukan buat bnyak2 masjid je tp xdde org nk datang. tu nama dia megabihkan boreh yo..
ReplyDeleteingat umno adalah lidah dan tangan yahudi kt malaysia. mari kita doa kan laknat pada pemimpin2 mereka dan pada mufti2 yg menjadi syaitan bisu. allahuakbarx3
ReplyDeleteanon december 2 10:01pm
ReplyDeletedont,be stupid.
this blog must be change from perisik rakyat to perpecahan rakyat.
ReplyDeletePerisik Rakyat: a platform for true voices! bravo!
ReplyDeletethe writer of this and the blog like this must go to the hell! this is the satanic verses......!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSALAM HARAP PERISIK RAKYAT DAPAT PUBLISH LIRIK LAGU ARWAH USTAZ ASRI UNTUK PEJUANG ISLAM
ReplyDeleteUNTUK PARA MUJAHID
Para mujahid maralah ke hadapan
Jangan pandang kiri kanan
Nanti banyak yang menggangui dirimu
Para mujahid teruslah berjuang
Memang berjuang itu terkorban
Kerana kita berkorban
Distulah nilai setiap insan
Para mujahid teruskan berjuang
Para mujahid jgn terperngaruh
Dengan rumah yang besar
Ia akan ditinggalkan
Jangan terpengaruh dengan kereta menjalar
Ia tidak akan kekal
Jangan terpengaruh dengan pangkat tinggi
Ia tidak abadi
Para mujahid suburkanlah semangatmu dengan hiburan ini
Setiap kesusahan penghapusan dosamu
Setiap amalmu ada ganjaran
Peluhmu dinilai, darahmu berharga
Syurga menunggu kedatanganmu,
Para malaikat mengiringimu,
Bidadari melambai padamu
Allah redha padamu
Itu penghibur jiwamu
Mujahid kekalkanlah watakmu
Mr Anonymous,
ReplyDeletei wrote based on the fact..
if u don't agree with me, please state ur idea and opinion too..
we can discuss about it
Yes rightly and well said by Bangsa Malaysia.
ReplyDeleteState your facts and opinion instead of maki secara membuta tuli dan mengguna kata kata kesat dalam mencerminkan tahap pemikiran yang sebegitu rendah.
malaysia is an islamic state. it is very clear. mahathir confirmed this fact. but the government has not been implementing the islamic rules and regulation fully. freedom of religion in malaysia contact is although the we are islamic state , other people who are not muslim can practice their own religion. if you are muslim, you must follow islamic rules and regulation. one of the rules is that you are not allowed to murtad. why?, because islam is the only true religion. So, if you are not muslim , what is your right to condemn our laws?
ReplyDeleteif Islam is a true relifion, Hindu is also a true religion.. same goes to other religion in the world..
ReplyDeleteu r so eager to defend ur religion. so why not others to defend their own religion..
i never said Islam is not true, but i say other religion also true...
no one religion is better than each other... every religion teach us good..