Malaysian Christians lose frivolous lawsuit against Muslim politician
Judge dismisses sedition case over article accusing Christian missionaries of exploiting poor, uneducated people
Updated: May 10, 2021 04:08 AM GMT
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Malaysian Islamic Party president Abdul Hadi Awang accused Christian missionaries of preying on poor and uneducated people in impoverished communities. (Photo: YouTube)
Malaysia’s High Court has dismissed a “frivolous” lawsuit brought by two Christians against a prominent Muslim politician accused of making seditious statements about Christians.
Maklin Masiau and Lawrence Jomiji Kinsil Maximilhian, from the state of Sabah on the island of Borneo, filed a lawsuit last December against Abdul Hadi Awang, president of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), alleging that the politician had libeled Christians in an article published in 2016 by a PAS-run newspaper.
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APRIL 9 It is usually very difficult for a population to approach the issue of forced migration in the kind of objective way that can help cultivate practical solutions.
Perhaps it is simply a quirk of human psychology that we cannot help but separate ourselves into two distinctly irrational tribes over the issue. There are some who are unshakably committed to their humanitarian duty to the vulnerable, no matter the cost, while others see their duty as maintaining the sanctity of the state & her borders, at all costs. As countries increase their refugee population, and the negative consequences real or imaginary – are truly felt, it is not uncommon to see an apparent vicissitude of public opinion from the former to the latter.
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BY IDA LIM
Chief Justice of Malaysia Tan Sri Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat speaks during a press conference in Putrajaya January 10, 2020. ― Picture by Choo Choy May
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KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 1 Malaysia’s four most senior judges do not tell their High Court counterparts how to decide in court cases, Chief Justice of Malaysia Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat said.
Tengku Maimun, who is the highest-ranking judge in Malaysia, instead stressed that the High Court is fully independent when deciding its cases.
“While the President of the Court of Appeal, the Chief Judge of Malaya, the Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak and I are responsible for policy matters and are responsible in ensuring that judges comply with such policies, we do not, in any circumstance, direct or dictate your decision.
Malaysian police investigate anti-Christian threats
Hate-filled video pledges to destroy Christians if they dare to use the word Allah to mean God
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Puteri Mujahidah Wan Asshima Kamaruddin s video is being examined by police. (Photo: Facebook)
Malaysian police are investigating a Muslim woman for issuing threats of violence against the country’s Christians in a video posted online.
Dressed in a dun-colored hijab, the woman who called herself Puteri Mujahidah Wan Asshima Kamaruddin on Facebook, last week uploaded a 12-minute hate-filled rant pledging to “destroy” Christians if they dared use the word “Allah” to mean God.
Her video, which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times and widely shared, had been uploaded in response to a ruling on March 10 by Malaysia’s High Court, which made it legal for non-Muslim Malaysians to use the word “Allah” as a synonym for God.
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Muslim groups in Malaysia had asked the government to launch an appeal against the court ruling.PHOTO: REUTERS
PublishedMar 15, 2021, 6:12 pm SGT
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