Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Hmmm…now I’m worried that if I mumble in my sleep or meditating anywhere, i’ll be converted! 🙂 Oh oh…wWhat about those guys talking on their handphones via bluetooth? From far they may look like mumbling some conversion mantra. The Mat Skodeng (snooping pervert) body snatchers may just mark them for collection later.
Anyway, a few more votes for BN down the drain. Now if the family has 20 family close relatives, and each has another 2 adults…hmmm…how many votes gone ah?
Man buried as Muslim amid conversion row
Jan 25, 08 4:53pm
An elderly ethnic Chinese man has been buried as a Muslim after his Buddhist family lost a battle with the Islamic authorities who said he had converted, his son said today.
Police seized the body of Gan Eng For, who died on Sunday aged 74, after his oldest son – himself a Muslim convert – said he had switched to the religion last year.
Other family members said Gan could not have converted because he was senile and paralysed after suffering two strokes. “He could not even move his arms or talk,” his other son 42-year-old Gan Hock Sin told AFP.
“It is shocking that Islamic authorities say he recited some Islamic words when he was being converted last year,” he said.
The dispute, the latest in a series of conversion rows in Malaysia, came shortly after a court ordered a Christian woman’s body be returned to her family after Islamic authorities admitted she had not converted. The cases have fed accusations over the growing “Islamisation” of Malaysia, where the population is dominated by Muslim Malays living alongside ethnic Chinese and Indian communities.
Gan criticised the conduct of the state Islamic authorities who buried his father in a Muslim cemetery yesterday on the orders of a religious court. “They have been cruel to my mother and my family. We could not see his body before he was buried. This government is not fair,” he said. “Before my father died, he had told my mother that he wished to be buried according to Chinese rituals.”
Muslim burial for elderly convert after court ruling
SEREMBAN: Amir Gan Abdullah, 74, who died last Sunday, and whose Muslim and non-Muslim children laid claim to his body, was buried yesterday as a Muslim after the Syariah High Court ruled yesterday that he was a Muslim convert.
His eldest son, Abdul Rahman Gan, 47, claimed the body from the Tuanku Jaafar Hospital. Amir Gan was buried at the Tuan Haji Said Muslim cemetery about 6.30pm.
Syariah judge Mohd Nadzri Abdul Rahman gave his decision after hearing an ex parte application seeking to declare Amir Gan a Muslim. The application was filed by the Negri Sembilan Islamic Affairs Council, the Negri Sembilan Islamic Affairs Department, the Registrar of Converts and the plaintiff, Abdul Rahman.
The non-Muslim members of Amir Gan’s family did not turn up in court although a notice had been sent to them on Tuesday.
The non-Muslim members of Amir Gan’s family had failed in their attempt to obtain an injunction to defer hearing of the application in the Syariah Court. — Bernama
