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parent has right to determine religion of child

June 16th, 2009
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Today’s Tv3 news saw coverage of dewan rakyat proceeding. Nazri Aziz was quoted as saying:

On the issue of determining the religion of children below 18 when one of the parents converts to another religion, he said the Cabinet had agreed that it must be made in accordance with Clause (4) Article 12 of the Constitution.

In the case of R. Subashini versus T. Saravanan last year, the Federal Court had interpreted the word “parent” in the law as singular and not plural and as such, the converting parent had the right to determine the religion of their children below 18, he said.

Note: Clause (4) of Article 12 is as follows: For the purposes of Clause (3) the religion of a person under the age of eighteen years shall be decided by his parent or guardian.

Now, the question is which parent should one follow? The converting parent have right to convert the child, but the non-converting parent ALSO HAVE THE SAME EQUAL RIGHT to maintain the child’s religion! Why divert into the converting parent’s rights only?

Isn’t this a deadlock? Both have EQUAL RIGHTS. Just because one of them is a coward who wants to hide behind the name of certain religion, doesn’t make it correct action.

Subashini has all the right to maintain the religion of her kids. How can the court make such an erronous, logic-defying, ill-thought decision?

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Tamil Youth Bell Club raises Indian issues

May 26th, 2009
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The issues are:

–  no announcement in Tamil at international airports around the country.

– television news readers had failed to promote Indian culture through their dressing

– deejays on radio channels, especially Thr. Raaga, were not fluent in Tamil

In response, Dr S Subra said at the Tamil Bell function:

… agreed to bring the matter up to the Government, said television and radio channels should use proper Tamil in their programmes.

He said the influence of Western media and culture among the community’s youths had resulted in the lack of support for the community’s own religious and cultural programmes, adding that Indian organisations should act to preserve the Tamil language.

Subramaniam, who is also MIC secretary-general, said the party had urged the Government to include religious studies as a subject in Tamil schools as a way of inculcating moral values in Indian schoolchildren.

Yawn.

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ramasamy says no temple demolition

May 12th, 2009
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Big words indeed. Lets see what happens from now until the next elections. See if he can keep his words or not because its not easy to ensure the local council will do its job accordingly.

TAMIL Nesan reported that Penang Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P. Ramasamy had given his assurance that he would personally ensure, no Hindu temples were demolished or torn down in the state.

He said that temple committees must run their temples properly and that any problems must be resolved early.

These committees, he said, should be more concerned about their temple affairs and seek his assistance if they were facing problems.

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A dirty Chittirai Pournami

May 10th, 2009
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Yesterday (Saturday) was an auspicious day because it was Chittirai Pournami (full moon in the month of Chittirai) for the Hindus and also Wesak Day for the Buddhist. Then and I went to Sri Bala Subramaniar Temple in Port Klang at about 8.40am. There wasn’t much crowd, about 200-300 people only within the temple compound. I had a good feeling on the way to temple, but once I reached the place, it all changed. There were some much of garbage – stryofoam food packets, plastic bags drinks, etc – the stench was detectable.  I wondered to myself – why are we so irresponsible? We fight for temple existence, and yet pollute it without a thought.  The stall owners and patrons need to be more responsible. Temple committee need to set up a dustbin every 5 metres because our  temple-going, festival-following makkal are too lazy to walk far to find a dustbin. Heck, I think we need more dustbins than devotees for future festivals in temple.

I couldn’t stand it praying in the temple because the thought of the place being dirty kept playing in my mind, so I left within 30 minutes.

Along the road to the temple, local pop songs were being blasted left and right. I think one can easily get hearing problem since the road is narrow (about 12 feet wide) and stalls on both side. One guy nearly popped a CD into my face while another blocked the path to promot incense sticks. There’s so many panthals (stalls) offering free food and drinks – possible reason why there’s lots of garbage around. When something is in abudance, its not appreciated (even money!).

By the way, I didn’t notice any HSS banners over there.

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No solution for Indira yet

May 6th, 2009
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The court granted interim stay on the earlier interim grant. I’m getting confused with all these terms, so why not look at it in a timeline manner:

24 May 2009 – inter-parte hearing for the husband to provide his arguments.

14 May 2009 – Court hearing of application by Pathmanthan to set aside the interim custody order

5 May 2009 – Interim stay of the interim custody order granted to husband, thus Indira will not be getting her baby back soon.

24 april 2009 – High court issues interim custody order granting rights of custody to mother, Indira

23 april 2009 – Cabinet decision that children in a case where one parent converts are to remain in the original religion. Further to that, the cabinet also decided that civil marriages must be resolved in civil courts and the convert can’t use the excuse that he converted to escape from his obligations.

20 april 2009 – Committee headed by Koh Tsu Koon meets over the issue of Indira Gandhi.

4 April 2009 – Husband snatches baby away from the home and disappears.

11 March 2009 – Pathmanathan converts to Islam.

On May 14, Wan Afrah will also give her decision on whether contempt of court has been committed by Ridzuan for evading service of the interim custody order issued on April 24.

The issue of contempt was raised orally by Indira’s team of counsel during submissions by Ridzuan’s team, led by counsel Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdullah, on the application to obtain a stay of the interim custody order.

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