{"id":295,"date":"2007-06-01T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T02:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/06\/01\/pm-view-on-lina-joy-case\/"},"modified":"2007-06-01T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T02:45:05","slug":"pm-view-on-lina-joy-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/06\/01\/pm-view-on-lina-joy-case\/","title":{"rendered":"PM view on Lina Joy case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nazri: “What is the point of keeping a person a Muslim if they no longer believed in the faith and made that publicly known?”<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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PM: No pressure exerted on judges in Lina Joy case<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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By SHAHANAAZ HABIB<\/b><\/p>\n

KUALA LUMPUR: It was not a political decision \u2013 that was what Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said about the Lina Joy decision by the Federal Court.  <\/p>\n

The Prime Minister said the Government did not exert any pressure on the judges.  <\/p>\n

When asked about critics who said the decision was political, he replied: “They must have a hole in their heads if they say it’s a political decision.”   <\/p>\n

He said no one had hoped for or pressured the court into making any political decision.  <\/p>\n

“That is emotions (talking). If people allow themselves to be influenced by emotions, they will think of all sorts of things and suspect this and that and make themselves uneasy,” he told reporters after chairing the Umno supreme council meeting yesterday.  <\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Federal Court rejected Lina’s appeal to compel the National Registration Department (NRD) to remove the word “Islam” from her identity card.  <\/p>\n

Lina, 42, was born Azlina Jailani to Malay parents and brought up as a Muslim but later converted to Christianity. She managed to get her name changed but was denied a change in her religious status.  <\/p>\n

On whether the decision gave non-Muslims the wrong perception, Abdullah said: “If they have the wrong perception, what can we do? The court made a decision and I don’t question that. There are many decisions the court had made which many of us are not happy with.”  <\/p>\n

Abdullah said he did not think there was a widening religious divide in the country of late.  <\/p>\n

“Discussions on religion have become more widespread but this does not represent a divide,” he said.   <\/p>\n

On a foreign report that said the Lina Joy verdict showed that Malaysia rejected Christianity, Abdullah said that if this was the case there would be no Christians and no churches in the country.  <\/p>\n

He said the report was probably done out of ignorance “but if they know our country and said that, then that is being naughty.”  <\/p>\n

On non-Muslims having problems in their dealings with the Syariah Court, he said such cases would have to be dealt with.  <\/p>\n

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz, who is the de facto law minister, urged everyone to respect the decision and not to speculate that Lina would not stand a chance in the Syariah Court.  <\/p>\n

“What is the point of keeping a person a Muslim if they no longer believed in the faith and made that publicly known?” he asked.  <\/p>\n

In Kota Baru, PAS deputy president Nasruddin Mat Isa welcomed the decision, saying that it had removed any ambiguity regarding the role of the Syariah Court on matters of Islamic faith and belief.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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