{"id":427,"date":"2007-07-21T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/07\/21\/convert-to-know-fate-next-month\/"},"modified":"2007-07-21T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T03:00:07","slug":"convert-to-know-fate-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/07\/21\/convert-to-know-fate-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert to know fate next month"},"content":{"rendered":"
well, looks like a clear cut case. converted due to marriage, not out of love of religion. Never followed Islam, instead practised Buddhism all the time. Now wants to repent. How complicated will the involved parties make this? Another 100 day detention (aka counselling) for Tan? Forcing her to eat beef may not work this time. <\/div>\n
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GEORGE TOWN: A Chinese woman, who said she embraced Islam to marry an Iranian, will know next month if she can renounce the religion. <\/p>\n\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Siti Fatimah Tan Abdullah’s application for an order to declare herself a non-Muslim will be decided by the Syariah High Court here on Aug 17.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old from Nibong Tebal filed the application in May last year. <\/p>\n

A decision was to have been made today but the case was postponed as the presiding judge was on medical leave.<\/p>\n

In her affidavit to renounce the religion, Siti Fatimah, whose given name is Tan Ean Huang, said she had never practised any of the Islamic teachings despite having converted in July 1998.
She said her lifestyle never changed and she continued following the Buddhist teachings and prayed to various deities like the Tua Pek Kong, Kuan Yin and Thi Kong.<\/p>\n

She claimed her conversion was done for the sake of marrying an Iranian named Ferdoun Ashanian. <\/p>\n

The couple got married in 2004 but the man has since left her and Siti Fatimah said she had no knowledge of his whereabouts.<\/p>\n

Siti Fatimah now wants the Penang Islamic Religious Council to declare that she is no longer a Muslim under Section 61 (3) of the Penang Islamic Administration Enactment. <\/p>\n

She also wants the court to change the religious status on her identity card from Muslim to Buddhist.<\/p>\n

Siti Fatimah was represented by Ahmad Jailani Abdul Ghani while the council was represented by Ahmad Munawir Abdul Aziz. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

well, looks like a clear cut case. converted due to marriage, not out of love of religion. Never followed Islam, instead practised Buddhism all the time. Now wants to repent. How complicated will the involved parties make this? Another 100 day detention (aka counselling) for Tan? Forcing her to eat beef may not work this time.   source Siti Fatimah claimed she followed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92,24,143,302],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-conversion","tag-mic","tag-penang","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}