{"id":7896,"date":"2011-09-22T20:51:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T12:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2011-09-22T20:51:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T12:51:47","slug":"another-disputed-conversion-case-in-seremban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2011\/09\/22\/another-disputed-conversion-case-in-seremban\/","title":{"rendered":"Another disputed conversion case in Seremban"},"content":{"rendered":"

We just read about the college student in Perlis whom was converted<\/a><\/strong>, and today there’s another case in MK. This kind of problem won’t go away until the laws are tightened and more protection is given to the family institution of the non-Muslims. \u00a0Unfortunately, the powers-t0-be are not seen as doing anything to solve the problems. Rulers council, religious councils and the government – we have not heard any positive news for nearly a year now. \u00a0I think this is the problem when religions are not given equal footing in terms of administration or when laws are not fair to all.<\/p>\n

Just imagine 30 strangers come to your house to claim the deceased’ body. What an intimidation. Will definitely create anger amid the family members. Probably the family should make a police report against criminal intimidation and harassment since no proper profof is provided, but being Bolehland, I guess the report won’t be worth the paper its was written on.<\/p>\n

Part of the cause of this problem lies on our lawmakers, rulers and the authorities. Before asking others to be tolerant, to find alternatives or be patient, why not they correct\/improvise the existing laws? Don’t simply blame the families or communities.<\/p>\n

Anyway, what a weird situation, allegedly converted and died 3 days later.<\/p>\n

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The religious status of a recently deceased man has sent his family into a tailspin after religious authorities in Negri Sembilan went to their house to claim his body earlier today.<\/p>\n

The body of Lawrence Selvananthan, 33, was scheduled to be brought to a church in Seremban at 3pm today for a funeral mass followed by his burial, but his family was stopped by police and Negeri Sembilan Islamic Affairs Department (JHEINS) officials who claimed that he had already converted into Islam.<\/p>\n

The deceased’s cousin, who asked to only be identified as Jenny, said they were approached by police officers at the family home in Lukut, Port Dickson at about 12.40pm to inform them that they could not proceed with the burial.<\/p>\n

She said the police officers showed them what she described as a photocopied document, detailing Lawrence’s alleged conversion into Islam.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told us that he just converted three days ago. The name and IC number were correct, but there was no photo. We’re not even sure of (the authenticity of) the signature,\u201d she said when contacted by\u00a0Malaysiakini<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It is understood that Lawrence, a lorry driver, was found unconscious in his parked lorry by family members, and declared dead on arrival at the Seremban General Hospital sometime last night. The cause of death is unclear.<\/p>\n

Both sides in discussion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

PKR’s Port Dickson state assemblyperson Ravi Munusamy, who was mediating between the two parties, confirmed that there was a stand-off between the family members and JHEAINS and police officers.<\/p>\n

He estimated at least 30 officials went to the house to claim the body, though both sides have since entered discussions, which were still ongoing at the time of writing this article.<\/p>\n

Ravi pointed out that the family members are sceptical over the conversion claim as the witness to Lawrence’s alleged conversion did not turn up despite being asked to verify the claim.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the signature on the document is not his. His brother confirmed it is not his (Lawrence’s) signature,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Jenny stressed that the situation is only making things worse for the family, as they cannot even grieve over their loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe family is very sad. His daughter lost a father and his wife lost a husband.<\/p>\n

“They said he had already\u00a0mengucap<\/em>\u00a0(took his vows of conversion) at the department, but by right they should have informed his family immediately. We think this is very unfair to us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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We just read about the college student in Perlis whom was converted, and today there’s another case in MK. This kind of problem won’t go away until the laws are tightened and more protection is given to the family institution of the non-Muslims. \u00a0Unfortunately, the powers-t0-be are not seen as doing anything to solve the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,10],"tags":[92,117,103,201],"class_list":["post-7896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","category-religion","tag-conversion","tag-crime","tag-marginalisation","tag-negeri-sembilan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7898,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions\/7898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}