http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/4\/2\/nation\/17322497&sec=nation<\/A><\/FONT><\/P> KUALA LUMPUR: Gerakan has called for the setting up of a special Constitutional Court to deal with \u00c2\u201cvarious grey issues.\u00c2\u201d
It said this was in view of the increasing number of cases affecting the religious, family and basic human rights of non-Muslims.
This was one the resolutions passed by the Federal Territory Gerakan convention yesterday.
FT Gerakan chairman Datuk Dr Tan Kee Kwong, who also heads the party\u00c2\u2019s religious bureau at the national level, said many non-Muslims now felt that their rights were gradually being eroded, \u00c2\u201cso something must be done to correct this.\u00c2\u201d
\u00c2\u201cThe problem exists. Everybody knows that,\u00c2\u201d he said.
Dr Tan, who is the Segambut MP, said non-Muslims should never be subjected to the Syariah Court, adding that this was never the original intention of the Islamic court.
He said the special Constitutional Court could be a way to finding a permanent solution to inter-religious problems which were bound to crop up from time to time.
\u00c2\u201cThe Government must be brave enough to tackle this problem now before things get worse,\u00c2\u201d he said.
There was also a resolution calling for the removal of Datuk Seri Harussani Zakaria as the Perak Mufti over the spreading a baseless SMS (alleging that Datuk Azhar Mansor had converted out of Islam) some months ago.
Gerakan secretary-general Datuk Seri Chia Kwang Chye, who was also at the press conference, said that there should be understanding by all parties when dealing with religious issues.
He noted that while the country was not on the brink of a crisis on inter-religious issues, \u00c2\u201cwe should resolve them before they do.\u00c2\u201d
The proposed special Constitutional Court, he said, could be an institutional solution in dealing with such problems.
In any case, such a court would take a year or two to set up, he said, adding that it was good for any Government with forward planning to consider any suggestion. <\/P><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ppp, mic, mca tarak cakap apa-apa kah? saw the interview in tv3 news yesterday. the gerakan leader said that since about 40% of malaysian are not muslims, the stand taken by the courts is a cause for concern. he said that “we demand rather we request”! strong words indeed… m poobalanwww.poobalan.com\/blogwww.friendster.com\/mpoobalan Gerakan: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[70,114,24,148,120],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-gerakan","tag-mca","tag-mic","tag-perak","tag-ppp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}