source<\/a><\/p>\n KUALA LUMPUR: The MCA welcomes the Federal Court ruling that the civil court has jurisdiction to hear and decide on matrimonial disputes involving a spouse who has converted to Islam. <\/p>\n
Its president Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting said yesterday that the landmark decision had removed the confusion over the issue of jurisdiction between civil and syariah<\/i> courts on such matrimonial matters. <\/p>\n
On Thursday, the Federal Court ruled that the dispute between R. Subashini and her Muslim-convert husband T. Saravanan over the dissolution of their marriage and child custody would continue to be under the jurisdiction of the civil court. <\/p>\n
“We respect Islam. Under the Federal Constitution, the rights of the non-Muslims are protected,” Ong said after chairing the party presidential meeting at Wisma MCA adding that MCA had always voiced out the concern of non-Muslims at Cabinet and government meetings. <\/p>\n
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I'll take this as a polite reply from MCA, just glossing over the positives of the judgement. No doubt the Chinese papers would have highlighted the negative impact from the judgement. Wonder where's MIC's statement? I think can replace "MCA" with "MIC" in the MCA's statement. MCA lauds ruling on matrimonial disputes source KUALA LUMPUR: […]<\/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":[114,24,225,44],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-mca","tag-mic","tag-politicians","tag-subashini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}