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An update on this story. "Malaysia: Buddhist Family In Malaysia Challenges Shariah Court's Islamic Conversion Ruling," from the Associated Press:
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: An ethnic Chinese Buddhist family was appealing to a Malaysian high court Tuesday (29 Jan), seeking to overturn an Islamic court ruling that found their late father had converted from Buddhism to Islam, prompting his burial as a Muslim.
The family of Gan Eng Gor said a Shariah court was wrong in ruling he had become a Muslim shortly before his death.
"We want a declaration that he is not a Muslim. Our main intention is to seek justice, not just for our family but for the rest of the non-Muslim community," son Gan Hock Ming told The Associated Press on Monday (28 Jan).
The case was expected to be heard Tuesday at the High Court in southern Seremban state, Hock Ming said.
It is the latest in an increasing number of interfaith conflicts that have raised tensions in multiracial Malaysia.
On Monday, opposition lawmaker Lim Kit Siang urged the government to end "body snatchings" by Islamic authorities, warning they were aggravating racial polarization and hurting Malaysia's multiracial harmony.
Indeed, this isn't the first such case.
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Last week, an Islamic Shariah court ruled that Eng Gor, 74, also identified as Amir Gan Abdullah, was a Muslim and should be buried under Islamic rites.
The man's body was seized by Islamic authorities shortly after his death on 20 Jan after a complaint by his eldest son, Abdul Rahman Gan, a Muslim convert. He claimed his father had converted to Islam last July. Other relatives disputed this.
It seems likely that Abdul Rahman Gan would expect to benefit from being the only Muslim son of a Muslim father where any possible inheritance is concerned.
Hock Ming said Islamic authorities claimed his bedridden father made an oral declaration in Arabic to accept Islam, but the family has medical confirmation that his father was unable to speak after a stroke in 2006. He said the alleged conversion papers were also flawed because they weren't signed and certified.
"We hope the prime minister and the higher ups in the Islamic authorities review this case and ensure that the truth is unraveled," Hock Ming said, calling for all conversions to Islam to be "fair and transparent."
Posted by Marisol at January 29, 2008 12:00 AM
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"Last week, an Islamic Shariah court ruled that Eng Gor, 74, also identified as Amir Gan Abdullah, was a Muslim and should be buried under Islamic rites.
The man's body was seized by Islamic authorities shortly after his death on 20 Jan after a complaint by his eldest son, Abdul Rahman Gan, a Muslim convert."
-- from the article above
Connection, please, of this sort of thing to American presence in Iraq? To the Israeli victory in 1967 war and refusal, just yet, to hand over every last fruit of that victory? To the statements of Pim Fortuyn? To the movie of Theo van Gogh? To the Danish cartoons? To the promised ten-minute film of Geert Wilders?
Connection to "poverty"? Connection to "absence of freedom" -- the same "freedom" we are now bringing to "ordinary moms and dads in the Middle East"?
Tell us the "connection." We need to know. Or if you can't find that one, how about trying this on for size:
What is going on in Malaysia, with the increasingly aggressive bullying and intimidation of non-Muslims, is not surprising but conforms to exactly the pattern that is followed when what was once a Muslim minority becomes a clear majority, and decides it no longer needs to hide its intentions, and can afford to alienate, as it suppresses, the slowly but steadily dwindling non-Muslim population.
Posted by: Hugh
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at January 29, 2008 1:57 AM
...have you ever know a Buddhist, ....a devout Buddhist...especially an elderly devout Buddhist?....
......the claim the he "coverted" is simply ludicrous....
........
..... "once a Muslim minority becomes a clear majority, and decides it no longer needs to hide its intentions, and can afford to alienate, as it suppresses, the slowly but steadily dwindling non-Muslim population.
Posted by: Hugh"
.......
....absolutely......all those Pakistani convenience store operators, taxi drivers, delivermen....all those Muslim professors, students, and politicians....all those Somali meatplant workers, factory workers....All those Muslim immigrants taking over one apartment complex after another....All those Muslims in Dearborn, Minnenapolis, San Diego, Chicago, Hartford, Miami, Seattle....and other places ....all planning to celebrate the day you either must submit or die......and the choice will be yours....
Ban Muslim Immigration...
Posted by: exsgtbrown at January 29, 2008 6:58 AM
Recall that a poster explained that since the eldest son is moslem, he stands to inherit all the estate leaving the rest of the family with nothing. Quite a handy trick for the eldest son, a recent convert.
Posted by: eve_anne_gelical at January 29, 2008 9:23 AM
"Quite a handy trick for the eldest son, a recent convert.
Posted by: eve_anne_gelical "
...just following the traditions of the Muslim Idol MO.....a bandit thief and caravan raider and a greedy man....
at January 29, 2008 10:40 AM
Well, they will probably win based on the psossibility of fraud. Even Muslims don't like fraud and cheats.
Posted by: Dumbo at January 29, 2008 12:49 PM
So worried about numbers, you cannot fool God.
He knows His own.
"We are the fastest growing religion"....of dead people?
at January 29, 2008 1:28 PM
Dumbo: "Even Muslims don't like fraud and cheats".
That may be so, but Muslims ALWAYS favour Muslims over non-Muslims. Even though only one single Muslim (the son) claimed the father had converted, against the non-Muslim entire rest of the family, backed up with medical evidence that the father couldn't even speak, I bet they will still side with the Muslim.
at January 29, 2008 3:54 PM
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