Converting The Dead
Posted on January 3, 2008
Filed Under Islam, Religion, Stupidity
This is what the Malaysian Muslim authorities are resolving to in a mix of viciousness, fanatism and stupidity
Malaysian Christian challenges Islamic authorities over dead wife’s faith
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The Christian husband of a dead Malaysian woman sought to stop Islamic authorities Thursday from giving her a Muslim funeral amid a dispute over whether she converted to Islam before her death.
The case is the latest in a series of legal conflicts that have alarmed Malaysia’s non-Muslim minorities, who have voiced growing fears that the Constitution and courts fail to sufficiently safeguard their religious rights.
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Decades-long multiracial harmony has come into question in recent years amid concerns among minorities that their religions are getting second-class treatment by the Muslim majority, especially in court cases involving non-Muslim religious rights.
The case of Ngiam’s wife bears similarities to several other disputes since 2005 involving the burial of people whom Muslim authorities claimed had converted to Islam.
A national debate erupted when Maniam Moorthy, a former Hindu, was buried as a Muslim in December 2005 after an Islamic court ruled he had converted before his death. Moorthy never told his family of the conversion, and his widow failed to convince the civil court to give her custody of the body.
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[...] published earlier on WD about the attempts made by Islamists in Malaysia to convert the dead to Islam and bury them according to Islamic tradition, it seems like this sick saga [...]