Sick Practice
Posted on January 28, 2008
Filed Under Islam, News, Religion, Sharia, Stupidity
Courtesy of Malaysian Islamic authorities.
As 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 continues:
Malaysian opposition calls for end to ‘body-snatching’
In the most recent case, an elderly ethnic Chinese man was buried as a Muslim last week after his Buddhist family lost a battle with Islamic authorities who said he had converted.
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Police seized the body of Gan Eng For, who died a week ago aged 74, after his oldest son - himself a Muslim convert - said he had switched to the religion last year.Other family members said Gan could not have converted because he was senile and paralysed after suffering two strokes.
“He could not even move his arms or talk,” his other son, 42-year-old Gan Hock Sin, said.
“It is shocking that Islamic authorities say he recited some Islamic words when he was being converted last year.”
The dispute came shortly after a court ordered a Christian woman’s body be returned to her family after Islamic authorities admitted she had not converted.
In many instances the row is decided by Islamic Sharia courts where non-Muslim family members argue that they do not get a fair hearing.
The cases have fed accusations over the growing “Islamisation” of Malaysia, where the population is dominated by Muslim Malays living alongside ethnic Chinese and Indian communities.
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