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MP SPEAKS | I have attended several forums on the Federal Constitution and the Malaysian Agreement 1963 during the week in Kuala Lumpur.My understanding and appreciation of the concern of many Malay Muslims in Peninsular Malaysia regarding the Federal Court’s decision on the Nik Elin Zurina Nik Abdul Rashid’s case which nullifies their demand for the Federal Constitution to be amended to offset the effect of the Federal Court’s verdict has been further enriched.
In relation to the syariah criminal laws, it states clearly that “… creation and punishment of offences by persons professing the religion of Islam against precepts of that religion, except in regard to matters included in the Federal List…”While we understand that many Malay-Muslim nationalists dislike this limited scope of the syariah criminal laws and syariah courts, this is a core part of the social contract that created the Federation of Malaya in 1957 and enabled the formation of the...
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