KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 — The High Court has rejected the application for judicial review by a Malaysian woman seeking to renounce Islam and return to Christianity. Judge Datuk...
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 — The High Court has rejected the application for judicial review by a Malaysian woman seeking to renounce Islam and return to Christianity.
He said the applicant had entered Islam in 2017 and despite her requests to the Kuala Lumpur Registrar of Muallaf to remove her name from the registrar as she no longer believed in Islam, it was still a matter for the Shariah Courts. The 26-year-old woman converted to Islam to marry her then boyfriend who was a Malay Muslim on August 18, 2017. Their relationship ended before the wedding and now she wants toShe is seeking declarations that the Shariah Courts do not have the jurisdiction under the Administration of Islamic Law Act 1993, also known as Act 505, to cancel her status as a Muslim but rather the Registrar of Muallaf who oversees Muslim converts.
In addition, she also said that Section 85 of Act 505 is unconstitutional as it states that those who utter the— the declaration of belief for Islam — automatically become Muslim, but the provision does not state that those who do so must believe in the religion.
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