State law on unilateral conversion constitutional, Perlis govt tells High Court FMTNews
Single mother Loh Siew Hong is asking the High Court to strike down a Perlis state enactment which allows unilateral conversions into Islam on the grounds of unconstitutionality.
In the case of single mother Loh Siew Hong, who is seeking to quash her three children’s conversion into Islam, Radhi said the state muallaf registrar had exercised his powers lawfully to register them as Muslims after their father, M Nagahswaran, gave his consent to the conversion.Loh is asking the court to nullify the children’s conversion into Islam.
“Under Article 160B, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong can prescribe the national language text to be the authoritative and, if there is any conflict between the Malay and English versions, the Malay version should prevail,” he said. Haniff Khatri Abdulla, appearing for the state’s Majlis Agama Islam dan Adat Istiadat Melayu, told the judge he was entitled to choose between the Indira Gandhi or Subashini rulings.
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