Kelantan state criminalizes leaving Islam, penalty is three years prison, $1200 fine or caning

[duluxe]

https://www.ucanews.com/news/malaysian-states-sharia-law-criminalizes-conversion-from-islam/94898#


Malaysia’s Kelantan state has enacted new Sharia laws that create 24 new offenses, including attempts of conversion from Islam to other faiths, triggering concerns from Christian and rights groups.

Authorities in the northeast state made effective the Kelantan Syariah (Sharia) Criminal Code (I) Enactment 2019 on Nov. 1, local media reported.

The new laws are based on amendments to the Syariah Criminal Code (II) 1993 and the existing 1985 Syariah Criminal Code. Sultan Muhammad V, the head of the state, agreed and passed the new laws in July last year.

The state’s chief minister Ahmad Yakob reportedly said that the enactment allows Sharia courts to deliver verdicts on cases relating to a specific list of offenses. The punishments include a maximum jail term of three years, a fine of up to 5,000 ringgit (US$1202) or six strokes of the cane.

Among the 24 listed punishable offenses are attempts to convert from Islam, distortion of Islamic teachings, disrespecting the month of Ramadan, destroying houses of worship, disobeying parents, tattooing and undergoing plastic surgery, reported The Star.

Other offenses include sexual intercourse with corpses and non-humans, witchcraft and false claims.

We find these developments concerning and dangerous as they violate fundamental principles of democracy by suppressing critical thought and expression
During a media briefing on Oct. 31, minister Ahmad said that the new laws aim at educating and bringing offenders back to the right path of Islam, not just merely punishing them.

It would would be beneficial in strengthening Sharia law not only in Kelantan but also in other states in Malaysia, he added.

Earlier, Indris Ahmad, minister in-charge of religious affairs in the Prime Minister’s Department, had said that Islamic-related enactments including hudud (Islamic Penal Code) would not affect non-Muslims in Malaysia….

Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Malaysian citizens, have been targeted with hate speech from radical clerics and Islamist politicians who term Christians as “enemies of Islam” engaged in a secret conspiracy to weaken the hold of Islam on the land.

 

[bobby]

A religion that needs enforcement.....

 

[laksaboy]

A religion that needs enforcement.....

That entire religion is enforcement itself... it's only a matter of how much.

 

[ChristJohnny]

Good for them ... I don't want any ex-muslim in my church ...

Race and IQ

 

[syed putra]

The clerics are contravening God's directive. For their own interest. Which is to world vontrol over the masses.
There shall be no compulsion in faith. It's as clear as day. But yet they dare defy.

 

[Devil Within]

A religion that needs enforcement.....

We normally call these religions a cult.

 

[Majulah]

a religion that allow one to add , amend , change rule at one whims and fancies certainly cause one to doubt it validity.

 

[duluxe]

sinkieland islam follows some islamic rules, mudland islam follows more. As a society follows more islamic laws like taliban afghan, the more regressive it gets.

 

[syed putra]

sinkieland islam follows some islamic rules, mudland islam follows more. As a society follows more islamic laws like taliban afghan, the more regressive it gets.

Thats because there are no such religious rules in the first place.

 

[JohnTan]

https://www.ucanews.com/news/malaysian-states-sharia-law-criminalizes-conversion-from-islam/94898#


Malaysia’s Kelantan state has enacted new Sharia laws that create 24 new offenses, including attempts of conversion from Islam to other faiths, triggering concerns from Christian and rights groups.

Authorities in the northeast state made effective the Kelantan Syariah (Sharia) Criminal Code (I) Enactment 2019 on Nov. 1, local media reported.

The new laws are based on amendments to the Syariah Criminal Code (II) 1993 and the existing 1985 Syariah Criminal Code. Sultan Muhammad V, the head of the state, agreed and passed the new laws in July last year.

The state’s chief minister Ahmad Yakob reportedly said that the enactment allows Sharia courts to deliver verdicts on cases relating to a specific list of offenses. The punishments include a maximum jail term of three years, a fine of up to 5,000 ringgit (US$1202) or six strokes of the cane.

Among the 24 listed punishable offenses are attempts to convert from Islam, distortion of Islamic teachings, disrespecting the month of Ramadan, destroying houses of worship, disobeying parents, tattooing and undergoing plastic surgery, reported The Star.

Other offenses include sexual intercourse with corpses and non-humans, witchcraft and false claims.

We find these developments concerning and dangerous as they violate fundamental principles of democracy by suppressing critical thought and expression
During a media briefing on Oct. 31, minister Ahmad said that the new laws aim at educating and bringing offenders back to the right path of Islam, not just merely punishing them.

It would would be beneficial in strengthening Sharia law not only in Kelantan but also in other states in Malaysia, he added.

Earlier, Indris Ahmad, minister in-charge of religious affairs in the Prime Minister’s Department, had said that Islamic-related enactments including hudud (Islamic Penal Code) would not affect non-Muslims in Malaysia….

Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Malaysian citizens, have been targeted with hate speech from radical clerics and Islamist politicians who term Christians as “enemies of Islam” engaged in a secret conspiracy to weaken the hold of Islam on the land.

I tot moslems say their mohammedan religion is a most beautiful religion. So why would some moslems need to rely on threats and the law to stop other moslems from leaving the religion?

 

[JohnTan]

Thats because there are no such religious rules in the first place.

You're saying that the moslem religious scholars are full of shit?

 

[rodent2005]

How merciful of them when the prescribed penalty for apostasy is death.

 

[syed putra]

You're saying that the moslem religious scholars are full of shit?

Yep

 

[syed putra]

How merciful of them when the prescribed penalty for apostasy is death.

That is nonsense. You believe or disbelieve sometimes several times a day.
I wonder after going through the punishment, can the guy leave the religion or denied.

 

[syed putra]

I tot moslems say their mohammedan religion is a most beautiful religion. So why would some moslems need to rely on threats and the law to stop other moslems from leaving the religion?

Mohamed told the arabs to believe in and serve one God by doing good deeds. The arabs decided to serve tgeir religion.

 

[mojito]

That consider light all ready!

 

[face the facts]

worshipping PAP is what religion?

 

[duluxe]

worshipping PAP is what religion?

PAP is not a relgion.

 

[syed putra]

worshipping PAP is what religion?

Worshipping anything including CCP is considered as idol worship in my opinion.

 

[A Singaporean]

But fucking sister and daughter OK?