IPOH, May 25 ― DAP’s Tebing Tinggi assemblyman Abdul Aziz Bari said that he did not represent the Muslim or the Malay community when submitting the affidavit in the Jill...
IPOH, May 25 ― DAP’s Tebing Tinggi assemblyman Abdul Aziz Bari said that he did not represent the Muslim or the Malay community when submitting the affidavit in the Jill Ireland Lawrence Bill’s case as accused by Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan.
“The decision in the Jill Ireland’s case was made by the High Court, so I don’t know why I’m being targeted by the PAS secretary-general ,” he told a press conference at the Perak Darul Ridzuan Building here. “According to the Constitution, we can’t refrain someone from practicing their religion. It is their wish on how they want to address their God, who are we to tell them how to call their God. That is the issue here,” he said.
“Many things can be questioned in this affidavits, are all three individuals who filed this affidavit supporting the Jill Ireland application superseded the State Islamic Religious Council authorities? The move put an end to the 15-year-long legal saga that began when the government seized the Sarawak Bumiputera’s eight educational CDs containing the word “Allah”, the Arabic word for God, which were for her own use.
Instead, the legal battle was centred on what he described as the contradictory directive issued by the Cabinet and Home Ministry respectively in May and December 1986.
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