Woman’s conversion to Islam unlawful when effected, apex court told

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The Federal Court heard that a Selangor enactment in force at the time barred the unilateral conversion of children to Islam.  Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2024/01/16/womans-conversion-into-islam-unlawful-when-effected-apex-court-told/  Laporan Lanjut:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2024/01/16/pengislaman-wanita-menyalahi-undang-undang-ketika-dilaksana-mahkamah-persekutuan-diberitahu/  Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2Rn6xEV Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on Twitter: http://bit.ly/2OCwH8a  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/2OKJbc6 Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3cpbWKK Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/2VUfOrv Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/3B1e8lN Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/39dBDbe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #ApexCourt #Conversion #Islam #Unlawful

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00:00 The federal court was told today that the unilateral conversion of a woman, carried

00:06 out when she was a child at the insistence of her mother, was unlawful at the time it

00:10 was effected.

00:12 Lawyer Mali Imtiaz Sarwar said his client's purported conversion in May 1991 was prohibited

00:18 by an enactment that barred the conversion of children to Islam.

00:23 He said a subsequent amendment and bylaw were passed in September that year, stipulating

00:27 that the conversion of children could only be done with the consent of both parents.

00:32 Malik claimed that consent was never sought from the woman's father, even though the

00:36 Salangor Islamic Religious Department was aware that she had a father at the time.

00:41 Born in 1986, the woman was originally Hindu before she was converted to Islam by her mother

00:46 in 1991.

00:48 She said the conversion took place at Jais' office while her parents were in the midst

00:52 of a divorce, which was finalized a year later.

00:57 Danny Shredjer-Rizza, FMT News.

00:59 (upbeat music)

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