Islamic Tolerance Alert/Women convert to Buddhism

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May 16, 2008

Malaysian Muslims protest Court ruling allowing woman to leave Islam for Buddhism

Islamic Tolerance Alert and Siti Fatimah Update: "M'sian muslims protest ruling on renunciation of Islam," from AFP, May 16 (thanks to Twostellas):

PENANG (Malaysia) - A GROUP of Muslims in Malaysia's northern Penang state staged a protest on Friday to denounce an Islamic sharia court's rare ruling allowing a Chinese convert to renounce her faith.

Last week the Penang Sharia Court allowed 38-year-old Siti Fatimah Tan Abdullah, or Tan Ean Huang, to renounce Islam and return to Buddhism.

Siti, a cook, told the court she had never practised Islamic teachings since converting in 1998 to marry Iranian Ferdoun Ashanian.

The couple married in 1999 but her husband left her months later and she filed for renunciation two years ago.
Hizbut Tahrir Malaysia, an Islamic hardline group, gathered outside the court and submitted a memorandum urging a judicial review of the decision.

'We outrightly disagree with the court decision as it is against Islamic laws. In Islam, a person who insists on leaving the religion must be punished with death,' the group's president Abdul Hakim Othman told reporters....
I trust Ali Eteraz will soon be winging his way to Malaysia to explain the True, Tolerant Islam to Abdul Hakim Othman.
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