AFP:Malaysian court fails to rule on child conversions to Islam - Apa yang tidak kena dan menghina Islam?Cicit Siamang Gagap

Apa yang tidak kena dalam kes ini?
Pertama, mahkamah tidak dapat membuat satu keputusan dalam kes ini dan disalahkan pada keselarian dengan ada kewujudan mahkamah Syariah.
Kedua mampak macam ada satu persoalan kenapa mesti ada mahkamah syariah? Soalan ini timbul kerana diungkitkan satu waran telah dikeluarkan oleh mahkamah syariah.
Saya pernah menyentuhkan isu yang sama dalam blog ini. Garispandu dalam isu-isu sebegini mesti berdasarkan penjagaan kemulian Ugama Islam sebagai Ugama Rasmi.
Maknanya, sekiranya ada percanggahan undang2, maka hukuman yang dijatuh oleh mahkamah syariah mesti didahului.
Saya sarankan setelah mahkamah syariah mengeluarkan satu waran tangkap dan mahkamah federal juga mesti mengeluar satu waran yang sama dan pastikan Shamala kembali ke Malaysia untuk menghadap apa-apa tuduhan.
Dengan kegagalan Mahkamah Persekutuan membuat seasuatu yang akan mempermudahkan sistem syariah Malaysia yang telah wujud sebelum datangnya Imperialisma British, seakan2 menghina Mahkamah Syariah.
Sekian.
Cicit Siamang Gagap.
By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 11/12/2010


Malaysian court fails to rule on child conversions to Islam

Malaysia's top court Friday sidestepped a ruling on whether children can be converted to Islam by one parent, a lawyer said, in a case closely watched by the nation's non-Muslim minorities.



The Federal Court was asked to hear the case of Hindu woman S. Shamala who fled to Australia in 2004 with her two young sons after her husband Muhammad Ridzwan Mogarajah converted to Islam and secretly converted the children.



The High Court in 2004 handed Shamala custody of the children on condition she raised them as Muslims, an order Mogarajah appealed in civil courts and the religious Sharia courts which operate in a parallel system in Malaysia.



"The court took the position that unless Shamala and the children were within its jurisdiction, the entire hearing would be pointless and so dismissed the case," Shamala's counsel David Mathew told AFP.



"It missed a golden opportunity to rule on the burning issue of whether a child can be converted unilaterally by one parent," he added.



"This is disappointing as there are several similar cases in the country, which were looking for the Federal Court's guidance on this issue."



Mathew said Shamala was in fear of returning as a Sharia court order had handed Mogarajah custody of the children and issued a warrant for her arrest.



Under Sharia law, a non-Muslim parent cannot share custody of converted children. Non-Muslims also complain that they do not get a fair hearing when such cases end up in the religious courts.



The case has been watched by Malaysia's ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities who say their rights are being eroded by rising "Islamisation" in a country where 60 percent of the population is Muslim Malay.



Secret conversions of children, which can deprive the non-Muslim parent of custody, and "body-snatching" cases where Islamic authorities tussle with families over the remains of people whose religion is disputed, have raised racial tensions.



The government last year said legislation would be amended so that children's conversion required the consent of both parents, but the reform has been stalled pending consultations with the Malay royal rulers.