Comments on: Maritmuthu’s habeas corpus application — hearing in Shah Alam High Court on 3rd May http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2007/04/24/maritmuthu%e2%80%99s-habeas-corpus-application-%e2%80%93-hearing-in-shah-alam-high-court-on-3rd-may/ for Malaysia Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:37:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: awesome http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2007/04/24/maritmuthu%e2%80%99s-habeas-corpus-application-%e2%80%93-hearing-in-shah-alam-high-court-on-3rd-may/#comment-12665 awesome Thu, 03 May 2007 07:42:58 +0000 http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2007/04/24/maritmuthu%e2%80%99s-habeas-corpus-application-%e2%80%93-hearing-in-shah-alam-high-court-on-3rd-may/#comment-12665 What can I say? It is sad when one is forced or told that one’s religion is such and such. Where is the freedom of choice? If one is born of one religion and converts to another…is it wrong? Don’t we have the right to do so as a human? Or is it forced down our throats. Is that practice militant? Where is the beauty of freedom of choice what to believe? Can parents give their children that freedom? Or are they bound by law not to do so? Is law a yoke that weighs down a person? Aren’t laws and rules made for justice to reign? What is reigning now - pressure? Is it wrong to voice out our concern over this issues? Why do we all have to see Islam as a religion that puts pressure on her followers? Where is mercy and kindness? Can one convert from Islam to Christianity or any other religion? Why is it seen as apostasy? Why that does not happen to any other religion? Why are the converts punished or have their rights snatched? Really can any Malay be a Malay and not a muslim? Why MUST a Malay be a muslim? Isn’t it forced down their throat? Is this just? In Indonesia, a Indonesian can be either Malay or Christian or free, no problem. They marry freely and no problems. Many Malaysians look down on Indonesians but Indons have more kindness in this aspect. Mind you it is the highest population of Muslims. So are we really a free country - you tell me! Somehow I feel people are fighting for their God which only goes to show that perhaps their God must be weak and must be defended for and protected…do you get that feeling? Strange, isn’t it? Can God be allowed to fight for Himself? After all He is Almighty and I believe He is also all Loving unlike wicked human beings! What can I say? It is sad when one is forced or told that one’s religion is such and such. Where is the freedom of choice? If one is born of one religion and converts to another…is it wrong? Don’t we have the right to do so as a human? Or is it forced down our throats. Is that practice militant?

Where is the beauty of freedom of choice what to believe? Can parents give their children that freedom? Or are they bound by law not to do so? Is law a yoke that weighs down a person?

Aren’t laws and rules made for justice to reign? What is reigning now - pressure?

Is it wrong to voice out our concern over this issues? Why do we all have to see Islam as a religion that puts pressure on her followers? Where is mercy and kindness?

Can one convert from Islam to Christianity or any other religion? Why is it seen as apostasy? Why that does not happen to any other religion? Why are the converts punished or have their rights snatched?

Really can any Malay be a Malay and not a muslim? Why MUST a Malay be a muslim? Isn’t it forced down their throat? Is this just?

In Indonesia, a Indonesian can be either Malay or Christian or free, no problem. They marry freely and no problems. Many Malaysians look down on Indonesians but Indons have more kindness in this aspect. Mind you it is the highest population of Muslims.

So are we really a free country - you tell me!

Somehow I feel people are fighting for their God which only goes to show that perhaps their God must be weak and must be defended for and protected…do you get that feeling? Strange, isn’t it? Can God be allowed to fight for Himself? After all He is Almighty and I believe He is also all Loving unlike wicked human beings!

]]> By: Lim Kit Siang » Blog Archive » Six children being returned to Marimuthu to be brought up as Hindus – habeas corpus application for Suresh/Revathi case http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2007/04/24/maritmuthu%e2%80%99s-habeas-corpus-application-%e2%80%93-hearing-in-shah-alam-high-court-on-3rd-may/#comment-12616 Lim Kit Siang » Blog Archive » Six children being returned to Marimuthu to be brought up as Hindus – habeas corpus application for Suresh/Revathi case Thu, 03 May 2007 04:04:59 +0000 http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2007/04/24/maritmuthu%e2%80%99s-habeas-corpus-application-%e2%80%93-hearing-in-shah-alam-high-court-on-3rd-may/#comment-12616 [...] morning following the habeas corpus application filed by Karpal Singh on behalf of rubber tapper Marimuthu Periasamy for the release of his wife Raimah Bibi a/p Noordin and six children, Yoogneswary 12, Paramila 11, [...] […] morning following the habeas corpus application filed by Karpal Singh on behalf of rubber tapper Marimuthu Periasamy for the release of his wife Raimah Bibi a/p Noordin and six children, Yoogneswary 12, Paramila 11, […]

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