The father of a bride whose Hindu wedding was disrupted by Islamic religious authorities has insisted that his daughter is a Muslim and remains one.

Abdul Majeed Gulam Kader, a Muslim, claimed his daugher, Zarina, 32, was born to Muslim parents as his wife, Vasantha, was also a Muslim convert, according to The Star .

"They were born to Muslim parents and that makes them Muslim, too," he was quoted as saying in reference to Zarina and her siblings Shahull Sallah, 30, Zaleha, 28, and Abdul Gulam, 24.

Abdul Majeed, 54 claimed his wife's Muslim name is Zainab and he would never let any of his children abandon Islam.

This contradicts Zarina's claim that her father had registered her as a Muslim without the family's knowledge.

Zarina had said she was raised by her mother, who claims to be Hindu, and has therefore been a practising Hindu all her life because her father abandoned the family.

On June 1 Selangor Islamic Affairs Department (Jais) disrupted her wedding at a Hindu temple in Petaling Jaya and detained her on assumption she is Muslim.

'Didn't abandon family'

Abdul Majeed, a security guard, had also reportedly denied he had abandoned the family, instead claiming that he was thrown out of the family's Petaling Jaya home in 2000 after he reprimanded his younger daughter for coming home late.

He claimed to be homeless since then and lives at his workplace.

He claimed Zarina had met him two months ago to sign certain documents but he refused.

The daily also reported Abdul Majeed's stepmother Fatimah Abdullah as saying that the former often quarrelled with his wife who took their children to temples.