DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang has questioned whether Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, thinks that Sarawak chief ministers are anti-Islam as well.

Lim said this in response to Asyraf who accused DAP of being anti-Islam after the former urged non-Umno ministers to resign from the government if Putrajaya were to prioritise PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's private member's bill motion.

The private member's bill seeks to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 (Act3 355) to increase the punishment that Syariah Courts can mete out, from three years' imprisonment, RM5,000 fine and six strokes of the rotan to 30 years' imprisonment, RM100,000 fine and 100 strokes of the rotan...