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Loh appeals to quash kids' Islamic unilateral conversion
The single mother’s legal team from Srimurugan & Co filed the notice of appeal at the Court of Appeal earlier today, targeting a May 11 civil court verdict that denied her related judicial review.
On Thursday last week, the High Court in Kuala Lumpur denied the 35-year-old mother’s legal challenge over...
Loh Siew Hong has gone to the Court of Appeal to nullify the unilateral conversion of her three children to Islam.
The single mother’s legal team from Srimurugan & Co filed the notice of appeal at the Court of Appeal earlier today, targeting a May 11 civil court verdict that denied her related judicial review.
On Thursday last week, the High Court in Kuala Lumpur denied the 35-year-old mother’s legal challenge over the religious status of her twin daughters, aged 14, as well as her 11-year-old son, who are under her custody courtesy of an earlier civil family court order.
In dismissing Loh’s judicial review, judge Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh ruled that the children have been validly converted to Islam in accordance with Perlis Islamic state law, with the state Islamic authorities’ affidavit confirming that the children recited the kalimah syahadah (Islamic recitation to convert to Islam) in 2020.
The civil court judge pointed out that an affidavit by Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council (MAIP) CEO Mohd Nazim Mohd Noor showed that the children showed intent via their actions to continue to be in Islam even when they were under the custody of Loh last year.
Farid noted Nazim’s affidavit showing that the children as of Feb 22 last year were still practising Islam, performing the dawn prayer, and one of them even wanted to be a Syariah lawyer.
The judge said Loh’s affidavit denying this assertion of Nazim amounted to bare denial and that the single mother did not deny the affirmative assertion that the children continued to profess Islam while under her custody.
Farid said even if the certificates of conversion were not conclusive proof in view of their unilateral nature, the “force of evidence” showed that the three children continued to practice Islam.
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