An inter-faith council has criticised the cabinet as being toothless, as civil servants appear to be defying its decision to ban parents from secretly converting children.
“Was the cabinet’s decision in April 2009 a flash in the pan to pacify non-Muslim Malaysians because of the numerous cases of such gross injustice?
“Does this cabinet decision bear any weight at all, or do civil servants do as they wish?
“Would other civil servants be enabled to do likewise with directives from the prime minister and his cabinet?” said Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Taoism (MCCBCHST) in a statement today.
They were responding to the most recent case where a woman inNegri Sembilan has discovered that her two children, minors, have been converted to Islam by her estranged husband without her consent.
In April 2009, the government barred such secret conversion of children after the flare-up over the case of an ethnic Indian woman, who faced losing custody of her three children when her estranged husband converted them to Islam without her consent.
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