Legal
Implications
1.
The
JAIS raid has brought into question the power of the religious authority, the
jurisdiction of its control by the state and federal government, the Sultan of
Selangor’s role in its authority and whether the state enacted law supersede
Federal Constitution.
2.
The
amendment proposed by 3 ADUN would only apply to Selangor.
3.
Conflict
with Sultan and federal constitutional death lock, the Sultan may refuse to
give his consent to the amendment of the bill under S78 (2B) of Selangor
Constitution.
4.
Beside
this, by allowing Sabah and Sarawak to use Allah wording in their bible but not
peninsular would make Malaysia into a country that had 2 set of law, to resolve
this problem, need to went back to emphasize the importance of tolerance in a
multi-religion society.
Possible solution
1.
"I believe tension can be
defused if we settle contentions through dialogue engagement and the rule of
law," Najib said at the Prime Minister's Department's first monthly
gathering for the year yesterday.
2.
In calling for a more diplomatic
approach in tackling sensitive issues, disputes must be settled in accordance
with the law as the country's harmony was at stake.
Appendix
* subsection 9 of Non-Islamic
Religions Control of Propagation among Muslims (Selangor) Enactment 1988, which states that a person commits
an offence if he (a) in any published writing; or (b) in any public speech or
statement; or (c) in any speech or statement address to any gatherings or
persons; or (d) in any speech or statement which is published or broadcast and
which at the time of its making he knew or ought reasonably to have known would
be published or broadcast, uses the word “Allah” or 34 other Arabic words
including Hadith, Syariah, Kalifah, Fatwa, Alhamdulillah, Insyaallah etc to
express and or describe any fact, belief, idea, concept, act, activity, matter
or thing of or pertaining to any non-Islamic religion.
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