Determined to speak out

Breaking ground: Datuk Latifah Merican Cheong talking about G25’s book, ‘Breaking the Silence: Voices of Moderation: Islam in a Constitutional Democracy’. On her right is fellow founder member Datuk Redzuan Kushairi.

OVER the past couple months, the G25 Group of Moderate Muslims have been labelled extremist, dangerous, anti-Islam, deviationist, biadab (disrespectful) and disloyal to the King.

The group of senior retired civil servants first made the news in December 2014 with an open letter about their concerns on areas of conflict and overlap between civil and syariah law. Their call for consultation to harmonise syariah laws and the Federal Constitution gained support and inspired an “I am #26” petition.