PETALING JAYA: Foreign investment and tourism will be negatively impacted by amendments to the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 (RUU355), said MCA publicity bureau deputy chairman Lau Chin Kok.
“Excessive religious conservatism will cause a nation’s development to move backwards as neither foreign investor nor tourist will want to invest in or travel to such countries (with religious extremism),” he said in a statement Thursday.
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