KUALA LUMPUR: A police report has been lodged against PAS for urging the government to ensure single mother Loh Siew Hong's three children are not forced to become apostates.
Loh who filed the police report said the Ulama Wing’s remarks in a Facebook post were intended to prevent her from succeeding in her judicial review application to determine the legality of the unilateral conversion to Islam of her three children - 14-year-old twin girls and 10-year-old son.
"The post is a form of criminal threat, incitement, and misuse of multimedia.
"It intended to prevent me from obtaining the orders sought in the judicial review application, for which proceedings are still ongoing in the Kuala Lumpur High Court," she said.
The 34-year-old chef said this in her police report, which was lodged at the Sentul police station here on Friday morning (April 1).
The three children were converted by her ex-husband in 2020.
She also noted another Facebook post by preacher Firdaus Wong, who uploaded photos and videos of Loh and her children, which she claimed was meant to disgrace her and pressure her not to continue with her judicial review application.
She said Wong also accused her of "keeping another man".
"The reason I have made the police report is so that action can be taken against those involved," it said.
It was reported by an online portal that Loh’s lawyer, Dr Shamsher Singh Thind said the judicial review filed by Loh was meant to ascertain the legality of her children’s conversion as it was done without her consent.
"If the High Court declares the conversion of Loh’s children is not valid, that means they were never Muslims in the first place," he said.
As such, the question of whether Loh was making her children leave the religion of Islam would not arise, he said.
"I call upon all parties, including PAS and independent preachers like Zambri Vinoth and Firdaus Wong, to exercise some patience and let the law take its course.
"Nothing meaningful has ever been gained from making provocative statements," he was quoted as saying by Malaysiakini.
Loh filed the application to challenge her ex-husband's action in registering their three children as Muslim converts without her consent on March 25, and named the Perlis State Registrar of Converts, Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council, Perlis Mufti Datuk Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin and the Perlis state government as the first to the fourth respondent.
The single mother was seeking a declaration that her three children are Hindus and her ex-husband, M. Nagahswaran, did not have the legal capacity to allow the Perlis State Registrar of Converts to register their children as converts without her consent.
She was seeking a declaration that her three children, as children, did not have the legal capacity to convert to Islam without her consent.
She also sought a certiorari order to revoke the Declaration of Conversion to Islam, dated July 7, 2020, issued by the Registrar of Converts of Perlis in the name of her three children, and also other cards on their conversion to Islam that have been issued by other parties, and also prevent any party from issuing such a card.
Loh was also applying for a mandamus order to compel the Perlis State Registrar of Converts to delete or cancel the names of her three children or their Muslim names in the Perlis State Register of Converts and a prohibition order to prevent Mohd Asri, through officers, employees or the Perlis State Mufti Department from issuing statements that could meant that her children are converts or Muslims.
She was also seeking a declaration that Section 117 (b) of the Administration of the Religion of Islam Enactment 2006, which empowers the Registrar of Converts of Perlis to register a child as a convert only with the consent of the mother or father of the child, even if both of them were still alive, was unconstitutional and is invalid.
On Feb 21, the three siblings, who were under the care of the Welfare Department, were returned to Loh after the High Court allowed Loh's habeas corpus application.
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