இந்துப்பெண்ணுக்கு மாட்டுக்கறி கொடுத்து மதமாற்றம் - மலேசிய அரசாங்கம்!

முன்பே மலேசிய இந்துப்பெண்மணியான ரேவதி இஸ்லாமிலிருந்து வெளியேறியதற்காக அவருக்கு சிறை தண்டனை கொடுக்கபப்ட்டதை குறித்திருந்தேன்.

தற்போது சிறையிலிருந்து வெளி வந்தவர் தன் அனுபவங்களை கூறியிருக்கிறார்.

இவருக்கு மாட்டுக்கறி சமைத்த்கொடுத்து இவரை இஸ்லாமியராக்க முனைந்திருக்கிறார்கள்.

மாட்டுக்கறி சாப்பிட்டால் இந்துவாக இருக்கமுடியாது என்று மலேசியர்களுக்கு யார் சொன்னார்கள் என்று தெரியவில்லை. தமிழ்நாட்டிலும் கேரளாவிலும் பலர் மாட்டுக்கறி சாப்பிடுபவர்கள். ஆனால், இந்துக்களாகத்தான் வாழ்கிறார்கள்.

எப்படியெல்லாம் கட்டாய மதமாற்றம் செய்ய முனைகிறார்கள்!. அதுவும் மலேசிய அரசாங்கமே!


'Uproar over conversion to Hinduism'
6 Jul 2007, 1838 hrs IST,REUTERS

MALAYSIA: A Malaysian woman on Friday accused Islamic religious police of intimidation and mental torture during her six-month detention for renouncing Islam in favour of the Hindu religion.

"It was a prison. They placed me in a solitary confinement," Massosai Revathi, an ethnic Indian, said a day after she was freed from a state-run Islamic counselling centre.

"Although I served 180 days, I still cannot convert out of Islam," said Revathi, 29. "I wasted my time."

Her case highlighted another strain in the fabric of race and religious relations in multi-ethnic Malaysia. Last month, dozens of people campaigning for freedom of religion held a candlelight vigil to protest against her detention.

In May, the country's best-known Christian convert, Lina Joy, lost a battle in Malaysia's highest court to have the word "Islam" removed from her identity card. In delivering judgment in that case, the Federal Court's chief justice said the issue of apostasy was related to Islamic law, and civil courts could not intervene.

In practice, sharia courts do not allow Muslims to formally renounce Islam, preferring to send apostates to counselling and, ultimately, fining or jailing them if they refuse to desist.

Such people often end up in legal limbo, unable to register their new religious affiliations or legally marry non-Muslims. Many keep silent about their choice or emigrate.

Revathi was born to a Indian Hindu family, which converted to Islam before she was born. Although given the Muslim name of Siti Fatimah Karim, she said she was raised as a Hindu by her grandmother.

She married a Hindu in 2004 according to Hindu rites and the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.

Revathi was freed on Thursday, a day before the hearing of her husband's application for her release was due to begin. A civil court judge on Friday threw out the application since she had been released.

Speaking to reporters outside the court in the city of Shah Alam, 40 km (25 miles) southwest of the Malaysian capital, Revathi said she suffered mental torture while in detention.

"They asked me to be a Muslim and they threatened to send my daughter to a welfare home if I defied them," she said.
"They also served me beef, knowing I don't take beef as a Hindu."

A lawyer for the Malacca Islamic Religion Council, which acted against Revathi, denied her charges. "She can claim
anything," the lawyer, Tuah Atan, said. "She has been put under the custody of her parents until she is rehabilitated."