Lina Joy loses appeal..wohoo..

from THE STAR
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Wednesday May 30, 2007

Lina Joy loses appeal

News update by The Star's newsdesk

PUTRAJAYA: Lina Joy lost her final round of appeal when the Federal Court dismissed on Wednesday her appeal against a ruling that the National Registration Department was right not to allow her to remove the word "Islam" from her identity card.

Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim and Federal Court judge Justice Alauddin Mohd Sheriff delivered the majority decision dismissing her appeal.

Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Justice Richard Malanjum dissented.

On Sept 19, 2005, the Court of Appeal decided that the NRD director-general was right in refusing her application to drop her religious status from her IC on the grounds that the Syariah Court and other Islamic religious authorities did not confirm Linas renunciation of Islam.

ajin: ok dont let me get started with this la kan, as discussed yesterday by iliyas & me, we were very much confident that the decision will be against her.no offence, but seriously this is a very stupid case, yet being sensitive in its own nature, it will determine the future position of Islam in Malaysia.If it was allowed, there'd be many of such cases and floodgate case would occur.We should all open up our history books and find out why Malaysia is a multi-racial country. I do not want incident like 13th may 1969 to re-occur again. But im worried about the new generations. We dont really appreciate sacrifice of our forefathers when we dont experience war.but my question to you is, how do we deal this matter with the new generations?.. can anyone answer? All i have to stay now is, Islam is here to stay ladies and gents.And happy 50th independence Malaysia.