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Malaysia Adds to Penalties for Conversion from Islam
Catholic World News ^ | 7/4/07

Posted on 07/05/2007 6:47:14 AM PDT by marshmallow

Jul. 4, 2007 (CWNews.com) - AsiaNews is reporting that in northern Malaysia, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party has stiffened penalties for conversion from Islam.

In a country where Muslims account for more than half of the population, conversion is punished with a 5-year prison sentence and a $3,000 fine. A Malaysian Muslim who marries a non-Muslim and who converts the non-Muslim to Islam is rewarded with an apartment, a car, a one-time payment of $2,700, and a monthly stipend of $270.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: islam; malaysia; pas; sharia
Threats and intimidation in various forms are critically important to this scourge of a religion.
1 posted on 07/05/2007 6:47:17 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

At least they haven’t made it a capital offense... YET. Give em a few years.

Islam is death, period. Which is why they must never allow the lesson of salvation that Christianity teaches spread through their lands.

Islam is the world religion of Satan, of this I am completely convinced. Satan’s greatest deceit is not convincing man he does not exist, it is convincing man that he is God, and Islam is the execution of that ploy.


2 posted on 07/05/2007 6:50:16 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

It is one of Many executions of that ploy, it just happens to be the most publicly sadistic of the lot.


3 posted on 07/05/2007 6:57:02 AM PDT by viper592
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To: marshmallow

Isn’t it Malaysia that puts wheter or not someone is islamic on their national ID card? That makes it rather difficult for anyone to convert out of Islam.


4 posted on 07/05/2007 6:57:39 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: marshmallow

Saudi Arabia - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bibles are illegal. Churches are illegal. Easter celebrations are illegal. It is punishable by death for a non-mulsim to enter the “holy” muslim cities of Medina and Mecca.

Yemen - Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims and forbids conversions. The Government does not allow the building of new non-Muslim places of worship.

Kuwait - Registration and licensing of religious groups. Members of religions not sanctioned in the Koran may not build places of worship. Prohibits organized religious education for religions other than Islam.

Egypt - Islam is the official state religion and primary source of legislation. Accordingly, religious practices that conflict with Islamic law are prohibited. Muslims may face legal problems if they convert to another faith. Requires non-Muslims to obtain what is now a presidential decree to build a place of worship.

Algeria - The law prohibits public assembly for purposes of practicing a faith other than Islam. Non-Islamic proselytizing is illegal, and the Government restricts the importation of non-Islamic literature for distribution. The country has passed the “Regulation of Religious Practice” law, which stipulates a punishment of two to five years’ imprisonment and heavy fines for anyone convicted of urging a Muslim to change his religion.

Syria - The constitution requires the president to be a Muslim and specifies that Islamic jurisprudence is a principal source of legislation. Sharing your Christian faith is discouraged as “posing a threat to the relations among religious groups” and carries a penalty of up to life in prison. A Christian is not allowed to proselytize – ever. Churches who want to hold an extra service must get a government permit. Sermons are routinely monitored, as is church fundraising.

Jordan - Has the death penalty for any Muslim selling land to a Jew.

Sudan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death.

Pakistan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims. Christians regularly put in prison for charges of blasphemy. Islam is the state religion, and in a court of law the testimony of a Christian carries less weight than that of a Muslim. Section 295(c) of the Penal Code calls for a death sentence for anyone who defiles the name of the Prophet Muhammad and requires the testimony of four Muslims for a conviction. This fosters an environment in which Muslims can feel free to use intimidation and violence against religious minorities for personal gain. Also, if any criminal Muslim rape with any Christian female and then take plea that she has accepted Islam and marry with him. Such person is not culpable under Pakistani criminal law

Qatar - Islamic instruction is compulsory in public schools. The government regulates the publication, importation, and distribution of non-Islamic religious literature. The government continues to prohibit proselytizing of Muslims by non-Muslims.

Malaysia - Under Malaysian law, any convert to Christianity must apply to a shariah (Muslim law) court to legally renounce Islam. Many Christians prefer to remain silent converts rather than take their battle to the shariah courts, where apostasy or conversion out of Islam is punishable by whipping, fines, imprisonment and—in the most extreme application—death. In a country where Muslims account for more than half of the population, conversion from Islam is punished with a 5-year prison sentence and a $3,000 fine. A Malaysian Muslim who marries a non-Muslim and who converts the non-Muslim to Islam is rewarded with an apartment, a car, a one-time payment of $2,700, and a monthly stipend of $270.

The Maldives - In the island paradise visited by tens of thousands of tourists each year, Christianity is simply not tolerated. While local Christians – said to number around 300 out of a total population of 300,000 – do get together to worship, they do so at the risk of imprisonment or worse if discovered by the Muslim authorities. Bibles are banned, and tourists can be arrested for trying to bring them into the country.


5 posted on 07/05/2007 7:07:36 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: marshmallow
A Malaysian Muslim who marries a non-Muslim and who converts the non-Muslim to Islam is rewarded with an apartment, a car, a one-time payment of $2,700, and a monthly stipend of $270.

All at the expense of the Indian and Chinese immigrants who run most of the Malaysian economy, yet are at the receiving hands of one of the worst kinds of "affirmative" action reverse-racism.

6 posted on 07/05/2007 7:07:57 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: CarrotAndStick
All at the expense of the Indian and Chinese immigrants who run most of the Malaysian economy, yet are at the receiving hands of one of the worst kinds of "affirmative" action reverse-racism.

That seems to be the way it is in most of the Muslim world. The filthy oil ticks won't deign to do any kind of labor, so they import Filipina maids and Hindu roughnecks and American petroleum engineers, and then treat them like this. The Saudis are the worst of the bunch.

I look forward to the day when we can buy our oil from Greater Israel, and the remnants of the House of Saud are herding camels and living in tents in the Empty Quarter, just like their ignorant savage great-grandfathers.

-ccm

7 posted on 07/05/2007 7:19:35 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: ccmay

I too wish to see Greater Israel some day, they are a force for moderation and progress for the entire region.

This asinine policy that practically the whole of the world follows of appeasing the Muslims, is proving rather costly to us all, indeed.

Just wondering what some years of Indonesia and Malaysia under the imperial Japanese would have done... these people only seem to deserve an iron rod.


8 posted on 07/05/2007 7:26:40 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: 2banana
In a country where Muslims account for more than half of the population, conversion from Islam is punished with a 5-year prison sentence and a $3,000 fine. A Malaysian Muslim who marries a non-Muslim and who converts the non-Muslim to Islam is rewarded with an apartment, a car, a one-time payment of $2,700, and a monthly stipend of $270.

Where is the ACLU on this official government enforcement of a single religion?

*crickets*

9 posted on 07/05/2007 8:07:08 AM PDT by Sender (Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.)
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To: marshmallow

Figures. Are we surprised?


10 posted on 07/05/2007 8:10:35 AM PDT by AliVeritas (America, love it or leave it. To Harry Reid: See me, feel me, touch me, bite me.)
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To: Sender

I was unaware that the ACLU addressed legal questions in countries other than the U.S.


11 posted on 07/05/2007 8:11:28 AM PDT by RonF
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To: 2banana

Again I post for our country:

Can a Muslim be a Good American??

I received this via email, from a friend, and it’s been around a while but this is worth re-reading and keeping in mind, and I don’t care how many moonbat libtards it pisses off, Islam IS our enemy, if you are a Christian or a Jew, Islam has sworn to kill you if you don’t submit to their philosophy…

Interesting questions for the Muslim Community to discuss. For research on our part also.

Can a good Muslim be a good American?

I forwarded that question to a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for 20 years.

The following is his forwarded reply:

Theologically - no. Because his allegiance is to Allah, the moon God of Arabia.

Religiously - no. Because no other religion is accepted by his Allah except Islam. (Qu ran, 2:256)

Scripturally - no. Because his allegiance is to the five pillars of Islam and the Qu ran (Koran).

Geographically - no. Because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a day.

Socially - no. Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.

Politically - no. Because he must submit to the mullah (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America, the great Satan.

Domestically - no. Because he is instructed to marry four women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him. (Quran 4:34 ).

Intellectually - no. Because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.

Philosophically - no. Because in Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran do not allow freedom of religion and expression.

Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.

Spiritually - no. Because when we declare “one nation under God,” the Christian’s God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in The Quran’s 99 excellent names.

Therefore after much study and deliberation, perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country.

They obviously cannot be both good Muslims and good Americans.

Call it what you wish, it’s still the truth.

If you find yourself intellectually in agreement with the above statements, perhaps you will share this with your friends.The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country and our future.

Pass it on Fellow Americans. The religious war is bigger than we know or understand.

http://texasfred.net/archives/310


12 posted on 07/05/2007 8:12:23 AM PDT by AliVeritas (America, love it or leave it. To Harry Reid: See me, feel me, touch me, bite me.)
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To: RonF

Obviously they don’t, but if our government punished conversion to Christianity, the ACLU would be solidly absent.


13 posted on 07/05/2007 8:45:05 AM PDT by Sender (Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.)
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To: HamiltonJay
Plus the biggist deception put out by Satan.
14 posted on 07/05/2007 10:13:56 AM PDT by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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