Asia-Pacific: Politics, ethnicity and Islam in Malaysia

Alternative Law Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 123-124

  Lee, Julian C H ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 80052479116     PISSN: 1037969X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1037969X1103600213     Document Type: Note

References (11)

1. See Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia, 'The Ruling on Muslims Celebrating Valentine's Day', at 20 May 2011. This fatwa was decided by the Fatwa Committee of the National Council for Islamic Religious Affairs in November 2005.
2. See Julian CH Lee, 'Oversanctification, Autonomy and Islam in Malaysia' (2010) II Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 27-46.
3. BBC News Asia Pacific, 'Malaysia Valentine's Day raids lead to mass arrests', 15 February 2011, at 20 May 2011.
4. See Julian CH Lee, Islamization and Activism in Malaysia (2010) 106.
5. As well as the emotional impact of having a person claimed and buried as a Muslim when families believed the deceased's faith was otherwise, those officially regarded as Muslims have limited discretion in the way their financial and other possessions are dispersed upon death and, furthermore, non-Muslims are prohibited from inheriting; see, eg, Deborah Loh, No right to inheritance (2009), The Nut Graph at 20 May 2011.
6. Lee, above n 4, 91.
7. Faiza Tamby Chik J, 'Majlis Agama Islam Wilah & Anor'. (2004) 2 Malaysian Law Journal 305-25.
8. See 'Nazri: Case won't go to Syariah Court', The Star online, 27 March 2011, at 20 May 2011.
9. For a discussion of similar allegations against Anwar in 1998, see Ian Stewart, The Mahathir Legacy. A nation divided, a region at risk (2003);
10. Stephen Gray. 'Of Royalty, Rumour and the Power behind the Throne: Sedition in modern Malaysia' (2009) 34 Alternative Law Journal 55.
11. Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani, 'Anwar wants syariah court to prosecute Saiful', The Malaysian Insider, 7 January 2010, at 20 May 2011.