Perlis mufti says will ensure Loh’s kids remain Muslims after court order

Updated 2 years ago · Published on 21 Feb 2022 7:40PM · 5 Comments

PERLIS mufti Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin said he will ensure Loh Siew Hong’s three children remain Muslims, after the High Court upheld the single mother’s full custody of her children, who were without her consent converted to Islam.

He said he expected the court decision and will look into other measures to ensure the children can remain Muslims, according to Free Malaysia Today.

“What we are defending is their religion and if they want to continue to embrace Islam,” he was quoted as saying.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court today said the custody order granted to Loh last year still stands, and ordered the three children to be handed over to her.

The 14-year-old twin girls and 10-year-old boy were converted to Islam at the request of Loh’s ex-husband, who abducted the children when Loh was hospitalised three years ago.

She was granted full custody in March, and finally found her children at a welfare home in Perlis early last month after searching since 2019.

Despite the court order, neither police nor welfare authorities handed over the children to her.

Loh filed a habeas corpus application at the High Court on February 13, naming Hidayah Centre Foundation senior preacher Nazirah Nanthakumari Abdullah and parties holding her children as second respondents.

Asri – who was allowed to meet the three children when Loh was not – claimed that they did not want to stay with their mother.

Perlis religious authorities have registered the children as Muslims without Loh being present, he added.

Loh’s lawyer, Shamsher Singh Thind, said the children’s conversion will be challenged in court, unless the registrars of converts in three states – Perlis, Kedah and Penang – can prove that the conversions are not registered. – February 21, 2022.

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  • An illegal conversion is not a conversion.
    The children are not Muslims.

    Posted 2 years ago by Arul Inthirarajah · Reply

  • The Mufti has no moral or legal rights to interfere with the family since the the kids conversion is illegal, and this is now a family matter. The conversion should be revoked, and the kids can make their own decision when they turned 18.

    Posted 2 years ago by Rupert Lum · Reply

  • If this Mufti want more conversion for Islam, he should go for thinking adults who can make the right decision based on facts and observation. Don't victimise or manipulate kids who are still too young to decide. Its most unconscionable and most shameful. He should make the religion seem acceptable, a religion of love and justice and many thinking adult will be ready to embrace the religion because they, in addition to facts also observe the right practices. Right now, many practitioners do not walk the talk and has blasphemed the good religion with their hypocrisy and ignorance and evil behaviour.

    Posted 2 years ago by Brave Malaysian · Reply

  • An illegal act cannot be condoned by a religious leader. It must be condemned. The rule of law is the only thing preventing society descending into anarchy.

    Posted 2 years ago by Malaysia New hope · Reply

  • A despicable unlawful

    Posted 2 years ago by Jeevaraj Nadarajah · Reply