A CHRISTIAN group has thrown its support behind Selangor Speaker Hannah Yeoh by asking for signatures on an online petition to stop legal harassment of the DAP politician over her autobiography.
CitizenGO, A Spanish based online petition website, started the petition on Saturday, which is addressed to five people, including the Selangor sultan and Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali.
The online petition has so far garnered 7,492 signatures. Its target is 10,000 signatures.
The petition states that Yeoh was simply relating her experience as a Christian in her book, “Becoming Hannah”, and was not trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.
“Yeoh’s book, which was published in 2015, is now at the centre of allegations of ‘proselytising’. And, while proselytising against Islam is an offence in Malaysia, Yeoh’s book simply reports on her experiences in the context of her faith,” the statement accompanying the petition reads.
The statement asserts that Yeoh has every right to profess and practise her religion according to the Federal Constitution of Malaysia.
“And yet, in Selangor (one of Malaysia’s 13 states) today, a Christian politician is under fire for having written an autobiography telling how her Christian faith helped her choose a career-path in public service.”
The statement goes on to call for action to be taken against Universiti Utara Malaysia senior lecturer Kamarul Yusoff trying to “legally harrass” Yeoh. Kamarul had lodged a police report alleging that Yeoh was attempting to proselytise to Muslims through her book.
The statement urged the sultan and menteri besar of Selangor to intervene and uphold the law.“In the end, this petition asks that this complaint not be entertained by the Malaysian courts.”
Yeoh’s book, “Becoming Hannah” drew controversy when Kamarul said on Facebook that the book was aimed at converting Muslims.
Kamarul also lodged a police report against Yeoh in Kedah to counter Yeoh’s police report against his May 10 Facebook post.
CitizenGO is a Spanish foundation working from a Christian perspective to preserve the dignity and rights of all. – May 29, 2017.
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2). This wannabe’s feeble attempt at disassociation and mislead actually show he have zero analytical abilities. Only self delusional claim as an ” analyst ”
3). This chap was ” educated” oversea using our money as taxpayer - an obvious of our blood sweat money down the drain. was his so-called doctorate bought ? or awarded by equally moronic same kind ?
4). His boastful self inflated write-up about his ” achievement “ clearly shows him as suffering from Dunning–Kruger
5). Pity his students for they will be taught by him crooked thinking. In fact an insult to his own people and UUM as a center of higher learning for the world can mistakenly think all of his kind are of the same low IQ - which we know is not true. He should be sacked for he risk dragging their reputation into mud.
6). He should be arrested for trying to incite hatred in negara ku. Whatever ” organisation” he is heading should also be investigated whether they are his breeding ground before we get another Daesh here.
Before negaru ku gets worse, we must all do our part to support the petition as a message to such cowards that ” rakyat says enough is enough ! “
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