{"id":14002,"date":"2016-12-10T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T06:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=14002"},"modified":"2016-12-10T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T09:14:00","slug":"unilateral-conversion-of-a-child-to-be-condemned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=14002","title":{"rendered":"Unilateral conversion of a child to be condemned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Constitution is the supreme law of this land. No state\u00a0laws or state Islamic laws can contravene the provisions in the\u00a0Federal Constitution. SUPP does not agree with some scholars&#8217; views\u00a0that state Islamic laws are within autonomous powers of a state, said\u00a0President of SUPP, Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sim who is also the Local Government Minister condemned the Perlis\u00a0government\u2019s amendment of its enactment to allow the unilateral\u00a0conversion of a non-Muslim child by a newly converted Muslim parent\u00a0without the consent of the non-Muslim spouse.<\/p>\n<p>He said SUPP reminds that Federal Constitution is not only supreme, it\u00a0defines Malaysian society. If a state can simply amend any Islamic\u00a0laws contravening FC, this will cause grave conflicts and confusion as\u00a0to the definition of Malaysia established since 1963 from state to\u00a0state.<\/p>\n<p>We in SUPP fully supports our government&#8217;s efforts in amending both\u00a0Article 12(4) of the FC and the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act\u00a01976 to only allow child&#8217;s religious conversion to be consented by\u00a0both parents. This not only resolves the long outstanding issues of\u00a0child&#8217;s conversion that haunted our country, it also once again\u00a0upholds the 1963 spirit of Malaysia, he added.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dr-sim-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14003\" alt=\"dr-sim\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dr-sim--226x300.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dr-sim--226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dr-sim-.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Constitution is the supreme law of this land. No state\u00a0laws or state Islamic laws can contravene the provisions in the\u00a0Federal Constitution. SUPP does not agree with some scholars&#8217; views\u00a0that state Islamic laws are within autonomous powers of a state, said\u00a0President of SUPP, Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian. Dr. Sim who is also the Local Government Minister condemned the Perlis\u00a0government\u2019s amendment of its enactment to allow the unilateral\u00a0conversion of a non-Muslim child by a newly converted Muslim parent\u00a0without the consent of the non-Muslim spouse. He said SUPP reminds<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=14002\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14004,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002\/revisions\/14004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}