YOURSAY | Wrong to ‘manipulate’ children in conversion row

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Let courts decide on children’s unilateral conversion, says law minister

PETALING JAYA: The court system is the best avenue for single mother Loh Siew Hong to find a solution to her three children’s unilateral conversion to Islam, law minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said today.

Perlis mufti Asri Zainul Abidin yesterday confirmed that the state’s religious department had registered Loh’s three children as Muslims upon the request of their father three years ago, a move which has been decried by civil liberty groups and religious bodies.

“As far as I am concerned, the final arbitrator is the court,” Wan Junaidi told FMT.

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