{"id":12913,"date":"2013-07-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/07\/28\/malaysia-court-quashes-hindu-kids-conversion-to-islam\/"},"modified":"2013-07-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T12:00:00","slug":"malaysia-court-quashes-hindu-kids-conversion-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/07\/28\/malaysia-court-quashes-hindu-kids-conversion-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Court Quashes Hindu Kids&#8217; Conversion To Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2013\/07\/25\/malaysia-court-quashes-hindu-kids-conversion-to-islam\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR , MALAYSIA, July,25, 2013(AFP): A Malaysian court on Thursday ruled against the 2009 conversion of three Hindu children to Islam without their mother&#8217;s knowledge, a verdict welcomed by non-Muslim groups. A high court in the northern city of Ipoh declared the conversion of Indira Gandhi&#8217;s children, now aged five, 15 and 16, by their father to be unconstitutional, said Indira&#8217;s lawyer, K. Shanmuga.<\/p>\n<p>The judge ruled that the father had failed to take the mother and children to Islamic authorities for their consent to the conversion, in a rare verdict in the multiracial but Muslim-majority nation, Shanmuga said. &#8220;It is the first time ever that a child&#8217;s conversion certificate has been quashed by a high court,&#8221; he told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month Malaysia withdrew an Islamic law which allows one parent to give consent for a child&#8217;s conversion, after an outcry. Opponents said it discriminated against minorities despite government promises to address their grievances.<\/p>\n<p>Religious groups welcomed Thursday&#8217;s verdict. &#8220;We are very happy about that decision. But it must be accepted by all the Islamic and other government agencies,&#8221; said Mohan Shan, an official with the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism. Conversions of children and &#8220;body-snatching&#8221; cases &#8212; in which Islamic authorities tussle with families over the remains of people whose religion is disputed &#8212; have previously raised tensions.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 percent of Malaysia&#8217;s 28 million people are Muslim ethnic Malays, but it also has sizable Chinese and Indian minorities who are non-Muslims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KUALA LUMPUR , MALAYSIA, July,25, 2013(AFP): A Malaysian court on Thursday ruled against the 2009 conversion of three Hindu,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}