{"id":6497,"date":"2007-12-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/28\/hindu-mother-in-malaysia-loses-religious-case\/"},"modified":"2007-12-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-mother-in-malaysia-loses-religious-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/28\/hindu-mother-in-malaysia-loses-religious-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Mother in Malaysia Loses Religious Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/17E8D4F3-6B3A-483F-9D5B-9EDA385865CC.htm\">english.aljazeera.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, December 27, 2007: A Hindu woman has had her attempt to stop her estranged husband from divorcing her in an Islamic court, and converting their youngest son to Islam, thwarted by Malaysia&#8217;s highest court. Subhasini also wants a divorce but says it should be decided in a civil court.<\/p>\n<p>The federal court rejected her request on a technicality, leaving the option of another attempt. The court said that as a principle, marital disputes involving a converted Muslim spouse and a non-Muslim partner should only be decided in a civil court and not in the sharia court. But at the same time, the court said Subhasini&#8217;s husband has the right to approach the shariah court to seek redress.<\/p>\n<p>In Malaysia marriages between Muslims and non-Muslims are forbidden. Therefore, once a spouse converts to Islam, the union is broken in the eyes of Islamic courts. Civil-rights groups have voiced fears that minority rights have become subordinate to Islamic jurisprudence because of a series of rulings that have gone in favour of Muslim spouses.<\/p>\n<p>Nik Hashim Nik Abdul Rahman, one of the two judges who dismissed the case, said: &#8220;The civil and sharia courts cannot interfere with each other&#8217;s jurisdiction.&#8221; There was one dissenter on the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the Press Release of the Malaysia Hindu Sangam commenting on this case <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindusangam.org.my\/news\/index.php?id=65.\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>english.aljazeera.net KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, December 27, 2007: A Hindu woman has had her attempt to stop her estranged husband from,&#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-6497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497","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=6497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}