Nilateral Conversions News Today

KUALA LUMPUR, April 4 — The High Court has declared a 35-year-old woman — born in Selangor to a Hindu father and an initially Buddhist mother — to be not a person professing the religion of Islam, ruling that her unilateral conversion to Islam at the age of four by her Muslim convert mother...

MARCH 23 — I tell people often that Malaysia hates its women.  We only need to look at Singapore and Indonesia to see that as far as politics is concerned, there seems to be a rattan ceiling. In Singapore, a woman has become a Parliament Speaker and is currently the country’s...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — A woman who was unilaterally converted to Islam when she was a child but grew up a Buddhist failed to get the High Court to restore her religious status legally today. High Court judge Datuk Noorin Badaruddin said it was inappropriate for the civil courts to determine the...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 — The continuing incidents of unilateral religious conversions of young children in Malaysia makes former minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz feel “not proud” to be Muslim. The Padang Rengas MP stressed that there should not be any form of coercion from anyone to force people...

 SEBERANG PERAI, Feb 15 — Single mother and chef Loh Siew Hong said she was desperate to have her children back home, and that she would even embrace Islam if this was needed. The 35-year-old said today that she was willing to convert if this meant she would be reunited with her three...