As announced yesterday by the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nazri Abdul Aziz and reported in various medias, the Cabinet decides that children must follows the original religion of the parents at the time they got married if any one of the parents converts to another religion.
The Sun reported that "These were among the long-term solutions discussed by the Cabinet today in the wake of the latest case of Mohd Ridzuan Abdullah and his wife, M. Indira Gandhi, and several other similar cases before them."
This decision by the Cabinet is laudable but I hoped the AG office will come out with a specific law to ensure the Cabinet decision is to be adhered by all civil servants all the way from the top to the lower rung.
This request should be understandable since the government announcements on similiar issues in the past has been just like that. Announcements without any concrete steps to ensure it will be implemented as intended.
What happens to the April 2008 announcement that steps will be taken to set a regulation that requires any non-Muslim who is converting to Islam to inform their family before their conversion. It is already more than a year but there is no developments on this matter since the announcement by the then Prime Minister.
Do we have to wait for another similiar case to have this matter to be taken seriously by the Cabinet, again?
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