Siti Fatimah Tan allowed to renounce Islam
The Syariah Court in Penang has allowed a Chinese convert to renounce Islam in a rare decision today.
Apostasy, or renouncing the faith, is one of the gravest sins in Islam and a very sensitive issue in Malaysia where the Islamic courts have rarely allowed such renunciations and have also jailed apostates.
Syariah Court judge Othman Ibrahim [...]
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