There are constitutional and legislative restrictions on religious freedom in Malaysia ― Hafiz Hassan | Malay Mail

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There are constitutional and legislative restrictions on religious freedom in Malaysia ― Hafiz Hassan

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SEPTEMBER 10 ― DAP’s Lim Kit Siang has a point that there should be a publicof a deputy minister’s claim that laws were being drafted to control non-Muslim religions.

There are already laws in 10 states prohibiting propagation of religions other than Islam among Muslims. For example, the State of Selangor Non-Islamic Religions Enactment, 1988. The point here is that there are Constitutional restrictions to religious freedom and they extend to Muslims as well as non-Muslims.

The state government is holding firmly to the principle of religious freedom as declared in the Federal Constitution and the Malaysian Agreement 1963.

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