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Administration of the Religion of Islam (Federal Territories) Bill 2013

Inequality in the name of Islam

Shape of a Pocket by Jacqueline Ann Surin

THE problem with the Administration of the Religion of Islam (Federal Territories) Bill 2013 wasn’t just that it was “unfair” to non-Muslims or controversial. The reason it has no place in Malaysia is that the bill entrenches inequalities and does so in the name of Islam.