Malaysia's clerics take fellow preacher to syariah court
PENANG: Malaysia's religious overlords, better known for chastising Muslims for practising yoga and girls for adopting tomboyish looks, are now training their guns on one of their own.
Leslie Lopez
Wed, Nov 18, 2009
The Straits Times
PENANG: Malaysia's religious overlords, better known for chastising Muslims for practising yoga and girls for adopting tomboyish looks, are now training their guns on one of their own.
He is an outspoken Muslim cleric who is preaching a more modernist form of Islam.
Earlier this month, Asri Zainul Abidin, the former mufti of the northern Perlis state, was arrested in a widely publicised raid by the Islamic Affairs Department of Selangor, or Jais, for preaching without a permit.
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