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However, Justice Hakim Abdul Hamid of the Reid Commission which drafted the constitution came out strongly in favour of making Islam the official religion, and as a result the final constitution named Islam as the official religion of Malaysia. [7] All ethnic Malays are Muslim, as defined by Article 160 of the Constitution of Malaysia. [8] [9]
The PAS party wishes that the death penalty be enacted for Muslims who attempt to convert, as part of their ultimate desire to turn Malaysia into an Islamic state. [ 38 ] In recent years, there have been some issues over non-Muslims eating during Muslim fasting month, [ 44 ] non-Muslims being allowed to use the word "Allah" to refer to God ...
The Constitution of Malaysia establishes a right to freedom of religion in Article 11. However, Islam is also established as the state religion of the country in article 3, and article 11 provides for legal restrictions on proselytizing to Muslims.
Decapitation was the normal method of executing the death penalty under classical Islamic law. [28] It was also, together with hanging, one of the ordinary methods of execution in the Ottoman Empire. [29] Currently, Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world which uses decapitation within its Islamic legal system. [30]
English: A survey based on face-to-face interviews conducted in 80 languages by the Pew Research Center between 2008 and 2012 among thousands of Muslims in many countries, found varied views on the death penalty for those who leave Islam to become an atheist or to convert to another religion. In this survey, Muslims who favoured making sharia ...
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [207] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [208] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [ 209 ] [ 210 ] [ 211 ] or has a brutalization effect, [ 212 ] [ 213 ] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence ...
Indonesia has an informal moratorium and Malaysia a formal one, both in place since 2018. In April 2023, legislation abolishing the mandatory death penalty was passed in Malaysia. [40] The countries in Asia that most recently abolished the death penalty are Kazakhstan (2021), Mongolia (2017), and Uzbekistan (2008).
According to P. Sandeep, while in most Islamic countries apostates face penal action including the death penalty in many cases, in India, being a secular democracy, even though apostasy is not a crime, those who leave Islam tend to face socio-economic ostracism and even violence from the hardliners among the Muslim community. [87]