Frau Joy und “Article 11” der malaysischen Verfassung
Wie in Malaysia das islamische Apostasieverbot das in der Verfassung verbrieften Recht auf Religionsfreiheit verdrängt, schildert die NYT am Beispiel der zum Christentum konvertierten Lina Joy:
Five years ago she started proceedings in the civil courts to seek the right to marry her Christian fiancé and have children. Because she had renounced her Muslim faith, Ms. Joy, 42, argued, Malaysia’s Islamic Shariah courts, which control such matters as marriage, property and divorce, did not have jurisdiction over her.
Allerdings droht nicht gleich die Todesstrafe, sondern eine Methode, die in der Sowjetunion gerne praktiziert wurde, wenn jemand sich störisch weigerte, die Vorzüge des Kommunismus zu erkennen:
They (d.i. der Oberste Gerichtshof) also ruled that a request to change her identity card from Muslim to Christian had to be decided by the Shariah courts. There she would be considered an apostate, and if she did not repent she surely would be sentenced to several years in an Islamic center for rehabilitation.
“Humanes Umerziehen”, würden wohl manche dazu sagen. Die Regierung jedenfalls scheint diesen Prozess zu unterstützen:
–––Last month, Prime Minister Badawi appeared to side with the Islamists when he ordered that forums organized around the country to discuss religious freedom must stop. The forums, run by a group called Article 11, named after the section of the Constitution that says Malaysians are free to choose their religion, were disrupted on several occasions by Islamic protesters.