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DAP MP files report against Muhyiddin for claiming govt run by non-Malays


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DAP MP files report against Muhyiddin for claiming govt run by non-Malays


Bukit Bendera MP Syerleena Abdul Rashid criticises PN chairman Muhyiddin Yassin for continuing to play up the 3R issue.



Bukit Bendera MP Syerleena Abdul Rashid said Muhyiddin Yassin is trying to ‘divide the people with fear mongering’. (Facebook pic)


PETALING JAYA: Bukit Bendera MP Syerleena Abdul Rashid has filed a police report against Perikatan Nasional chairman Muhyiddin Yassin for accusing the Anwar Ibrahim unity government of being run by non-Malays and citing the “Allah” issue as an example.

Syerleena urged the police to investigate Muhyiddin under Section 505 of the Penal Code as well as the Sedition Act 1948.

She accused PN of hypocrisy in playing up 3R (race, religion and royalty) issues to garner support for the state elections.

“His (Muhyiddin’s) intention is clear, (that is) to divide the people with fear mongering,” the former Seri Delima assemblyman told a press conference today.

Syerleena said Muhyiddin had, at a press conference on June 22, said PN would steer clear of the 3R issue and focus on addressing “important” matters such as the high cost of living.

However, at a PN ceramah last night, Muhyiddin said that when he was the home minister in the Pakatan Harapan government from 2018 to 2020, he had come under pressure from DAP not to allow an appeal against a High Court ruling on the use of the word “Allah” by a Sarawakian woman in her religious learning.

The Bersatu president said he had urged the PH government to appeal the High Court ruling, but it did not proceed further because Anwar’s government came into power last year.

He alleged that the decision to abandon the appeal was made due to pressure from DAP. “Even when I was with them (in the PH government), they pushed me not to allow an appeal.”

The issue arose when Sarawakian Jill Ireland sought a court order to allow the use of the word “Allah” for the purpose of religious education in Malay and her native Melanau language in Sarawak.

In a landmark decision in March 2021, the High Court declared as illegal a 1986 home ministry ruling to prohibit the use of the words “Allah”, “Baitullah”, “Solat” and “Kaabah” by non-Muslims.

The government filed an appeal, but on April 18 this year, the Attorney-General’s Chambers, representing the home ministry, notified the Court of Appeal that it did not wish to pursue the case.

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