Stop Malicious Videos And Messages Says Yeoh After Court Decision

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Hannah Yeoh said her faith ‘has again become political fodder by religious extremists’. (Facebook pic)
PETALING JAYA: DAP’s Hannah Yeoh said she will lodge a police report against the “malicious” videos and messages insinuating that she is out to convert Muslims to Christianity or is working towards turning Malaysia into a Christian nation.
The youth and sports minister said such videos and messages could compromise her appeal against the High Court’s decision to dismiss her defamation suit against former inspector-general of police Musa Hassan.
Responding to claims made by those politicising the High Court’s decision to dismiss her suit against Musa, who had accused her of trying to turn Malaysia into a “Christian nation”, Yeoh said “nothing could be further from the truth”.
In a Facebook post, she said she respected and upheld the Federal Constitution as well as the position of Islam as the religion of the federation.
She also acknowledged that there were clear legal restrictions against propagating religions other than Islam to Muslims in Malaysia.
“As has occurred many times in my political career, my faith has again become political fodder by religious extremists.
“I urge all parties to stand firm against these attempts and not spread the messages when they see them online,” she said.
On Monday, judicial commissioner Arziah Apandi dismissed Yeoh’s defamation suit against Musa on grounds she had failed to prove her claim on a balance of probabilities.
Arziah said Musa’s speech at a UiTM forum on Jan 30, 2020 did not specifically refer to Yeoh, and that many of his remarks referred to other people.
Yeoh said her lawyers filed an appeal to the appellate court today.
She also said she was informed that there were no full written grounds of judgment issued by the High Court yet and that there were only brief grounds listed in writing through a court e-review system on Dec 23.
“It is therefore inappropriate at this juncture to draw conclusions on what the High Court had decided in totality and its reasoning,” she said. - FMT

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