妇女组文告 Extract of press release [9] -- 不容强迫任何人，包括未成年者皈依回教

(12/6/2009)
不容强迫任何人，包括未成年者皈依回教！

大马回教研究机构（IKIM）总监拿督赛阿里在一场题为“宗教想法的危机”的演词中，提及拥有自身思考能力的非回教徒，包括未成年孩童应给予机会选择是否皈依回教的看法，与内阁针对改教课题：“成年人没有权力为未成年孩童决定是否要皈依回教”的突破性议决不谋而合。因此，周美芬呼吁回教党以及其他宗教异端分子应该停止反对与抨击内阁作出的上述改教政策，反之应向专职回教研究的赛阿里看齐，跳脱迂腐保守的框架，奉行开明持平的宗教信仰。

No one, including minors, should not be forced to convert to Islam!

Wanita MCA National Chairman Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun lauds the statement made by Datuk Dr. Syed Ali Tawfik Al-Attas, Director-General of the Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia (IKIM) during his keynote address titled “Crisis in Religious Thinking” that the ability to think and reason is an important part of the process by which non-Muslims, including minors, convert to Islam. This is consistent with the ground-breaking decision of the Cabinet that adults have no right to decide whether minors should convert to Islam”. Hence, Chew Mei Fun urges PAS and other religious fundamentalist parties to stop objecting and criticizing the cabinet’s policy on child conversion. Instead, they should follow the views of Dr. Syed Ali as part of a general progressive trend of Islamic thought.