The Malaysian Insight

A UNIVERSITY lecturer has now lodged a police report against Selangor Speaker Hannah Yeoh after she lodged a report against him for his allegations that her biography is to proselytise Malays. 

Universiti Utara Malaysia senior lecturer Kamarul Yusoff lodged the report in Kedah to counter Yeoh’s police report earlier against his May 10 Facebook post, accusing DAP of hypocrisy in matters of religion.

Kamarul had cited Yeoh, a Christian, as an example of DAP only wanting to separate religion from politics if it involves Islam.

“I was surprised that the book had a lot of stories and quotes from the Christian Bible. I think the book is trying to persuade, influence, or incite a non-Christian to convert to Christianity,” Kamarul posted on Facebook this morning. The Facebook post contained a picture of himself outside the Changloon police station this morning.

The political science lecturer said he had bought Yeoh’s book because he was interested in what politicians did and what inspired them.

“But what the book said was about how fortunate being a Christian is and how the Christian God is a loving, good and just god,” said Kamarul.

The book also contained parts of how Yeoh said she had “prophecies” on how she would one day be working with statesmen, he said. The book also recorded Yeoh’s “miracles”, said Kamarul.

“All her stories have inadvertently inspired her readers, including me, to be awed by her god.”

And since her book is widely availble to the public, Kamarul said Yeoh may have broken the law under Section 4(1)(a) of the Enactment of Controls and Sanctions (Expansion of non-Islamic Religions) of Selangor 1988.

“The enactment states that ‘a person commits an offence if he or she tries to persuade, influence, or incite Muslims to become members of a non-Islamic religion.”

He added that Yeoh might have also contravened Section 298 (A)(1) of the Penal Code because she had tried to break the harmony of the country using religion.

He went on to list examples from Yeoh’s autobiography, Becoming Hannah: A Personal Journey, as trying to propagate Christianity to Muslims and urged the police to investigate the Subang assemblyman.

Yeoh had said there was no secret agenda in her book as the soft launch was in 2014 and the official launch in January 2015. The book can be bought online and is available in major bookstores, such as Kinokuniya, MPH, Popular and Times. – May 17, 2017.