Malaysian court accepts woman's decision to convert from Islam
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On the Malaysian island state of Penang, an Islamic court has upheld a controversial decision - allowing a woman to revert from Islam to Buddhism.
It's one of the rare ocassions a Syariah court has allowed someone to leave Islam - a practice usually viewed very seriously under Malaysian law. The court said the woman had a unique case because her conversion to Islam had not been valid, but the case has touched on a sensitive issue that has long divided the Malaysian public.
Presenter: Liam Cochrane
Speaker: Professor Shamsul AB, director of the Institute of Ethnic Studies at the National University of Malaysia; Sophie Lemiere, PHD candidate studying apostacy and Islamic civil society in Malaysia
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