Hello Robski,

Welcome to the world of Dar-Al-Islam... where little makes sense. It's the same all over the world... like Hotel California, you can check out anytime you like but you can never leave.

In Malaysia three is a case regarding someone named Lena Joy, a woman who for all intents and purposed, converted out of Islam to Christianity years ago. She applied to have that changed in her national identity card and other official documents but the courts pussyfooted around this in deference to the Syariah court. So the case was blown wide open to the public and now we have a situation that is constitutionally critical. Some Muslims think that she should be allowed to convert but the clerics know that it is against the Shariah. The non-Muslims are aghast at this, and even more flabbergasted when told that she has to undergo counselling by Islamic officials for at least two years before being granted the right to leave Islam, which cannot happen in any real Shariah case!

So now Malaysia is at a crossroads: Constitutional Law or Shariah Law -- which is higher? The Constitution was crafted to allow freedom of religion in this plural society but is now being hijacked by the Muslims. What else is new?