334. KL, here I come
Will be headed to KL after work today with Chu Wai. The day went by pretty uneventfully until I reach Chuwy's office. While waiting for him, I decide to do a walk around my car. Good thing I did! My front driver's side tire is flat. So before the journey even begins, we already have our drama. I had to change the tire before leaving in case I come back on Monday to a flat & damaged tire.
After changing the tire under the hot sun, we finally left at 6ish. We initially wanted to stop by Ipoh for beansprout chicken, but because of time constraints, we stopped by for dinner at Bukit Merah and continued our journey.
We met up with Wing Kit and his lovely wife at their church. The topic was very interesting. It was a forum of sorts with 2 lawyers that specialise in dealing with Muslims who want to convert out of Islam. The conclusion is that there's no way one can do that (in Malaysia, at least). It seems that these cases are refered by Civil courts to Syariah courts because a precedent has been set. Syariah courts are suppose to uphold the 5 pillars of the Islamic faith and all the Muslim Theology.
After doing some reseach on this topic on Wikipedia, I found this article on Syariah laws. Under the sub topic of Muslim apostates, apostasy in Islam, in some (but not all) interpretations of an Islamic state, conversion by Muslims to other religions is forbidden and is termed apostasy. In Muslim theology, apostasy resembles the crime of treason, the betrayal of one's own country. Penalties may include ostracism or even execution if they live or have lived in an "Islamic State" and are deemed enemies of the state. By analogy, in the age of nation states, a person who commits treason (turning state's secrets to a foreign power, or spies for a foreign power, etc) is subject to severe penalty—historically, death.
so you go figure out why ultimately these conversion cases will not go through.
After coffee at Starbucks in Uptown, we sent his wife home and headed out to hunt for a cybercafe to fulfill their cravings for CounterStrike. After checking out 5, yes 5 different locations, we finally found one with vacant machines. Gosh! I didn't know gaming is such a big deal here. Gee!
Will be headed to KL after work today with Chu Wai. The day went by pretty uneventfully until I reach Chuwy's office. While waiting for him, I decide to do a walk around my car. Good thing I did! My front driver's side tire is flat. So before the journey even begins, we already have our drama. I had to change the tire before leaving in case I come back on Monday to a flat & damaged tire.
After changing the tire under the hot sun, we finally left at 6ish. We initially wanted to stop by Ipoh for beansprout chicken, but because of time constraints, we stopped by for dinner at Bukit Merah and continued our journey.
We met up with Wing Kit and his lovely wife at their church. The topic was very interesting. It was a forum of sorts with 2 lawyers that specialise in dealing with Muslims who want to convert out of Islam. The conclusion is that there's no way one can do that (in Malaysia, at least). It seems that these cases are refered by Civil courts to Syariah courts because a precedent has been set. Syariah courts are suppose to uphold the 5 pillars of the Islamic faith and all the Muslim Theology.
After doing some reseach on this topic on Wikipedia, I found this article on Syariah laws. Under the sub topic of Muslim apostates, apostasy in Islam, in some (but not all) interpretations of an Islamic state, conversion by Muslims to other religions is forbidden and is termed apostasy. In Muslim theology, apostasy resembles the crime of treason, the betrayal of one's own country. Penalties may include ostracism or even execution if they live or have lived in an "Islamic State" and are deemed enemies of the state. By analogy, in the age of nation states, a person who commits treason (turning state's secrets to a foreign power, or spies for a foreign power, etc) is subject to severe penalty—historically, death.
so you go figure out why ultimately these conversion cases will not go through.
After coffee at Starbucks in Uptown, we sent his wife home and headed out to hunt for a cybercafe to fulfill their cravings for CounterStrike. After checking out 5, yes 5 different locations, we finally found one with vacant machines. Gosh! I didn't know gaming is such a big deal here. Gee!
2 comments:
Now, that's a word I've not heard for a long time... Counter Strike!
Heh heh! Tell me about it man. I can't believe it when the 2 of them jokers say they wanted to play CS. I thot they're joking since they're both more serious and mature than me :P
So wanna play when u come back for old time's sake? Remember them crazy runs to Onestop after work? ;)
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