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...Malaysia has long trumpeted itself as a moderate Muslim nation committed to safeguarding the rights of its diverse population, an ethnic olio worthy of a Benetton ad: Muslim Malays, Christian and Buddhist Chinese, Hindu and Sikh Indians, animist indigenous peoples. Indeed, earlier this week in the capital Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi hosted the annual World Islamic Economic Forum, where he held up his homeland as proof that Islam did not equal extremism...
...Malaysia, ethnic Malays are bound by Islamic Shari'a law for matters such as marriage, property and divorce. But that system leaves considerable gray space. Joy, a 43-year-old Malay, needed to seek permission to legalize her conversion from the Shari'a court, which considers forsaking Islam a crime. And since she is still classified as a Muslim, she could not use the civil-law system. The Federal Court failed to iron out this catch-22, ruling that it had no jurisdiction over her religious conversion. With no further legal recourse left, only Joy's faith can give...
...decins du Monde said illnesses in Calais were widespread and sanitation extremely poor. Yet like Khodadadi, many see Calais as an essential stop in their quest to reach Britain, unquestionably their preferred destination, thanks to the country's ample supply of illegal jobs, relatively liberal immigration laws, large ethnic communities and its use of English, which many of them already speak...
...know that I've ever heard that kind of accusation. I have certainly never said that illegal immigrants from Mexico are in away way suspects of terrorist activities. But security at the border is a national security issue. It has nothing to do with trying to stop a particular ethnic group. It has everything to do with trying to control the flow of people into your country...
...shouts of "God is great!" from many in the assembled crowd outside the Palace of Justice in Kuala Lumpur. More secular observers were far less jubilant. "I see this case not just as a question of religious preference but one of a potential dismantling of Malaysia's ... multi-ethnic, multi-religious [character]," warned Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, a member of Joy's legal team, before the decision was announced...