A Malaysian woman who was born into a Muslim family wishes to become a Catholic and marry a Catholic man. So what’s the problem? According to sharia law, she’s just not allowed to disavow Islam, even if she’s been baptized as a Catholic. So my question is: in their world would I be allowed to submit to Islam? If so, why, since I was “born Christian”? If not, how can Islam be true for all people?
“In rulings in her case, civil courts said Malays could not renounce Islam because the Constitution defined Malays to be Muslims.
They also ruled that a request to change her identity card from Muslim to Christian had to be decided by the Shariah courts. There she would be considered an apostate, and if she did not repent she surely would be sentenced to several years in an Islamic center for rehabilitation.”
From the NY TImes article on the case.
New York Times: Once Muslim, Now Christian and Caught in the Çourts.
One can go from other religions to Islam, but not t’other way ’round. That’s aspostasy.