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Group to handle apostasy issue
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New Straits Times
07-18-2006
Group to handle apostasy issue
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section
KUALA LUMPUR: Apostasy appears to have become an unsettling issue among Malays.
In a latest move, a meeting organised by Muslim Youth Movement (Abim) in Gombak here on Sunday, about 50 Muslim organisations, including Malaysian Syarie Lawyers Association, Muslim Professional Forum and Jamaah Islah Malaysia, agreed to sit under an umbrella ...
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