Uncommon Common Sense

"What is the point of keeping a person a Muslim if they no longer believed in the faith and made that publicly known?"

These were the words of Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz, minister in the Prime Minister's Department who is also the de facto law minister, as he urged everyone to respect the decision made by the Federal Court in dismissing Lina Joy's appeal and not to speculate that Lina would not stand a chance in the Syariah Court.

Words of common sense but so uncommon in practice.

Read here for the full report. Read here for an interesting article in response to the Federal Court's decision. Read here and here for a compilation of reports from different sources.