Until yesterday, I believed that the Constitution of any one country was made to serve the interests of its people, protect them through the many rights and priviledges that it offers and that it was reliable to look to for any help.
After yesterday, it feels that I can no longer be protected by the highest form of law in this country…and we have lost the ball (read: we have gone to the dogs/we are a bunch of morons/etc).
The case of Lina Joy has been closed watched by many people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike…perhaps more so for us non-Muslims. The decision would have an impact on the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people who converted out of (illegally) and in to (legally) Islam as well as those concerned about religious freedom. I wouldn’t say that Lina Joy’s case started it all – that glory belonged to a man named Maniam Moorthy – but unlike Moorthy’s case, Lina Joy took hers to the Federal Court, the highest in the Malaysian legal system with the hopes that someone up there would be listening to her.
Instead she got rejected by a 2-1 vote.
So why is this such a big deal?
