See JulianCH Lee, Islamization and Activism in Malaysia (2010) 106.
5.
As well as the emotional impact of having a person claimed and buried as a Muslim when families believed the deceased's faith was otherwise, those officially regarded as Muslims have limited discretion in the way their financial and other possessions are dispersed upon death and, furthermore, non-Muslims are prohibited from inheriting; see, eg, LohDeborah, No right to inheritance (2009), The Nut Graph <www.thenutgraph.com/no-right-to-inheritance/> at 20 May 2011.
6.
List II of the State List in Malaysia's Constitution notes that Syariah courts ‘have jurisdiction only over persons professing the religion of Islam’.
7.
The grounds for this decision in November 2010 included that the court could not decide the case while Shamala was in contempt of court, having fled Malaysia some years earlier owing to previous courts' unwillingness to decide on the children's religion.
8.
Lee, above n 4, 91.
9.
ChikFaiza Tamby J, ‘Majlis Agama Islam Wilah & Anor’, (2004) 2Malaysian Law Journal305–25.
For a discussion of similar allegations against Anwar in 1998, see StewartIan, The Mahathir Legacy: A nation divided, a region at risk (2003); GrayStephen, ‘Of Royalty, Rumour and the Power behind the Throne: Sedition in modern Malaysia’ (2009) 34Alternative Law Journal55.
