COMMENT | Laïcité secularism? We just don’t want children kidnapped

- Former Türkiye president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

COMMENT | In 2014, current ambassador to the United States Nazri Aziz said this about the kidnapping of S Deepa’s children:

“It is a civil law marriage, it is the civil court, we must respect the civil court’s ruling. They have the jurisdiction. The High Court judge’s ruling was correct. The police shouldn’t allow him to get away with kidnapping the child.”

In 2022, while debating the King’s Address, Nazri highlighted the kidnapping of children from two mothers, Loh Siew Hong and M Indira Gandhi and said this:

“As a Muslim, I am not proud of this. For me, Islam is about being fair. And it’s not fair if one of the parents changes the religion of their child without the other parent’s permission. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.”

Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you. This is the key. Former prime minister and convicted felon Najib Razak in 2015, when addressing the United Nations general assembly, said...