Teresa Kok

Hello friends,

I am in Istanbul attending the conference of World Movement for Democracy now. I will try to manage my blog if I have time here. This is a conference which participated by politicians and NGOs’ activists. Anwar Ibrahim and the Prime Minister of Turkey have delivered their key-note speeches last night.

I have been asked by a lawyer friend to post this on my blog. Pls try to pass this message around and get more endorsement for this campaign to reaffirming supremacy of the Federal Constitution.

Pls go to this website to endorse the petition—- http://www.PetitionOnline.com/constsup/petition.html

Thank you.

teresa

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/constsup/petition.html

Open Letter: Reaffirming the supremacy of the Federal Constitution

To: The Malaysian Government
We, the undersigned, Malaysian men and women from all ethnic and faith backgrounds, are concerned about recent events and statements that undermine the supremacy of the Federal Constitution.

We wish to remind our national leaders that Article 4(1) emphatically declares that the Constitution is the supreme law of the Federation and that the oath of office of all parliamentarians, cabinet ministers and judges is singularly to defend the Constitution.

Further, Article 3(1) of the Federal Constitution states that ‘Islam is the religion of the Federation; but other religions may be practised in peace and harmony in any part of the Federation’. The Federation of Malaya Constitutional Commission, 1956-57 Report, states that this Article ‘shall not imply that the State is not a secular State’. The Supreme Court decision in Che Omar Che Soh (1988) reaffirmed that “the law in this country is still what it is today, secular law”.

Yet, increasingly we hear claims that Malaysia is an Islamic state.

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