Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) Institute for Political Studies director Dr Kamarul Zaman Yusoff has filed a police report against Selangor assemblywoman Hannah Yeoh. His reason? He recently bought a copy of her 2014 autobiography Becoming Hannah: A Personal Journey, and having presumably read it back to front, felt his faith could be swayed to Christianity.
Well, that’s an Amazon.com books review if there ever was one!
His police report stated that there were “too many stories from the Bible,” and that “the stories can influence readers, including myself, to feel admiration for the greatness of Hannah Yeoh’s God.” The report was published in the PAS newspaper HarakahDaily today.
The report comes as a response to a previous report filed by Yeoh herself, after the lecturer took to his Facebook page to accuse Yeoh and her political party DAP of hypocrisy, saying that the party only cared about separating religion from politics if it involves Islam. His statement went on to say that “… for DAP, separation of politics from religion should only be done if it is about Islamic matters. But if it involves other religions such as Christianity then they (DAP) are okay.” It was shared nearly 300 times and had 620 likes.
The book is an account of her life, from her rise to fame after winning the Subang Jaya state seat in 2008 in a landslide, to her 2013 re-election, to being named the country’s first female speaker, and its youngest, at 34-years old.
Free Malaysia Today writes that Kamarul alleges the book’s intent to “coax, influence and instigate” non-Christians to convert or deepen their interest in Christian teachings.
Nobody lend this guy the DaVinci Code, k?
