Puteri’s Musings 2

KUALA LUMPUR – A HINDU woman has spurned an offer by Malaysia’s Islamic authorities to settle a dispute over her dead Muslim son’s insurance policy in a case that highlights growing conflicts over religious rights, a lawyer said on Wednesday.

The Federal Territory Islamic Council offered Tuesday to give Rukumony Muthiah two-thirds of the 56,300 ringgit (S$24,178) death insurance of her son, a Muslim convert who died in 2000, Rukumony’s lawyer Darshan Singh Khaira said.

In his insurance policy, Rukumony’s son, Ragu Ellaiappan, whose Muslim name was Mohamed Redzuan Abdullah, named Rukumony as his beneficiary, Mr Darshan said.

But Islamic authorities have argued in court that under the country’s religious laws for Muslims, a non-Muslim cannot claim inheritance from a Muslim, he said.

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This story is simply outrageous!

First of all, why is the The Federal Territory Islamic Council involved in the case? Was the insurance policy held by the deceased an Islamic insurance?

Is there any other party who is contesting the sole right of the mother to the whole amount of the insurance money? No? The state?

What a lot of crap!!

So the state is the beneficiary if the mother is denied the right to the whole sum of the insurance settlement? Or the balance of whatever the mother is “entitled” to?

Give the whole sum of money to the poor mother! That was what the son wanted!

Just cut the religious crap!