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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

DAP vows to hound Nancy Shukri over Ibrahim Ali’s Bible-burning threat

DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang promised that the DAP will continue to push Putrajaya and law minister Nancy Shukri for action against Perkasa chief Datuk Ibrahim Ali over his threat to burn Malay-language bibles. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, October 21, 2014.DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang promised that the DAP will continue to push Putrajaya and law minister Nancy Shukri for action against Perkasa chief Datuk Ibrahim Ali over his threat to burn Malay-language bibles. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, October 21, 2014.
Lim Kit Siang said today that DAP will continue to push Putrajaya and de facto law minister Nancy Shukri to provide satisfactory answer on Perkasa chief Datuk Ibrahim Ali's threat to burn the Malay-language bibles.
"It may have been unfair that Nancy was being hounded for over two weeks after her written parliamentary answer on why Ibrahim was not prosecuted.
"(But) the national outrage will not cease as Malaysians could not accept the reasons given by the Attorney-General (A-G)," he said, in a statement today.
He said Nancy was also wrong to imply that the cabinet must accept the decision not to take action Ibrahim from an A-G, whom he described "practises selective prosecution".
Lim said although the minister was right that the cabinet could not decide whether or not to charge Ibrahim, it too could not be indifferent to prevailing public opinion that the A-G was responsible for a grave miscarriage of justice.
Instead of keeping quiet, Lim said, the A-G and the prime minister should have come to her rescue.
"By the principle of cabinet collective responsibility, the other ministers should also have come to her assistance.
"But, no minister is prepared to stick his or her neck out over what is clearly a totally unacceptable and indefensible action," Lim said.
Nancy said that the cabinet could not make decisions on charges against Ibrahim as this would be tantamount to meddling in the A-G's office.
"All I can say is that I informed the cabinet of what was going on because of the furore that resulted from my parliamentary reply.
"But the Cabinet did not and will not make a decision because it is not its duty… it is the duty of the A-G. We cannot interfere in the role of the A-G because then we will be accused of meddling. There has to be separation of powers."
Nancy said that the A-G had been given the power to decide whom to prosecute and it was not a decision for her as a minister or the cabinet to make.
She added that because the A-G was not a member of parliament, she had to give the reply based on what the A-G had done.
- TMI

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