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Saturday, October 18, 2014

Not my job to advise A-G on Ibrahim Ali, says Nancy Shukri

Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali faces no charges despite calling for the burning of Malay Bibles, based on the Attorney-General's decision, says the de facto law minister. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, October 18, 2014. Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali faces no charges despite calling for the burning of Malay Bibles, based on the Attorney-General's decision, says the de facto law minister. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, October 18, 2014. 
De facto Law Minister Nancy Shukri, who yesterday said she did not agree with Datuk Ibrahim Ali's religious and racial views, said today she would not advise the public prosecutor on using the Sedition Act against the Perkasa president.
Malaysiakini reported Nancy saying that she did not want to interfere with the Attorney-General's job.
The minister in the prime minister's department had attended the Gerakan women's wing annual general assembly in Kuala Lumpur today.
"(The investigation) is not done by me, so I have to read it out," she was quoted as saying.
Nancy in a parliamentary written reply dated October 7, said the police had concluded that Ibrahim's call for Malay Bibles to be burnt was directed at specific individuals, and not a threat to the larger society.
The police had also not decided to act against Ibrahim because he was merely "defending Islam", her written reply had said.
De facto law minister Nancy Shukri has distanced her personal stance from the Attorney-General's decision not to take action against Ibrahim Ali. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, October 18, 2014.De facto law minister Nancy Shukri has distanced her personal stance from the Attorney-General's decision not to take action against Ibrahim Ali. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, October 18, 2014.She was immediately criticised for not exercising leadership as the minister in charge of law.
Two days after the parliamentary written reply was published, she issued a statement, hitting out at the opposition for making capital gain on it.
She also blamed social media users for spreading articles, saying "irresponsible quarters" had only taken excerpts from her answer in Parliament to "create misinterpretation and misunderstanding".
Yesterday, in a Borneo Post article, she sought to distance her personal stance from the Attorney-General's decision, saying that she herself did not agree with Ibrahim's views, but that the public prosecutor had decided against charges based on police findings.
“It must be made known that it was the A-G’s decision not to charge Datuk Ibrahim under the Sedition Act, and the decision was made based on the police investigation.
“As a minister or one of the leaders of the nation, I have to support the rule of the law, but it does not mean I agree with Datuk Ibrahim’s extreme views,” Nancy told the Post, a Sarawak English daily.
She said the decision not to charge Ibrahim with sedition was made fairly and without favouring any party.
"The decision by the Attorney-General Chambers to not prosecute Ibrahim was because the context of his speech was in line with the spirit in Article 11(4) of the Federal Constitution," she said.
- TMI

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