Hannah’s 2014 book never banned by govt, court hears

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UUM professor Kamarul Zaman Yusoff admits no such action was taken, even when PAS’s Takiyuddin Hassan was law minister.  Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/01/15/hannahs-2014-book-never-banned-by-govt-court-hears/  Laporan Lanjut:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2025/01/15/buku-hannah-tak-pernah-diharam-kerajaan-sejak-2014-mahkamah-diberitahu/  Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #HannahYeoh #LibelLawsuit

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00:00A professor of political science admitted in the High Court yesterday that a book authored

00:05by youth and sports minister Hannah Yeoh published more than 10 years ago was never banned by

00:10the government.

00:11Kamarul Zaman Yusof, a senior lecturer at University Utara Malaysia's School of International

00:17Studies, said he had purchased Yeoh's book, Becoming Hannah, A Personal Journey, in 2017.

00:23Testifying in a libel lawsuit brought by Yeoh against him, Kamarul admitted to authoring

00:27two Facebook posts and agreed that they referred to Yeoh.

00:31He also agreed that the posts labelled Yeoh a hypocrite for appearing to champion secularism

00:36in politics, while her book stated the separation of religion from the state should apply only

00:41to Islam and not Christianity.

00:43Kamarul rejected a claim by lawyer Sangeet Kordeo, representing Yeoh, that Muslims in

00:48the country had never raised objections to the content of the book.

00:52However, he agreed that neither the Mufti, the law minister, nor any other authority

00:57had taken action on the book since it was published in 2014, even when past Secretary-General

01:02Takiuddin Hassan held the position of law minister from March 2020 to August 2021.

01:08Yeoh filed the suit in 2022, claiming that Kamarul's statements accused her of proselytizing

01:13Christianity through her politics and alleged that Kamarul had accused her of driving a

01:17Christian agenda and intending to convert Malaysia into a Christian country.

01:23Danish Rajareza, FMT News.

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