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Hannah Yeoh sues ex-IGP over ‘Christian nation’ claim

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Former Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan had allegedly said a group had tried to destroy Islam in Malaysia.

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Former deputy minister Hannah Yeoh claims Musa Hassan’s statements are defamatory and malicious.

KUALA LUMPUR:
Prominent DAP politician Hannah Yeoh has filed a defamation suit against former police chief Musa Hassan over allegations that she tried to turn Malaysia into a Christian nation.

Yeoh claimed that Musa’s remarks at a Universiti Teknologi Mara forum on Jan 30 were defamatory and malicious.

“Musa’s statements were made in bad faith to harm my reputation and expose me to public ridicule. The statements were intended to harm me politically,” she contended.

Musa, who was Inspector-General of Police from 2006 to 2010, allegedly told the forum that an unnamed group had tried to destroy Islam in the country. He is said to have claimed that he did research and found links between the evangelist group and DAP.

He is also alleged to have said Yeoh had written a book “to make this country a Christian country”.

Yeoh is MP for Segambut and a former deputy minister for women’s affairs. She was previously the assemblyman for Subang Jaya, and a former speaker of the Selangor state assembly.

Her autobiography, entitled “Becoming Hannah, A Personal Journey”, which was published in 2014 describes her journey as an ordinary Malaysian woman whose life was transformed through her personal faith as a Christian which led her into politics.

It was criticised in May 2017 by a Universiti Utara Malaysia political scientist as an example of DAP hypocrisy about its stated policy of keeping politics and religion separate.

In her lawsuit, Yeoh said the UiTM forum at which Musa spoke was live streamed on Facebook and had garnered over 14,000 views.

She said Musa’s statement was also reported in several Malay, English and Chinese language news portals.

Yeoh is seeking general, aggravated and exemplary damages from Musa, and an injunction to restrain Musa and other parties from further publishing the alleged statements.

The case will be mentioned at the High Court tomorrow.

Musa’s successor, Abdul Hamid Bador, has been reported to have said that police would investigate Musa’s statements after analysing a video of the forum. He did not rule out the possibility that Musa would be called to give a statement.

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