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Bookstore manager charged with distributing banned book
by MAIZATUL NAZLINA
The Star (Malaysia)
June 19, 2012
https://www.legal-project.org/2689/bookstore-manager-charged-with-distributing
Excerpt:
KUALA LUMPUR: A store manager of a bookshop was charged in a Syariah High Court here Tuesday for distributing a book by Canadian author Irshad Manji deemed to be against the Islamic Law (Hukum Syarak) and banned in Malaysia.
Nik Raina Nik Abdul Aziz, 36, was accused of distributing by way of selling the book entitled, Allah, Liberty and Love (The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom), which was translated into Bahasa Malaysia.
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