Shamsher Singh Thind, who is also a law lecturer, said no Malaysians can be banished or excluded from the country as citizenship is a right enshrined in the Federal Constitution.
He said Article 9(1) of the Constitution provided an absolute right that “no citizen shall be banished or excluded from the country”.
“Therefore, Harussani was wrong in law to even propose that Ramasamy should be banished from the country for criticising an Islamic preacher, Dr Zakir Naik.
“I am willing to offer free tuition on the Malaysian Constitutional Law subject to the Mufti of Perak, if he wants.
Harussani told Malay daily Sinar Harian that Ramasamy should be booted out of the country for being rude towards Zakir, who is conducting a series of talks around Malaysia on Islam.
Harussani had said Ramasamy’s “satan” remark on Zakir showed “he did not understand the Federal Constitution”.
The mufti also said Ramasamy’s retraction of the word from his Facebook account and subsequent apology did not matter as the latter had insulted Islam as a whole.
Ramasamy had called on Zakir to focus on lecturing about Islam and not on comparisons between religions as this might stir up religious tension.
Zakir, a Mumbai-born Muslim preacher, has ruffled some feathers among Malaysians as he had angered the Hindu community for insulting their deities and the faith’s vegetarian practices.
His talk at a university in Malacca was initially banned by police because it called for a comparison between Islam and Hinduism. It is now proceeding under a different topic.
The recipient of the Tokoh Maal Hijrah award in 2013 has been banned from speaking in Canada and the United Kingdom for expressing support for terrorist group al-Qaeda.