The DAP secretary-general asked: “Why is Yeoh persecuted for talking about her faith? Is it wrong for a person who is a non-Muslim to talk about her faith?”
He was responding to a police report against Yeoh by a public university lecturer, Kamarul Zaman Yusoff, claiming that her book contained too many stories and quotations from the Bible, and that it could influence him towards Christianity.
“She is not preaching to Muslims as she was just talking about her faith,” Lim told reporters.
Kamarul, an academic with Universiti Utara Malaysia, had said Yeoh’s book could influence him and others “to feel admiration for the greatness of Hannah Yeoh’s God”.
His police report was published in PAS’ official organ Harakahdaily today.
Yeoh lodged a police report against Kamarul two days ago, after he took to Facebook to describe her as “an example of DAP’s biggest hypocrisy”, accusing the party of mixing politics with Christian teachings.
Her book, Becoming Hannah: A Personal Journey, is an account of how she rose to prominence after winning the Subang Jaya state seat in 2008 with a huge majority, and retaining it in 2013 before being appointed the same year as the country’s first female speaker and its youngest at age 34.
The book has been openly sold since it was launched in 2014, with no restrictions by the authorities.
Kamarul alleged that it attempted to “coax, influence and instigate” non-Christians to convert or deepen their interest in Christian teachings.
Book makes me admire ‘Hannah Yeoh’s God’, says lecturer in report