“I have no problems with sales of religious materials, including the Holy Bible.
“What troubles me is the action to deceive book readers by saying it is her biography, when in reality it contains Christian teachings,” he said in a statement today.
The lecturer had on May 17 lodged a police report against Yeoh, who is also the Selangor state speaker.
He claimed that the biography, Becoming Hannah: A Personal Journey, would influence him on Christianity as the book has “too many stories and quotations from the Bible”.
Yeoh also lodged a police report at the Subang Jaya police headquarters against Kamarul for allegedly defaming her in an article, “Hannah Yeoh contoh hipokrasi terbesar DAP” (“Hannah Yeoh is the biggest example of a hypocrite in DAP”).
Kamarul said he will not comment further on his “proselytising” claim as he is leaving it to the police to investigate his report.
He was upset with certain quarters who had leapt to the defence of the two-term assemblywoman, and who questioned his intelligence as a lecturer and painted him as an extremist.
Opposition leaders such as DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and PKR Seri Setia assemblyman Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad had countered Kamarul’s accusations.
The book is an account of Yeoh’s life as she rose to prominence after winning the Subang Jaya state seat in 2008 with a huge majority.
She then retained 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 in shops since it was launched in 2014, with no restrictions by the authorities.
Book makes me admire ‘Hannah Yeoh’s God’, says lecturer in report