Authorities to act on apps with deviant Shia or mu’tazilah teachings

Authorities to act on apps with deviant Shia or mu’tazilah teachings

Home minister Hamzah Zainudin says Jakim and other enforcement agencies will act against such digital Quran apps.

Home minister Hamzah Zainudin (right) greeting visitors to the Larut Perikatan Nasional Aidilfitri open house held in Selama, Perak, today. (Bernama pic)
SELAMA:
Authorities, including the department of Islamic development Malaysia (Jakim), will take appropriate action in curbing the spread of Shia and mu’tazilah teachings detected in digital Quran apps, says home minister Hamzah Zainudin.

“Jakim or any enforcement authority will definitely take action,” he told reporters at the Larut Perikatan Nasional Aidilfitri open house at the Selama district council hall here today.

Religious affairs minister Idris Ahmad was reported to have said that Jakim had detected Quran apps that contained deviant interpretations, including the influence of Shia and mu’tazilah teachings.

Meanwhile, Hamzah said the remaining 60 of the 528 detainees who escaped from the immigration detention depot in Kedah were believed to be in the Klang Valley.

In the mass breakout on April 20, a total of 528 Rohingya detainees escaped from the depot after staging a protest, and six of them were killed after being hit by cars while crossing the North-South Expressway.

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