ENACTMENT NO. 11 OF 1981
CONTROL AND RESTRICTION OF THE PROPAGATION OF NON-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS



Section 6. Offence of approaching a Muslim a subject him to any speech on or display of any matter concerning a non-Islamic religion.

(1) A person commits, an offence if he calls on, orarranges or contrives a meeting with, or contacts by telephone, another person who is a Muslim and to whom the person is a stranger, for the purpose of subjecting the other person to any speech on or display of any matter concerning a non-Islamic religion.

(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable to a fine of five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for six months or to both.


(3) In a prosecution for an offence under subsection (1), the purpose of the accused calling on, or arranging or contriving a meeting with, or contacting, the other person shall be held to be that of subjecting him to anyspeech on or display of any matter concerning a non-Islamic religion if, viewing as a whole all that transpired during the call, meeting, or telephone conversation, it appears to be beyond reasonable doubt that such was the true purpose or one of the true purposes of the accused, notwithstanding that, during the call, meeting, or telephone conversation, matters or things other than those related to such purpose were also mentioned or done or matters or things related to such purpose were not mentioned or done so much as other matters.


(4) For the purpose of subsection (1), a person with whom another person has not spoken, or has spoken only casually, previously, or a person with whom another person has had only business, official, or formal dealings previously, or a person who cannot be regarded even as a acquaintance of another person, shall be held to be a stranger to the other person.





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