very clear cut case...
he had no choice, but to become a muslim as per stated in his mykad because of an apparently mix up baby case...
if this mix up proven to be true and under the federal constituition.. will he be denied his wish?!?...
wat will they government/state religious officials says about this?!?...
p/s ; when will they abolish this race/religion nonsense in the mykad and really moving towards the bangsa malaysia status...
Going his own way since he was 13
JOHOR BARU: At 13, he was supporting himself, washing dishes after school to pay for his books and rented room.
Zulhaidi Omar, 29, said he had never been tempted to take the easy way out by dropping out of school or straying into a life of crime. Instead, he worked at restaurants until midnight and washed cars to put himself through secondary school.
Now a sales executive with a diploma in Business Administration, Zulhaidi said he was neither abused nor disowned by his family but he wanted to be independent.
Unknown to him, he had been swapped at birth during a mix-up at the hospital in Batu Pahat.
“By the time I was in primary school, I knew I was different from the rest of my family members as I could tell the difference between their features and my obviously Chinese appearance,” he said at a press conference.
After a chance meeting that reunited him with his biological family eight years ago, Zulhaidi now wants to change his name to a Chinese one.
Zulhaidi is hoping the authorities would allow him to state his religion as Buddhism on his MyKad.
Bandar Baru Tampoi MCA branch chairman Michael Tay said Zulhaidi was never given the chance to choose his own religion because of a mistake made at birth.
“Under the Federal Constitution, everybody is allowed the freedom to choose his own religion, but Zulhaidi was never given that chance.
“We will try the diplomatic method first through negotiations with state officials and the hospital where he was born. If that fails, then we will have to seek legal recourse,” he said, adding that might even include a suit against the hospital for negligence.
State religious officials were unavailable for comment.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/2/5/nation/16784465&sec=nation
extra reading for this case can be found as per the link below...
http://malaysia-today.net/blog2006/newsncom.php?itemid=2294
http://malaysia-today.net/blog2006/newsncom.php?itemid=2299
http://malaysia-today.net/blog2006/newsncom.php?itemid=2326
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