KUALA LUMPUR (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Malaysian clerics have issued a fatwa against demonstrations, days after Prime Minister Najib Razak said a quashed election reform rally was being used to topple the government ahead of polls.
Tens of thousands defied a government ban and took to the streets on April 28 to demand clean elections, breaking through barricades and clashing with police, who fired tear gas and chemical-laced water, arresting 513 people.
'Rioting, causing disturbance and damaging public property are all forbidden by Islam,' National Fatwa Committee chairman Abdul Shukor Husin told state media late on Sunday.
'This also applies to any intention to topple a duly-elected government by organising such demonstrations,' he added.
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Tens of thousands defied a government ban and took to the streets on April 28 to demand clean elections, breaking through barricades and clashing with police, who fired tear gas and chemical-laced water, arresting 513 people.
'Rioting, causing disturbance and damaging public property are all forbidden by Islam,' National Fatwa Committee chairman Abdul Shukor Husin told state media late on Sunday.
'This also applies to any intention to topple a duly-elected government by organising such demonstrations,' he added.
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