Jainab refutes claims on abandoned babies
Published on: Monday, November 30, 2015
Kota Kinabalu: Minister of Community Development and Consumer Affairs, Datuk Jainab Ahmad Ayid dismissed claims that abandoned babies left in the care of the State Public Walfare Services Department eventually end up being "Islamised" and harder to adopt by non-Muslim parents.She said this was not true as obviously, babies left on the doorsteps of the Surau or mosque in a number of instances, for example, were from Muslim families."Likewise, babies who were discarded in the vicinity of Malay villages.
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Hence, they were given Muslim names, so the question of imposing Islam on these children by the authorities does not arise," she added.Asked to comment on a recent case in which a baby found by the roadside had a Muslim name. Jainab, who is Karambunai Assemblywoman, said the name could have been given by the mother or family concerned.On non-muslim couples wishing to adopt babies, she suggested that they go to the seri Murni Crisis Centre which is run by the Good Shepherd Sisters.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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Non-Muslim childless couples had claimed that when they visited certain government-funded welfare institutions in the hope of adopting the kids there, they found that all of them were Muslims.
