Yeaaaaah the way my faith is administered in this country is like a cult:

Born to Muslim parents in Johor in 1990, she went to the civil court in March last year, after two stages of the religious court - the Federal Territory Syariah High Court and the Federal Territory Syariah Appeal Court - denied her bid to renounce Islam.

According to the civil action cause papers, the woman, born to a Muslim convert man and a Muslim-born woman on Feb 8, 1990, allegedly went through a multi-year failed bid at the syariah courts to leave the religion and officially take on Confucianism and Buddhism.

The woman claimed the Syariah High Court and Court of Appeal refused her bid as they held it would go against hukum syarak (Islamic principles) to allow a fellow Muslim to leave the faith.

The woman alleged that on Dec 10, 2018, the Syariah High Court ordered her to attend 12 pre-trial aqidah (faith) counselling sessions for a six-month period beginning Jan 14, 2019.

She said she then took leave from her employment in Oman and flew back to Malaysia to attend the 12 sessions which, in the end, managed to be completed between Jan 14 and 25 that year.

The woman claimed her mother and her mother’s close friend testified before the Syariah High Court over her faith in Confucianism and Buddhism.

She alleged, however, that on July 27, 2020, the Syariah High Court dismissed her bid and instructed her to undergo istitabah under MAIWP or the “Mufti’s Office”.

Under the country’s syariah system, istitabah refers to faith rehabilitation.

She claimed that the court also ordered her to undergo continuous Islamic classes as well as more aqidah counselling.

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The only time you'll stop getting counselling btw is when you agree you're still a Muslim 🙃