KUALA LUMPUR: Two Malaysian Hindu men on Thursday said they were battling Islamic authorities after being forcibly separated from their Muslim wives in cases highlighting growing religious tensions here.
Suresh Veerapan issued a plea for help after his wife Revathi Masoosai and their baby were forcibly removed from their home and she was put in Islamic rehabilitation camp. He said Revathi, an ethnic Indian and practising Hindu born to Muslim parents, was sent to the camp for 100 days in January by Islamic authorities in western Malacca state.
Her detention was extended on Wednesday by a sharia court by 80 days, Suresh said, adding Islamic authorities in March had also taken the 16-month old baby from him and given the child to his Muslim in-laws.
%u201CWe are treated like animals, not humans, the way they have separated me from my wife and baby,%u201D said a weeping Suresh, adding that officials were now keeping him from visiting Revathi. %u201CWhen I asked them why the extension, they told me she did not cooperate with the authorities there,%u201D Sur
