Not my job to advise A-G on Ibrahim Ali, says Nancy Shukri 18 October 2014 De facto Law Minister Nancy Shukri, who yesterday said she did not agree with Datuk Ibrahim Alis religious and racial views, said today she would not advise the public prosecutor on using the Sedition Act against the Perkasa president. Malaysiakini reported Nancy saying that she did not want to interfere with the Attorney-Generals job. The minister in the prime ministers department had attended the Gerakan womens wing annual general assembly in Kuala Lumpur today. The Batang Sadong MP reiterated she was only reading out the decision of the police and Attorney-General in her parliamentary reply on why Ibrahim was not charged with sedition. (The investigation) is not done by me, so I have to read it out, she was quoted as saying. Nancy in a parliamentary written reply dated October 7, said the police had concluded that Ibrahims call for Malay Bibles to be burnt was directed at specific individuals, and not a threat to the larger society. The police had also not decided to act against Ibrahim because he was merely defending Islam, her written reply had said. She was immediately criticised for not exercising leadership as the minister in charge of law. Two days after the parliamentary written reply was published, she issued a statement, hitting out at the opposition for making capital gain on it. She also blamed social media users for spreading articles, saying irresponsible quarters had only taken excerpts from her answer in Parliament to create misinterpretation and misunderstanding. Yesterday, in a Borneo Post article, she sought to distance her personal stance from the Attorney-Generals decision, saying that she herself did not agree with Ibrahims views, but that the public prosecutor had decided against charges based on police findings. “It must be made known that it was the A-G’s decision not to charge Datuk Ibrahim under the Sedition Act, and the decision was made based on the police investigation. “As a minister or one of the leaders of the nation, I have to support the rule of the law, but it does not mean I agree with Datuk Ibrahim’s extreme views,” Nancy told the Post, a Sarawak English daily. She said the decision not to charge Ibrahim with sedition was made fairly and without favouring any party. The decision by the Attorney-General Chambers to not prosecute Ibrahim was because the context of his speech was in line with the spirit in Article 11(4) of the Federal Constitution, she said.
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