00:00University Utara Malaysia Professor Kamarul Zaman Yusof told the Kuala Lumpur High Court today
00:07that it was expected of PKR's Rafizi Ramli and Amanas Sa'ari Sungib to have no issue with
00:13Hannah Yeoh's autobiography titled Becoming Hannah, A Personal Journey.
00:19He said Rafizi and Sa'ari who wrote the forewords for the book were Yeoh's allies
00:24and had been part of the now-defunct opposition coalition, Bakatan Rakyat.
00:28So naturally they will back her up, he said. Kamarul said this when being re-examined by
00:35his lawyer Khairul Azam Aziz who wanted him to elaborate on why he disagreed with Yeoh's lawyer
00:41Sangit Kordio's earlier assertion that Rafizi and Sa'ari, both Muslims, had no issues with
00:47the book's content. Kamarul also said that based on his own experience as a special officer to
00:54a federal minister and the prime minister, politicians rarely had time to read books
00:59and would usually assign their subordinates to provide summaries. He also noted that neither
01:05Rafizi, who is now the economy minister, nor Sa'ari, a former Selangor assemblyman,
01:10had provided any specific excerpts from Yeoh's book to justify their support. Yeoh, the youth
01:16and sports minister, is suing Kamarul for defamation after he accused her of proselytizing
01:22Christianity through her politics and driving a Christian agenda in her book.
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