KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 -- DAP's Sheikh Omar Ali has urged critics against labelling fellow Malay party members Syahredzan Johan and Young Syefura Othman as "infidels" and "apostates" for their dedication to the party.

The Johor DAP politician reiterated that DAP is not a religion, and therefore the duo - who just got elected into the party's Central Executive Committee (CEC) - did not deserve to be labelled as such.

"DAP is not a religion. Joining DAP does not mean leaving Islam or converting to another religion," the former Paloh assemblyman said in a statement here.

"Those who accuse DAP members of abandoning Islam fall into one of two categories: they are either ignorant or extremists in their thinking."

He related how he had also ...