Revathi free?

"Because of their behaviour, I hate (benci) Islam even now"

This is what Revathi told reporters after being told by the Melaka Syariah court that she is freed from the Ulu Yam Rehabilitation Center where she has been incarcerated for 6 months. All because she went to the Syariah court (isn't this what the Federal Court majority judgement ordered Lina Joy to do?) to apply to leave Islam and to be recognized as a Hindu. Her initial detention of 100 days was extended for another 80 days by the same court with the reason that she was un-cooperative during the first 100 days. Her outburst was made where she described the rehab camp was akin to a prison and she was forced to wear a headscarf, attend religious classes, pray, and allegedly even forced to eat beef (which is forbidden by Hinduism).

However, is Revathi really free? She has been ordered by the court that she could only stay with her Muslim parents, and told that she could not convert out of Islam. Nevermind the fact that she time and again insisted she is a believing and practicing Hindu, has been brought up as Hindu, and after 180 days of "rehabilitation" remains convinced she still wants to be a Hindu. So what now?

If Lina Joy follows the Federal Court majority judgement that she needs to go to the Syariah court to get a certificate of apostasy, would she get it considering the limbo situation of Revathi now? In the face of all this, would not the Syariah ruling on Revathi violates her constitutional right to movement and abode as an adult with full control of her faculties, as well as her right to profess and practise the faith of her choice? Specifically in the context of Malaysia where the Federal Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and the Syariah enactments of the various states do not exist in a vacuum nor in isolation from the Constitution which first confer the rights to the state legislative bodies, wouldn't such ruling/enactments clearly in violation of the Constitutionally enshrined rights of citizens?

For the sake of the nation and our children, we really have to heed Dr Dzulkifli's call to "take the bull by the horn" and come to an acceptable resolution soon. And this same call should be heeded by Dr Dzulkifli himself as well.