By Ida Lim, the Malay Mail Online

The Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM) has expressed hope that Azmin Ali, the new Selangor Mentri Besar* will help it regain the 300-odd copies of bibles seized by state Islamic authorities earlier this year.

“Because it’s law. This law says there is no problem. He is a man of law, so he should look into the whole matter, and the matter happened in his state,” Ng told Malay Mail Online yesterday at the St Mary’s Cathedral.

BSM president Bishop Datuk Ng Moon Hing told Malay Mail Online yesterday that his hopes of a favourable outcome are also based on the Attorney-General’s decision that there was no legal basis to back the seizure of the Malay- and Iban-language bibles.

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*The Menteri Besar of the State of Selangor is the head of the executive branch of the government in the Malaysian state of Selangor.