KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 27 — The G25’s claim that some Malay rulers supported its efforts to reform Shariah laws is not proof they formally endorse the group’s goals and ideologies, Malay rights group Perkasa said today.

Perkasa’s Islamic affairs bureau chief, Dr Amini Amir Abdullah, insisted that any support from the Sultans was informal at best, disputing remarks by G25 representative Datuk Noor Farida Ariffin that the pro-moderation group has the backing of several Malay Rulers.

“I doubt they have gotten formal support from the Malay Rulers as any policy decision must go through the Malay Council of Rulers,” Amini told Malay Mail Online in response to

“Even if they met, it would likely be informal. I doubt her statement,” he added.

In an exclusive interview with Malay Mail Online, the former Sessions Court judge claimed that several state rulers had expressed support for G25’s effort to reform unconstitutional Shariah laws in Malaysia.

The G25 spokesman also said the group has the support of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, whom they met earlier this year.

Amini today also demanded Noor Farida reveal the identities of the rulers who expressed support for the group.

It then warned the G25 against involving the Malay rulers in their “baseless struggle”.

“Perkasa would like to ask: who are the royal members who supported G25? Now G25 are trying to involve the royal institutions into their struggle,” Amini said.

During its recent annual assembly, Perkasa approved a motion to pressure Putrajaya to declare G25 a “deviant group” for allegedly espousing religious liberalism and pluralism, concepts that are incompatible with the monotheism in Islam.

Noor Farida responded by calling such thinking as similar to the “takfiri” ideology spread by the Islamic State terrorist group, a belief that those with different interpretations of Islam to theirs were apostates and deserved to be killed.