2001 Ayah Pin imprisoned by an Islamic court for 11 months on apostasy charge. JULY 18, 2005 A mob of 30 people attack the sect's headquarters with petrol bombs. No one arrested.

Terengganu police chief Mazli Mazlan said that during his recent visit to Ayah Pin’s base in Besut, he found no suspicious activities by the 124 residents in the village.

From a rutted dirt track the commune led by Ayah Pin, an illiterate 61-year-old Malay man, suddenly looms over the hedgerows. The commune would not seem out of place in a Disney theme park.

Ayah Pin passed away on April 22, 2016, at the age of 74, at his home in Kampung Batu 13, Hulu Besut, due to old age. In 1980, he founded the Sky Kingdom in Kampung Batu 13 where his commune ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The day the mob came for Ayah Pin, he seemed to don a cloak of invisibility, walking right through the angry crowd, past the giant ...

For nearly 25 years, Ariffin Mohammed, 65, a Muslim Malay better known as Ayah Pin or Father Pin, has been harassed, arrested and even jailed to force him to recant his 'Sky Kingdom' faith and ...