Here are some of the excuses Gnadalf offered for why surveys of Muslims opinions do not actually reflect Muslims opinions.
Malaysian Muslims only indicated support for these barbaric laws because they were presented in an abstract sense. They would have a different view if they were actually voting on the issue.
Although the majority of Malaysian Muslims support the punishments, it would never become law because they are not motivated to achieve that.
There is no serious debate on the issue in Malaysia.
The laws have never come to pass because Malaysian Muslims do not actually support them (although just over 50% of Malaysian Muslims support these laws according to the survey, they make up less than 1/3 of the total population).
If they truly supported these laws, they would have achieved them by now.
If there ever was a serious attempt to introduce these laws, the public debate would expose Muslims to the true barbarity of them and they would change their mind.
Non-Muslim Malaysians support the "right" of Muslims to apply these laws to "themselves" (even in the context of executing apostates). One cannot assume that they oppose them without evidence. This argument was made to support the case that it is lack of motivation or lack of actual support among the 1/3 of the population who support the laws (according to the survey) that is the real reason that Malaysia does not have these laws.
An explanation is needed for why Malaysia has not already passed these laws (other than the fact that Malaysia is a democracy in which 2/3 of the population oppose the laws).
Malaysia only has a "handful" of rehabilitation camps for apostates, and the laws are easy to get around.
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