PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli has claimed that the police reports lodged against him for allegedly slandering the syariah court are an attempt to drag him into a "religious, Malay-based" issue.

"I think the objective is to try to drag me and engage me in a religious, Malay-based issue, which is a distraction from the big (issues) that we are doing," Rafizi told reporters at Sungai Besi today.

Earlier today, Syariah Chief Justice Mahamad Ibrahim and Syariah High Court judge Muhamad Abdul Karim Wahab lodged separate police reports against Rafizi for defaming the syariah courts...