KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 21 — Women’s rights group Sisters in Islam’s (SIS) — via SIS Forum (Malaysia) Bhd — has today obtained leave from the Federal Court to proceed with...
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 21 — Women’s rights group Sisters in Islam’s — via SIS Forum Bhd — has today obtained leave from the Federal Court to proceed with their appeals to challenge Selangor’s 2014 fatwa which had labelled the company as deviant from the teachings of Islam.
“As such we are of the view that the threshold requirements under Section 96 of the Courts of Judicature Act are met,” he said in delivering the court’s unanimous decision through the video-conferencing platform Zoom. SIS is seeking to quash a 2014 fatwa issued by Selangor Islamic Religious Council declaring that the women’s rights group subscribes to liberalism and religious pluralism and deviates from the teachings of Islam.
The Selangor fatwa issued and gazetted in July 2014 also said any publications with elements of liberalism and religious pluralism should be “” and can be seized, stating that the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission should block any social websites which goes against the teachings of Islam and, and also declared that any individuals holding on to liberalism and religious pluralism beliefs should repent and return to the path of Islam.
Among them, whether a fatwa, once published in the Gazette under sections 48, Administration of the Religion of Islam Enactment 2003, is a form of subsidiary law and/or delegated legislation.
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