Federal Court allows appeal by SIS over deviant fatwa ruling

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The Federal Court has allowed an appeal by Sisters in Islam (SIS) in its dispute against the Selangor religious authorities over an edict that labelled the company as "deviant".   In a 3-1 majority decision, Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat said the appeal was allowed to the extent of the edict's application only.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/mtv3zzpm  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00We are the sisters in Islam

00:29Amat bersyukur dengan keputusan yang diberikan oleh Mahkamah Persekutuan pada pagi ini

00:34Alhamdulillah

00:35Selama hampir 11 tahun kami melalui proses untuk mendapat keadilan

00:42Dan akhirnya kita mendapat pengesahan bahawa sebuah organisasi kami mempunyai hak

00:50Yang dilindungi Perlembagaan Persekutuan untuk terus bersuara dan terus berjuang untuk hak perempuan

00:58Kerja yang kami lakukan adalah kerja yang diperlukan

01:03Kerja yang relevan kerana ia berkaitan dengan kehidupan perempuan seharian dalam keluarga

01:09Di zaman yang kian mencabar dan getir ini

01:11Dan kami akan teruskan dengan kerja yang kami telah mulakan hampir 40 tahun yang lepas

01:17I just want to make one comment here

01:27And this is really dealing with the people who keep saying that

01:33Sis work is melanggar Islam, mencabar Islam, insult to Islam

01:38We feel very strongly that in a country where Islam is used as a source of law, policy and daily practice

01:49All citizens, all of us who are affected in harmful and discriminatory ways

01:56Have the right to seek redress

01:58Those opposed to our work accuse us of challenging Islam

02:03What we are questioning is the way they use Islam to silence us

02:10And deny us our rights to be treated as human beings

02:14As citizens of equal worth, dignity and rights

02:18And just to be clear, the split view of the court is not so much that the fatwa cannot be challenged

02:33So majority said if the fatwa intersects with the constitutional guarantees or legal limits

02:40It can be challenged by judicial review

02:42Not on the content itself because that is for the Islamic courts

02:46But on whether or not the committee has acted in excess of powers and so on

02:53So that's how the majority said if you want to challenge you come to the high court

02:57And they've confirmed that today

02:59The minority view is not that it cannot be challenged

03:02Rather the minority view is that if you want to challenge it

03:06You challenge it in the sharia court

03:08So on both sides, the fatwa can be reviewed

03:12It is just which court that reviews it

03:14And that's where the split occurs

03:16I just wanted to make that clear

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