Federal Court quashes 2014 fatwa against SIS

 In a majority decision, the panel led by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat held that the case warranted judicial intervention.

Women’s rights group Sisters in Islam celebrating outside the Federal Court in Putrajaya today after quashing a 2014 fatwa issued against it by the Selangor religious authorities.

PUTRAJAYA:

 Women’s rights group Sisters in Islam (SIS) has succeeded in its appeal to the Federal Court to quash a 2014 fatwa issued against it by the Selangor religious authorities.

In a majority decision, the panel led by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat held that the case warranted judicial intervention.

SIS had sought to quash the 2014 fatwa by the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais) that the NGO had deviated from the teachings of Islam by purportedly subscribing to “liberalism” and “religious pluralism”.

It failed in its previous challenge of the fatwa in the lower courts between 2019 and 2023. - FMT

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