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KUALA LUMPUR – Muslim women’s rights group Sisters in Islam (SIS) today lost its appeal to dismiss a fatwa by the Selangor government labelling it a “deviant group”.
The Court of Appeal’s three-member bench came to a 2-1 decision today, reported Malaysiakini.
Datuk Has Zanah Mehat, who chaired the bench, and Datuk Che Mohd Ruzima Ghazali voted to dismiss the appeal, while Datuk M Gunalan dissented.
In giving his verdict today, Ruzima said fatwa issues are exclusively under the jurisdiction of the shariah court and SIS should have brought its challenge to the Selangor shariah court.
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