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Nov 12 set for SIS’s bid to quash Mais ruling

The High Court will hear on Nov 12 the judicial review application by Sisters In Islam (SIS) and two others to quash the decision of the Selangor Islamic Affairs Council (Mais) declaring the organisation as deviating from Islamic teachings.

Deputy registrar of the High Court Norhasniah Abdul Razak fixed the date in chambers when the case came up for case management.

Lawyer Majdah Muda, who represented Mais, told reporters that Judge Asmabi Mohamad would hear the matter.

On Dec 10 last year, SIS, its founder Zainah Mahfoozah Anwar and Mohd Zaid Ibrahim had obtained leave from the High Court for the judicial review application.

In allowing the application, Asmabi held that the application by the three was not frivolous.

In the application, they had named the Selangor Fatwa Committee, Mais and the Selangor government as respondents.

They are seeking a certiorari order to quash the decision of the Selangor Fatwa Committee and Mais which stated that the organisation and any individuals as well as groups which carry the deviant ideologies of liberalism and pluralism as deviating from the teachings of Islam.

The applicants are also seeking a declaration that the decision of the Selangor Fatwa Committee and Mais in directing, through the edict, the Multimedia and Communications Commission to block social websites that went against Islamic teachings contradicted Section 3 (3) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.

They, among others, applied for a declaration that the decision of the Selangor Fatwa Committee and Mais was ultra vires Article 10, 11, 74 and the Ninth Schedule List I and II of the federal constitution.

They are also seeking a declaration that SIS, which was formed under the Companies Act 1965 as a company limited by guarantee, was not subject to decisions of the Selangor Fatwa Committee and Mais.

- Bernama

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