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The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) demands that women’s voices critical of the government and political participation should be met with respect and dignity rather than intimidation – as evident by the police investigation of the Former Deputy Minister of Women, Family and Community (...)
The one idea that would most damage this country’s efforts in combating the Covid-19 virus is toxic religiosity. Not only this country, but also any country that has a religious component that is incestuously entwined with the political apparatus.
In America, for instance, the megachurch (...)
PETALING JAYA: Lawyers are divided on a claim that a recent ruling dismissing Sisters in Islam’s (SIS) challenge of a fatwa against the Muslim women’s rights group will have far-reaching implications as far as the tentacles of Islamic laws are concerned.
The High Court, in throwing out SIS’ (...)
The Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (Arrow) today urged the civil courts to review the recent judgment on Muslim women rights advocacy group Sisters in Islam (SIS).
Arrow said the High Court’s dismissal of SIS’ challenge against a five-year fatwa labelling it an Islamic “deviant” organisation has severe repercussions for Malaysia in the advocacy and protection of women’s rights and their dignity.
“To reiterate what SIS has already said — after 62 years (...)
The Kuala Lumpur High Court today dismissed women’s rights group Sisters in Islam‘s (SIS) judicial review application against a fatwa by Selangor religious authorities declaring the NGO to be “deviant”.
In delivering his decision, High Court judge Nordin Hassan said the Selangor fatwa committee (...)
“Anti-Semitism is mainstream in Malay politics. Anything wrong with the Muslim world is blamed on the Jews. We have hosted despotic theocratic regimes. We have welcomed religious tyrants. We have courted religious fanatics. We have embraced religious extremists who mock the religions of the (...)
After a five-year wait since the case was first filed in court, the Moslem feminist NGO Sisters in Islam (SIS) will find out on Aug 20 the outcome of its legal challenge against an religious authority’s edict declaring it as “deviant.”
High Court judge Nordin Hassan in Kuala Lumpur fixed the date to deliver his decision after hearing submissions from lawyer Surendra Ananth representing SIS, and counsel for three respondents - the Selangor Fatwa Committee, Selangor Islamic Religious Council (MAIS) and the (...)
“I am thankful to all the state assemblypersons who wore the headscarf in support of the solidarity campaign.” Sungai Kandis assemblyperson Zawawi Ahmad Mughni
COMMENT | The quote above refers to an event where non-Muslim reps donned the headscarf in a show of solidarity with their Muslim (...)
Move by Islamic authorities condemned as attempt to ‘intimidate women activists’
Three women in Malaysia who held an event discussing their decision to stop wearing the hijab are being investigated by Malaysian Islamic authorities.
The event, hosted over the weekend at the Gerakbudaya bookshop (...)
“Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.” Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life
COMMENT | Howard Lee’s rather opaque article on how extremism was an impediment to nation-building is the problem with Establishment politics in this country. I have often argued that “religious (...)
Petaling Jaya MP Maria Chin Abdullah has ticked off PAS for pushing its own agenda on the issue of the government allocating funds to Sisters In Islam (SIS).
Maria said PAS Rantau Panjang MP Siti Zailah Mohd Yusoff’s remark was “nothing more than an attempt by PAS to nudge the government towards (...)
Free Malaysia Today: No room for forgiveness, repentance in RUU 355 (26th November 2016)
http://www.sistersinislam.org.my/news.php?item.1455.27
Sisters in Islam (SIS) unequivocally opposes the proposal to amend Act 355 (RUU 355) to increase punishment for shariah crimes to 30 years’ (...)
UNDER the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965, the sentencing power of the syariah courts is limited to RM5,000 fine, six lashes and three years’ jail. This power is equivalent to the power of magistrates in our civil courts.
It is understandable therefore that PAS President Datuk (...)
NOVEMBER 27 ― I saw a tweet recently that said we had to stop Shiah from spreading because all Shiites are inherently violent people. So I wrote this tweet (which I then deleted):
“Jangan bagi Syiah berkembang sebab Syiah kejam? Kalau macam tu, Sunni pun jangan berkembang lah sebab puak ISIS tu (...)
A new law was passed by one of the States in Malaysia (Kedah) to the effect that any fatwa issued by the State Mufti cannot be questioned.
Women’s groups in Malaysia issued the press statement below carried on Malaysian Insider yesterday. Others too have condemned the law (see below). Future (...)
Malaysia’s population of 27 million is, according to the UK government, 55% Muslim. The U.S. State Department maintains that 60% of the population is Muslim. Ethnic Malays are automatically classed as Muslim on their identity cards (MyKad) which are issued to everyone at age 12. Any changes to (...)
A justice’s ruling goes against the government
The decision by Malaysian High Court Justice Lau Bee Lan giving the Catholic Herald newspaper the right to use the word Allah to represent God in its Malay-language edition has been met with jubilation among the country’s 850,000-odd Catholics and (...)
In one of the most important political speeches delivered in Malaysia in recent years, former de-facto law minister Zaid Ibrahim touched on the heart of race relations when he gave a rendition on the evolving racial politics in Malaysia that has so bedevilled the nation for the past few (...)
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