By Media Selangor Team
SHAH ALAM, June 19 — Women's rights group Sisters in Islam (SIS) has won a more than decade-long battle against a fatwa issued by Selangor declaring the group "sesat" or deviant.
The Federal Court, in a landmark decision today, ruled that the edict issued by the state's religious authority in 2014, which declared SIS Forum (Malaysia) deviant for subscribing to the ideologies of religious liberalism and pluralism, cannot be applied to organisations and institutions.
Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, who led a five-judge panel, said in the majority judgment this is because persons professing the religion of Islam can only refer to natural persons and not companies.
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