Walking the middle path

Palace of Justice, Putrajaya. - Filepic

TILL a few years ago, it was regarded as acceptable in Muslim intellectual circles to talk of our Federal Constitution as the supreme law of the land and to refer to its glittering provisions as the yardstick by which to measure the constitutionality of all actions – whether executive or legislative, federal or state, civil or criminal, secular or religious.

Lately, it is passé (no longer fashionable) in some circles to think or talk in such non-religious and “secular” terms.