Shahidan, mufti taken to task

Islamic law is open for discussion and should not be confined to just a few, Women and Family Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said. 

“Islamic law is so open anybody can discuss it,” she said yesterday in response to press reports quoting Perlis mufti Datuk Mat Jahya Husein who called on critics of the state’s decision to relax the requirements of polygamy to “hold their tongue” because they were denying the right to polygamy.