MAIS declaration that Sisters in Islam is 'deviant' - High Court will decide

KUALA LUMPUR: In a suit filed by Sisters in Islam (SIS) against an Islamic fatwa (ruling or edict) labelling the organisation as "deviant", the High Court will examine whether civil courts have the power to rule over what seems to be a religious matter.

The case began in 2014, when it declared that any individual or groups which adopted the ideologies of "liberalism" and "pluralism", including SIS, were Islamic "deviants", as decided by the Selangor Fatwa Committee and Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Majlis Agama Islam Selangor or MAIS).