KUALA LUMPUR: The Federal Court ruling on the unconstitutionality of the Selangor state law provision which punishes unnatural sex would open the floodgates for other parties to challenge other provisions under the states' syariah criminal enactment, says the Malaysian Syariah Lawyers Association (PGSM).
Its president Musa Awang said that the ruling from the apex court would effectively dampen states' powers to legislate its own syariah criminal offences despite the offences being within the precepts of Islam, as the ruling now considers syariah criminal offences, if there exist similar provisions in Federal laws, to be repetitive and void.
