Buzz Sociopolitics Malaysia: Police Report Lodged Against Amendment to Kedah Mufti and Fatwa Committee Enactment 2008

April 22, 2012

Police Report Lodged Against Amendment to Kedah Mufti as well as Fatwa Committee Enactment 2008

by Bernama

The Tunku Laksamana Kedah, Tunku Mansor Tunku Kassim, today lodged a military inform over a Kedah State Legislative Assembly's amending of an dramatization to give absolute power to a state mufti as well as fatwa committee.

"I am creation this inform because I fear a dramatization will adopt a powers of a Sultan of Kedah, who is a head of Islam in a state," he told reporters after camp a inform during a Alor Setar military headquarters during 9.30am in Alor Setar today.

The state public not long ago amended Section 22A of a Kedah Mufti as well as Fatwa Committee Enactment 2008 to give a Mufti as well as Fatwa Committee unlimited powers.

Following a amendment, all decisions by a Mufti as well as a Fatwa Committee need not be gazetted as well as cannot be challenged in any court, either Syariah or Civil.

Meanwhile, Save a Madrasah Salihiah Kanchut transformation chairman Mansor Ahmad denied a matter by Kedah Menteri Besar Azizan Abdul Razak not long ago which they had withdrawn their justice movement to save a surau which was built in 1909.

"We only withdrew a strange duplicate for an injunction to forestall a surau from being demolished though replaced it with a new one," he said, adding which a Alor Setar High Court had since them accede to do so as well as which they had hired a counsel to fight a case.

- Bernama