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Kontroversi fatwa berterusan

Oleh Shanon Shah

December 15, 2008

(© Ilker / sxc.hu) ADA perkembangan terbaru dalam isu fatwa di Malaysia. Tanggal 2 Dis 2008, Utusan Malaysia melaporkan yang Majlis Muzakarah Fatwa Kebangsaan mengaku tidak boleh memaksa kerajaan negeri mewartakan fatwa berkaitan rokok. Alasannya kerana kuasa mewartakan fatwa terletak di bawah Jabatan Mufti Negeri masing-masing. Sebelum ini, ahli parlimen PAS, Dr Mujahid Yusof Rawa, […]

PKR clarifies its stand on monarchy’s power

By Deborah Loh

December 5, 2008

PETALING JAYA, 5 Dec 2008: Parti Keadilan Rakyat’s (PKR) call for the return of legislative power to the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong to veto bills passed in Parliament is based on the pre-1993 constitutional amendment, said its vice-president R Sivarasa. He said what PKR had proposed at its congress on 29 Nov was a return to […]

Recognise native land rights

By Ng Boon Hooi

November 30, 2008

Nicholas Bawin AnggatSHAH ALAM, 30 Nov 2008: Sarawak delegates at Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR)’s 5th national congress want native land rights to be recognised if the party takes over the state government. Land titles should be given to Sarawak’s Orang Asal, as provided for under Native Customary Rights (NCR), said Nicholas Bawin Anggat who is […]

Fatwas shouldn’t be law

By Sisters in Islam

November 26, 2008

(© Hayat Alyaqout / sxc.hu) SISTERS in Islam calls on the government to review the fatwa as an instrument of mandatory and binding rule-making in Malaysia. Our call is made on the grounds that fatwas having the automatic force of law: has no basis in Islamic legal theory and practice; conflict with the Federal Constitution; […]

Pitfalls in regulating race relations

By Deborah Loh

November 6, 2008

Will the proposed Race Relations Act outlaw discrimination?  (Source: jpnin.gov.my) IS the proposed Race Relations Act doomed to fail even before it has been drafted? Human rights advocates, lawyers and academics who recently attended a roundtable on the proposed act seem to think so. The act, which was proposed by the government in September 2008, […]

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