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Malaysian court ruling on Muslim transsexuals raises alarm over Islam “˜superseding” Constitution

Oct 13, 2012 6:33 pm By The Anti-Jihadist

Islamization in Malaysia (and of Malaysia) continues its slow but certain path to total supremacy. A recent Malaysian court case vividly demonstrates how, in what should be unsurprising to informed observers, Islamic law increasingly dominates all other sources of law. This includes Malaysia’s Federal Constitution. Although this constitution is supposed to be the country’s supreme law, sharia has now supplanted it. This case should again show how Islam in Malaysia and elsewhere naturally expands and continues to do so until it occupies and dominates every aspect of public and private life. From “Court ruling on Muslim transsexuals raises alarm over Islam “˜superseding” Constitution”, by Debra Chong, The Malaysian Insider, 12 Oct 2012:

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12 “” A High Court ruling against Muslim transsexuals
in Negri Sembilan yesterday is raising concerns that Islamic law is now
supplanting the Federal Constitution as the country’s supreme law, legal
experts have said.

Civil liberties lawyer Syahredzan Johan and law lecturer Azmi Sharom
told The Malaysian Insider that there is a worrying trend that the
judiciary has been putting Islamic law above all other laws in
Malaysia’s dual-track court system – pointing to yesterday’s judgment as
an example of an erosion of the Federal Constitution.

“There is a worrying trend in which the judiciary appears to place
Islamic enactments on a higher pedestal than the Constitution.

“Islam is the religion of the Federation, but that does not mean that
‘Islam’, or what the authorities deem as ‘Islam’, supersedes other
Constitutional provisions,” Syahredzan said.

High Court judge Datuk Siti Mariah Ahmad had dismissed a challenge by
a group of Muslim transsexuals to an Islamic legal provision barring
men from wearing women’s clothes or dressing up as females, saying
Muslims cannot be exempted from Syariah [sharia] legal provisions.

The judge had also ruled that Part II of the Federal Constitution –
which guarantees Malaysians fundamental liberties such as equality
before the law, freedom of religion, and which prohibits slavery and
enforced labour among others – is exempted by section 66 of the Negri
Sembilan Syariah Criminal Enactment 1992, according to lawyer Aston
Paiva, who represented the transsexuals.

He said the judge had relied on the religious opinion on the Negri
Sembilan mufti to justify section 66 in making her oral ruling. He added
that the written judgment of the case was not yet available and the
judge had not indicated when it would be released.

Section 66 of the state’s Islamic criminal code states that “any male
person who, in any public place wears a woman’s attire or poses as a
woman shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to
a fine not exceeding RM1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding six months or both.”

Syahredzan said the Seremban High Court ruling followed an earlier
Federal Court decision in which it was held that Islam must be protected
“at all costs”. 

“The Supreme Court in the case of Che Omar Che Soh is clear on this;
provisions relating to Islam must receive secular fiats to become law,”
he said, adding that it meant the proposed laws must be passed by
Parliament or the State Legislative Assemblies.  “It also means that
laws enacted, regardless of whether they are Syariah enactments or Acts
of Parliament must be subjected to and consistent with the
Constitution,” he said.

Azmi, an associate professor at Universiti Malaya’s (UM) law faculty, went a step further.

“It is going to give a carte blanche to state legislative assemblies,
Islamic religious departments and muftis to make any laws that go
against the Constitution simply by saying it is Islamic and
circumnavigating the Constitution.

“If you do not respect this basic rule, then what safety net do we have as citizens?” he asked.

Who needs a safety net against Islam? Only diehard Islamophobes would dare ask such a question.

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