by Ganesh Sahathevan
The Malaysian Insight has reported:
THE High Court in Kuala Lumpur was told today that the Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council (MAIPs) had direct legal interest in intervening in a divorce petition between single mother, Loh Siew Hong, 34, and ex-husband Muhammad Nagashwaran Muniandy, who converted to Islam and unilaterally converted their three children.
These are the types of issues that Malaysia's civil courts have to deal with given the country's dual sharia-common law system.
The NSW Supreme Court has made it known that sharia and the common law are compatible. It must now issue directions with regards matters such as those above.
TO BE READ WITH
Sunday, April 17, 2022
NSW Supreme Court position in favour of sharia not matched by any statement in favour of other faiths-Perception of bias among adherents of other faiths justified
by Ganesh Sahathevan
The. NSW Supreme Court's position in favour of sharia is not matched by any similar statement in favour of other faiths. There is at least a perception of bias, especially given the somewhat sanitized version of sharia that the Court describes, which it says is not incompatible with Australian law.
TO BE READ WITH
Readers are referred to the article published earlier on this blog about the views of the Governor designate NSW, the former President Of The Court Of Appeal NSW Margaret Beazley AO.
The Governor designate's views are contained in a speech that continues to be broadcast (or "published") to the whole world on the NSW Supreme Court website:
Governor designate Margaret Beazley AO will have to clarify her position on Islam very soon.:Her silence in the case of the Malaysian lesbians punished by caning maybe acceptable among judges but not from the Queen's representative
The story above includes this paragraph which the Legal Profession Admission Board NSW, whose chairman is the Chief Justice NSW Tom Bathurst, have deemed to be defamatory ,and lacking "insight":
The Hon Justice M J Beazley AO, President Of The Court Of Appeal ,State Of NSW, Australia ,said in a speech delivered in 2014, but not widely reported:
"...despite a perception that Islam and the Australian law are incompatible, this is not borne out by the caselaw"
She did so in conjunction with the Affinity Intercultural Foundation, the Australian arm of the Fetullah Gulen movement. While Gulen and his followers have been recently victimised by former friend and ally Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the president of Turkey who they helped install, Gulen and his people are not innocent of jihadi activity.
They are nevertheless quite adapt at recruiting Western "intellectuals" to promote their, cause, Her Honour is only the most recent.
Now , compare the views of the highly learned justices to that of the Sultan Of Brunei, an absolute monarch of a Muslim country:
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