Suri said the Muslim women's rights group was challenging the edict on constitutional grounds, which they were legally entitled to, despite Selangor Mentri Besar Azmin Ali’s call for the move to gazette the fatwa to be respected.
"With all due respect, what does it even mean to 'respect’ the fatwa? Perhaps he (Azmin) can enlighten us on the definition of 'liberalism and pluralism'," she said when contacted, Sunday.
Suri said the group has been reaching out to Muslim women who needed assistance in various circumstances.
"Does helping nearly 10,000 Muslim women who turned to us for legal help, and training over 4,000 women with knowledge that has empowered them to know their rights in Islam constitute liberalism and pluralism, and therefore deviating from Islamic teachings?” she asked.
On Friday, SIS had filed a judicial review on a fatwa made by the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais), which had declared them as subscribing to liberalism and religious pluralism, and therefore deviating from the teachings of Islam.
They named Mais, the Selangor Fatwa Committee and the state government as respondents in the review filed at the Kuala Lumpur High Court.
However, on Saturday, Azmin said the decision had been made and that it should be respected, without elaborating further on the matter.
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