Mujahid said there was no need to “sensationalise” the overlapping of laws between the Syariah Criminal Offences (Selangor) Enactment 1995 and Federal List.
“It is not an issue that we should sensationalise as if unnatural sex and LGBT practices have been given way,” he said in a Facebook post.
Mujahid urged the public to respect the court’s decision, adding that other laws, particularly those related to wakaf and zakat, could be strengthened without the problem of duplication of power.
“Strengthening the legal aspects of wakaf and zakat will serve to improve the socio-economic status of the people, which is more important for us,” he said.
Yesterday, the Federal Court ruled that the Selangor state legislature could not pass a shariah law that makes it an offence to engage in unnatural sex, because it was already on the Federal List.
Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, who chaired a nine-member bench, said the primary power to enact criminal laws lies with Parliament.
She had said Section 28 of the Syariah Criminal Offences (Selangor) Enactment 1995, which allows for punishment for unnatural sex, was unconstitutional.
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