2026-09-04 at

state vs federal scope of law

"Nik Elin vs Kelantan" has been ping-ponging for a few years, and the general dialectic since Merdeka.

It would seem, that one of the things preventing each state from making some activity, X, subject to state syariah law ... is merely that there has at least once been a Federal law about X.

The argument roughly is, X is under criminal law, and we define that it is criminal because there is a Federal law, L, on X. But, what if there had never been the law L? The state might then have had the freedom to govern X under state syariah law.

Curious. 

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