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Podcast: Mission Network News - Asia
Episode: Malaysia high court strikes down state-level Sharia laws
Description: Malaysia (MNN) — Malaysia’s top court recently struck down over a dozen Shariah-based state laws, saying they infringed on federal authority. Islamist leaders decried the decision, saying it would “undermine” religious courts.
“It seems not so much that they are overturning Sharia law, but the states can’t pass their own version of Sharia law,” Todd Nettleton with The Voice of the Martyrs USA says.
“The state that passed these (controversial) laws [said,] ‘We want to enforce these laws the way we see them in our part of the country,’ and the federal government is saying, ‘No, you’re...