Zainah Anwar highlights two law reforms in the 1990s and early 2000s that saw a regression in Malaysia’s Islamic family laws. FMTNews ZainahAnwar
Zainah Anwar, executive director of international rights group Musawah, blames the regressions in family law on the rise of ‘political Islam’, adding that these issues remain due to the current patriarchal state of society.
“In 1984, the Islamic family law was amended and new laws were provided, which was amazing. It gave us so many rights and expanded the rights for women to get divorced,” she said with divorce and polygamy decided by the courts. Another regression, she said, saw the responsibility of children born out of wedlock being wholly given to the mothers, which meant they could not make any claims for maintenance or inheritance from the father.
“What is galling is the fact that for non-Muslim women, law reforms have moved forward to recognise equality. But for Muslim women, in the name of Islam, you can be discriminated against.”
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