KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 14 -- Ahead of the Federal Court's hearing of Sisters in Islam's (SIS) appeal in its court challenge against a 2014 fatwa in Selangor which labelled it as deviant, Selangor's Islamic bodies want seven Federal Court judges to be excluded from hearing the case.

The Federal Court was initially scheduled to hear the women's rights group's appeal on August 19, but the hearing date has now been rescheduled to November 14, SIS's lawyer Surendra Ananth told Malay Mail when contacted today.

According to Surendra, it was mentioned during the Federal Court's case management yesterday that the Selangor fatwa committee wanted seven Federal Court judges to not be part of the panel that will hear the case.

The Selangor fatwa commit...