Muslim Judicial Council

The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), a non-profit umbrella body of Islamic clerics in South Africa, is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa. It was established in 1945 by the Muslim Progressive Society. As of 2009, approximately 150 mosques were affiliated with it.

In 2011, Muslim Judicial Council spokesman Shuaib Appleby condemned the killing of Osama Bin Laden, saying: “extrajudicial killing is totally condemned by Islam. A person must be duly tried, with a court deciding on a punishment if the person is found to be guilty. We hope that with (Bin Laden’s) death, the kinds of ideas that Muslims globally were subjected to – the Islamophobia – and being associated with terrorism will cease with immediate effect.”