On 14 February 2012, H.E. Ms. Laura Dupuy Lasserre, President of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, received a short communication from the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Group on Human Rights and Humanitarian Issues, attempting to explain the OIC’s unanimous opposition to proposed amendments to the UN Universal Declaration of Human rights and the countries’ reservation on the subsequent Panel on “Discrimination and Violence based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” which was to be held on 7th of March 2012 during the 19th session of the Human Rights Council. A number of widespread misunderstandings of Islam and its principles were mentioned in responses to this letter as amended to the Website.Continue reading “On the contamination of Human Rights”
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Secular Human Rights: End of the Road
The field of Anthropology begins and ends “on the ground”. Data is now emerging in the modern Malaysian political scene that is finally exposing certain problems in the person of a certain Muslim opposition figure that are leading us to realize the inherent incompatibility of Islamic Human Rights with the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human rights, which many countries signed years ago without realizing the implications to which they would now be leading.
Uncovering the truth about BERSIH 2.0
There is a “human right” now being exercised almost universally, that is, the Right of Free Assembly. The recent Thai election shows one clear result of such assemblies, called the “Red Shirts”. The Middle East is awash with such assemblies, in almost all cases directed against prolonged, corrupt leadership.Continue reading “Uncovering the truth about BERSIH 2.0”
A brief perspective on religious freedom in the Malaysian context
There are a number of approaches which one might take when considering the freedom of religion in Malaysia, in terms of human rights. However, as delineated below, there will invariably be problems inherent in applying a Universalist perspective to the Islamic worldview. Given the constraints of time and space in this instance, then, the focus will be primarily on the Islamic perspective on the issues.
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Muslim South East Asia NGOs call for Asean to overhaul its security-related policies
Press Release: Bangkok (October 16, 2009): More than 30 Muslim NGO activists and representatives from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Cambodia today gathered in the capital of Thailand to discuss the impact and implications of three conflict-torn regions in Southeast Asia and called for ASEAN and ASEAN member governments to undertake new and renewed efforts to tackle the conflicts.
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