Tag Archives: Malaysia

Kenyataan Media Persatuan Peguam Muslim Malaysia (PPMM) 20 November 2012 │ 6 Muharam 1434

PENEGASAN MALAYSIA MENOLAK HAK-HAK LGBT DI DALAM DEKLARASI HAK ASASI MANUSIA ASEAN DIALU-ALUKAN

Pada 19 November 2012, beberapa media perdana tempatan telah melaporkan tentang perisytiharan Deklarasi Hak Asasi Manusia ASEAN yang telah disepakati dan ditandatangani seluruh kepimpinan Negara-negara ASEAN. Sangat menarik khususnya apabila media turut melaporkan pendirian pucuk kepimpinan Malaysia yang menolak perkara mengenai hak Lesbian, Gay, Biseksual dan Transgender (LGBT) di dalam Deklarasi tersebut.Continue reading “Kenyataan Media Persatuan Peguam Muslim Malaysia (PPMM) 20 November 2012 │ 6 Muharam 1434”

On the Islamic State

Published in Malaysiakini.

President Sukarno, Founding Father of Indonesia, was in Central Kalimantan on one occasion, directing the design of Palangkaraya to become the capital of the entire Republic. His design is still on the boards, and there is recent debate whether to move the entire governmental structure to that location. All three Islamic-based political parties have suffered losses in recent parliamentary elections. Furthermore, government workers complain bitterly at the overcrowding in present-day Jakarta.Continue reading “On the Islamic State”

We must defend the sanctity of Divine Law

This article has been published earlier here.

Malaysia and neighboring countries are under a lot of pressure to offer legal and public recognition to the LGBTs, and will be under even more pressure at the United Nations in 2013, where Malaysia will be subjected to a review of her human rights commitments under the Universal Periodic Review by the UN Human Rights Council.

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Southeast Asia: Latest battleground over LGBT rights

Originally published here.

An upcoming human rights declaration by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has become the latest battleground over rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

On one side, the vice president of the Muslim Lawyers Association of Malaysia says his country could not accept including LGBT rights in an ASEAN declaration about human rights. Lawyer Azril Mohd Amin said in a letter to the Malaysiakini newspaper website that LGBT rights are a “secular fallacy, perpetrated by the United Nations, that human beings may do as they please,” Gay Star News reported.

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Karpal dicabar buktikan perkataan ‘sekular’ dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan

Sumber asal berita di sini.

KUALA LUMPUR 12 Ogos – Pengerusi DAP, Karpal Singh dicabar membuktikan perkataan ‘sekular’ yang dilaung-laungkan selama ini adalah termaktub di dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan. Pengerusi Pertubuhan-Pertubuhan Pembela Islam (PEMBELA), Aminuddin Yahaya berkata, pihaknya kesal apabila pemimpin DAP itu berulang kali mengatakan Malaysia adalah negara sekular sedangkan Perlembagaan telah menetapkan Islam adalah ‘Agama Negara’.

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A Plea for the Rohingyas

http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/200778

Running north to south along the border of Bangladesh, one of the truly forgotten ethnic minority groups of the modern world, the Rohingyas are dying by the thousands. According to witnesses, hundreds of Rohingyas have been turned away by authorities in neighboring Bangladesh after attempting to flee the fighting in boats. The Rohingyas never accepted any other religion than Islam and were never granted citizenship or any other rights along their border with the Buddhist Myanmarese, who don’t want them and have always tried to force them to join the Bangladeshis.Continue reading “A Plea for the Rohingyas”

IIUM Forum on Homosexuality

Azril Mohd Amin & Muhammad Husni Mohd Amin
Himpunan Keilmuan Muslim (HAKIM)

Behind terrorism, which is almost exclusively performed by younger Muslims, are various political, economic, and educational factors much in the news lately. What is not recognized is the collapse of gender wisdom in the proliferation of extreme terrorist acts.

“Homosexuality: Crime or Right?” was a recent IIUM forum (April 14, 2012) of such embarrassment that this widespread breakdown of gender philosophy was not even mentioned.Continue reading “IIUM Forum on Homosexuality”

Muslim NGO contribution to address the “LGBT” danger

In order to build an impact on the secular forces sure to be articulate in the coming 2013 Periodic Review of human rights situations in Malaysia and the other countries selected for participation in this particular session, we must be clear enough within ourselves what the secular agenda really is, and we must design a suitable strategy for countering and enlightening this agenda to allow an uncorrupted adherence to our values within the community of nations however we find it at this moment in human history. The world as it is, is not unlike the Ummah in Madinah itself at the time of the Prophet (s.a.w.), in which many religions and customs were represented and powerfully participant in the life of the Madinah community.Continue reading “Muslim NGO contribution to address the “LGBT” danger”