{"id":21831,"date":"2021-01-26T14:50:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/?p=21831"},"modified":"2021-01-26T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:50:35","slug":"chinese-group-klscah-women-says-heavier-punishment-on-lgbt-community-will-spur-more-violence-against-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/2021\/01\/21831.html","title":{"rendered":"Chinese group KLSCAH Women says heavier punishment on LGBT community will spur more violence against them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Malaysia has had a poor history of treating the LGBT community with each government not embracing the community. \u2014 Reuters pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 \u2014 Heavier punishments to prosecute the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population will only spur more violence and hatred towards the group, The Kuala Lumpur Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH) Women said.<\/p>\n

In a statement, its women\u2019s division chairman Ng Geok Chee called out Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s department (Religious Affairs) Ahmad Marzuk Shaary for stating the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government were mooting amendments to the the Shariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 or Act 355 to provide for heavier punishments on the LGBT community, claiming it will only encourage people to harass the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cKLSCAH Women believes that this law amendment will encourage harassment and violence against LGBT groups, placing them in far more dangerous situations, which goes against the government\u2019s duty to protect citizens from discrimination and violations of human rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cSociety, in general, believes that LGBTs not only violate the laws of nature or moral standards but even regard it as a mental illness and has been marginalised for a long time.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a Cabinet member, Ahmad Marzuk should have a clearer understanding of the situation. Moreover, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin recently suggested that Asean take a stronger stance against\u00a0hate speech on gender and sexual orientation<\/a>\u00a0at the 1st Asean Digital Ministers Meeting,\u201d Ng said in the statement.<\/p>\n

Malaysia has had a poor history of treating the LGBT community with each government not embracing the community.<\/p>\n

After Pakatan Harapan won the 2018 general elections, the prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the LGBT lifestyle was a\u00a0shift in the Westerners\u2019 moral values<\/a>\u00a0and they wanted to force that lifestyle on other countries.<\/p>\n

The same was of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak when ruling the Barisan National government had cited Islam as justification for his government\u2019s exclusion in protecting the human rights LGBT individuals.<\/p>\n

Another incident was when former tourism minister Datuk Mohamaddin Ketapin was quoted saying during an event in Berlin, Germany that homosexuality did not exist in Malaysia after being asked if it was a safe travel destination for the LGBT community.<\/p>\n

Most recently Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) summoned its enforcers involved in the recent alleged violence during\u00a0arrest of cosmetics entrepreneur Nur Sajat<\/a>\u00a0early this month.<\/p>\n

Sajat said authorities raided her home following a report made on her on February 23, 2018 during her religious event held at her guest house in Seksyen 16, Shah Alam.<\/p>\n

She said she was handcuffed and assaulted by the officers from the state religious officers during the investigation process, causing bruises all over her body.<\/p>\n

She further claimed that the state religious officers had denied her her rights even when she fully cooperated during the whole process on January 6 this year in Kuala Kubu Bharu, Selangor.<\/p>\n

KLSCAH Women said many countries have enacted laws to protect the community but the powers in Malaysia are refusing to progress but rather are focusing their energy on enforcing their values on the people.<\/p>\n

\u201cLGBTs are neither against nature nor are they morally corrupt. As members of society, everyone should be given equal treatment and rights,\u201d said Ng.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this reason, KLSCAH Women asks Ahmad Mazruk to stop discriminating against LGBTs and government spending. Inciting hatred based on sexual orientation not only violates the core values of openness and tolerance, but also creates many social problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the ongoing pandemic and floods, we hope Ahmad Marzuk prioritise<\/p>\n

matters and deal with the most pressing issues that concern the people first.\u201d<\/p>\n

(source: https:\/\/www.malaymail.com\/news\/malaysia\/2021\/01\/23\/chinese-group-klscah-says-heavier-punishment-on-lgbt-community-will-spur-mo\/1943242 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 \u2014 Heavier punishments to prosecute the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population will only spur more violence and hatred towards the group, The Kuala Lumpur Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH) Women said. In a statement, its women\u2019s division chairman Ng Geok Chee called out Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s department (Religious Affairs) Ahmad Marzuk Shaary for stating the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government were mooting amendments to the the Shariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 or Act 355 to provide for heavier punishments on the LGBT community, claiming it will only encourage people to harass the community. \u201cKLSCAH Women believes that this law amendment will encourage harassment and violence against LGBT groups, placing them in far more dangerous situations, which goes against the government\u2019s duty to protect citizens from discrimination and violations of human rights. \u201cSociety, in general, believes that LGBTs not only violate the […]\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":21832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-report","category-report"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/hklgbtflag2905.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21835,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21831\/revisions\/21835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}