Mujahid slams LGBT rights defenders at Women’s March

Updated 7 years ago · Published on 9 Mar 2019 8:17PM · 4 Comments

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mujahid Yusof Rawa says the government is firm that LGBT practices will never be accepted in Malaysia. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 9, 2019.

PARTICIPANTS at a Women’s March in Kuala Lumpur today should not have used the event to defend LGBT rights, said de facto Islamic Affairs Minister Mujahid Yusof Rawa.

Mujahid said the acts of support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by those at the march are an abuse of democracy.

“I was very shocked by the actions of some quarters today who abused a democratic space to defend something that is wrong according to Islam.

“As I have said before, the government is firm that LGBT practices will never be accepted in this country. It is impossible for us to acknowledge something illegal,” Mujahid said in a Facebook post today.

He added that even Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad had expressed the government’s stand on LGBT rights in Malaysia.

Mujahid said he would leave it to the Home Ministry to decide on any action against the protesters.

This morning, more than 300 people gathered near the Sogo shopping centre for the march in conjunction with international women’s day, including members of the LGBT community and their supporters. They marched towards Masjid Jamek.

The rally focused on five key demands: ending violence based on gender and sexual orientation; banning child marriages; ensuring women’s rights over their own bodies and lives; ensuring a minimum wage of RM1,800; and, upending patriarchy in society.

According to news reports, shouts of “jangan kacau LGBT” (don’t disturb the LGBT) and “hidup LGBT” were heard during the demonstration.

Dang Wangi district police chief Shaharuddin Abdullah said the rally organisers did not have police approval to hold the march as it did not fulfil the 10-day notice requirement.

He called the rally illegal and said the police would call in its organisers for questioning. – March 9, 2019.

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  • Mujahid : you are behaving like a tyrant. Let them be - LGBT's have equal rights and existential space. You , as a Minister , dont own the world.

    Posted 7 years ago by [email protected] · Reply

  • Live and let live lah. LGBT may be not pleasant to the eyes and ears of those strictly in religious norms but they are also God created being. It is up to God to define the judgment on the day of reckoning not you or whoever think that they are the holy ones but are just plain hypocrites and worse are those in religious robes. So fool no one please.Let them be as long as they do not rob 2.6B or blown someone with C4 or shamelessly chopping of heads crying God's name in vain.

    Posted 7 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

  • Malaysia's democracy is defined by millions of LGBT sidelined by religious bigots. Inclusiveness in any movement, including a Woman's march is not unconstitutional. Mujahid has bugger things to worry about like bring kleptocrats to justice and addressing the question of insult against another religion.

    Posted 7 years ago by Roger 5201 · Reply

  • "... is firm that LGBT practices will never be accepted in this country."

    Never? Never? You may have standing to speak about certain issues, buy how dare you speak on behalf of all future Malaysia. You've only been in government for less than a year. What an obnoxious, self righteous, narrow minded, bigoted MF you are. It's idiots like you who are adding momentum to the "This is not the PH I voted for" mob.

    Tun, please don't use frogs from under coconut shells to run the country. That should have died with BN. It scares me to think about Najib & Co. coming back to power.

    Posted 7 years ago by Burrd Lim · Reply