Malaysiakini : “Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another.”
- Toni Morrison, ‘The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations’
Read it all here.....COMMENT | The announcement by Johor’s religious department regarding the setting up of a centre to rehabilitate those who have strayed from the teachings of Islam is a dangerous step in the process of normalising hate in this country.
LGBTQ+ folks are rightly worried that they are being used as scapegoats by the religious and political class. The fact that targeting LGBTQ+ folk supposedly goes against the Constitution and precedent but continues anyway, is demonstrative of the power of religious bureaucracy in Malaysia and its political enablers.
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