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Uphold Religious and Spiritual Values on Sexual Morality and Family Unit

23 Jul 2020424 Views0

MACSA is supportive of the statement made by the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department for Religious Affairs, YB Datuk Dr Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri in his Facebook page dated July 10, 2020 calling on the Religious Enforcement Officers of Federal Territories' Islamic Affairs Department (JAWI) to not arrest but also provide religious education so that the transgender community can “return to the correct path”. The call was made in the light of recent scandal sparked by the sharing of lewd photographs by an infamous transgender cosmetic entrepreneur, is a welcome step towards upholding Islam’s religious and spiritual tradition on sexual relationship consisting of man-woman and its traditional family unit of husband-wife-children relationship. It is however regrettable that this ca...

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Media Report that Undermines Malaysia’s Sovereignty

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09 Jul 2020340 Views0

MACSA follows the polemic recently panning out in the media with regard to the mass detentions of undocumented migrants, including refugees with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) Registration Card. There appears to be a major confusion in the public domain on the status of refugee leading to unwarranted prejudice and derision against the refugee community. The public have been misled by the inability of our mass media to distinguish between illegal immigrants entering the country for economic motivations with refugees who enter illegally to escape persecutions in their homeland and this has resulted in an erroneous demand of similar treatment. For illegal immigrants seeking economic recompense, MACSA fully acknowledge the right of the state to detain and deport th...

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Bendung Normalisasi LGBT

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20 May 2020802 Views0

TERJEMAHAN Gabungan Pertubuhan Masyarakat Sivil Malaysia bagi Proses Semakan Berkala Sejagat Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society Organisations in the UPR Process (MACSA) terpanggil untuk mengulas artikel bertajuk "Masa untuk Malaysia mengiktiraf komuniti Lesbian, Gay, Biseksual dan Transgender (LGBT)" yang disiarkan oleh Malay Mail Online pada 17 Mei 2020 pada ketika umat Islam sedang menunaikan ibadah puasa di bulan Ramadan bagi mentaati perintah Allah SWT. Kami mengambil maklum bahawa artikel ini ditulis oleh saudara Bakhtiar Talhah yang turut merupakan ahli eksekutif di Majlis AIDS Malaysia (Malaysian AIDS Council - MAC). Adalah amat dikesalkan bagi seorang Muslim, beliau menulis suatu artikel yang sarat mempromosi penerimaan gaya hidup LGBT serta juga perkahwinan sejenis yang mana

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Contain Normalisation of LGBT

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20 May 20201232 Views0

We at the Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society Organisations in the UPR Process (MACSA) wish to respond to the article titled “Time for Malaysia to embrace lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community” published in the Malay Mail on 17 May 2020 and more inappropriately, in the midst of Ramadhan, a holy month where Muslims fast in remembrance of Allah S.W.T. We note that this article was written by Bakhtiar Talhah, an executive council member of the Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC) and in penning the same he did not hesitate to proclaim his emphatic embrace of his homosexual urges in spite of his Malay Muslim origin in exalting all Malaysians to “embrace the LGBT community” as he puts it. It is clear from his article, that the objective is no longer to create awareness on discriminati

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Isu Rohingya – Mengimbangi Hak Kedaulatan Negara dan Hak Kemanusiaan

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28 Apr 2020444 Views0

KENYATAAN MEDIA MACSA: Isu Rohingya - Mengimbangi Hak Kedaulatan Negara dan Hak Kemanusiaan MACSA menyuarakan kebimbangan dalam perdebatan terkini mengenai isu mengimbangi hak kedaulatan negara Malaysia dan tanggungjawab negara terhadap pelarian, khususnya kumpulan Rohingya. Kami berpandangan ada keperluan yang mendesak untuk kesemua rakyat memahami apa yang sebenarnya berlaku supaya tidak timbul kebencian melulu berdasarkan berita palsu. Pertama, kerisauan akibat terlalu ramai kaum Rohingnya adalah kebimbangan yang munasabah dan perlu diakui oleh semua. Malangnya akibat ini, pelbagai andaian yang tidak benar dan ekstrim diambil oleh sebahagian masyarakat. Ini berlaku adalah kerana kurang jelas apakah polisi dan tindakan kerajaan menanganinya selama ini. MACSA percaya, penyelesai

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Memelihara Hak Asasi Manusia dalam Menjaga Kemaslahatan Umat Islam

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23 Apr 2020389 Views0

KENYATAAN MEDIA: Memelihara Hak Asasi Manusia dalam Menjaga Kemaslahatan Umat Islam 23 April 2020 MACSA mengambil peluang untuk sekali lagi mengucapkan setinggi-tinggi tahniah kepada Yang Berhormat Senator Datuk Dr. Haji Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri di atas perlantikan beliau sebagai Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (Hal Ehwal Agama). Kami di MACSA yakin, kepimpinan dan hikmah YB Senator akan memberikan impak besar kepada kebajikan umat Islam di Malaysia. Wakil-wakil ahli gabungan MACSA telah berdialog bersama YB Senator pada hari ini untuk mendalami isu-isu melibatkan hak asasi manusia di dalam negara kita terutama beberapa isu hangat dan mustahak mutakhir ini. MACSA menerima baik pandangan dan buah fikir bernas dari YB Senator yang memberi pengembangan idea baru untuk gerak ker...

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Politicians must retract Islamophobic speech inciting hatred against Muslims

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18 Feb 2020427 Views0

MACSA is concerned of speeches deemed downright Islamophobic made by several ministers and politicians of both divides. Of recent is the statement made by the Finance Minister, Lim Guan Eng implicating all Malaysian Muslims and potentially opening them to hatred, ridicule and contempt by other Malaysians. The Minister who is also a leader of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) had reportedly, in the midst of his contribution to recent debate on the possible emergence of a new political coalition, instigated non-Muslim Malaysians against their Muslim counterparts by alleging that a government dominated by Muslims would, among others, deny non-Muslim citizens their rights. This is echoed by Gerakan President Datuk Dominic Lau, when on February 16th 2019 he had said that the competition b...

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Dong Zong Menyemarakkan Jurang Kaum Lebih Meruncing

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23 Dec 2019330 Views0

MACSA memandang dengan penuh kebimbangan tindakan Persekutuan Persatuan Lembaga Pengurus Sekolah Cina Malaysia (Dong Zong) menganjurkan kongres bagi membantah pengenalan pembelajaran Jawi di sekolah vernakular. Ini adalah satu tindakan yang mencabar usaha perpaduan nasional sehinggakan Perdana Menteri Malaysia, Tun Mahathir sendiri mengatakan, dalam laporan Berita Harian 20 Disember lalu, bahawa kongres sedemikian boleh mencetuskan kekacauan. Jawi yang bakal diajar untuk pelajaran Bahasa Melayu adalah sebanyak 3 halaman sahaja dan hanya bertujuan memberikan pengenalan kepada tulisan Jawi yang terdapat di lambang negara, setem dan matawang kita yang sudah pun digunapakai tidak kurang daripada 60 tahun. Bahkan Kementerian Pendidikan telah cukup berlembut dengan menyatakan bahawa pembelaja...

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MACSA supports declaration of assets by members of Parliament

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12 Dec 2019366 Views0

As a rule of thumb: Members of Parliaments should declare their assets. Assets declaration should include wife and family. There should be audit on this declaration as to the truthfulness. Political financing law should be enacted for this and enforced independently. Even if you’re wealthy, those in public life should not should not flaunt excesses. Wife and family should exercise moderation. Otherwise perception of greed will prevail. No politician should become billionaire or have assets more than RM100 million by virtue of public office. Public office is for those who want to serve and not primarily for gaining personal wealth. Prima facie, there’s abuse of power of ill gotten gains if one or his family is a billionaire. Political financing laws should be enacted to ...

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Concerns And Commendations For Suhakam Over Its 2018 Annual Report

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06 Dec 2019365 Views0

The Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society Organisations in the UPR Process (MACSA) congratulates the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) on the occasion of the first parliamentary discussion of its annual human rights report recently. Indeed, this momentous occasion, which we are aware that SUHAKAM has been pushing for since its inception in 1999, deserves due recognition by the local and international community in our common pursuit of upholding human rights for all. We have perused the contents of the report prepared by our national human rights body and find that while there are many areas in which the report deserves to be commended, it sadly is bereft of objectivity, contains several misleading narratives and lacks inclusivity. Some of the more concerning issues we have wit...