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My reply to Leroy Luar’s ‘rebuttal’ – Azril Mohd Amin

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16 Aug 2018302 Views0

Mr. Leroy Luar’s “rebuttal” to my recent piece "Contextualising ongong discourse on LGBT" illustrates why genuine discussion on these topics is difficult. Not only did Mr. Leroy not respond to a single point made in my article, he seems to be responding to a different article altogether. Either this is a deliberate tactic to evade real dialogue, or else it is a matter of being so thoroughly possessed by ideology that he cannot process what is being said without translating it in his mind into arguments his ideology has prepared him to answer. Mr. Leroy took exception to taking a partisan approach to the LGBT issue, and to using religion to judge homosexuality — neither of which positions exist in my article. If there was any partisanship in what I wrote it was not along the lin

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Contextualising ongoing discourse on LGBT – Azril Mohd Amin

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15 Aug 2018299 Views0

The present national debate on LGBT issues within Malaysia would indicate that we seem to have leaped into deep and unfathomable waters without ever having established the parameters of discourse. In this regard, Gerakan Pembela Ummah made a pertinent point in their recent press release on LGBT published on August 13, 2018. They had argued among others that debate on whether to grant LGBT rights or accord them treatment has always been an ongoing conundrum due to inconclusive studies yielded by science on the influence of nature, as opposed to the environment, on the causes of this phenomenon that we now collectively face. The question of “Nature versus Nurture” regarding the causes of homosexuality cannot be treated as if it has been conclusively answered; and the classification o...

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5 Prinsip Dasar Islam Jamin Hak Asasi Manusia – Azril Mohd Amin

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10 Aug 2018364 Views0

USAHA mewujudkan dasar yang jelas pada peringkat nasional mengenai acuan hak asasi manusia perlu menjadi keutamaan bagi Malaysia yang mempunyai keunikan tersendiri melalui sejarah, budaya dan latar belakang masyarakat berbilang kaum dan agama. Sungguhpun Malaysia mempunyai kepelbagaian seumpama ini, hakikat sejarah dan latar belakang budaya sejak sekian lama membuktikan betapa Islam memainkan peranan signifikan dan kukuh dalam penyediaan asas pemeliharaan dan usaha mempromosi hak asasi manusia yang lebih dekat dengan acuan jati diri watan, hatta sejak sebelum kemerdekaan. Banyak peranan Islam diketengahkan dalam wacana hak asasi manusia, terkini dalam muzakarah bertajuk ‘Pakar Hak Asasi Manusia: Analisis Kritis Selepas 70 tahun Deklarasi Hak Asasi Manusia Sejagat (UDHR) 1948’ pada Me...

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Jenayah Matrimonial Cemar Imej Islam – Prof. Madya Dr. Rafidah Hanim Mokhtar

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07 Jul 2018320 Views0

Terdapat seruan agar kerajaan menetapkan usia minimum 18 tahun untu k perkahwinan lelaki dan wanita dalam semua rangka undang-undang tanpa pengecualian, iaitu tanpa pembabitan Mahkamah Syariah, Mahkamah Anak Negeri dan Ketua Menteri. Ia semakin lantang berikutan kes perkahwinan lelaki Malaysia 41 tahun dengan gadis warga Thailand yang baru 11 tahun. Perkahwinan ketiga lelaki itu dengan gadis tidak bersekolah, sudah tentu mendapat bantahan ramai. Dengan kemudahan persekolahan tersedia luas kini, kes yang dilihat menafikan peluang anak perempuan bersekolah dengan membebankannya dengan tanggungjawab perkahwinan, apatah lagi dalam kemelut rumah tangga poligami, adalah tidak munasabah dan zalim. Kes itu sendiri tidak mendapat kebenaran Mahkamah Syariah di negara ini. Perkahwinan ba...

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Israel project destined for ruin – Azril Mohd Amin

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20 May 2018284 Views0

There is no civilised response to the violence of the Israeli military against non-violent Palestinian protesters except moral outrage; and there is no rational reaction to the United States’ unilateral decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem except condemnation. However, it is important, particularly in times of provocative crises, to maintain a sense of perspective. In the final analysis, Israel is an unsustainable experiment; it always has been. As a Jewish state, it simply cannot be demographically maintained. The transfer of the American embassy can have no real impact on the viability of the Zionist vision in the long term. Ultimately, we believe that the “Two State Solution” is not a solution at all, but rather it is the only formula that can ensure the perpetuation...

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Cegah Mudarat HIV Menerusi Undang-undang – Prof. Madya Dr. Rafidah Hanim Mokhtar & Prof. Madya Dr. Siti Zubaidah Ismail

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23 Mar 2018289 Views0

SEDIKIT masa dahulu, ramai penghidap HIV/AIDS terdiri daripada penagih dadah berbanding penularan menerusi hubungan seksual. Hari ini statistik menunjukkan bahawa kaedah penularan utama ialah melalui hubungan seksual. Fakta dari sektor HIV/jangkitan penyakit seksual (STI) Bahagian Kawalan Penyakit, Kementerian Kesihatan menunjukkan kes baharu jangkitan HIV di negara ini disumbangkan oleh pengamal lesbian, gay, biseksual, transgender (LGBT), ekoran daripada aktiviti seksual mereka. Kes HIV/AIDS melonjak dari 983 kes pada 2009 kepada 2,864 kes pada 2016. Daripada jumlah ini, 54 peratus ialah pengamal hubungan seks luar tabii, seperti 'men-sex-men' (MSM) dan biseksual, manakala selebihnya melalui hubungan heteroseksual. Apa yang membimbangkan, kira-kira 40 peratus daripada golongan y...

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Selaras Undang-Undang Kes Murtad

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09 Mar 2018307 Views0

GORDON P Means menulis pada 1969 bahawa selepas terma 'Melayu' dimasukkan di bawah Perlembagaan Persekutuan, Raja-Raja Melayu yang menerima petisyen permohonan untuk keluar agama, tidak membenarkannya kerana itu bermakna akan hilang kelayakan dan keistimewaan Melayu. Hakim Faiza Tambi Chik (Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi ketika itu), turut menyatakan bahawa orang Melayu tidak boleh keluar Islam dalam menolak rayuan Lina Joy (2001) yang memohon membuang perkataan Islam daripada kad pengenalan, walaupun dapat menukar namanya. Mahkamah Persekutuan sekali lagi menegaskan di Sarawak baru-baru ini, seperti ditegaskan dalam kes Lina Joy bahawa Mahkamah Syariah mempunyai bidang kuasa menentukan status agama. Enakmen pentadbiran agama Islam negeri menyatakan secara hitam putih bahawa antara bidang ...

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Wage war against glue sniffing among minors – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rafidah Hanim Mokhtar

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20 Dec 2017296 Views0

The case of a disciplinary teacher Azizan Mana who was accused of slapping a student for sniffing glue, and later on was given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal, is one of the telltale signs that the problem of drug addiction among school children is escalating at an alarming rate. According to the recent statistics on drug abuse in Malaysia, it is estimated that the number of addicts will reach three million by the year 2020. Equally disturbing, is the fact that younger and younger minors are involved. Children as young as below 13 years of age were making headlines in drug abused cases reported in media in 2015 onwards. In August this year, we were shocked to learn the news of two youths who fell from an eight-storey building, after sniffing glue on the roof of Kompleks ...