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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