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Malaysians Protest United Nations Attempt to Force Acceptance of Homosexuality
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| February 10, 2004
Posted on 03/10/2004 4:16:50 PM PST by Coleus
Malaysians Protest United Nations Attempt to Force Acceptance of Homosexuality
KUALA LUMPUR, February 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Malaysian government leaders and citizens protested this week the upcoming United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) resolution seeking to add "sexual orientation" to the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination. Professor Amina Salim of the University in Penang told an Islamic news service yesterday, "The new resolution that would force Malaysia and Muslim countries to accept and legalize gays and lesbians is an offence to Islam and to Muslims."
As LifeSiteNews.com reported last week, the resolution will be presented at the 60th session of the UNHRC which runs March 15-April 25 in Geneva Switzerland. The motion, which was sponsored by Brazil and co-sponsored by Canada, was postponed last year by a narrow vote at the UNHRC.
Representing the government's opposition to the motion, Dr Rais Yatim, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department said "The municipal or domestic laws of a nation should not be dictated by the U.N.'s mechanism of laws, unless the former wants to comply."
Islam online reports that at the 2003 UNHRC session, Pakistan distributed a memo to commission members on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference which stated the "resolution directly contradicts the tenets of Islam and other religions," and its approval would be "a direct insult to the 1.2 billion Muslims around the world".
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Homosexual Activists Move to Force Anti-Family Policy via United Nations
See local coverage:"Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston said the rally was not about "hatemongering," as some critics have charged."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: civilrights; culturewar; homosexual; homosexualagenda; humanrights; islam; malaysia; muslim; muslisms; oneworldgovernment; prisoners; religion; sovereignnation; un; unhrc; unitednations; unlist
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posted on
03/10/2004 4:16:50 PM PST
by
Coleus
To: Coleus
You've got American friends, Malaysia. We are fighting it too.
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posted on
03/10/2004 4:19:55 PM PST
by
King Black Robe
(With freedom of religion and speech now abridged, it is time to go after the press.)
To: Coleus
KL is my second home! Good for them.
To: Coleus; King Black Robe; international american
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posted on
03/10/2004 4:43:19 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
To: Coleus
Political correctness has reached a global scale. The United Nations is now telling people what they should think. While people should mind their own business, they should NOT have their beliefs and concience dictated to them by any government body, let alone The United Nations.
To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...
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posted on
03/10/2004 6:28:31 PM PST
by
Coleus
(Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
To: Coleus
Strange allies, but I'll take it.
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posted on
03/10/2004 6:30:53 PM PST
by
Porterville
(Play the cards you were dealt or crawl in a whole and die; Vote for Bush or go away.)
To: Coleus
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Hello, Malaysian friends.
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posted on
03/10/2004 7:41:18 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Man rises to greatness if greatness is expected of him)
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