Continue engaging with transgenders like you used to as mufti, women’s group urges minister
Sunday, 12 Jul 2020 11:36 AM MYTSisters in Islam reminded Zulkifli that Islam teaches its adherents kindness, compassion and not to discriminate, shame or act violently. — Reuters pic
“Enforcement to educate the transgender community back to the right path would only heighten the stigmatisation against them and aggravate the aggression towards them by the public, making them more vulnerable to violence and threats to their lives. In 2018, when he was then Federal Territories mufti, Zulkifli had called on religious authorities to revisit a fatwa, or Islamic edict declaring transgenderism as un-Islamic, adding that the phenomenon is not inherently wrong.
SIS also questioned the so-called standard operating procedures for the Federal Territories Islamic Religious Department’s enforcement.
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