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COMMENT | Should non-Muslims care about transgender mosque bans?
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“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

- Winston S Churchill

COMMENT | The question is much more urgent than merely the banning of transgender folk of their right of religious worship.

Not that the rights of trans people are not urgent but rather all these issues of rights are in jeopardy because of the balkanisation of dissent when it comes to collective and individual rights in this country.

This balkanisation happens because of the Muslim/Non-Muslim divide, which is a political construct, and one that has systemically encroached upon our public and private spheres for decades under successive governments including that of supposedly "moderate" Pakatan Harapan.

When this balkanisation does, it makes the divide and conquer... 

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