SECULAR-MINDED Malaysians have trolled the Terengganu state government which adamantly defended the anti-LGBTQ+ signboard at the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu entrance as a means to inculcate public hatred towards homose*ual acts.
“We want the public to hate homosexual acts. We want them to see it as filthy, wrong and something to be avoided,” Sinar Harian quoted State executive councillor for local government, housing and health Datuk Wan Sukairi Wan Abdullah as reasoning.
“These signboards are part of efforts to instil an Islamic atmosphere in the city.
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This is where one netizen to a Malaysiakini post enlightened the PAS-ruled state that “there’re bigger issue than homos in your state like incest, rape, drug abuse and corruption”.
“Just to make things clear, I don’t support LGBTQ+ but I’m not gonna hate them either,” he remarked. “I can see that they’re just trying to distract people from the real issues.”
Another wondered if a signboard bearing the message “corruption and drugs are haram with the same neraka (hell) background” can be erected outside police stations.
One female netizen enquired how bad is the homose*ual issue in Terengganu till a signboard needed to be put up to serve as reminder to which one commenter likened such action to “preparing the umbrella before rain starts pouring”.
Others continued to point to Terengganu’s selective picking of “LBGTQ+” when it consents child marriage (girls under 18) as a way to prevent social issues or why doesn’t the state prohibit smoking which is a prevalent trend in the state.
“I hate everything the same. Gays, smokers, those who commit immorality outside of marriage, those who steal money from orphans, husbands who are irresponsible in the family, etc,” asserted one commenter.
“They all deserve to be put in hell and burned. They should make all these boards for every vile group I wrote about.”
One commenter likened the cultivation of hate towards the LGBTQ+ group as “bothering in other people’s affairs as if there’s nothing better to do while incest, rape, other sexual crimes, smoking and corruption cases run high”.
Another ticked off secularists for making a fuss about religious sanctions when even the civil law in Malaysia states that “unnatural s*x is punishable by imprisonment and whipping under Sections 377A-377D of the Penal Code”.
One netizen summed up best by hinting that the matter should be left to the Terengganu state government to decide as “probably the LBGTQ+ situation is bad in the state”. – May 12, 2025
Main image credit: PAS Terengganu
