{"id":5256,"date":"2023-05-23T13:30:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2023-05-23T13:31:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:31:01","slug":"malaysia-lgbtq-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/05\/23\/malaysia-lgbtq-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: LGBTQ+ Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/people\/article\/3221552\/malaysia-calls-time-out-swatchs-pride-collection-no-one-likes-lgbt-community\">Hadi Azmi, SCMP, Malaysia calls time out on Swatch\u2019s pride collection: \u2018No one likes LGBT community\u2019. 23 May 2023<\/a> &#8220;\u201cAs a society, we need to ask ourselves: what kind of message are we sending when a rainbow, a universal symbol of hope, becomes controversial?\u201d Jejaka deputy president Dhia Rezki Rohaizad said to This Week in Asia.&#8221;  The official press release from Jekaka is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JEJAKA condemns the recent seizure of the Swatch Pride Collection in Malaysia and calls for the promotion of diversity and acceptance. Read our official statement here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GQIz8F63ro\">pic.twitter.com\/GQIz8F63ro<\/a><\/p>&mdash; JEJAKA \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@jejakaorg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jejakaorg\/status\/1660682565207076864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hadi Azmi, SCMP, Malaysia calls time out on Swatch\u2019s pride collection: \u2018No one likes LGBT community\u2019. 23 May 2023 &#8220;\u201cAs a society, we need to ask ourselves: what kind of message are we sending when a rainbow, a universal symbol of hope, becomes controversial?\u201d Jejaka deputy president Dhia Rezki Rohaizad said to This Week in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,305,213],"tags":[148,214],"class_list":["post-5256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtq","category-malaysia","category-malaysia-internet","tag-lgbtq","tag-malaysia-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5257,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions\/5257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}