🇲🇾 Mahkamah keluar waran tangkap terhadap Sajat
Source: https://www.sinarharian.com.my/article/1252...-terhadap-Sajat



SHAH ALAM - Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah di sini pada Selasa mengeluarkan waran tangkap terhadap usahawan kosmetik, Nur Sajat kerana gagal hadir pada prosiding kes berpakaian wanita tiga tahun lalu.

Waran tangkap itu dikeluarkan oleh Hakim Syarie, Mohammad Khalid Shaee @ Shaii terhadap Nur Sajat atau nama sebenar Muhammad Sajjad Kamaruz Zaman.

Menurut sumber, prosiding hari ini dijadualkan jam 9 pagi untuk sebutan semula kes, namun kelibat usahawan kontroversi itu tidak kelihatan sehingga tamat prosiding.

Dalam pada itu, peguam, Zuri Zabuddin Budiman ketika ditemui di luar mahkamah berkata, Sajat tidak hadir di mahkamah pada Selasa, namun beliau diwajibkan untuk menghadiri prosiding pada tarikh baharu itu kelak.

Disebabkan itu katanya, prosiding kes ditangguh ke 1 Jun depan untuk sebutan semula kes.

"Saya tunggu juga Sajat, tetapi dia tak datang.

"Pihak kami mungkin akan hantar mitigasi, tetapi belum dibincangkan lagi," katanya.

Selain Zuri Zabuddin, Sajat turut diwakili peguam syarie, Ahmad Nazib, Azlina Che Hasan dan Amirah Zainal.

Kes itu dikendalikan oleh Timbalan Pendakwa Syarie, Atras Mohd Zain.

Pada 6 Januari lalu, Muhammad Sajjad mengaku tidak bersalah di Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah di sini atas tuduhan sebagai seorang lelaki berpakaian menyerupai wanita pada 2018 lalu.

Sebelum itu satu rakaman video tular di laman sosial, memaparkan Sajat menangis dalam keadaan bergari.

Beliau menerusi Instagram miliknya mendakwa, Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (JAIS) seakan melengah-lengahkan urusan surat jaminan dan turut menyebabkan kecederaan kepadanya ketika proses siasatan dijalankan di Ibu Pejabat JAIS di sini.

Muhammad Sajjad, 36, turut mendakwa, dilayan dengan buruk dan digari sehingga mengalami bengkak di bahagian badan kerana bergelut untuk mempertahankan diri walaupun sudah tampil memberikan kerjasama untuk siasatan pihak JAIS.

Dalam pada itu, JAIS mengesahkan pihaknya menjalankan siasatan terhadap Muhammad Sajad.

🇲🇾 Aktivis suarakan kebimbangan berhubung waran tangkap Nur Sajat
Source: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/...gkap-nur-sajat/



PETALING JAYA: Dua aktivis lesbian, gay, biseksual dan transgender (LGBT) menyuarakan kebimbangan terhadap waran tangkap dikeluarkan kepada usahawan kosmetik Nur Sajat.

Thilaga, pengasas Justice for Sisters, NGO yang memperjuangkan hak transgender berkata ini kerana wujud kebimbangan sahih bahawa golongan berkenaan berisiko menjadi mangsa keganasan ketika dalam tahanan.

Beliau memetik laporan Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia (Suhakam) pada 2019 mengenai golongan transgender yang mendedahkan berlaku sekurang-kurangnya 60 kes keganasan terhadap golongan itu ketika dalam tahanan polis.

Sebanyak 54 kejadian keganasan melibatkan wardar penjara manakala 36 membabitkan tahanan lain, termasuk dipaksa melakukan perbuatan seksual.
Thilaga berkata, golongan wanita trans dan ‘intersex’ adalah wanita seterusnya perlu ditahan di kemudahan untuk wanita.

“Adalah penting untuk memastikan maruah dan keselamatan semua orang yang berada dalam tahanan, pada setiap masa.

“Amalan lazim meletakkan wanita transgender di kemudahan lelaki, walaupun dipisahkan daripada tahanan lain, perlu diubah,” katanya kepada FMT.

Terdahulu hari ini, Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah mengeluarkan waran tangkap terhadap Muhammad Sajjad Kamaruz Zaman atau lebih dikenali sebagai Nur Sajat selepas gagal hadir untuk kes terhadapnya.

Pada 6 Jan lalu, Muhammad Sajjad, 36, dituduh berpakaian seperti wanita dalam satu majlis bacaan Yasin dan solat hajat sehingga menyebabkan agama Islam dipandang hina.

Sementara itu, aktivis translelaki Dorian Wilde berkata, sekiranya ditahan, Sajat mesti ditempatkan berasingan daripada lelaki bagi melindunginya daripada menjadi mangsa penderaan pegawai atau tahanan lain.

🇲🇾 Federal Court unanimously dclares Selangor Shariah law criminalising ‘unnatural sex’ void, unconstitutional
Source: https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/202...g-unnat/1952701



KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25 — The Federal Court's nine-judge panel today unanimously declared that a Selangor state law's provision which made unnatural sex a Shariah offence is invalid and having gone against the Federal Constitution, as such offences falls under Parliament's powers to make law and not under state legislatures' law-making powers.

Reading out a summary of the unanimous judgment, Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat said the Federal Court granted the order sought by a Malaysian Muslim man who was challenging the constitutionality and validity of Section 28 of the Shariah Criminal Offences (Selangor) Enactment 1995.

Section 28 makes it a Shariah offence for “any person” performing “sexual intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal”, with the punishment being a maximum fine of RM5,000 or a maximum three-year jail term or a maximum whipping of six strokes or any combination.

The order sought by the man and granted by the Federal Court today is for a declaration that Section 28 is invalid on the ground that it makes provision with respect to a matter which the Selangor state legislature has no power to make laws and is therefore null and void.

Other judges on the nine-member panel are President of the Court of Appeal Tan Sri Rohana Yusuf, Chief Judge of Malaya Tan Sri Azahar Mohamed, Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Datuk Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim, Federal Court judges Datuk Seri Zawawi Salleh, Datuk Nallini Pathmanathan, Datuk Vernon Ong, Datuk Zabariah Mohd Yusof, and Datuk Seri Hasnah Mohammed Hashim.

🌎 No more ‘Mr.’ Potato Head: Hasbro makes classic toy gender neutral
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...gender-neutral/



Potatoes have no gender. And soon, after nearly 70 years, the name of Hasbro’s popular spud-shaped toy will reflect that: No more Mr. Potato Head. It’s just Potato Head.

On Thursday, the company announced that it would be rebranding the iconic quick-change toy to break away from traditional ideas about gender roles and family structures — it celebrated the wedding and subsequent anniversaries of “Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head,” and it sold boxed sets of the couple and their offspring, “Spud” and “Yam.” (Yes, there was even a picket fence.)

Soon, Hasbro hopes the potato play can be a little more flexible and diverse, such as Mr. and Mr. Potato Head weddings or single spud-parent families. The move reflects a growing appetite for products that offer more flexibility around identity, from a surge in popularity in makeup for men to Mattel’s diversified Barbies and a boy “American Girl” doll. One in 6 adults in Generation Z identifies as LGBTQ, according to a Gallup survey, providing some of the most detailed and up-to-date estimates yet on the size and makeup of the nation’s LGBTQ population.

“Culture has evolved,” Kimberly Boyd, who works on the Potato Head brand at Hasbro, told Fast Company. “Kids want to be able to represent their own experiences. The way the brand currently exists — with the ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ — is limiting when it comes to both gender identity and family structure.”

The “sweet spot” for the Potato Head toy is about 2 or 3 years old, Boyd told Fast Company. Not just because of the its silliness, but because of its capacity to serve as a blank slate where they can model their experiences. “This often takes the form of creating little potato families, because they’re learning what it means to be in a family.”

When the rebranded toy hits shelves in the fall, the accompanying pieces will be made from “plant-based plastic” and have less plastic packaging, Hasbro told investors Thursday, according to reporting from Bloomberg News. A spokeswoman told Bloomberg News the kit will include two plastic adult potatoes, one baby potato and 42 accessories.

The news raised some ire on social media Thursday and may generate some flak in certain corners of conservative culture, but it’s not actually controversial, said Neil Saunders, managing director of retail at GlobalData in New York.

“A potato doesn’t have a gender. And they’re not saying the toy can’t be male, female or anything else — they’re just allowing the child or consumer to determine that for themselves,” Saunders said in an email to The Washington Post. “The alternative would be to produce a whole variety of different products to cater for different genders — but that would be unwieldy in terms of costs and securing space in stores. So this is the simplest solution.”

Hasbro’s original Mr. Potato Head cost just 98 cents, according to Fast Company, about $10 in today’s currency. After the release of the original Mr. Potato Head commercial, which was the first televised ad directed at kids rather than adults, Hasbro netted more than $4 million in sales in just a few months, according to the National Toy Hall of Fame. In 1953, Hasbro rolled out a Mrs. Potato Head and potato kids Spud and Yam. Later, the company sold various sets with the whole family.

In 1992, Mr. Potato Head eschewed his couch potato status and “received a Presidential Sports Award from the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports,” according to the Quad-City Times, which was presented on the White House lawn.

After Mr. Potato Head appeared, voiced by comedian Don Rickles, in Pixar’s “Toy Story” in the 1990s, sales got another major boost, as did many other classic toys featured in the film, like slinky and Etch-a-Sketch, according to the Takeout.

George Lerner, a Brooklyn inventor, first conceived of Mr. Potato Head as a “funny face kit” that kids could stick onto potatoes or other vaguely head-shaped vegetables in 1949, according to ThoughtCo. The early iteration was a collection that included 28 hands, feet, eyes, mouths, hair and hats — potato not included. After selling the pieces as bonuses in cereal boxes, Lerner later sold the rights to the Rhode Island company Hassenfield Brothers, which would become Hasbro.

The original Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head will still be sold under the gender-neutral rebrand, Hasbro confirmed Thursday in a tweet.

🇲🇾 Report: Jais launches state-wide search for cosmetics entrepreneur Nur Sajat
Source: https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/202...r-sajat/1952912



KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25 — The Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) has deployed about 122 personnel and enforcement officers to find and arrest cosmetics entrepreneur, Nur Sajat.

According to its director, Datuk Mohd Shahzihan Ahmad, the action was taken after his department obtained an arrest warrant from the Shariah High Court here, yesterday afternoon, the MalaysiaGazette reported.

This is following Nur Sajat’s failure to attend a Shariah High Court proceeding last Tuesday in relation to a case three years ago.

The charge against Nur Sajat was made in accordance with Section 10 (a) of the Shariah Crimes (State of Selangor) Enactment 1995 which provides for a sentence not exceeding RM5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding three years or both, if convicted.

Section 10 refers to the Shariah offence of insulting Islam or causing Islam to be insulted either by mocking or blaspheming the faith and its associated practices and rituals either in a written, pictorial or photographic form.

“Jais obtained an arrest warrant for [Nur Sajat] yesterday afternoon, so today we are mobilising our members and enforcement officers to find [Nur Sajat] throughout Selangor,” he said when contacted by the news portal today.

When asked if the search had yielded any developments, Mohd Shahzihan said Jais had yet to find or arrest Nur Sajat.

“There have been no arrests so far, our enforcement team has already been deployed throughout Selangor starting today to track the whereabouts of [Nur Sajat],” he added.

Nur Sajat has been the subject of intense scrutiny by authorities and some members of the public over her gender identity.

Last year, Religious Affairs Minister Datuk Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri said Islamic enforcers would not merely be conducting arrests but also providing religious education so that the transgender community can “return to the correct path”.

Zulkifli’s remarks appeared to be in response to risqué photos on social media posted by Nur Sajat, which had prompted the ire of some Muslim hardliners.

So much resources wasted just to arrest a single transgender woman.  Hopefully Sajat can sneak overseas and seek asylum to avoid arrest.

A single transgender woman that does charity and gives back to the community. But, you know, they rather waste all these resources so that she "doesn't tarnish the religion further" 

Urgh, tell me about it. The fact that no one in government is commenting how ridiculous the whole situation is really shows how incompetent they all are.

I think if she goes to the other states she will be safe already because JAIS only has jurisdiction in Selangor... Unless the religious bodies have repatriation process I didn't know about. But of course there is the MCO pulak.

You were so eager to write an anti-LGBT thread you didn't even think about the thread title through.
Lol thanks. It's a bautiful Friday night outside. I think I'm gonna enjoy the rest of the day instead of engaging with a random troll on the internet. I've reported the thread already tho.

I believe it is FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG to be ANTI what................ and applying this to your own children / other people etc etc

You will invite REBELS

A good example is OLD SCHOOL PARENTS whom are Buddhist will probably faint if their children ever listens to christain sermon . They can FORBID but their children will REBEL .
I don't ever believe the parent will succeed in changing / stopping their child learning process whether it is religion or LGBT etc etc

Yes anger is natural feelings. But why are you getting so angry with this thread? Did anyone here has murdered your family or close friends something?

Let's take a look again at what you wrote.
So you enjoy anal penetration eh? Are you gay?

Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you - Nietzsche

But not saying internal disputes is monstrous lar, he's actually quite a nice guy..but you get my drift right 

Nah I've nothing against TS in this thread. Knowing he's nice chap.

but the other person tho. Just curious where did all the anger came from? One couldn't just raged and anti on something out of nowhere OR maybe I am the little naive one here?

Nah I've nothing against TS in this thread. Knowing he's nice chap.

but the other person tho. Just curious where did all the anger came from? One couldn't just raged and anti on something out of nowhere OR maybe I am the little naive one here?

Hi, i just knew an amoi, she had a friend where it's a she originally, but she surgeon herself to become a ''he'', why would a girl does that?

-family background?
-genetic issue?
-curiousity?
-abused?

i've never seen her friend, she just told me thanks.