{"id":123956,"date":"2018-12-10T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=123956"},"modified":"2018-12-10T10:18:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T10:18:30","slug":"going-to-the-gym-is-a-sign-of-being-gay-says-malaysian-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/12\/going-to-the-gym-is-a-sign-of-being-gay-says-malaysian-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to the Gym Is a Sign of Being Gay, Says Malaysian Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Malaysian newspaper has published a gay-spotter\u2019s checklist. It includes things like being a gym member or having a beard as signs of male homosexuality.<\/p>\n

The helpful list of hints on how to spot members of the LGBT community has been published in the Malaysian daily newspaper Sinar Harian, alongside a piece featuring Islamic cleric Hanafiah Malik deploring the rise of homosexuality, which many Muslims consider sinful, in the south-east Asian country.<\/p>\n

\u201c[They] like going to the gym but not for exercising, but to ogle others,\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

reads one of the bullet points, adding that gay men have a penchant for beards and branded clothes and that their eyes light up when they see a handsome slice of beefcake.<\/p>\n

Hugging, holding hands, being alone and talking disparagingly about men, meanwhile, are a sure-fire way of telling someone is a lesbian, according to the guide.<\/p>\n

Homosexuality is still illegal in Muslim-majority Malaysia due to a British colonial-era law, and can be punished with up to 20 years in prison. LGBT people, along with liberal and Shia Muslims, are seen as a threat by Malaysia\u2019s Sunni conservatives such as Hanafiah Malik, who told the newspaper there is an urgent need to stop the \u201crise\u201d<\/em> of homosexuality.<\/p>\n

The preacher also said that \u201ckhunsa,\u201d<\/em> or hermaphrodites, should allowed to undergo surgery to have one of their sets of genitals removed.<\/p>\n

The Sinar Harian article was not welcomed by everyone, however. Arwind Kumar, one of Malaysia\u2019s biggest social media stars, ripped into the article on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know a lot of priests, I know a lot ustads [Islamic scholars], I know a lot of really, really religious people who love keeping beards. Are you trying to say they are gay? That\u2019s how stupid this whole article sounds,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you really want to educate society then explain to them the traits of a pedophile, a molester, a murderer, a kidnapper, people who actually endanger the lives of others. How the hell does a gay person endanger your life?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A Malaysian newspaper has published a gay-spotter\u2019s checklist. It includes things like being a gym member or having a beard as signs of male homosexuality. Hugging, holding hands, being alone and talking disparagingly about men, meanwhile, are a sure-fire way of telling someone is a lesbian, according to the guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":123957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sexualities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}