LGBT wrong but avoid violence when arresting them, lawyer tells enforcers

BANGI, Feb 16 — Lawyer Aidil Khalid suggested last night that enforcement authorities should not abuse their power or use excessive force, even as they have to arrest transgenders.

Speaking at an anti-LGBT forum last night, the Concerned Lawyers for Justice activist admitted he had wondered why LGBT supporters are fighting so hard to decriminalise the status of the LGBT community.

“It was only when we asked them why they want to change the law so badly that they told us because of the Syariah Criminal Enactment, enforcement officers arresting them abuse their power and sometimes use excessive force.

“Even though what [the LGBT community] are doing is wrong, we cannot close our eyes to the mistakes made by the enforcement authorities,” he said in the forum titled “LGBT: A Chronic Cancer on the Nation”.

He claimed that in Islam those whose “sexual instincts run against the norm” are still free from sin as long as they do not act on their “lust”.

Read the full report in The Malay Mail Online.