COMMENT | PAS-led Perikatan Nasisonal is making it clear that there is no such thing as universal human rights, only human rights as defined by their religious dogma. Keep in mind that according to Abdul Hadi Awang, and this means according to PAS and PN, as far as human rights are concerned, non-Muslims have to be “pak turuts”. In other words, we do not have any human rights and the only thing we need to do is follow Malay/Muslim diktats.

Bersatu’s Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal's rejoinder to Malaysians not to conflate Western ideologies on human rights to Malaysia’s is the kind of cherry-picking that religious and racial extremists do: to use so-called Western democratic norms when it suits their purposes but abandon them when it becomes inconvenient.

This is why someone like PAS’s Ahmad Fadhli Shaari has the audacity to claim that the opposition's “human rights” are being denied because they are not receiving state funds and says, “Don’t let us become victims of human rights abuse,” but goes on a campaign against LGBT folk and, of course, non-Muslims who...