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It is not an overnight cure. We can’t force the boys to change, but we want them to know what their choices are in life. Some effeminate boys end up as a transvestite or a homosexual, but we want to do our best to limit this.

—Razali Daud, education director of the Malaysian state of Terrengganu

Malaysian authorities, the Telegraph reports, has ordered 66 Muslim schoolboys to attend a reform camp where they will receive religious classes and “physical guidance.” At the four-day camp to promote Muslim morality, the boys, who were identified as their teachers as being effeminate, will receive counseling on masculine behavior to discourage them from being gay.

by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

    • #Malaysia
    • #discrimination
    • #Islam
    • #homosexuality
  • 2 years ago [Wed, Apr 20th, 2011 at 6:33am]
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