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useless gutless Women Minister |
Being a government, the people rely on you to administer and govern the country well and protect the people as best as they can. That is the responsibility of a government and it doesn’t matter if the people are adults or children. In fact, it would be especially so if it were children.
If an 11-year-old girl who is still going to school and playing with friends is suddenly given off to be married to a 41-year-old man, the responsibility of the government would be to intervene and take action. There are no two ways about it.
In this day and age, it is ridiculous to think that it is okay for a child to be married. Think about it very carefully. A girl who is 11 is married to a man who is 41. If you see nothing wrong in that sentence, you are one screwed up individual.
What the government needs to do is immediately separate the child from the man and since her family was actually a part of the decision, she should be separated from her family too because obviously, her family isn’t thinking of her welfare.
It is more than a month now since the news of the child marriage came to light. Until today, the little girl is still married and still with her family. Statement after statement have been made from the side of the government but nothing has come out of it.
The statements mainly refer to how it is a delicate situation and that it needs to be threaded carefully because it would be a precedent for future cases. In fact, the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, who is also minister of Women, Family and Community Development, reiterated that a few days ago.
I think this is quite a load of hogwash. Firstly, the matter is truly delicate. It is so delicate that immediate intervention is required to protect this particular child from being abused. If an investigation needs to be done, the child must be taken away for protection first.
With all the statements being made without any action, time is running out for the little girl. Her life will slowly waste away and by the time something is done, it would be too late for her. So the situation is delicate indeed - for the little girl who is desperate for protection.
Secondly, Harapan has been the opposition for so long and they have been vocal on so many issues that they felt the BN government were handling wrong. The issue of child marriage has been one of those issues.
In those many decades of being the opposition and keeping the government in check, did they now familiarise themselves with the law and the machinery? Shouldn’t they now be able to straightaway address these issues now that they are the administration?
Have u gotten a better solution to break open the twilight zone where this dilemma lies?
ReplyDeleteHave. Cheebye kaytee can commit seppuku
DeleteYou ever wonder why the Ketuanan Melayus and religious bigots and institutions are so quiet on this matter and not rioting on the street to protect this Moslem child from a Paedophile? Even an accidental death of a child at a childcare home or a shrine built next to a Surau seems to have a more vociferous response than this case. Why? Why? Why?
ReplyDeleteIs it because Paedophilia are acceptable to them?
Is it because the Paedophile is a Moslem?
Is it because the child is a Thai Moslem and not a Malaysian Moslem?
Why so pathetic and without even a basic sense of humanity towards protecting a child which is still alive and not dead yet?
It's so utterly shameful and disgusting, we even call ourself humans for not voicing or protecting our children. Even animals also know how to protect their youngs from attacks by other animals.