{"id":5720,"date":"2014-03-20T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2020-02-18T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T04:29:17","slug":"response-to-the-deputy-home-ministers-statement-on-the-issue-of-statutory-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/response-to-the-deputy-home-ministers-statement-on-the-issue-of-statutory-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to the Deputy Home Minister&#8217;s statement on the issue of statutory rape."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the issue of statutory rape, the Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi&#8217;s statement is flippant, racist and unfitting of the position he holds.<br \/>\nHis rationalization of the fact further proves that this UMNO-BN government is made up of individuals who are incapable of doing right by and enhancing the lives of all Malaysians. <\/p>\n<p>What we have is a serious issue at hand that threatens our teens and children who are sacrosanct.<\/p>\n<p>It disappoints me to see a person of such high stature being allowed to say such things. It angers me that he does not even have the decency to apologise.<\/p>\n<p>UMNO politicizes every issue and it has shown that by making such racist remarks, even an issue as serious as statutory rape will be politicized.<\/p>\n<p>When the safety of our young is compromised the future of our nation is compromised. UMNO does not realise this.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Home Minister&#8217;s statement should be rebuked and he should be made to apologise to all Malaysians for his flippancy. <\/p>\n<p>Najib as the PM and Minister in charge of Women&#8217;s Affairs should also be answerable. Don&#8217;t assume a portfolio for political reasons particularly when you&#8217;re unable to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>The government should state what tangible actions are going to be taken to punish such offenders and to educate our people about their rights to prevent such incidences from happening.<\/p>\n<p>The future of our young and women have been taken for granted for far too long by this government and this cannot be tolerated any further.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nurul Izzah Anwar<br \/>\nMember of Parliament for Lembah Pantai<br \/>\nVice-President of Keadilan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the issue of statutory rape, the Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi&#8217;s statement is flippant, racist and unfitting of the position he holds. His rationalization&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[1739,263,646,1740],"class_list":{"0":"post-5720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-penerbitan","7":"tag-blog","8":"tag-home-minister","9":"tag-nurul-izzah-anwar","10":"tag-response"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5721,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}