KUALA LUMPUR — PAS leader Nasrudin Hassan alleged today Putrajaya could implement the International Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) via other means even if it does not ratify the treaty.
The PAS information chief told a gathering of Muslim fundamentalist groups here the government may still adopt liberal policies by ratifying other international human rights-based conventions, which he labelled as anti-Islam.
He claimed this is possible if it ratifies six other international conventions, including the Convention Against Torture or the Declaration on the Intolerance and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which covers standards for religious freedom.
“I am suspicious of the statement by JPN,” he told an anti-ICERD congress at the Putra World Trade Centre here, referring to Putrajaya’s announcement not to ratify the treaty.
“What about the demands to ratify six other conventions? They have yet to state if they would or would not ratify them I don’t want this to be a manipulation,” he said.
PAS is among the chief organisers of a planned mass anti-ICERD protest scheduled to take place two weeks from now. But since the government had said it would not ratify the convention for now, the gathering would instead be “celebratory” in nature.
Yet, Nasrudin urged Muslims to descend into the capital city in droves to send a strong message — that they distrust the new administration and want them to reject all international human rights treaties.
“There is no guarantee that they won’t…That is why it is imperative to attend the December 8 gathering,” he said.
PAS and other hardline Muslim groups have long viewed human rights as a Western ideology designed to mask a new form of colonialism.
Some of its leaders have gone as far as calling the concept a part of the Jewish or Christian conspiracy for world domination, often without providing proof other than dubious theories sourced from the internet.
Today, Nasrudin suggested human rights conventions were a backdoor way for liberal rule as he insisted they were legally binding even if its propounders claim otherwise.
He cited as proof the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw), which the country ratified in 1995.
Nasrudin said the ratification forced the government to “temper” with the Federal Constitution so it could make gender-based discrimination unlawful. – MALAY MAIL
Umno takes credit for U-turn on ICERD
UMNO is taking credit over Putrajaya’s U-turn over the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
Its president, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, said the people’s anger pushed Pakatan Harapan to reconsider ratifying the convention.
“The decision to cancel ratifying the convention was made after they considered our anger against the treaty. We have made it clear that we will gather largely this December 8. Our intention is noble to reject the government’s decision to sign ICERD.
“The new government wished to ratify several other conventions, including ICERD, early 2019,” Zahid said today at an Umno-PAS congress ahead of the proposed rally.
Supreme Council member Dr Zambry Abd Kadir read the speech prepared by Zahid.
On Friday, the cabinet backed down on ICERD. – THE MALAYSIAN INSIGHT
MALAY MAIL / THE MALAYSIAN INSIGHT
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