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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is practised in Malaysia, with an estimated of more than 90% of women from Muslim families having undergone the practice. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Reasons cited for the performance of FGM include religious obligation, hygiene, cultural practices, and the belief that it prevents pre-marital sex.
Many local women between 17 and 28 were forced to work in the brothels, employed as what were euphemistically termed "comfort women". [12] Starting at the end of the 20th century, prostitution has spread over the rest of Malaysia, particularly in the form of massage parlours, [7] and "health centres". [13]
Zainah Anwar is a prominent Malaysian non-governmental organisation leader, activist and Muslim feminist. [1] She was the head of the civil society organisation Sisters in Islam for more than two decades before stepping down. In 2013 she was named by the International Museum of Women as one of its 10 most influential Muslim women. [2]
Islam was also brought to Malaysia by Arab Muslim and Tamil Indian Muslim traders in the 12th century CE. It is commonly held that Islam first arrived in the Malay peninsula since Sultan Mudzafar Shah I (12th century) of Kedah (Hindu name Phra Ong Mahawangsa), the first ruler to be known to convert to Islam after being introduced to it by ...
Zainah Anwar co-founded two (2) ground-breaking women's group that engage with Islam from a right's perspective to promote equality and justice for women living in Muslim context. In 1987, she co-founded Sisters in Islam (SIS) in Malaysia and became its founding Executive Director from 1999-2008.
In 2016 Marina denounced the destruction of Malaysian culture and traditions by what she perceives as 'Arab colonialism'. [7] In January 2018, following a viral incident of a Muslim man slapping a Muslim woman for not wearing a hijab, Marina warned that Islamization of Malaysia will tear the country apart. She referred to Islamization as ...
[10] The Malaysian premier's views did not go unchallenged in civil society [11] and online. [12] In April 2014, feminism was accused of being a "facade used by a secret Zionist-Christian alliance to dishonour Muslim women" by Abdullah Zaik Abdul Rahman, the president of the Islamic organisation Malaysian Muslim Solidarity (ISMA). [13]
This led to a shortage of South Asian brides, and so South Asian Muslim men often married Malay Muslim women. The descendants of these unions were called Jawi Peranakan. "Jawi" is an Arabic word to denote Southeast Asia , while Peranakan is a Malay word meaning "born of" (it also refers to the elite, locally born Chinese ).