KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 27 — Malaysia should support human rights only as much as it can and not pay heed to critics who ask for excessive rights, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today.“In general, we have to support human rights but only as far as we’re able to,” he said after speaking at the National Entrepreneurs Corporation Bhd (PUNB) symposium here.
“If we want to give excessive rights like in the West, to the point where men can marry men and women can marry women, that’s not necessary.”
The former prime minister of 22 years was responding to criticisms of human rights movements in Malaysia by Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Mohd Noor at the Perkasa general assembly yesterday.
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