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Transgender Malaysian Nur Sajat gets death threats, disappears after Facebook video appears to show her renouncing Islam
- Video appears to show the entrepreneur – who is already facing a sharia court charged with insulting Islam – renouncing her religion
- Religious authorities have sent more than 100 officers to track and arrest her but have been unable to find her
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A prominent transgender entrepreneur in Malaysia has received death threats after a video emerged that purportedly showed her renouncing Islam.
The video, which has gone viral, appears to show Nur Sajat, 35, saying she does not “want to be a Muslim any more”.
“I will leave Islam, it would be better like this. [People who are anti-trans] made me want to quit the religion. Because we didn’t do anything wrong but people harshly blame us for being bad,” says the person in the video.
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Beneath the post on Facebook, users have responded with a series of threats.
One wrote, “I want to stone him now”, while another wrote, “his blood is halal [permitted]”.
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Human rights activists said the threats were “concerning” as there had been violence and murders against the trans community in Malaysia every year for the past decade.
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