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https://www.sinardaily.my/article/221335/focus/national/police-bust-sodomy-ring-children-taught-to-commit-sodomy-in-charity-homes-what-you-need-to-know#google_vignette
Islamic faith schools funded by successors of a banned islamic cult is found to have sexually abused hundreds of young boys under its care. Penetrative sodomy is common, and the children were taught to sodomize each other. Most of the children are offspring of polygamous marriages arranged by the cult as rewards for members. The financial power of the cult is speculated to be due to links with the religious enforcement board.
The embarrassment to the Malaysian muslim establishments are multifaceted: The governing party has failed to use its available tools, particularly the JAKIM and JAIS Islamic enforcement authorities, to clamp down on extant religious school abuses and it was the police that raided the GISBH facilities.
The opposition cannot capitalize on this failing of the government, because they are an explicitly islamosupremacist party and islam, being perfect, cannot possibly have done anything wrong, so the political hay is being made of the fact that the (muslim) government is oppressing muslims rather than the abuse having happened in the first place.
The muslim community is angry and embarrassed that such perversions occurred, because it is the filthy kuffar who indulge in perversions, not the pious muslim. (muslim sex offense rate is... something not for this thread)
The only reason GISBH was actually brought to public attention is that it is a banned cult. There are other madrasas with horrific sexual abuses as well, but lack the cult management. There is a potential CW effortpost on Islamic cults in Southeast Asia and their corrosive effect on Islamic authorities, but this Transnational Thread is not the place for such a post.
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