'Medieval thinking': Nazri urges govt to withdraw citizenship ruling appeal

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'This medieval thinking should not exist in the year 2021,' he adds.

Mohamed Nazri Aziz has urged Putrajaya not to appeal the High Court ruling that struck out the discriminatory treatment of Malaysian mothers with overseas-born children.

He said the constitutional provision, which only grants automatic citizenship to overseas-born children if the father is Malaysian but not if the mother is Malaysian, is clearly a form of gender discrimination and is “medieval thinking”...

 

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Taliban ban women more mediaeval

Definitely medieval level sexism.

Eleh poyo la kau. As if u care.

Haha....anak dual citizenship?

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