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WearWhite's Not So Successful Livestream

So there was a livestream event that didn't really happen earlier on in April. It was by WearWhite, a group not so friendly to the LGBT movement. I was invested in it to see what kind of things anti-LGBT Muslims would be willing to say in public. One may wish to note that while JAKIM (Malaysia's MUIS) is tagged in the post, MUIS was not. Instead, anti-MUIS pages like Reform MUIS and Fikrah Siyasah were tagged. Conversion Therapy - History & Experience, An Islamic Perspective. What was likely intended to be something that lasted an hour (or more) instead only culminated in an 11-minute video recording, half of which spent introducing the speakers (one of which didn't even manage to say anything for the remaining half).  The video begins with the WearWhite co-founder (Noor Deros) mentioning his movement's inception to be a response to a few things. Namely, they are; Growing normalization of LGBT in Singapore Muslims being increasingly supportive of LGBTs and shouldn...