COMMENT | I sincerely hope that the Health Ministry does not buckle to the immense pressure applied by various religious extremists and their governmental proxies to deny life-saving drugs to vulnerable and demonised groups.

The modus operandi of religious extremists is to target low-hanging fruit when it comes to religious hegemony.

Selangor state religious department’s argument that a certain group should be denied medical aid, which is funded by taxpayers, is essentially laying the foundation to use healthcare as a punitive instrument against people they deem against the teachings of Islam.

We should ask ourselves...