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The Pink Dot Rally this Saturday attracted a record number of 26000 people to attend this year’s event held at the Speakers’ Corner. This number was 5000 more than last year’s Pink Dot Rally’s gathering. The headlines generated in the past week led people such as Mr Andy Seet — who was at Pink Dot with his wife and four-month-old baby — to turn up for the event for the first time. He said he was there to show support for his LGBT friends according to Today Online.
“We should not ostracise people, everybody should have the freedom to love,” he said. Mr Paerin Choa, a spokesman for the event, said: “Even as we remain mindful of opposition from certain quarters, we are confident that this Little Red Dot we call home is large enough for us all to coexist peacefully, respectfully and with dignity.” Over the past days, they have been putting up, on the campaign’s Facebook page, pictures of Muslims and non-Muslims wearing white in support of the movement. Mr Walid Jumblatt, 29, was one of those who turned up in white for prayers at the Ar-Raudhah Mosque in Bukit Batok. He said that there were about 40 other people dressed in white at the evening prayers. At mosques across the island, supporters of the campaign were also seen attending the prayers in white.
Mr Walid, a PhD candidate, said: “Looking at the response … it has been a tremendously successful campaign. The amount of awareness that it has created with regards to the issue of homosexuality in Islam, I think it’s quite unprecedented within the Singapore Muslim community.”
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