Umat Islam mesti bangkit kecam hina Rasulullah
Harakah Daily Kami dari Majlis Penyelidikan Dewan Ulama PAS Pusat, sesungguhnya merasa amat kesal dengan tragedi penghinaan kepada Rasulullah SAW melalui filem yang mengaibkan baginda dan…
On the Freedom to Offend an Imaginary God
Sam Harris The latest wave of Muslim hysteria and violence has now spread to over twenty countries. The walls of our embassies and consulates have been breached, their precincts abandoned to…
Sam Harris on the Innocence of Muslims affair
Talking Philosophy I see that Sam Harris has published a post on the violent responses to what he calls “an unwatchable Internet video titled ‘Innocence of Muslims.’”
Subversive practices
Lim Sue Goan, Sin Chew Daily Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has committed to fight for votes from swing voters, who vote based on political parties' words and deeds, since he took the office…
Umno, PAS youth wings to hold separate protests over anti-Islam video, cartoon
(The Star) - Umno Youth and PAS Youth will hold separate protests Friday over the anti-Islam video and a satirical cartoon published in a French magazine deemed insulting to Prophet Muhammad.
Hudud feud heats up between Karpal and PAS leaders
(The Star) - The feud between DAP stalwart Karpal Singh and PAS leaders over the implementation of hudud laws has heightened.
Actress sues California man behind anti-Muslim film
(Reuters) - LOS ANGELES: An actress in an anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests across the Muslim world sued a California man linked to its production yesterday for fraud and slander,…
Najib tells Chinese voters to stop ‘confrontational culture’
(The Malaysian Insider) - Datuk Seri Najib Razak has urged voters from the Chinese community to shun what he called the confrontational culture adopted since Election 2008 in making demands, in a…
Umno will never regain Selangor
(Free Malaysia Today) - If the voter swing remains at 7% in the coming general election, then Barisan Nasional will likely be left with less than 90 seats.
Battle between ‘familiarity’ and ‘change’
(Free Malaysia Today) - Can PKR's Rafizi Ramli persuade loyal Pandan voters to veer away from their hardworking two-term Barisan Nasional MP Ong Tee Keat in the coming polls?
Najib’s theatre of dreams
Noble thoughts and noble aims litter the prime minister’s press awards speeches: they are meant to inspire but ring hollow when delivered to a shallow audience that lives by instructions to sell…
Appointment of Prime Minister
When the House has no one commanding a majority, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s discretion can change the course of the nation’s history.Shad Saleem Faruqi, The Star
Living in the shadows of our vote
Living in a deteriorating Malaysia requires all citizens to compromise principles. Praba Ganesan, The Malaysian Insider
Who’s your Daddy? Part 2
Everyone knows how much ministers make. So you tell me how do the wives afford all the jewellery and bags? Where do they get the money from?Dina Zaman, The Malaysian Insider
Innocence of Muslims: How fiction creates reality
Vito Laterza, Al Jazeera What is it that makes us react to media content over the internet? Why are so many people worldwide reacting so vigorously against this…
Guidelines for women bosses spark outcry
(The Star) - The dust on the gay guidelines has barely settled before a new one has surfaced this time, directed at female bosses.
Registration of Overseas Voter
I had contacted the Malaysian Embassy in Singapore and had been informed by Ms Shima from the consular, that only civil servants, full time students and their spouse are allowed to vote abroad.…
Mayra Nazarbayev released
According to several credible sources, her surprising and miraculous release was due to the direct and personal involvement by the Malaysian Prime Minister: during his Hadj to Mecca over this…
Waytha still a ‘national threat’?
(The Sun Daily) - Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leader P. Waythamoorthy, 46, was prohibited from leaving the country on Tuesday after being told by airport officials he was classified as a…
Ad Calling Jihad ‘Savage’ Is Set to Appear in Subway
(New York Times) - As violent and sometimes deadly protests consume much of the Muslim world in response to an American-made video mocking the Prophet Muhammad, New Yorkers will soon encounter…
Dr M: Najib’s cash handouts ‘very close’ to vote buying
Clara Chooi, The Malaysian Insider Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad admitted today that the Najib administration’s penchant for handing out cash to Malaysians through its various people-centric policies was…
Free speech or incitement? French mag runs cartoons of Prophet Mohammed
(CNN) - After a week of deadly, international protests against an anti-Islam film, a French satirical magazine is fueling the debate between freedom of expression and offensive provocation.
Dr M: BN won’t get supermajority
The influential former prime minister says Najib's government is weak. Syed Jaymal Zahiid, FMT Influential former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad today described the Najib government as weak and…
Taib is worth RM45b, believe it or not
When Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud told longhouses residents in Sungai Aup, Sibu, in 2010 that he had 'more money than he can ever spend', people understood that he was rich. But how rich, was…
Freeze Taib’s accounts, govts told
A Swiss NGO has lumped Taib Mahmud together with 'money launderers' Indonesian president Suharto and Philippines' Marcos. (FMT) - Swiss NGO, Bruno Manser Fund (BMF), has reiterated its call for…
Fake website or serious opposition mouthpiece? – PBS
(Bernama) - Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) has urged Malaysians in Sabah to look at the website http://suarapakatanrakyat.com/ postings since August 2011 to judge for themselves whether Suara Pakatan…
Why should politics be in black and white?
Narrow view of politics reduces it to a two-size fits all dichotomy: you are either all Pakatan or all BN, writes Ong Kar Jin. By Ong Kar Jin, FMT The world is not black and white. Even for the colour…
Zakir Naik’s host defends invite
Saba Islamic Media invites non-Muslims to the controversial orator’s talks. G Vinod, FMT Saba Islamic Media today defended its invitation of controversial Islamic orator Dr Zakir Naik to give talks…
The basis of it all
Looking beyond the recently-signed Kuching Declaration, the most important thing is not about what’s being said before the elections, but what comes after it. Yet, the document is quite vague…
Who’s your Daddy?
Malaysia is also facing an economic downturn, no matter what the bastions of power say. It’s getting harder to get jobs, be promoted and be awarded projects, the right way. Brilliant graduates and…
