Now, who is and is not a Malaysian? Does Umno decide this? Worse still, does Perkasa, or its cousin, Isma, decide this? KJ John, National Express This question needs to be now be truthfully…

Umar Mukhtar Anwar has been busy preparing his Court of Public Opinion to whom he will switch allegiance to if the Federal Court rejects his final appeal on the 29th October. His defence is the…

Last Saturday, pharmacist Syed Azmi Alhabshi was forced to apologise publicly for organising a canine-awareness event that gave many of his fellow Malay Muslims the chance to touch a dog for the…

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is approaching another critical moment in his career as the apex court readies to hear his sodomy case appeal. But there is a different mood in his party this time around.…

Zurairi AR, The Malay Mail A week has passed since the “I Want to Touch a Dog” event, which predictably turned controversial as it involved the second most taboo animal among Muslims: man’s…

Indonesia's new president Joko Widodo has vowed to suppress racism and religious extremism while Myanmar has liberalized its economy. If we were to continue engross ourselves in ethnic and…

The trouble with the PM is that his leadership is precarious and he has to keep looking over his shoulder. Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today PM Najib’s programmes for inclusiveness and…

Integration does not mean an ethnic community has to give up its cultural identity. Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today Perhaps we can forgive his occasional pandering to Umno interests. Perhaps…

Khairie Hisyam Aliman, Malay Mail Online The furore over Muslims touching dogs this week have highlighted one particular aspect in our society: the widening chasm between the religious scholars…

Does it mean that Malaysia looks at all the other mazhabs as wrong and only the one mazhab practised by the majority in the country is the one true form of Islam?  Zan Azlee, TMI I went for…

So, the Umno Malays are now given a dose of their own medicine and they are furious. If you feel hurt by Tan’s statement, then why do you want to continue to utter the same? Ng Kee Seng, The…

Strange that Zahid instead told political parties to take action against the errant politicians who are backed by underworld funds. Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily I must applaud our home…

Umar Mukhtar When a question was asked how many of the 52% who voted for the opposition want Anwar as PM, the smug retort was how many of the 48% of those who voted BN want Najib as PM. Who…

Eizaz Azhar I seldom make comments on issues, even some that I feel strongly towards. But I feel compelled to say something as several people I know personally have been cyber-stalked, verbally…

Khalid Ibrahim lost his job as MB because he did not deliver on Pakatan Rakyat's election promise. Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today One of the issues that was raised against former…

Tan's statement may be politically incorrect or insensitive but he was simply saying out loud what many educated members of the public understand to be the history of migration into Malaysia from…

Hasrat Syed Azmi al-Habshi selaku penganjur program ‘I want to touch a dog’ tidak lebih dari sekadar mengulang kisah lama. Amidi Abdul Manan, TMI Program "I want to touch a dog" merupakan…

Sometimes it feels like we are being asked to despise an ever-growing list of people and things. How does hating anything and everything make us happy and better Muslims? Marina Mahathir, The…

It's time for the coalition to be upfront with what it stands for, not what PAS, PKR or DAP individually stands for. T K Chua Lim Kit Siang may have fallen short of his usual astute…

Umar Mukhtar Does the 52% of the electorate who voted for the opposition at the last general elections all want Anwar to be PM? Does the 52% also think that Anwar is not guilty of sodomy?…

Khairie Hisyam Aliman, Malay Mail Online So finally someone shot back in style to the Malay supremacists. Last Sunday, a Gerakan man told UMNO last Sunday that Malays are supposedly ‘pendatang’…

(MMO) - To close avenues for discussions and dialogues would only induce secret or underground activities especially among the restless youths, which can be more insidious. The controversial…

Hafidz Baharom, Malay Mail Online I decided to take a break from the socioeconomics involved in Bajet 2015 in order to look at just the social issues for once. And honesty it was a huge mistake…

Any politician, government or opposition, who claims to represent the people must represent the people as a whole. Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today Gerakan President Mah Siew Keong had it right…

Make sure you have done your homework to be able to make that choice instead of just relying on hand me down knowledge.  Zarif Ismail, TMI When I first saw the "I Want to Touch a Dog" event…

by Luqman L The current discourse of ‘Malays being pendatang’ initially prompted me to write a letter in which I hoped to provide a researched and balanced historical overview. Since RPK has…

Rafizi has failed even in the final plan to place Azmin Ali under PKR's control. Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today It looks like Rafizi Ramli’s Kajang Move is meeting with failure after…

Cecilia Jeyanthi Victor, The Ant Daily Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali’s pledge to look into the controversial Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex) is seen as an effort by the new MB to reach…

He wants 1998 reformasi to reverberate across the corridors of power once more, while simultaneously casting PAS on the fritz.  Raggie Jessy Anwar Ibrahim has had a foot in Azizah’s grave…

It is tough to be criticised by the awesome Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, but Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is holding up to the attacks and his standing in Umno is unshaken. Joceline Tan, The Star…