(AFP) - The Malaysian Islamic leader spearheading a campaign for severe sharia punishments chuckles as he dismisses the firestorm that has ensued, saying visions of thousands of law-breakers with…

Food for thought, is it not? We always thought that the present is here and now, yesterday no longer exists, and tomorrow has not come yet. But that is because we are measuring things in human…

A mature society is marked by its ability to accept, assimilate, and act upon criticism. Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today It’s intriguing but disconcerting to follow the tribulations of Amos…

Umar Mukhtar It is obvious that with Pakatan Rakyat splitting up, PKR is in the boondocks. It is every political observers' knowledge that, first, PKR has no more than 50,000 card-carrying…

Datuk Huan Cheng Guan, Head, Centre for Political Awareness The recent outrage over the arrest of the TMI 5 shows many have missed the point of the arrest. PDRM’s actions in those arrests…

Actual acts of sedition (whatever they may be or determined to be, today or tomorrow) should not be confused with the possibility of plain bad reporting.  Azrul Mohd Khalib, MMO …

PM Najib said the government's tax revenue would increase by RM690 million following the implementation of GST. However, on March 23 this year, the finance ministry asked the Dewan Rakyat for…

Kerajaan sendiri yang umum mahu wujudkan GST, kerajaan sendiri yang set tarikhnya jadi seharusnya tidak timbul masalah tidak cukup pegawai !  Din Turtle Selamat Datang Era GST ! Sejarah…

Many do not understand why the Middle East is in such a mess. Some think this has something to do with Islam. Some even think there must be something wrong with Islam. I have written about this a…

Ravinder Singh, Malay Mail Online In calling on all 136 Muslim MPs to support his Hudud Bill, PAS president Datuk Seri Haji Abdul Hadi Awang is reported to have said that “it was not…

Most likely the Bill will be defeated. But it will not be Umno that defeats this Bill. It will be the Muslim MPs who do so and not at the behest of Umno. So Umno may come out the winner in this…

With a loss of 30 per cent of non-Muslim votes, PAS will lose the seven parliament and 29 state seats it won in the 13GE in 2013. Lim KayKay, Free Malaysia Today The loss of the PAS…

And that was why many Muslim and Christian scholars were put to death over the last 2,000 years. Those who were militant and preached a militant brand of Islam and Christianity were killed. And…

Just because newspapers have a particular political leaning, it does not mean they should be the mouthpiece of political parties. Wan Saiful Wan Jan, The Star AS soon as I landed in London…

People also like to quote Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad who said that the Constitution is silent on the gender, race and religion of the Prime Minister. This means an Indian Hindu woman can also become…

Salleh Said Keruak Undeniably, we need a strong opposition to keep the government in check. Any country devoid of an opposition would be a breeding ground for a dictatorship or autocracy. That…

Umar Mukhtar Cast aside the fog and you will admit that PR was born out of two push factors - the common hatred of BN's arrogant corrupt ways and the differing dreams that if BN is ousted your…

Arvin Tajari Seperti yang diramalkan permuafakatan politik dalam Pakatan Rakyat (PR) tidak akan bertahan lama. Bertitik tolak dengan perbezaan ideologi dan pegang perjuangan menyebabkan PR menjadi…

Every position is determined through intrigue and opportunities for others to show their leadership no longer exist. Rizuan Shamsudin, The Ant Daily “PAS ganti Umno” (PAS replacing Umno) was…

Dave Anthony, Aliran Dear saudara Kit Siang, I salute you as the elder statesman of Malaysia who has raised a consistent voice over the years. Today we are in the cusp of a political crisis…

Izack Chin In the last eight years or so, there has been an unprecedented increase in the incidence of political protests. The current trend in gathering at Dataran Merdeka for the minutest…

As I said, many of you hate history. But unless we learn about history we would not be able to deliberate such issues. Maybe we still do need a Sedition Act to maintain peace and stability in…

Did autocrat Lee Kuan Yew really need to lock up soft-spoken Dr Chia Thye Poh for 32 years? Kua Kia Soong, Free Malaysia Today What I appreciate most about LKY is his choice of the…

Many Umno members, and quite a number of PAS members as well, will not support the implementation of Hudud in Malaysia. However, to form an anti-Hudud unity-government would be exceeding the…

Melanie Tan Hear The Real Singaporean, I felt so angry at your readers who kept saying that Lee Kuan Yew was a great man who deserve many respect and that what he did in the past was…

Sure, Barisan Nasional faltered a lot of times and 1MDB is just one out of many reasons why we could have rejected them. But PR, just don’t present themselves as a viable alternative government.…

The recent fall out between DAP and PAS speaks volumes of the vulnerability of Pakatan Rakyat to exist as a political alliance. It reaffirms the fact that the very existence of Pakatan Rakyat is…

The Christian opposition to Hudud is not about civil liberties or democracy or to uphold the principles of a Secular State. It is about a denial of the fact that Judeo-Christians have abandoned…

We need to redefine what we mean by human rights. My human right is being violated not only if I get whacked for participating in a protest demonstration. My human right is being even more…

Extremist groups are drawing support as their followers recognise that joining a democratic political process will bring them nothing. Zaid Ibrahim, The Star POLITICAL Islam is the term…