Hence, even during the time of the Abbasids, Hudud was not part of the Sharia. The Sharia Court (kadi) only handled matters concerning religious, family, property, and commercial law (like here in…

Dr Kua Kia Soong, SUARAM Adviser In 1966 the United Nations declared 21 March to be the Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to commemorate those who had been killed on 21 March…

With evidence appearing on YouTube, the liberal party loses the right to criticise PAS Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today My, my, my. What a tangled web we weave in Malaysian politics. We weave…

If you are not going to get non-Muslim support you might as well go all out to get more Muslim support. And to do this you need to take away the Muslim votes from Umno and PKR. And how Umno and…

It appears that none of the mainstream political leaders can put us together. All of them seem to want a winner-take-all victory. They forget about the losing minority and how they will fare.…

There’s no need for us to think of the real reasons why we have so many problems in the country in the first place. Zaidgeist It has been a great week of golfing in Hanoi with my newfound…

Two years ago in April 2013, DAP said PAS has a right to pursue its Islamic State agenda but that does not mean it is part of the Pakatan Rakyat common platform. Each party has a right to its…

It’s not the end of the road yet for Pakatan Rakyat if they explore all options carefully and pick the one that best serves their needs and that of the rakyat Kuo Yong Kooi, Free Malaysia Today…

The next hurdle for Kelantan is to try to get Parliament’s approval. I don’t think PAS is really concerned about that. Their only concern is to be seen to be doing the right thing. And they…

(MMO) - To criticise them is to question Islam. The tabling of the Shariah Criminal Code Enactment II 1993 (Amendment 2015) in the Kelantan State Assembly and any move to amend the Federal…

Tengku Razaleigh has conducted himself with grace and integrity, and his resume is above reproach Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today The Kelantan prince has returned to the limelight. After a…

Salleh Said Keruak The saying that the next general election is not for Pakatan Rakyat to win but for Barisan Nasional to lose does not ring any truer than now. It appears like some Barisan…

PKR and DAP say that when it comes to what they want to do you can agree to disagree. But when it comes to what PAS wants to do you cannot agree to disagree. You must all agree or not do it at…

And the actions of the Umno veterans and party leaders in running down their own President, aided by the ‘fuel’ thrown in by the opposition regarding many issues concerning the Prime Minister, can…

Jerome Lee Not a Free for All, dear MPs, or Know the Law, MPs! Anyone who believes that an MP enjoys automatic immunity in Parliament is blatantly ignorant. I was just as ignorant until I…

No doubt PAS is still in command of a large number of Malay votes and some Pakatan leaders are afraid of losing PAS and subsequently the chances of capturing Putrajaya. It is this that has made…

(CiliSos) - Nurul Izzah was arrested under the Sedition Act, fine. But we did mention that the PAA doesn’t allow for arrest, so how did the other guys get arrested? Well, this is where the Penal…

Is 1MDB even needed or relevant? Most of the projects and commercial deals undertaken by the company could have been distributed to the more established GLICs such as Khazanah Nasional, Permodalan…

If you need to use that much in such a short period of time, it denotes urgency, and that would lead me to deduce that 1MDB was in dire need of that RM600 million, and thus this “standby credit”…

P Ramakrishnan, Free Malaysia Today MCA is flogging a dead horse by insisting DAP stop PAS from tabling the Syariah Criminal Code Enactment II 1993. It is blaming DAP for this situation. It…

(Bernama) - PAS will today table the amendments to the Syariah Criminal Code (II) Enactment, Kelantan, 1993, at the State Legislative Assembly in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Many quarters are waiting…

One question that comes to mind is what is the progress of the free and user-friendly public transportation including bus services in Shah Alam, Petaling Jaya, Subang Jaya, Klang and Kajang?…

And one of my many criticisms against Pakatan was its policy of agreeing to disagree and of not resolving the matter of Hudud, which, I said, would one day come back to haunt Pakatan and may even…

Much of what I write today is influenced by Raja Petra. In fact, it is he who taught me objectivity and rationality since 2009, in a manner of putting it. Raggie Jessy Well composed and…

Could it be that the Cabinet was not referred to on the purchase of this new jet? Scott Ng, FMT You’d think that the last thing Prime Minister Najib needs right now is another scandal,…

The issue is not PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang's contribution towards developing PAS today, but more about whether he is the best to lead PAS into the future with Pakatan Rakyat.…

(Malay Mail Online) - Divisions within Pakatan Rakyat (PR) is preventing the pact from capitalising on the anger against Barisan Nasional (BN) for jailing Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar…

Then Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali met Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in London recently to, yet again, talk about the Unity-Government. One of the terms for agreeing to this Unity-Government is that…

The Sedition Act, therefore, is a ‘blank cheque’. Sedition can mean whatever I say it means. And it becomes sedition if it is my opinion that what you say can upset someone and probably threaten…

Salleh Said Keruak Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah (Ku Li) said that the Umno division leaders (ketua bahagian) are receiving RM50,000 a month plus projects. Hence this would imply that they have been…