Why Tolerate Terrorist Publications?

Martin London, New York Times WHILE most of us would agree that religious fundamentalists, foreign and domestic, sometimes do serious harm to our society, there are other kinds of fundamentalists…

Cut the bull. We are all racists!

This reader says it’s time we stop pretending and own up to the fact that we are struggling racists trying to accept our differences. by Fa Abdul, Free Malaysia Today I am a racist. I…

Why the Bosniaks became Muslims

Hence the Bosnian-Serbian conflict was as much a religious war as it was a territorial conflict. It was an old fight between the Orthodox Christians and the ‘deviant’ Bogomil Christians who had…

God is a terrorist

And that was how the Nation of Israel was born, through terrorism. And from the Nation of Israel emerged the nations of Jesus Christ and Islam. And it has been terrorism for thousands of years…

KENYATAAN MEDIA Mustafa Ali

Pertamanya saya mahu mengucapkan terima kasih kepada Anthony Loke, Setiausaha Organisasi DAP kerana mengakui dan mengesahkan bahawa pilihan raya kerajaan tempatan tidak termasuk dalam polisi…

Sleeping with the enemy

Given Anwar’s age and Najib’s tenuous hold on his power, it is not entirely impossible for the two to have come to an agreement for their mutual survival. Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today The…

Memory loss and the media

In either case, it is the people at the other end of the stories that benefit. Kapil Sethi, MMO With 1MDB, missing official jets and the shenanigans of K-pop stars hogging the headlines at…

Honesty in court dealings

Do we have such a weak judiciary system which cannot even uphold appointments? The Malaysian government needs to appoint serious people to become magistrates and judges. Saravanan Forever I…

Another crisis brewing for PKR

Ian McIntyre, The Heat Online  PKR HOGGED the limelight last year, but for all the wrong reasons. The move to oust former corporate figure Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim as mentri besar of Selangor…

Muslims are terrorists

Once upon a time George Washington was a terrorist. He, too, killed a lot of people. But he became a patriot when the Americans won the war against the English and then they named a city after…

Supremacy of the Federal Constitution

The attitude and actions of the religious authorities over the past decade have shown all too clearly why the Shariah system in Malaysia is where it is in our Federal Constitution. Azrul Mohd…

The Limits of Satire

As satire it has failed. The worst case is when satire reinforces the state of mind it purports to undercut, polarizes prejudices, and provokes the very behavior it condemns. This appears to be…

The Perwaja debacle: Part 1

The Japanese used the Malaysian company as a guinea pig to test new technology. Iskandar Mohamad, Free Malaysia Today The story of Perwaja is the story of a loss so great that it goes down…

Zam, Kadir, Johan and power struggles

Zainuddin Maidin has been a longtime friend of Mahathir Mohamad, a fellow Kedahan, and both shares conservative views on Malay and Muslim rights. uppercaise Zam’s journalism career began in…

Malaysians are their own worst enemy

We now live in a Malaysia where one stupid statement can trigger even stupider statements, thus leading to politicians making perhaps stupidest statements that can be made into a satirical book…