Clerics should guide, not impose

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…

Which mazhab is the best? Ours?

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…

A Letter for the Moral Malaysia

Like children we go around claiming ‘this chair is mine because I sat on it first.’ This is stupid behavior. Shamil Norshidi, President of Kelab UMNO US East Coast, NY I’m either too…

How BN/Umno props up Anwar

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…

What the ulama’ should focus on

Salleh Said Keruak Over the last few weeks we have been seeing quite a bit of controversy regarding the Oktoberfest beer festival and the ‘pat a dog’ event. A number of mufti and ulama’ have…

Don’t let hatred lead to injustice

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…

DPM, Enough Double-Talk

The quotes above are exactly what the average Malaysian has always wanted and still wants to hear! Whoever makes our DPM’s speeches deserves a raise! Joshua Wu “This racial understanding…

Pakatan needs a reboot

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…

Anwar The Con Artiste (Epitaph VII)

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?…

The Malay-Chinese divide

Let the Malays understand what the beef of the non-Malays are. Let the Chinese also understand what the beef of the Malays are. And the same for the Indians and the people from Sabah and Sarawak…

Let’s stop this pendatang nonsense

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’…

Flowing ideas, porous borders

(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…

Why I do what I do

This article is written in plain, simple English, to let your average Minah, Marimuthu and Chin Cheh (pardon the pun) who may be a little weak in English, know that my articles don’t concern them.…

Muslims, stop judging, will you?

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…

The Malay-Chinese hatred

We either agree to live with one another as fellow-Malaysians or agree to just coexist. By coexisting this means we do not need to love each other. We can continue to hate each other. We just do…

Yes, sack all racist leaders

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…

On the use of the pendatang label

Gan Ping Sieu The latest debate on the pendatang issue, sparked by a now-suspended Gerakan delegate during the party’s National Delegates Conference over the weekend, is unproductive and does…

What’s up with touching a dog?

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…

Cultural Purity is an Oxymoron

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…