Salleh Said Keruak Today, PAS President Abdul Hadi Awang was forced to deny that PAS was talking to Umno to form a unity government. He was also forced to reiterate that PAS would stay with…

Will it be Idris Ahmad, Iskandar Samad or Azmin Ali. Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today One year after the Kajang Move was mooted, Selangor will finally get a new Menteri Besar (MB). The…

Rita Jong, The Ant Daily In the mid-1990s, a young politician from a Barisan Nasional component party was picked as a candidate for a state assembly seat. Being a newbie, he naively expected…

We'll continue to lose our young to its savage cause as its ideology continues to gain traction in our society. Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today Will our religious authorities please make an…

Palace says Anwar Ibrahim's statement that in the past only one name was submitted to His Royal Highness the Sultan of Selangor as the candidate for the Selangor Menteri Besar is incorrect and…

With PAS and PKR/DAP taking opposite and irrevocable stands on the Menteri Besar issue, the coalition no longer exists. Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today PAS has reiterated its stand…

My second suggestion to the IGP would be to stop arresting Malays who sit down with their Chinese and Indian friends to drink beer. Instead, the police should arrest the religious department…

In order to be gender neutral, Wan Azizah’s capabilities and qualifications should be measured using the same standards as we would for any male politician.  Nathaniel Tan, The Ant Daily…

So the children of farmers and fishermen were doomed to become farmers and fishermen. They had not learned any other skills and due to lack of education there was nothing else they could do until…

Zubaidah Abu Bakar, The Rakyat Post PAS leaders have always insisted there is no dichotomy among the party’s one million members. The party, however, has gotten used to having outsiders…

“Mahathir is a man of many contradictions. When we did well in 2004, he said such a strong mandate was not good for the country. When we did not do well in 2008, he heaped all the blame on me. He…

Chan Huan Wei To Dr Mahathir: To a lesser extent, Tun Dr Mahathir has a point in asserting that Malays are lazy. For instance, many Chinese contractors only employ Indonesians to do the…

steadyaku47 What has to happen for the Malays to do to the Chinese what Field Marshall Idi Amin Dada did to the Asians in Uganda when he declared an "economic war" and issued a decree ordering…

The point is many Chinese and Indians talk fondly about the Malays they knew back in the 1950s and 1960s. Then, by the 1970s, things started to change. The Malays started to become more…

Yes, if we open the Pandora’s box and start discussing the issue of moral versus legal, then there are many more issues we need to discuss other than the issue of the Selangor Menteri Besar. NO…

For one thing it was Mahathir who instructed Anwar, who was then an Umno vice-president, to lead a negotiation with the rulers after Umno lost Kelantan in the 1990 general election.  Aziz Bari,…

The area could easily be mistaken for one of the most hostile zones in the world, similar perhaps to Iraq or Afghanistan. Up to a point, that is true. More than 6,000 people have been killed since…

PAS and PKR/DAP are enemies fighting a common enemy, Umno. The true nature of the relationship will emerge if they take over Putrajaya. Roslan Bistamam, FMT When it was revealed that PAS…

Now is no longer the time to make her MB. That is far gone. Now is the time NOT to make him MB. Umar Mukhtar The Selangor Menteri Besar crisis. The constitutional lawyers are crawling all…

Villains who twirl moustaches are easy to spot; but those who cloak themselves with good deeds are well camouflaged Raggie Jessy Modern day Constitutional Monarchy is as much a philosophy as…

Jose Mario Dolor De Vega I refer to Hafidz Baharom’s “The Sedition Act kills rationality and intellect”, Free Malaysia Today, September 7th. I overwhelmingly concur with the brilliant…

So Syed Hamid can take that book of his and shove it up where the sun does not shine. And we have to be very careful of Malays or Muslims who pass themselves off as descendants of Prophet Muhammad…

It just shows that when they are outside the government they scream about transparency and good governance and call for an end to corruption, abuse of power, nepotism and cronyism, but once they…

PAS president Datuk Seri Hadi Awang is bracing himself for a fiery muktamar next week that will see his supporters rising to defend him against those critical of his stand on the Selangor crisis.…

Ishmael Lim, FMT When news of the second leak in the UPSR examinations came to light last Thursday evening, the public’s earlier sense of worry and disappointment must surely have turned into…

By Zainnal Ajamain In theory democracy is an appealing idea, in practice however it is far from perfect.  There are people who take the cynical stand that democracy is the tyranny of the…

The Jewish ulama’ have summarised Judaism to just one thing. Treat others the same way you expect others to treat you. Christianity says the same thing. Do unto others as you would others do unto…

“Sudden change of policy,” said a former Umno strategist when asked about the current spate of arrests and prosecution under the Sedition Act. Mohsin Abdullah Couldn’t say if he was joking…

The Christians of that period believed that the monarch is anointed by God so to question the monarch means you are questioning God. Hence this would become a crime of sedition. And the punishment…