The reshuffle of editors takes place with Vincent Lee’s departure and the elevation of chief editor Wong Chun Wai to the top corporate job of chief executive, also in November. uppercaise…

My grandmother, Tengku Puan Nor Saadah Binti Almarhum Sultan Ala'eddin Suleiman Shah, died today, 5th May 2014, age 92

Syahredzan Johan, The Star MUCH has been written about hudud. Many have pointed out that to implement hudud, or at least hudud as proposed by PAS to be carried out in Kelantan on Muslims, would…

Chan Wei See, fz.com A year after the 13th general election (GE13), political scientists have observed that both the ruling and opposition coalitions have deviated from their pre-election course.…

So, my conclusion is, Christians (plus Jews) can use Allah as the name of God (in fact, MUST use Allah as the name of God) and hence there is no reason why the Bible cannot also use Allah as the…

The water crisis may well be the beginning of the end of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition in Selangor Narinder Singh, Free Malaysia Today Water, the basic necessity of all living organisms has…

World Future Online The Party Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) using the 'Hudud' issue to drive a wedge within the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition, this is deja-vu but what is new is what the Islamic…

Perhaps Christians are embarrassed that the Bible also urges stoning.  write2rest Much has been said in recent days about Kelantan’s Hudud law initiative. Christians who are, according to…

Know what you are fighting against. It has nothing to do and should not have anything to do at all with protecting Malay superiority and the sanctity of Islam. Fikri Fisal The non-Malays do…

Hopefully all state laws under Article 11(4) will be interpreted narrowly to relate only to proselytization.  Emeritus Professor Datuk Dr Hj Shad Saleem Faruqi INTRODUCTION:  MALAYSIA'S…

But today, the non-Muslim is forced to convert before marrying. This condition no longer creates the same atmosphere of respect as before.  Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan I. Introduction  Religion…

Mahkamah Rayuan telah membawa isu kalimah Allah kepada satu tahap perbahasan yang mendedahkan dirinya kepada perdebatan teori konspirasi dan kebimbangan yang tidak berasas sekaligus tanpa disedari…

The problem in Malaysia, however, is the ostensibly overzealous arbitrary approach by the Syariah courts and the reluctance of the civil courts to make a forceful stand to protect non-Muslim…

Kekecohan berlaku sewaktu pemilihan cabang PKR Sungai Petani menyebabkan proses pengundian jawatan Ketua Angkatan Muda Keadilan (AMK) ditangguhkan. Difahamkan, situasi itu berlaku apabila…

Most Muslims believe that Hudud, in particular the law on stoning adulteress women to death, was a law that was introduced by Prophet Muhammad. Actually it was not. This law was introduced by Umar…

Darren Nah, The Malaysian Insider “Can a people be allowed to rule themselves according to their own customs?” This fundamental question strikes at the heart of how Kelantan defends its move to…

Zurairi AR, Malay Mail Online Seeing the thousands of protesters thronging the historic Dataran Merdeka on May Day, you would have thought that Malaysians had come in force to speak up against…

It is simply wrong for anyone to suggest that non-Muslims have no right to debate on the hudud issue on the basis that they do not understand Islamic laws. Wong Chun Wai, The Star ONE of the…

Lim Sue Goen, Sin Chew Daily After the 2008 general elections, Malaysians still had something to expect from the emerging two--party system, but with the 2013 general elections now almost a…

Original Title: The Defence of Insanity under Malaysian Law and the problems with the current position. I delivered this talk at the recent Death Penalty roundtable seminar held on 4 April 2014 in…

Azly Rahman We need to move beyond the Obama episode; “beyond those presidential selfies and we-fies”. US President Barack Obama left Malaysia, and was greeted by protests in the Philippines…

The PKR election will reach a watershed point when Sabah votes this weekend because the votes in this second biggest state in the party can make or break a candidate. Joceline Tan, The Star…

Cecilia Jeyanthi Victor, The Ant Daily The seemingly protracted internal bickering among PKR leaders is threatening party unity. In the ongoing party elections, camps initiated by party…

Siddartha Sarma, IBN Live After years of creeping fundamentalism, Brunei's Sultan has decided to say it like it is: the country has opted for the Islamic sharia legal code in full. At a time…

Lim Mun Fah, Sin Chew Daily On the question whether the Pakatan Rakyat Supreme Council did reach an agreement on the implementation of the hudud law in Kelantan, it appears that all the three…

Salleh Said Keruak Malaysia’s population has just touched 30 million. However, only about 5.6% or 1.7 million of the country’s population pay income tax. This comes to just 14% of the 12…

FMT LETTER: From Dr Dominic Damian, via e-mail The electronic and print media are paralysed with fear. We are not immune to fear of death, losing friends, family, property, earning, poverty…

Empire Strikes Back Jumlah dana sebanyak RM8juta serta agihan antara RM60 hingga RM80 ribu bagi setiap cabang, dan semua ini hanyalah untuk memastikan jawatan Timbalan Presiden kekal milik…

You are wrong to think that hudud will not affect the non-Malays. Historical and cultural treasures, like the Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan and the ancient Sufi shrines in Timbuktu, Mali were…

There are many questions which hudud does not address and it doesn’t require any of us to go to law school to ask them Mariam Mokhtar, Free Malaysia Today The article last week “Reject hudud…