There are provisions for the federal legislature to authorise Kelantan to implement its Islamic criminal enactment.
Shad Saleem Faruqi, The Star
PARTI Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) appears…
Lisa Adam, FMT
Pelbagai ‘kisah’ menarik mewarnai pemilihan parti PKR yang sedang berlangsung di lebih 200 cabang di serata Malaysia. Namun yang paling menarik mungkin apa yang belaku di Lawas…
Muda Mohd Noor, FMT
Azmin Ali sangat penting kepada PKR, beliau yang menggerakkan sokongan massa ketika Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dipenjarakan enam tahun kerana salah guna kuasa pada 1999.…
Ahmad Mustapha Hassan, The Ant Daily
S Deepa, a mother at the centre of a custodial dispute, on April 7, 2014 was awarded the custody of her two children by the High Court but two days later…
Ivanpal Singh Grewal, The Malaysian Insider
Malaysia has once again been thrown into a political vortex and the credit this time goes to Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) who have expressed their…
Global Research
Atomic Weapons Were Not Needed to End the War or Save Lives
Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end…
(Reuters) - The sultanate of Brunei this week becomes the first East Asian country to introduce Islamic criminal law, the latest example of a deepening religious conservatism that has also taken…
KTemoc Konsiders
A Malaysian court convicted a prominent opposition lawmaker Thursday of biting a policeman at an illegal protest — a verdict that could cause him to lose his Parliament seat.…
Apabila isu-isu agama dibangkitkan dalam pilihanraya, ia memberi kesan buruk kepada parti-parti pembangkang.
Wan Hamidi Hamid, TMI
Sejak penubuhannya pada 1951, PAS tidak pernah putus asa…
MCA is against hudud but they want to be the good guys and not be seen as attacking a Malay religious party. They want DAP to do the dirty job for them and DAP fell for it hook, line and sinker.…
Top PKR leaders are now getting serious about reforms, after about 15 years of not being able to define exactly what kind of form the reforms would take.
Jerome Martin, MM
It’s been a sad,…
I have lost count of the things our government thinks Malays should be protected from.
Erna Mahyuni, MM
Everything is a threat to the Malays and Islam, it seems. Malay-speaking Christians.…
OutSyed the Box
In this country, every clown wants to be an ostat. Even the "Muslim" physicians - nauzubillah (May Allah protect us). My comments in blue. Read the news :
Muslim Physicians…
Does being on the other side suddenly make you see things clearer and take on the mantle of crusader of the truth?
Su-Yin Tan, FMT
Can we ever take what Anwar Ibrahim says for real? Having…
Cindi Loo, The Ant Daily
The furore over the possible tabling of two private member’s bills by PAS in Parliament to pave the way for implementation of hudud law in Kelantan is heating up…
The Selangor Government’s reluctance to gradually raise tariffs, to allow water companies to increase supply and reduce leakages, forced the Federal Government to step in and initiate damage…
The Shari‘ah is the epitome of the Islamic spirit, the very manifestation of the Islamic way of life based on an unqualified submission to the will of God.
Dr Mohammed Fauzi Abdul Rani…
Muslims have the right to be governed by the Shari’ah and we reiterate that Islamic jurisprudence concerns only Muslims. The least that IMAM ask of others is to reciprocate this respect and not to…
Azman Ujang
THE past few weeks must have been a soul-searching time for Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim who had ignored warnings about a water crisis in Selangor for most of the six years he has…
Tarani Palani, Fz.com
Two courts gave differing decisions on charges under Section 9(1) of the Peaceful Assembly Act (PAA) 2012 today when dealing with the organisers of two rallies in Kuala…
John Barthelsen, Asia Sentinel
For anyone in Southeast Asia with an interest in fair, honest and even-handed government, the disappointing visit of President Barack Obama to Malaysia is a…
FMT LETTER: From Dr Faris Marwan, via e-mail
As a medical doctor, I am ashamed that Malaysian Medical Association president has decided to use his spinal column to respond to an important…
You cannot have one criminal court sentencing criminals to stoning or amputation with the rest of the country's criminals committing the same offence being jailed.
Low Teck Kuan
PAS has…
KTemoc Konsiders
There's a Penang Hokkien phrase called 'pnee been'.
'Pnee' means 'action' or 'become' or 'do/make something' like in'pnee kui pnee kwai' which literally means 'become the…
Musa Ismail, Harakah Daily
The provision of Hudud is like sparkling jewels studded to the crown of the Holy Quran. Allah the Most Beneficient had over 1,400 years ago ordained through the…
Many of us, particularly non-Muslim voters, never took seriously what PAS’ ultimate plan is. But now, we’re faced with the dreaded reality.
Wong Chun Wai, The Star
IF there’s one thing that…
Zurairi AR, Malay Mail Online
By insisting to seek Parliament’s approval to implement hudud in Kelantan this year, Islamist party PAS has certainly put all other political parties in terribly…
Malik Imtiaz Sarwar
It appears that PAS will be seeking to give effect to the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code Enactment II of 1993 by way of a Private Members Bill in Parliament. Through this,…
Speculation is rife that Terengganu will have a new Mentri Besar by May amid claims that Datuk Seri Ahmad Said had promised to stay on for only a year after the general election.
Joceline Tan…
Art Harun
NOT many people know about this piece of history of our country. Allow me to recount this so that this passage of our history would not just fade away from the recesses of our memory.…