We need to cool things down a bit to resolve the sad saga of legal conflict due to religious issues. Shad Saleem Faruqi, The Star  THE domestic discord between a fractious couple (which…

Ex-Convent Girl Does one really need to follow a religion to believe in God? Does one really need political parties to believe in change? Religion and politics are pretty much like oil and…

A dream is about to come true for PAS which is pushing Parliament to give the nod to implement hudud law in Kelantan but its coalition partners are having nightmares about it. Joceline Tan, The…

Malaysiakini video uploaded on Sep 28, 2011 Pakatan Rakyat today said they agreed to disagree on the thorny issue of the implementation of the hudud law when its top leaders failed to come to a…

Azly Rahman An Invitation to a Virtual Interfaith Dialogue Humanity cannot live by bread or rice alone - it needs transcultural philosophy as a foundation of morality. The philosophical…

Kedah has since been lost to Barisan Nasional and the Menteri Besar has since died while Khalid was reappointed the Menteri Besar of Selangor a second term in 2013 in spite of the unflattering…

Visnu Natesan We have lost the plot in the search for a better country. Our society has become pessimistic without much thoughts or critical thinking. Many disagree for the sake of disagreeing.…

Magdalene Maria Joseph Reading Tian Chua’s tweets now and then puts me in head-shaking disbelief. That an educated man who has passed the half century mark and experienced unbelievable ups…

Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily COMMENT: While PKR braces for internecine conflict as campaigning for its party polls hots up, there is the distant hope for it to redeem itself from just being…

And Anwar was not charged under Islamic or Sharia law but under the remnants of a Christian law that the British left us. And what most Malays do not realise is that much of Islamic law is…

PKR wants to make major decisions without fully consulting its partners, which could weaken its position within Pakatan Rakyat. Wan Saiful Wan Jan, The Star SOON after Datuk Seri Anwar…

As we have been declared to be non-Muslims, JAIS should have no more jurisdiction over us. Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malaysia  On Friday 11th April 2014, a team of about 30 people whose leader…

As far as the constitution is concerned both are responsible and it makes no difference if Mahathir was indeed abroad. Aziz Bari, The Ant Daily The issue of responsibility for the Memali…

Can no one question their actions? Do they not have consequences for their actions? Raymond Chew, TMI This is not something unfamiliar with many. In my case, I face with extreme volume from…

With the advent of urbanisation, both physical and mental, urban Malays like me, are constantly struggling to fend off those who would rob us of our identity while creating our own.  Mikhail…

Looi Sue-Chern, The Malaysian Insider PKR has been "controlled" by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's family since 1998 and it is not something "strange", party vice-president Tan Sri Abdul Khalid…

Salleh Said Keruak Of late we have been reading a lot of comments regarding the status of Sabah and Sarawak within the Federation of Malaysia, in particular in relation to the 5% oil royalty.…

41 years ago today, on 14th April 1973, Marina and I were married. Marina was 18 and I was 22 and we had been ‘going steady’ for four years since she was 14 and I was 18. NO HOLDS BARRED…

FMT LETTER: From Huan Cheng Guan, via e-mail Since the crossover that never materialised in Sept 16, 2008, Anwar Ibrahim has proven time and again that his claims are highly dubious and his…

The 1963 Malaysia Agreement is void ab initio; can the 1965 Singapore Separation Agreement further invalidate something that is clearly invalid in the first instance Vidal Yudin Weil, FMT…

So let us hate each other if we cannot agree on a common ideology. And let us demonstrate this hate by cursing, disparaging or vilifying each other so that there is no doubt left in our minds that…

Salleh Said Keruak SETELAH lama sepi, tiba-tiba isu hukuman hudud muncul semula. Saya terbaca dalam akhbar, Pas dikatakan serius mahu melaksanakannya di Kelantan. Hati saya berbisik dan…

The Islamist party must marshal on with its hudud agenda and not capitulate to any Chinese based organisation Narinder Singh, Free Malaysia Today The PAS-led Kelantan government is bent on…

Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily PKR has proudly declared all too often that it is pushing for a more transparent and accountable national governance. However, when it comes to its own internal…

Justin Ong, The Malay Mail Online On Wednesday, S. Deepa’s joy of winning custody of her two children from estranged husband Izwan Abdullah, a Muslim convert, just days earlier turned to terror…

Zurairi AR, The Malay Mail Online If our founding fathers were still alive, they would be mortified with how Islam — which they anointed as the religion of the federation — is being used as a…

And from that day I became a pariah in the eyes of the Pakatan Rakyat supporters. The issue they raise is that I had ‘turned away’ from Pakatan Rakyat. I think it is more like Pakatan Rakyat that…

FMT LETTER: From Syed Izzaddin Jaafar, via e-mail The sleepy kampung of Memali in Baling, Kedah entered into the public consciousness all bloody and frayed 29 years ago. Fourteen men, deviants…

The sale of more than 400ha to a private concern looks like it involves a sweetheart deal to benefit MB Khalid CT Ali, Free Malaysia Today For the past three decades, with Umno consolidating…

The latest court order is needed to uphold the situation but the IGP and police force washed their hands. Saravanan We are shocked to see the reaction of the IGP who is not upholding the…