Syerleena Abdul Rashid, Malay Mail
Malaysia is a multi-racial society with Muslims making up almost 65 per cent of the population. Interestingly enough, our Federal Constitution has established…
In her own way, Nora displays similar physical and characteristic traits to that of her brother -- such as tenacity, wilfulness and ambition -- and it was this that Nasim clearly saw. That was why…
How is it that Umno, a party that has been in power for so long, has suddenly become subservient to these relatively young entities?
By Wan Saiful Wan Jan, Free Malaysia Today
Even if you…
By Kee Thuan Chye
Yesterday, I looked at the ‘Allah’ issue from the time it started to what it has become today, and how we are now trapped in a web of confusion spun from diverse…
By Kee Thuan Chye
As the ‘Allah’ issue rages on, particularly after the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) raided the Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM) and seized 300-plus copies of the…
by Terence Fernandez
When the Selangor Non-Islamic Religions (Control of Propagation Among Muslims) Enactment was passed by the State Legislative Assembly on April 4, 1988, the only two voices…
Ng Kee Seng, The Ant Daily
OUTSPOKEN: Can any oil producing country in the world make all her citizens millionaires via prudent management and savings?
Norway achieved that on Jan 8, 44…
As the Bible says, on the sixth day, God created man, and on the seventh day, God rested. And on the day that God rested man, out of boredom and with nothing else to do, created religions. And…
KTemoc Konsiders
UMNO's greatest political achievement since its election shock in March 2008 has been the favourable wake churned up by the current Allah word controversy.
Much earlier,…
Pelantikan Zairil Khir Johari sebagai Pengerusi sementara yang baru juga mengundang pelbagai reaksi berbeza dari ahli-ahli DAP Kedah yang rata-rata menolak Zairil kerana Zairil Khir Johari bukan…
Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily
While it made sense to be practical for the sake of the rakyat, Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim's deal with Putrajaya to solve the state’s water…
Now Lim Kit Siang wants us ‘moderates’ to ‘unite as patriots to save the country’. Was that not what we tried in 2004, and again in 2008, and yet again in 2010? Why did Lim Kit Siang or DAP not…
The opposition supporters are launching more attacks on His Highness the Sultan of Selangor because of the Allah word issue, bringing the anti-Monarchy hate campaign to new heights.
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Empire Strikes Back
Dari satu negeri ke satu negeri, masalah yang dihadapi oleh DAP seperti tiada penghujung. Suara-suara yang kecewa dan meradang dengan cara Lim Guan Eng yang suka campur…
So now either Anwar ousts his own wife or else Azmin would oust her instead. And if Anwar’s daughter joins the contest for number two, then Azmin would go for number one -- never mind whether…
A couple of days ago, I saw a posting on the Internet asking how does His Highness the Sultan of Selangor have sex. Since he is not married he either masturbates a lot or he has girls/women hidden…
Escalating tension by fanning religious sentiments would only create chaos and contribute to a further breakdown of the social fabric of the society
By Charles Santiago, FMT
Ask any Hindu…
Rueban Balasubramaniam, The Malay Mail
Malaysian politics is in a bad way. The right-wing ethno-Islamist camp now seemingly runs Umno and the government. While the prime minister preaches that…
Richard Loh
Is this equation true:
90% positive + 10% negative = 90% negative + 10% positive
With Malaysia claiming that its education system is among the best in the world there can be…
OutSyed The Box
Today a business associate told me that he did not wish to speak about certain matters on the phone to me. He said, 'Mr Syed I am certain that your phone is bugged.'
I wont…
Let both sides be warned. This has now turned into a duel to the death. And let the best combatant win. And in such a combat there are no Queensbury Rules. So if you have a weak heart, stay well…
Azly Rahman
What we are seeing in Malaysia these days is a path towards destruction unfolding as a red carpet of a Hollywood show of a movie called ‘Wolves of Putrajaya’. We are seeing hell…
The Selangor controversy over the kalimah Allah and the Bible seizure is still simmering as politicians from opposite sides of the political divide play the blame game.
Joceline Tan, The Star…
The Jais raid on the premises of the Bible Society of Malaysia has put into focus the Non-Islamic Religions (Control of Propagation Amongst Muslims) Enactment 1988 of Selangor.
Roger…
Meor Yusof Aziddin
Keluarga saya adalah penyokong kuat parti kerajaan terutamanya emak saya, juga emak mertua saya. Sehingga segala apa yang dihidangkan oleh pembangkang itu tidaklah ada yang…
Well, actually it is not quite correct to say that Anwar is out of the government. He is still in the government, the Selangor State Government. And that 1988 law is a Selangor State law and not a…
A BBC documentary for your weekend entertainment (this documentary was introduced in our Philosophy of Religion course in Oxford)
SEE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE HERE:…
Anyway, His Highness quashed the May coup d'état and averted a crisis instead of playing along with this conspiracy and possibly allowing Umno to take back Selangor once a crisis erupts.
THE…
Last Thursday's raid by Jais throws a spotlight on the increasingly untenable policy of having parallel civil laws and syariah laws in a multi-religion society like Malaysia.
Luke Rintod, FMT…