Will the coronavirus pandemic change the way we see ourselves as a nation?
The tough new measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic that were announced a few days ago have certainly brought home …
Category Archives: International Affairs
Kuala Lumpur Islamic Summit: old ideas & new realities
The speeches and forums are over. The visitors have left. Malaysians, if they even bothered to follow the grandly named …
Malaysia’s erratic foreign policy
Is Malaysia’s foreign policy becoming increasingly erratic under the administration of Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad? That is a question …
Comic books, politics and propaganda
What is it with us Malaysians? We seem to careen from one controversy to another in quick succession. Before we …
Hypocrisy & hyperbole at the UN
Dozens of world leaders descended on New York last week for the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), …
Is Pakatan Harapan serious about protecting human rights?
It is disturbing and disappointing that the government has once again deported an asylum seeker and his family without due …
Zakir Naik: hypocrisy & double standards
Faced with the possibility of being served with an extradition order to return to India to face charges of money …
The radicalization of Malaysia: A reply to MAPIM
En. Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid, president of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organization (Mapim), writing in response to my …
Zakir Naik and the radicalization of Malaysia Baru
According to news reports, the IGP warned that the police had “uncovered a plan by foreign militants to use …
The Rome Statute & the threat to Malaysia’s constitutional democracy
Like many Malaysians, I am utterly dismayed, even disgusted, with the way Malaysia’s accession to the Rome Statute, the treaty …
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