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Fraying ethnic relations affecting foreign policy consensus

December 28, 2019

A series of recent controversial foreign policy statements by Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has exposed the increasingly deep divisions …

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Kuala Lumpur Islamic Summit: old ideas & new realities

December 25, 2019

The speeches and forums are over. The visitors have left. Malaysians, if they even bothered to follow the grandly named …

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The radicalization of Malaysia: A reply to MAPIM

May 9, 2019

En. Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid, president of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organization (Mapim), writing in response to my …

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The offence of the cross

January 17, 2019

Yet another brouhaha about a cross made headlines last week. A series of lights in a new residential apartment block …

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What’s so special about Zakir Naik?

July 12, 2018

What’s so special about Zakir Naik? Why is he so uniquely deserving of Putrajaya’s support and attention? These are among the …

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The closing of the Malay mind

January 26, 2018

  In his 1987 book, ‘The closing of the American mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the …

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IKSIM should stop demonizing Christians

January 8, 2018

Malaysian Institute of Islamic Strategic Studies (IKSIM) Chief Executive Officer Datuk Mahamad Nasser Disa took the Christian community by complete …

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Time running out for Palestinians

December 30, 2017

In the wake of President Trump’s decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move that …

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The politics of bigotry & extremism

December 20, 2017

With elections around the corner, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang continues to rant and rave about all sorts of fake …

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Are Christians a threat to Malaysia?

September 29, 2017

Yet again, a Muslim group is raising the spectre of a Christian threat to the security of the nation and …

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We will “be forever a sovereign democratic and independent state founded upon the principles of liberty and justice and ever seeking the welfare and happiness of its people and the maintenance of a just peace among all nations.” – Tunku Abdul Rahman’s Proclamation of Independence speech, August 31st 1957

“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty” ~ John Basil Barnhill

The Short Shrift

Is it about drink-driving or pushing a religious agenda?

The way some of our politicians are getting worked up about the whole drink-driving issue makes me wonder whether other agendas are driving the issue. Let’s get one thing straight: drink-driving (or driving while intoxicated) is just plain wrong. It endangers innocent lives and must never be tolerated. Many countries have very strict drink-driving laws […]

Crooks, the whole lot of them

The slew of accusations now being traded between former leaders about corruption, nepotism and malfeasance in office has, no doubt, confirmed what most Malaysians have long suspected: that their leaders are all corrupt and untrustworthy. They come around waving the flag and pretending to be great patriots but they are just opportunists out to enrich […]

Pigs in the house?

There was an interesting article in the media last September about the state of Malacca being invaded by pigs from across the Strait. Apparently, they were abandoning their habitat for greener pastures. Barely a month later, there was another newspaper headline that read “Question on pigs sparks off heated exchange at Melaka state assembly.” It […]

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