Fraying ethnic relations affecting foreign policy consensus
A series of recent controversial foreign policy statements by Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has exposed the increasingly deep divisions …
Category Archives: Islam
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 …
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 …
The offence of the cross
Yet another brouhaha about a cross made headlines last week. A series of lights in a new residential apartment block …
What’s so special about Zakir Naik?
What’s so special about Zakir Naik? Why is he so uniquely deserving of Putrajaya’s support and attention? These are among the …
The closing of the Malay mind
In his 1987 book, ‘The closing of the American mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the …
IKSIM should stop demonizing Christians
Malaysian Institute of Islamic Strategic Studies (IKSIM) Chief Executive Officer Datuk Mahamad Nasser Disa took the Christian community by complete …
Time running out for Palestinians
In the wake of President Trump’s decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move that …
The politics of bigotry & extremism
With elections around the corner, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang continues to rant and rave about all sorts of fake …
Are Christians a threat to Malaysia?
Yet again, a Muslim group is raising the spectre of a Christian threat to the security of the nation and …
