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 …
Category Archives: Middle East
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), …
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 colour of human misery
(AP Photo) At a recent symposium on Yemen, one of the panellists, a prominent Muslim social activist, lamented the lack …
Yemen: Malaysia must act
Yemen is now as close to hell on earth as one can imagine. A monstrous calamity – “the worst humanitarian …
The Khashoggi murder & Malaysia’s foreign policy
Amidst growing international outrage over the brutal and gruesome murder of Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi, Foreign Minister Saifuddin …
The complicity of our friends
Corruption and the abuse of power on such a staggering scale, after all, do not happen unless officials in other …
The Israeli visit: Much ado about nothing
Israel’s recent participation in the World Urban Forum (WUF) in Kuala Lumpur from 7-13 February has predictably aroused controversy. Given …
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 height of big-power arragonce
The United States Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, warned recently, in what can only be described as the height …
