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Category Archives: Middle East

A backdoor envoy for a backdoor government

April 9, 2020

There’s a mysterious letter, purportedly written by the newly minted Middle East special envoy, Hadi Awang, that’s making the rounds. …

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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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Hypocrisy & hyperbole at the UN

October 1, 2019

Dozens of world leaders descended on New York last week for the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), …

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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 colour of human misery

March 1, 2019

(AP Photo) At a recent symposium on Yemen, one of the panellists, a prominent Muslim social activist, lamented the lack …

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Yemen: Malaysia must act

November 1, 2018

Yemen is now as close to hell on earth as one can imagine. A monstrous calamity – “the worst humanitarian …

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The Khashoggi murder & Malaysia’s foreign policy

October 26, 2018

Amidst growing international outrage over the brutal and gruesome murder of  Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi, Foreign Minister Saifuddin …

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The complicity of our friends

June 11, 2018

Corruption and the abuse of power on such a staggering scale, after all, do not  happen unless officials in other …

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The Israeli visit: Much ado about nothing

February 18, 2018

Israel’s recent participation in the World Urban Forum (WUF) in Kuala Lumpur from 7-13 February has predictably aroused controversy. Given …

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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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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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