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Tag Archives: religious extremism

Sabah: Opening the door to extremism and bigotry

October 11, 2020

Brushing aside the vehement objections of many Sabahans, Chief Minister Hajiji Mohd Noor has gone ahead and appointed a PAS …

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Message to the voters of Sabah: Save yourselves!

September 17, 2020

In a little more than a week the people of Sabah will return to the polls to elect a new …

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Can UMNO-PAS save Malaysia?

September 21, 2019

In the aftermath of GE14, many Malaysians were hoping that UMNO would quickly reconstitute itself into the kind of credible …

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I weep for you Oh Malaysia

August 28, 2019

A few days ago, a friend sent me the video of Anneke Gronloh’s 1960’s hit song, “Oh Malaysia.” Watching it …

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Zakir Naik and the radicalization of Malaysia Baru

May 2, 2019

  According to news reports, the IGP warned that the police had “uncovered a plan by foreign militants to use …

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Nazri’s assault on national unity

March 6, 2019

Just when we think we’ve heard it all, someone finds a way to take racism and bigotry to a whole new …

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Hadi’s twisted agenda for Malaysia

August 22, 2017

  PAS president Abdul Hadi bin Awang is once again insisting that all senior positions in the country be held …

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The Taman Medan incident: Thank goodness for the moderates

April 24, 2015

[By Dennis Ignatius, Published in the Malaysian Insider, April 24th 2015] In but the latest of a long series of …

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The Silence of Our Muslims by Mariam Mokhtar

January 12, 2015

1:30AM Jan 12, 2015 By Mariam Mokhtar The Silence of our Muslims The bullets that killed the cartoonists in Paris …

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Rebranding Malaysia

August 30, 2012

The government’s rebranding exercise should focus on the root causes of our blighted global image According to Datuk Seri Idris …

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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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