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Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It

November 21, 2015

BY KAMEL DAOUD IN THE INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It By KAMEL DAOUD NOV. …

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Saudi Export of Islamic Extremism is the Greatest Challenge to World Peace & Stability

April 19, 2015

John Burger, News Editor for Aleteia’s English edition talks to Ambassador Dennis Ignatius about Islamic Extremism, Sharia law & why …

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The Wahhabi threat to Southeast Asia

March 29, 2015

The Domino Theory Revisited When I joined the foreign ministry in 1972, a major foreign policy concern in the region …

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Radicalism and the culture of intolerance in Muslim societies

March 7, 2015

The recently concluded White House summit to counter violent extremism made much of root causes like poverty, illiteracy and political …

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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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