Posts Tagged ‘malaysia’
The Gaza bombing by Israel is cruel and indiscriminate. The belligerence of the Hamas and its brigade of rocket launchers are facts too. With the exception of a small select group, everyone takes sides.
Yet the loss of life on the Palestinian side is phenomenally disproportionate compared to the Jewish state.
I’m not going to examine why [...]
I’ve written enough about why the yoga fatwas is wrong, and that I have a right to make that admonishment – the privilege of being part of a nation-state.
I want to delve into why a traditional organisation like the fatwa council wants to put wedges into our singular community and to place limitations on civil [...]
Obama’s win will fill all pages online, but perhaps we need to look at its impact on Malaysia.
The most obvious one would be of change. There would be a clamour for us to look at race-relations in a different way and to engage the concept of egalitarianism. All Malaysians as equal stakeholders.
During nomination day in March, in quaint Bandar Tun Razak – where Selangor menteri besar Khalid Ibrahim was contesting against Tan Chai Ho – the gathering crowds were screaming at each other various epithets and insults about foreign ladies, anal inclinations, woeful submarines, mixed spouses and stuff you can’t get out of a trashy novel.
Are [...]