Malaysia is the Promised Land, even if a trifling minority of ingrates denounce their homeland as such a sinisterly bigoted abode that they clamour to emigrate to the United States, United Kingdom or Australia in a prissy huff over turgid contentions of political, social, economic and educational oppression.
Notice that shiny glow oozing from the many [...]
As reported by The Star:
Three Muslim women became the first in the country to be caned for committing syariah offences. Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said the three were found guilty of having illicit sex and had the caning sentence meted out to them on Feb 9 at 10am at the Kajang [...]
Lim Guan Eng has denied it. Perkasa–the so called Malay rights group–has accused him of lying. Perkasa labelled Lim “anti-Malay.” But the group itself is seen by many as “ultra Malay.”
Yes, I’m talking about the Prophet Muhammad birthday which has become an issue albeit unnecessary. Lim, Chief Minister of Penang, as we know has [...]
What does the term ‘the independence of the judges’ mean? I pose this question because it appears that there are many of our judges today who do not seem to know the true meaning of separation of powers in constitutional law.
This is most apparent especially among those judges in the higher echelon of the judicial [...]
The UMNO Malay are using the term bumiputera to gain business quota. The UMNO Malay could not even care less that the term bumiputera includes the natives of Sabah and Sarawak. Why should they malaya Malay care?
The Dayak politicians are participating in BN and the Dayak voted for BN because BN has drilled into the [...]
CANBERRA: What’s happening with Malaysia? The country has long been viewed in Australia as not only an especially friendly Southeast Asian neighbour — the “recalcitrant” Mahathir Mohammad excepted, though he’s been retired six years — but also a model of middle-class success and tolerance in that region.
Today, however, the country is having a hard [...]
Let us take a local issue as an example. Recently it was widely reported in the press that young and underage Penan girls are being raped. No local Muslim NGOs came out in support of the plight of this poor community.
Where is the local chapter of ABIM or HIKMAH (BINA, as I remember fondly)? [...]
We all know that the politics of race has always been the bedrock of Malaysian political culture in the last six decades. The success of the early Alliance and then the Barisan Nasional coalitions comprising race-based parties was due in large part to the electorate’s acceptance that Malaysian power-sharing was based on the negotiation [...]
