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My last three columns have related to the issue of, if or whether, we can and should seek to make hudud a common law reality in Malaysia. Obviously, I would not write four columns if I had no problems with such a local bylaw within the context of our Federation of Malaysia. Our problem with […]

I have studied animal behaviour, as per studies in social science, and human behaviour as per its application to responsible, conscious, and accountable conduct of human beings. What is the real difference between these two studies and results? A pack of dogs, even if they are tame individually, will turn aggressive with the power of […]

I have been a Petaling Jaya resident for almost 50 years, starting with Section 17 after campus, then Section 9 and finally, at Kampung Tunku, PJ for the last 30 years since we bought our home there. Therefore, technically and, as a payer of local taxes, I have legal and legitimate rights to question the […]

Shocking news article \’ Raping makes us feel free’: DR Congo’s soldiers reveal astonishing stories\’ . The title says it all. My question to all readers; are we still in the 21st century, or are we quickly reverting to the dark ages? Those dark ages are not very far off; it was called the ‘wild, wild, west’ […]

Does our inspector-general of police (IGP) know the law? After all he is our chief law enforcement officer. He should, after all he is sworn to uphold the federal constitution, and the constitution says of itself that ‘it is the supreme law of the federation’. He is the sole authority for upholding the constitution in […]

I have still not seen the written judgments of the seven judges; and yes, I think if you sit on the Federal Court bench, unless it is a unanimous judgment, there must be made available all their views, considerations, and judgments of each of the seven judges in writing. We need to develop this standard […]

I have some basic questions to the planners of the Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex) proposal. I need these questions answered, and as I wrote in my earlier column on this subject; I have locus standi as a 30-year rent paying resident of PJ to ask and seek the answers to these questions even before the Petaling […]

There is a new group on the block which screams more than all other voices of extremism within our now emerging public expression of Malay conservative fringe culture; they are called Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma). They have now labelled not just PAS’ Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad and Ikram vice-president Zaid Kamaruddin, but also an […]

As a Malaysian citizen I have no problem accepting and agreeing that we need traditional rulers, we call ‘sultans;’ to help moderate issues and concerns of the peoples of Malaysia. Nonetheless, I have serious problems and issues with sultans who ignore the real needs of people but support the power-brokers around the palace; as if […]

Whose interpretive war is the rest of the world caught within; this civil war within Ukraine which murdered the travellers and destroyed our plane, or equally, the abuse of innocent Palestinian lives? Is this conflict really one involving Malaysia versus the West, or is it Europe versus the Russians? These are my simple but hard […]