Is it as easy as ABC for Malaysians? Do Malaysians know their ABC for doing this? Or, is it an integral a, b, c in our culture for most Malaysians? Or, is it so embedded in our culture and system that when it was called BCA (or Bersih, Cekap, Amanah) for Malaysians, even the salesman […]
It is said, “What’s in a name; that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?” I am not a true Shakespearean and therefore I will claim the popular heritage of this idea and ideal. This same rose however is on the cover of the first book that I am […]
This column is beginning of a pet hypothesis I have always held but now consider it time to put into a written form. In the past I have only used this framework to speak using my power point of the same. I will begin to put these thoughts in writing through a series of partial […]
Last week I asked this question of all my readers. What I observed in response was that almost none of the readers who commented sought to answer the question I asked, but really chose the column and the response facility of the Malaysiakini platform to make some of their own arguments, one way or other. The most […]
Faith matters are beyond reason, but such matters are not unreasonable or non-reasonable. The historic Catholic Church made the original mistake of “declaring by faith ‘that the earth is the centre of the universe’.” Thereby and thereafter two scientists, Galileo and Copernicus, used their instruments of science to establish and prove that the sun and […]
This series is still thinking about and asking the question, are we 1Bangsa of Malaysians? Two weeks ago, our friends of Taman Aman decided to invite MP Tony Pua to a Dialogue Bersama Rakyat. This was part and parcel of our local governance engagement strategy in asking for increased responsibility and improved accountability by all […]
I have become a sceptic of the 1anything false theology being preached and practiced by the current leadership of Malaysia; namely the ruling coalition of the federal government. My reasons are simple, and my column seeks to explain why I think and feel the way I do. Locating our integrity as a nation Shad Saleem […]
The word ‘idiocrat’ may or may not be in our Oxford Dictionaries; because language changes and some systems do not keep up with such changes in information and knowledge. An ‘idiocrat’ is any unthinking person who misfires his tongue without applying logic rules of rational ways of thinking. Donald Trump is the leading Republican idiocrat; […]
Premised upon my belief that the two judges in the M Indira Gandhi judgment were absolutely wrong in their ‘Appeals Court majority ruling’; many of us waited to read the dissenting judgment by the other learned Judge. He also holds a Doctorate in Islamic Studies from Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA) Malaysia. To me, as my […]
I bought the house I live in 30 years ago. I have paid my dues for all three decades. But as of January 2015, I decided that I will stop paying my assessment because the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) is allegedly promoting theft and looting of green lungs in my vicinity. In fact, I […]
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