Books Banned in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 (Bernama) — The Internal Security Ministry has banned 11 books — eight in English and three in Bahasa Malaysia — about Islam whose contents have been found to be deviating from the teaching of the religion.
According to the ministry’s Quran Publication Control and Text Division Secretary Che Din Yusoh, the ban [...]

Geert Wilders Anti-Koran Film

Dutch legislator, Geert Wilders’ much anticipated anti-Koran movie, is already getting all kinds of reactions.
The following video is a Fox News interview with Geert Wilders about his anti-Koran movie. He gives his rationale for producing the film.

Will this movie, if it ever sees the light of day, get the kind of reactions that the publications [...]

Newspaper boycott

I hope Haris Ibrahim’s boycott of the mainstream media is getting a good response. His effort in trying to raise awareness that newspapers do not always tell the truth is a laudable one.
Many of us have known for a long time that the Malaysian mainstream media is basically the government’s mouthpieces. What news publishing [...]

Segregation in co-ed schools

KOTA KINABALU: The principal of a secondary school near here has been ordered to stop segregating male and female students.
Sabah Education Department director Normah Gagoh said she had directed the principal of SMK Tansau in Penampang to stop the practice immediately.She said the department would be keeping close tabs on the school to ensure that [...]

Another body snatching case

An elderly ethnic Chinese man has been buried as a Muslim after his Buddhist family lost a battle with the Islamic authorities who said he had converted, his son said today.
Police seized the body of Gan Eng For, who died on Sunday aged 74, after his oldest son - himself a Muslim convert - said [...]

There is no utopia

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of their rights and condemned to slave labor. ~ Ayn Rand
It boggles my mind when I read (re letter to Malaysiakini) about some seemingly educated person denouncing Islamic political ideology yet advocating Marxist-Socialist [...]

A theocracy? No way!

Nik Aziz is also the spiritual leader of PAS, which aims to turn Malaysia into a theocratic state under Islamic rule.

This one sentence in a Malaysiakini article about how annoyed Nik Aziz was over the mixing of sexes, like standing in the same queue, is enough to re-enforce my fears about a PAS led government.
Who [...]

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