[2667] Support Ezra

Posted in Liberty on March 7th, 2013 No Comments »

[2659] Valentine’s secularization

Posted in Society on February 13th, 2013 No Comments »

As far as I understand it from my experience living in the United States during my undergraduate years, the Christian right, which is a loose socially conservative religious group, believes that there is a social war going on. It is a war on Christmas. The war is really about the secularization of Christmas. It is a [...]

[2656] Chinese New Year to cause a recession in Kuala Lumpur

Posted in Economics, Humor on February 6th, 2013 2 Comments »

With Chinese New Year being just around the corner, many are expected to leave Kuala Lumpur behind to visit families and relatives who live outside of the city for a week or so. Many of those living or working in the city have left the city. With the Chinese forming more than 40% of the [...]

[2410] Rights, loudspeakers and call to prayer in Malaysia

Posted in Liberty, Society on August 14th, 2011 No Comments »

Though a libertarian and in many ways individualistic in the sense that I am protective of my individual negative rights, I am highly conscious of the fact I live in a society. Even with these rights intact, there has to be a give and take, some kind of mutual and voluntary compromises. The realization that [...]

[2358] An individualist response to Ioannis Gatsiounis

Posted in Society on May 3rd, 2011 No Comments »

I watched a documentary once. It was about Muslims in America. There was a young female Muslim in New York with typical American lifestyle. She was not the conservative type and I am on confident of that. She did wear a scarf though and that probably tells you that she identified herself with Islam. In [...]

[2318] Increasing the appeal of national schools by reducing the role of religion

Posted in Education, Society on February 17th, 2011 3 Comments »

Prejudice against any group depends on generalization for it to take root successfully in one’s mind. Although I have to admit that sometimes there are voices in my head whispering ethnic prejudice and stereotype, I typically find it hard to harbor such sentiment for long. I have friends of ethnicities different from mine. If I [...]

[2308] Of pourquoi?

Posted in Photography, Society, Travels on February 3rd, 2011 No Comments »

[2180] Of sneaky Hadi wants to sneak in Allah

Posted in Society on March 24th, 2010 2 Comments »

Abdul Hadi Awang saw it and he capitalized on it. Given how the Islamic party he is in positions itself in the Allah controversy, he took the next step and suggested that the first principle of the Rukunegara[0] be changed from belief in god to belief in Allah.[1] If Allah is a generic term for [...]

[2163] Of reality show looking for the one Muslim

Posted in Entertainment, Humor on February 10th, 2010 No Comments »

Jakim, a Malaysian federal institution responsible for Islamic affairs, together with RTM, state-owned public television and radio broadcaster, are getting creative by producing a reality TV program aimed at “unearthing talent among children in various aspects of Islam“: The progamme, which be will both entertaining and educational, was aimed at unearthing talent among children in [...]

[2149] Of there are Malay alternatives to the term Allah and tuhan

Posted in Liberty, Politics & government, Society on January 14th, 2010 10 Comments »

I have clarified my position regarding the usage of the term Allah by Catholic group and by extension, any term by anybody. This reasoning forms the basis of my position not to oppose Catholic group’s use of the term. Indeed, I consider this line of reasoning as not only the most convincing for me, consistent [...]

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