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Malaysia Has Foreign Funding Issues, but Don’t Look at SUARAM

September 11, 2012

Malaysia Has Foreign Funding Issues, but Don’t Look at SUARAM The current witch-hunt against SUARAM for receiving foreign funds should not make us forget a key fact: that Malaysia’s overall approach to development is in fact dependent on foreign funding. […]

Merawat Masyarakat Diktator

September 8, 2012

Apabila menyebut tentang kediktatoran dan sifat-sifatnya, antara yang terawal muncul dalam minda sesetengah orang ialah gambaran sebuah pemerintahan mutlak yang berlandaskan pandangan seseorang individu, ataupun beberapa individu tertentu dan tidak terikat dengan perlembagaan mahupun peraturan. Pemerintah diktator lazimnya akan menuju […]

Hard Work Matters, but Not in a Free Market Economy

September 8, 2012

In the September 3rd issue of the Edge, Lim Ewe Ghee once again wrote in defence of income inequality, this time in response to his critics. Since he composed the article “in hope of generating further discussion” I shall take […]

Za’ba tentang Idealisme Bangsa dan Falsafah Takdir – Bahagian II

August 27, 2012

Pemikiran “Pemikiran-pemikiran asli yang dihasilkan begitu dinamik dan anti konservatisme” – Zaini Ujang, Dewan Budaya, Oktober, 1989. Za’ba merupakan pemikir Melayu moden yang lantang mengkritik kerapuhan sistem dan pandangan hidup bangsa yang terbelenggu dengan taqlid dan perbezaan mazhab yang keras. […]

Za’ba tentang Idealisme Bangsa dan Falsafah Takdir – Bahagian I

August 26, 2012

“Betapa perlunya kita berusaha sendiri tanpa bergantung kepada orang lain dalam menyempurnakan amalan dan pekerjaan sehari-hari” – Za’ba, Perangai Bergantung Pada Diri Sendiri Pemikiran Za’ba (1895-1973) tentang falsafah, sejarah, agama, etika, nahu dan sastera cukup signifikan dalam perjuangannya memperbaharui nilai […]

Arguing for a Secular State

August 23, 2012

To many Muslims and especially the Islamists, the term secular is a very repugnant term and this abhorrence to anything secular stems mainly from the previously bitter experience of secularism in Turkey that had led to the dissolution of the […]

Thinking About Income Inequality, Properly

August 14, 2012

In a recent issue of The Edge, Lim Ewe Ghee wrote a defence of income inequality.  Going against the increasingly prevalent claim that inequality is problematic, he argues instead that it is in fact a good thing. This, he explains, […]

Do Muslims Fear Knowledge?

June 27, 2012

What does book banning, in this age of globalisation and information technology, really achieve for Muslims? This question echoes throughout social media as countless Malaysians express their ire and bafflement at the sudden arrest of Nik Raina Nik Abdul Aziz, […]

Teras Progresif Ekonomi Islam

May 3, 2012

Dalam perkembangan yang mutakhir, Malaysia semakin diiktiraf oleh ramai pemerhati dan pelancong sebagai sebuah negara yang relatifnya kaya. Hal ini, bagaimanapun, tidak semestinya bermakna ia dengan itu tersenarai di kalangan negara Islam yang pada bandingannya kaya. Perkaitan antara harta dan […]

Hudud Laws: Between the literal and the implicit

September 27, 2011

Ahmad Farouk Musa | Sep 27, 2011 The hudud controversy has now returned to the eyes of the media after it was discussed at the National Syariah Seminar sponsored by the Department of Islamic Affairs of Kelantan. PAS indeed had […]

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