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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]