Now that I’ve finished reading it, I only regret not having read it earlier. It’s an amazing book, and telling in many ways. Not only is the spectre of humanity’s own inherent drive toward self-destruction examined in Walter Miller’s fantastic black comedy, so are questions of knowledge, wisdom and power.
I don’t want to [...]
MENJ has recently posted a scathing reply to Joachen Katz’s own counter-arguments to a post here. One could question their polemical use of the article, of course, but that’s neither here nor there - to be fair, bismikaallahuma.org don’t seem to have a position on the Hans Küng article, except to note that [...]
Today’s NST has quite a number of interesting articles on the Moorthy case. The most interesting is the opinions provided by the Malaysian Bar Council president, Mr Yeo Yang Poh and the Syariah Practicising Lawyers Association, En Muhammad Burok. The article in question is linked here.
What I found interesting about Mr Yeo’s position [...]
Another damned afternoon of drilling. I imagine puce-coloured concrete cheese and holes over on the other side. Stupid yuppie fashion statement or boring, unimaginative hole-drilling, I wondered. Since I wasn’t stumbling from bed with a hangover from last night, I thought God had decided in His infinite grace to visit my head [...]
It appears the question has been decided: firstly, there are syariah courts over which no other courts have jurisdiction. If it was a question on deciding whether you were Christian or Muslim upon death, the only forum for adjudicating this would be the syariah courts - there are no similar provisions for Christians. [...]