Raja Petra Kamaruddin.
Tan Hoon Cheng.
And, according to Malaysiakini’s SMS service, TERESA KOK.
There is a time for maudlin, intellectualizing, masturbatory ruminations over the ethics of MPs crossing over.
And then there’s a time for thinking less and acting in the most expedient, pragmatic way possi ...Continue
He’s won, he’s been sworn in and he’s now in parliament. What next?
On the net and in blogs I watched and read as so many rejoiced in Anwar’s win. Even KayTee put aside his grouses with DSAI and offered congratulations. I would, too, if I thought DSAI’s win was the beginning of a new dawn. I do see his win a ...Continue
The fact of the matter is, there will be no better way to shame Anwar Ibrahim than to beat him in his traditional stronghold. It’s better than resorting to the tainted claim of sodomy, which - it has become clear - people don’t believe anyway. The problem for BN, I suppose, is the fact that no one will believe that they won fairly if they wre ...Continue
You know something’s wrong with the way people are educated in Malaysia when some members of the population - some UiTM students in particular - prefer to barricade themselves against the incursion of the “Non-Bumi” Horde ™. Yes, that proposed 10% of non-bumiputras will overwhelm the remaining 90% and will somehow cause the ...Continue
It was about race, not religion.
That much was clear from the insults hurled at participants during the open forum on the “Conversion to Islam”. For the religion to have been hijacked is pretty sad, but that’s what you get in communitarian Malaysia, especially when the idea of race is so inextricably entwined with being Mu ...Continue