Category Archives: On the Beat

Stand up and speak up

The large crowd gathered outside Penang State Assembly building last week to protest against Seri Delima DAP assemblyman R. S. N. Rayer. Moderate Malaysians have the right to tell our politicians that we want the liberal, secular and plural ways. […] Continue Reading

Slipping into our racial cocoons

Seriously I find it disturbing that the voices of mono-ethnicity and mono-religion are becoming louder in Malaysia. They may be the minority but not many of us seem ready to tell them off, and the result is they remain unchallenged. […] Continue Reading

Our right to speak up

We live in a multi-racial, multi-religious and multi-cultural Malaysia, where any law, whether hudud or civil, will affect all of us. SERIOUSLY, I am fed up of being told that I should not comment on the proposed hudud laws by […] Continue Reading

Fight to keep Malaysia secular

PAS members attending the 59th muktamar at Stadium Melawati in Shah Alam. – Filepic It is simply wrong for anyone to suggest that non-Muslims have no right to debate on the hudud issue on the basis that they do not […] Continue Reading

Hudud slowly getting a foot in

Many of us, particularly non-Muslim voters, never took seriously what PAS’ ultimate plan is. But now, we’re faced with the dreaded reality. IF there’s one thing that PAS is consistent about, it has to be its ambition to set up […] Continue Reading

A matter of principle

No one could stop Karpal Singh from speaking up on what he believed in. He did not care if he was taking on the prime minister or even a sultan. He had taken on all of them. SOME time in […] Continue Reading

Eyes riveted on custody tussle

Rightly or wrongly, many Malaysians are asking if the ‘conversion’ option is just a way for a new Muslim convert to gain custody of the children. THE legal tussle involving a Muslim-convert father and the Hindu mother with both getting […] Continue Reading

A fresh round of bad publicity

A Filipino Navy boat patrolling waters off the coast of Sulu province in the Philippines, a day after the abduction of a Chinese tourist and a Filipino resort worker in Semporna, Sabah. – EPA The abduction of a Chinese national […] Continue Reading

When emotions take over

A family member of missing relative on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 from China breaks down as she speaks to the media at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia 19 March 2014. -EPA Amid speculation and suspicion, what is being […] Continue Reading

Just listen to them talk

Since the ­mysterious disappearance of MH370, many people have become aviation and crisis management ‘experts’ overnight, judging from the freewheeling comments on social media, especially on Facebook. IT has been two weeks since the ­mysterious disappearance of MH370 and there […] Continue Reading