ARCHIVES 2012

The only reason Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is desperately wooing Sabah is because Umno can no longer rule Peninsular Malaysia without Sabah and Sarawak. 

Luke Rintod, FMT

PENAMPANG: A veteran political activist who was once with Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) said many among the Barisan Nasional leaders in Sabah had at many times told crowds that BN stands for “Barisan Nah Sial”.

PAS melihat isu penggunaan nama Allah di dalam terjemahan Bible dalam BM tidak mencerminkan maksud sebenar dari teks asal.

(FMT) - PAS berpendapat menggunakan nama Allah dalam terjemahan Bible Bahasa Melayu tidak wajar dan parti itu berpendirian istilah ‘God’ digantikan dengan Tuhan dan bukannya Allah untuk mencerminkan maksud sebenar daripada teks asal.

Look at the “Comments” section in Malaysiakini, Malaysia Today and Malaysian Insider.

They have total disdain for the establishment and everything associated with the establishment is wrong. They have this utopian idea that by changing the government and leave it to the politicians, things will be better. 

Ooi Kok Hin, The Malaysian Insider

To Hu, PAS' struggle is based "on true Islamic principle" and the party is fair to all – Muslims and non-Muslims which is "guaranteed" by the party constitution. Hence his support as long as the constitution remains as it is.

Mohsin Abdullah, fz.com 

(Free Malaysia Today) - Sarawak PKR has described calls to Rela members to help Barisan Nasional win in the state as 'immoral'.

Sabah is slipping down on living standards as families continue to feel the pinch of high inflation and low economic revival.

Vidal Yudin Well, FMT

By the time this article is published, the Mayan calendar phenomenon is probably way behind us and like any other hoaxes of the last century, there was no apocalypse or Armageddon.

What the DAP leadership should do is to set up a Malay Matters Bureau and an Indian Issues Bureau

Selena Tay, FMT

The results at the recent DAP party polls held in Penang on Dec 15 wherein 20 Central Executive Committee (CEC) members were elected was a great shock and disappointment for this columnist who had thought that at least one or two Malay candidates would be voted in.

All ideas of "god" are rooted in language and concepts in materialism and the dialecticness of it; different names of different gods signify the attempt by Man to name the Unknown and the Infinite and the Non-Being via words framed culturally, so that Man can worship the name and appease the construction of personal and social reality.

A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE

Dr Azly Rahman