Siswazah Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM), Huda Ramli membalas kritikan yang dilemparkan kepada aktivis yang melakukan duduk protes sebagai membantah pencabulan autonomi universiti oleh Menteri Pendidikan, Maszlee Malik. “Kalau aku dikatanya lembu, jadi dialah bapa lembu” tulis Huda dalam kenyataan yang dikeluarkan di laman Facebook beliau. Hal ini kerana Xifu Naser adalah pensyarah beliau yang […]
Politics
Politik Islam dan Melayu
Buku ini merupakan kumpulan tulisan Dr. Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki yang membicarakan berkenaan dengan politik orang melayu dan Islam. Kebetulan saya menghabiskan pembacaan ini selepas PRU14 di mana buat pertama kali dalam sejarah Malaysia, UMNO hilang kuasa pemerintahan negara. Buku ini saya kira baik bagi ahli UMNO jika mereka ingin bermuhasabah dan bangkit kembali. Saya kira […]
Kenapa asyik cakap tentang kelemahan pembangkang? Takut berubah ke?
Post ini tidak bertujuan untuk meraih undi untuk mana-mana parti. Terpulanglah kepada setiap individu menggunakan akal dengan sihat bagi menilai dan membuat keputusan bagi menentukan hala tuju politik 5 tahun akan datang. Sekiranya mahu kerajaan baru boleh undi pembangkang, sekiranya selesa dengan kerajaan sedia ada boleh beri undi pada kerajaan (sekarang kerajaan sementara kerana […]
Senarai hujah-hujah politik yang kelakar
1. Jangan di ulang-ulang sejarah lama. Kita perlu pandang ke hadapan. 2. Kalau Anwar pun boleh maafkan, kenapa kita tak boleh. 3. Kita perlu pilih syaitan kecil berbanding syaitan besar. 4. Apa-apa pun kita kena jatuhkan rejim sedia ada, ini saja cara nak suburkan demokrasi. 5. Dia dah bertaubat, biarlah dia betulkan kesilapannya yang […]
#UndiRosak Tidak Haram Bahkan Rahmat
Mufti Perlis, Prof Madya Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin ada menyebut: “Agama tidak berpihak pada ustaz tidak berpihak pada mufti tidak berpihak pada parti tidak berpihak pada mazhab. Agama berasaskan Al-Qur’an dan Sunnah. Kalau orang bawah bangkit berdiri dia bagi hujah betul, sekali pun mufti, salah tetap salah” (1) Di atas asas ini […]
Blog
Kepentingan negara: Perspektif dekonstruk
Antara pemikiran Howard Zinn yang sangat mengesani pemikiran saya sehingga ke hari ini adalah dekonstruk terhadap konsep kepentingan negara (national interest). Dalam melihat dan menilai sesuatu keputusan, soalan yang pertama yang perlu ditanya adalah ianya baik untuk siapa? Dalam dekonstruksi pemikiran ini, Zinn menerangkan bahawa konsep kepentingan negara adalah satu konsep yang digunakan oleh golongan […]
Titik biru malap
Voyager-1 dilancarkan pada 5 September 1977 dari Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, Amerika Syarikat. Antara misinya adalah untuk mengkaji planet-planet dengan lebih dekat. Pada 14 Febuari 1990, Voyager-1 telah mengembara jauh, sekitar 6 billion kilometer dari bumi, tempat asal ia berlepas. Namun berkat hasil tangan manusia dengan akal kurniaan tuhan, Voyager-1 masih dapat […]
Surat untuk Y.B
Kehadapan Y.B yang dihormati, Berat rasanya hati saya untuk menulis surat ini. Mungkin disebabkan faktor usia atau boleh jadi juga disebabkan telah lama meninggalkan hal ehwal tulis menulis ini. Sejak beberapa tahun kebelakangan ini, saya lebih suka membaca dari menulis. Tapi saya gagahkan juga tangan ini atas faktor desakan perasaan yang tak terbendung lagi. […]
Adakah Rohingya terlalu busuk untuk Malaysia?
Malaysia merupakan negara yang terkenal dengan sikap toleransi merentasi bangsa. Pasca era kolonial, ketika negara serantau lain memperkenalkan satu identiti negara dengan satu bahasa, satu sistem pendidikan dan satu budaya, Malaysia mengambil jalan tengah dengan mengiktiraf kepelbagaian bangsa, menerima bangsa lain sebagai warga Malaysia, malah memelihara bahasa dan melindungi sistem pendidikan masing-masing. Walaupun ia […]
How Chester gave sense to our teenage life
I remembered my teenage years, back in 2003, I was just 13 years old when I left home. I entered a boarding school and trying to make sense of my life. Teenage years were the years we were usually lost, trying to understand where we fit in and how we should fit in. As with […]
News
Statement by UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi on World Refugee Day 2018
Geneva, 20 June 2018 – Today, World Refugee Day, is a time for solidarity with refugees – and with the communities that welcome them. As conflicts emerge, recur, persist and deepen, 68.5 million people are uprooted around the world. Nine out of ten are in their own countries or countries next door, and the impact […]
Malaysians protest Trump’s immigration ban
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 — Over 100 Malaysians demonstrated today against the temporary US immigration ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees. The protest, which lasted for over an hour in front of the US Embassy here, was led by Opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan along with Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM), joined by […]
Singapore to study Malaysia’s challenge to Pulau Batu Puteh judgment
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia, citing “new facts” discovered in recently declassified British documents, has filed a challenge to the 2008 decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that ruled Pedra Branca to be Singaporean territory. Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in response that the Republic is “studying Malaysia’s application and documentation closely”, and […]
Hundreds likely killed in Myanmar’s Rohingya crackdown, says UN
GENEVA, Feb 3 — Myanmar’s military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims has likely killed hundreds of people, with children slaughtered and women raped in a campaign that may amount to ethnic cleansing, the UN said Friday. A report from the United Nations Human Rights office, based on interviews with 204 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, also found […]
Malaysia regrets Bangladesh’s rebuff of food flotilla
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 — Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry expressed regret today over the Bangladeshi government’s decision not to allow a food flotilla to provide aid for Rohingya refugees. The Foreign Ministry said its minister, Datuk Seri Anifah Aman, met with the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Malaysia, Md Shahidul Islam, at the Foreign Affairs Ministry […]
Book Review
Brain Research: Understanding Young Mind
This book explored the minds of young people, how they operate and how we can harness them instead of suppressing them. Adults, Siegel observed, usually loved routine, predictable schedule, which do away with creative exploration and makes life boring, almost lifeless. This is very different from a young mind, adolescent, which always experimenting, and […]
Why America is losing in Iraq and Afghanistan
As Howard Zinn brilliantly puts it “you cannot be neutral on a moving train”. This book was written from the perspective of American’s interest on why they are losing their wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The short answer is that America doesn’t have a clear quantifiable objective. Now, let’s deplore the long answer as […]
Whose Bible Is It?
The Bible has many versions. We have King James Version, Revised Standard Version, New Revised Standard Version, Jerusalem Bible and a lot more others. Pelikan asked, what if a person want to buy the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible? Which one he should purchase. To answer this question, Pelikan brought […]
Mao: From librarian to Chairman of Communist China
This small book which tries to tell a story about one huge world leader, really helps readers in a sense that you can understand a huge subject with fewer pages. Of course, it needs simplification, and also selection, in order to achieve this goal. A layman about the subject, I find the book helpful […]
Love story, Naxalite struggle and state corruption
“When Faith Turned Red” is the translation of the Hindi novel, Ujale ki Talash written by Sharad Pagare. Published by Rupa Publications India in 2011. The novel which was based on South India told a story about prostitution in the name of religion, Naxalite revolution and widespread state corruption. In the background introduction, Pagare […]