Praying pilots: I get Zaid Ibrahim
Okay, let’s add the backstory and some context to the issue.
Tag Archives: islam
An Aidilfitri sermon with the wrong message
The sermon I heard at the mosque on the first day of Aidilfitri made me mad!
I will break fast with whoever I want
After the breaking of fast (and some good coffee and ice cream!), we left the restaurant and I was still a Muslim.
Isn’t Malaysia a secular state?
Freedom of religion is a right of every Malaysian, as enshrined in Article 11 of the Federal Constitution.
Of religion, rituals and blind faith
Such is the way many Malaysians seem to view religion: without logic or reasoning and merely rituals and blind faith.
Banning books the first step in building a tunnel vision of beliefs
Ideas that challenge and contradict other faiths have even more reason not to be banned. The diverse views allow people of different beliefs to come together and accept each other, without trying to persuade or influence others.
The Fat Bidin Film Club (Ep 91) – Mengejar Keadilan & FFF2017
A documentary about the separation of the syariah and civil courts in Malaysia.
Is government responsible for moral policing?
Who is responsible for determining whether society adheres to a moral code? Who gets to decide what that moral code is?
Do we really need to strengthen Malaysia’s Syariah courts?
It was Valentine’s night and they were on a raiding mission all around town trying to catch unmarried couples who were feeling a little bit too amorous.
How lucky! Malay Muslims don’t need to think
It’s democratisation of religious interpretation, I guess, and we will never have to face the burden of thinking for ourselves.
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