Former minister Zaid Ibrahim today appealed to Muslims, urging them to speak up in kindness and fairness against unilateral child conversion. “I don’t know if I’m going to heaven, but those who have no heart will go nowhere. How can…
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A primary school was today criticised by a celebrity over its decision to typecast the country’s ethnicities in a moral examination question. In a post on the Instagram photo-sharing service, actress Sarah Lian shared a picture of a moral test…
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KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia has rolled out the red carpet for controversial Islamic scholar Ismail Musa Menk, a move that analysts have suggested could be part of efforts by Prime Minister Najib Razak to burnish his Islamic credentials to appeal…
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Masturah Alatas takes a close look at the legacy and impact of her father’s seminal study of ‘Malayness’, The Myth of the Lazy Native, which turns 40 this year. “Our Production Manager estimates that we would very likely have finished…
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Malaysia’s opposition Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) has won the support of the ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) to strengthen the country’s Syariah Courts, in what looks like the start of cooperation between the traditional rivals ahead of the next…
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