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Why Hasan Ali was sacked from PAS

Why Hasan Ali was sacked from PAS

By EDITOR on January 25, 2012

Much has been said about Datuk Dr. Hasan Ali, the for­mer Selan­gor state com­mis­sioner of the party and (pre­vi­ously) a state Exco in the Pakatan Rakyat state gov­ern­ment, in the past few weeks. Some had claimed that the rea­son for the deci­sion to sack him was because of out­side pres­sure from PAS’ part­ners, DAP and PKR and that the PAS lead­er­ship had bowed down to oth­ers. Oth­ers have said that the rea­son Hasan Ali was sacked was because of his so-called “activism” against apos­tasy and the set-up of a counter-apostasy unit borne by the depart­ment under his port­fo­lio (reli­gious affairs) and there­fore Hasan Ali’s sack­ing is a detri­ment to the cause of Islam itself. Even more ludi­crous is the claim by Hasan Ali him­self that he was sacked on the orders of Anwar Ibrahim!

Posted in News, Politics | Tagged Hasan Ali, Malay Malaysians, Malaysia, Pakatan Rakyat, Pakatan Rakyat government, Pakatan Rakyat state government, Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, Politics of Malaysia, Selangor state commissioner, United Malays National Organisation | Leave a response
Police barking up the wrong tree in student prank case?

Police barking up the wrong tree in student prank case?

By EDITOR on January 17, 2012

Any­one who sees this Face­book pro­file would know that this is noth­ing more than a prank. Some­one who is really seri­ous in assas­si­nat­ing the Prime Min­is­ter would not have announced his or her inten­tions pub­licly, much less have a Face­book pro­file declar­ing such an aim in their sta­tus. How­ever the Malaysian police, being the dumb-asses and utter morons that they already are, saw it fit to regard this prank as a “threat” and arrested this stu­dent over this par­tic­u­lar remark.

Posted in Current Issues, News, Society | Tagged Facebook, Facebook Inc, Human behavior, Human Interest, Malaysian police, Online social networking, Practical jokes, Prime Minister, Social media, Student prank, Web 2.0, World Wide Web | Leave a response
Al Jazeera 101 East — Anwar Ibrahim: After the Trial

Al Jazeera 101 East — Anwar Ibrahim: After the Trial

By EDITOR on January 13, 2012

Malaysian oppo­si­tion leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has been cleared of sodomy charges, which he says were meant to kill off his polit­i­cal career. Will his coali­tion be able to mount its strongest polit­i­cal chal­lenge in this year’s gen­eral elections?

Posted in Current Issues, Politics | Tagged Anwar Ibrahim, Asia, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, General Elections, Malay Malaysians, Malaysia, Opposition, opposition leader, Politics of Malaysia | Leave a response
Why PAS needs more Dr Dzuls?

Why PAS needs more Dr Dzuls?

By EDITOR on December 26, 2011

It is rather sur­pris­ing that the West­ern media started to call Ennahda party in Tunisia as a ‘mod­er­ate Islamist party’. The same label has been used to describe the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in Egypt, to dif­fer­en­ti­ate them from the ‘rad­i­cal’ Salafi par­ties. It was not the case a cou­ple of years ago and unimag­in­able by many con­sid­er­ing we are just ten years post-911; the tragic bomb­ing of the WTC in New York. ‘Mod­er­ate’ Islamists appears to be a new jar­gon to describe the ‘not so bad’ Mus­lim guys who were pre­vi­ously des­ig­nated with a plethora of Islam­pho­bic labels by the same media which included among oth­ers ‘the rad­i­cal Islamists’, ‘extrem­ist banned group’, “rad­i­cal Islamic fun­da­men­tal­ist”, “jihadist mil­i­tants”, etc.

Posted in Features, Politics | Tagged Ennahda party in Tunisia, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamism, Islamist party, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, New York City | Leave a response
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