How we turn a blind eyeCase closed does justice matter

A message went out from  Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali office: you provoke us at your peril, no matter what the collateral damage. We play piped music before one trapped cobra and call it an opera. Then we fall asleep at our own show.It is both easy and pointless to blame the government. Every government keeps…

Hear it? secularism is both enduring & audible

I am a patriot, a plain Kassim Ahmad, who a long time ago politely refused an UMNO offer for a datoship.Being from a poor oppressed classed, I began early as a rebel (with causes, of course!) and soon became the leader of the Malayan People’s Socialist Party (1968-1984). In 1984, seeing the collapse of international…

Najib and Ahmad Maslan the jokers of the first order

The real truth is that Ahmad Maslan  may or may not become full minister. But whichever party forms the next government, it should create a new “Ministry of Comedy” and make him it’s minister! His only job should be to make one speech a day….keeping us all fully entertained! it seemed like a bad joke. It did not…

No truth from Zahid Mukhriz said UMNO is a cruel irony

No truth from Zahid Mukhriz said UMNO is a cruel irony that foolish Umno leaders can’t answer simple question Turkey,  became a success story because its 20th-century saviour Mustafa Kemal rejected the Caliphate, and wrenched his nation out of the looming trap of faith supremacy. Courageously, he defused the very symbol of Muslim conquest, Istanbul’s…