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anti-war or anti-israel?

ok everybody now… sing it with me!(to the tune of  the children’s ‘are you sleeping’) double standard, double standardhere it comes, here it comeswhat do you expect? what do you expect?oh malaysia! oh malaysia! just made a ‘double standard’ post yesterday and suddenly today the headline in the malaysian insider ‘it …

anti-war protest: double standard again

oh gee, methink i ought to create a category ‘double standard’ in my blog. for past few weeks, there had been a number of posts on the double standard of our gov’t or the police. this time it was about the anti-war protest. or rather was it anti-israel protest? oh …

just after pray, pray, they came out full of anger and hatred

then why pray? isn’t one suppose to be ‘clean’ and ‘holy’ after prayers? Meanwhile, about 200 people gathered at the Kampung Baru mosque to protest against the Israeli invasion, and burnt American and Israeli flags to show their anger. This group was largely made up by Umno Youth members from …

‘Stop the killings in Gaza’, how?

Malaysiakini‘Stop the killings in Gaza’, how?Helen Ang | Jan 9, 09 12:52pm A sampling of the reaction to Israel’s offensive in Gaza: Rantings by Dr Mahathir Mohamed – Boycott American products! Umno Youth – Demonstrations is not our culture but we can make an exception for Khairy Jamaluddin since he’s …

double standard by the higher education minister

from the nutgraph ‘act allows varsity students at anti-israel protest’. KUALA LUMPUR, 8 Jan 2009: University students and their institutions can organise and participate in protests against the Israeli invasion of Palestine, Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said today. He said the ministry had no objection to …

look at yourself first, o malaysia

my friend, helen, wrote this interesting piece ‘malaysia is like israel’  in malaysiakini 6 days ago. i found i can relate to what she wrote. i would like to comment on some parts, the last few paragraphs. In Malaysian blogosphere now, there is the usual schism. The Malay-Muslim voices have …