We have only ourselves to blame if we insist on reading ‘national security’ to mean exactly what it says.

I hate feminists!

Don’t get me wrong, I like the ladies – like you do Din Merican, the Don Juan of Sime Darby reputation who now plyies between Rangoon and Chams-Elysees.

Model Islamic women in Malaysia, guess who? Rafidah Aziz! Now you know why they banned the book.

What democracy to yell about? Intolerant of dissent. Can’t take criticism from others, only to critisize others.

BERSIH march = threat to national security
Alternative views = threat to national security
Bloggers = threat to national security
Reports from foreign media = threat to national security
now..a book about women’s rights is also threat to national security..
followed by threat of using ISA..sick of that..okay
If those beruks have nothing valid to say,better keep quiet, or else you all sound like a parroting beruks – wizzerd

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wizzerd, I must chuckle when I read this! How very true when we substitute “threat to national security” with “threat to removing them from being the government in the next election”. :-)

Old Observer.

You are sorely missed since the NST decided to discontinue your column. I am glad that you are using the alternative and increasingly popular media to air your views and share your ideas.

Like you, I thoroughly disappointed with the policy of banning books and publications. This is not the way to develop a thinking society. Anyway, it is an exercise in futulity. If you can’t sell your book, you can serialise it on Sdr. Kit Siang’s blog, Bakri’s, Raja Petra’s and others.

Please stay in touch. You can reach me at dino.beano@yahoo.com or din.merican@gmail.com. Let me know where my boys and I at Anwar Ibrahim’s office can help you to get your views and ideas across to the reading public.

They are Malaysian biggest Muslim hypocrites! Tarnishing the image of the rest of the Muslims in Malaysia.

Islam Had-Sehari!

When they banned Alkitab Indonesia, it appeared to affect thousands of us, me included. Our response? Ignore it. If you go, I mean if you should go lah.. to rural Sabah and Sarawak, you’d notice we just use the Alkitab. “Banned? I don’t know.” We hurt nobody. It’s the book we read everyday. So how to ban it? If they don’t want to read it, that’s their business lah. Fair, isn’t it?

http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/content/view/12085/2/

Interestingly “koran” in Indonesian means newspaper. “Allah” means God. “Tuhan Yesus” means Lord Jesus. The Malaysian government has banned all these words. It is as if by banning them, these words no longer exist or are no longer in use. Isn’t language a communication tool?

“…who runs a pesantren in Cirebon and sits on the Women’s Commission, appointed by the President of Indonesia.”

Apparently this is more than just about gender discrimination. It is about the role of women in a Muslim society – how Muslim women are treated, how they are not treated as equals, neither by their husbands nor by syariah law.

The Malaysian government is run by conservative Muslim traditionalists rather than secular progressives and so anything that smacks of feminism is viewed as a threat against their ideology.

Organizations like SIS should be banned!

everything that UMNO do is good and great. other muslim from other country, especially their brothers in Indonesia is bad and lousy?

For UMNO, Indonesia should be grateful with the present of *some* Malay Malaysia? *Some* of the Malay Malaysia are arrogant enough that they can shoulder a bigger responsibility, just like the old English man saying “White man burden”? Now it is the Malay man burden to educate the Malay in the region, not Indonesia educate Malaysia?