The Malaysian Roman Catholic church goes to court to overturn a ban on them using the word "Allah". As far as I know the word "Allah" is an Arab word meaning God, that pre-dates Islam. It is therefore not exclusive to Islam. I am sure that the word God is used in english writings on Islam - shouldn't that be banned? Or alternatively - why doesn't everyone chill-out and think of more important things to argue about. We are talking about the same God after-all!
The Government declines to renew the permit of a Tamil-language newspaper - seen to be sympathetic towards HINDRAF - but then reverses its decision.
A charity run by the wives of the ex-Selangor MB transfers all its funds to prevent the new "opposition" state government getting their hands on it.
Anwar Ibrahim (as the spouse of the opposition leader) is not invited to the opening of Parliament.
Two Israeli members of Chelsea FC will be allowed into Malaysia to play football. A spokesman for the Home Office (?) said "they don't want to get involved in politics" and "they are a good team - everybody wants to see them play". If you are going to ban citizens from a certain country from entering your country then at least treat all of them equally. So Avram Grant & Ben Haim can enter because its a football match i.e. non-political. Do you think that your average Israeli potential tourist has a political agenda? I think not. Also - not everybody likes Chelsea.
"All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others"
Confession - post style copied from Marina Mahathir.
2 comments:
in the comment made by Syed Hamid Albar, when he commented about the chelsea israeli players, he added at the end, "I'm also a fan of chelsea"
hahaha
my take on it: "so? u're a fan? that's why u let the players in, issit??"
There are millions of very smart and intelligent Malaysians out there but somehow we always seem to elect the stupdiest ones into power. The one predominant trait all these geniuses seem to have is their uncanny ability to stick their foot in their mouths evertime they open them. It's like some reflex action. Say and do someting utterly moronic and when the shit hits the fan blame it on the media for misquoting them. Sometimes I'm just so ashamed to be a citizen of this country.
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