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Azly Rahman | The ‘baju kurung’ vs ‘baju kurang’ debate Unfortunate. Even sad news. About that poor girl who got sent off because she wore a ‘Malay baju/dress’ on her first day of school, as reported. This is more puzzling than the ‘Allah Controversy’ that I have been writing about. She was not only …

Azly Rahman | How do we explain the free falling of the Malaysian Ringgit and that of the oil prices and try to make sense where Malaysia is heading towards? The 1997 Asian Contagion that made the currencies of South-East Asia collapse, ala the Domino Effect, has visited this region creating the ‘Na …

Azly Rahman | What Umno reps need to talk about As a child growing up in the birthplace of Umno in the 60s, who saw his beloved grandfather a devoted member of this party of the 50s cry like a child in a corner by his radiogram when Abdul Razak Hussein died in the 70s, and one who has studied how th …

Azly Rahman | A brother-sister great debate – Isma vs SIS The current debate between Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) and Sisters In Islam (SIS); the former a masculinist-Islamist-para-jihadist group and the latter a feminist-Islamist study group, seems to present an interesting case-study anal …

Azly Rahman | Let them eat MUET There is so much worry that the Malays are going to be left behind in the new English Language requirements for university entrance – the Malaysian University English Test (MUET). There are so many groups making excuses that the kids from rural areas will be left behi …

Azly Rahman | Is Allah angry with Malaysia Airlines? I don't know. But it is too insensitive for that PAS member to say this, without looking at the complexities of events, cause and effect, consequences, karma, Chaos Theory, interplay between fate and determinism, comparative aspects of right …

Azly Rahman | Must the global khalifah be an Arab? Reading about the terrorising adventures of the ISIS/ISIL and its proclamation of a global jihad for the establishment of an Islamic state, the self-appointment of ‘Khalifah Ibrahim’ by al-Baghdadi, the emergence of Malay-Muslim jihadists, and of th …