tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94757422012-02-16T07:27:03.821-08:00This blog is intended to be a discourse of reclaiming our culture. It will study the need to re-claim our social, political and economic culture that has been disintegrated, and displaced by the forces of corrupt governments, greedy corporations, money and power corrupt politicians, laisse faire economists, cynical academics, orientalist writers, facists, secular extremists, nationalists, communists, religious fanatics and ultra right-wing conservatives.ney_reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18070272948023939568noreply@blogger.comBlogger821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475742.post-83121288931298949572007-01-06T04:18:00.000-08:002007-01-06T04:22:36.763-08:00

this blog is closing down for good.i will like to thank everyone for your input. heartful thanks to all your compliments. sincerest apologies to anyone whom i have hurt, for that never was and never will be my intention.good luck, god bless.

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" At 7:22 AM, Anonymous said... Thank you for "Maaf zahir dan batin." As a Christian, I appreciate it especially. You speak better on this topic than many Christians.Do you have a comment on the execution of Saddam Hussein, his call for forgiveness and the rejoicing of his enemies? Anything you might say would be interesting, whether pro or con. "The post "Maaf Zahir dan Batin" has generated

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Wishing you that your new year ahead will be better than the one that has passed.LOVE, PEACE & RECYCLE - NEY REED

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A pretty long time ago, I received an email from one Andrew Loh to be invited to write for a local Singaporean online magazine. The first instinctive reaction is suspicion. I wondered if this individual belonged to our army of ultra-paranoid intelligence agents? I prayed he simply come forward and just ask whatever he needs to know if he is one since I am naturally very transparent enough to tell

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The Online Citizen - http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/Original Article URL: http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/news/articles/article42.aspDoes criticism = opposition?By Ney ReedSunday, 10 December, 2006criticism (noun) - serious examination and judgment of something; disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings.critic(noun) - anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something; a

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The Online Citizen - http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/Original Article URL: http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/news/articles/article38.aspHow much bonus/raise does a civil servant need?By Ney ReedWednesday, 6 December, 2006In my latest pilgrimage to my foot reflexologist to nurse my back sore from sitting too long in my less than ergonomically designed civil servant seat, my foot reflexologist passed

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Original Article URL: http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/news/articles/article17.aspThe Online Citizen - http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/Globalization and its impact on Singapore family valuesBy Ney ReedTuesday, 28 November, 2006Organic - adj; Relating to natural way a system works; living nature of living things; not synthetic; constitutional in the structure/make up of something; of which

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Dr. Farish Noor whose real name is Badrol Hisham Ahmad-Noor, is an interesting personality in Malaysia. A little bit on his background.... born on 15th May 1967 in Georgetown, Penang as Research Fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient (Center for Modern Oriental Studies) since February 2003 and is working on the research project: Islamic instruction of Malaysian and Indonesian students in India and

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when i was going through primary school in singapore, i remember there was a private reading club called bookworm club that was promoting reading amongst singaporean kids. it was very effective in reaching out to all kids my age in school and was instrumental in inspiring us to pick up reading at our tender young age. unfortunately there was no such reading club that targeted Singaporeans after

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One of the best definitions of adab i have seen is that by prof seyyed naquib al-attas whereby he defines it generally as discipline of body, mind and soul.This discipline has to be inculcated in a person from his/her birth all through years of growing up till he/she dies. Indeed the learning process is a lot more intensive in his/her earlier years of life. The classroom for learning adab is the

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two thought provoking quotes from Junaid Baghdadi(R.A.) which clearly shows we are our most ignorant guides, worst enemies and greatest harm."know that you are veiled from yourself by yourself" Junaid Baghdadi(R.A.) "i am the most harmful of things to myself" Junaid Baghdadi(R.A.) from Early Islamic Mysticism: sufi, quran, mi'raj, poetic and theological writings:

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Professor Syed Mohammad Naquib Al-Attas excellently lists the below mentioned as three essential qualities for any leader of any Muslim community in his book "the concept of education in islam- a framework for an Islamic philosophy of education"- High Moral standards- High Intellectual standards- High Spiritual standardsIn the traditional Muslim societies, there was more social mechanisms to

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Saddam Hussein has been convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging. This is only for his crimes of killing 148 people in the Shia town of Dujail in 1982. He remains to be tried for his killings of so many other Iraqis. He also remains to be tried for his role in the Iran-Iraq war.However one must remember Saddam was never alone. The current Iraqi government understands

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one of the things that has greatly changed in recent times in humans is the kind of relationships they establish as they grow.today we can see the phenomenon of a person whereby his/her relationships are chiefly family and friends as he/she grows up and subsequently its purely only friends. amongst this group of friends, he/she establishes special relationship/s that substitute the traditional

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Since i am still at the question of integration, one topic that has always bothered me is about SAP CHINESE schools and Madrasahs in Singapore. I went to an English speaking high school in Singapore and had absolutely no problem in interaction though i must say when i reflect I do recall having problems in primary school which was a neighbourhood school. Then when i graduated to predominantly

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intersting posts by uberculturejohordemolish causeway?SJER... An assessment of its outcomesDemolish Causeway?An unexpected call from an unexpected person. The sultan of Johor took everyone by surprise when he remarked that the causeway linking Singapore and Malaysia built by the British be demolished as the building of the Causeway by the British was to deliberately prevent ships from passing

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i must say one of the posts that generated a lot of response has been the post maaf zahir dan batin. I didnt publish all the responses but everyone who responded interesting unanimously echoed the same sentiments... which is how its easy to expect others to seek forgiveness from us and how impossible it is for us to seek forgiveness from others... also in the western cultures, its common to see

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Mankind like never before is grappling with its inability to deal with diversity. Some deal with it through division. We can see today how the coalition with its initial vision to bring democracy to Iraq is quivering on the methods to do it within a country that has strong ethnic diversity. The coalition seems to find solutions in dividing the country along sectarian lines to deal with the

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September 27, 2006 Students Respond to Islamophobia in Canadian UniversitiesThe Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), of which TCSA is a local body, announced the launch of a taskforce on the needs of Muslim students on Monday last week. The taskforce is comprised of ten members who will serve as panelists traveling to various campuses in the province to receive statements from students, staff

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nowadays only in rare occasions do you get well-paid, well-fed journalists in well-resourced, mainstream newspapers writing intelligent articles. instead one has to increasingly turn to independent newspapers like Arthur. below is a very nice article.October 04, 2006The Crucifixion of Adam SmithKarl Marx once said, “I am not a Marxist.” Similarly, if Jesus Christ were alive today (assuming he’s

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What has transformed each one of us living in today's generation to be so much more selfish than our previous generations yesterday?A couple of factors and phenomenon typical to the global system that we live in and the worldview that we all behold today have inherently contributed to our ever growing sense of selfishness.The global commercial and capitalist culture undeniably has only taught us

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unexpected and interesting reaction from anwar ibrahim in response to lee kuan yew's remarks. anwar cites cambridge professor and nobel laureate Amartya Sen who has concluded in his brilliant paper that Lee's definition and understanding of "Asian values" to be inconsistent and obsolete. i had uploaded that paper in this blog a long time ago which is lengthy and wordy but worth reading every word

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Singapore for the last two decades had managed to serve as a hub for ASEAN. The region itself was roaring with high growth Tiger economies then and Singapore supported regional businesses and governments through its positioning of its services in finance, trading, services etc. Foreign investors too were rushing to the region then and were requiring these services which were not yet well

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Dear Orientalists, Seculacrats, Kemalists, Politicians, Neo-Liberals, Journalists, Media, White Supremists, Seperatists, Neo-Cons, Islamophobics....Since Sept 11th 2001, you have had the convience of a greater wealth of arsenal to employ in your rhetoric and exercise to demonize Islam and isloate Muslims. More than ever before you implicitly chose to use the actions and words of an isolated bunch

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the letter penned and signed by thirty eight leading Muslim scholars and leaders of the Muslim world in response to the Pope's remarks made by His Holiness on 12 September 2006 has finally been published by straits times. its a positive sign, yet i will stick by my criticism that it will have published it immediately had only osama written that letter in his own idiosyncratic way.

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i once explained to my best friend, an american white chap, while residing under the same roof during university days, that the significance of ramadan is to seek forgiveness from God and therehence seek His love and that the signficance of Eid-ul-Fitr is to seek forgiveness from everyone else and therehence seek their love. he got so excited and on the day of eid he will wake up earlier than he

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Thirty eight leading Muslim scholars and leaders have signed a joint open letter to the Pope in the spirit of goodwill to respond to the remarks made by His Holiness on 12 September 2006.All the eight schools of thought and jurisprudence in Islam are represented by the signatories. (refer to earlier post)A few weeks have passed and the mainstream media have hardly given any significance to this.

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In Singapore public and social culture, there is an inherent lack of employment of critical mass of professionals trained in those areas such as social scientists( e.g. economists, sociologists, psychologists), public affairs experts (e.g. public finance experts, international relations etc) . Instead the positions of organizations that deal with public or social issues there is a prevalent

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Thirty eight leading Muslim scholars and leaders have signed a joint open letter to the Pope in the spirit of goodwill to respond to the remarks made by His Holiness on 12 September 2006.All the eight schools of thought and jurisprudence in Islam are represented by the signatories, including a woman scholar. The letter is unique in the history of interfaith relations and reflects the positive

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the rhetoric that Islam was spread by sword always intrigued me. can a faith be really spread by sword? if humans have no capacity to rebel at a moment of the sword or later, perhaps then it can be spread by the sword. even if a human succumb to fear at that instance, subsequently over time be it days or months or years or decades later, the human or his offsprings will indeed rebel. humans are

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Below is a narration of a historic event about Junaid Baghdadi, one of the greatest saints of Islam who died in Baghdad in 298 (910)AD, that explains where the inspiration comes for Bush to Osama to the evil joe around us, with us, against us and within us that try take cover under God's will in order to violate God's command.“Once,” said Junaid Baghdadi, “I desired to see Iblis(Satan). I was

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i find it amusing once again to hear the rhetoric of the west. today western governments and some rightwing conservative asian governments are condemning the coup de etat in thailand and criticizing the military for allowing "democratic institutions seem to (be) taken over by military force". instead the truth and reality of situation is the military has kicked out tyranny not democracy. is the

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I came to hear that MUIS, which is the state appointed authority to regulate Muslim affairs in Singapore, had recently at the very eleventh hour, pulled out crucial funding that it had all along promised the organizers of the recent 2006 Internationl Islamic Spirituality Conference in Singapore. I also came to hear from a Malay speaking friend that there were two Malay newspaper reports which

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the international conference on Islamic spirituality held over 2nd and 3rd September has undeniably earned the reputation to be of world class standards. the speakers had presented excellent papers that for the first time in Singapore, as far as my memory can stretch, an Islamic gathering other than having been a great session of exchange, it unprescedentedly yeilded viable and valuable

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If Israel is sincerely true in its claims that it did not target civilian infrastructure such as roads, airports, houses etc delibrately, then it must compensate for the reconstruction of those civilian infrastructure that it destroyed. The mood amongst the western nations is shamefully to purely disarm Hizbullah. What is more critical is the reconstruction of Lebanon. Even if one does not wish

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It was really unpleasant to hear yet again that another group was planning to retaliate against US and UK by carrying out attacks on civilian flights, only to be crippled fortunately in time by British authorities.Bush summarized the event as “This nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom”This notion Bush that he loves freedom has been

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In a multiracial, multi-religious, multi-lingual society such as Singapore, where diversity is pervasive, unity will be its strength and disunity will be its death knell. In such a highly diverse country disunity is worth less than a match but combustible enough to set everything on fire, whereas unity is less eloquent than charming words but supreme enough to propel the country to greater

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Agni Kootthu did it again..... They have come up with a theatre play production "Smegma" that is racially insensitive. MDA has banned it. This play is written and directed by Elangovan and its production manager is Thenmoli. This is not the first time Agni Kootthu and its crew led by Elangovan and Thenmoli have produced racially insensitive plays. A few years ago the infamous Talaq play was the

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Khwaja Moinuddin Chishty (R.A.) is the famous sufi saint of Ajmer, India, and founder of the Chishty sufi order. To really understand a person and who he/she is and why he/she is who he/she is, one needs to simply understand the essence of the person. The essence of this saint is clearly evident in his title GARIB NAWAZ which means the one who shows kindness to the poor. In his lifetime, Khawaja

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Israeli army's delibrate attack on UN observers is below contempt and deserves nothing but condemnation. I really wonder how it is not delibrate as the Israelis claim, since the UN observers are so visibly different in their outlook from civilians or Hezbullah/Hamas fighters. Hence the Israeli army could not have opened fire without knowing exactly what they are firing at unless if they shut

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Governing with values vs governing with interestsA government can either govern its internal and foreign affairs with values or interests. Sadly in today’s world, governments lack values and they instead govern solely with interests. However the pursuit of interests is detrimental because it can go against one’s own values during which they are highly likely to compromise on their values to

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One need not second guess what is the stand of European governments in this Lebanon-Palestine crisis. Its clearly evident that the European nations are benignly supporting Israel. They have so far been clear, loud and explicit in their denounciation of Hezbullah and they are making every efforts to stop Hezbullah. However they have been chewing their words for Israel and showing absolutely no

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STOP THE KILLING OF WOMEN,STOP THE KILLING OF CHILDREN,STOP THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS,STOP ISRAELI AGGRESSIONSINGAPOREANS IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE & LEBANON

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The catastrophic BAM earthquake in Iran a few years ago in 2003, if we still sympathetically remember, had devasted the BAM region. this Masjid Zayed however still remains standing though suffering damages. skeptics will brush it off saying it was built strong. cynics will mock saying that it is just at the most a coincidence and ignorant fools are exaggerating it. indeed there is an undeniable

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a british muslim rapper intends to release an album that castigates the west, honors Osama by likening him to Che Guevara. it will interesting to wait and see what will be the response from the West. will they allow it as freedom of speech since if they dont, they will compromising on their zealous principle.i really hope more muslim artists will come forward with similar efforts as Aki Nawaz

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10 indicators to evaluate basic standards of life of a Muslim communitybeing an economist, my job is to evaluate with measures and indicators. i often pondered a lot as to what will be an optimal(not necessarily the best) list of 10 indicators to evaluate the basic standards of life of any Muslim community in any country across the globewell till now i am still debating within myself... but i

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2nd International Conference on Islamic Spirituality A good departure from the typical conferences held here in Singapore which tirelessly dwell upon contemporary discussions.For the typical contemporary topics, the Muslim audience get to hear what they like to hear and it tends to be largely popular. But contemporary topics tend to be chiefly subjective which can be discussed till eternity

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Wall by Al - Kasaba Theatrei attended the theater performance by Ramallah based Al-Kasaba Theatre called Wall which was more of a traditional story telling session with a folk style. i was surprised to see a large turnout with several public faces. some singaporeans truely do have an interest to see behind the wall, which is created by media and politicians, on the realities of Palestinians.the

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The biggest irony of Bush and Blair's war in iraq to bring freedom to iraqi people and safety to the world has been to bring about the very opposite results.US 'biggest global peace threat' People in European and Muslim countries see US policy in Iraq as a bigger threat to world peace than Iran's nuclear programme, a survey has shown. The survey by the Pew Research Group also found support for US

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A Palestinian theatre production in Arabic and with English subtitles at Singapore Arts Festival 200613th June and 14th June 8 pm.The WallAl – Kasaba Theatre & Cinematheque(The Palestinian Territories)This is story-telling theatre at its gem best: simple, direct and personal.A professional theatre company based in Ramallah, Al Kasaba unfolds the stories of ordinary folks living behind the wall

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finally a pic for my profile

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below are urls & thumbnails for pretty nice photos of mosques/shrines in pakistan taken by umair ghani. in the past, even nicer pics can be taken using colour saturated film and filters though it is a difficult and tedious process.today these photos are extremely a lot easier to do with digital photography though they are not as nice as slide photos. yet even today there are far few photos of the

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Being trained as an economist, I tend to spend time looking at different kinds of data and indicators that reflect the economic conditions of countries. I particularly and naturally often get distracted to pay attention to Muslim countries. However the results are more than often dismal.Much of the Muslim world today lives in dire poverty while much of Muslim world lives in unimaginable wealth.

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New chapter of capitalist narrative — Farish A NoorDr Farish A Noor is a Malaysian political scientist and human rights activist, based at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), BerlinThe issue is not Islam or being Muslim; but rather racial and class discrimination which is not exclusive to Muslims. As long as the poor working class Muslims of Europe do not realise this, and do not try to bridge the

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Burma remains ASEAN’s weakest link— Farish A NoorDr Farish A Noor is a Malaysian political scientist and human rights activist, based at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), BerlinFollowing the nationalisation of the Burmese private sector in the 1960s that led to the so-called “12 economic sectors”, there has emerged a 13th: corruption. It remains unchecked till todaySince early this year the

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Saturday, May 20, 2006VIEW: Soeharto gets away with it — Farish A NoorDr Farish A Noor is a Malaysian political scientist and human rights activist, based at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), BerlinGuided by the best of naïve intentions yet blinded by Soeharto’s own militarist and authoritarian values, he will probably pass his life as yet another casualty and mistake of the 20th century: the

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Why doesn’t Islamic Economics study the more serious questions of allocation and reallocation of resources in Ummah/Muslim societies?I am still struggling to find a consistent definition of I.E. and after having talked/discussed with a number of Islamic economists, I discovered they too don’t quite have an universal definition. Anyway I guess failure by Islamic economists to hold an universal

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this "islamic jeans" is just part of the ever continuing process of contemporary Muslims to Islamicise everything by creating the "Islamic other", purifying it from the "ill" of the conventional alterative and isolating the "Islamic other" from it. a good part of the development of "islamic finance or economics" since the second part of 20th Century, is precisely influenced by the same process of

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Political: What Lee Kuan Yew and Li Peng don't understand about Asia by © Amartya Senexcellent journal article by a world acclaimed development economist, professor amartya sen, who is also a nobel prize winner and currently teaches in cambridge university.What Lee Kuan Yew and Li Peng don't understand about Asiaby © Amartya Sen(in: The New Republic, 14-07-1997 v217 n2-3.)Abstract: A wide-ranging

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Social: How Are Cold Blooded Murderers Nurtured In A Society?A year ago we discovered with horror of how a young girl, Huang Na, had been murdered in Pasir Panjang. Now we again come across another cold blooded murder of a child, Nonoi. The murderes in both murders were closely acquainted or related to the victims enough for the victims to trust them fully.No murderer is born as one. He/she only

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Freedom of Speech or Euro-Pride?It was appalling to see Europeans led by Norway trying to prove stubbornly that insulting that which a religion beholds to be sacred, to be freedom of speech. Civilized they call themselves but the Europeans have once again proven that they can be as bankrupt of ethics and behave despicably as their forefather barbarians.Christian Europe since the age of

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Social: Intolerance, Indifference and ToleranceDuring my undergraduate days, while I was an active student activist in Canada, I pushed myself to explore every opportunity that Canada could give me and that which Singapore will not. Out of this enthusiasm, I was able to spectacularly achieve numerous feats with the grace and mercy of Allah and successes and win lots of praise from people. However

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During my student politics days, when the students got a little tired of rhetoric from different camps, one student came up with an interesting message for all – “No Slogans… Wisdom please”. As I indefinitely hear labels and new labels for Muslims, I wish I can say that to them. The latest slogan or label that is being promoted and championed by politicians, journalists, orientalists, apologists

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Evaluating the Value of SomethingValue of something can be generally defined as its worth. In our daily lives value is one of the recurring phenomenons. Everything, be it tangible or intangible, has a value. Value itself can be monetary or in kind, explicit or implicit, quantitative or qualitative. Value can be constant throughout time or be changing even at one point in time. Value is more than

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While doing some literature research within British Medical Journal I came across this interesting endpiece for one of the research articles. In BMJ, some of the research articles end with an endpiece which is often a quote or something that is submitted to them by someone usually in the medical profession.BMJ 1999;318:1349NOBLE ART – submitted by Aziz Sheikh, clinical research fellow,

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Do Singaporeans have culture? (part I)In the true Singaporean sense of ignorance, one of the least understood phenomenons is culture. Just as how Singaporeans love to simplistically define things, the word culture is also more than often defined so crudely to be something that involves arts, ethnicity etc. Though culture can be defined in many ways, a consistent definition will be as below"What

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I was reading Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto today on the bus. Even though I am anti-Communist, one need not be one or a sympathizer of communists to read that book. Indeed it is well accepted as an academic manuscript which is being used by many disciplines as it contains some relevant and useful theories. One of the Marx’s theories is that when capitalism takes over the society, family

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I was glanzing through UNDP's Human Development Index which ranks countries according to standard of living. As I went through it, I could not help but notice the obvious phenomenon of how developed countries and industrialized countries naturally have a high ranking while developing countries have a relatively lower ranking. This led to me question not the validity but the value of such an index

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Once again US has made a fool of itself with its "evidence". The senate's claims and evidences against British politician Galloway were so lame and prima facie, yet the senate can boldly and arrogantly embark on a foolish campaign to use those invalid evidences to accuse Galloway.What is so interesting is that US has one of the biggest research culture in the field of law in the world, its legal

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I was actually taken in when I read in the local state's times reporter's critique that the movie Kingdom of Heavens was made with a very neutral stance. Hollywood Impartial?I have yet to watch a single Hollywood movie that tries to include the East that can be free from orientalistic notions. Indeed Kingdom of Heavens was just another Hollywood's pathetic attempt to account historical events.I

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Recently the Russel Crowe of Indian cinema, Kamal Hasan, was giving an interview to Vasantham Central. He generally makes two movies per year where one is commercial and the other is art/independent. He invests a lot for the latter and more than often it fails commercially. He simply however never gives up. He believes in making good and different ones and so he keeps spending a lot for which no

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It was upsetting to see Mrs Wee weep at the funeral wake of her husband. Its understandable how distraught and heart broken she must be, since she and Mr Wee had been together for about 7 decades in marriage. Multiply those 7 years with 365 days, multiply that with 24 hours, muliply that with 60 minutes...... Its a looong time... but when the time come, we all have to leave...I saw Mrs Nathan

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An interesting article I came across in Arthur newspaperRevival of Islam: A threat to fear?Thameemul AnsariThe revival of Islam in recent times has been associated only with the growth of extremism by popular media, politicians and certain academics. That has fueled a growing sense of fear against that revival which has been exacerbated by the tragic events of September 11.Though the growth of

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A Muslim is a brother to a Muslim, he neither forsakeshim nor abandons him..." (Bukhari and Muslim)Muslims united against oppression March this Saturday Time and Place : 10:30 am Assemble at Marble Arch, London W1 March From : Marble Arch to Paddington Green Police StationHizb ut-Tahrir Britain will be supporting the biggest Muslim unity anti-terror march Britain has witnessed Belmarsh detainees

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One of the famous words of late President Wee that I like most is " we came here with nothing.... and we will leave with nothing ..." This is such a fundamental reality of life that we fail to grasp. If one conducts a post-mortem of his life, we can see how he came with nothing and he is leaving with nothing. The nothing here implies tangible objects and people. What he leaves with are his

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I read with great dismay about how a condominium management and residents opted to have non-Indian security guards. What really disgusts me is that how openly they can actually demonstrate their prejudice. Perhaps its just a spillover of the racism bottled within the Singapore society.I am a minority by race, language and religion in this country and till today almost everyday I feel I am like a

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After I took a casual glance of my two postings, I realized something. Ooops I am writing about Singapore and I have been critical in my postings, which by this country's attitudes and perceptions, amounts to nothing less than opposition. This is something that is so odd amongst Singaporean government and people that I have seen, which is to equate Criticism to Opposition. Well let me take you

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One of the most accepted theories(which remains to be proven) within Singapore other than that of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, is the theory that Singapore is a meritocratic society. It remains a theory or even less - an assertion because it is yet to be proven. Till its proven empirically or scientifically or by intuition, it is not rational to accept the notion that Singapore is meritocratic.

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Contemporary bloggers may find this old topic, but i am not concerned about it.The proponents of the casino have informed that the commerical benefit of opening two casinos is greater than the ills that can be managed. What i will like to ask is this.... Isnt gambling a vice? Isnt casino an institution of vice? Hence should the arguments for gambling be accepted, they can also be used to justify

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i created this blog out of curiosity and subsequently had forgotten all about it. now that i have been seduced by the appeal of blogs, i am hopeful to write on a regular basis.initially i didnt want to continue to pen a blog simply because i find many blogs being nothing more than a place to exhibit one's private dairy publicly or air their coffeeshop conversations. obviously these people have a

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This blog intended to be a discourse of reclaiming our culture. It will study the need to re-claim our culture that has been disintegrated, and displaced by the forces of corrupt governments, greedy corporations, money and power corrupt politicians, laisse faire economists, cynical academics, orientalist writers, facists, secular extremists, nationalists, communists, religious fanatics and ultra

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