When I heard that she was hospitalised due to a stroke, I knew then that there was no way she was going to recover from it. My late grandmother died from a stroke. In any case, I have to admit that this was one of her best ads in recent times.
First of all, I do not read Al Islam magazine (published by Utusan group), on a variety of reasons. Lets just say after a certain “Si Tora-Tora Jadian” took over the editorship of the magazine (and unceremoniously booted out a few years later), I just stopped reading it. The only Islamic magazine that I follow religiously (excuse the pun!) these days is Majalah i, published by Karangkraf.
That being said, I really wonder what the fuss is about, with regard to an article written two months ago by their reporters relating their experience at Catholic churches. I read the republished article at The Nut Graph and frankly, I don’t see anything that the reporter had done that (a) impede Catholics to worship their “god”, and/or (b) cause consternation and anxiety among the Catholic worshippers during their presence at those churches. In fact, I would say that it is a brave example of investigative journalism, although the journalists’ motives towards this end may be suspect. Its not like the Christian missionaries had not done this to Muslims before, albeit with even more sinister motives. The journalists came to the church expecting Muslims to be apostatised and they came back reporting that this was not true. The end.
So again, what is this fuss about?
Twitter FLASH alert from The Malaysian Insider:
FLASH – Police detain 9 Christian students this morning for alleged covert conversion mission in UPM. claims lawyer Annou Xavier.
Seems that the missionaries are up to their tricks again. Why am I not surprised? I’ll refrain from commenting more on the issue for now until I know what is going on.
Oh yeah, the ridiculous PPSMI policy (abbreviation of “Teaching of Science and Mathematics in English”) is finally abolished. The only catch is that it will only be discontinued in 2012….but I guess that is nothing compared to the destruction that this policy could do if it remains in force.
I am overjoyed (and that is probably an understatement) at the news. It doesn’t mean that I will support BN because of this, but finally someone up there got some sense knocked into his head. I have always maintained in the past and until today that to improve one’s command of English, the only way to do so is to encourage reading and a mass overhaul of that dreadful English syllabus that I went through in KBSR and KBSM.
Anyway, to celebrate this momentous occassion, I am off to do the moonwalk. Watch me!
This news from The Korea Herald is quite revealing to me. We are financing rogue states (I hesitate to use the word “terrorism” or anything related) now? The bank in question is not named but if this is true, it certainly does show the lack of security where banking is concerned.
N.K. using Malaysian bank to deal weapons with Myanmar
North Korea sought payment through a bank in Malaysia for its suspected shipment of weapons to Myanmar that is being carried on a freighter tracked by the U.S. Navy, a source said Saturday, according to Yonhap News.
The visit by a U.S. envoy to Malaysia this weekend will focus on ways to cut off the payment transaction for the cargo from the bank in Malaysia to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, the source said.
“Kim will have a hard time collecting his money,” the high-level source said, speaking strictly on condition of anonymity. The source declined to identify the bank due to diplomatic concerns.
Philip Goldberg, the U.S. coordinator for the implementation of a U.N. Security Council resolution that punishes North Korea for its May 25 nuclear test, is scheduled to arrive in Malaysia on Sunday.
The visit comes after the White House said late last month that U.S. President Barack Obama discussed North Korea and financial regulations with Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razakon by phone.
It also comes as North Korea’s Kang Nam freighter is apparently returning home after being tracked by a U.S. Navy destroyer that suspects it is carrying cargo banned under the resolution.
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