A belated Eid Mubarak! to all Muslims on the ocassion of Eid al-Adha (the Feast of Sacrifice) which fell on last Friday (or Saturday for some Muslim nations). I apologise for not mentioning about this earlier, but I had been busy with the festivities.
As I have written on the topic almost two years ago, things does not seem to have changed much since then.
An expose on the missionary tactics (nothing new to me!) of a certain RBS (Religious Bullshitting System) that believes worshipping a half-naked man-god swinging from a cross will ensure your “salvation”.
Never fails to amuse me. The last bit above, I mean.
My first-born nephew was delivered this morning via Caeseran section at around 2.15 am this morning. He sure is a feisty little fella! It has been a long wait for him to arrive but it sure was worth it. I will be stopping by at the hospital later in the day to see my nephew.
The arrest of former Perlis Mufti, Dr Asri Zainul Abidin by officials of the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) at a private function in a residential area on November 1 brings into question again the intellectual freedom in Malaysia, vis-à-vis Islam.
The excuse given by JAIS that Dr Asri did not have the religious credentials from JAIS to teach Islam runs counter to the spirit of intellectual freedom in the history of Islam. It also gives ammunition to JAIS’s detractors and critics over the years that the Department is nothing more than a tool of a small group of religious scholars who are bent on imposing their views on others. By raiding a religious talk by someone who was once a government Mufti, and who, to say the least, has the necessary academic qualifications to explain Islamic beliefs, JAIS has only shown that it is ill-equipped to take on its critics on an intellectual platform, and has to resort to high-handed tactics.
News report of a Muslim man in the US protecting a Jewish American from a group of radical Christians in the US who beat up the Jewish man and insulted him.