Critical Thoughts

I feel at peace whenever I see this….

I wish I was there but I couldn’t make it that night because I was in Johor. Speaking of which, I found this interesting online newspaper/webzine called The Malaysian Insider. Its free from the vicious polemics associated with Malaysia Today, does not have a pro-government bias like NST or The Star and best of all, you do not have to pay to read the full news unlike Malaysiakini. Its going to be my source of news apart from Harakah Daily from now on.

Well, the person in question is no doubt someone who has an intense hatred for Islam and that is not new. However I felt that I should reply to some of the statements he has made about PAS and Islam in general. Here are the replies that I have made in the comments section of his blog post in question.

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I just found out that the current ADUN representative for the Maharani seat in Johor is actually a relative! Or to be accurate, a cousin of my father. Apparently this is his third attempt at gaining the seat for PAS (he had lost on his two previous attempts). No relatives who work as a los angeles probate lawyer, though.

And to think that I never did realised that. I never did think that it would be possible for any member of my family (traditionally aligned with UMNO and thus, Barisan Nasional) to be aligned with PAS, if at all. With the exception of my late grandfather, an uncle and yours truly, no one I know in my extended family had any ties with the premier Islamic party in the country.

Guess PAS and I are more related than I had originally thought.