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Inside Magic Gardens, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, late October 2009SOME OF THE ARTICLES BELOW ACCESSIBLE THROUGH Malaysia-Today Archive
(see MT Column "Republic of Virtue)
The Asri problematique and the rise of denominational Islam?
Thursday, 05 November 2009 kasee
But in all these and applicable to all religions, the question remains: at what point is innovation in religion allowed, acceptable, and tolerated? At what point is the "denominationalization" of Islam acceptable without the religion being demonized by those who think they have understood the Divine presence but actually clutched by the Devil's right hand?
A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE
Azly Rahman
http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ON THE HISTORY OF MALAYSIA’S GIFTED AND TALENTED EDUCATION WITH REFERENCE TO THE MRSM SYSTEM
Saturday, 31 October 2009 kasee
The purpose of creating MARA Junior Science Colleges was clear, to screen the “best and brightest” among Malay children to undergo privileged training in science- and mathematics-based education. The vision was to create intellectual elites able to build the nation which was then in the process of modernizing.
A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE
Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/‘Reading’ the book of signs
Tuesday, 27 October 2009 kasee
Such are regimes of truth we have created out of our political-economic conditions. We must learn to read the meaning of how our learning institutions have produced us, as well as the power structures that produce such regimes of truth.
A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE
Azly Rahmanhttp://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/10/essays-on-malays.htmlMalay matrix awaits its messiah
Thursday, 15 October 2009 St Low
Azly Rahman
http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/10/essays-on-malays.html
How will race-based political parties dissipate through the sands of time, dragged into the abyss by the undercurrent of corruption?
Landslide victory or political immorality?
Tuesday, 13 October 2009 Super Admin
Azly Rahman
http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/10/winner-in-bagan-pinang-negeri-sembilan.html
Isa Samad's second coming - into Minangkabau politics - signifies the coming of a disturbing age of loosening morality. What does a landslide victory mean?
Sawojaya-- the soul of a new bangsa Melayu
Wednesday, 07 October 2009 St Low
Azly Rahman
“History is bunk":
--- Henry Ford, American inventor
What if the Malays undergo a conscious and mandated name-change - from Melayu or Malay to Sawojaya? I believe this is possible as a preamble to a suggestion of a planned evolution of the name “Malay”.
The cultural logic of Najibo-nomics
Friday, 02 October 2009 St Low
Azly Rahman
http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/
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(MT COLUMNS/A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE)
... http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ The current uproar over the arrest of Dr. Asri, former Mufti of Perlis interests me. I am not particularly interested in the political and ideological ...
2. Rise above cow-head politics, help the Malaysian Indians
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... for the power and glory of the few? Sometime ago, I received the following poignant but inspiring email: Dear Dr. Azly, "I convey my heartfelt thanks and highest appreciation for your article "Plea ...
3. Malay Rights for English - Demand a New Deal NOW
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By Dr. Collin Abraham The ‘problem’ of learning English by the Malays may be said to have resulted in a negation of political justice. Apart from members of the ‘ruling class’ ...
4. How to speak about Islam
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5. Seeing beyond those religious debates
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6. 'Ketuanan Melayu' dari pandangan seorang Melayu
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... kira kata 'kediktatoran' lebih dekat pada pengertiannya. A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Dr. Azly Rahmanhttp://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ (Terjemahan daripada bahasa Inggeris oleh Centre for Policy ...
7. Zen and the art of blogging
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8. On Chin Peng's book cover
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9. Press Freedom - Fact, Fiction or Irony?
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... Barry Bearak (USA) and Claudia Duque of Columbia. Many pay the price, some with their lives. Does press freedom exist in Malaysia? Dr. Azly Rahman wrote an excellent article on Death of Malaysian media ...
10. The American-Chinese: An Analysis of Oliver Stone’s Joy Luck Club
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... OF VIRTUE Dr. Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Joy Luck Club is a movie about the plight of three generations of Chinese women. Interwoven with vignettes of flashbacks, this movie ...
11. Public caning for schools?
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... A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Times have changed. In the 1940s and 50s our grandparents send their kids to school with a cane/rotan. ...
12. Malaysia-- After the Battle on Bonkers Hills
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... and ship them via FedEx to Cayman Islands. A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Two Hills were won – Bukit Selambau and Bukit ...
13. Stop fighting, help the Malaysian Indians
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... etc, would ask you to. The wealth that you have acquired is not yours - they are those of the children of the poor and of the orphaned. A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Azly Rahman (dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com) http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ ...
14. New media vs. Totalitarianism
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by Azly Rahman (dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com) http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/03/bahasa-melayu-champions-confused-bahasa.html Any country undergoing cybernetic changes but at the same ...
15. Living in the Reptilian Age we still are
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... word biro. A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Dr Azly Rahman (dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com) We are still living in the Reptilian Age. The Perak Plague and the Madness of Machiavellian politics signify the signs of our times. ...
16. Are the Malay linguistic nationalists betraying our children?
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... how we have built in successes and failures into our school system. A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Dr. Azly Rahman (dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com) http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/Nationalists are nationalists. ...
17. Master the English language, celebrate the beauty of others
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... once said, “… a brotherhood of Man”. Azly Rahman (dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com) http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Although Bahasa Melayu is enshrined in the Constitution as ...
18. Advice to students and educators– revolt against authority!
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... Azly Rahman (dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com) http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ "Everything is good in the hands of the author of Things, everything degenerates in the hands of Man," ...
19. Enhancing Human Capital Through Health
(ARCHIVES/ARCHIVES 2008)
... they could not imprison his will and thought, though not for lack of trying. In this session, my fellow panelist Dr. Azly Rahman will ...
20. Where is freedom -- after the March 2008 Revolution?
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Azly Rahman - dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-speech-at-harvard-university-march.html (Notes for a speech at a Malaysian forum at Harvard University, ...
21. I think, therefore I perish
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... dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Cogito ergo, sum - Rene Descartes Rene Descartes the 17th ...
22. We're all class-ed multiculturalists now!
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... Legislative; as a consequence of the 22-year rule of the previous Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad a hyper-modernized country trapped in the excesses of nationalism and globalization in an age wherein ...
23. Set Raja Petra free – this true defender of Islam and the rights of many
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... Sdr. RPK. I hope your incarceration will be the brief. So too will be of the others. The rakyat feels that the present government will not be the one freeing you. A new one will. Below I reproduce ...
24. The Birth of a New State in Malaysia – Negeri Bloggerjaya
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... Bloggerjaya has won the respect and admiration from other states of the country. Even the former Prime Minister of the Federal Government, Dr. Mahathir, has decided to reconcile with Negeri Bloggerjaya ...
25. September 16: the end of nationalism and tribalism?
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... Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ After 51 years of Merdeka, we still hear fellow Malaysians being called pendatang or immigrants; fellow Malaysians who ...
26. Who is our real Father of Malaysian Independence?
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... Here are my thoughts on this. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2007/09/140-ramadhan-of-our-ramallah.html The French thinker Voltaire once said: "There ...
27. An Open Letter to all DAP Leaders and Members:
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... our nation is to change the mentality of the Malays. This is the ONLY solution! As our most respected Regent of Perak, Dr. Nazrin Shah put it, "The Malay mindset is a crucial factor in our nation's ...
28. A better parliament ahead?
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... brutish, and libidinal Sultan of Melaka is another. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com Our culture of parliamentary debate has the great potential to evolve ...
29. MARA is progress not fascism
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... teachers. Azly Rahman | dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Mara means "to advance (forward)". It is the opposite of "retreat" and the declaration ...
30. Victory speech for all
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The "revolution" - our own Malaysian styled-revolution - that ought to now be studied alongside the nature and structure of revolutions worldwide is not without its causes. Azly Rahman | dr.azly.rahman@gmail. ...
31. Brand new era for Universiti Teknologi MARA?
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... on the beauty of diversity in our public universities. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ We must congratulate the present leadership of Selangor for ...
32. The future of our interfaith dialogue
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... Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Must engaging in dialogue on religion be painful? Must it be greeted with hostility? Or is it a moot question—that ...
33. Again, a plea for our fellow Malaysians
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... the people of Malaysia. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ KUALA LUMPUR (times ofi ndia): About 500 angry ethic-Indians on Monday staged a protest ...
34. What will Permatang Pauh bring us?
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This is my shortest post. I have been writing long long complicated proses :-). I am taking a break. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ ...
35. Malaysia's educational reform: can the yellow states lead the way?
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... looking at the class divisions forming in the process of schooling. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ "To evolve into wiser individuals ...
36. Revisiting The "Tom Yum Effect": The 1997 Southeast Asian Financial Crisis And Distributive Justice
(ARCHIVES/ARCHIVES 2008)
... bubble. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ The collapse of the economies of Southeast Asia, which began with the July 2nd. devaluation of the Thai baht, ...
37. With whom will the army stroll?
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Suharto, Idi Amin, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Somoza, Noriega, and Marcos were are all tyrants. Some fell from grace because of the greed of their women. Typical Marie Antoinette syndrome. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com ...
38. Job Opening at Universiti Untuk Rakyat (UUR): 31st. August 2010
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... equipped to help each other succeed by replacing the concept 'competitive' world with 'collaborative enterprises'. by Dr. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ ...
39. To Malaysian music fans -- is Black Metal a threat to our mental security?
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Dr. Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.co [The incident ...
40. Meditations on a nation asunder
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In this age, we no longer know Who the hunter nor the hunted is By Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ [to be read in solitude] O' enlightened ...
41. A graduation message from Universiti Malaya students? I hope not
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Educate-- not aggravate. What our nation needs is an educational philosophy and system that promotes equity, equality, excellence, and empathy for the children of all races. Dr. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com ...
42. How to radicalise our universities
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... examinations. Dr. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ My parents, like those of many of you readers too, only managed to complete Darjah Tiga/ Standard ...
43. Smart schools vs sick schools
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... in charge of human intelligence and social reproduction. Dr. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ I read this excerpt of a news story ...
44. One nation under God, in sarong protesting
(ARCHIVES/ARCHIVES 2008)
... to work harder than they can handle. Dr. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2008/06/southeast-asian-financial-crisis-of.html "…Profit ...
45. Lim Kit Siang's blog written by a Malay?
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... I will defend your right to dissent. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2008/03/162-brave-new-malaysian-identity.html Dear ...
46. Should I cross over for those millions?
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... for themselves. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ That is a two million ringgit question. MCPX How much does one get for 'crossing ...
47. All Malaysians have special rights
(ARCHIVES/ARCHIVES 2008)
... ideological state apparatuses at their disposal. Dr. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ "Therefore, the rakyat must unite and never raise issues regarding ...
48. You got mail --- but from a "prophet"?
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The author of the e-mails also claimed that Islam that has evolved from 700 year ago is the devilish version of Islam. I am not sure what he/she means by this. Dr. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com ...
49. Johor Malay Congress: Idiotic pride displayed for all to see?
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... younger Malays. Dr. Azly Rahman dr.azly.rahman@gmail.com http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Recently, Johoreans formulated a resolution on ketuanan Melayu. I do not know what this means ...
50. Sedition Act ... or Sedation Act?
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... of education inspired by the keris. Dr. Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Our current interest in talking about sedition is exciting. I think Malaysians, especially avant-garde ...
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1. The Asri problematique and the rise of denominational Islam?
(MT COLUMNS/A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE)
... of Islam acceptable without the religion being demonized by those who think they have understood the Divine presence but actually clutched by the Devil's right hand? A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Azly Rahman ...
2. ON THE HISTORY OF MALAYSIA’S GIFTED AND TALENTED EDUCATION WITH REFERENCE TO THE MRSM SYSTEM
(MT COLUMNS/A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE)
... The vision was to create intellectual elites able to build the nation which was then in the process of modernizing. A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ ON ...
3. ‘Reading’ the book of signs
(MT COLUMNS/A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE)
... that produce such regimes of truth. A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Azly Rahmanhttp://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/10/essays-on-malays.html We are a book of signs. We are also living in a book ...
4. Najib speaks with forked tongue
(MT COLUMNS/GUEST COLUMNISTS)
... idea of Ketuanan Melayu and wariness of the other races? (For more on the BTN, read Dr Azly Rahman's chapter 'On the Problem of Ketuanan Melayu and the Work of the Biro Tata Negara' in the ...
5. Malay matrix awaits its messiah
(MT COLUMNS/A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE)
Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/10/essays-on-malays.html How will race-based political parties dissipate through the sands of time, dragged into the abyss by the undercurrent ...
6. Landslide victory or political immorality?
(MT COLUMNS/A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE)
Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/10/winner-in-bagan-pinang-negeri-sembilan.html Isa Samad's second coming - into Minangkabau politics - signifies the coming of a disturbing ...
7. Sawojaya-- the soul of a new bangsa Melayu
(MT COLUMNS/A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE)
Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2008/09/thesis-on-cyberjaya-part-1.html “History is bunk": --- Henry Ford, ...
8. The cultural logic of Najibo-nomics
(MT COLUMNS/A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE)
Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Fashionable it may seem to credit this or that "economic miracle" episode to this or that country to the name of its leader, economist, ...
9. To ban or not to ban black/death/thrash metal music
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... up on the hill, rolling it back down the hill as a daily toil. Only in our case, the rock being rolled is Death/Black metal music. REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Azly Rahmanhttp://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ ...
10. De-school those suicide bombers!
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/09/michael-moore-returns-capitalism.html It is said that Muslims live and die for Islam, as emphasised by the following supplication read ...
11. Instead of plagiarising, teach critical thinking
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... the intellectual basis of change. Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. - Plato I once taught Thinking Skills, ...
12. Malaysian malls and cultural imperialism
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13. From cow-headed to level-headed education
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/09/take-five-for-rock-guitar-fans-like-me.html How must we re-educate those who protested in such a style against the relocation of a Hindu ...
14. Rise above cow-head politics, help the Malaysian Indians
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15. Dream of a sincere merdeka
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/02/from-daulat-to-derhaka.html Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains - Jean Jacques Rousseau There is a natural aristocracy among ...
16. Merdeka or malapetaka? - A message to the Malaysian youth
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... maintaining power. Politics has lost its noble value. Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com This merdeka, are we celebrating a hidden catastrophe -- a malapetaka? Youth of Malaysia, ...
17. Cow-head politics: Fear not, those who misrepresent Islam
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/08/prophet-muhammad-pbuh-did-not-teach.html In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Compassionate 1. By Al-'Asr (the time). 2. ...
18. Ramadhan, Ramallah, reflections, revolution
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... Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ "...O People, listen to me in earnest, worship Allah, say your five daily prayers (Salah), fast during the month of Ramadhan, and give ...
19. Rethinking the Malay problem
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/08/finally-book-on-multiethnic-malaysia.html "…the scholar is not he who gives the right answers, but he who asks the right ...
20. New book on multiethnic Malaysia
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... Alberto Gomes and Azly Rahman. The editors have collated various perspectives from eminent historians, economists and sociologists such as Khoo Kay Kim, Terence Gomez, Johan Saravanamuttu, Diana Wong, ...
21. Ethnic Studies in our universities- is it colour-blind?
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/08/ws-rendra-last-poem.html ...
22. Multimedia Super Corridor vs. Multicultural Supra Conquistadora
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/08/plight-of-rohingyas.html There is an ongoing and intensifying war between Barisan Nasional and the Pakatan Rakyat. And the country ...
23. In Malaysia, can the Internet be disciplined?
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... of government-produced print media. Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Welcome to cyberspace. Malaysian cyberspace. Think of two cybernetic landscapes – Malaysiakini and Malaysia-Today. ...
24. Malaysian government promises no Internet censorship
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... to leading companies willing to use the MSC Malaysia as their regional hub. 10. Provide an effective one-stop agency - the Multimedia Development Corporation. http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/08/malaysian-government-promises-no_06.html ...
25. Utusan Melayu ... or Ugutan Melayu?
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... from the shackles of feudalism, superstition, and neo-feudalistic and urban-superstitious beliefs. Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ What is the function of a newspaper in a multicultural ...
26. Malay nationalism a historical accident?
(ARCHIVES/ARCHIVES 2009)
... Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ What is a Malay? What is a Malaysian? What is a nationalist? What is a 'nation'? How are we becoming "re-tribalised" in this ...
27. OneMalaysia -- a new meaning
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/08/not-wall-street-rally.html I grew up hearing slogans, as each regime passed power to its successor. In the 1960s it was Bersatu teguh, ...
28. Must we (still) become a bio-tech nation?
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... Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/07/malaysia-no-longer-tanah-melayu.html Sometime ago, at the height of the Abdullah Administration's fascination with bio-technology, ...
29. Malay Rights for English - Demand a New Deal NOW
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... to English,even if it be only in Maths and Science as is presently the case? As succinctly argued by Azly Rahman “Reliving the myth of the lazy native: the PPSMI issue and the denying ...
30. Reliving the myth of the lazy native: the PPSMI issue and the denying of success to the poor
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2008/12/malaysian-education-can-be-fixed.html The refusal to teach Mathematics and Science in English is not just an ideological position but an ...
31. I.S.A. -- The Institutionalization of Senility and Amnesia?
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Melayu mudah lupa (Malays are prone to forgetfulness) ...
32. Malaysia no longer a "Tanah Melayu"
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/07/rest-in-peace-beng-hock.html Today is July 19, 2009, 40 years after the May 13 1969 tragedy. I dedicate these notes to Teo Beng Hock, ...
33. PPSMI Study : Findings wrongly reported?
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/07/ppsmi-please-verify-if-this-is-true.html I would like those who have more information on the PPSMI study findings to verify the claim ...
34. Chaining The Children of the Poor
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... dependent on the government, just as ancient Chinese women with tiny feet were on their men. My friend and fellow commentator Azly Rahman has a more apt and colorful local metaphor; we are condemning ...
35. An independence day monologue
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... have plundered the land since time immemorial. A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Azly Rahman Another Independence day in America. Another year of reflection – for America and myself. Yes, America is an ...
36. PPSMI -- 20 questions on the UPSI study on the teaching of Maths and Science in English
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Below is a Bahasa Melayu version of the UPSI (Universiti Perguruan Sultan Idris) study on the teaching of science and mathematics in English Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/07/ppsmi-20-questions-on-upsi-study-on.html ...
37. English can be a language of Malaysian unity and teach Sejarah and Agama in English
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By Azly Rahman Contrary to many an opinion of Malaysian linguistic nationalists, I do believe that English language can be a powerful force of revolutionary change -- and a language of Malaysian unity ...
38. Relegated to a Pekan Rabu economy?
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... they are and intellectuals they necessarily are not. Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2006/11/93-our-rempitised-education-system.html We are reverting to teaching Maths and Science ...
39. The mantra of meritocracy
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-think-therefore-i-perish.html#comments Do we really understand what ‘meritocracy’ means? Do we know what ‘intelligence’ ...
40. A brief thought on God
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... language and truth is embedded in the particularity of language; in the "Babeli-ism" of the tower human beings are incarcerated in. A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ ...
41. How to speak about Islam
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Of late the debate on who should or should not speak about Islam continues to be an interesting topic especially in Malaysia. A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Dr. Azly Rahmanhttp://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/Non-Muslims ...
42. Radical change and cultural freedom
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... equitibility, equal opportunity, and empathy as philosophical elements of change. A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ “The only permanent thing ...
43. Seeing beyond those religious debates
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... OF VIRTUE Dr. Azly Rahmanhttp://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/06/empire-of-reason-part-1.html Here are my thoughts on what is possible: I have faith that we will one day be ready to appreciate ...
44. 'Ketuanan Melayu' dari pandangan seorang Melayu
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... kira kata 'kediktatoran' lebih dekat pada pengertiannya. A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Dr. Azly Rahmanhttp://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ (Terjemahan daripada bahasa Inggeris oleh Centre for Policy ...
45. Understand Chin Peng, Study Maoism, Marxism
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Azly Rahman Chin Peng and the struggle of the Malaysian Communist Party need to be understood to the fullest extent. It should be a good opportunity for the younger generation to learn what Marxism, Maoism, ...
46. Zen and the art of blogging
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... of falsehood, that we can see the Zen and the art of blogging at play. A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Dr. Azly Rahmanhttp://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ When I was growing up, I wanted to be Grasshopper, ...
47. Was May 13, 1969 a natural occurrence?
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Perhaps it was. That would be the answer to the event that has become embalmed as a semiotic of racial conflict. Perhaps it wasn't planned. ...
48. Azly Rahman on the metaphysics of blogging
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When I was growing up, I wanted to be Grasshopper, the character in David Carradine's TV series Kung Fu. Grasshopper was a child imbued with immense interest in learning about what life means and how ...
49. Preamble to a Penanti proclamation
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Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ Two scores and ten years ago, our forefathers and foremothers brought forth in this kampong the plan for a just republic that never materialised. ...
50. Our real father of independence
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The French thinker Voltaire once said: “There is no history, only fictions of varying degrees of plausibility.” Azly Rahman http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/05/notes-research-strategies.html ...
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