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	<title>Poetic Justice</title>
	
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	<description>[n] The rewarding of virtue and the punishment of vice, often in an especially appropriate or ironic manner.</description>
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		<title>When Life Mirrors Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FEB 16 &#8211; Oscar Wilde once wrote in The Decay of Lying that, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” What he meant by that was that art is the reality and life a mere mirror. As it strange as it may sound, the evidence appears to bear Wilde’s aphorism out.
Consider this for [...]


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		<title>When Bells Peal and Muezzins Call</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OCT 21 — When a Malay wedding is over in some kampungs in Malacca, the custom is to welcome the groom into the family by placing charcoal on his face, thereby marking the conclusion of the groom’s journey. He is now part of the family and no more boundaries exists between the groom and the [...]


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		<title>Reforming Race: A Matter of Forms?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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AUG 28 — It has been more than 50 years since our independence. Yet, today, we are still apparently debating how race fits (or doesn’t fit) in with our nation.
In our pre-independence days, the notion of race was probably somewhat irrelevant. We found a common enemy in the British or even the Japanese. Race then [...]


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		<title>Courting Trouble</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUG 7 — Much has been said and written about last Saturday’s Gabungan Mansuhkan ISA (“GMI”) rally.
Most notably, the discussions centred on the question of whether traders along Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman in Kuala Lumpur are entitled to file a suit and seek damages against the demonstrators for losses they supposedly sustained on the day [...]


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		<title>LRTQ2: Fasting in the Quran</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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One of my favourite  stories in the Sandman series written by Neil Gaiman was Ramadan. It was illustrated and lettered in the Arabic tradition and was a masterpiece for a story written in that genre with classic lines such as:
&#8220;There were paths through the palace that none but Haroun Al Raschid knew; and this was [...]


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		<title>Let’s Read the Quran (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Peace! Good news, we are bringing back the Let&#8217;s Read the Quran Campaign this Bulan Puasa.
Campaign name: Let&#8217;s Read The Quran (2)
Logo/icon: As above.
During the first campaign (January 14 &#8211; February 14 2009) there were four friends Syed, Walski, Marina and Anas who got together in the campaign and about 50 blogs participated helping us reach [...]


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		<title>Free Speech in Malaysia : Speakers Cornered</title>
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		<comments>http://nizambashir.com/?p=720#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freedom of speech and expression, commonly known as free speech, is one of the cornerstones of a functioning democratic state. This is because, as Justice Louis Brandeis put it in Whitney v California, the “&#8230; freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread [...]


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		<title>The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Baudelaire once said that the greatest trick that the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist. Well, he said that but the saying probably remained out of the limelight until Verbal Kint popularised it in the cult hit The Usual Suspects.
Not that it matters either way. They were both wrong. [...]


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		<title>Things in Common</title>
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		<comments>http://nizambashir.com/?p=710#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
A couple of years back, I, somehow, pointed out in another website that Syariah legislation (in Malacca at least) explicitly recognizes the acceptance of huqm/principles from the following mazhabs Syafie, Hanafi, Maliki, Hambali and Syiah (albeit restricted to Zaidiyyah and Jaafariyyah). In other words, Syiah Muslims are not banned from professing their belief in any [...]


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		<title>The Revolutionaries of Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran sometimes seems like a nation in a perpetual state of revolution. In the early 20th century, between 1905 to 1911, there was the Constitutional Revolution which gave birth to a Constitution with constitutional rights for the people of Iran, the creation of a parliamentary system and a constitutional monarchy.
In 1963, the nation witnessed the White [...]


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		<title>The Divine and the Secular</title>
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		<comments>http://nizambashir.com/?p=696#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems there are many ways this debate can manifest itself. Here is a new one:
MUI may decide that swine is halal or haram, but as far as a vaccine is concerned, the institution which has the right and competence to assess its substance is the health ministry.
See here to read more about it.


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		<title>A State of Transition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in Jakarta, Indonesia last week to attend a forum on Civil Society in Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The forum was made particularly interesting, I thought, by the presence and participation of a number of Israelis.
Some were journalists, some were members of civil society and one was even running for a seat on [...]


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		<title>The Rules of the Game in Perak?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 04:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
Khairy Jamaluddin is a man with an immense belief in himself, best reflected perhaps by the opening lines of his response to the recent Malaysian Insider editorial titled &#8220;Najib and Khairy’s unconvincing Perak script&#8220;. Nevertheless, the problem with self-belief is that, at times &#8211; at times mind you &#8211; it can also be an Achilles heel [...]


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		<title>Nizar vs Zambry : Can A Declaratory Order Be Stayed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I intended to write a post on this but a fellow member of the Bar, Art Harun, has written a far better piece and posted it up on his blog. So, instead of reinventing the wheel, allow me to direct my esteemed readers to:

Perak Ramblings
What are you staying?
What are you staying part 2?

For those who [...]


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		<title>Dari Ipoh ke Brickfields</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 05:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The job of being a Prime Minister is an unenviable task. There is on the one hand the need to forge a national identity, which by itself can be rather challenging even if one attempts this in one&#8217;s own house. On the other, there is also for example the need to ensure that security and [...]


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