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	<title>Poetic Justice</title>
	
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		<title>Interplay between Article 10 and State’s Right to Restrict Speech &amp; Expression</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 05:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 09.04.2013, the Federal court agreed to hear arguments on a State&#8217;s right to restrict freedom of expression in Malaysia. Here&#8217;s a podcast of yours truly speaking on the issue with BFM. From 17:28 onwards.<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>The State of Adoption in Malaysia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early this month, The Star reported that the police had successfully busted a baby-trafficking syndicate and rescued 32 children from their adoptive parents. These babies were sold to these adoptive parents, mostly childless couples, together with original birth certs for between RM18,000 and RM30,000. The situation has left 32 children in the care of welfare [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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		<title>Blogging – How Far Is Too Far?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alvin and Vivian are local vloggers open about what they are partial to and they have been demonized in the media for their lifestyle. Have they gone too far beyond the pale of public sensibilities with their video logs? The authorities think so and purportedly seem set to charge the vloggers. Here&#8217;s a podcast of [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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		<title>What happens to Religion When a Marriage Breaks Down?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Malaysia, the legal position is that Muslim men can marry non-Muslim women who are considered to a Kitabbiyah whereas Muslim women have no equivalent right. Is such a position Constitutionally appropriate? And what happens when an &#8216;inter-faith&#8217; marriage falls apart? What happens to their children? Walk this way and listen to BFM&#8217;s Caroline Oh and Ezra [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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		<title>What’s In a Name?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can the National Registration Department legitimately restrict a Muslim parent from giving an illegitimate child a name they choose?<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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		<title>Not So Perkasa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[APRIL 2 — Perkasa is an interesting NGO. Their raison d’être appears to be predicated on the following: the right of Bumiputeras to own 67 per cent the nation’s economic wealth because they form the majority; the ISA as being integral to 1 Malaysia; the word Allah is exclusive to Muslims. We must salute Perkasa [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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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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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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		<title>Courting Trouble</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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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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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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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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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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		<title>Free Speech in Malaysia : Speakers Cornered</title>
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		<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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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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>
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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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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		<title>Things in Common</title>
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		<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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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