What’s with the pig head?
Posted: January 16, 2009 Filed under: Society | Tags: Education, University 5 Comments »From Malaysiakini (subscription required):
A Universiti Malaya student was shocked to discover a pig head placed on a PAS flag in a surau located in the Islamic studies academy.
This unprecedented incident comes as students from both the anti-establishment (pro-Mahasiswa) and pro-establishment (pro-Aspirasi) factions gear up for the Jan 19 campus polls.
My father always tells me, to see where our country is headed to, just look at the quality of students we have in our tertiary institutions, and you should have a fair idea of what lies in our nation’s future.
Frankly, being in the golongan belia myself, I’m not seeing a particularly bright picture being painted.
I mean, seriously. A pig head, in a surau no less, and in the Islamic studies academy!
Campaigning for campus polls shouldn’t be this ugly. In fact, NOTHING should be this ugly.
So. What has gone wrong?
Let’s read the Quran
Posted: January 15, 2009 Filed under: Digressions 6 Comments »
I came across this logo just now while visiting Walski’s Asylum. It is a blogger initiative, a month-long campaign to encourage people to read and understand the Quran. A great initiative, methinks.
I’ve always been meaning to read the Quran, but I’ve been having difficulty understanding the context, and the meanings of the texts. With this campaign, which starts today, I’m hoping that I’ll be reading a lot of interesting posts from the bloggers who are participating in this campaign. My hopes are that by Valentine’s Day this year, I’ll know a whole lot more about Islam and the Quran than I do today.
For more information, please do give Walski a visit HERE.
Participating blogs are:
1. 3540 Jalan Sudin
2. Anas Zubedy
3. ARTiculations
4. Being Human in the World
5. Cowboy Malaysia
6. Disquiet
7. Jebat Must Die
8. Lunch at the Lake Club
9. MACVAYSIA
10. myAsylum
11. O.B.E.
12. OutSyed The Box
13. Poetic Justice
14. Rantings by MM
15. Rapera
16. Renovatio
17. Rocky’s Bru
18. Write Away
19. Writing By Amir
A. Asohan: Enough is enough
Posted: January 12, 2009 Filed under: Society | Tags: Gaza, Media, Society 7 Comments »A. Asohan writes on what he thinks about the “war” in Gaza. He starts off with:
OKAY, time for a rant. Don’t expect a well-reasoned argument or a nuanced stance. Don’t even expect coherence or professional wordcraft here. Forget about journalistic objectivity or a professional code of ethics, seeing both sides of the story or walking in another man’s moccasins. I don’t care about the supposed political complexities, cultural sensitivities or historical subtleties.
Not when you start killing innocent people. Especially not when you start killing children.
And he ends with:
This is not an issue about religion, despite how some are painting it. No, neither are these atrocities against the Muslim world, despite what some politicians say. Such beliefs have led to a mess of misconceived statements and intentions, such as boycotting American products or sending in the troops to fight for a regime that doesn’t have an exactly spotless conscience either.
No, this is a humanitarian issue. It’s as simple as this: There is a bunch of people killing children. What is the world community – what are we – going to do about it?
Read the full article HERE, if you will. If you won’t, still read it anyway.
