We continue to argue over this and that term; whether to ban the use of this or that word denoting and connoting spirituality. This can be a futile engagement. We will be trapped in the prison-house of language and truth is embedded in the particularity of language; in the "Babeli-ism" of the tower human beings are incarcerated in.

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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.

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Change is good  -- especially of it means celebrating our diversity, curbing our desire for material wealth, punishing those who have stolen form the masses, and making our systems implement equity, equitibility, equal opportunity, and empathy as philosophical elements of change.

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Azly Rahman

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Must religious dialogue be painful? Must it be greeted with hostility? Or is it a moot question - that the answer lies in the failure of our education system -- decades ago? Controversies such as the once aborted Bar Council proposal for an interfaith dialogue sometime ago, and the PAS-SIS quarrel recently offer us opportunities for dialogue, instead of a threat for a deafening silence.

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Menaksirkan Ketuanan Melayu sebagai 'Malay superiority’ (keunggulan Melayu) sebaliknya agak tidak bermakna, tidak tepat secara asal usul ilmu bahasa dan secara falsafahnya dilihat angkuh. Saya kira kata 'kediktatoran' lebih dekat pada pengertiannya.

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