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# je suis tudung wearers

‘DAP MP says tudung ban “discriminatory”, offers legal help for court challenge’, according to a Malay Mail report today, referring to a statement by DAP deputy chairman Gobind Singh Deo.

Some hotels don’t want tudung-wearing women to be manning their front desk. DAP is crying foul.

Naturally the DAP would find such a ruling objectionable as the party’s own non-Muslim women leaders often wear tudung voluntarily. It’s called leadership by example. Continue reading “# je suis tudung wearers”

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Mana kompang?

Semalam “Duta Tuhan” Her Excellency Hannah Yeoh pergi balai polis diiringi satu rombongan besar.

Akan tetapi para pengapitnya yang begitu ramai itu terlepas pandang dan lupa pula nak bawa bunga manggar sekali.

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Wannabe club members who give me the creeps

On Friday I wrote about the narrator of a homemade YouTube clip who’d accused the prime minister of hypocrisy, and pronouncing his name “Dar-took Sri Najeeeb Rey-zeck”.

The video was uploaded by a Ms Betty Sung. Its voiceover, which sounds like a Chinese employing a Mat Salleh Celup accent (“Moss-lemz”), rolled the PM’s name in a very creepy way — quite hair-raising to ears attuned to our loghat tempatan.

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Convent Bkt Nanas: Kristian First atau M’sian First?

Bersambung daripada posting awal ‘Convent Bkt Nanas bantah pengetua kerana Melayu, Muslim?

The Malaysian Insider hari ini menyiarkan sepucuk Surat Terbuka kepada Menteri Pelajaran Muhyiddin Yassin.

Pengarangnya Dr W. Vinita Perera menuntut supaya Jabatan Pelajaran Wilayah Persekutuan memohon maaf secara rasmi kepada SMK Convent Bukit Nanas atas perkembangan yang tidak diredhai, yakni pelantikan Zavirah Mohd Shaari sebagai pengetua.

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Convent Bkt Nanas bantah pengetua kerana Melayu, Muslim?

Antara hujah yang paling digemari kelompok Firsters ialah bagaimana sekolah-sekolah mubaligh (Convent, LaSalle, Methodist dsb) telah mendidik tokoh-tokoh Melayu kita.

Najib Razak, misalnya, belajar di SMK St John manakala Rafidah Aziz di SMK Convent Bukit Nanas.

Firsters juga suka mendabik dada mengatakan budak Melayu yang menuntut di sekolah mubaligh tidak dimurtadkan malah tetap Muslim yang tidak pernah terluntur iman.

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