COMMENT The three bombs that exploded near the Jalan Duta court car park after Anwar Ibrahim’s Sodomy II verdict was delivered on Monday were the most serious and ominous defilement of our peaceful political culture so far.

The dastardly act was an extension of a growing fascist tendency among the far right in this country. Thankfully no one was killed in the explosions, although a few were injured by the shrapnel and ball bearings in the bombs...