COMMENT They say politics makes for strange bedfellows. It looks like religion also does the same.
Consider thinker Kassim Ahmad’s ties to former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad - on Islamic exegesis, the two are birds of a feather.
This is best understood in the context of Voltaire’s famous criticism of Christian belief and practice at the onset of the Enlightenment in the 18th century - that incantations can kill a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic.
In other words, faith should not be blind and unexamined beliefs are for bovines, not homo-sapiens...