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Kassim sets the cat among the canaries, again

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...

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