Salbiah Ahmad

M'sian govt, civil society groups can do more in Gaza situation.

If Malaysian forces should ever be involved, it should be for peace.

COMMENT Blitz on Chong Eng raises gender mainstreaming policy, not sedition.

COMMENT A ‘hijab option’ is not the same as ‘Muslim dress code’.

COMMENT Islamic party at its wit's end on move to implement hudud.

COMMENT Islamic revivalism and traditionalism may have led to this.

COMMENT KTM mulling laws against men entering women coaches is not just funny - it offends the philosophy of affirmative action in principle and substance.

COMMENT We should be confident they would do as well as their male colleagues. Any other expectation would operate unfairly over them.

COMMENT Our government thinks like colonisers, that because natives are different therefore the rape of Penan women and children is legitimate.

COMMENT It is the election process which remain the vital instrument to the voter for a representation in the next Dewan Rakyat.

COMMENT The government’s commitment on gender mainstreaming is still hazy, while Indonesia already institutionalised it in the public sector in 2000.

COMMENT Gender analysis and mainstreaming is what decent governments do to enhance the quality of our lives. The notion that it can wait is false.

COMMENT And will the new commissioners step up, or will Suhakam be used suka-suka by the government to dodge accountability?

COMMENT Singapore's online community buzzing over Vincent Cheng's detention.

 

COMMENT There is state complicity in the inhumane treatment of migrant labour, refugees and asylum seekers.

COMMENT This would be the outcome of MP Zulkifli Nordin’s attempt to move an amendment to Article 3 of the federal constitution.

COMMENT Why are some Muslim groups so eager to equate questioning a syariah judgement with insulting Islam?

Contemporary reformers working with Islam and Muslim societies ask themselves: ‘Can there be an integrative approach of ‘Western legal tradition' and the Islamic legal tradition?'

The point to be made here is, too often the ‘plight of Muslim women', has been perceived to be caused by ‘culture, custom, tradition'. And tradition and backwardness is associated with religiosity.

There are guidelines for Muslim nations that want to include the mention of Islam, Syariah or principles of the Syariah in their constituent documents.