Category Archives: Free Speech

A Comment on Raja Nazrin’s Speech.

This is a mir­ror of an art­icle pub­lished on malaysianatheists.org. On the 3rd of April, 2012, the News Straits Times pub­lished an art­icle titled “Do not cross the reli­gion bound­ary, says Raja Nazrin” “Don’t lit reli­gious fire as it can burn you up and des­troy the state,” he said when open­ing the State Assembly ses­sion

Support Alexander Aan

Pro­gress­ive Malay­si­ans, the Malay­sian Athe­ists Organ­iz­a­tion is organ­iz­ing a peti­tion to show sup­port of Malay­si­ans for Alex Aan’s free­dom of speech, free­dom of expres­sion, and free­dom of belief. The let­ter will be sent to the Indone­sian Pres­id­ent, the Indone­sian Min­is­ter of Justice and Human Rights, as well as the Indone­sian Embassy in KL. Sign this peti­tion

Wikileaks/Mastercard

Couldn’t get down to blog­ging for the past few days as the mobile broad­band con­nec­tion at my cur­rent medium-term abode is some­how at the very edge of the DiGi bor­der of Internet-land. When I do find myself in such a land, I also find myself sep­ar­ated from the nearest source of elec­tri­city, thus lim­it­ing my

Azwan Ismail Backs Arlene Tan

Fre­quent com­menter MENJ gave the world this cre­at­ive cen­sor­ing of inform­a­tion to make it seem as if Arlene Tan is Mak­cik Haj­jah Sitt al-Wuzara. Well now MENJ and his fel­low mur­der­ous mob. Let’s see your response to this offi­cial state­ment from Azwan Ismail: On Wed­nes­day, 3 August 2011, I received a Face­book mes­sage from Arlene

Lone Voice in a Circle Jerk

The eG8 sum­mit was a strange thing. It was appar­ently a forum for stake­hold­ers in busi­nesses centred upon the Inter­net and civil soci­ety to dis­cuss the future dir­ec­tion of the Inter­net, and to present these views to the lead­ers of the G8. Well, at least that’s what Nic­olas Sarkozy said. So things get a little inter­est­ing

Malaysian Godbots Don’t Understand Free Speech

A group of men in Johor belong­ing to the “Per­gerakan Pas Tan­jung Piai” have decided to take Inter­net but­thurt to dic­tat­orial levels by mak­ing a police report on a Face­book pro­file by the name of “Mak­cik Haj­jah Sitt Al-Wuzara”. Ghazely Ayob, who holds the fancy title “Tim­balan Yang Diper­tua Pas Tan­jung Piai” “vice pres­id­ent” in

Egyptian Women

Firstly, as I have real­ised quite by chance, this news story is best read accom­pan­ied by Beethoven’s Sym­phony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 — Move­ment 1, Poco sos­ten­uto — Vivace. Trust me on this one.