Show Notes
In Zaid Ibrahim’s facebook post, he said, “Guided by its Council of Guardians - religious scholars with deep ideological conviction - Iran not only survived but asserted its independence despite decades of war and crippling sanctions from global superpowers.”
In this episode, we explored Nurul Izzah’s brave opinion where it is said that scholars have no influence in Malaysia; only religious bureaucrats. Will Malaysia be able to navigate through the “moderate” and less religious way of expressing freedom in this season where it is said that Malaysia’s halal certification is even more stringent than that of Saudi Arabia, an emblem of Islamic nation?
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As Brazil heads into run-off presidential election, we talked about Brazil election in the sense of conservative rebound. Is there a shift worldwide on people gravitating to reform because of perceived or actual injustice? In the midst of the shift, how do Malaysians perceive the conditional pardon on the former prime minister Najib?
As the nation celebrated 59th independence just more than 1 month ago, we explored the topics concerning Reid Commission, affirmative action that have been around since the founding of the nation. Even more so now when the nation is divided over the former PM's conditional pardon, it is imperative that we visit some of the history in order not to repeat history. Join us for part 2 (final part) in this episode.
As the nation celebrated 59th independence just more than 1 month ago, we explored the topics concerning Reid Commission, affirmative action that have been around since the founding of the nation. Even more so now when the nation is divided over the former PM's conditional pardon, it is imperative that we visit some of the history in order not to repeat history. Join us for part 1 in this episode.
In this episode, we discussed few key questions in our pursuit of rainbow nation: 1. What went wrong with PH? 2. What is the key message from the voters really? 3. What does the future hold for a multicultural Malaysia?
In a pretty recent episode 207 of ‘Keluar Sekejap’ podcast, KJ and Shahril invited an amateur law professor in the studies of MA63 to discuss on the highly specialised and contentious topic of MA63. Following that, Senator Robert Lau has rebutted the factual and constitutional errors.