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Category: Blue Stockings' Circle Politics
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About Anisah
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At times, curiosity provokes readers to find out about this person's personal details. I hate to disappoint, but there are none here beyond the following:
Muslim, woman, voter, polyglot.
My practical heritage is Malaysian, collective memory is Straits Chinese, culture is British, outlook is Commonwealth, views are European, and my religion is Islam. This site contains a mix-bag of entries, including but not limited to politics and political literacy, Islam, spirituality and social justice, books and reviews, and the occasional pictures. If you want to respond to any articles here, do leave a comment, or email me at anisah.sofia@yahoo.com.
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Eid Mubarak
Tuesday, 16 October 2007 7:01 A GMT
Opportunities don't come many times.
Go home.
Whilst memories are still warm.
When waiting is still meaningful.
lexicon
Monday, 10 July 2006 2:40 P GMT
Lexicon
by Anisah Sofia, London Monday, 10 July 2006
To my young nieces and nephews, I hope you're not hoping to read about unicorns when you see the title of this article! It is anything but (!) but sometimes it might as well have been.
article270
Wednesday, 17 May 2006 3:46 P GMT
Facts to get right
By Anisah SofiaLondon, Wednesday 17 May 2006, 15:14 BST
Many Malay Muslims felt angry enough to protest when a group of Muslims and non-Muslims gathered in Penang, Malaysia, to have a forum on rights of non-Muslims in Malaysia as
The future of Muslims and non-Muslims
Thursday, 11 May 2006 3:44 P GMT
The future of Muslims and non-Muslims
By Anisah SofiaLondon, Thursday, 11 May 2006, 15:54 BST
I have met fantastic friends; Muslims who have a binary vision of things (Us versus Them, the two don't mix); Muslims who seek the common values everyone
Goodbye John Kenneth Galbraith
Sunday, 30 April 2006 1:12 P GMT
Goodbye John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908 - 2006
Supporters of The Affluent Society would today celebrate the life and thoughts of John Galbraith. Opponents of government spending as being essential to economic well-being will today celebrate his d
Muslim Reformation
Sunday, 30 April 2006 9:50 A GMT
Muslim ReformationDocumentary by Tariq Ramadan.
I alerted my friend, a Canadian-Scot Muslim about this Channel 4's Dispatches' documentary.
He replied, "Waaaaahhhh!!!! I wanna see it!!!!"
Friends in Britain, or with outside the UK
Islam to a non-Muslim
Sunday, 23 April 2006 2:31 P GMT
Explaining Islam to non-Muslims
By Anisah SofiaLondon, Sunday 23 April 2006, 14:01 BST
One of Malaysia's political party, the All-Malaysia Islam Party, or it's official Malay name, Parti Islam Se-Malaysia, has one main objective, to set up an
We are British Muslims, not Muslims in Britain
Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:38 A GMT
We are British Muslims, not Muslims in Britain
by Anisah SofiaLondon, Tuesday, 17 April 2006, 00:35 BST
I was watching Sarah Montague interview Maajid Nawaz, a Briton who was jailed in Egypt for being a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain. It
Everything has its time
Friday, 31 March 2006 4:08 P GMT
Everything has its time
By Anisah
<city w:st="on">
<place w:st="on">London
, 05:15, Friday, 31 March 2006
Listen
in the wee hours of morning
first light has yet to break
She pleads
Wednesday, 29 March 2006 1:38 P GMT
She pleads
by Anisah
London, Wednesday, 29 March 2006.
She pleads
Men hear, yet her voice is not heard.
She explains
Men see, yet her reasoning is questioned.
She asks
Men respond, yet their replies are evasive.&n
Who am I
Friday, 24 March 2006 1:35 P GMT
Who am I?
Two readers wrote to me, asking to know me, e.g. where I come from, who am I, etc.
My replies to them were self reflections in themselves.
I am Muslim by religion, Malaysian by citizenship, British-European by culture, Straits Chinese b
Saturday observations
Saturday, 18 March 2006 1:35 P GMT
Saturday observations
For lack of a catchier title, it's "Saturday observations".
I straightened my lazy bag of bones, I didn't crawl back under the warm duvet after the pre-dawn prayers. I had a cooked breakfast, yummy! Mush
going home_where to
Friday, 3 March 2006 12:13 P GMT
Going home, but where to?
Almost five years ago, a friend spoke about friends in Malaysia, and he couldn't live elsewhere because he would miss their friendship too much, over and above everything else. I cried, thinking of my friends back hom
to write is to remember
Tuesday, 28 February 2006 8:35 P GMT
To write is to remember
This is the next article, somewhat a soliloquy. I have been reading Huo Da, a Chinese writer from Beijing. I wished I could read Mandarin, but at the moment, I cannot. The English translation is not smooth,
American interests
Friday, 24 February 2006 7:49 P GMT
Promoting (neo-conservative) American Interests
I was searching the internet to do an exhibition on European Muslims, and I chanced upon the Middle East Forum. Having an ever curious mind, I was intrigued when I read the immediate phrase after
pro-Islam protest
Saturday, 11 February 2006 7:17 P GMT
Pro-Islam protest.
I wrote about protests which did injustice to and tarnish the name of Islam previously. Today (Saturday, 11 February 2006), British Muslims protested splendidly, if such a description could be applied to protests. The
horror1
Wednesday, 8 February 2006 7:04 P GMT
Moral policing on religious grounds have arrived in Malaysia - HORROR!
For sometime, some Malaysians, Muslims not excluded have indulged in measuring their neighbours' or politicians' religiousity. Of course, there's no standardisation in the
today's guardian
Wednesday, 8 February 2006 5:18 P GMT
Today's Guardian
I have so much to do and so little time to do them! That hasn't stopped me from blogging. However, it certainly has forced me to learn to write more succinctly. In the midst of all the madness going on around me, s
theatre
Sunday, 5 February 2006 12:29 P GMT
Theatre Mah Ho Huan
Utusan Malaysia in its online edition reported on the King and Queen of Malaysia gracing a theatre performance held at Dewan Sri Pinang in Malaysia. (I love that hall, I used to go the Penang Library which was (still is?) h
two guilts
Saturday, 4 February 2006 3:19 P GMT
Two people, guilty of the same crime - ignorance.
In September of 2005, a Danish paper printed caricatures of the Propeht Muhammad (peace be upon him), including one which depicted him with a turban made out of bombs. Other newspapers have sin
horror
Friday, 20 January 2006 11:59 P GMT
Moral policing on religious grounds have arrived in - HORROR!
For sometime, some Malaysians, Muslims not excluded have indulged in measuring their neighbours' or politicians' religiousity. Of course, there's no standardisation in
stampede
Thursday, 12 January 2006 5:09 P GMT
Al-Fatihah
It is now 17:05 GMT. At 16:55 GMT, 15 minutes ago, the BBC reported that at least 345 pilgrims who had completed the Hajj, i.e. returning from Tawaf al-Wada had died in a stampede at the foot of the bridge of Jamarat. That's t
Mayan
Friday, 6 January 2006 8:02 P GMT
I've just finished my bedtime book, The diary of Ma Yan. Excellent book. Comments will follow. I have two reports to write before February. This is winter depression compounded three-fold! Those comments will have to be
Hereditary
Monday, 5 December 2005 3:45 P GMT
Is hereditary important to rule?
My one word answer: No.
The Guardian News Blog has an entry about Tory leadership contender, David Cameroon. That entry quoted the Times, which reported that Cameroon is the Queen's cousin, twice removed, by w
Sufi and dog
Friday, 25 November 2005 5:37 P GMT
Sufi and dogAs promised, this is a true story of a late sufi, and a late dog. For people who are familiar with the common perception of dogs by Malaysian Muslims and how the latter group treats dogs, be it their neighbours’ pets or strays, I hope
