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Category: Blue Stockings' Circle Politics
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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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Out with the old, in with the new
Thursday, 5 February 2009 4:04 P GMT
Out with the old, in with the new... Or is it out with the new, in with the old. Many people might simply just give up. People want politics to work for them. Not politicians politicking to warm the seat of governance. Health caution: the follo
An inspiration but potentially not miraculous
Monday, 19 January 2009 5:37 P GMT
An inspiration, but potentially not miraculous.Anisah19 November, 23:05, +8GMTLess than 24 hours away from Barack Obama's inauguration as USA's 44th president, and first black president (to be definitionally correct, non-white, mixed-race), m
American election
Wednesday, 5 November 2008 6:15 A GMT
My admiration for the American people for collectively working towards this. My hope, my prayers are that in my own country, I will live to see the day when proponents of race-based politics are in a minority and we could vote in the best man, or wo
Local Council Elections
Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:09 P GMT
Local Council Elections 4th May 2006
Today, if you are British or a Commonwealth citizen residing in Britain, put on your sandals, it's very warm, 24 Celcius, you don't need to put on an extra layer of a pullover or a winter coat (!), and walk to yo
Long-haul MPs
Friday, 28 April 2006 1:48 P GMT
Long-haul MPs
By Anisah SofiaLondon, 28 April 2006, 14:27 BST
These are some intersting facts. If one is Malaysian, the excitement comes with a twist of irony. What analogy can I use to describe the feeling. Can you remember,
Expletives by Malaysian elected politicians
Monday, 24 April 2006 11:22 P GMT
Expletives by Malaysian elected politicians
By Anisah Sofia London, 25 April 2006, 12:06 BST
In the past, Malaysian MPs have used expletives in English and in Malay in Parliament. They have been told off in and outside Parliament, right
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
We are Malaysians first
Sunday, 16 April 2006 3:18 P GMT
We are Malaysians first, let us live it
By Anisah SofiaLondon, Sunday 16 April 2006
Recently, Malaysia's Culture Minister, Rais Yatim said, each of us is a Malay, Chinese, Indian, or other race first. It is fine if each of wants to think that
Indians to have more children
Saturday, 15 April 2006 1:45 P GMT
Malaysians of Indian ethnicity advised to have more children
Last month, the president of the Malaysian Indian Congress, Samy Vellu, advised Indian parents to have more children so that the percentage of Malaysians of Indian ethnicity do not decrea
DNA database for Malaysians
Tuesday, 11 April 2006 4:59 P GMT
DNA database for Malaysian suggested by one State Scientific Advisor
The Daily Express, a broadsheet based in East Malaysia, with three languages in one edition, Malay, English and Kadazandusun reported that Sabah Science & Technology Advisor, T
British Rigth almost executed a military coup
Friday, 17 March 2006 4:20 P GMT
So, the Right wing in Britain almost executed a military coup to topple a democratically elected Left wing government!
So, the Conservative Party, with their supporters, with private armies running into thousands, with Lord Mountbatten saying &ldquo
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
radical
Thursday, 16 February 2006 3:43 P GMT
Being a radical in British politics
Sir Menzies Campbell said that the Liberal Democrat is a center left party, there is no room for the Lib Dems on the left of Labour. He remembered the person who brought him into the party, and that person i
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
fundamental
Wednesday, 11 January 2006 6:47 P GMT
Christian Fundamentalism
"Hear ye of little faith!" ?
Christian fundamentalism which is antagonistic towards non-Christians, especially this one in U.S.A. is dangerous too.
Today, Abu Hamza al-Masri, rightly goes on trial for cal
free vote
Wednesday, 11 January 2006 4:58 P GMT
Free vote for MPs
Government MPs in Britain will be given a free vote. To Malaysian readers in Malaysia who might not know, the British government is now Labour. Today's breaking news is that the Health Secretary (her equal position in M
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
ASEAN
Wednesday, 14 December 2005 7:55 P GMT
Association for Socio-Economy of Asian Nations
The 11th ASEAN and 1st East Asian Economic summits is taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The BBC report about the latter , "Asian powers reach for new community," can be read h
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
question
Saturday, 29 October 2005 5:06 A GMT
QuestionI read it in the wee hours of GMT, then before it is light, I received an email on the same issue again. Therefore I've decided to blog on this question that began to form in my head whilst I was reading the news for the first time in Malay
Intellectual freedom
Monday, 24 October 2005 7:01 P GMT
A danger to intellectual freedomI read what an expatriate who resides in Malaysia wrote, and was honestly horrified. My response to his views has since been published as a letter to Malaysiakini. You can read it here.
How to repeal a legislation?
Sunday, 9 October 2005 6:54 P GMT
How to repeal a piece of legislation?I found this piece of information, which raises more questions that it answers. However, I do think the answers are beyond me, simply because I don't have it. I doubt this is one of those questions that remain
Freedom of the Executive Revisited
Tuesday, 4 October 2005 4:46 P GMT
Freedom of the Executive Revisited In 1988 it was the executive versus the judiciary. The executive emerged victorious. The judiciary lost; from being the holder of judicial power in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Malaysi
bored
Thursday, 29 September 2005 9:43 P GMT
I was bored, and ...I didn't reach for the paper to read my horoscopes. For the last ten years, yeah I think that's about right, I've treated those columns as more of horrorscopes. I was reading 'Abidin's blog; he had put up his OKCupid Politics!
Yes to the centre left
Monday, 19 September 2005 6:49 P GMT
Yes to the centre leftHelen Clark of New Zealand's Labour Party has been returned to power, albeit with a slander majority. Do read this BBC article here. It's not so much a news report as it is really a forum. I particularly agree with Micky
