By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar /Countercurrents.org Widening income inequality is a major obstacle to the unity and solidarity that 1Malaysia envisions.

Categories: Malaysia  Market Economy  Lifestyle  Economic Disparities  

Added: August 09, 2010

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By LIZ GOOCH / NY Times Some political commentators say the show's popularity reflects the increasing Islamization of this Muslim-majority nation of 28 million.

Categories: Malaysia  Islam  The Ulema  al-Qur'an  Reality TV  

Added: July 29, 2010

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By Philip Lim /AFP Aimed at "cosmopolitan Muslim women" in Asia, a new magazine is focusing on readers' lifestyles rather than religion

Categories: Gender  Lifestyle  Media  Malaysia  Indonesia  Modernity  

Added: June 28, 2010

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By Wajahat Ali / altmuslim.com Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is on trial in Kuala Lumpur on sodomy charges for a second time, speaks to Wajahat Ali about the controversy and discusses the country's ethnic and religious conflicts and issues facing the Muslim world.

Categories: Interview  Malaysia  The Muslim World  Politics  The West  

Added: March 11, 2010

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By Yoginder Sikand /Countercurrents.org In this interview with Yoginder Sikand, he talks about the ongoing controversy in Malaysia in the wake of a recent court ruling permitting the country's Christians (and other non-Muslims) to use the term ‘Allah', which many Malaysian Muslims fiercely oppose.

Categories: Allah SWT  Interview  Malaysia  Muslim Cristian Dialogue  

Added: February 23, 2010

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By Asghar Ali Engineer / Institute of Islamic Studies, Mumbai Anyone who learns Arabic and talks about God will have to use word Allah. All Christian Arabs freely use word Allah in countries like Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon etc. No one objects to use of the word Allah. At least I do not know whether any Muslim Arab ever objected to such use.

Categories: Malaysia  Islam  Minorities  Moderate Muslims  Discrimination  Allah SWT  

Added: January 16, 2010

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By Farish A. Noor Today Muslim women pose and are posing a challenge to the way in which all Muslims view their lives and conduct their religiosity in the public domain. It goes without saying that this process of change was initiated by forces outside our control, and driven as much by the workings of capital and the market as it is part of the historical development of many postcolonial Muslim societies all across Asia and beyond.

Categories: Islam  Modernity  Gender Equality  Civilizations  Malaysia  

Added: November 26, 2009

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By Farish A. Noor The developed countries of the world are once again on the lookout for ‘moderate Muslim leaders' to court and cajole. Straight off the bat Malaysia and Indonesia come to mind as the two prime candidates for the top slot of ‘most moderate' Muslim state in Asia. (While the governments of Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore et al must be cursing their luck for not having enough Muslims to make the rankings....)

Categories: Indonesia  Malaysia  The West  Moderate  

Added: November 04, 2009

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By Yoginder Sikand Anwar's writings about Islam revolve around numerous themes, three of which this article looks at: the notion of religious authority in Islam; the desirability of the state legislating morality, and the associated issue of the ‘Islamic state'

Categories: Faith  Gender  Islam / Economics  Justice  Malaysia  Islamic State  

Added: August 30, 2009

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By Yoginder Sikand /Countercurrents.org Ahmad argues that the basis of gender equality is contained in the Quran itself. The Quran, she says, treats men and women ‘in exactly the same way'.

Categories: Book Review  Gender Equality  Ijtihad  Islam  Islam/ Family  Malaysia  

Added: August 19, 2009

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