I have just finished watching a critical debate on the title ‘Who needs an Islamic State?’ (YouTube of course!). This debate was organised by IslamChannel, presenting 2 prominent figures of different ideological approach towards the Islamic State issue. The debate can be viewed here. Ahmad Abdel-Wahab, author of the controversial ‘Who needs an Islamic State’ book made a critical note...

A friend of mine, Wan Aimran, wrote a brilliant piece of article entitled ‘Politik Islam hanya untuk orang Islam?’ which can be accessed through this link. As I mentioned in my previous post, there are a few reading materials which I am engaging at the moment, for which each books and articles take quite some time to read and be understood. In the first part of my self-journey ‘Islamic State...

I have been following Malaysia’s political scene closely for almost 3 years now. Whilst there are a great number of individuals in my family whom have strong roots in UMNO, I do not subscribe in the party’s idealism. Race-based politics may be effective in, desperately, uniting the people back then, but it has been historically approved that such idealism would crumble through time as the case with...

I’m going to argue about some idealism, in a simplistic way. On one side we have the libertarian. Fighting for a world of absolute freedom and self-responsibility. Success is reacheable and limitless when there’s no boundary prohibiting it. Human intelligence is given the highest honour. Open market produces competition. A large number of competitors results for better service and high quality products...