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Aliran Monthly has a digital version!

Here’s a treat for you! Check out the all-new digital version of Aliran Monthly. Aliran is providing the inaugural edition free to all readers in conjunction with the Permatang Pauh by-election. You can experiment and play around with the feature-rich icons inside.
Okay, I am off to Permatang Pauh now!

Meanwhile, Muhammad Firdaus Christopher shares this [...]

What’s at stake in Permatang Pauh

The folks at Aliran have been busy putting together the latest issue of Aliran Monthly in time for the by-election. And it has just been mailed out to subscribers. If you are not a subscriber, what are you waiting for? To subscribe, just click here. Or you can get a copy from leading book-shops [...]

“Religion”, according to Syed Hamid Albar

This is what constitutes “religion”, according to Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar:
“If you are to write on religion, then you are supposed to touch on matters pertaining to:
- questions on rituals,
- adherence to God,
- followers and
- anything related to your divine mission.”
It is interesting that the first thing that comes to his mind when thinking [...]

Sisters in Islam book banned

It’s not just The Herald and Catholic Asian News that has come under the Home Ministry’s scrutiny.
Two books on Islam including one by the respected group Sisters in Islam (SIS) have been banned. The books were banned because they contained “twisted facts on Islam that can undermine the faith of Muslims”, according to a Bernama [...]

Herald under further pressure

The Herald, a Catholic weekly published in Malaysia, is under further pressure from the Home Ministry, which will be scrutinising its forthcoming editorial on the Permatang Pauh by-election. The edition will reach the churches in the peninsula this weekend.
“The editorial is only asking people to pray for a just and fair by-election. Can’t we Christians [...]