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ISA poll: Let’s have another go…

Aug 122009

The ISA poll on the KDN website has shown some wildly fluctuating results.

From 90 per cent of some 14,000 respondents who want the ISA abolished on 10 August, it has now plunged to just 49 per cent of over 17,000 respondents today! Amazing…

(P.S. The poll on the KDN website was removed less than 24 hours after this posting.)

So let’s try another poll here to see what we get. (The earlier poll on this blog showed that 91 per cent wanted the ISA repealed.)

What should be done with the ISA?

Abolish it (95%, 1,758 Votes)
Review it and let it continue (5%, 87 Votes)
Not sure (0%, 4 Votes)

Total Voters: 1,847

Officers raid Suara Keadilan printing firm

Democracy, Media 11 Responses »

Apr 032009

The Najib administration has not got off to a bright, democratic start.

Just 90 minutes after Najib was sworn in as the PM, KDN officers raided the firm that prints the PKR newspaper, Suara Keadilan, its editor Zunar told me.

Govt lifts ban on Herald’s Malay supplement, but…

Christianity, Ethnic and inter-religious relations, Human rights, Media 13 Responses »

Jan 082009

The government has reversed its short-lived ban on the Herald’s Malay language supplement – but the weekly Catholic tabloid will still not be able to use the term “Allah” pending a court decision on the matter.

The decision was verbally conveyed by the Home Ministry to the Catholic Church today and a letter is expected to reach the Church tomorrow.

But three other conditions are likely to remain:

a ban on the use of three other terms that are also used in Islam;
a ban on the sale of the paper outside church premises (which is unnecessary as the paper is only sold or distributed in churches across the country); and
a requirement that the front page should indicate that the paper is for non-Muslims only (which is again redundant as the paper is sold only in churches, and the masthead already indicates that it is a Catholic weekly.