09.29.06

Debunking Multiculturalism and Secularism – A Rejoinder

Posted in Dialog, Social-Cultural Analysis, miniblog at 12:48 pm by Kam Weng

I have been honored to receive two replies to my article “Multiculturalism – How Can it be Wrong?â€? published in the STAR (25/08/2006), which was in fact a response to an an earlier article “Debunking Multiculturalism” written by Md Asham Ahmad from IKIM (STAR 22/08/06).

Due to the constraint of time, I shall presently only give a brief response to a few issues raised by Md Asham Ahmad and Marzuki Mohamad in their responses to my article.

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08.29.06

Multi-Culturalism - How Can it be Wrong?

Posted in Dialog, Social-Cultural Analysis, miniblog at 12:39 am by Kam Weng

These must be worrying times for Malaysian citizens if an official from IKIM, a government think-tank dedicated to the task of disseminating Islam as a tolerant religion, can come out with an article entitled “Debunking Multiculturalism� that appeared in the STAR (22/08/06).

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08.23.06

New Miniblog on Current Events

Posted in miniblog at 9:31 pm by Kam Weng

I am currently busy preparing my talks for a public lecture series for an academic institution in a neighboring country. As such I can begin work on this blog only from Nov 2006. But my site maintenance engineer wants to get this template up before leaving the country.
God willing my existential crisis will be desperate [...]

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