PETALING JAYA: While Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's state open houses have garnered both positive and negative responses from various segments, academic Prof Dr Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi believes the exercise is a good example of “Muslim brotherhood”.
TWO recent incidents prompted this week’s column: Muar MP Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman being barred from entering a university for a dialogue session with students at the end of last month; and a town hall meeting last week with the Higher Education Minister that reportedly saw students less than impressed by the responses – or rather, non-responses – from the Higher Education people at the political and civil servant levels.
Another potentially explosive issue about tip toeing around Muslim’s cultural understanding of Islam is about to flare up. In this article, as an academic who has knowledge in Islam, in Art and in history of architecture design, I wish to lay the “academic” cards on the table of the issue of Islam and statues.
Kota Kinabalu: Prof Dr Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi, the author of “Resetting Malaysia – Education, Faith and Society,” said he became a PAS member when the public were not allowed to buy, read, write letters and articles to opposition newspapers, if not members.