==================================IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALLThe articles are captured from the original writer, MsMarina (with her permission). SambalBelacan is just compiling articles to make easier to find. Any comments received will remain un-respond because it's not mine.Reach her at her very own blog at http://rantingsbymm.blogspot.com Please.==================================Wednesday December...
22 December 2006
08 December 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 08 December 2006
Dear all,This is me, SambalBelacan. Only yesterday I received and read comment from the actual writer of these amazing articles, MsMarinaMahathir. Apparently, she felt a bit inconvenient knowing that I cetak rompak her work. Believe me, I don’t have any intentions except that I don’t want to see these articles end up to be pembungkus nasi lemak or into tong sampah… or disappear from the web.Yesterday...
07 December 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 07 December 2006
==================================IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALLThe articles are captured from the original writer, MsMarina (with her permission). SambalBelacan is just compiling articles to make easier to find. Any comments received will remain un-respond because it's not mine.Reach her at her very own blog at http://rantingsbymm.blogspot.com Please.==================================Wednesday December...
04 December 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 04 December 2006
Friday November 24, 2006Strange mindsetMusings: By MARINA MAHATHIRLOOKING at recent developments, I think there should be a new association registered for the propagation of the shallow and superficial. It should be called, for short, the SS.The SS is open for membership to people who have nothing better to do with their lives than look for monsters under their beds, enemies in their blankets or crosses...
13 November 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 13 November 2006
Wednesday November 8, 2006Outrageous eventsMusings by MARINA MAHATHIRIT’S NOT the first time that I’m feeling that life in this country is surreal but certainly these past few weeks have scored higher than usual on the “is-this-really-my-country” register.First we get reams of news about people who have quite blatantly abused their power. A humongous house built illegally with heaven knows whose money....
30 October 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 30 October 2006
Wednesday October 18, 2006Learning from differencesMusings by MARINA MAHATHIRSOMETIMES we just don’t know when we’ve got something good going. There I was at the Women’s Forum in Deauville, France, with some 800 of the most dynamic women in the world listening to a man talk about the need for diversity in the workplace and in our lives.Carlos Ghosn is the President and CEO of Renault in France, as...
11 October 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 11 October 2006
Wednesday October 4, 2006Time for reflectionMUSINGS by MARINA MAHATHIRMY daughter ShaSha was in tears the other morning. She had intended to fast for half the day but while getting dressed for school, had forgotten and had eaten some cereal. So mortified was she that she refused to go to school. I had to spend a lot of time persuading her that she had done no wrong and that she could still fast if...
25 September 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 25 September 2006
Wednesday September 20, 2006It’s only politeMusings: By MARINA MAHATHIRWHEN I was about five years old, my dad spanked me for sticking my tongue out at our gardener, Pak Hashim. In our house, along with telling lies, this was a major sin. My nanny used to tell me that God would cut my tongue if I stuck it out, especially to older people.Respect for older people was the credo of our family. We children...
11 September 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 11 September 2006
Wednesday September 6, 2006Restrictions on womenMusings by MARINA MAHATHIRIN 1993, I had one of the most profound experiences of my life. I went on the umrah (lesser pilgrimage) to Mecca and Medinah, Islam’s holiest cities, an experience that left me with two distinct impressions.Firstly, there was no difference in what was required of men and women to perform the umrah. And secondly, that some of...
28 August 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 28 August 2006
Thursday August 24, 2006The way we wereMUSINGSBy MARINA MAHATHIRONCE in a while, and getting more often these days, I get into a state of mind where I start thinking of where else in the world I might want to live. It’s been surprisingly hard to think of anywhere that would really suit me. I thought Bali would be nice but hard as it may be to believe, I think I would tire of lying around in a sarong...
14 August 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 14 August 2006
Wednesday August 9, 2006Limitations on speechMusings: By MARINA MAHATHIRI MUST say that I am at a loss as to what to write about this time. My head is full of things but no ideas come for this column.For the past 17 years or so, I have written about all the things that I care about; women’s rights, children and young people’s rights, censorship, HIV/AIDS, politics and politicians and more recently,...
31 July 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 31 July 2006
Wednesday July 26, 2006Shift in focus neededMUSINGS by MARINA MAHATHIRI RECENTLY visited my favourite museum in Istanbul. The Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia) was built in 537 AD as the most magnificent of churches by Emperor Justinian, filled with beautiful mosaics of Christian saints. When the Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, the church was converted into a mosque.At first the Turks preserved the...
17 July 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 17 July 2006
Wednesday July 12, 2006Double standardsMUSINGS by MARINA MAHATHIRSOMETIMES I think some people are right when saying that Malaysians are easily confused. We perpetually contradict ourselves without even being aware of it.One of the concepts we are almost always confused about is the concept of freedom of speech. There are some people who don’t believe that anyone should have any freedom of speech...
03 July 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 03 July 2006
Wednesday June 28, 2006True meaning of pluralismBy MARINA MAHATHIRIf there’s one thing that can be said about globalisation, it’s that sometimes you wonder where you are. You look out your window, whether you’re in KL, New York or Manila and you see McDonald’s and for a minute there, you’re not sure what country you’re in. I was just reading about my fellow women writers around the world and came...
19 June 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 19 June 2006
Wednesday June 14, 2006The truth is outMusings by MARINA MAHATHIRWONDER of wonders, a study that actually publicly says some tough things! I’m referring to the results of the 2001 International Medical University survey of 4,500 Malaysian adolescents that was featured in the Sunday Star. You have to forgive my wonderment; I am just so used to surveys that either sidestep the issues, declare that...
31 May 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 31 May 2006
Wednesday May 31, 2006Fact or fiction?MUSINGS BY MARINA MAHATHIRAMIDST the endless chatter about The Da Vinci Code recently, a British survey revealed that almost half of the people who had read it thought it was likely to be true. Considering that the book is billed as fiction, how can this be? Perhaps we cannot blame these people. These days it is so hard to tell fact from fiction that anyone would...
22 May 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 22 May 2006
Wednesday May 17, 2006HIV on the riseMUSINGSBy MARINA MAHATHIRROHANI is a 17-year-old girl whom anyone would mistake for being only 14. At age 12, her stepfather started to rape her. When she was 14, he died. Soon after, her mother also died, like her husband, of AIDS. Rohani got tested and was found to be HIV-positive. Sent to live with her grandmother, she found her way to the hospital where she...
15 May 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 15 May 2006
Wednesday May 3, 2006The followersMUSINGSBy MARINA MAHATHIRA FRIEND was relating how after her daughter had read the Da Vinci Code, she had wanted to read the Bible. Which is not in itself a bad thing except that she was concerned that an impressionable young mind would not be able to differentiate fact from fiction. Also it seemed that perhaps what was needed is a Da Vinci Code-type book for Muslims...
24 April 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 24 April 2006
Wednesday April 19, 2006Show of affectionMUSINGSBY MARINA MAHATHIRJUST when I thought there was hope, it all gets dashed again. Not too long ago, I happened to witness a young Malay CEO of a public-listed company kiss his wife goodbye as they parted ways after lunch. I thought, how sweet, a man who is not embarrassed to show that he loves his wife. Soon after that, I was on the train from the airport...
31 March 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 31 March 2006
Wednesday March 22, 2006A first for womenBy MARINA MAHATHIRSometimes history is made without us even realising it. There we stood, my two sisters Hanis, Nori and I, to make a case for why justice for Muslim women in this country needs to be of paramount concern to everyone. With trembling hands, we read from letters which women (and one man) had written asking for help, for information, to protest....
17 March 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 17 March 2006
Friday March 10, 2006No cheer for Muslim womenMUSINGS by MARINA MAHATHIRIN 1948, one of humankind’s most despicable ideas, apartheid, was made into law in South Africa where racial discrimination was institutionalised. Race laws touched every aspect of social life, including a prohibition of marriage between non-whites and whites, and the sanctioning of “white-only” jobs. Although there were 19 million...
01 March 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 01 March 2006
Wednesday February 22, 2006Khatami speaksBy MARINA MAHATHIRIn the 1970s when Ayatollah Khomeini came into power in Iran, the world was presented with a vision of Islam that was dour and uncompromising. The Ayatollah never smiled, at least not in the media, his dull robes gave the impression that Islam disapproved of colour. Iranian women suddenly covered themselves in black from head to foot, and...
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