One thing I observed, that malaysians (my age mainly) have a stereotypical perception towards most idealism and ideologies. Couple of nights ago, I had a discussion with a good friend of mine, and managed to add more confusion to her... In a good way I hope. let's take few example.
1) Secularism
Common understanding:
An act of separating religion from administration. The greatest evil of all ideologies, this will lead to riddah.
My comment:
University of Bristol decided that providing the prayer room to the muslim students is essential, considering that it is a secular university. None should feel uncomfortable to study there, on his/her religious basis. Every student should be able to practice their religion indiscriminately.
As has been demonstrated above, it was secularism that brought prayer room to the muslim in Bristol...
more to follow
Monday, May 5, 2008
Liberal Market: The Mean to Eradicate Poverty
I am not the most well-versed person when it comes to economy. In fact, I am not even sure when economics shall be used instead of economy.
Recently, I had a discussion with a friend, and after much of thought sharing, I realised that, yes, liberal market is a critical process in eradicating poverty.
Liberal market has been given the bad impression, mainly due to the sensationalisation of globalisation and its negative impact. But not much benefits of globalisation were publicised in laymen and middle class newspaper (of course you get those in The Edge etc).
After much thought and looking at the real world, I realised that we have to promote liberal market, and promote globalisation, because at the end of the day, it will benefit the consumers more than anyone else.
And May 1st will be memorable to me, not only for it is the labour day. It was the day when I embraced the liberal market philosophy.
Recently, I had a discussion with a friend, and after much of thought sharing, I realised that, yes, liberal market is a critical process in eradicating poverty.
Liberal market has been given the bad impression, mainly due to the sensationalisation of globalisation and its negative impact. But not much benefits of globalisation were publicised in laymen and middle class newspaper (of course you get those in The Edge etc).
After much thought and looking at the real world, I realised that we have to promote liberal market, and promote globalisation, because at the end of the day, it will benefit the consumers more than anyone else.
And May 1st will be memorable to me, not only for it is the labour day. It was the day when I embraced the liberal market philosophy.
First Step
Hi, Today I open another blog, so that I can park most of my more political writings here. This is not an attempt to separate politics from Islam etc (before anyone can make any noise). This is just a place to collect my political oriented ideas in one place.
Hope to hear feedback from everyone that ever comes to visit.
Regards
Zaki
Hope to hear feedback from everyone that ever comes to visit.
Regards
Zaki
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