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      COMMENT | With bans and shutdowns, best to stare at a brick wall
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      COMMENT | With bans and shutdowns, best to stare at a brick wall

      COMMENT | With bans and shutdowns, best to stare at a brick wall

      Martin VengadesanPublished: Jul 31, 2022 4:31 AM

      COMMENT | The other day I went to look at a wall. Indeed, I paid good money for the privilege of staring at nothing for one and a half hours.

      The one and a half hours is roughly the duration of time I might have spent at a comedy club, indie rock gig, cultural event or cinema hall.

      Needless to say, such options have been increasingly clamped down upon as your beloved Ismail Sabri Yaakob regime moves with aplomb to crack down on comedy, toughen up on Thor and raze rock venues.

      The fact that the backward Taliban lovers of PAS are part of this coterie is doubtless an accelerating factor, but we are clearly paying the price of allowing the corrupt, racist and stupid to set the pace and tone for this country’s future development. Or lack thereof.

      If it sounds like I am being melodramatic, just take a close look around you. The great Malaysian diversity of voice is being killed off on so many fronts in so many ways.

      When I was a kid living in...

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      COMMENT | Never been to Bon Odori, I had to go this time

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      'The alternative is listening like some automaton to a charlatan telling you he knows exactly what the afterlife is like and asking for money and membership for his cult.' The key word is here is CULT. The lebais are converting a beautiful religion into a cult by their actions and demands. A religion should give an individual the freedom to practice it as they understand it and not be dictated upon to be followed in a certain way as some one wants. That is cult practice,

      Carol04:52 AM, 31 Jul 2022

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      'The alternative is listening like some automaton to a charlatan telling you he knows exactly what the afterlife is like and asking for money and membership for his cult.' The key word is here is CULT. The lebais are converting a beautiful religion into a cult by their actions and demands. A religion should give an individual the freedom to practice it as they understand it and not be dictated upon to be followed in a certain way as some one wants. That is cult practice,

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