The Holy Quran
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Proposed Medals to award to
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"Those with talent who naturalise today can easily leave the country of adoption for greener pasture tomorrow; it is what these developed countries do to keep them there that really matters.
Between the hard-working stateless man who has spent much of his life toiling on Malaysian soil and the corrupt politician who continues to squander our national wealth, it does not take a genius to distinguish who is the real patriot." By Josh Hong in Malaysiakini
Hurriedly fulfilling our duties
I got a forwarding e-mail written by the anonymous writer_
I knelt to pray but not for long,
I had too much to do.
I had to hurry and get to work
For bills would soon be due.
So I knelt and said a hurried prayer,
And jumped up off my knees.
My Muslim duty was now done
My soul [...]
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absolute power corrupts absolutely
Truism of the maxim by British historian, Lord Acton –
‘Power tends to corrupt
and absolute power corrupts absolutely’.
Without real and meaningful check-and-balance for such overbearing power,
“Things can go wrong, very quickly, dangerously, catastrophically and on a mega-scale,
when it is corrupted into unbridled arrogance of power”. “I believe that the country [...]
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Twin brothers, Than Shwe and Mugabe
