ABIM calls for standard apostasy ruling

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The case involving Tan Ean Huang was actually clear cut, but it dragged for months. The lady did everything opposite to Islam, her husband who is muslim did not help her out and actually disappeared. She converted out of need to get marriage, not for love of religion. Yet, she had to attend counseling, of which she only attended once. I guess they couldn’t get to her. She was steadfast and managed to escape from the religion. It would have been a mockery if the court decided otherwise. » Read more: ABIM calls for standard apostasy ruling

Dr S Subra says leaders must think multiracial

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He talks about the same things that MCA, Gerakan, and many others have said. Well, better late than never 🙂 We can see the trend now where the leaders say they already know about the discontent/unhappiness of the community. But all the while since November 25 last year, the opposite was mentioned – “community is happy”, etc. Now all change tune 🙂 that’s politics and politicians for you! I bet they did not even began to comprehend the magnitude of their impending losses, but now have to pretend as if they knew it all along to hide their incompetence. » Read more: Dr S Subra says leaders must think multiracial

nearly 12 percent normal malaysians in MRSM

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3094/26251 =  11.79%, which is more than the allocated 1% places in MRSM. A better reporting would be breakdown in terms of (i) normal/privileged Malaysians and their grade levels; (ii) races and their grade levels; (iii) gender and their grade levels.

A total of 3,094 non-bumiputera students are studying at 40 Mara Junior Science (MRSM) colleges throughout the country, Entrepreneur & Co-operative Development Minister Datuk Noh Omar said. He said MRSM colleges reserved 10% of their places for qualified non-bumiputera youths.

“For this year, we received 334 applications from non-bumiputeras to go into Form 1 at MRSM, of which 172 were accepted.

“Overall there are now 3,094 non-bumiputera students out of the total of 26,251 students in MRSM colleges nationwide,” he told Roslan Shaharum (PAS-Bukit Gantang).

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MIC wants Remove Class scrapped

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THE MIC wants the Government to scrap Remove Class for Tamil and Chinese school pupils, saying these classes are no longer relevant under the current education system.In a letter to Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, the party urged him to take steps to abolish these classes, reported Tamil Nesan.

MIC information chief Datuk M. Saravanan called on the minister to review the system based on feedback from the Indian community.

According to him, the status of remove classes should be reviewed because they had become redundant as Science and Mathematics are now being taught in English.

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Photos of Press Statement after YB Manoharan swearing in

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Photos taken after YB Manoharan was sworn in. Thank you to Damien for the pics.