The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday June 9th, 2023
The Rise and Rise of Parti Islam se-Malaysia by Murray Hunter
If Malaysia, long thought of as a moderate, modern, multi ethnic state of 33.5 million people,becomes the first Southeast to fall under the thrall of an ArabistIslamic party that wants to implement Shariah law, it won’t be so much a victory for religious fundamentalism as it is disillusion and cynicism over the performance of successive governments.
Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) is now the biggest political party in the 222-member Dewan Rakyat, or parliament, with 43 MPs, after being confined for decades by urban modernism and tolerance to the backward northeastern states of Kelantan and Terengganu. It is looking to get bigger. With state elections due in July, PAS is confident of expanding its territory dramatically, built only partly on religion as well as ethnic nationalism and disappointment.
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No matter where I go #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“No matter where I go
I will never fall down
and not get up again,
until the day I die,
no matter where I go,
I will try again,
and again”
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Sceptic feathers #66 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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