Posted on 19 November 2009 By Shanon Shah.
MALAYSIANS are no strangers to censorship. So many things get censored in this country, local or foreign: books, films, television shows, theatre performances. The items censored are sometimes perplexing. For example, current reruns of the 1990s family sitcom The Nanny on the Hallmark Channel are missing out on the slightly risqué jokes and overtly Jewish [...]
Tags: Mahathir Mohamad, Shanon Shah, Shirin Ebadi, The Last Communist, amir muhammad, censorship, karen armstrong, mohd asri
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Posted on 20 November 2008 By Cindy Tham.
WHAT would you do if you were granted one wish to change the world? Many of us associate wishes with the imaginary world of fairy tales or fiction. For religious scholar Karen Armstrong, her wish stems from a relentless imagination for a less violent and more compassionate world. With the help of Technology, Entertainment, Design [...]
Tags: Christianity, charter for compassion, compassion, ethic of reciprocity, golden rule, islam, judaism, karen armstrong, ted talks
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