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		<title>Japan &#8211; Disaster hacks should stick to the facts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Durodie, PhD, Singapore As if the twin calamities of a huge earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami were not enough, much of the coverage and commentary relating to recent events in Japan has displayed a distasteful desire to project a third – nuclear – catastrophe onto the situation. It is almost as if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wansaiful.com&amp;blog=243065&amp;post=976&amp;subd=provolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School improvement: should we go Dutch?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(A version of this was published in The Edge, 8 January 2011) Several parents contacted me to share their stories after reading my article last month. There is one common thread to all the stories. Parents want the best for their children and they feel that private schools are better. But they don’t have the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wansaiful.com&amp;blog=243065&amp;post=951&amp;subd=provolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MCLM: We need a principled political force</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in “Kite of Freedom” column in The Star (iPad edition) Wednesday 22 December 2010 I was tempted to comment on the establishment of the Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) as soon as its establishment was announced. But I decided to wait until the closed-door briefing for invited NGOs on Sunday 19 December at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wansaiful.com&amp;blog=243065&amp;post=942&amp;subd=provolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kualiti khidmat pelanggan memalukan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Utusan Malaysia hari ini menyiarkan artikel saya dalam kolum Wau Bebas. Tetapi artikel yang disiarkan tidak penuh (lihat di sini) kerana mungkin ada penulisan saya yang tidak sesuai untuk disiarkan. Bagaimanapun artikel sepenuhnya boleh dibaca di bawah: &#8212;- Minggu ini genap tiga bulan saya kembali ke Malaysia setelah 17 tahun merantau di luar negara. Sepanjang [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wansaiful.com&amp;blog=243065&amp;post=774&amp;subd=provolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest articles, one published in The Malaysian Insider and the other in my column in Utusan Malaysia. English article (The Malaysian Insider) Don’t be fooled by Western environmentalists (and their parrots) Import duties, under the guise of ‘green’ taxes, will increase the cost of international trade, ultimately damaging economic growth in developing countries that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wansaiful.com&amp;blog=243065&amp;post=704&amp;subd=provolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An inability to tolerate Islam contradicts western values</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2131471,00.html Free speech is now the rallying cry of escalating tensions, but we can also use it to expose double standards on both sides Karen Armstrong Saturday July 21, 2007 The Guardian In the 17th century, when some Iranian mullahs were trying to limit freedom of expression, Mulla Sadra, the great mystical philosopher of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wansaiful.com&amp;blog=243065&amp;post=280&amp;subd=provolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Penghapusan sekatan perdagangan: satu kewajipan</title>
		<link>http://wansaiful.com/2007/01/24/penghapusan-sekatan-perdagangan-satu-kewajipan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perdagangan bukan perkara asing bagi rakyat Malaysia. Para petani dan penoreh getah di kampung-kampung semuanya menjual hasil titik peluh mereka. Tidak sedikit juga yang membuka kedai makan atau kedai runcit di merata-rata tempat. Ada juga yang menjalankan perniagaan yang lebih besar seperti membuka pasaraya, atau mengurus korporat multinasional.   Bagi umat Islam, perdagangan bukan perkara asing. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wansaiful.com&amp;blog=243065&amp;post=208&amp;subd=provolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trade barriers are immoral.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See also malaysiakini report here. Trade and business are not alien to Malaysia. Our farmers and rubber tappers all sell the products of their efforts to consumers. Many run retail shops, foodstalls, or restaurants. Some ventured into bigger ventures like supermarkets or multinational businesses. Trade is also customary among Muslims. Prophet Muhammad and his wife, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wansaiful.com&amp;blog=243065&amp;post=207&amp;subd=provolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islam dan Sistem Pasaran</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Freely adapted from an original article by Dr Imad Ahmad, Minaret of Freedom Institute) Muqaddimah Perniagaan bukan perkara asing bagi umat Islam. Rasulullah (saw) dan Saidatina Khadijah (r.a) merupakan ahli perniagaan yang berjaya dalam pasaran bebas pada masa itu. Kitab suci Al-Quran juga penuh dengan pelbagai ayat yang menyentuh hal ehwal pernaiagaan. Malahan, jika kita teliti [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wansaiful.com&amp;blog=243065&amp;post=169&amp;subd=provolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t just go half-way.</title>
		<link>http://wansaiful.com/2006/06/08/dont-just-go-half-way-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Malaysia, non-Muslims are not allowed to preach religion to Muslims. Non-Muslims, like Christian missionaries, for example, who try to proselytize risk prosecution. But it is difficult to categorically say that it is illegal for Muslims to convert. There are many cases where Muslims wanted to register their conversion to another religion but were prevented [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wansaiful.com&amp;blog=243065&amp;post=145&amp;subd=provolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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