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| 2001-06-17 | Arrogance And The National Front
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| 2001-05-21 | UMNO Shoots Itself In The Foot Over Chinese Members But he had to make that first statement. UMNO is
tossed and buffetted by the political re-orientation of the
Malays. They must decide if they must continue to organise
themselves as a racial or multiracial party: whether it
should go the way of PAS, with its emphasis on race and
religion, or as the Parti Keadilan Negara (Keadilan) does in
the mould of UMNO first president, Dato' Sir Onn Jaffar's
vision of a multiracial party. That vision was way ahead of
its times, but it is not any more. UMNO must reorganise
itself in the mould of either Keadilan's multiracial
politics or PAS' racial and religious worldview. It would
seem the good doctor decided upon the multiracial approach,
but he could not get UMNO to go along. That all who backed
the Dr Mahathir's call are non-Malays proves the divide in
his own ranks.
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| 2001-04-27 | UMNO And the Filthy Rich
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| 2001-04-17 | A Black Eye For The Police
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| 2001-04-13 | Hiding Under The Skirt Of National Security The home minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, did not know, so
he said, if opposition Parti Keadilan Negara (National
Justice Party) leaders, had been arrested under the
draconian Internal Security Act. Hours later, the
Inpector-General of Police, Norian Mai, confirms it.
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| 2001-04-11 | Can The OPP3 Mean Anthing?
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| 2001-04-10 | Non-Muslim Places of Worship In This Land Of Religious Freedom
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| 2001-03-29 | Is It The Politics Of Islam -- Or Of The Malay? What is unmentioned in this conflict is that UMNO's
political dominance is shaken by the Malay cultural ground
moving away from it. PAS, on the other hand, believes its
Islamic stance can be strengthened if that cultural ground
moves towards it. That is not happening. Not yet. UMNO is
caught having to contend with PAS for the political
high ground and with the still-disorganised Parti Keadilan
Negara or National Justice Party for the cultural high
ground. The Malay Unity talks, as Dr Mahathir viewed it,
was to divide the Malay political spoils between UMNO and
PAS. But that cannot work until he can bring the Malay
ground to his side. That shifted away when he, as the
feudal leader, humiliated, and continues to, his principal
deputy, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
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| 2001-03-10 | Disunity Over Malay Unity Talks
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| 2001-02-28 | Unity Talks' Joker-In-The-Pack
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| 2001-02-25 | Revised: Lame Duck Chief Ministers Beholden to Kuala Lumpur
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| 2001-02-24 | A Bidayuh Lady Appeals To The Prime Minister
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| 2001-02-20 | Chiaroscuro: Stumbling In Search Of The Holy Grail
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| 2001-02-12 | Anwar Ibrahim's Specialist and Malay Unity Talks
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| 2001-01-12 | Bolehland's Fine Art Of Political Debate
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| 2001-01-09 | CHIAROSCURO: Malay Meeting Premature The deputy prime minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, wants the
UMNO-PAS youth chiefs' debate on Malay unity to be called
off. He fears that issues raised in that could disorient
the tripartite meeting amongs the presidents of UMNO, PAS
and Parti Keadilan Negara. He could not have made that
call.
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| 2000-12-22 | Is A State Of Emergency On The Cards? Which is why I hear, I suppose, more talk these days of
a a state of emergency to halt UMNO's political drift. But
could the Prime Minister impose one and be fully confident
he could then rule what is left of his roost? Could the
armed forces be trusted to go back to the barracks after
their work is done? After the 13 May racial riots, it did.
Would it now? Would the Prime Minister's political health
be enhanced should, after an emergency is imposed, He Who
Must Be Destroyed At All Cost is released from Sungei Buloh
prison to become president of Parti Keadilan Negara?
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| 2000-12-03 | The National Front Dissembles Yet Again Over Lunas
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| 2000-12-02 | Lunas: The National Front Misses The Point Again
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| 2000-12-02 | CHIAROSCURO: Breaking Faith
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