- Lysander Spooner

COMMENT | Umno secretary-general Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki claimed that DAP would never be able to ”amend the Federal Constitution involving the position of Islam and the Malays even if it has 148 seats in Parliament”.

Hold it right there, if DAP had 148 seats, this would mean that a large swath of the population who voted for the party must have wanted a constitutional amendment if it had campaigned on it, right?

Asyraf has sung this tune before about DAP not being a threat to Islam and the Malays.

In 2023, Asyraf pointed out that the RM1.9 billion allocated for Islamic affairs under Budget 2024 proved that the allegation was just slander.

DAP would never advocate for a secular state because this would mean it keeps its campaign promise and serves the people who voted for it.

Indeed, so inept has DAP been when it comes to maintaining the secular line, and so eager has the party been to please their Malay/Muslim partners that it has bent over backwards for the Islamic state in waiting.

More importantly, while non-Malays condemn such appeasement strategies online, they still remain a fixed deposit for DAP. Umno, its Youth chief Dr Akmal Saleh and a host of other ketuanan (supremist) types understand this.

At one time or another, Malay uber alles political operatives have hooked up with DAP - former premier Muhyiddin Yassin has sung DAP praises, and so has his fellow former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Even PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang has made nice with DAP.

Tensions escalate as Pakistan backed terrorists target Hindu tourists in Kashmir, triggering fears of a full-scale war. But with India’s military power ranked 4th globally, does Pakistan even stand a chance? PM Modi vows retaliation! Can India dominate the battlefield? Get the full breakdown of India’s military superiority and what this means for Kashmir.

Giving the most intolerant people on the planet the power to silence and criminalise anyone who doesn't tolerate their intolerance is absolutely wild. There are around 250 million people inside Pakistan, just how many does Britain need? There is too many foreigners in the country already.

Meenaji, that picture of the girl with her fallen husband is heartbreaking, really disturbed me. These incidents keep happening because Hindus are selfish and cowards. We admire Israel but don’t have the guts to act likewise. Selfish Hindus keep supporting the people who are not integrated into the nation.

As Indian forces carry out widespread crackdowns across Kashmir, eliminating key terror networks, panic grips Pakistan even before a full-scale response unfolds. In this special edition of Burning Question LIVE, we bring you ground reports, strategic insights, and breaking updates as the Indian military crushes terror cells with precision and resolve.

Now you will understand what Israel has been going through. Germany is next! Jordan's pro-activeness will protect the country from being destroyed.

S’pore blocks FB posts by 2 Malaysian politicians, ex-ISA detainee that attempt to influence election

The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) on Friday directed Meta to block Singapore users’ access to several Facebook posts by foreigners who criticised the Singapore government's handling of sensitive religious issues and urged voters to cast ballots along religious lines. Mr Wong also urged Singaporeans to “firmly reject” identity politics, as it will “end up fuelling our worst tendencies, hostilities and vengefulness across society.”

The left loved the Pope when Francis willingly submitted to the dictates of political correctness and seemed to have adopted Chesterton’s famous “crazy Christian virtues”.

Now his admirers and faithful remember him as the Pope of the peripheries, of mercy, of inclusion, of openness to others, of the solitary mass in St. Peter’s during the pandemic, of the “people” (his best moment was instead when he went to visit what remains of the Christians in Iraq). They mourn this Pope for his funny anecdotes and that mischievous look, as well as for his reputation for being “in step with the times.”

For Bergoglio (before he became Pope Francis, he was known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio), Europe was the past. He did not understand it and did not want to understand it. He did not like Europe. And he said it every day for twelve very long years.

The Pope who did not go to Notre Dame for the reopening.

The Pope of “human brotherhood” with Imam Al Tayeeb, who called on Islam to unite against Israel, who legitimized terrorism on the basis of the Koran and called for the death of “apostates,” meaning those who convert to Christianity.

The Pope who said on October 7 “they killed someone” and brought relations with the Jewish world to the lowest point in a strange convergence between Christian anti-Judaism and Muslim anti-Jewish hatred. While Benedict XVI took a stand in defense of Western culture and pledged to strengthen “collaboration with the sons and daughters of the Jewish people,” his successor expressed distrust of the West and support for Israel’s declared enemies.

The Pope who “punch-punched” the (dead) cartoonists after the Charlie Hebdo massacre (“it’s normal, it’s normal”). Why did Francis speak in a way that would make him identifiable as the guardian of the self-defense of the “dignity of religions” (only Islam is violent) rather than the guardian of the sacredness of life and the right to freedom of expression?

The Pope who, faced with the most significant episode of intolerance towards Christians that has occurred in Europe since the Second World War, the slaughter of Father Hamel in Normandy, said that Islamists are looking for “money” and that if one must speak of “Islamic violence” he also wants to speak of “Catholic violence”.

The Pope who said that “there is an Arab invasion of Europe, a social fact, but how many invasions has Europe known in the course of its history and has always known how to overcome itself and move forward to finally find itself as if enlarged by the exchange between cultures”.

The Pope who managed to explain that "the idea of ​​conquest" is an integral part of Islam as a religion, but also of Christianity.

The Pope who met Greta, fueling a ridiculous and anti-Western environmentalism. The Pope who said that "I don't feel like calling China anti-democratic". The Pope who called the migratory upheaval "alarmist propaganda". The Pope who, contrary to all the facts, said that "poverty fuels terrorism".

The Pope who compared migrants in Europe to Jesus and the Jews that Herod was hunting. The Pope who attacked politicians who defend the Christian roots of Europe. The Pope who said that Europe has a "multicultural" identity. The Pope who called the West "a civilization of barbed wire and slavery". The Pope who equated migrant centers to “concentration camps” and “lagers”. And this was the most serious lie.

It does not matter that, once the comparison was cleared, even Erdogan approached the Jews under Nazism - or that, if Hitler exterminated 6 million Jews, in 2020 in Europe there were 87 million migrants (alive and well).

In his writings and speeches, Francis always presented only one truth. That of the gentile migrant denied entry to a rich and despicable Western country. He rejected the idea that these influxes of migrants could also be a source of problems for the receiving countries. He saw only the advantages of “diversity.” But Islam has not yet produced civil societies, states, institutions, and a culture of rights that are equal to those of the West and as desirable to millions of people.

“John Paul II remains the Pope of freedom, who played a decisive role in the fall of the Soviet Union and the peaceful conclusion of the Cold War,” writes Nicholas Baverez, a student of the philosopher Raymond Aron. “Benedict XVI was the Pope of reconciliation between faith and reason, which he sought to erect as a barrier against the return of religious fanaticism. Francis is the Pope of resentment toward Europe and the West.”

I don’t know if Michel Houellebecq is right when he writes that “the Church is engaged in suicide”. But a certain cultural dhimmitude is the great blind side of the Bergoglian pontificate, whose aspiration for peace met with the will to power of his interlocutors. Satisfying all the requirements of the “South of the world”, decolonial and destroyer of the “privileged whites”, did not Bergoglio follow in the footsteps of the worst autocrats who manipulate this new mobilizing ideological figure, the “West”?

Benedict XVI discovered that the price of conviction is unpopularity. Francis discovered that the price of compromise is disorder. History remembers the expression “better the turban than the tiara” by Gennadio Scolario, leader of the powerful Latinophobic and Turcophile Byzantine party, who preferred to hand the Byzantines over to the Turks and to the definitive yoke of dhimmitude rather than ally himself with Rome, rival of Constantinople.

Around 17 tourists were also injured in Pahalgam's Baisaran Valley on the ill-fated Tuesday evening, when over seven terrorists targeted tourists based on their religion.

Of the 26 slain men, most were tourists, including a Navy officer, Lt. Vinay Narwal. The victims also included two foreigners and at least one local man. Several local Kashmiris also took out candle marches on Tuesday and Wednesday to condole the attack, while many mosques from the Valley also condemned the attack.

The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has purportedly claimed responsibility for the attack. Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut short his two-day state visit to Saudi Arabia and chaired a high-level meeting of the Cabinet Committee of Security (CCS) on Wednesday.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah also visited the attack site to pay his tributes to the victims and take stock of the situation. Meanwhile, several world leaders, including US President Donald Trump, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and China's foreign ministry spokesperson, have strongly condemned the attack.

Who are the 26 people shot dead by terrorists?

It was a massacre. The fingerprints all over it are that of Pakistan. From a terror summit in Rawalakote to speeches in Islamabad that called Kashmir Pakistan's "jugular vein" the trail is chillingly clear. But will Pakistan ever accept it?

India has the right to defend itself, the Muslims came to India by invading and plundering. Do NOT bend over unless you have unending supply of lubricants.

This should be a wake up call for all the Hindus who voted in the name of their caste for Congress, TMC, SP, DMK, RJD. none of the martyrs were asked for their caste!! Your real enemy is also in your home who keeps asking you of your caste. Please wake up. As Yogi said "One muslim can be safe with a 100 Hindus but a Hindu cannot live with hundreds of muslims".

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Did Vadra’s remarks give a clean chit to Pakistan? Why does the opposition hesitate to name Pakistan and terrorism in the same breath? Is there a deeper pro-Pakistan agenda at play, or is this a desperate attempt to politicize a national tragedy? As the BJP demands an apology and accuses the Congress of echoing terrorist rhetoric, we dive into the motives, the outrage, and the political fallout. Tune in for a no-holds-barred debate with Arnab Goswami.

Asavari Jagdale, the 26-year-old daughter of a 54-year-old businessman from Pune, who was also murdered by the assailants, described how they confronted her father, Santosh Jagdale and demanded that he recite an Islamic verse. They shot him in the head, behind the ear and then in the back after he was unable to comply.

The unfortunate family was hiding inside a tent while gunfire and cries for assistance echoed through the popular tourist destination in Pahalgam. According to Asavari, the terror commenced when they heard shots coming from “people who wore clothes similar to those of local police” coming down from a hill. She hurried to a nearby tent with other tourists, accompanied by her father and mother, Pragati. They thought that it was an altercation between the security officers and the attackers. The attackers were firing at an adjacent tent as the sound grew closer.

“We were a group of five people, including my parents. We were in Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam and were at a spot called Mini Switzerland when the firing began. We immediately rushed to a nearby tent for protection. So did six to seven others (tourists). We all lay down on the ground as protection against the firing, which we then assumed was between the terrorists and security personnel,” she recounted the harrowing details.

In one of the bloodiest terror strikes in recent times, 41-year-old Bharat Bhushan, a tech professional from Bengaluru, was brutally gunned down in front of his wife and three-year-old son in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on Tuesday. The attack, carried out by terrorists suspected to be affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba’s proxy outfit, ‘The Resistance Front’, left 26 dead and dozens injured, turning a serene tourist haven into a nightmare.

According to Bhushan’s mother-in-law, who spoke to her daughter Sujatha after the incident, the terrorists coldly asked the victims whether they were Hindus before opening fire.

“They apparently asked, ‘Are you Hindu?’ and then shot them. My son-in-law was murdered because of his faith,” she said through tears. “They didn’t touch the women or children, but the men… they were shot in the head. They kept shooting till they fell.”

Sujatha, a doctor by profession, realised instantly that her husband was no more. Acting with incredible presence of mind amidst chaos and carnage, she picked up her husband’s phone and wallet and ran to safety with their child. The Indian Army quickly secured the area and moved the survivors to a safe location.

Bhushan, originally from Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, was the co-manager of a family-run diagnostic centre and had made a quiet life for himself in Bengaluru’s Mattikere with his young family. This vacation to Kashmir was supposed to be a break from routine — a chance to make memories. Instead, it turned into a tragedy that will haunt his loved ones forever.

Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya confirmed he had spoken to the grieving Sujatha and coordinated with authorities for her safety. “Her husband was shot dead in cold blood. She and her little boy survived. The local administration is providing all necessary support,” he posted on X.

“Terrorism has no religion”. The secular liberal enablers of Islamists are at it again after Islamic terrorists ambushed a group of unarmed Hindu tourists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on 22^nd April 2025. The Islamic terrorists belonging to the proxy of Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), The Resistance Force, checked IDs, pulled down pants to verify religion (by checking whether the men were circumcised or not), and executed those identified as non-Muslims, point-blank in Baisaran Valley.

Eyewitness statements have confirmed this.

While Islamic terrorists specifically targeted Hindus, the Indian ‘liberals’, ever-ready to whitewash Islamic violence, jumped like a spring to downplay the religious motivations of Islamists behind attacking Hindus, resorted to peddling the same old ‘Terrorism has no religion’ narrative.

In this vein, Bar and Bench journalist Ratna Singh quoted a post by BJP Chhattisgarh wherein it said that the Islamic terrorists asked the religion of tourists, not caste, before shooting them dead, and said: “Terrorism has no religion. Shameful tweet”.

He expressed concerns that the rising number of beggars is harming the country’s image abroad while addressing members of the Pakistan Ready-Made Garments Manufacturer and Exporters Association in Sialkot. No wonder they coming in large numbers to Malaysia.. here they are received happily.

Eyewitnesses said the attack lasted more than an hour, leaving 103 households destroyed and the entire village displaced. Frustration mounted as residents reported a delayed military response and accused security forces of bias, disarming local Christian youth but not Fulani attackers. 

The Rev. Hezekiah Mukan officiated the mass burial of 51 Christians on April 14. Mukan, also chair of the Christian Association of Nigeria, consoled locals reading from 1 Thessalonians 4:13, calling on everyone to remember their hope in Christ as they mourned the dead. The three other known victims received separate Christian burials.

Pastor Ishaku Mathew Kure, a local Baptist pastor, lost 10 members of his congregation and described seeing the attackers, some speaking both English and Fulani, using phrases like “Kill” and “Let’s go.” The pastor, who narrowly escaped with his family, called the violence “genocide” and questioned the government’s failure to disarm Fulani militias while locals remain defenseless. 

Amnesty International condemned the massacre, which left elderly people and children butchered in their homes. “The inexcusable security lapses must be investigated,” Amnesty stated, adding that mere statements of condemnation are insufficient without justice and accountability. 

From December 2023 to February 2024, more than 1,300 people were killed in Plateau state alone, including more than 500 women and 260 children. Nearly 30,000 people have been displaced. The frequency and pattern of the attacks have led to growing fears of an orchestrated campaign to forcibly displace Christian communities and seize their ancestral lands. 

Eli Bako, a state lawmaker representing the affected area, called the attack “evil” and pleaded with the international community for urgent intervention. “One day, we will have no people left in our constituency,” he warned, criticizing the selective disarmament of vulnerable villagers. 

Plateau State Governor Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang condemned the attacks as “coordinated acts of terror” aimed at ethnic cleansing. In a state broadcast on April 14, he stated, “What we are witnessing is not mere herder-farmer clashes, but a calculated campaign of genocide.” 

He pledged full support for the victims, announcing free medical treatment for the wounded, deployment of more troops, and provision of emergency relief supplies. The governor also met with top federal security officials, including Nigeria’s president and the chief of defense staff, to demand urgent intervention.

Indian troops in Singapore, November 1941

“Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.” - William Shakespeare, King Lear

Last Friday marked the 250th anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World.

This was the first musket shot of the American Revolution, fired across the old North Bridge near Lexington. No one knows who shot first, the British regiment on one side of the bridge or the Minute Men on the other. But everyone knows what came of it — the birth of a great nation and the perseverance of another.

Today, America is still rising after twice this century rejecting malevolent suicidal leadership. While Great Britain embraced it and is thus collapsing fast. But there is a difference to the current UK ruling Liberal Party — and Christians are getting the worst of it.

The tragedy affects not only the island’s population but all people like me who revere the country’s history and literature dating back a thousand years before the United States existed, indeed leading to its foundation. I’ll always have indelible mental images and lines from British fact and fiction:

King Arthur rousing his Knights of the Round Table (6th Century). Beowulf swimming deep into the lair of Grendel’s Hag mother (8th Century). King Alfred hiding in the swamp from the savage Danes yet dreaming of uniting England as a Christian nation (878 AD). King Henry II calling for the murder of Thomas Beckett (1170) — “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”

King John either signing the actual Magna Carta (1215) or cursing the legendary Robin Hood. King Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt or Shakespeare’s Henry V at Agincourt — “And gentlemen in England now a-bed/Shall think themselves accursed they were not here/And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks/That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”

The present King of England, Charles III, had a decidedly less saintly message this past Easter, one as far as possible from Alfred’s unifying Christian vision: “On Maundy (Holy) Thursday, Jesus knelt and washed the feet of many of those who would abandon Him,” Charles wrote. “His humble action was a token of His love that knew no bound or boundaries and is central to Christian belief.… The love He showed when He walked the Earth reflected the Jewish ethic of caring for the stranger and those in need, a deep human instinct echoed in Islam and other religious traditions, and in the hearts of all who seek the good of others.”

Benedict XVI’s great theological career, and his term as a pope in the model of priest and professor, remains summed up in his simple declaration that Deus caritas est. For Francis, the world will likely remember, in the immediate weeks after his death anyway, his often quoted, though often misrepresented, motto of “who am I to judge?”

Uttered during one of his habitual in-flight press conferences in response to a question about gay clergy who sought to live their ministry and their lives faithful to the Church’s teaching on human sexuality, it became a shorthand for a pope committed more than anything to a radical posture of welcome – a “Vatican Council II pope,” he was dubbed in the media, dedicated to throwing open wide the Church’s doors to Catholics, and indeed to everyone, without censure or reservation about their complicated lives.

But if that is how the world saw Francis, those living with and within the bubble of the daily life of the world’s largest Church will remember a different kind of pope – a contradictory and mercurial pontiff who often appeared less like a sure helmsman of the bark of St Peter and more like a man struggling to ride a horse bolting in several directions at once.

I’m 22 years old and Irish. I grew up with a non religious catholic dad and non religious Jehovah witness mother. I’m getting baptised, confirmed and first communion this weekend. Praise God. I am an American and I am joining the Catholic Church this Easter.

Confirmation this Saturday evening. I am so excited! British Zoomer here - I’m being baptised and confirmed Catholic this Saturday. I'm a 19 year old convert from Protestantism, my now-fiancée and I joined the Church last Easter. The Catholic faith is booming here, glory to God.

My Catholic church here in England was packed for the Good Friday liturgy yesterday. Standing room only. The ceremony of Creeping to the Cross seemed to go on forever. So beautiful. I’m English and Catholic.

I pray that our nation, including our monarchy, returns to the Church one day. As a 41-year-old American who is going to be baptized at my local Catholic church this evening, all I got to say is I was raised Pentecostal. I converted to paganism when I was in my early twenties and I made my way home so there's hope.