Malaysian Atheists

I had been extremely tardy - almost a year late, in fact - in submitting my design for our group's logo and in my defence, I work about a 100 hours a week. Before I proceed to unveil my work, I shall preface this with our current emblem which was created by a fellow member who goes by the alias, Shanaz.

The Malaysian Insider columnist Azrul Mohd Khalib has written an article disparaging an event organised in Johor which is clearly an abuse of power by the State to pummel their views into the attendees, and a discussion of the need to separate Mosque from State.

UPDATE: Date of sharing session changed to the 11th of May 2012 as a core member can't make it on the 9th of May.

UPDATE 2: My sincerest apologies. The previous dates on this article stated the month of April rather than May as the date for the proposed meeting. The mistake has since been rectified.

UPDATE 3: Expect a report of the meeting soon.

In what can only be described as pure evil, the Jabatan Penerangan Malaysia or the Department of Information Malaysia just published the following statement on their Facebook page.

Berkuatkuasa serta merta, stesen radio dan televisyen diminta menghentikan rancangan yang menyiarkan watak pondan, lelaki lembut serta watak yang bercanggah dengan norma masyarakat beragama kerana dikatakan menyokong dan meningkatkan gejala Lesbian, Gay, Biseksual dan Transeksual (LGBT) ketika ini.

The Malaysian government has inexplicably banned the entry of the Singapore Dance Troupe due to "indecent" attire.

A Singaporean dance troupe has been denied a permit to perform here this weekend owing to their “indecent” costumes, a Malaysian dance organisation said today.

On the 3rd of April, 2012, the News Straits Times published an article titled "Do not cross the religion boundary, says Raja Nazrin"

The current much locally publicised debate between Raja Petra Kamarudin and Anwar Ibrahim to be organised by Wikileaks as part of a ten-episode series themed "The Wrold Tomorrow" promises to be more explosive than anticipated as RPK in his blog today intriguingly titled "I will debate Najib and Anwar on the subject of Islam" said:

The Parliamentary representative of Pasir Mas and seemingly professional contrarian of universal values Ibrahim Ali has been quoted by the media as supporting a parliamentary act against apostasy.

“I think that a Akta Murtad (Apostasy Act) must be passed to handle the apostasy issue,” said the MP today while debating the motion of thanks for the royal address.

It is a very simple process to remove religion from your MyKAD, and about as fast with or without a queue at the National Registration Department (NRD). This involves a few steps to change citizenship details as outlined at the NRD's website.

We have come a long way, where it seemed like just yesterday when I engaged in a lively graveyard hour debate with two other garrulous atheists who were not only unsupportive of activism for secular rights, but took the extra step to dissuade anyone who would put in the effort with fascinating relish.