If they want to turn Malaysia into a secular state, it can only be done over my dead body.

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It is rather ironic, I feel, that while the Islam liberals (or self-confessed “deists” who are actually agnostics in disguise) will rant and bitch about the neo-Khawarij (or what they refer to as “terrorists in Islam) when they themselves are on the other extreme end of the spectrum. The suitable label for them would be neo-Mu’tazillah or “extremist liberals”, those who add into the religion innovation and rationalism which is not based on the two main foundations of Islam; the Qur’an and the Sunnah.

Lyrics to Yusuf Islam, The Beloved. Listen to the song here.

The Islamic revival symbolized by the current resurgence of the hijab is often considered as an attempt of Arab Muslims to restore their pride and identity which have been repeatedly undermined by colonization and economic retardation. Man has always had a conservative tendency and reacts against which is new and unfamiliar without realizing whether it is good or bad for him. Some people still think the Muslim women insist on wearing hijab which is the “very symbol of the oppressed situation because they are enslaved by the tradition and are not sufficiently aware of their lamentable situation. “If only”, they probably think, “the movement of the women’s liberation and independence awakes those women’s mind, they will take away the hijab.”

Ruqaya Al Ghasara had proven that to improvise the hijab in the use of sports does not make it impractical. And you do not have to be sponsored by Nike to do that.