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...running scared. On September 12th, three opposition-linked figures - an online blogger, a journalist and a politician - were taken into custody. The country's Law Minister Zaid Ibrahim resigned in protest of the arrests, and two of the trio were released within days. But on Sept. 22, Raja Petra Kamaruddin, the founder of influential online news site Malaysia Today, was directed by the Home Minister to spend two years in a detention center for inciting racial hatred. Because Raja Petra's case came under the auspices of Malaysia's draconian Internal Security Act (ISA), a colonial-era relic used...
...skinny 25-year-old munching on a Big Mac in a Kuala Lumpur suburb doesn't realize it, but he represents salvation for Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Once a member of the ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO), Kamaruddin defected to the opposition Islamic Party of Malaysia as a result of Mahathir's treatment of his charismatic deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, three years ago. Joining what appeared to be a rising tide of public sentiment, Kamaruddin and his friends attended numerous street demonstrations and political meetings in support of the Islamic Party, known by its Malay acronym...
...that changed with the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington. Kamaruddin had been harboring doubts about PAS prior to the attack, but its call for a jihad, or holy war, against the U.S. in Afghanistan was the final straw. The party has held demonstrations in front of the U.S. embassy, its supporters shouting "Death to America" and "Long Live the Taliban." That helped crystallize Kamaruddin's concerns about what would happen should PAS come to power in Malaysia. "They are quite capable of ruling Taliban-style," he says. "Women might lose their right to work or be banned...
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