LORD Devlin’s axiom that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely is one that is taken for fact these days. For good reasons, too: reams of writing have been expended on the need for checks and balances in any system of governance, democratic or otherwise. What is less often talked about, at least in a […]
yoga fatwa
JAIP director withdraws statement on yoga ban
IPOH, 24 Nov 2008: Perak Islamic Religious Department (Jaip) director Datuk Jamry Sury today withdrew his statement to The Star yesterday that Perak would adopt the fatwa (edict) issued by the National Fatwa Council to ban Muslims from practising yoga. He said as Jaip director, it was beyond his jurisdiction and discretion to make a […]
