HIGHLIGHTS OF NOVEMBER 2003
Cover Story: Affirmative Action for the Marginalised				BUY this issue now or SUBSCRIBE to CANews
EDITORIAL : AFFIRMATIVE ACTION GOOD, BUT… The “poor” include those who weep and bleed under oppression, those being marginalised and the discriminated against on grounds of gender, race or creed.
Dr Mahathir’s cal for meritocracy was forced upon him by the encroachment of globalisation.		AFFIRMATIVE POLICIES BY KIM QUEK A solution to Discrimination in Malaysia. To read this article, BUY this issue now!! Reproduced with kind permission of www.MalaysiaKini.com
RELIGION MARGINALISES GENDER roles were already defined from the earliest times of our human history. Those cultural patterns eventually became incorporated within religion and religion in turn reinforced this disparity of gender inequality in the form of male domination. BY DAVID ANTHONY				FOCUS THE ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF RAMADHAN & AIDILFITRI BY SULTAN MOHAMED SHAH AGA KHAN III To read this article BUY this issue now!! Reproduced with kind permission of www.Amaana.org & www.bbc.co.uk
		SAYING “YES” TO NON-RACIAL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BY NIK NAZMI NIK AHMAD The Indian community in Malaysia is being marginalised. To read this article, BUY this issue now!! Reproduced with kind permission of www.MalaysiaKini.com		REFLECTION Frank Doyle’s Thought for the Month LIFE GOES ON AND ON What happens when we die?
PREFERENCE FOR CHINESE SCHOOLS BY DAN GUEN CHIN & DEBORAH LOH To read this article, BUY this issue now!! Reproduced with kind permission of www.Cikgu.net				WONDERINGS THE PAIN OF THE CAMPAIGN! Aneel David Kannabhiran gets paranoid about the Barisan Nasional
COMMENTARY MENDICANT MINISTER TO THE MARGINALISED BY TERENCE NETTO In his book “Speaking Truth To Power” the affinity of Dr Jeyakumar for Malaysia’s downtrodden is salutary but his socialistic nostrums for their woes are suspect.	ASIA CELIBACY IS INTEGRAL SAYS POPE FROM UCAN www.ucanews.com		INTERNATIONAL LITURGICAL DANCE IS OK Pope’s chief liturgist defends use of dance in papal masses FROM CNS www.CatholicNews.com		FINE TUNING: VATICAN IN HIV-CONDOM ROW BY THE LISTENER	DIARY 2004 ORDER HERE!!