malaya!

Salbiah Ahmad: "I have been asked if 'malaya' meant the former Federation of Malaya before Malaysia was formed in September 1963. The thought for the column's name though, came after i knew what 'malaya' meant in Tagalog. It means freedom."

Quoted from Salbiah Ahmad's new book "Critical Thoughts on Islam, Rights and Freedom in Malaysia", published by SIRD, Petaling Jaya, 2007. RM40.00; 405 pages.

有興趣者5月6日前前往吉隆坡太子世界貿易中心，有個書展，幾個攤子都有擺賣這本書，不過記得要找SIRD的攤子（4樓），有10令吉折扣，只賣30令吉。

M. Bakri Musa in his foreword to this book, said that "Unlike feminist Muslims of the Sisters-in-Islam variety, Salbiah is very comfortable in her tudung and not at all perturbed that others might mistake her to be of the fundamentalist stripe. She wears it because she is comfortable with it, plain and simple, period." <http://www.bakrimusa.com/archives/malaya-critical-thoughts-on-islam>