The recent fiasco surrounding apparently offending cartoon strips is beginning to sound absurd. Now it appears that NST is grudgingly apologising “unreservedly” by pulling the TV2 Mandarin News Team and a blogger into the dungeon with it. It never ends does it. Are we going to get petty now just because a newsclip focussed on the cartoon depictions of Prophet Mohamed? And that a blogger is being dragged into the broil just for highlighting an oversight by the NST? What is happening here? Are we really defending a religion here or just pride?

I feel that the earlier genuine attempts at defending Islam is now degenerating into a childish spat.

The Darren Kang Murder trial has ended with an absolutely ridiculous outcome. 5 Thai nationals have emerged from this trial with a 5 year jail term for murder to served from the date of arrest. This lesser sentence was passed as these men were allowed to plead to a lesser charge of manslaugter.
The definition of manslaugter is an unlawful killing of a person without malice. How can 5 men batter a defenseless individual till death if it is without malicious intent? It was murder, period. The prosecution has been incompetent in this case and murderers are not judged accordingly. He should not have allowed them the opportunity to plead to manslaugter. I feel that the prosecution made this careless and hasty decision so that this case can be closed earlier which saves the trouble associated with a long protracted murder trial.