'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'

- Winston Churchill

COMMENT I have to say I much prefer the controversies Anwar Ibrahim finds himself embroiled in rather than the prosaic but more egregious ones Prime Minister Najib Razak crudely ducks.

The latest involves luminaries such as Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK, Anwar's former cheerleader now rabid forward striker) and Salman Rushdie, an author who's perilously close to confirming the adage, "everyone has at least one good book in them" but who is mostly remembered as the man who earned a death sentence for insulting Islam with a little read work of fiction.

Anwar's non-participation in the India Today Conclave conference because of the presence of the controversial Rushdie is regrettable because once again it shows Anwar's subservience to the corrupt forces at work here that would use his own faith (Islam) as a weapon against him...