COMMENT The excuses have to stop. The glaring fact is that, with a hat trick of distasteful “raids” in three separate states within the space of two weeks, our religious authorities seem to be good at only one thing these days - rejecting the human being’s fundamental liberties in this civilised nation.

I’m not even going into the discourse about secularism, the position of Islam, or on the rights of certain communities. Because, for these authorities - weddings or deaths do not matter - they assume the absolute right to walk into any temple or place to conduct raids in order to exercise their power.

It has long been said that in Malaysia, the authorities perceive anybody who is anti-establishment to be in the wrong. But now, it is just plain wrong to be, well, yourself. You can mind your own business, but can still run foul of these men who hunt down people who supposedly make mistakes...