COMMENT | What's Madani's agenda of streamlining preschools?

"This means that in discussing justice, we are actually widening the gap between urban and rural areas, urban rich and urban poor, rural poor and remote poor.”

- Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim

COMMENT | The title of this piece is an important question. PAS has warned that it does not want the government to interfere in its Pusat Asuhan Tunas Islam (Pasti) programmes.

I can understand that. PAS is a political party running a preschool outreach programme. This in itself is controversial because imagine if DAP was running preschools, PAS would claim that the DAP was indoctrinating children.

By that same measure, we can conclude that no matter how well those preschools are, there is indoctrination going on. This indoctrination would be the kind of interpretation of the religion that PAS promulgates.

Religious indoctrination in preschools by itself is not as controversial as it sounds, although in my mind it...