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Posted: 15 Oct 2011 09:27 PM PDT

If I have a Colt 45 loaded with 6 rounds of silver bullets, I will fire like Gary Cooper in "High Noon" at these imbeciles of tongue-loose brainless politicians. But I have only one silver bullet (can't afford gold) so here goes the Russian roulette:

1. Mahathir: Malays will lose power in 10 years if they don't unite

First of all, our dear near-senile Mahathir, please define the race Malay. How many types of Malays are there in this country? Are Mamaks Malays? During our schooldays, Mamaks were made fun of by my Malay schoolmates. Your award-wining achievement has been your ability to put yourself a Mamak on top of all the other Malays. Congratulations! When you made this speech you were also addressing members of Perkim as their President. Have you forgotten the principles and objectives of Perkim founded by our beloved First Prime Minister? You were talking to Chinese converts as well; are you suggesting that these Chinese Muslims should be thrown into the tong sampah?

You were right: The minority cannot rule the country in a democratic framework. Any donkey knows that without you telling us. The Chinese minority will never rule this country; at any rate, the brilliant ones have left Malaysian shores for greener pastures and are doing fine in their new countries of adoption. Our government has tried many times to coax them to return. But they are not biting.

2. Malaysia will be bankrupt if Opposition wins – Muhyiddin

I beg to differ from the opinion of our DPM. On the contrary, Malaysia is already on the verge of bankruptcy now if we do not take immediate steps to change BN government in power and bring in the present Opposition to rescue us from becoming the ASEAN Greece. For the information of our frog-in-the-well Muhyiddin, Malaya was the No. 2 economy of Asia, repeat Asia (after Philippines) right after the 2md World War, and overtook Philippines during the Korean war when our rubber and tin brought in wealth to our rubber tappers who could buy GEC refrigerators even there was no electricity in the kampongs. They kept their valuable bajus and sarongs in the fridge from white ants and insects! You were not born yet, Tan Sri. From then on, Malaysia could have easily been the No. 1 economy (beating Singapore) in ASEAN but for the bloodsucking and wealth pilfering hands of later BN goons.

3. Be grateful to BN government DPM tells people

When Muhyiddin said this, he was addressing a crowd in Ampangan, Negeri Sembilan. He was taking the residents to be fools who did not know the RM5 million he handed out (4 million for a new hawker center, ½ million to refurbish the market and ½ million to repair Ampangan flats) was actually coming from the Treasury which is money of the Rakyat, not BN's or Muhyiddin's or his Grand Papa's. You, Muhyiddin, should be grateful to the people, and everywhere you go addressing Malaysian crowds, please say a big thank you to the people for what you are, and what you have, now.

You must remember your roots from a small kampong Pagoh in Johor. Had it not been for your crafty and snaky worming your way into the upper echelon of UMNO, I doubt with your qualifications, you could even land a salesman's job in your fellow Johorean Tun Musa's Sime Darby. I don't have to write more, as Ali Kadir has slammed you in Malaysian Insider.

4. Passport and MyKad

These 2 items came from the ministry of another pea-brain Johorean, Hishammuddin. Whilst it is right that we should respect the Malaysian passport and take good care of it, the Director-General cannot make a blanket ruling that if you lose your passport a 2nd time, the waiting time for a replacement is mandatory 3 years.

Of course, we know that in the past Malaysian passports were sold to waiting illegal immigrants, but these seller culprits should be classified differently from genuine bona fide cases of passports lost to snatch-thieves, in robberies and in fires, etc. How can you prevent genuine business men from getting replacement and deprive them of going overseas to do business for the country? Come on, put in a system to weed out the culprits from the real victims.

Now the MyKad: Not so long ago all Malaysians were told to change to the present MyKad. Now it seems the Rakyat are like a flock of sheep being herded again to do another change. Why? Because some company involved in the printing of the chips also needs to print money? These BN elite are very clever and resourceful in finding ways and means to suck, suck and suck money from the Rakyat and the Treasury!

Pete, have pity on me. Like all Malaysians we have no avenue to express our views, lesser still to vent our feelings, so we have all converge on you to give us the helping hand to disseminate 'banned' information to the voting Rakyat.

Salam,

Todak

PRU 13: The Hudud Menace

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 02:45 PM PDT

By AsamLaksa

Once again religion rears its ugly head within the Malaysian political scene. Yeah, you heard me right, I said 'UGLY'. Religion in the Malaysian political context is like the developmentally challenged sibling whom is in your mind every day and you would sacrifice your many comforts of life to care for but you would rather he/she not be seen by your friends. It's like an embarrassment that you do not want to talk about.

Sure many Malaysian subscribe to the idea of 'to each his own' when it comes to religion but do not be so easily pleased in thinking that others have respect for your faith. It is really more like "go ahead believe in your delusions while I know better fool!" That is why this stand never pleases anyone.

One thing I can agree on with many commentators in Malaysia Today is that faith is personal. After all, each individual happens to have their own understanding on their own faiths, even within the same family. Don't believe me? Then go question your family members. This is because of the human intellectual strength or some would say weakness, always seeks to find reasons and rationales. A simple case is when someone strikes 4D they would try looking for a reason for their windfall be it on something they did last week, a lucky underwear, that 10 sen they gave to the blind beggar, etc.. Sure they say it is luck to you because it avoids going into details but few if any will say that it is just an outcome of probability.

Now this point of humans always seeking an explanation is universal and I am ok with that. What I am not ok with is ridiculous reasons.

I was listing to BBC Radio 4 which broadcast 'Thought for the Day' where guest speakers almost always are religious figures. This one episode made me laugh like mad. It was a day or two after the neutrino misbehaved at the Large Hadron Collider and the speaker was going on about the scientists unable to explain the anomaly and here he comes and give his take that the answer is the metaphorical "elephant in the room" – God. Yes, God explains everything. You have stubby toes – it is God. You have a tiresome spouse – it is God's will. Millions die from AIDS – it is God's punishment. How did Homo sapiens arise – God created them. Your parent with cancer – God is testing you.

Now back in Malaysia and the ugly hudud issue. I say that all Malaysians should have their thoughts known. Just because it doesn't directly affect non-Muslims doesn't mean they have no say. This is your country and only you can decide if it goes to the dogs. The deafening silence does not help anyone and we let the hudud phantom skulk back into its cave to wait for another day to menace the peace loving citizens.

I also do not buy this political double talk that PAS needs 2/3 majority thus they have no chance to change the constitution this time around. It still does not let the issue rest. There is no closure and it will haunt PAS for eternity.

Nor do I buy the talk that hudud won't be used as common law takes precedence which really means that we do not really need it but hey have it to please some people. Is that insulting their intelligence or what?

I have no ties to Islam thus I can easily ask pertinent questions without fear of the implications of the answers:

Does Malaysia need hudud laws?
Is there a gap in Malaysian law that hudud covers?
Are hudud laws compatible with current values?
Are hudud laws more effective than current laws?

If you can't justify hudud law then why are you walking around with this millstone round your necks?

Ok, so I am an atheist. Before that I was simply a non-believer for many years. I flirted for many years with one religion or another but nothing stuck. Then 2 years ago I had a revelation – there is no God. It is one of the best things ever and I am a better person for it. You want to know why? It is because I feel free to explore all ideas and see the elephants that trail others; this makes me understand others better and I learn more. I find it easier to deal with my wrongs as I do not attach any artificial moral codes. I become less afraid of the dark and I owe no loyalty to any one idea. I do no harm because it is ethical and not because I wish to win some Golden Ticket to some fantasyland. Pascal's wager and those ridiculous arguments for religion can go to hell because I am not hedging my principles and I am not fooled by circular arguments.

Now, I am not advocating atheism because there it is no use to tell others to break the fetters of culture and faith. It has to come from the person when they feel disillusioned and thus seek more answers. What I can preach to others is the need for them to widen their horizons and think for themselves. I pity those who spout "the truth is in the Book" because the real truth, the wonders of life is beyond any book.

Sure we can learn from religion. I like the concept of mindfulness and universal love. I say take the good and cast out the bad. What do I want? Good persons regardless of what you believe in. Individuals are the fundamentals of society and the more good persons out there the better society becomes. So start with yourselves. I was surprised at hearing a Christian that it is so hard to practice universal love. It is not hard nor is it about whether you can; it is whether you want to.

It’s Muhyiddin who should be grateful

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 10:03 AM PDT

By Ali Kadir via The Malaysian Insider

You know elections are around the corner when the politicians start telling the electorate that we should be grateful for all the development around us. It is incredible that these Barisan Nasional (BN) politicians still make all these patronising noises, knowing full well how tired we are of listening to their rubbish.

But since we are on the subject of gratitude, let me offer a number of reasons why Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (yesterday for the umpteenth time he advised Malaysians to be grateful) and friends should be grateful to us.

1. BN should be grateful that they are still occupying Putrajaya despite clear evidence of corruption, nepotism and cronyism at the highest levels of government, including members of the Cabinet.

So tolerant are Malaysians that we have put up with leakages, inflated contracts and ostentatious displays of wealth by members of the Mahathir administration, the Abdullah team and the Najib government. We have put up with all this corruption in the name of development. So Muhyiddin and friends should be grateful to us for our blind loyalty and apathy.

2. BN should be grateful to us for tolerating and even embracing mediocrity. Malaysia's best and brightest are deserting the land of their birth as evidenced by a World Bank study which showed that more skilled Malaysians are working and living abroad.

And this brain drain has affected every level of society. Not surprising that we have the likes of Hishammuddin Hussein, Noh Omar, Kong Chong Ha as "our leaders" and continue accepting mediocrity as a fait accompli.

3. BN should be grateful to us for accepting stock and hollow answers to some serious questions such as who exactly ordered the RM24 million ring; how a lowly corporal was able to order riot police to fire tear gas and chemical-laced water into Tung Shin Hospital and how did we pluck out the figure of six per cent growth next year with the whole world preparing for economic Armageddon.

4. We should be grateful to Muhyiddin and friends for introducing race politics and playing the race and religious card at every turn and making Malaysia more divisive than ever. Thank you guys from the bottom of our hearts. We are grateful.

5. We are grateful to Muhyiddin and gang for flooding this land of ours with illegals and then giving them legitimacy for political purposes. The people of Sabah especially say a big thank you to you for completely swamping the state with foreigners.

6. We are grateful to BN for nurturing and developing individuals like Ibrahim Ali and Nazri Aziz. We would be a much poorer country without them.

In conclusion, we have much to be thankful to BN for. So let's show them our gratitude soon.

Mualaf

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 01:15 AM PDT

By Hakim Joe

What is Mualaf? According to the dictionary, it is a term to categorize those who are ready to embrace the Islamic religion and/or the new Moslem converts. However in Malaysia, all Malaysian-Chinese-Moslems are classified as such regardless of whether they have just converted or that they are fourth (or older) generation Moslems.

The question therefore remains when Islam was first introduced to the Chinese. According to World History, Islam was first brought to China between 616 and 618 AD by order of Uthman ibn `Affan (the third Sunni Rashidun or Caliph of the Muslim Empire) by Sahaba (companions) of Muhammad namely Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqqas, Sayid, Wahab ibn Abu Kabcha and another Sahaba (name unknown). This meant that Islam has existed in China for approximately 1.400 years. The Great Mosque of Xi'an (Huaisheng Mosque) in Shaanxi, China was erected in 742 AD and remains one of the oldest mosques in the world.

In comparison, the Malay Peninsula in which we now call Malaysia was inhabited by prehistoric Proto Malays during that same time in history. According to the Kedah Annals, Kandaram or the Kedah Kingdom (630 – 1136 AD) was founded by Maharaja Derbar Raja of Gemeron, Persia, allegedly the descendents of Alexander the Great. Incidentally, the Proto Malays (Melayu Asli) were descendents of migrants originating from Yunnan, China. The Malays as we know them today are Deutero Malays and are the progeny of intermarriages between the Proto Malays and Negrito Orang Asli. When the Great Mosque of Xi'an was being built and more than one century after Islam was introduced to the Chinese, Hindu-Buddhism was the main religion here.

Funan in Cambodia played a major part in the history and religion of the Malay Peninsula and according to Sejarah Melayu, the Khme r prince Raja Ganji Sarjuna founded the kingdom of Gangga Negara in the 700s in the northern part of the Malay Peninsula. The major religion then was Hinduism and between the 7th and the 13th century, the Malay Peninsula was ruled by the Srivijaya Empire, in which the major religion was initially Buddhism and then Hinduism at the later stages.

Gangga Negara means "a city on the Ganges" in Sanskrit and Srivijaya means "Radiant Victory" in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism (an ancient Indian religion) and Mahāyāna Buddhism.

Not only until the 13th century did Islam arrive at the Malay Peninsula (1402 to 1409 AD) purportedly brought in by Parameswara (a Srivijaya Prince who was born a Hindu) who was fleeing Temasek to avoid persecution. Parameswara (derived from the Sanskrit word Parameśhvara, a Hindu concept literally meaning the "Supreme Lord") allegedly converted to Islam (no evidence was found) when he married the Princess of Pasai (Samudera in Sumatra) and he adopted the Persian title "Shah", renaming himself Mahmud Iskandar Shah. It must be made known that Parameswara went on a boat trip with Chinese Admiral Zheng He (Cheng Ho) to China in 1411 to pay tribute to the Chinese Ming Dynasty Emperor. Incidentally Admiral Zheng He, his translator Fei Xin and his companion Ma Huan are all Moslems. Islam finally took hold after Parameswara's death in 1414 when his son, Raja Sri Rama Vikrama became the second Sultan of Malacca and called himself Sultan Megat Iskandar Shah.

Islam has then existed in China for nearly 800 years.

In 1910, the Christian missionary, Marshall Broomhall published a book on his findings and estimated that there exist over 9 million Chinese Moslems in China. The entire population of the Straits Settlement in 1901 was less than 1 million (including Europeans).

So if your ancestors were born in China and have converted to Islam in 616 AD and that somewhere along the line, they have migrated to here, you are still a Mualaf by the fact that you are Malaysian-Chinese, albeit having your bloodlines being a Moslem for the past 1,396 years.

Malaysia Boleh.

Escalating Tensions

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 01:08 AM PDT

By Hakim Joe

A new shooting war is on the verge of starting and this might turn out to be the modern Mother of all Conflicts. It will make Operation Desert Storm look like a picnic and the Afghan War child's play.

On Tuesday the 11th of October 2011, the United States alleged that Iranian government agents plotted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States using explosives. Two suspects were charged in New York City, one man, Gholam Shakuri, has previously been identified as an operative of Iran's special foreign actions unit (Quds Forces) and the other, Manssor Arbabsiar, a car salesman who holds a U.S. citizenship and who is also holding an Iranian passport. The Justice Department says the men tried to hire a purported member of a Mexican drug cartel to carry out a bombing attack on Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir while he dined at his favorite restaurant, and unbeknownst to the suspects, the Mexican was a paid DEA informer and meetings between the informer and Arbabsiar were actually monitored and recorded by the DEA, the Secret Service, the Homeland Security, and the FBI.

Also accused were Abdul Reza Shahlai, Arbabsiar's cousin who is a high ranking member of the Quds Force; Qasem Soleimani, a Quds commander who allegedly oversaw the plot; and Hamed Abdollahi, a senior Quds officer who helped in the coordination of the attempted assassination. Shahlai ws previously identified as the deputy commander of the Quds Force that planned the 2007 attack in Karbala, Iraq, that killed five American soldiers.

Arbabsiar was arrested on September the 29th at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport while Shakuri, Shahlai, Soleimani and Abdollahi are all believed to be still inside Iran.

That this alleged assassination attempt has been foiled is not the quintessence aspect here. Members of the U.S. Congress were quick to condemn Iran over the plot and have actively called for harsher sanctions against Iran even after the latter has vociferously denied any involvement in the assassination plot. The raising of stakes by both nations followed by potentially another few incidents between the two countries might spark a military confrontation in the Persian Gulf. That this attempt to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador is not in question here but the uncertainty lies in the fact whether the Iranian government possesses prior knowledge of this plot, and not whether it is a rogue operation outside the Iranian government's sanction or a sting operation by the FBI.

Iran is no walkover like Iraq. It is about four times larger than Iraq and has more than twice the number of residents. More importantly, Iran is suspected to possess nuclear weapons and the necessary delivery vehicles. During the Army Day last year, the Iranian military forces paraded the new Ghadr-1 ballistic missile system that has a proven 2,000 km operational range and is in the process of manufacturing a longer range air launched cruise missile (KH-55) of over 3,000 km range. Incidentally the distance between Teheran and Washington DC is over 10,000 km but the already-deployed Ghadr-1 is certainly capable of hitting targets within the Persian Gulf.

There is no evidence that Iranian scientists have actually manufactured nuclear weapons but uranium is being frenetically enriched at the Iranian Special Weapons Facility located in Natanz with over 5,000 centrifuges being fed with uranium hexafluoride 24 hours a day non-stop. According to the IAEA Director General's report submitted to the Board on the 23rd of November 2010, Iran has accumulated an estimated 3,183kg of low enriched uranium (LEU), though not weapons-grade as yet. The Iranian LEU is graded between a level of 5% to 7% U-235. In comparison, advance medical research facilities in USA has an enrichment level of about 30% and weapons-grade nuclear weapons carry nuclear loads that has been enriched to levels above 65%, usually using P-239 (plutonium) instead of U-235 (uranium).

Additionally, Iran reportedly possesses an estimated 9 operational submarines and over 200 naval crafts, over 350 combat aircrafts and over 1,200 main battle tanks supported by approximately 550,000 active personnel from its military, about 125,000 personnel from the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, over 100,000 active personnel from the paramilitary volunteer force (Iran claims a membership of over 3 million) and another 100,000+ security forces (mainly police personnel).

Furthermore, Iran possesses a sophisticated and growing biotechnology sector and chemical industry that is already one of the most advanced in the developing world and with that comes the inherent capability of producing both biological warfare (BW) and chemical warfare (CW) weaponries. Although there is no evidence pointing to the existence of either BW or CW stockpiles, Iran has never denied possessing the "dual-capable" infrastructure, raw material and expertise to mass-produce them.

However, similarly to Iraq, it is the will to fight that commands all regardless of the numbers or equipment one possesses and judging from the 8-year Iran-Iraq War between 1980 and 1988, Iran will be no turkey shoot like Iraq.

The U.S. Advance Overseas Forces comprising of the 5th Fleet (based in Bahrain), 6th Fleet (based in Italy) and 7th Fleet (based in Japan) might all be involved if plans are underway for a major armed conflict between the U.S. and Iran. Additionally, all U.S. forces stationed inside Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Afghanistan and Pakistan will be drawn into the fight with Israel covertly in support. If and when the shooting starts, Turkey and all the other Middle Eastern countries will be in a dire dilemma – either to act as a bystander or to take sides. Both Russia and China will definitely be drawn into the conflict, as major superpowers and almost unquestionably, NATO will be the medium used to initiate the conflict, with or without official sanction from the United Nations or agreement from Turkey, the only NATO member country that might stand up for Iran. Alternately, Turkey might take this advantage to become more influential in the Middle East when Iran is preoccupied with the conflict. Syria could possibly remain the only Middle East country to come out in support of Iran but then again, they are having internal troubles of their own at home. Libya is completely out of the picture at this juncture of time.

Whether the entire world choose to believe that a car salesman in Texas was specifically commissioned by a select intelligence arm of the Iranian government to look for anyone who looked remotely like a Mexican drug dealer, moustache and sombrero included, and then order them a US$1.5 million hit on the Saudi ambassador in Washington, or not, the confrontation between Iran and NATO forces, which will comprise of over 80% U.S. and U.K. troops, will be a brutal affair with lots of collateral damage. Going to war in a country with over 73 million people is a surefire recipe for disaster regardless of how accurate the intelligent bombs and cruise missiles are. Taking into consideration the numerous "places of worship" and "historical sites" that remains untouchable, the U.S. risk losing more that what could be gained in an armed confrontation with Iran but then again, curbing Iran's ambitions at its roots might pose to be the only game in town.

Kredit: www.malaysia-today.net

Ahad, 16 Oktober 2011

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