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- Megatrends of madness, Part II
- Calon wanita BN meningkat 4.9% berbanding PAKATAN meinigkat 43%
- When the going gets tough, bomb out your own ceramah and centres
| Megatrends of madness, Part II Posted: 25 Apr 2013 01:08 PM PDT I have often been asked what I think of the concept of '1Malaysia' of which I have written a column-long thought on this when it was first propagandised. What lies behind the slogan is a rotting culture of political socialisation, enculturalisation, and participation on a post-colonial ideology of maintaining a false sense of pluralism so that exploitation can be engineered via the divide-and-conquer strategy and the people can be given circuses, funfairs, and goodies. The pathos lies in education as social reproduction and a conveyor belt of racist formation - that schools and institutions are to maintain the ideology of ethnic separation by de jure' or de facto, via formal, informal, or hidden curriculum so that the leaders of the 'apartheid regime of the modernist mould' can be sure to sustain power via neo-feudalistic strategies of control, containment, and co-habitation. And thus, we have the continued existence of schools and institutions that are used as breeding grounds of racist ideology detrimental to the aspirations of this nation in need of education for peace, cultural understanding, and social justice. Must we not dismantle this ideology, and with immediate effect, integrate all schools and now allow the ideology of "one race, one school" to prevail? Should we have done that before Mahathirism took power and charted the direction of command and control to promote this 'maddening multiculturalism' to take root? Why are many highly-educated Malay professionals of this generation essentially seem to be parading this sense of sophisticated racism they carry as a badge of honour to design and implement policies detrimental to the evolution and realisation of 'truly sensible and human sense of multiculturalism'? Wherein lies the problem in multicultural education? How do we rectify this? This brings us to my last thought on what a maddening megatrend of ours constitute - religion as an instrument of irreligiosity in our politics of race and ethnicity. (I wrote about this in my forthcoming book "The 'Allah' Controversy and Other Essays on Malaysian Hypermodernity" which will be available soon.) READ MORE HERE: http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Calon wanita BN meningkat 4.9% berbanding PAKATAN meinigkat 43% Posted: 25 Apr 2013 12:31 PM PDT Badan pemikir Kajian Politik untuk Perubahan (KPRU) berasa kesal dengan Presiden Barisan Nasional (BN) merangkap Menteri Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, atas ketidakmampuan beliau untuk menamakan lebih ramai calon wanita untuk bertanding di Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 (PRU13) ini. Apabila dibandingkan dengan calon kaum wanita yang dicalonkan oleh Barisan BN pada tahun 2008, kadar calon kaum wanita BN hanya meningkat sebanyak 4.9 peratus sahaja, iaitu sebanyak 3 orang calon. Manakala pencalonan calon kaum wanita di bawah Pakatan Rakyat (PAKATAN) telah meningkat sebanyak 43 peratus, iaitu penambahan sebanyak 24 calon kaum wanita bagi PRU13 ini. Ini membuktikan ikrar Pakatan terhadap jasa kaum wanita dan usaha PAKATAN untuk menggalakkan kehadiran kaum wanita di atas pentas politik. Najib menyalahkan kegagalan untuk mencalonkan lebih banyak calon kaum wanita atas alasan dikekang dengan batasan-batasan yang berkenaan. Ini menunjukkan bahawa walaupun beliau memegang jawatan sebagai Menteri Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat, namun beliau masih kekurangan perasaan empati dan pada masa yang sama mengabaikan kebajikan dan kesejahteraan kaum wanita. Berhubungan dengan ini, KPRU mendapati berdasarkan senarai penamaan yang dikemukakan oleh laman web Suruhanraya Pilihan Raya (SPR), ianya didapati BN melantik 19 calon kaum wanita, menyumbang kepada 8.6 peratus dalam 222 calon kerusi Parlimen. PAKATAN pula telah menamakan 23 calon kaum wanita untuk bertanding di kerusi Parlimen, menyumbang kepada 10.4 peratus daripada keseluruhan kerusi Parlimen. Di samping itu, bagi kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) pula, sebanyak 45 orang wanita telah dinamakan sebagai calon oleh BN, menyumbang kepada 8.9 peratus daripada 505 kerusi DUN. PAKATAN pula telah menamakan sebanyak 56 calon kaum wanita bagi bertanding kerusi DUN, menyumbang sebanyak 11.1 peratus. (Sila merujukan Jadual 1 di bawah)
Jadual 1: Calon Wanita berdasarkan Negeri
Nota: X bererti tiada calon kaum wanita Sumber daripada Laman web SPR, dikemas oleh KPRU Menurut laporan, ianya didapati seramai 120 wanita dinamakan sebagai calon pada tahun 2008 di mana 61 orang calon adalah daripada BN, 55 orang daripada Parti Keadilan Rakyat (KEADILAN), DAP dan PAS, 3 orang calon bebas dan 1 orang daripada Parti Bersekutu (BERSEKUTU). Apabila dibandingkan dengan PRU13 yang akan diadakan pada 5 Mei ini, terdapat hanya 64 orang calon kaum wanita BN, berbanding dengan tahun 2008, iaitu sebanyak 61 orang. Peningkatan calon kaum wanita daripada PRU12 berbanding PRU13 hanya meningkat sebanyak 3 orang, iaitu 4.9 peratus. Sebaliknya, calon kaum wanita PAKATAN adalah seramai 79 orang, berbanding dengan tahun 2008 di mana hanya 55 orang calon kaum wanita dinamakan. Peningkatan antara dua PRU ini adalah sebanyak 24 orang. Lantas, peningkatan ini menyumbang sebanyak 43 peratus dalam pencalonan kaum wanita dalam PAKATAN. Calon wanita BN bagi PRU pada tahun 2008 dan 2013 hanya meningkat sebanyak 3 orang sahaja dan ini tidak selari dengan tuntutan manifesto BN mengenai penambahan jumlah kaum wanita dalam proses membuat keputusan nasional. Keadaan ini memaparkan dua kemungkinan; iaitu BN tidak mempunyai kemampuan untuk melatih pemimpin kaum wanita yang mencukupi, ataupun Najib telah mengabaikan usaha ahli-ahli kaum wanita dalam BN. Di samping itu, pasca janji PAKATAN untuk melantik 10 orang kaum wanita sebagai Menteri telah mencapai sasaran penyertaan 30% wanita dalam membuat keputusan di peringkat nasional selepas meraih kejayaan di PRU13 ini. [1] Read more at: http://kpru2010.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/calon-wanita-bn-meningkat-4-9-berbanding-pakatan-meinigkat-43/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| When the going gets tough, bomb out your own ceramah and centres Posted: 25 Apr 2013 11:40 AM PDT Remember the cow head protest in August 2009 in Shah Alam? Carried out by UMNO bozos from Shah Alam, but they tried to create the impression that the protestors present were not just UMNO members, but also from PKR and PAS? Remember? Remember Hishamuddin speaking out in defence of those protestors at a press conference soon after the incident? Remember? They'd hoped to get a reaction from the Hindus, but our Hindu brothers and sisters did not fall for it. Damn! Next? High Court decision in December, 2009 on the 'use of Allah' by Christians. Remember the call for demonstrations at mosques in KL after Friday prayers? Damn! No takers! Malaysians are more mature than UMNO had expected, so a bit of DIY was called for. Burn some churches. Then torch some suraus. Heck, toss some pig heads into mosque compounds for good measure. Reaction? Read more at: http://harismibrahim.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/when-the-going-gets-tough-bomb-out-your-own-ceramah-and-centres/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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