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• Elections 1990: Irregularities on the electoral rolls
• Hit With Big Withdrawals, Fed Sells Assets, Borrows Cash
• Pakatan Rakyat Sokong Protes Jika PRU Dipanggil Sebelum Syor Panel Khas
• VIDEO : PKR leaders, NGO refused entry at Feedlot Project managed by Shahrizat's family?
• PPSMI and the Malaysian education malaise
• Bahasa Inggeris wajib dipertingkatkan - tetapi PPSMI bukan penyelesaiannya
• Sean Murray’s Kuching Construction Connection – Expose
• Self cannibalization: the latest political tool to win at all costs
• Mission schools: cheated by the system they trusted
• PPSMI: The Language of Politics
• Saya tidak percaya DS Rosmah membeli belah di David Jones. It's a low class shopping mall for her

Elections 1990: Irregularities on the electoral rolls Posted: 06 Nov 2011 08:08 PM PST A condition for elections to be fair is that the electoral rolls containing the list of people eligible to vote must be clean. Numerous complaints concerning the electoral rolls used for the General Elections held on 20-21 October, however, put to question how clean the rolls were. Some complain that though they had registered during the voter registration exercise in March, their names could not be found on the official lists of electors used during polling. These omissions deprived countless eligible voters of their right to choose representatives for Parliament and State Assemblies. Slightly more mystifying was the problem of 'phantom voters'. For instance, an Indian lady from Ampang, Selangor received four voting cards (informing voters where they should go to vote) that were sent to her house bearing messages to vote Barisan; the curious thing was that the cards were addressed to Malay names though no one with such names had lived in the house for the 21 years she had been there. There are many other reports of people registered as electors with a certain address though these persons do not actually live there. These 'phantom' include a list of 17 names registered as living at the address of a factory in Penang. The existence of phantom voters on the rolls was one of the grounds for which Haji Sulaiman bin Kamaruddin sought an order from the High Court to instruct the Election Commission to rectify the rolls for the parliamentary constituency of Sepang and the Selangor State Assembly seats of Dengkil, Sg. Pelek and Batu Laut. The judge threw out the application, ruling that the matter had to be first brought to the attention of the Election Commission and Haji Sulaiman had not done so. However, in his judgment Mr. Justice Datuk Wira Wan Yahya Pawan Teh said "the facts in the case (are) startling". READ MORE HERE

Hit With Big Withdrawals, Fed Sells Assets, Borrows Cash Posted: 06 Nov 2011 03:33 PM PST The Fed was apparently forced to take extraordinary measures to fund these withdrawals. These included the outright sale of nearly $24 billion in its Treasury note and bond holdings from the System Open Market Account. As a result, the Fed's System Open Market Account (SOMA) fell to $2.611 trillion, some $43 billion below the Fed's stated target of $2.654 trillion. Prior to this week, it had not strayed from by more than $7 billion since June. The Fed's action was not only a direct contradiction of its stated policy, but it was done without warning or explanation. It ran counter to Bernanke's penchant for telegraphing every important move the Fed makes so that the banking/speculating organizations can front-run it. The Fed took another unusual and virtually unprecedented action to fund these massive withdrawals. It borrowed $43 billion  from foreign central banks (FCBs) through Reverse Repurchase Agreements (revese repos, or RRPs). READ MORE HERE

Pakatan Rakyat Sokong Protes Jika PRU Dipanggil Sebelum Syor Panel Khas Posted: 06 Nov 2011 05:30 AM PST Semalam, Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) dan Pergerakan Kebebasan Sivil Malaysia (MCLM) memberi perdana menteri kata dua bahawa pihaknya akan mengadakan protes mirip Bersih 2.0 jika membubarkan Parlimen sebelum pembaharuan pilihan raya dikuatkuasakan. Beberapa pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat (PR) hari ini melahirkan sokongan dengan pelan itu dan mahu Najib, yang juga Pengersusi Barisan Nasional (BN) menunaikan janjinya. Pemimpin-pemimpin PR yang dihubungi berkata perdana menteri harus membolehkan jawatankuasa pilihan khas, yang beliau telah bentuk, menyelesaikan fungsi mereka dalam tempoh enam bulan dan melaksanakan syor-syor yang dibuat sebelum pilihan raya umum ke-13. Naib Presiden PKR Nurul Izzah Anwar memberitahu The Malaysia Insider, partinya akan memberi sokongan kepada satu lagi protes jika perlu. "Saya percaya rakyat menunggu bukti janji-janji pembaharuan yang dibawa oleh perdana menteri," kata Ahli Parlimen Lembah Pantai ini dalam kenyataan menerusi SMS. Tegas Nurul Izzah, oleh kerana isu-isu pembaharuan pilihan raya berkaitan dengan perhimpunan Bersih 2.0, perlu ada gelombang ketiga. Najib dan imej pembaharuan beliau berhadapan dengan kritikan banyak pihak termasuk media antarabangsa ekoran tindakan keras pentadbirannya menangani perhimpunan Bersih 2.0 pada 9 Julai lalu. Dalam pada itu, Pengarah Jabatan Pilihan Raya PAS Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli juga berkata, partinya akan menyokong pendirian PR bagi memastikan pilihan raya umum ke-13 hanya akan dipanggil selepas pembaharuan pilihan raya dilaksanakan. "Pada pandangan parti-parti, sepatutnya tidak ada pilihan raya sehingga pembaharuan dilaksanakan. READ MORE HERE

VIDEO : PKR leaders, NGO refused entry at Feedlot Project managed by Shahrizat's family? Posted: 05 Nov 2011 12:05 AM PDT Some the pictures as seen on the video: Just LOOK where are the cattle supposed to have been reared: NO cattle or animals CAN BE SEEN.   Watch the video and read at: http://malaysiansmustknowthetruth.blogspot.com/2011/11/video-pkr-leaders-ngo-refused-entry-at.html

PPSMI and the Malaysian education malaise Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:37 PM PDT What worries me is that the Malaysian education system is too fragmented to the point that it now mirrors Astro programming. And, what do I mean by that? It is disturbing to see that Malaysian children are being shafted into different directions in the name of seeking quality education, culture and/or just plain, affordability. Parents who perceive that the quality of education in national schools (sekolah kebangsaan) have deteriorated precipitously have been sending their children to national-type Chinese schools or international schools. Other parents who doubt the quality of national schools have been sending their children to private schools using the national syllabus. Parents who believe that their children need to maintain their perceived "cultural identity" have been sending their children to Mandarin-medium or Tamil-medium schools. Let's not forget that there was also a time when Malay parents would send their children to Malay-medium schools with the same intent. Parents who believe that their children should be at the apex of society with a fighting chance of being entrenched as the elite of Malaysian society and/or be competitive at a global level, have been sending their children to international schools based in Malaysia!!!! That's what I mean by the Astro-programming parallel. And, I believe this to be the major issue. This is the pink elephant in the room that the Minister of Education and the Cabinet has chosen to ignore. Granted that this issue is a delicate and complex one, someone still has to address the issue. Or, maybe this is the precise point. It is NOT a political issue because no one, on either side of the Parliamentary divide, be they Barisan Nasional or Pakatan Rakyat, have bothered to deal with the matter. Yet, everyone who has school-going children and anyone who has undergone any of the education routes I have outlined above should know or recall, the educational anomaly that exists in Malaysia. Who amongst the political leaders of contemporary Malaysia has the courage to raise this issue? Who dares to bell this cat? No one. All we have are parochial and chauvinistic gallery-pandering politicians and educationists who champion their own little causes. Will no one stand for the Malaysian nation?     READ MORE HERE.

Bahasa Inggeris wajib dipertingkatkan - tetapi PPSMI bukan penyelesaiannya Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:25 PM PDT Muhyidin telah mengambil keputusan dan meminta sokongan dari kabinet dan Parlimen untuk kembali kepada mengajar Matematik dan Sains dalam Bahasa Malaysia. Apabila isu ini masih menjadi perbahasan kita tidak terlepas dari bertanya, kenapa sudah 54 tahun merdeka isu medium pengajaran dalam bahasa apa ini masih tidak terlerai. Mahathir berkata Najib boleh menyekat implimentasi pengajaran dalam Bahasa Malaysia ini kerana beliau (Najib) adalah Perdana Menteri. Najib sendiri adalah seorang pemimpin yang sebenarnya masih mahukan pembelajaran sains dan matametik ini dalam Bahasa Inggeris. Tetapi Najib tidak berapa berani untuk meminta Muhyiddin untuk membatalkan hasrat beliau (Muhyidin) untuk tidak meneruskan pembelajaran Sains dan Metamatik dalam Bahasa Malaysia. Ada berita yang sampai kepada saya yang Najib telah berpesan melalui seorang yang berpengaruh supaya meminta Muhyidin untuk meneruskan pembelajaran kedua-dua mata pelajaran itu dalam Bahasa Ingeris, kerana Najib tidak berani untuk membuat teguran terhadap Muhyidin. Malahan Muhyidin semalam telah membuat kenyataan yang DS Najib telah bersetuju untuk perlaksanaan pembelajaran subjek sains dan matematik kembali menggunakan Bahasa Malaysia. Hakikatnya Najib dan Muhyidin sangat berbeza dalam isu PPSMI ini tetapi Muhyiddin telah mengambil sikap bertegas untuk kembali kepada pengajaran dalam Bahasa Malaysia ini kerana sentimen ini menguatkan beliau di kalangan ahli-ahli UMNO. Muhyidin mengambil sikap kemelayuan yang kuat dalam isu ini. Muhyiddin telah memberitahu media yang tindakan PAGE untuk mendesak Muhyidin menimbangkan saranan mereka untuk meneruskan pembelajaran dalam Bahasa Inggeris lagi tidak akan di layan. Muhyidin mendapat markah tambahan di kalangan ahli-ahli UMNO tetapi Muhyiddin lupa yang UMNO itu sendiri sudah kehilangan markah yang banyak dalam menghadapi isu ini. Popular di kalangan ahli UMNO tidak semestinya popular dari pandangan orang ramai dan rakyat jelata. UMNO itu sendiri sedang menghadapi masalah untuk mengembalikan keyakinan rakyat terhadap parti itu. Saya tidak lagi berkeupayaan untuk menentukan sikap dalam isu ini kerana isu ini terlalu komplikated dan amat payah untuk memberikan pandangan secara konklusif. Tetapi yang jelas Muhyidin tidak berkeyakinan dengan apa yang telah di dasarkan oleh Dr Mahathir dahulu untuk memperkuatkan penggunaan Bahasa Inggeris dengan pembelajaran matemetik dan sains dalam bahasa Inggeris kerana Bahasa Inggeris itu adalah bahasa antarabangsa. Saya secara peribadi tidak begitu berkeyakinan yang PPSMI akan membina kekuatan pelajar-pelajar dalam berbahasa Inggeris kerana matematik dan sains itu merupakan subjek yang kuantitatif yang tidak boleh membantu murid-murid atau pelajar kita untuk memperkuatkan penguasaan mereka dalam Bahasa Inggeris. Saya berpendapat kalau benar kerajaan ingin melihat Bahasa Inggeris di kuasai oleh pelajar-pelajar kita kerajaan patut menjadikan English 111 dalam peringkat SPM di wajibkan kerana subjek English 111 itu akan memaksa pelajar mengambil subjek English Literature sekali gus akan memperkuatkan penguasaan Bahasa Inggeris dengan lebih jelas di kalangan lepasan sekolah menengah negara kita. Bahasa ini akan hanya menjadi kuat jika kita belajar dan mempraktikannya secara praktikal (bertutur dan menulis) dan mengajar dalam Bahasa Inggeris dalam subjek matematik itu tidak mencukupi untuk seorang pelajar itu menguasai bahasa itu. Sesuatu bahasa itu termasuk Bahasa Inggeris akan hanya boleh di majukan jika kerajaan memberikan penekanan kepada satu subjek ini iaitu subjek English 111 ini kerana ianya akan memberikan penekanan terhadap nahu dan 'pronounciation' sekali dan benar-benar Bahasa Inggeris yang betul. Kita sepatutnya mengambil jalan yang tengah dengan memberikan pembelajaran dalam Bahasa Malaysia untuk kemajuan bahasa kebangsaan kita dan menekankan murid-murid untuk belajar Bahasa Inggeris secara khususnya dan lengkap melalui English 111 itu. Memberikan peluang untuk murid-murid mengambil subjek English Literature di peringkat tingkatan 5 akan menjadikan murid itu memahami Bahasa Inggeris dan sekali gus melengkapkan mereka dengan Bahasa Inggeris yang betul dan bukan setakat bercakap inggeris semata-mata tetapi berbahasa inggeris yang sebenarnya. Setidak-tidaknya dijadikan subjek English 111 itu di peringkat tingkatan 5 sebagai option yang digalakan kepada mereka yang serius untuk menguasai bahasa antarabangsa itu. Penekanan bukan sahaja setakat memperkuatkan Bahasa Inggeris tetapi juga bahasa-bahasa ilmu yang lain seperti bahasa jepun, mandarin dan yang lain-lain. Saya bersetuju supaya medium persekolahan dinegara kita ini di dalam bahasa kebangsaan. Dalam 'obsession' kita untuk menguasai bahasa lain kita tidak boleh membiarkan bahasa kita sendiri tidak terbina. Bahasa jepun menjadi bahasa antarabangsa kerana sikap patriotik orang jepun untuk memperkayakan bahasa mereka. Bahasa mereka maju bukan dicapai dalam sekelip mata. Bahasa mereka maju kerana perjuangan bangsanya memperkayakan bahasa mereka sejak ratusan tahun dahulu. Maka kita juga berkewajipan untuk membina bahasa kebangsaan kita terus menerus sehingga bila-bila; dari satu generasi ke generasi yang seterusnya. Dalam isu PPSMI ini saya membuat 'conclusion', yang bahasa Inggeris tidak akan berjaya diperkayakan jika diteruskan pengajarannya dalam dua subjek ini malahan ia akan membantutkan usaha untuk membina bahasa kebangsaan kita. 'It will be neither or there'. READ MORE HERE

Sean Murray’s Kuching Construction Connection – Expose Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:34 AM PDT The RM380 million luxury hotel and office complex was announced at the end of last year as a key initiative on the site, which has been designated by the State Government as a 'Special Development Area' and is being touted as the new Central Business District for the capital. CMS Land Sdn Bhd, a joint subsidiary of the largely Taib family-owned company CMS and the State Government, acquired ownership of the entire 240 acres of development land on the Isthmus, after it was alienated from local title-holders through a series of controversial forced purchases, in the late 1990s. 'Ripe for development' – the whole area just outside Kuching has been turned over to the Taib family firm CMS in a 'joint venture' with the state If that was not favouritism enough, the company has now been granted numerous incentives to build through the injection of huge sums of public money into the area.  CMS Land has officially estimated that the project has a "gross development value of RM2.8 billion"! However, we can demonstrate that this latest major construction project on the site is actually being driven forward by a mysterious off-shore company, run by an inner-circle of Taib's immediate family. The controlling share in the Joint Venture, which is situated on 10 acres provided by CMS Land, belongs to a company called Premier Cottage Sdn Bhd.  The Director of that company is Sean Murray, along with Taib's other daughter Hanifah and his favoured sister-in-law, Gertie Chong.   However, the sole shareholder of Premier Cottage is an off-shore company, Pioneer City Enterprises Limited, which supplies no profile or country address, despite having been awarded a significant public project. The planned Kuching Tower - projected to be the tallest building in Sarawak This is not the first time that the Murrays have claimed a stake in the Isthmus. Their company City Gate Corporation (part of the Sakto Group based in Ottawa) also snaffled a $110 million dollar contract to design the much talked about Kuching Tower, together with another company called ZW Group. ZW Group, interestingly, shares the same address as the Ottawa-based Aberdeen Project Facilitators Inc, who were formally awarded the management of the Kuching Tower project back in 2006. The Director of Aberdeen Project Facilitators and the Project Manager of ZW both happen to be one Thady Murray. Thady Murray also acts as the President of City Gate Corporation and is one of the many members of Sean Murray's family, who work out of the Sakto/City Gate Headquarters in their Preston Tower building, Ottawa! READ MORE HERE

Self cannibalization: the latest political tool to win at all costs Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:41 PM PDT Anthony Loke reveals yet again elector roll irregularities" On the right: if all complaints are raised, fee of RM8,320 is payable. More waste of money, it seems. On line version here: From an inspection of the recently released 2011 Q3 supplementary electors roll, Anthony Loke, the MP for Rasah, discovered that: ·         110 voters were transferred into Temiang state constituency , bearing addresses of 16 vacant houses in Taman Bukit Zamrud, Seremban ·         Some of the vacant houses have "for sale/rent" signs hanging at the gate ·         6 females and 1 male were transferred to address no. 126, Taman Bukit Zamrud . Apart from one aged around the twenties, the rest were more than 50 years old. Among the 7, 2 were taken from Paroi, 2 from Jempol and 1 from Senawang ·         Majority of the transferred voters are Indians, with some Chinese as well. The above makes interesting reading. Obviously this is not the work of Pakatan Rakyat. The motive is obvious, moving voters into one of Pakatan's constituency as signs of a snap election reaches fever pitch. Read more at: http://wangsamajuformalaysia.blogspot.com/2011/11/self-cannibalization-latest-political.html

Mission schools: cheated by the system they trusted Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:34 PM PDT "A Senior Physician" in a letter to Malaysia Today concerning Assunta Hospital, blames church leaders for allowing mission schools to have deteriorated under government hands. He is too harsh on the church. The source of the deterioration lies in the rapacious, dishonest and corrupt politicians that have been elected to power for 40 years, and an electorate willing to put their trust in men and women of no honour. In his letter, he said: " … the Bishop and the Catholic mission may not know anything about this state of affairs. They usually leave it to the trustees while they concentrate on getting donations for the hospital. Church leaders and the clergy live a life of prayer and a belief that God will take care of their problems.   This may explain what happened to the Catholic schools. They used to be premier schools for the whole country. It was not only a source of pride to the Catholic mission, it could have been a method to influence the minds of future leaders of the country. Unfortunately the church never moved with the times and the political changes that swept across the country. Now schools such as SFI, SJI and SXI are relics of a grand past and lie almost forgotten and decaying where they once stood." The open question was then whether the Brothers and Sisters who taught and administered the mission schools would follow along and become absorbed into the teaching service, so that they could continue to teach and be in charge of the administration of the schools.That is hardly the case. Mission schools were incorporated into the Malaysian educational system after much debate. The essence of the matter at that time (in the 1960s) was, in my recollection, that the church agreed after much discussion to allow the schools to become sekolah jenis kebangsaan — but retaining ownership and not transferring the land and the buildings to the government — in order to receive government financial support. It was eventually decided that the Brothers and the Sister would not join the education service, but would remain on the Board of Governors of the schools and thus supervise the administration of the schools this way. One factor would have been to obviate any potential church-state conflict. Over the years members of the La Salle Brothers and the Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus have agonised over that decision, as their schools steadily decayed in standing, suffered abuse and desecration, and became political tools, notwithstanding that many Malaysian leaders and members of royal houses were themselves educated at mission schools of the 1950s-70s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWlSYZyzg-I&feature=player_embedded To my mind, the church relied on two factors in making the decision to let the government run their schools and to stay out of the education system: • They trusted the honesty and goodwill of the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Raman, that the schools would be cared for, and that the government in all sincerity, merely wished to relieve the church of the financial burden • They trusted in a system of government that seemed to be based on democratic principle and one that would honour promises made. They were wrong to trust any one individual. Politicians come and go. They were naive to believe the succeeding politicians would honour the word of another. It should have been possible to put trust in the system. Institutions of the system and the civil service that goes with them, remain while politicians come and go. They are designed to be a bulwark of the common citizen against the dishonest politician. Read more at: https://uppercaise.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/mission-schools-cheated-by-the-system/

PPSMI: The Language of Politics Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:26 PM PDT With Muhyiddin Yassin slamming the door shut on PPSMI, the debate continues to rage on within both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat alike. PKR comes out to support the abolishment, whereas the DAP wants to give parents the choice. PAGE, the English rights action group is submitting 7,000 petitions in favour of the teaching of maths and science in English to the Prime Minister. Gerakan is also whispering that they would prefer that parents have the choice. How did we get into this place in the beginning? The implementation of PPSMI created controversy back in 2003, but if one were to gauge the results of the 2004 General Elections which swept Barisan Nasional back to power with the biggest majority in their history, there is little evidence to suggest that the implementation of this policy was detrimental. After a while, we hear praise for the government policy being forward thinking from different sections of the society. The mainstream media also ran pieces about English competency amongst teachers, and how many had struggled to cope with the teaching of the subjects in English. Obviously, this did not reflect well on the federal government, who then spent millions on books, training courses and computer software to train the teachers to become competent. I strongly suspect that the decision to reverse the policy to teach maths and science in English is based more on the fact that the teachers did not want to make the additional effort to learn English, rather than poor results, especially in the rural areas. At times, one hears stories as to how children who can speak better English than their teachers would proceed to torment and taunt them for their poor command of the  language. Malaysian parents are by-and-large extremely concerned about their children's education, in order for their children to secure their future, both socially and financially. We had the Education Ministry boast of the best UPSR results in history not too long ago, but obviously dissatisfied, the government has decided that teaching maths and science in Malay once again would further raise the standards. With the General Election fast approaching, the Deputy Prime Minister is obviously intent to prevent what are traditional Barisan strongholds fall to the Opposition. He has cleverly observed that because heritage and pride are something deeply emotional, he waves the flag of "I'm Malay first, Malaysian second" despite this being in direct contradiction with Najib's 1Malaysia. Therefore touting the fact that he is a nationalist and defender of the race, he gets rid of PPSMI to raise up the Malay language once again. Read more at: http://dougtan.blogspot.com/2011/11/ppsmi-language-of-politics.html

Saya tidak percaya DS Rosmah membeli belah di David Jones. It's a low class shopping mall for her Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:28 PM PDT 'Apparently' cerita ini di buat oleh sebuah akhbar berpengaruh di Western Australia dan Najib menafikannya melalui twitter beliau dan beliau berkata ini adalah fitnah yang sengaja di ada-adakan oleh akhbar tersebut. Najib juga menafikan berita yang isteri kesayangan beliau Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor membeli intan berlian di Australia dan isteri beliau tidak pun pergi ke pusat membeli belah itu. Saya pun hendak juga tahu bagaimana akhbar tersebut tahu jumlah AUD60000 itu telah dibelanjakan oleh anak perempuan Najib. Saya tidak tahu samada perkara ini benar atau pun tidak kerana saya tidak mengikuti perkembangan isu ini. Tetapi saya di minta untuk mengulas tentang isu yang di bawa oleh akhbar Western Australia ini. Saya tidak berminat sebenarnya untuk mengulas kerana membeli belah secara besar-besar ini adalah satu persepsi yang sinonim dengan DS Rosmah ini dan saya tidak langsung mahu mengambil tahu tentang isu ini lagi. Kalau DS Rosmah dan anak perempuan beliau membeli belah sekali pun itu tidak menghairankan lagi bagi rakyat negara ini. Saya tidak menjangka yang anak DS Rosmah boleh membelanjakan sejumlah wang yang begitu kecil di tempat yang dikatakan anak beliau membeli belah itu. Pusat membeli belah David Jones itu tidak lah sehebat pusat membeli belah di New York kerana tempat itu hanya lah pusat membeli belah yang biasa sahaja. Kalau pun keluarga Najib hendak membeli belah mereka tidak akan membuat shopping di tempat itu. Pusat membeli belah itu tidak sampai 'standard compliance' bagi Rosmah atau anak beliau itu. Saya tidak percaya Rosmah atau anak beliau akan membelanjakan wang di sana kerana tempat itu tidak setaraf dengan kemampuan berbelanja untuk keluarga ini. Tempat itu hanya untuk orang seperti kita membeli belah sahaja…tempat kita hendak membeli sepasang dua stokings, coli-coli dan seluar dalam dan panty wanita sahaja. Rosmah dan anak beliau tidak akan masuk kedalam pusat membeli belah yang tidak ada 'standard' itu. Saya yakin itu merupakan fitnah atau akhbar tersebut tidak tahu yang tempat membeli belah itu bukan setaraf dengan tempat-tempat DS Rosmah membeli belah. Saya berpendapat untuk mempercayai Rosmah boleh pergi ke tempat shopping itu memang satu perkara yang mustahil. AUD 60,000 bukan jumlah untuk dikaitkan dengan DS Rosmah. Itu terlalu kecil bagi ahli keluarga ini. READ MORE HERE

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• No election until reforms are put in place
• 'Largest mobilisation of rakyat' if polls held before reforms

The Catholic Church and the Mission Schools Posted: 06 Nov 2011 10:06 PM PST reply by a Senior Physician Uppercaise is too kind to the Catholic church and the clergy. Let me use this space to explain why this body of people has been lacking in the simple wisdom that is required to keep pace with a changing modern world. Let me refer to two examples.  In the 1980s a senior partner of Ernst & Young, a Catholic, some senior Christian officers in the Ministry of Finance and EPU and myself decided that the Catholic schools and the Catholic church had to become financially independent and reject government aid. Our plan was to examine large pieces of land owned by the church for conversion to commercial use. This land thus converted for commercial purposes would be then built upon so that a steady source of revenue would flow to the Catholic Church to fund church activities including support for schooling. We realized that there were enough well-to-do people who would support private schools which they as well as the public very much wanted. The LaSalle schools would be highly acceptable because they had a reputation. The land that we were looking at were mainly in Penang, Kuala Lumpur, and Johor Baru. These were choice pieces of land which only did not have value so long as they were occupied by government aided buildings. A notable case in point was land in Bukit Nanas. This effort failed for the following reasons. There were conflicts in the heiarchy of the Catholic Church. Bishop Vendargon insisted on selling a very valuable piece of land occupied by a seminary in Penang to the private sector which he did. The public does not know where that money went. The Bishop and his advisors held meeting after meeting. They then informed us that they will not go along with our plan. They would rather leave everything to the wisdom of God.  Next was a plan that I together with two friends proposed specifically to SFI. Briefly this plan (supported by the Melaka State government) consisted of surrendering their existing school land including the land that belonged to the Sacred Heart Convent in Melaka for a much larger piece of land in Ayer Keroh. On this land would have been built two modern school buildings, one for SFI and one for the Convent with solar panel roofing (to save electricity), a chapel, a multipurpose athletic and games field with a running track to be shared by both schools, a basketball court, tennis and squash courts, and a boarding for upmarket local and foreign students. All this would be done by a renowned developer picked by the State government known to have the financial means, who had to build first before the schools relocated to these buildings. The State would support these new schools with generous infrastructure including roads, drainage, sewage and landscaping.  The State was keen that these schools be converted to private schools (this required approval from the education department which the State would assist in getting) so that students from other countries would come to Melaka.    The land in question was owned by 3 parties – the Catholic Church, the LaSalle brothers, and the Convent. To our astonishment we discovered that all these 3 parties would not talk to each other. There were also disagreements about changing these schools to private schools. Neither I nor other promoters of this idea were allowed to address these owners of the property. They seemed to be content to be sitting on these decaying properties in spite of the possibility that their land may be forceably acquired.  This plan was therefore scrapped. These two incidents should show Uppercaise the kind of people in the Church that we are dealing with. They are solely responsible for the sorry state of affairs of the premier Catholic schools in this country. Of course the government changed. This had to happen in a democracy. But you will notice that they did not touch private schools.  I believe that the leaders of the Catholic church had the clout to influence government leaders as time went by. Unfortunately these church leaders behaved like foreigners in their own country. In a separate letter "a Specialist" has written about the abuse that has occurred in the Assunta Hospital, another public project started for the poor by the Catholic Church. This matter was raised by "a concerned Malaysian" to which "a Specialist" responded. There does not seem to be anything that the "concerned Malaysian" can do. The board of directors of Assunta Hospital as well as Bishop Pakiam has maintained a discreet silence.  The lay public of the Catholic church must hold the church leaders including Bishop Pakiam responsible for the sad state of affairs that exist today.

Fakta-fakta Penyenaraian Felda yang tidak kan disiarkan TV3 dan Utusan Posted: 06 Nov 2011 09:54 PM PST Jaminan Isa Samad dan Sabri Ahmad bahawa FELDA bakal dibayar RM1 billion bagi meneruskan tujuan aktiviti pertanian dan pembangunan sosio-ekonomi peneroka setiap tahun selama 99 tahun adalah BOHONG DAN PENIPUAN TERBESAR By Suara Felda 1. Menteri Koperasi sendiri tidak tahu menahu dan enggan mengeluarkan surat arahan Menteri bertarikh ke belakang (back dated) untuk masuk campur isu rampasan kuasa Koperasi Permodalan Felda demi memenuhi nafsu Isa Samad kecuali diarahkan PM Najib. Campurtangan beliau dalam Koperasi Permodalan Felda bakal memberikan imej tidak baik, dianggap campur tangan politik kerajaan dalam sebuah koperasi yang aman dan berjaya serta bakal dibantah Jawatankuasa Koperasi Antarabangsa (www.ica.coop/al-ica) yang turut dianggotai oleh Angkasa. Difahamkan beberapa lembaga pengarah Jawatankuasa Koperasi Antarabangsa dari EU dan Afrika akan mengadakan kenyataan bantahan dalam hal ini tidak lama lagi. Berdasarkan potensi perkara ini bakal memburukkan imej negara dan menjejaskan peti undi Felda di Parlimen Bera (sekurang-kurangnya 14 peti undi Felda terlibat di bawah Parlimen Bera) Dato Seri Ismail Sabri akan terus mengambil pendirian berdiam diri dan tidak akan menyokong usaha Isa Samad merampas kuasa Pengerusi Koperasi Felda walaupun Isa Samad menjaja nama PM Najib ke sana ke mari. 2. Perjanjian Pajakan di antara Felda Global Ventures dan FELDA yang disorokkan dari diketahui warga Felda sekalian jelas menyatakan pajakan tanah terlibat adalah: Tanah-tanah perladangan Felda yang diuruskan Felda Plantation berjumlah 360,000 hektar DAN; Tanah-tanah sedia ada Felda (Additional Existing Land) yang telah dibenarkan kerajaan negeri untuk dibangunkan. Contohnya tanah Felda sendiri digunakanFelda dan peneroka untuk tujuan pertanian, perniagaan, sukan, perumahan generasi kedua, resort-resort Felda, serta tanah di mana penyelidikan. Dalam perjanjian itu menyebut bahawa jika tanah tersebut sudah mendapat geran,ia akan diberikankepada Felda Global Venture secara automatik dan jika belum diberikan geran akan diserahkan kepada Felda Global secara 3 tahun secara penyambungan automatik sehingga 99 tahun. Jika peneroka-peneroka pada masa ini ada mengadakan aktiviti perniagaan, pertanian atau sosial di tanah Felda yang akan diambil alih Felda Global Venture, bersedialah untuk membayar sewa atau dirampas kembali tanah-tanah tersebut oleh Felda Global Venture bagi aktiviti yang mereka anggap lebih menguntungkan kepada kroni Isa Samad dan Sabri Ahmad Tanah-tanah masa hadapan (Future land) yang bakal dibeli FELDA akan diserahkan kepada Felda Global Venture JIKA ISA SAMAD DAN SABRI AHMAD MENAFIKAN PERKARA INI, SEBAIK-BAIKNYA TUAN-PUAN PENEROKA MEMINTA ISA SAMAD DAN SABRI AHMAD MEMINTA DITUNJUKKAN DAHULU SURAT PERJANJIAN PAJAKAN DI ANTARA FELDA DAN FELDA GLOBAL VENTURES SEBELUM PAJAKAN DIMULAKAN PADA 1.01.2012. JIKA ENGGAN, DISARANKAN TUAN-PUAN MENYAMAN FELDA DARI MEMBUAT KEPUTUSAN MERUGIKAN MASA HADAPAN PENEROKA DAN ANAK-ANAK DAN MEMOHON INJUKSI MAHKAMAH BAGI MENGHALANG TINDAKAN PAJAKAN INI DILAKUKAN TANPA SURAT PAJAKAN INI DITELITI DAN MENDAPATKAN PERSETUJUAN SEMUA PENEROKA MELALUI SEBUAH REFERENDUM Struktur Pra-Penyenaraian Felda Global Venture telah direka khusus bagi menipu rakyat terutamanya peneroka dan kakitangan Felda. Struktur Penyenaraian dimaksudkan adalah: Tujuan Struktur Pra-Penyenaraian yang direka ini adalah seperti berikut: · Mewujudkan situasi kononnya terdapat konflik kuasa eksekutif apabila Pengarah Besar FELDA memegang kedua-dua jawatan Pengarah Besar FELDA dan Pengerusi Koperasi Permodalan Felda dan menggunakan alasan urus tadbir korporat yang baik (bukan menggunakan peraturan Suruhanjaya Sekuriti BSKL), Isa Samad merampas kuasa Pengerusi KPF melalui agenda khas dalam mesyuarat Lembaga Pengarah FELDA yang diadakan semasa ketiadaan Pengarah Besar yang menunaikan umrah dalam bulan Ramadan. Struktur ini dirancang sendiri oleh Sabri Ahmad, bukannya FELDA mahupun PM Najib sendiri bagi mewajarkan tindakan Isa Samad ini. Apabila Isa Samad menjadi Pengerusi KPF, perkara pertama akan dilakukan beliau adalah meluluskan pelepasan pegangan ekuiti KPF di dalam Felda Holdings Berhad, merombak pengurusan dan lembaga pengarah serta mengetuai jawatankuasa pelaburan dan merubah polisi sedia ada yang menjaga kepentingan ahli-ahlinya selama ini · Menutup mata kakitangan dan peneroka iaitu ahli-ahli Koperasi Permodalan Felda bahawa mereka bakal kehilangan 51% Saham dalam Felda Holdings Berhad iaitu Syarikat Utama yang mentadbir anak-anak syarikat Felda. Anak-anak syarikat ini tidak akan wujud tanpa usaha bersama pengurusan FELDA dan kakitangan dan Struktur Selepas Penyenaraian akan menyaksikan penguasaan saham Koperasi Permodalan Felda dalam anak-anak syarikat akan jatuh kepada 30% sahaja dan 70% bakal diberikan kepada pelabur luar. FELDA pula disingkir keluar dari sebarang pemilikan dan hak dalam penyenaraian ini · Hasil pelepasan hak Koperasi Permodalan Felda dalam anak-anak syarikat Felda dan pelepasan hak Felda dalam Felda Global Ventures dalam aktiviti dipanggil 'divestment' (lawan kepada investment) ini akan menghasilkan sedikit wang yang akan digunakan bagi aktiviti pemberian durian runtuh yang sangat tidak berbaloi jika dibandingkan pembayaran one-off durian runtuh VS pendapatan dividen 51% selama 99 tahun + kehilangan hak Felda dan peneroka terhadap anak-anak syarikat Felda + kehilangan pendapatan Felda sebanyak RM1.5 – 2.0 billion Kepada anak-anak Felda dan peneroka Felda yang celik IT, minta anda terangkan kepada ibu bapa dan rakan-rakan peneroka lain untuk memilih salah satu di antara berikut: DURIAN RUNTUH VS PENDAPATAN STABIL DAN HAK TERPELIHARA: Durian Runtuh secara sekali pemberian iaitu MAKSIMUM gabungan wang tunai dan 'pink form' sebanyak RM20,000 – RM50,000 bergantung kepada serius mana bantahan peneroka Pink Form atau Nilai Saham tersebut adalah keuntungan atas kertas sahaja. Ia diberi sebagai galakan kepada peneroka dan kakitangan untuk menjual pegangan mereka ke atas anak-anak syarikat Felda jika inginkan wang yang sebenar. Sebarang jualan akan dibeli oleh pelabur luar (Di Bursa Saham tidak ada sekatan terhadap profil pelabur sama ada bangsa lain, negara lain malah penjenayah juga boleh membelinya). Adalah dijangka jualan anak-anak syarikat Felda dan peluang memiliki tanah-tanah Felda ini sangat ditunggu pelabur luar Felda dan akan terlebih langgan beratus kali ganda. Bermaksud, sekali dijual, beratus calon menanti membeli saham anda terutama kroni Isa dan Sabri · Koperasi Permodalan Felda kehilangan 51% saham majoriti daripada pegangan semua anak syarikat dan bakal tinggal 30% sahaja apabila penyenaraian berlaku. · FELDA (pengurusan dan peneroka) tidak lagi ada HAK dan SUARA dalam anak-anak syarikat Felda malah adalah wajar FELDA mengarahkan nama FELDA dibuang dari Felda Global Ventures dan anak-anak syarikat Felda. Boleh diganti dengan Isa Global Ventures atau Sabri Prodata. Barulah terserlah PENIPUAN kononnya untuk masa hadapan FELDA tapi dihilangkan terus hak FELDA dan diberi kepada pelabur lain · Perbelanjaan Felda setahun adalah paling kurang RM500 juta belanja pengurusan dan RM1.5 billion untuk peneroka bagi aktiviti pertanian dan sosio-ekonomi. Isa Samad dan Sabri Ahmad MEMAKSA FELDA menerima cuma sekitar RM500 juta sahaja (PAKSAAN INI TERDAPAT DALAM SURAT PAJAKAN FELDA DAN FELDA GLOBAL VENTURES.SILA DAPATKAN PEGUAM UNTUK MINTA FELDA TUNJUK DAHULU SURAT PAJAKAN SEBELUM BERMULA 1.12.2012) Dengan pendapatan Felda hilang RM1.5 – RM2.0 billion, dijangka FELDA tidak lagi memberikan peneroka apa yang dinikmati selama ini seperti bantuan pertanian, pendidikan, usahawan, SIUF, kerohanian,sukan, perumahan dll. Kesimpulannya taraf istimewa peneroka FELDA jatuh kepada peserta tanah kampung lain seperti Kejora, Ketengah, Kesedar, Felcra dll. · Kuota Peneroka memegang Lembaga Pengarah anak-anak syarikat Felda akan dikurangkan kerana peneroka tiada lagi kaitan kecuali sekadar melabur dalam saham KPF yang memegang sekadar 30% daripada saham Felda Global Ventures Jaminan Isa Samad dan Sabri Ahmad bahawa FELDA bakal dibayar RM1 billion bagi meneruskan tujuan aktiviti pertanian dan pembangunan sosio-ekonomi peneroka setiap tahun selama 99 tahun adalah BOHONG DAN PENIPUAN TERBESAR: a. Tidak ada jaminan BERTULIS di mana-mana berkenaan sumbangan tersebut dalam Surat Pajakan Tanah Felda (Diminta Peneroka dapatkan Peguam bagi menuntut kepada Felda untuk meneliti Surat Pajakan ini sebelum 1.1.2012) seperti dijanjikan Isa Samad dan Sabri Ahmad. Malah jumlah RM1 billion tidak cukup pun untuk peneroka berdasarkan perbelanjaan sebelum ini b. Isa Samad dan Sabri Ahmad tidak akan meletakkan JAMINAN BERTULIS kerana ini mengurangkan minat pelabur dan kapitalis terhadap penyenaraian anak-anak syarikat Felda. Pelabur dan golongan kapitalis bermodal besar Cuma berminat memiliki segala pendapatan, tanah dan lain-lain aset Felda dan tidak berminat memberi SEDEKAH PERCUMA kepada Felda untuk peneroka c. Segala kata-kata, janji dan jaminan Isa Samad dan Sabri Ahmad pada masa ini TIDAK LAKU kerana tidak mewakili Lembaga Pengarah Felda Global Ventures yang baru nanti apabila Felda Global Ventures disenaraikan. Isa Samad dan Sabri Ahmad sekadar bertaraf kontrak dan apabila masing-masing sudah kenyang akan pergi dan TIDAK LAGI BERTANGGUNGJAWAB terhadap kenyataan mereka sebelum ini. Sabri Ahmad sendiri pernah terlibat penyelewengan RM120 juta di syarikat Golden Hope Plantation Bhd (sebuah syarikat yang pada masa itu telah disenarai) yang disiasat oleh KPMG Forensics dan didapati bersalah sehingga dipaksa Lembaga Pengarah Sime Darby untuk meletak jawatan. Skandal Sabri Ahmad dan berita ini dilapor akhbar utama dan media alternatif sekitar Jun 2008 dan skandal salah laku Sabri Ahmad pernah ditanya oleh YB Wee Choo Keong di Parlimen (Link: http://www.1malaysia.com.my/zh/news/pnb-will-not-interfere/) dan http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/new-straits-times/mi_8016/is_20080611/sime-fires-2-execs/ai_n44404255/ ) Tentang Isa Samad tidak perlu lagi didedahkan siapa beliau. Masih rasa selamatkah peneroka-peneroka Felda, kakitangan Felda terhadap 2 individu utama ini yang muncul di semua media dan sesi penerangan yang meminta supaya mereka diyakini untuk ubah masa hadapan Felda? Semua fakta-fakta ini akan terbukti jika terdapat wakil peneroka membuat laporan polis dan melantik peguam menyaman dan mendapatkan injuksi mahkamag menghalang Felda dari memasuki perjanjian yang meragukan dan melibatkan masa hadapan peneroka dan anak-anak. Juga minta peguam-peguam anda meminta Felda dedahkan secara telus berkenaan keputusan mesyuarat Lembaga Pengarah Felda yang mana lain diputuskan lain diberitahu oleh Isa Samad dan Sabri Ahmad semasa penerangan di media dan kepada himpunan peneroka dan kakitangan. Turut tertipu adalah pegawai Jabatan Perdana Menteri dan pejabat Timbalan Menteri Felda sendiri tetapi tidak boleh berbuat apa-apa kerana Isa Samad menjaja nama PM Najib merata-rata.

No election until reforms are put in place Posted: 06 Nov 2011 03:14 PM PST PRESS STATEMENT: Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) It is no secret that a large number of Malaysian voters wish to see a regime change at Putrajaya and at state levels. This, we seek to do by due process, and constitutionally, through free and fair elections. This is plainly known by the Prime Minister, his government, his party and coalition members. Yet, our electoral process is fraught with irregularities that have long rendered our general elections mere shams that do not reflect or give effect to the will of the people. On 9th July, 2011, despite efforts on the part of the government and the police to hinder the right to legitimately assemble and protest, thousands of Malaysians descended on to the streets of Kuala Lumpur to make known their grievances with regard to the serious irregularities in our electoral system, and to present their demands to reform the same. Whilst the government and the Election Commission had initially continued to insist that those irregularities were more imagined than real, they had finally relented and, early last month, caused to be established a Parliamentary Select Committee to look into the various complaints in relation to our electoral system. Both before and after the setting up of this Select Committee, we have been feted to revelation upon revelation of improprieties that would certainly render any hope of free and fair elections being held, futile. These include : 1.       an admission by the Election Commission, of the inclusion in the electoral roll of 42, 051 names whose records are unverifiable, thus clearly rendering the sanctity of the roll seriously and undisputably unreliable 2.       acknowledgement of and agreement by the Election Commission to remove the names of 220 non-ctiizens whose names appeared in the supplementary electoral roll draft for the Paya Jaras state constituency for the second quarter of 2011 3.       a disclosure through Wikileaks that 600,000 foreigners were given citizenship and placed on the electoral as voters in Sabah in the 90's, during the tenure of then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed, and with his full complicity 4.       another exposure through Wikileaks that former Election Commission chief Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman had admitted to his having knowledge of the issuance of more than 60,000 fake Malaysian identity cards to foreign workers in Sabah in the 1990s on Umno's orders 5.       a report that there exist on the electoral roll cloned voters, numbering approximately 10,000 6.       the disenfranchisement of approximately 700,000 eligible voters currently overseas, by failing to recognise their status as absent voters and, as provided for under the constitution, afford to them the right and the requisite facilities to vote by post 7.       the changes to voter registration rules, thus hampering ongoing efforts to register the more than 4 million as yet unregistered Malaysians who have reached voting age. It is against this setting that we have now received credible information that the Prime Minister is intent on seeking the dissolution of Parliament on 11th November, and to fix polling day for the 13th general elections on 10th December, 2011. If true, we see this as a move, once again, by UMNO and the Barisan Nasional to hold on to power, both at federal and state levels, through fraudulent means and to thereby deny the legitimate pursuit by a majority of Malaysians for regime changes. The people are no longer prepared to countenance this blatant and shameless attempt to retain power through foul means. We reiterate here that we are desirous of securing a regime change in Putrajaya through free and fair elections. Any elections called before the Parliamentary Select Committee has completed its work and, before the reforms demanded are given effect to, will be anything but free and fair. We are determined to and will take all steps necessary to not allow any general elections called before the requisite reforms are put in place, to proceed.   Haris Ibrahim President Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement

'Largest mobilisation of rakyat' if polls held before reforms Posted: 06 Nov 2011 03:12 PM PST PRESS STATEMENT: Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) Recently, we have witness the rising power of the people bowed in several countries beyond a dictatorship govern. The sparks influence our country directly or indirectly, and the responded to the rising power of the people greatly feared by the government who play democracy inversely to remain in power. Despite enduring a government through fraud, including fraud in the elections that saw them with the specific purpose has rejected the reliable, clean and fair election system, but chose to pursue dubious electoral system and easily manipulated by the government agency itself. The Government is also pretend that they have alleged to have tremendous support, but the truth, mostly the people have rejected the ruling regime on factors of oppression and abuse the public trust.In the end as a result, this government collapsed fell even they've won a great victory in the elections of their creation. That's what happened in many countries ruled by regimes that deny democracy and ride all the agencies should act neutral, hence willing to sell country's sovereignty in order to remain in power In Malaysia, on July 9th 2011, thousands of people have chosen the street to persuade the country's election process improvements, which proved to be contaminated multiple disabilities who often denied the government. Shortcomings of the electoral process has been acknowledged by Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak announced the Select Committee On The Election Process Improvement, contrary to the declaration the need for the improvement of the electoral process. In the meantime, further public statements issued by the leadership of the National Front and the Prime Minister himself, who suggested that the General Elections to-13 will be held soon and not have to wait for the promised electoral reform process to be complete. Even more annoy and conflict with the guarantee to improve the election process, there was the variety of negative developments, such as granting citizenship to foreigners as 'special' for the purpose of voting. This madness seems to sell the country to retain power. Also feared to occur, improvement of claim in the context of reforming the electoral system of postal voting system in a protest before this is not only ignored but exacerbated by the proposed public employees other than police and military, as a member of RELA and nurses for example are forced to use postal votes. This is how they purposely put more damage on electoral system to allow the regime to stay in power. The latest information from internal sources that can be believed to have revealed that the Prime Minister to dissolve the parliament in November to allow general elections occur in the near future. Taking advantage of the monsoon season and the hajj, reinforces that November was chosen as the most appropriate time, thus providing an additional advantage for the regime. Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) along with friends of other mass organizations today representing the totality of the people to warn the Prime Minister of Malaysia that the election can be called only after the process of improving the election process done. Process improvements should also be a process of 'reform' which provides answers to the serious weaknesses that are often used by certain parties and not just mere cosmetic change. Be assured the people had begun to lose patience. The country is facing a crisis of belief in the democratic process of elections is now the worst. If the election is still valid before a convincing electoral process improvements, we promise to move the largest mobilization of the people. If elections are called in the near future (at least) before the special committee executed, then a most dirty election in history is guaranteed. If this still occur, the inevitable perception of this election is only the 'false' to justify the regime stay in power. But this does not rule out the possibility of the people down not only to protest but the willing to change the regime that has long failed to secure the rights of the people to get the democratic process of elections clean and fair would be beyond the limit. We can not rule out the possibility of the people will rise to ensure that the regime collapse to the fair and clean elections can take place and this country can be saved. We on behalf of Malaysians who are concerned to give an ultimatum to the Prime Minister of Malaysia compulsory elections only after the process of improvement of the electoral process seriously and assure complete sets or face the power of the people.

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Why Umno Malays are NOT Muslims Posted: 05 Nov 2011 04:43 PM PDT This great annual convention of faith demonstrates the concept of equality of mankind, the most profound message of Islam, which allows no superiority on the basis of race, gender or social status. The only preference in the eyes of God is piety as stated in the Quran: "The best amongst you in the eyes of God is most righteous." NO HOLDS BARRED Raja Petra Kamarudin Hajj: Equality before God Ahmad Al-Akhras, Harakah Daily    Every year, Muslims from all over the world take part in the largest gathering on Earth, the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Makkah. The Hajj is a religious obligation that every Muslim must fulfill, if financially and physically able, at least once in his or her lifetime. During these historic days, white, brown and black people, rich and poor, kings and peasants, men and women, old and young will all stand before God, all brothers and sisters, at the holiest of shrines in the center of the Muslim world, where all will call upon God to accept their good deeds. These days represent the zenith of every Muslim's lifetime. The Hajj resembles the re-enactment of the experiences of the Prophet Abraham, whose selfless sacrifice has no parallel in the history of humankind. The Hajj symbolizes the lessons taught by the final prophet, Muhammad, who stood on the plain of Arafat, proclaimed the completion of his mission and announced the proclamation of God: "This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed my favor upon you, and have chosen for you Islam, or submission to God, as your religion" (Quran 5:3). This great annual convention of faith demonstrates the concept of equality of mankind, the most profound message of Islam, which allows no superiority on the basis of race, gender or social status. The only preference in the eyes of God is piety as stated in the Quran: "The best amongst you in the eyes of God is most righteous." During the days of the Hajj, Muslims dress in the same simple way, observe the same regulations and say the same prayers at the same time in the same manner, for the same end. There is no royalty and aristocracy, but humility and devotion. These times confirm the commitment of Muslims, all Muslims, to God. It affirms their readiness to leave the material interest for his sake. The Hajj is a reminder of the Grand Assembly on the Day of Judgment when people will stand equal before God waiting for their final destiny, and as the Prophet Muhammad said, "God does not judge according to your bodies and appearances, but he scans your hearts and looks into your deeds." The Quran states these ideals really nicely (49:13): "O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other)). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of God is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And God has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things)." While Malcolm X was in Makkah performing his pilgrimage, he wrote to his assistants: "They asked me what about the Hajj had impressed me the most. . . . I said, `The brotherhood! The people of all races, colors, from all over the world coming together as one! It has proved to me the power of the One God.' . . . All ate as one, and slept as one. Everything about the pilgrimage atmosphere accented the oneness of man under one God." This is what the Hajj is all about. * The writer is a leading member of US Muslim civil rights group, Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

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WIKILEAKS: RELIGIOUS, RACIAL POLITICS MARK RUN-UP TO CRITICAL BY-ELECTION Posted: 05 Nov 2011 08:29 PM PDT A hostile crowd of about 500 protesters assembled in front of the building, including representatives from the Pan-Malaysia Islamic Party (PAS), Anwar Ibrahim's People Justice Party (PKR) (including a Member of Parliament), the United Malay National Organization (UMNO), and Muslim-based NGOs. A group of protesters led by Peninsular Malay Students Federations (GPMS) Vice-president Jais Abdul Karim and PKR MP Zulkifli Noordin stormed the building shortly after the forum began. Police at the scene made no attempt to stop the protesters, but actually escorted them inside, where the demonstrators disrupted the proceedings, using racial epithets and other derogatory language and forcing Bar Council President Ambiga Sreenevasan to close the forum. Police did not make any arrests of the protestors, but have announced that they are investigating the forum's organizers. THE CORRIDORS OF POWER Raja Petra Kamarudin Classified By: Classified By: Acting Political Section Chief William G. Gray for reasons 1.4 (b and d).  1.  (C) Summary.  The ruling National Front (BN) coalition is gearing up to oppose Anwar Ibrahim's return to parliament via an August 26 by-election.  BN tactics include intense rhetoric with religious and racial connotations.  A Malaysian Bar Council forum on conversion to Islam was shut down by a group of Muslim protesters spanning the political spectrum, a development that has provided the BN and government-controlled media with opportunities to rouse the emotions of their Muslim/Malay base.  In the meantime, the Government has again threatened to shut down a Catholic newspaper for "dabbling in politics."  Government and BN spokesmen continue to label Anwar an "American stooge" and accuse the USG of "meddling" in the internal affairs of Malaysia.  Post expects the rhetoric to continue to intensify with both sides viewing the by-election as part of the zero-sum power struggle between UMNO and Anwar.  End Summary. Protesters Block Forum 2.  (SBU) The Malaysian Bar Council attempted to hold a forum, entitled "Conversion to Islam," at their national headquarters on August 9.  Included in the forum was a panel discussion of two high profile conversion cases involving the difficulties faced by non-Muslims in conversion cases related to religiously mixed marriages.  A hostile crowd of about 500 protesters assembled in front of the building, including representatives from the Pan-Malaysia Islamic Party (PAS), Anwar Ibrahim's People Justice Party (PKR) (including a Member of Parliament), the United Malay National Organization (UMNO), and Muslim-based NGOs.  A group of protesters led by Peninsular Malay Students Federations (GPMS) Vice-president Jais Abdul Karim and PKR MP Zulkifli Noordin stormed the building shortly after the forum began.  Police at the scene made no attempt to stop the protesters, but actually escorted them inside, where the demonstrators disrupted the proceedings, using racial epithets and other derogatory language and forcing Bar Council President Ambiga Sreenevasan to close the forum.  Police did not make any arrests of the protestors, but have announced that they are investigating the forum's organizers. 3.  (SBU) Criticism of the forum has crossed political lines and split both the opposition and ruling alliances.  On August 8, de facto Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, taking a position similar to that of Deputy Prime Minister Najib, said that such forums should be held behind closed doors and not openly.  However, PKR Deputy President Syed Husin Ali condemned the group that entered the Bar Council, including PKR MP Zulkifli.  Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said he hoped such forums would not be organized in the future, explaining, "issues concerning religion are very sensitive" and since matters on religion "are spelt out," there was no need for discussions.  Abdullah added that he would leave it up to the Home Ministry to decide whether action, including using the Internal Security Act (ISA) and Sedition Act, might be taken against the Bar Council. 4.  (SBU)  Syed Hamid, Home Minister, said he "hoped that the Bar council got the message that there are certain things that are out of bounds for public discussion, even if held in a private place."  DPM Najib dismissed the protesters' disruption, saying it was "expected" and blamed the disruption on the Bar Council for its "stubborn" insistence on holding the forum.  De facto Religious Affairs Minister Ahmad Zahid encouraged authorities to take action against the Bar Council for its "defiance" by proceeding with the forum. He claimed the forum had a "hidden agenda to disparage Islam."  While UMNO leaders have united in criticizing the Bar Council, the non-Malay parties of the BN, including Gerakan and MCA, have emphasized the need to address the problems the Bar Council was attempting to discuss. Catholic Herald Under Renewed Pressure 5.  (SBU) GOM has renewed its pressure on the Catholic weekly newsletter Herald for allegedly "dabbling" in politics (reftel).  The Home Affairs had issued a show-cause letter on July 16 accusing the paper of committing two offenses - not focusing on religion and religious activities, and carrying an article purportedly degrading Islam.  The division issued another warning on August 12 that Herald's permit will be suspended if it goes ahead with a planned editorial on the Permatang Pauh by-election in its forthcoming issue.  The Herald has a circulation of 12, 0000 and carries reports in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil and Chinese.  Editor Father Lawrence Lim denied that the publication had breached permit conditions.  In his reply to the Home Affairs Ministry, Father Lim stated that the Ministry had not defined the concept of "religion" in the application form for a publishing permit and neither is there a definition in the Constitution.  Father Lim pointed out that the forthcoming editorial was only asking people to pray for a just and fair by-election. Anwar Portrayed as U.S. Puppet 6.  (SBU) The GOM is continuing its fierce rhetoric on Anwar Ibrahim, describing him as an American lackey.  Foreign Minister Rais Yatim fired the first salvo by stating that the USG should not meddle in Malaysia's internal affairs, arguing that even the UN secretary-general has not said anything about how Malaysia is handling its legal matters.  The press has quoted Rais as saying that he planned to write a letter to the UNSYG Ban complaining about U.S. "meddling.  Rais has maintained that the official U.S. stance as well as statements by former Vice President Gore and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor violated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Charter.  Echoing the foreign minister's view, UMNO Youth Internal Bureau Chairman and former PM Mahathir's son Mukhriz Mahathir described Anwar as a political puppet of the United States government.  He added that the statements by the USG and its former leaders are "a concerted conspiracy to install their lackey in Malaysia."  The UMNO-owned Malay newspapers have also prominently editorialized on allegedly close links between the U.S. and Anwar. The Next Steps 7.  (SBU) Anwar and BN continue to prepare to submit their by-election nominations on August 16 while his lawyers, confident they have a very strong case, prepare for the next stage of the legal process, which resumes on September 10. Anwar is expected to make appearances at a series of political rallies leading up to election day.  Although BN publicly talks about defeating Anwar, privately they concede his likely victory and seek to make the margin as small as possible.  Poloffs will monitor the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party Congress on August 15 in the Opposition controlled state of Perak as well as the by-election on August 26. Comment 8.  (C) The response to the Bar Council forum has illustrated the Government's willingness to utilize religious sensitivities and tensions for political gains.  The involvement of party members from PAS and PKR show the fragile nature of the Opposition's coalition and the potential for UMNO strategists to continue exploiting the coalition's lack of cohesiveness, especially along religious and racial lines.  The Malay language press on August 13 gave prominent and sympathetic coverage to a demonstration by thousands of students at the exclusively Malay Mara Technical University against a proposal by the new PKR-controlled Selangor state government to "integrate" the university by allotting 10 percent of the places for non-Malays.  As the by-election draws near, BN will likely increase the rhetoric, including implications that Malays' preferred status will disappear if Anwar and the opposition seize control of the government.  The message emerging in the Government-controlled media is that Anwar represents increased instability and a loss of sovereignty to the West, particularly the United States.  While fierce, religious and ethnic-tinged rhetoric is not unusual in Malaysian politics, the intensity of the current campaign likely reflects the views of the major players that the Opposition/BN power struggle is a zero-sum game.  Anwar believes he must become prime minister or go to jail over the politically-motivated sodomy charges and top UMNO leaders fear political defeat would mean loss of their positions of privilege and in some cases even result in exposure to possible criminal charges for graft and corruption. KEITH (August 2008)

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