| Tengku Faris' speech: Your say |
| Apr 17, 08 9:20am |
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A Very Concerned Citizen: I am both sad and disgusted by some of the statements made by the Kelantan Crown Prince Tengku Faris Petra. Many non-Malays have been in this country for four or five generations. They have worked hard and contributed significantly to the success of the economy. They are, in every sense of the word, citizens of this country who should not be seeking ‘gratitude’ for being allowed to live here. They are not asking for special privileges. They are only asking for fair treatment. It is time this country treats all citizens as assets, and not discriminate some as ‘foreigners’. All of us are bumiputera. If we continue to discriminate based on race, we will forever be divided as a nation. Statements uttered by the crown prince are polemic in nature, and would further fuel discontent amongst all races. If we genuinely love this country, all of us, regardless of race, religion and gender, should work together to make this a great nation. Amor Patriae: This is a shocking moment and comes as setback to the new emerging nascent Malaysian consciousness. A correction, needs to be in place. The idea of ‘non-Malay citizenship in exchange of special treatment of the Malays’ is not based on historical fact but more of Umno propaganda. It has not been stated in any serious historical work of Malaysia. It is more of a Biro Tatanegara Module which finds entrance in government institutions, universities included. Our historians are well aware of this but choose to be quiet about it. When we ask them, they say no point responding to political statements. The ruling government has been successful thus far to deter any challenge to its Umno hegemony. The challenge is not only from non-Malays, but also from the Malays. When the series on real struggle for Malaysian independence was published by Prof Rahman Embong of UKM, that makes Umno looks pale in comparison to the young Malays and Chinese who fought with their life against the British, the series was immediately stopped and the head of the publishing unit transferred. As some of our historians will not say anything that Umno will not be pleased to hear so we have to urge those who are more independent and value integrity to come forward. The best will be Prof Cheah Boon Kheng who has already published on pre- and post-independent period. The existing published materials are clear on the issue - no such thing exist. The most is said are on areas that consensus were not reached (for instance, the nature of special privilege for Malays, how long it will last) between the Malay leaders and the than Umno leaders. New research is impossible to be conducted from Malaysia as most of the primary material is classified by the National Archives. So, by repeating the myth time and again, it has becomes some sort of a truth and even entered our school syllabus. This should be de-constructed for the sake of our young Malaysians regardless of race. I also urge serious Malay historians (such as Prof Ramlah Adam) to come forward to clear the distortion and pave way for better Malaysia. This is the time to act with conscience and they Malaysian will always remember them for this. Speak up, historians. Baiyuensheng: Well, I don’t know about this and something is wrong in this statement. I mean, I read it a few times and still it does not make me any more enlightened. I mean surely, and morally this is wrong, more so probably on religious standpoint of view since all religions are advocating that all human beings are equal, unless I am wrong. Somehow the moment I read this, I felt nauseated almost immediately - just does not mix well with my 'inner' being' I guess. So it is a bit strange that people can still advocating this and thinking that by saying a few times more, people will somehow accept this? This concept as advocated is really beyond me and my comprehension. I would say more so for any decent intellectually endowed human being. By the way, this country Malaysia, is as much yours as it is mine. Anonymous: This smacks of deliberate recklessness on his part and which does no good at all in re-stirring muddy waters typically the hallmark of BN rule. If the Pakatan Rakyat in the new political landscape is going for a better job in bringing about fair and competent governance and improving better race relations among the various races, speeches such as this should be discouraged. The speech is most inopportune and unnecessary as it serves no useful purpose but an attempt to further arouse sensitive emotions. One suspects he has been manipulated and he should know better. Jane: I was so heartsick when I read the opening paragraph that I didn’t even bother to log in, as I figured the full report would just make me sad and livid all at once. Having read it all later, I'm no less heartsick. Respect has to be earned, regardless of whether you are commoner or royalty. Intelligence, a sense of justice, thoughtfulness - these, in my opinion, are some of the qualities that engender respect. On that basis, Raja Nazrin of Perak has earned my respect. I have none for this prince from Kelantan. He needs to get out from under that coconut shell and live in the real world. V Liew: I read with disgust this report. It is racist, instigating and irresponsible. Since when were the Malays ‘challenged’ in the 12th general election? By whom? By the non-Malays? To simply categorise such matters is playing with fire. The ‘loss’ of BN in the GE has nothing to do with Malays being challenged - it is the corrupt and arrogant Umno (or even BN for that fact) that is the subject matter. If we look at Pakatan Rakyat, there are Malays also in this coalition too. For as long as leaders speak out loud in open along such racial lines, it proves that they are insensitive towards the rakyat and will remain the reason that Pakatan Rakyat will be the alternative solution to governing Malaysia. Teo Chuen Tick: The Federal Constitution’s Clause (1) states: 'All persons are equal before the law and entitled to the equal protection of the law.' This clause in our constitution is good enough grounds to seek equality 50 years after independence. The baggage of the pre-independence era should not be forever a burden on the backs of new generations of Malaysians. Augustine Basnayake: Such is the substance of people who are leaders in Malaysia. If this royal leader knows anything about what is going on in this world, he would have made a better speech which would have brought all his subjects, Malay and non-Malay, closer to the horizons of human unity, closer to the leaders of the nation, closer to national unity without considerations of race, religion and skin colour. Now that he has made known his (and probably of others in his category), prejudiced, jaundiced perception of non-Malays and non-Mulims in his state, I hope that those affected will give the respect that is due to such and play the game well. His comments on the election only goes to show where his bread is buttered, in his position. There can be no peace as Malaysians dream of or imagined possible, as long as there are leaders such as these in Malaysia and are devotedly listened to by gullible subjects. Joe Fernandez: It's not up to the Malays to give out citizenship. Citizenship is a right enshrined in the constitution of a modern nation-state. For example, an Indonesian comes into Malaysia legally for work and later on is freely given permanent residence and. The children of our permanent residents will automatically get citizenship if they are born in this country, live and study here. Somewhere along the way, the parents and the grandparents would get their citizenship. All this is provided for by law. These are not the kinds of laws which can be easily changed since they would make nonsense of other provisions in the constitution. Where does Malays agreeing to give citizenship to non-Malays enter the picture? The Kelantan crown prince should not distort law and history because it brings discredit to the institution as the great protector of the non- Malays. Zorgen: It is very disappointing and much regretful to hear the Kelantan crown prince making such a statement. It is obvious to me that his motive is to gather support for his own benefit. As many Malaysians have just started to move away from the narrow thinking of racism and being religion-centric, this statement is trying to resist the change for a better Malaysia. If viewing from the historical perspective, let us ask who are the real owners of this land (bumiputera). They are those Iban, Kadazan, Dusun and Orang Asli (mainly the tribal groups Semang, Senoi and Proto-Malay) etc. What and how much has been done to help the real bumiputera here? What is the benefit to this country in promoting a racism and religion-centric mental block? Christine: I am enraged when I read what Tengku Faris had to say about the rights of the Malays. Someone has to remind him of the following: That without the Indians and Chinese, Malaysia will never be where it is today. That a lot of the Malay culture has influences from the Indian and Chinese culture, from its lifestyle to its food to its lingua franca. That for as long as some have this kind of mentality, a lot of talented Malaysians, be it Malays or non-Malays, will be forced to seek opportunities abroad with their talents. That the Malays are not the entirely the ethnic peoples of what is called 'Malaysia' today. Ask him if he speaks what he spoke on behalf of the Orang Asli. That this is not what Islam teaches - that mankind knows no boundaries when it comes to skin colour or ethnicity Malaysian: Though I respect Tengku Faris' view, I found some ambiguity in certain areas such as:- a) he calls for unity of rakyat and also the unity of the Malays. Why the difference? b) citizenship of the non-Malays were part of the so-called 'social contract'. I do not understand why beri-paksa kerakyatan when means 'forced-to give citizenship', is being raised by him. c) He said that the 12th general election results have shown that the Malays are being ‘challenged’. Wasn't it the Malays who also voted for Pakatan Rakyat? So, I can't understand why the so-called ‘challenged’ here. d) He said that ‘the Malays must defend the constitution’. Why only the Malays? All of us should defend the constitution, right? Not just the Malays. e) Tolerance in practising religion should be 'two-way'. Tengku Faris was implying it is only 'one-way'. |
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
'Many non-Malays have been in this country for four or five generations. They are citizens of this country who should not be seeking ‘gratitude’ for being allowed to live here.' 
| Malaysia `not an Islamic State’, say ethnic Indians |  |  |  |
| Posted by Raja Petra | |
| Thursday, 17 April 2008 | |
| (IANS) Comments by the royal chief of the Kelantan state and by its chief executive have brought forth contradictions from leaders of Malaysia’s ethnic Indian and Chinese minorities. Opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP)’s Indian origin chairman Karpal Singh criticised the Tengku Mahkota, the royal constitutional head of Kelantan state, Tengku Mohammad Faris Petra Sultan Ismail Petra for making “political statements” that were “on the verge of sedition”, The Sun daily said Wednesday. “The Tengku Mahkota should have known better than to issue statements with a political flavour,” said Karpal Singh, a prominent lawyer-lawmaker. “Royalty in the country must stay apolitical. Conventionally, royalty is required to do so,” he said, adding “the tone of the statements of the Tengku Mahkota is an affront to the other races in the country.” The Tengku Makhota said last Saturday that the special rights and privileges of the majority Malays were not to be questioned and that it was inappropriate for other races to demand equal privileges just because they gained Malaysian citizenship. Tengku Mohammad Faris claimed the special rights and privileges of the Malays as a “quid pro quo” (exchange) for providing Malaysian citizenship to 2.7 million people of other races who joined the Malay Federation. Describing the Tengku Mahakota’s comment as “unwarranted”, Karpal Singh said citizenship itself granted the other races the standing to claim equal rights and privileges. “The other races in the country acquired citizenship after Merdeka (freedom), and are, therefore entitled to enjoy the rights and privileges which flow from that citizenship,” said Karpal Singh. Ethnic Indians form eight percent of Malaysia’s population while the Chinese settlers are 33 percent. Kelantan came under the opposition front’s rule last month and has as its chief executive the leader and spiritual leader of the Pan Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat. He said he was convinced that the opposition alliance “will eventually accept the Islamic state ideology”, in an interview with Sin Chew Daily. The constitutional head’s comments also drew comments from the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) that is part of the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional. MCA President Ong Ka Ting said his party “will not accept an Islamic State as it is contrary to the Federal Constitution”. PAS’s agenda has been to usher in an Islamic state in Malaysia. However, it forged an electoral alliance with other opposition parties and performed well in last month’s elections. It is now part of the opposition front, Pakatan Rakyat, triggering a debate whether it still believed in having an Islamic State. MCA chief said statements by PAS leaders that they want to create an Islamic state “indicates that PAS’ ambitious goals have been revealed. There is no doubt that they intend to establish an Islamic state for Malaysia.” Ong opposed the Kelantan head of the state’s contention citing the Constitution. “Article 153 of the Federal Constitution states the special position of the Malays and the natives of any of the States of Sabah and Sarawak. However, this should be read alongside with Article 153(7) which also reads that ‘Nothing in this Article shall operate to deprive or authorise the deprivation of any person of any right, privilege’.” “The statement by Tengku is inconsistent with the Barisan Nasional’s stand on racial unity which stands for fair and equal partnership,” said Ong. |
| Under threat? What threat? | | | |
| Posted by kasee | |
| Thursday, 17 April 2008 | |
| BRAVE NEW WORLD Since the recent general election, voices have risen up in a shrill warning cry that the Malays are now ‘under threat’. But perhaps the real threat is the threat to Umno hegemony. AND so it begins. Race-based rhetoric has raised its ugly little head in response to a democratic process. Over 49% of the people of Malaysia have voted for parties that have rejected race-based affirmative action in favour of a needs-based platform. It did not take very long for voices, both common and royal, to rise up in a shrill warning cry that the Malays are now “under threat”. “Under threat” from what, may I ask? Let’s take a bit of time to look at this so-called “threat”. Firstly, Malays are given special protection under Article 153 of the Constitution. Article 153 is titled “Reservation of quotas in respect of services, permits, etc, for Malays and natives of any of the States of Sabah and Sarawak”. Article 152 states that Malay is the National Language. The Supreme Head of the Federation, according to Article 32, is the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, a Malay ruler. This is the foundation of Malay “special privileges”. None of the Pakatan Rakyat component parties, including the DAP, have said anything about removing Articles 153, 152 and 32. They remain safe and secure with no sign whatsoever of any sort of threat. Besides, in order to change it, you would need a two-thirds majority in the lower and upper houses of Parliament plus the support of the Conference of Rulers. The last time I checked, no one has a two-thirds majority in the Dewan Rakyat. Secondly, due to simple demographics, it is unlikely that a totally non-Malay party is ever going to win absolute control of the government. Of the five state governments in the hands of the Pakatan, four are led by a Malay Mentri Besar. Penang is an exception, but Penang has been led by non-Malays since the 60s. Why was there was no outcry before this? Thirdly, the proposed doing-away with the NEP (or whatever it is called nowadays), I suppose, can be seen as a threat to the Malays. But how it can be a threat is beyond me, because the replacement suggested by the Pakatan is not some sort of laissez-faire capitalist economy. Instead, it is an economic system with affirmative action promised to those in need. If the Malays are the largest group of people in Malaysia who are in the most need, then they will get the most help. If they are not in the most need, then why on earth do they need help then? This is the point where I will get angry letters about how the NEP is needed; because in the business world – the real world which I know nothing about because I am just a lowly-academic trapped in my ivory tower – Malays are discriminated against by the Chinese. So we need a policy like the NEP to provide some balance. I disagree.If there are racist business policies being conducted against the Malays, then you face it head on with anti-discrimination laws.If some person feels he is being discriminated against, no matter what his race, then let there be a law to help him, and let us punish the racists with a hefty fine or jail term. You do not meet racism with racism; you challenge it by destroying all traces of it. The problem with the NEP, as I see it, is that it breeds a mentality of entitlement based on race and not merit. This mentality seeps into governance, and it creates an atmosphere of mediocrity. One example of this is how the Constitution has been disregarded in relation to employment issues. The Federal Constitution states that you can set quotas at the entry points of government services, for example, the civil service and public universities. However, this is counter-balanced by Article 136 that says all federal employees must be treated fairly regardless of race. This means that once inside a service, everyone is to be treated equally based on merit. In such a situation, only the cream will rise to the top.However, since the introduction of the NEP, the practice in government services has been to promote Malays mainly. This has in turn led to a drop in the number of non-Malay actors in the service of the public. Taking my profession for example, the closeted unrealistic world of academia, I look down south and I see that 30% of the staff in the National University of Singapore Law School are Malaysians. How come these clever fellows who are good enough to teach in a university that is among the top 20 in the world are not here in the land of their birth? Why are the blinking Singaporeans enjoying our talent? Is it because that talent is all non-Malay and they feel they have better opportunities there than here? This is a complete waste, and in the end this loss of talent means a loss for the university, the country and the people of this country, including the Malay students who miss out on the best possible teachers. Perhaps the real threat is the threat to Umno hegemony, in which case my answer to that is this: clean up your act, live up to your promises and listen to what the people are saying.Make yourself electable by proving that you can create good government. That is called democracy. Dr Azmi Sharom is a law teacher. The views expressed here are entirely his own. Comments 26 ... written by Wisdom above, April 17, 2008 | 10:19:58 Dr Azmi Sharom is explicitly correct in his exposition. Article 153 is titled “Reservation of quotas in respect of services, permits, etc, for Malays and natives of any of the States of Sabah and Sarawak”. Article 153 is rightly meant for the 'States of Sabah & Sarawak only'. Do the other '11 States' of West Malaysia fall within the definition of Sabah & Sarawak as spelled out under Article 153 ? So we have creative distortions & numerous affirmative denials ever since 1972. Dr Azmi Sharom is truly a Malaysian Patriot. Syabas. The Legal faternity may have 'conveniently forgotten' to upheld Article 153 ? Syabas. Barisan Rakyat. Malaysia Bersatu. |
16 April 2008
The Next PM - Muhyiddin or Anwar......
Got this piece from Agenda Daily.........
No, it's not going to be Najib Tun Razak, according to Umno graybeards who have been reading their tea leaves and coffee beans at Starbucks.
Umno had, for a long time, superstitiously believed in the RAHMAN Theory when talking about who would be the next prime minister.
But now the ground is trembling a bit (only if you are one of its 3.2 million members can you feel it lah), because another new name has been picked, as this new guy's name does not start with N.
The RAHMAN Theory is this. The PMs of Malaysia 'must' follow the letters of the first PM.
R = T.A.Rahman (Tunku).
A = Abdul Razak Hussein.
H = Hussein Onn.
M = Mahathir.
A = supposed to be Anwar, but someone else came along. Abdullah.
N = Najib? (Now we must add question mark to his name).
RAHMAN is also Arabic for Most Merciful, one of the name of God, according to Islamic belief.
Now, the reason for this BIG question mark is because Mahathir Mohamad, after promoting Najib for a long time, has decided to drop the Deputy PM from his list of possible next PMs.
He said he has 'changed his mind' about Najib.
The whispers say this was because, after seeing Abdullah Badawi at his weakest point now, Najib should've made his move. But he is ever-cautious.
Or, if the nasty whispers have it, Najib cannot move because of 'files' stacked up against him (ie alleged scandals - the words of Umno insiders, not mine).
So, if the time is ripe but the main actor does not want to move, Mahathir and other impatient Umno gods have decided to pick the next most senior man, Muhyiddin.
You can see that the Johore minister has already been making statements to slightly move him away from the failed Umno leadership, while at the same time being careful enough not to sound disloyal. Not yet.
And Muhyiddin, Tan Sri to mere red-bloods like us, also has been given the powerful post of International Trade and Industry Minister.
By no less than Abdullah. According to one Putrajaya bird, the reason is because PM Abdullah too would rather that Muhyiddin take up the PM's post than give it to Najib.
So, if that is true - that both Abdullah and bitter-foe Mahathir agree on Muhyiddin - the RAHMAN theory will be chucked out the window.
Because RAHMAM - apa itu?
WAIT A MINUTE. You forgot Anwar Ibrahim, you said!
I didn't. That is for another posting lah, where the RAHMAN theory could still be fulfilled by becoming RAHMAAN (still same meaning, Most Merciful, in Arabic!)
Aiyoyo Samy, so complicated lah. Later.
Actually, the RAHMAN Theory could still go on if something else were to happen, and that is if Anwar were to become PM.
Incredible things would have to happen first:
- Anwar would have to bring in 30 Barisan Nasional MPs into his Pakatan Rakyat (comprising DAP-PKR-PAS).
- And we have to assume that the BN government, knowing that it would fall and give the reins of federal power to Pakatan, does not dissolve parliament and call for another general election.
- And then, we also had to assume that there won't be chaos (because the voting public is not ready for a change of government), thus allowing Anwar to become PM.
And only then the formula would become RAHMAA...
Someone could still complete the N later, whether Najib, or ahem, Nurul Izzah.
You see, in Arabic, the word Rahman could be pronounced as RAHMAAN, or even RAHMAAAN.
Or maybe another scenario could happen.
Anwar could rejoin Umno, unlikely as that may seem. This would cause Pakatan to shatter, and there will be a serious fight in Umno too, because Mahathir and the anti-Anwar faction won't sit idly by.
A more likely thing is for Muhyiddin to jump above Abdullah and Najib and become PM.
What would Najib do? Sulk and sit in one corner? He would likely have to come out, guns blazing to stop this. But can he? Do they have enough 'files' against him as alleged? Time will tell.
But more importantly, what about the People of Malaysia!?
Many people voted AGAINST Abdullah and BN/Umno to send the government a message. They got fed up with high crime rates, nonsense pronouncements by idiot ministers and their spin doctors, and the sheer arrogance of those in power - including the mainstream media who think that people are stupid to swallow the shallow government crap.
Most people did NOT vote FOR Anwar, or to strengthen PKR-DAP-PAS.
The Chinese who voted in Dr Lo Lo Ghazali of PAS in KL did not vote to bring in a PAS Islamic state in Malaysia.
The Malays who voted for Teresa Kok of DAP in KL did not do so because they love the left-leaning Chinese-based DAP.
They did so out of a protest against the BN.
So it would be foolish for the top people now, whether Mahathir, Abdullah, Najib, Muhyiddin, Anwar etc to now battle for power without thinking of these voters.
They voted for a better future for their children, not for these top idiots to go kill each other in public for power, while the country continues to suffer.
So for Anwar to make a power grab to form the federal government would be foolish. People are not ready for a total change of government.
Show the people in the next five years what this Pakatan can do. If they could indeed improve lives - from town council transparency to reducing crime and inflation to less greedy politicians - then perhaps people would vote Anwar and his group in at the next elections.- Agenda Daily
Pelukis Zunar pula melihat dari prespektif lain pula, Menurutnya,huruf N dalam perkataan RAHMAN itu bermaksud "New Dawn for Malaysia". Maybe the next PM of Malaysia 'must' not necessarily follow the last alphabet of the first PM. If that happens Najib can kiss goodbye. As for Mahyuddin, he is neither here or there.Satu pendapat lain pula berkata putaran teori RAHMAN akan berakhir dengan huruf "A" saja. Dalam ertikata lain Pat Lah adalah PM yang terakhir dari UMNO. Selepas itu UMNO tewas dan menjadi lintang pukang seperti mana yang sedang berlaku sekarang. Sesiapa saja yang menjadi PM selepas itu tidak semestinya mengikut teori RAHMAN itu.
Hey, what about Wan Azizah or Nurul Izzah or Raja Nazrin? Wan Azizah can be Malaysia's first woman PM and sorry for makchik tembam, Rafidah... or for that matter it could be Nurul Izzah, instead of Najib, and poor Rosmah will be crying for 40 days and 40 nights. Raja Nazrin is a good candidate however his highness got a state to rule.
So you see in politics anything goes....
cheers.
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Wednesday April 16, 2008
Council of Churches: Fitna distorts Islam
“The film, which is now posted on the web, highly criticises Islam, setting verses from the Quran against a background of violent images from terrorist attacks. "Wilders is provocative in his comments on selective readings of the Quran and seeks to present a distorted portrayal of Islam as a violent religion," said CCM general secretary Rev Dr Hermen Shastri.
He said the CCM was in solidarity with the Council of Churches in Netherlands which had stated: “We strongly reject all contempt and slander aimed at the Quran and the Prophet Muhammed, just as we would not wish this with regard to the Bible and the Christian faith. We stress that Mr Wilders represents the vision of a small section of Dutch society. This vision is certainly not shared by the Dutch churches.”
Rev Dr Shastri said in a statement the 15-minute feature film had distorted the core spiritual values of Islam, which like Christianity did not advocate violence.
"The vast majority of Muslims reject extremism and violence, and those who advocate only serve to distort and misuse religion.
"The CCM joins the chorus of voices, within the Christianity fraternity and between inter-religious groups, to denounce hate language in media that seeks to pit one religion against the other.
"The primary task of religions is to promote freedom, justice and peace and all religious bodies have a sacred duty to build peace among human communities through dialogue to achieve the goal of peaceful co-existence.
"The CCM appeals to all nations to exercise self-restrain in order not to dislodge the good relations built up over the years inter religious relations."
malaysiakini-why-police-refuse-to-come
PKR leaders are presently negotiating with the police on where they should give their statements relating to a police probe into the Monday night Black 14 gathering. The police this morning rejected an invitation by the party for the police to come to the Selangor menteri besar’s office in Shah Alam this morning to take the required statements.
Instead the police are asking the PKR leaders - including party president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Selangor MB Khalid Ibrahim and party vice-president Azmin Ali - to go to the Selangor police headquarters, also in Shah Alam.
PKR leaders are currently in discussion with the party's lawyers on what they would do next.
The chain of event started yesterday morning when the police visited the homes of Wan Azizah, Khalid, Azmin and Yahya Sahri, an aide of Khalid to investigate into the gathering.
The police claimed that the gathering was illegal and conducted without a police permit.
Lawyers in discussion
However following their failure to obtain any statements from the PKR leaders, the police had then summoned them to the Dang Wangi police station at 3pm yesterday.
The party eventually decided not to go to the station unless the police showed them a copy of the police report said to have been lodged over the gathering.
Other leaders like Wan Azizah also had said that she had programmes scheduled for the whole day and would be unable to go to the police station.
Following that, the media was informed late last night that the PKR leaders would be able to meet with the police at Khalid’s office at the Selangor state building in Shah Alam this morning.
The leaders - and the media - were waiting for the arrival of the police since early morning today, only to discover that the police has refused to come over to the state building.
Khalid’s political secretary Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said that the police had faxed in their refusal this morning.
“Instead they want us to go to the Selangor police headquarters in Shah Alam. We are presently discussing our next step with our lawyers,” he told Malaysiakini.
PAS' Mat Sabu and supporters rearrested
Wednesday April 16, 2008
PAS' Mat Sabu and supporters rearrested
By DERRICK VINESH
NIBONG TEBAL: PAS vice-president Mohamad Sabu and nine supporters were rearrested shortly after a magistrate’s court in Jawi issued a “discharge not amounting to acquittal” verdict to an earlier charge against them.
The 10, who were rearrested in the courtroom at 1.05pm on Wednesday, spent about two hours there. They were then charged again before magistrate Mohd Izham Ali. All of them claimed trial.
Mohamad, 53, was charged with obstructing Supt Mohd Nasir Salleh from arresting him at the Bukit Tambun toll plaza at 7.45pm on Dec 9 while his supporters were charged with obstructing policemen from taking him into custody.
The supporters are Zamarul Aini Abdul Malek, 37, Zairul Azrun Zainal Abidin, 35, Abd Rahim Mat Ariff, 58, Md Lazim Osman, 50, Mohd Biyamin Ishak, 44, all from Perak; Faudzi Saharat, 44, from Penang; and Abdul Razak Ramli, Mohd Subri Mohd Said, both 42, and Mohamad Salleh, 47, from Kedah.
They were charged under Section 186 of the Penal Code, which carries a maximum three months’ jail or fine, or both.
Mohd Izham retained bail at RM3,000 for Mohamad and RM2,500 for each of the nine supporters and fixed July 8 for mention.
Earlier in the morning, Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Norina Zainal Abidin requested the court to discontinue the earlier case against the 10 and to give a "discharge not amounting to acquittal" verdict.
She said the prosecution team had overlooked submitting a sanction on the earlier case as required under Section 186 of the Penal Code.
Norina submitted the sanction together with the fresh charge in the afternoon.
Defence counsel Mohamed Hanipa Maidin said his defence team would file an appeal in the High Court against Mohd Izham’s decision on the earlier case.
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| Posted by Raja Petra | |
| Wednesday, 16 April 2008 | |
| Therefore, the Pengarah Pilihanraya’s head has to be the first head that rolls, followed by the head of the Umno Youth Leader, and then if Umno is still thirsty for blood they can go for the head of the Prime Minister. Anwar may not be Malaysia's political messiah ************************************ Rafidah blasts those pressing for power transfer ************************************
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Friday, 11 April 2008
A New Dawn, A New Beginning
I never thought how powerful a simple cross on a piece of paper made by a humble looking pencil could be, until that fateful day they now refer to as “The New Dawn”. It was the 8th of March in the year 2008. It was the day I realized that my single vote did count. It was also the day my own little voice sang in unison with the voices of hundreds of thousands of passionate Penangites, so loud that it shattered the shackles of fifty long years of poor governance in our island state.
It was the day I voted for the first time in my life.
For nearly twenty years, I shirked my responsibility to vote in the general elections. The tide was too strong for me to counter it, so why bother to swim? Various logistic factors further dissuaded me from registering as a voter. Why go through all the hassle when at the end of the day, the same party will be voted in, election after election.
Looking back at these lame excuses, I realize now it is because of this very fact that the same incompetent party is returned every election that we should have stood up, and voted for change a long ago. By being a bystander, I have allowed plunderers to haphazardly rape our charming green island and seeded our land with ugly scaffoldings which they call buildings and towers.
Due to the leaders’ lack of vision and planning, George Town has become a cacophony of creaking walls and leaking roofs, intertwined by mind boggling bumpy brick roads. On the other side of the island, lush green hills fronting the Batu Ferringhi coast line are being carved and bled for the purpose of building more gigantic towers. Each time it rains, the runoff from these construction sites spill into the sea to create a bloody soup of clay and mud in these once idyllic emerald bays.
And no one seems to care. No one seems to care whether George Town collapses on itself or Batu Ferringhi turns into a swamp, just like what happened to Gurney Drive after the massive land reclamation in Tanjung Tokong.
That was why I voted on March the 8th.
I, together with hundreds of thousands of other Penangites sang in unison that day to welcome in The New Dawn. That was the day Penangites were empowered by the humble looking pencil. And the rest, they say, is HISTORY.
We now have a brand new State Government and a vibrant and colourful new Chief Minister of Penang – Mr Lim Guan Eng. It is still too early to judge their capability yet but the current mood in Penang is generally optimistic. The previous government had driven our State down to rock bottom. Therefore the only direction to go now is upwards. And that, they say, is the FUTURE.
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Ketua baru subuh menjelang
read this and be thankful from what we have in Malaysia.
This articles was written by a Jew
by Dr. Israel Shamir
The Writings of Israel Shamir
Take a country populated by diverse communities, the indigenous and
immigrant, of roughly equal size. These communities profess different
religions and ply different trades. The immigrants are better at
business; the natives prefer to till their soil. It could be a
description of Palestine with its native Palestinians and the
immigrant Jewish communities. But here the comparison ends. In
Malaysia, the communities live in peace without UN peacekeepers, they
pursue their cultural and religious interests without submitting to
bleaching multiculturalism, their country prospers while rejecting the
IMF recipes, and it is a native son of soil who stands at the helm of
good ship Malaysia.
On a less formal note, Malaysia is warm, wet and exotic. On the
monsoon-swayed shore of Andaman Sea, a long-tailed, lithe monkey
throws coconuts from the heights of a palm tree, flying fishes jump
out of the warm blue sea and splash back, a white triangular sail
rises on the horizon. Indians serve their sweet and punchy tea, teh
tarik, pouring it with gusto in pulling motion, and neatly place curry
on ecologically- sound banana leaves. Malay fishermen unload their
haul on the shore and sort it under a broad banyan tree. At night,
hundreds of stalls open at the Night Bazaar, feeding, dressing and
entertaining locals and tourists.
In Malacca, the oldest-in-East- Asia Catholic church stands next to
the Great Mosque next to a Vishnu temple next to a Taoist pagoda. The
Dutch-built austere Town Hall is surrounded by spacious British
colonial mansions. Narrow streets preserve the charm of the
Seventeenth Century, when the Malaccan sultanate was the hub of
commerce. Many of its denizens bear proud Portuguese names, but in
appearance they do not differ from other residents.
In Penang, old Hakka smugglers warm their bones on the wooden jetties
that form a floating island off Georgetown. Tamils sell junk on
Armenian street, next to the most advanced chip plant, home to Athlon
microprocessor. Yuppies have not taken over all of the Old City, and
it reminds of Jaffa as it was before 1948: a modest, humane Eastern
city. The glorious Oriental Hotel preserves the days of Somerset
Maugham and the Straits� Settlements. Delightful and modish Chinese
girls flock out of the convent school. Native Malays carry on their
unruffled life in peaceful villages, happily serve in the army and
provide the backbone of the administration.
Islam is the state religion, as it had been in the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Centuries, when it peacefully seeped in and eventually
became preferred to the older Hindu beliefs. Brought by the traders,
Malay Islam is exceedingly tolerant, local, thoroughly adjusted to the
place, as it is practically everywhere but on the pages of the New
York Times. The girls do not cover their faces, but often wear a
scarf, like religious Jewish women. On Fridays, men like to go to a
mosque for prayer, the great social unifier and integrator. As
Communism was always frowned-upon in Malaya, Islam is the preferred
style of social movement.
Prosperity is ubiquitous: perfect roads, new cars, brushed-up and
restored relics of the past. There are no beggars, no striking
poverty. Malaysians live well: they have given up home cooking and eat
out in countless restaurants and at the stalls, where one dollar buys
a square meal. Neighbouring Thais and Indonesians flock in and to cook
their national dishes. The Twin Towers in the centre of futuristic
Kuala Lumpur are the tallest in the world. 9/11 did not happen here,
and the hotel security�s main worry is Durian, strong-smelling fruit
the tourists are prone to smuggle in, disregarding the �No Durian
beyond this point� signs.
It is a peaceful land: one rarely sees a policeman or a soldier. There
are no security guards in the shopping centres, no visible tension, no
American troops or bases, no prostitution, gambling and narcotics.
Evening open-air parties, much swimming in the warm sea, friendly
chat, unrushed small trade: in short, a relaxing spot. How come . why
do they not fight, these people of different backgrounds?
The secret of the Malaysian success was given away by their Prime
Minister, Dr Mahathir bin Muhammad, whom local newspapers
affectionately call �Dr M�: �It is better to share a pie than to have
all of no pie.� In the 1960s, Malaysia was torn by strife, for the
native rural Malays felt threatened by the economic success of the
Chinese and Indian immigrants, city dwellers with a long tradition of
market economy. Numerically, the natives were hardly a majority,
rather a plurality, of citizens. Economically, they were nowhere.
Riots were frequent, and destruction appeared imminent. A pie was
there to share: mineral resources, oil deposits, tin and rubber, an
educated work force, a relatively small population; but the same is
true for many countries that nevertheless came to grief.
Where others failed, the Malaysians succeeded: they pursued a New
Economic Policy (later called a New Development Policy), aimed to
correct imbalances in agreement between the communities. That the pie
of national economy should grow and the respective shares of the
communities should be increasingly equalised was the idea of NEP and
NDP. The prospering immigrant communities understood that disparity
can ruin their good life, and agreed to affirmative action in the
interest of the indigenous people. The indigenous Malays acquiesced to
this relatively slow process.
The affirmative action is not too radical: a Malay student has
priority if he wants to study medicine or business management, as
before the NEP there were just a few Malay doctors, businessmen,
administrators. The native Malay gets a five percent discount when he
buys an apartment. Malay businesses have some small tax breaks. In new
developments, the developers have to secure 10 percent of flats and
houses for the Malays, in order to avoid ghetto formation. Malay is
the national language, but there are street signs in Chinese and
English; Islam is the state religion, but there is full freedom to
practise other religions as well.
A guest from distant Palestine, I cried: Eureka! If we, Israelis and
Palestinians, would learn from the Malaysian success, establish
equality and take affirmative action to ensure a fair share for each
community, Palestine would be at least as prosperous and happy as
Malaysia. Even the notorious Jewish settlements would cause little
irritation if their founders would ensure a fair share of Palestinian
residents. (Nowadays, a Palestinian is not allowed even to tread on
their fenced grounds.) Malaysia is an example to emulate. Let us
follow the Malaysian way, erase partition, restore broken unity,
return refugees home and live together happily ever after. Wealthy and
privileged minorities can impose their will for a while, but in the
long run, only agreement and fair sharing a la Malaysia will work.
Not only in Palestine: This is a general panacea against the malady of
inequality and national strife. In the Twentieth Century, the Masters
of Discourse promoted their own patent medicine: partition and
transfer. Liberally applied in Greece and Turkey, on the Indian
subcontinent, in the Middle East, in the Balkans and Eastern Europe,
in the former Soviet Union, and this has already ruined half a planet.
Nowhere had it improved things. Subcontinent Muslims I meet regret the
day Pakistan was torn off India. From Tajikistan to Belarus people
dream of returning of the Soviet Union. Hungarians and Czechs feel
nostalgia for …sterreich. Ravaged Smyrna, devastated Sudetenland and
bleeding Palestine confirm that partition wounds do not heal for
centuries, and that population transfer ensures future massacres. It
should be undone.
The Malaysian way of integration had an alternative, the way of
partition, and it was pursued by Singapore, a splinter
Overseas-Chinese city-state at the tip of the Malay Peninsula. It has
some similarities to the Jewish state: authoritarian rule, vast
employment of foreign guest workers, aggressive stance towards their
integrated neighbours. A great friend of Israel and the Far East base
of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, Singapore is an important
link in the global system of currency trading, an integral part of the
New World Order, a supporter of the US and Australia. Singapore is
better than Israel: it did not expel its native Malays, did not
conquer the Peninsula, did not launch aggressive wars. It could be a
free and peaceful city-state, but the dynamics of partition made it a
potential source of trouble. By taking a leaf from Israel�s book,
Singapore declared its �right� to wage war on Malaysia if the country
hikes the price of the water it sells to the island.
Singapore poisons the minds of the Malaysian Chinese and encourages
their immigration to the island. It is a very unnecessary thing, for
the Malaysian Chinese community is well integrated in their country.
In Penang, there is a Chinese Prime Minister, and, despite affirmative
action, the Chinese retain commanding heights in the economy. What is
worse, Singapore politicians try to influence decision-making of in
the People�s Republic, the economic giant with little political will
of its own. It is proof that the evils caused by choosing the
partition model do not stop at partition but have lasting, damaging
effect on the world.
How the Malaysians did it
The ruling block of moderate nationalist Malays and its Chinese and
Indian counterparts have managed the country since the 1960s, and Dr
M, actually a medical doctor by profession, has served as the Prime
Minister for over twenty years. Next year he will retire at the ripe
age of 78. He came to power as a young radical and Malay nationalist,
expressing the natives� disappointment over the too-slow progress in
levelling economic misbalance between the communities. His victory
scared the immigrant communities and made them more amenable to Malay
demands. But Dr M carried out reforms gradually and gently. Under his
rule, Malaysia became a prosperous industrial nation, a leader in
computers as well as in traditional pursuits. Even more important, it
is a rather happy land of contented people.
Malaysia rejected the Western idea of nation-state, as it accepted the
many-coloured mosaic of its communities. They are not three, but
rather thirty-three. The Chinese form many communities of various
languages, cultures and religions. There are Cantonese, Swatow, Hakka,
Hokkien, as distinct as Sicilians and Swedes. Indians are equally
diverse: Muslim and Hindu, Punjabis, Tamils, Bengalis. The native
Malays also form various tribes and ethnic units. The oldest
inhabitants of the Peninsula, the orang asli or `original men�,
Negroid tribes akin to Australian aborigines and Indian Dravidic
people, still roam the jungles. Europeans and their descendents (of
mostly mixed marriages) live in Malacca, Penang and Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysia rejected the idea of the `melting pot� as well. Communities
are not asked to integrate and assimilate; they are encouraged to keep
their identity and may attend schools in their native tongues while
keeping the same curriculum. They do not fall for the trap of
multiculturalism, either. The uncomfortable part of multiculturalism
as preached by New York is the removal of the backbone of the nation:
the rejection of the original religion and culture of the majority. As
I watched CNN on pre-Christmas days, I noticed their fear of actually
referring to the Christian holiday without balancing it by an example
of Hanukkah or Kwanza. Not so in Malaysia: there is a state religion
and a state language, and tolerance of minorities.
Most importantly, Malaysia rejected the faith of Neo-Liberalism.
Together with Castro and the Pope, Dr M is an outspoken critic of the
Chicago School. He does not want to sell assets to the highest bidder,
nor thereby to impoverish people and create a new class of super-rich.
Food and housing are inexpensive and often subsidised. Dr M is not a
socialist. He prefers a strong middle class, but he was taught enough
Mencius (Mengzi), the Second Sage of Confucianism, to know of the
obligation of rulers to provide for the common people.
The Neo-Liberalists tried to devour Malaysia. The Scourge of Nations,
the Imperial Wizard [See Heather Cottin, `George Soros, Imperial
Wizard�, CovertAction Quarterly, No 74, Fall 2002.] George Soros, a
mysterious man with unlimited resources and strong ties to the Israeli
intelligence service Mossad, who broke the Bank of England, ruined
Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand, attacked Malaysia, too. His
financial offensive wiped out ten years of Malaysian development and
ten years of 20 million men�s labour: a cool $30 billion of damage.
The country would have been devastated but for Dr M, who slammed
currency controls into place.
After the Soros plague, Malaysia asked for help from the IMF and the
World Bank, and was told that aid is conditional upon acceptance of
IMF rules, including lifting of currency controls. Ostensibly, that
was the purpose of Soros�s raid: to break the country, to send it
running to the IMF and to turn it into a vassal of the New World
Order. All nations that accepted IMF rules were ruined: from Argentina
to Bulgaria, from South Africa to Russia.
Eduardo Galeano, the noted Uruguayan writer, in a recent interview,
said: �Argentina did everything it was ordered to do by the
International Monetary Fund and it�s destroyed. The lesson is not to
buy into IMF discourse, which leads not only to the extermination of
national economies, but to horrific consequences that are not only
economic. A discourse that not only translates into mass
impoverishment and an offensive concentration of wealth, but into
slaps in the face, the daily insults that are the ostentation of the
power of the few, in the face of the helplessness of the many� It
discredits democracy. Nowadays, it is identified with corruption,
inefficiency, injustice, which is the worst thing that could happen to
democracy. Another tremendous injury is the great damage that the
culture of solidarity has suffered all these years. Right now the
predominant culture is that of �every man for himself,� and if you
fall, you�re screwed.
The new name for the financial dictatorship is the �international
community� ; anything that you do to defend the little that remains of
your sovereignty is �an attack against the international community�,
rather than an act of legitimate defence against the usury practiced
by the banking system that rules the world, in which the more you pay,
the more you owe. That is why in a country like Argentina everything
has been dismantled: the economy, the state, the collective identity
of a people who no longer know who they are, from where they came or
where they are going..�
The stubborn old man, Dr M refused to accept the IMF diktat, and
Malaysia retained its prosperous independence. It did not go under as
Russia and Argentina, because its ruler was a determined man who
deeply felt his solidarity with his people. But it was not an easy
feat: Dr M had to fight a to-the-last- man-standing battle with his
Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, the IMF supporter in Kuala
Lumpur. Anwar Ibrahim used the Soros-inflicted depression and stirred
unrest. A weaker man, a Gorbachev, would have collapsed and vacated
his seat, plunging the country into chaos. Dr M is made of sterner
stuff: he deftly dealt with the Neo-Liberal by using some old and
not-too-liberal laws against homosexuality. That was a correct if
difficult decision: In similar vein, the Americans had sent Al Capone
to jail on a trumped-up charge of small tax evasion, as they could not
make other charges stick. An IMF supporter is no better than a
gangster.
However, for many Malaysian intellectuals this was a traumatic
experience: they would have preferred correct results to be obtained
by correct means. �Dearie, don�t we all! But we can�t put �IMF
support� into the penal code�, I said to them. �The ruler has a duty
to his people to protect them from neo-liberal wolves, and this
obligation precedes his personal ethics.�
Soros retained a menacing presence in Malaysia. He paid for a Web
magazine and repeatedly tried to buy a newspaper to brainwash
Malaysians, as he does elsewhere, notably in Russia. In a Kuala Lumpur
hotel, I met Malaysian fellow journalists who expectedly complained
about another very non-Western Malaysian precept, that of
government-controll ed media. This would have been an embarrassing
moment for me if I had not heard this complaint twelve years ago, in
the offices of Russian newspapers. The Russians had no Dr M of their
own; they privatised their media. It was snatched up by a bunch of
moguls and turned into subversion tools against Russia. Now, almost
all Russian media belongs to a galore of Israeli citizens.
That is why I told my Malaysian colleagues: �Sorry, guys. If you had
had it your way and made your newspapers and TV independent of
government, you would have had a lot of fun for a whole week. One week
later, your media would have been bought by George Soros, the man who
preaches of the advantages of open society to oysters. As long as a
wolf roams outside, a clever sheep sticks to its shepherd�.
This week, Dr M had an unexpected reason for joy: a French court found
Soros guilty of insider trading. Its small fine of $2 million means
little for a man who makes $1 billion a day, but it is satisfying to
see him branded a thief. I would not be amazed to learn that the
terrible excesses of the Zionists in Palestine were arranged as a
diversion of attention away from their Globalist brethren. While
Zionists ruin a village, Soros and the IMF ruin a country.
Together with Castro, Dr M understood that the source of their power
lies in the overvalued US dollar. Since 1972, the US freely issued
green bucks no longer tied to gold. This financial swindle, the
biggest in the history of mankind, brought enormous wealth to some
people, and ruined a lot more. That is why Malaysia is the brain and
the engine of an ambitious plan to create a stable currency, the
golden Dinar. It is also called the �Islamic Dinar�, as Islamic Law
forbids usury and interest, and the Dinar will bear zero interest. (A
similar step was taken by Solon the Wise in Sixth Century BC Athens:
he cancelled debts, zeroed interest and made people free. A hundred
years later, Athens ushered in its Golden Age.) This year, the Dinar
will become the currency to settle deals between Malaysia and some
Arab countries.
Currency trading, the pet tool of Soros, should be banned, thinks Dr
M: �The traders sell huge sums of currency they do not have to buyers
who are members of the same circle. The buyers in turn sell this
fictitious currency to others, force down the value and buy at the
depressed prices. Short selling has been taken to the ultimate level.
The currency trading is many times bigger than total world trade.�
The New World Order has in Dr M a most outspoken enemy. He views it as
a continuation of old colonialism by new methods: �Free trade had
always been the war cry of the Europeans. In the 19th century they
used gunboats to open East Asia for trade. They went to war when they
were not allowed to supply opium to China. Now, the gunboats have
disappeared, but the pressures are no less effective. An occupation
army cannot colonise more effectively than the economic arm-twisting
used by the West. Now international institutions are used to open up
the countries for �free trade�. Once the countries are opened up, the
big corporations and banks would move in, and the locals will be
swallowed up.�
Dr M has not mellowed with years. His thinking has become even more
striking and extraordinary. While visiting Japan, he called upon the
Japanese to reject the Western model as it is sure to ruin their
achievements: Japanese system worked very well for the Japanese. It
made Japan the second most powerful economy in the world. It may not
be the Western way, but it can�t be all wrong if it can achieve so
much.
In Dr M�s view, Japan should return to strong government involvement
in economy, and take up its leading role in Asia, for �East Asia and
the world need Japan, its dynamism and its single-minded dedication�.
For Dr M, as for many important politicians in Asia, WWII was not a
war between ultimate good and ultimate evil. �The success of the
Japanese army in the early days of the war finally broke the spell
cast by the Europeans. East Asians learned that their European
overlords could be defeated.� Similar sentiments are voiced in Iran
and in Arab countries, where anti-British resentment brought
nationalist leaders to seek help of the Axis Powers.
Malaysia is an �alternative� country where many Western ideas were
found wanting and were rejected. We are used to frequent changes of
prime ministers and presidents and see it as a success of democracy.
But Dr M, this benevolent king-philosopher in Plato�s mould,
disagrees. It takes many years for policies to produce fruits, he
says. First year in power, the ruler learns to be addressed and to
address others properly. Next year, he forms his opinions. Then he
makes decisions, and only in a few years can we judge his decisions
properly. He succeeded because he had enough time, he says.
This idea is unusual for us, but as the matter of fact, three of the
most charismatic and extraordinary statesmen of our days, Dr M, Dr
Fidel Castro and the Pope, persist in power for tens of years with
great success. Commercial companies, nowadays as powerful as any
state, also do not change their helmsmen without urgent need.
Surely, if a statesman like Dr M were to lead Japan, (or China, or
Russia, or, indeed, the EU) the world would be different. Many things
have changed since WWII, and Europeans, together with ordinary
Americans, are now experiencing the brunt of the same policies Asia
suffered in its colonial past. �The Open Society� has become the tool
for robbery brought home, as the New World Order is the colonisation
of Europeans and Americans by their new financial elite.
Dr M is a strict opponent of the American War on Terror. For him,
�terrorism never dies until the causes for terrorism are eliminated�.
He speaks against the impending Anglo-American aggression in Iraq, he
refuses to accept the rant of �Islamic terror�. Dr M supports the
much-suffering people of Palestine without the caveats usually
produced by his meek-hearted colleagues in Europe. His voice is heard,
for Malaysia has not surrendered its discourse to its enemies.
Malaysia reminded me of Cuba, the Island of Freedom in the Caribbean
Sea. It is also an alternative society where highly educated men map a
different future for mankind, for �today�s world is in shambles. The
abuses of the free trade system, the unlimited greed of speculators,
have resulted in the world losing its way�, in the words of Dr M.
Similar ideas are expressed in Castro�s speeches. The two politicians
met a few times and expressed mutual admiration, despite their huge
ideological differences: Castro the Communist and Dr M the
Nationalist. In Cuba and in Malaysia, one can read a newspaper or
watch TV without nausea. These two small countries have much for us to
learn from.
�
Israel Shamir is a critically acclaimed and respected Russian Israeli
Writer and Journalist. He wrote for Haaretz, BBC, Pravda and
translated Agnon, Joyce and Homer into Russian. He lives in Jaffa and
has become a leading champion of the �One Man, One Vote, One State�
solution in all of Palestine/Israel. His writings are mostly in
English but you can also read some of his articles translated into
Arabic, French, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Turkish,
Russian and Spanish.
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The letter A is missing after RAHMAN. My prediction: Najib will be there for a while before he is replaced by Anwar. RAHMANA sounds like Hindi version.
It has to be Najib. After that Malaysia will start a new theory ANWAR....starting with Anwar loh!