“REFORM & UBAH”....IS A “FLIP-FLOP” WORLD!!

OPPOSITION LEADERS HAVE LOST THE REAL SENSE OF MORALITY AND RESPONSIBILITY!!!

By : Tan Tee Beng

Hi, my fellow Malaysians,

It’s really disgusting to hear the main opposition leader denied that the opposition had claimed 40,000 Bangladeshi were shipped in as phantom voters by the BN government for the concluded GE13. Anyone who knows simple arithmetic will tell you that figure of 40,000 is impossible to achieve within that short period towards GE13. What is more shocking is not the denial, but the  “putar-belit” act in the drama.

When the PM was going to implement the GST in the near future, his  good intention was to arrest the financial situation in Malaysia to be in a manageable and positive financial position for the future, the opposition tried to equate GST to national Bankruptcy. Let me ask you. Do you think the present government including the future government are going to wait until we experience a “fiscal cliff” like what the Americans went through before taking action? Ask the economic experts. They are bound to tell you how adversely the US economy has been impacting the whole world. How ignorant these opposition leaders are! Do they want their future generation to suffer or do they want a better life for their children and grandchildren? Can”t we have an honest politician these days?!

Who is calling himself the “New Tiger of Jelutong” when the exiting famous “Tiger” is still around”? This is Rude! I do not know what the “New Tiger  of Jelutong” think he is! He might thought he is now the greatest man on “earth” with his self proclaimed glamour name.....What a shame! And he thought with this “greatness” he has the right to summon the highest MPPP authority to attend to his constituency’s problem. And he called those officers sent by the YDP of MPPP as “Kucing kurap” and chased them away too. Even though, the senior officer who was sent to assist him is a very senior staff of MPPP. I can understand how bad and pissed-off Mr. See felt. I sympathized with him. I think the recent response executed by the  parties involved against the “New Tiger of Jelutong” is appropriate.

 This “Anjing Kurap” (Rude, arrogant, senseless) must be taught a good lesson. Why suddenly LGE is so quiet on this matter? Well, this “new tiger” had lost the real sense of morality and responsibility. Why? I think he is paranoid towards MPPP. Recalling some time ago before this incident happened, he attacked the MPPP on matters related to the approvals of public submitted projects in Penang. I would like to ask his intention. How on earth could submitted projects for council’s approval be delayed so long, like  >900 days? Who is holding up and for what reasons? Do the council follow the SOP? Does the “new tiger” have any particular interests in some of the projects because he seems so concerned?

The opposition controlled Selangor government had raised the salary of ADUN, Speaker and MB recently. Let’s say I jumped the gun. The Penang state government is going to hold their assembly soon. I am inclined to figure they will copy what the Selangor assembly did and follow suit.

Re-capping the recent events. The Penang government had recently bought a new fleet of Toyota Camry s for their official use. And soon after, an entourage comprising state government officers and some including their spouses shoot off to Hainan, China. Using the state coffer to foot their spouses’ bill is considered an Abuse of power. But, they claimed BN had done that before. Let me ask. Is the sitting government, the proud CAT (competence, accountable, transparent ) wished to turn themselves to a COPY CAT? Let me remind LGE that the voters voted them in was with the thought of UBAH that the opposition proudly declared. The voters thought things will not be the same or there are going to experience real change....  But, does it? Or maybe the CAT government is now out of ideas and becomes incompetence?

Well, Penangites! It’s your own fault.......because you were fooled to vote LGE and his officer to the State Assembly..... They had disappointed you! And they are going to use your hard-earned cash bit by bit to enjoy like there is no tomorrow. 

So, are you disappointed, disgusted, frustrated and pissed-off by the leaders of PR? For me, these leaders had gone paranoid, lack of the real sense of morality and responsibility and finally, I think they are not qualified at all to be called Ybs.    

(End note:  Tan Tee Beng was an ex-MP for Batu Kawan constituency who held office after 308 GE12 till 505 GE13 ended.  He turned independent MP when he was confronted with unacceptable leadership in the so-called PR riff-raff bloc despite he contested under the PKR ticket in 308 election. Now he’s Chairperson of a nation wide NGO. )

Woeful Penangites!

Five years is a long time. Five years is long enough time to produce a kid to enrol standard one primary school.  Five years in Japan is also long enough time for their transport department to declare a Japanese car a scrap and throws it in limbo!

After 308, it came 505, and 5 solid years had past!

In Penang, the oblivious Penangites have begun to wake up a little, the aunties who suffered the charm of the 'tokong' have also stopped jerking and bounced back to the reality of life to discover they had been played by the back, by one they adored very much....!

Some Tanjung Bungah residents have forced to show their faces and disgruntles in the press interview easing their pent up emotions!  Readers could feel the smouldering were amid their comments, or rather great disapproval of the once looked innocent and smirking baby face, has begun to give people impression that - a smirking of fox - is so familiar!

In the name of green and clean environment fighter, and saviour, the hypocritical politicians of the day have never failed to spray pepper into the local residents' eyes with intend to blind their sighting of natural landscapes being destroyed to give way for developments.  So much so, more and more ignorant Penangites begin to agree that the so-called Pro Rakyat CAT is indeed another Pro Developer, good buddy to the greedy and unscrupulous developers they only see nothing of the rakyat's but, their own well beings!

Trees cut down from the hill slopes to make way for the concrete forests!  Rubbish dump site by the beach front has been made into construction site and diesel fumes of the bulldozers had made the fresh sea breeze no more!  Soon, residents will see more nuisance of strangers influx and the roaring vehicles to conquer their once a serene and unruffled dwelling village!

Only the hypocritical capitalist government and their cronies would pose with glee, hands on shoulders, intimate like swanker, cheekily proclaim - another people's project - it's all for you!.....

This is how they develop our Pearl of the Orient into a dying pearl which is losing its lustre day by day!

Shouldn't all the pea brains Penangites wake up now to tell the swankpot baby face what we actually want?!  Shouldn't we all tell him off - "Hey look! We need no 'tokong' here!  Roll back to lick Cheng Ho's toe and leave us alone!"

Woeful Penang, my homeland!

To Hell All the Demagogues!

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/vote-rigging-helped-bn-win-putrajaya-kit-siang-tells-rally/

 

This is the beginning of a real nightmare our sore loser demagogues simply seduced the gullible fans into believing and questioning the so-called real mandate of the newly sworn in BN government!

 

What mandate this old fox was trying to mislead those juvenile young chicks and lads into believing his warped side of explaining the EC law where it's clearly stated that - it's he rights of candidates or their election agents to object any miscounting process and get it recounted there and then in the polling center - if any candidate is not satisfied with the result especially those with very slim margin simple majority votes!

 

What he meant by the 30 odd seats were rigged by EC without concrete evidence simply based on the report of their green and novice counting agents' cooked up story like EC Retaining Officers amended the tally sheets during someone sabotaged the switch box caused a black out that kinda of bullshits, baseless and low down accusations?!

 

If that incident really happened and gone unchecked by the candidate or his agent on the spot and made a vehement protest or objection, then sorry to say, as a two terms election agent myself, the integrity of that candidate and agent would have been questioned, and my advice is - go back to the school and get a pass first from the school of politics - before comes out to show his ignorance to cause as laughing stock lah!...So easy to be a YB?! Even one who knows nuts about his political rights?!

 

I agreed with the EC Director General that they had done their job without taking side in favour of any partisan, and my past experience confirmed! Once, Danny Low from DAP was given chance of the following day after his defeat, to call in his whole party gang to the tally centre at Free School hall and they left no stone unturned to retrieve all ballot papers from the boxes and did recount all over to his full satisfaction, then only he stopped whining!

 

The proper procedure is, the losers can still take up their appeals to court within 21 days with concrete proofs and evidence, they would have chanced to overturn the results and make themselves the winner provided the verdict is to favour them!

 

But then these demagogues and power crazy pollies will still cry - "The court is a private company owned by BN" ! Both way they are the bonkers! They will always be the 'top man' as i learned from one of my fren!

 

Sorry to say that, these demagogues are no 'demigod' to take us and our Nation to prosper but only to crumple it so that they can ride roughshod over us like the Hamas in the Gaza strip! They used the children as human shield when they cowardly fought the Israelis solders from behind the walls of the mosques!

 

Still want to be their cannon fodders and the low life pawn downs?!

Up to any of you but not for me definitely!

 

I want peaceful and a a united society where we can greet anyone by our neighbour with smiling face and expect returns of the same like my Indian neighbour will always serve me with the spicy Indian curry whenever she has any extra plates!

 

I reciprocate by watering their plants just divided by a low fence in return for his friendly gesture especially during when they were out to other place and leave the house vacant!

 

I do not want our Nation to turn out like Lebanon, like Libya, like Syria or not even like Thailand, they have coup d'etat off and on to upset our living, to threaten our children going to work!

 

To hell is 'the better future' when today we are suffering from the stinking shits of the demagogues who would make our lives unsafe and our society topsy-turvy!

 

SIGH for Bolehland!

Another open letter to the overzealous voters.....

You may call this a silly season.

I call this a madness where youngsters or even old uncles and aunties have been overzealously anxious to see the sky changed prompted by the unassailable charismatic idols they have almost been prayed like the real demigods!

My children flew back from Sing this afternoon partly to partake in the revelry of election heat and of course not forgetting that the grandpa has been grumbling for months to miss the adorable and cute granddaughter she could now call me 'yeah yeah!............

My niece married to a Singaporean will have fly back in the morning of 5/5 casts her vote and fly back in the afternoon. Does she deserve to claim from PR her air fares?!

Yeah...yeah, ''Ini kali lah UBAH!"....'Demi Rakyat kita Ubah'.....Pakatan Harapan Rakyat...tag lines like these digital printings on big PVC sheets nailed to gigantic billboards simply erected by the eye catching points by the highway ensuring to catch the eyes of each and every commuters including the blind's!

"Ini kali lah yang Last kita akan jadi Kerajaan" is the only one catchphrase that is printed in the heart of each and every PR candidates which should not be whispered out or else backfire will burn their backsides!

In this silly season, it's the politicians' D-Day but the common public's April Fool day!

More so this GE 13th in the State of Penang!

Just take a short drive in your area, the number of flags, the amount of politico rallies and the noise pollution, the quantum of foc food supplies, etc etc., all have been thrown out on the streets simply to woo voters patronize their stalls so that votes could be enticed come 5/5!

I should say, 70% or more of Chinese folks in this once peaceful Island States have been preempted and charmed by the bewitching demagogues of the day....Simply put, they have already lost their sense to think properly if the votes are thrown to vote their icons like voting the Korean stars or it's a vote of a better government with honest and service oriented YBs to form this so-called good government!

Instead they have been intoxicated to a state of delirious as if those have taken in ecstasy simply can't hold cool and composure but tumultuously frenzied!

It's a bad omen for the worse may still yet to come taking into consideration that the opposition Parties are only fanning up the people's emotion based on their astute marketing strategy to market their rhetoric's as the 'semuanya boleh' elixir to heal national cancers - for example the most hideous corruption as one top the list - but action has yet to be verified only upon they have successful sworn in to the 'new administration'!

When asked by the audience in a forum how corruption can be curbed, the oppositional MP had said they will use the role model of Penang's open tender policy and assets declaration by all Aduns as a norm for the 'new government' they would have successfully wrestled to their fold!

Being a contractor in Penang, the so-called 'open tender'  to me is a pretence and a swathe of smoke screen to blind the imbeciles who know nuts about government procedures of tender awards, and that they are not those in the trade who had had suffered losses due to any alleged manipulation which engineered to favour cronyism which ever has exist in any administration!

Again, in what way can assets declaration be an effective way to curb corruption when the Aduns or the EXCOs could simply provide a brief of their assets as fulfillment to a requirement only! Who are to be the independent auditors have not been publicly informed, nor delegated!

Change we must, yeas! More so an old foul rotten shoe which we have worn for long time 50 years which is enough time for any new design or new pattern to replace the old and obsolete old junk!

But be careful, when we change this time, the shoes of preference we must select are a pair of suitable size, good quality and they will suit our comfort to walk long mileage into our far future! We must not only listen to the flowery rhetoric of the politicians, use our brains to analyze their words!

Never change because of the hoodwink of the pollies who would tackle our psychology, use us cheap as their pawn downs to help change their political status quo as the oppositional Parties to that of the ruling powers!

When they have achieved to their kingdom, we remain their slaves, and that's when we ignorantly worship them as God!

Hence smart voters like us should not be overzealous as to be buzzed by the many dazzling buzzwords giving out all our votes to a single Party to form 2/3 majority, likened the Mahathir regime, it was the rakyat who gave them too much power to own 2/3 majority in the Parliament, hence an autocratic government which rode roughshod over the rakyat!

So remember, vote wisely, vote with astute prudence not to throw all eggs in one basket!  Not to allow the lopsided majority of 2/3 goes to any of the power bloc be it PR or BN so that we the rakyat stay as the kingmaker always to call for the shot!

Happy voting.

Press Statement from Concerned Malaysians.....

 

Press statement of Group of Concerned Citizens on the General Election

We are a group of Malaysians from diverse ethnicities, religions and backgrounds including military, academic, business, professional and the not-for-profit sector. We have been drawn together by our love for our country and our concern that this general election may see further setbacks in our aspiration for a better society.

Malaysians need a better government and good governance, especially in these tumultuous times of heightened racial discord and religious hatred and extremism.

If we succeed, we can be a modest example for the rest of the world in the way we tackle our racial and religious differences and in our resolve and actions to ensure social justice and the fair distribution of the wealth of our land.

Past governments and politicians have too often failed us by abusing the public treasury for private gain, by concentrating wealth and power in the hands of a few, and by debasing our democratic rights. For some years now, we have been one of the top countries in the world in terms of illicit outflows of money. According to Global Financial Integrity, the total 10-year estimate of financial outflow for Malaysia was RM871.4 billion for 2000-2010. No country in the world can afford such a high level of capital flight.

The coming elections provides us an opportunity to exercise our individual and collective right to decide on who will lead this country in the next five years and manage our finances, economy and society in a fair and just manner. If we choose badly we will have only ourselves to blame.

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We wish to share with voters in this election pamphlet, which is being disseminated throughout the country, our concerns as well as our position on the principles and values that can propel our country towards that better society that we seek and which all Malaysians deserve and can be proud of. We believe that most Malaysians share not only these concerns but also our expectations of the high moral and ethical standards from the parties and politicians that will soon come into power. 

We hope that this election message – a non-partisan one – will be etched in the minds and memories of those who will shortly take political office as well as of all voters so that the promise of moral and good governance is in the forefront of national priority, not just during the election campaign period and particularly on election day but every day during the next four or five years.

Other citizens and civil society organisations wishing to endorse this or a similar message are free to adopt or adapt it, and disseminate in their own names.

Civil society leaders endorsing this message:

Ahmad Farouk Musa
Arshad Raji
Azmi Sharom
K J John
Koon Yew Yin
Lim Teck Ghee
Masjaliza Hamzah
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Ramon Navaratnam
Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh
Thasleem Mohamed Ibrahim
S Thayaparan
Zaid Ibrahim

The Malaysian Dream.

Like in US, in Taiwan, they have the real two Party system. Two major politico power blocs override the smaller non-alliance parties and compete to become the ruling Party, rein in the Government.

 

The people's power will be there like falcons piercing their razor-sharp eyes to keep the performing Party under their scrutiny as a very powerful check and balance mechanism.

 

It's a failure if the people simply used by any one of the divide bloc as the pawn downs to guard them to conquer the bastion of power, they become the Kingdom, we remain slaves!

Use our coherent powers wisely, we be the real bosses and they be our servants!

"Trust our ownselves more, the politicians less!"

 

Idolisation or extreme cult of a certain personality will ultimately lead us to awakening of our foolishness to have been used by the polly, charmed by his so-called charisma which is virtually the empty promises for our better well beings!

 

Vote wisely so that to prove our maturity!

 

We control our future, not that by the politicians!

 

Cheers!

 

Rgds.,

Frankie

Dun ever behave like an Ostrich!

We shall not shun from facing the problem, more so one which is going to affect our descendants for generations! Just like hearing the footsteps of the big foot monster, we should have done enough precaution by getting ready the bludgeon, machete, or even the grandfather's walking stick to be ready for it, never take for granted!

 

Can you simply trust a crocodile your life when seeing that he's pretending to yawn fall asleep away, and cross the river?!

 

We are talking about Hadi Awang, not that the venerable Nik Aziz tok guru he'd ruled Kelantan for 2 decades whilst this bigoted Hadi ruled Trengganu only for one short term he was booted out by the voters who'd enough fear and torture in the minds that their limbs would be amputated by the brutal hudud law when they were to be implemented by this unpopular bearded old goat!

 

He has never stop reminding LKS to give up objection to his brain child - Islamic Nation - and many a times, he would not forget to blah it out to the press that PAS will not compromise with religious issues and that they have only one issue to push forward in the Parliament, if PR really wins, he will definitely lay the agenda (Islamic Nation) in the silver platter for serving to the speaker and the MPs in the Parliament!

 

And you know, if there is a will, there is a way! By push..push... push hard enough, the baby head would finally jut out from the vagina of the mother!

 

It's dangerous one is selling the idea that PAS will ultimately give up religious issue and focus on broader perspective of salvaging the faltering national economy! Neither DAP can give up politics after election since politicking is their only expertise to help pull thru their political lives! Haven't you seen them restlessly engaged in political brick batting in the Parliament, in the public domain and never even afford to come out a draft of their own for master plan to develop Penang State after 5 years had past! Talking about national economy, leave it to DSAI lah perhaps, but, he's laden with sexy video clips too, and will be busy defending them in the court...too bad!

 

The "Ostrich Syndrome" is what we should avoid, is what we should not pass down to our next next generations!

 

Dun ever cut our nose to spike our face, this is what i can remind... Period.

 

Rgds.,

Frankie

A reply to - Cutting your nose to spike your face.

Well said, Kaseng!

 

But it seems too late your clarion call comes in to endeavour saving our buddies from cutting their noses to spike their faces!

 

Damages have been done, if any, cuz most of the political virgins have fallen into deep bewitchment of the demagogues the like of these bigoted old goats and the foxy father and son in the guise of nation's saviours! Back in the scene is one morally questionable DC/AC hay wired 'abang' who sat with cool admiring the posterior of the duo fighting over the plate of halal or non-halal delicacies which should be best served for the whimsical rakyat!

 

The irony is, when we demanded a fair and square level playing field and that the goalie should open up his gate for the best shooter to put in goals thru the gate, there are people still believe that Islam is a key to achieve this! Then what about Hadi Awang has not less than a dozen times repeated, come what may, only Muslim can become PM in this nation and no one else!

 

Read it with more extrapolation, we tend to grasp the real meaning of what he tried to imply, unless you Chinese converts to Islam, you LKS or LGE will forever play your part as the second fiddler tantamount to Kaseng had quoted, the forever second citizenry for Chinese who are non-Muslim!

 

And this is so-called fair and just by PAS standard?!

 

Hadi Awang has never failed to give me chance to dart his one-eye like the bull's eye in the dart board play!...His flip-flop fly-by-night change of rhetoric has never failed its bit to amuse me like a clown is performing his feat to crack open all other jokers' mouths in the audience of the Royal Malayan Circus!

 

Today he will bang the mike and spit at all the journalists to ask them write exactly that he will not give up transforming our secular nation to that of a Shia Islam & the sharia law as decree, but just overnight, by tomorrow, he will have an abrupt change of utterance that - "In Islam preaching, no one is to be forced into a religion, let alone to force someone into taking hudud laws"!

 

Contradicting?! Yeas, it's more than that, it's hypocritically flip-flop to the highest order!

 

Why he behaved like a clown mainly is to appease his Muslim followers and supporters that he and PAS will die for Islam no matter how it appears when they are fanned into PutraJaya! In the other hand, when he flips his fork tongue, his intention to appease the gullible Chinese is obviously seen to be clumsy by eagle eyes like yours and mine!

 

Yet there are imbeciles believe that he would be a tamed friendly goat without knowing that its teeth can bite, its horns can gore when come to loggerhead with him! He is never a suave looking uncle who lives by your neighbour, watch out!.......

 

Yet there are people believe that DAP which in bed next to PAS will be our bulwark to defend Chinese rights and to bolster up our second fiddle role to equal the protagonist PAS doyen in this fake Darby and Joan charade!

 

Are these motley trio going to buy us a paradise for tomorrow it's only a dream, a fantasy, or a castle floating in the air! Not even the notable freedom fighter, the Lady Gandhi, Ambiga dared to swallow the bullets and gives us her chest, but merely cried out - "If PR is no good, kick them out as well after 5 years!".....

 

Still wanna walk the cable?! Up to you, it's yours choice anyway!

 

Happy voting!

 

Cheers for a better (or worse) tomorrow?!

Rgds.,

Frankie

-the ever old dud-

Cutting the nose to spike the face.........

I had been living in Kuala Lumpur for the past 33 years and seen it grew tremendously, in tandem with my own journey and lots of other young Malaysian's blossoming. Life was fast and all transactions carried a bit more speed and broader spectrum when conducted in KL. People travel, people learn. The city grew, Malaysian society becomes more sophisticated gradually. General public gets better informed and the general consciousness of self and society was further raised with the advent of Internet.

 

In all these time, we were and still is, a secular multi ethnic society ran by communal political parties adhering to a bias sets of rules favouring the majority group over all others. We grew, not spectacular, as other tigers of Asia, but at a rather slow, lumbering gait. By his own admission Dr. M recently said in a NST featured interview; Malaysia under his leadership was 30-40% behind our neighbours in economic development. We all know it’s a lot more then he will ever admit. But we grew. We did not have real turmoil that upset the political or social fabric of Malaysian society. The world wide financial surges, ebbs and crisis were adequately handled. We lived in peace generally except the occasion of May13; created by Najib's father for a back door coup de grace and kill off Tunku Abdul Rahman's leadership. We survived, we were made to lived under more stringent condition with the introduction of NEP. MCA and MIC did songs and dances and got away promising their fellow kinship year after year that tomorrow will be better while their family and cronies gleefully lapped up all the grease and fat seeping out of crooked government deals. 

 

The people starts to talk, more and more. We got worked up, we got angry. We want change! Year after years, the conscientious but poorly organised oppositions who had suffered the social and financial disadvantage and indignity of being treated as lesser citizen in Malaysia tries to defeat the vested powers of the ruling parties. The tricky Mahathir managed to elude all pursuer but finally released the helm to Dollah. This is the time! A strange and incompatible alliance was created to make the most impact. We supported and give BN a big black eye in 2008. But black eye do not kill. 

 

What did died on that occasion was the integrity of building a fair, just and harmonious secular society. For the sake of political expediency, DAP for years the champion of the common folks regardless of race, agreed to jump in bed with a powerfully partner who proclaims mandate from Allah to turn Malaysia into a syaria compliance society. An, god forbids, Islamic state! Are we to endure all those years of 2nd class citizenry for the ultimate price of a restrictive society where we would be the disadvantaged again! Not over my dead body!

 

What is happening? We as a people had instead of moving on from self centred communal politics to higher ideal progressive society construction, had in fact regressed to a spot in the bottom of society development by entrusting and appointing a xenophobic religious group lead by frail old man who believe he know better than me what's good for me or not, as our representative to knock off the corrupted BN! What's wrong with us Malaysians? What's our ideals? What is DAP selling? Are you aware that once PAS is given the national leadership, the hudud option will never go away. Any open conflict between PAS and DAP or PKR while at the helm of Malaysia will be view as Others against Islam for the international muslim brotherhood in the tussle for Malaysia. Malaysian Shiite terrorist trained in Pakistan; currently active in Indo and Phil will see this as the opportunity to gain extra foothold in the Sunni dominated Malay society by inserting themselves as the protector.

 

 The resulting events is just too painful to contemplate. Please, Please, Please give your vote to anyone except PAS. Corrupt old goats I can handle. Old goats with mandate direct from god is what I, we need to avoid!

Wong Kaseng

A paranoia for all....

Hi Kha Sin,

Today's paranoia might be tomorrow's reality.

It was truly a paranoia decades ago that PAS could earn a place to rule until Kelantan fell into their hands they take it as a training ground and to preach Islamic value into the State administration.

It worked out well since Kelantan is a predominantly Malay State and all Malays are born to be Muslims abided by Malaysian law.

Chinese being the minority in the State, have livened in harmony so far with the Malay brethren and as we all know, we are a race quick to adapt to environment as long as it's a place we have ways and means to 'cari makan' and prosper! Being a EastCoastal State, it is far in the hinterland as compared to KL the capital city and therefore lives there are simple and tranquil. Development there slow maintained as kampung style to match the nearby Thai border State, with a little above par.

Life is traditionally mundane the Kelantanese are happy with the status quo so long as they have enough rice on the table, there are mosques for them to do their ritual and prayers etc. basic easements are all they require. I had been there several times and found myself as if in the tunnel of time reversed back 10 to 15 years Penang's scenario!

That's Kelantan and that's a State ruled by PAS. The supremo Tok Guru Nik Aziz is the MB and he's such a lenient and venerable pious Muslim even we from afar State would give him respect only to hear the eponym 'Tok Guru Nik Aziz' and his mild implementation of Islamic value into the State governance.....He justifies the adding of religious essence into his governance!

Hadi Awang is the national President of PAS (Parti Islam seMalaysia) and he failed once being the MB (1999 -2004) of the neighboring State - Trengganu!....Hearsay had it that he was way above more fanatic and aggressive than Tok Guru in implementing Hudud Law which was in contradicting with Tok Guru's preaching. Hence BN recaptured the State in GE 2004 out of fears of Trenggane voters against this formidable bigot.

Now that Hadi is the adamant proposer for Hudud Law to implement in Malaysia, she being a secular State having practicing common law, as enshrined in the Federal Constitution! It was the mamak ex-Premier who with evil intention on purpose riled up the status of Islamic State with the status of Islam being the national religion!

After tasting with limited power only in running a State, PAS is making a big way to conquer the whole nation by teaming up with their erstwhile rivals who have total disagreement with their preachings!

Kaseng described them as the motley trio (PKR+PAS+DAP) whereas i nickname them the riff-raff group till date they are still an illegal grouping as far as the Malaysian Law is concerned, they have no registration with the Registrar of Society as a political bloc!

Can this makeshift power bloc  be able to live by what they pledged in their manifesto and lead the nation to prosper into a blissful tomorrow worth our ponder over.......

(To be continued.....)

Looking back to history - 2010....

2010: The Disquiet that Troubles the Soul Posted: 2011/01/01 From: Source

A look back on the year 2010 from a Muslim perspective. (For non-Arabic speakers: `Muslim` is an Arabic word, in English meaning: `one who submits to the will of God thus achieving peace`. Salam means Peace. Islam means the way of life that achieves peace.) Written by UmmahPulse Team As 2010 ends in damp, foggy squelchiness, the greyness of the sky seems a metaphor for an uneasy feeling that something is not quite right. The 21st century is a celebration of how to live in the moment, with every whim immediately satisfiable, every instant filled with beguiling distraction. The days when information and audiovisual entertainment were only available from a small brown box in the corner of the living room are over and we can now browse "content" on anything from our iPads, netbooks, smartphones or (even if it's a bit old fashioned) desktop PCs. In the snippets of "down time" between the multitude of reality shows and remakes of 1970s and 80s TV schtick, there is social networking, the 24 hour news cycle and, if you are really stuck, online multiplayer computer gaming to fill in any stray moments of "boredom". With all this, our overloaded synapses fire discordantly, our brains unable to contemplate, reflect or ponder. Instead, we are all too often limited to reacting to and rebounding from each new stimulus. For those left unsatiated by this diet of over-processed tat, there is the alluring prospect of "infotainment" that is sold to us labelled as "news and analysis". However, like a cheap pie from the bargain bin that is all pastry and no filling, when one breaks through the glossily tempting but ultimately indigestible crust, one finds nothing more than occasional undercooked morsels of fact, swimming in a watery gravy of superficial comment. As far as meatier portions of assimilation, insight, comprehension and context go, they are entirely missing from this recipe. While this may be dismissed as Luddite-inspired empty moralising, one finds it harder to ignore the internal disquiet that niggles at the back of our minds and poses the question: given all that has happened, and all that may yet happen, what does the future hold for Muslims? To theorise about the future, one must have a firm grip on the past and, as 2010 ticks over into 2011, we should at least start with the events that have affected the Ummah over the last 12 months. The following compilation is by no means a comprehensive anthology of the year, but rather a selection of different themes which had an impact on our writers. Please read, digest and contemplate. Financial Swine Flu Karima Hamdan Europe has a problem. There is a group of people, wedded together by an ideology that is elitist and totalitarian, whose actions have caused atrocities, death, destruction and mayhem on a worldwide scale. They are, however, totally unrepentant. Governments seem powerless to stop them, the public demands action but any attempts by the government to legislate are met with threats. For those peering nervously around for a bearded man (or niqab-wearing woman) with a backpack, don't bother. I am referring to the financial institutions whose cavalier behaviour has shaped the world in which we live and will continue to influence our lives. The financial crisis of 2008 rumbles on into its third year with the deadly "European contagion" metastasizing into the "European Sovereign Debt Crisis of 2010". The countries most severely affected are the so called "PIGS" of Europe – Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain. Whether the European contagion could be labelled a "financial swine flu" is another discussion entirely. The PIGS are not isolated in their financial strife. We are told that this is a pan-European problem as these countries are "too big to fail". Is this because of some humanitarian reason, such as the suffering of their entirely blameless citizenry? No. It is because if these countries become bankrupt, the result would be massive sovereign debt defaults, causing almost every bank in Europe to become insolvent, which would in turn cause larger European countries to sink further into the abyss of recession. That is why we, British taxpayers, will each be stumping up our share of a €750 billion financial aid package, just as we kiss goodbye to Child Benefit payments, low university tuition fees and embrace an era of record unemployment. This is despite the fact that our government played no part in the decisions to lend these failing countries the money in the first place. No, those shots were called by the financial institutions, who are entirely unaccountable, unassailable and indeed "too big to fail". The financial crisis is not the only feather in the cap of these financial institutions. This year, they proved what a worldwide force for despair and iniquity they truly are as they precipitated a famine in Niger due to immoral speculation on the worldwide grain market. But not to worry, the traders at Goldman Sachs netted themselves a cool US$5 billion profit purely on the commodities market last year. What is the suffering of 12 million starving people compared to that? Given the devastation of the economic landscape, what kind of sweeping reform of the financial institutions is being enacted by European governments in response to such widespread and catastrophic failure? Not much is the answer. G20 and Eurozone governments have been warned that over-stringent regulation will lead to further bank failures. If quite so many EU politicians dedicated as much time and thought to our economic plight - rather than being obsessed by their current fixation on minaret bans, niqab bans, hijab bans, and sharia bans - then we might get somewhere. Unfortunately, it appears that it is much easier for some European politicians, held over a barrel and molested by over-sized financial institutions, to ignore the difficult economic realities, close their eyes and think of Islamophobia. The Discriminatory Axe of Budget Cuts Ahmad Ashiqilahi 2010 has seen huge cuts to spending announced by the new coalition government as it tries to rein in the burgeoning £962 billion national debt - a debt which weighs heavily on each and every taxpayer alive today, and probably those for a generation to come. Each governmental department will bear an average 19% four-year cut, alongside £7 billion in welfare cuts. Those struggling most in society are likely to be hit hardest with the Institute for Fiscal Studies showing the Coalition's new approach to welfare, the Work Programme, to be regressive in nature. However, there are some that seem to have slipped the axe. Jewish faith schools will receive £650,000 in funds straight away and up to £2m a year from the Department of Eduction. Why? because they are concerned about anti-Semitic threats to their pupils. Other faith schools, or indeed non-faith schools, will not be supported in a similar manner. In fact, capital spending on our ageing schools will be reduced by 60%. Time for the hand that holds the axe to explain itself. Palestine 2010 Wazir Uddin 2010 was the year that the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli apartheid state transcended international powers and states and was taken up by public sentiment across the globe. This was most dramatically expressed in the aid flotilla that crossed international waters to deliver essential items to Gaza, a strip of land which has become a mass prison camp for its inhabitants. Israeli naval commandos, who had boarded six of the ships in the flotilla, murdered ten innocent civilians and injured many more. Despite the PR spin and propaganda that subsequently emerged from the Israeli foreign ministry, the truth could not be drowned out: "Under darkness of night, Israeli commandos dropped from a helicopter onto the Turkish passenger ship, Mavi Marmara, and began to shoot the moment their feet hit the deck." The UN-appointed panel that was set up to investigate the attack on the flotilla subsequently reported that Israel was guilty of serious violations of international law, "including international humanitarian and human rights law". 2010 was also the year that Latin American states lined up formally to recognise the Palestinian state within its pre-1967 borders. Although in its material effects this move is more symbolic than material, it caused outrage among pro-Israel quarters. The right-wing Israeli coalition government though is deaf to international protests and persists in its racist tyranny against the Palestinian people, and has been relentless in its policy to further occupy Palestinian land and Jerusalem. The Afghanistan War – A Year in Numbers Karima Hamdan 30,000: The number of extra troops ordered into the region by US President Obama, taking the total number of US military personnel there to 100,000. 31%: The increase in the number of conflict-related civilian casualties (including deaths) compared to 2009. 2,000: The number of people killed so far, as a result of drone attacks in Pakistan. Only 66 were Al Qaeda or Taliban militants. 10: The number of civilians who die as "collateral damage" per militant killed in unmanned drone attacks in Afghanistan. 22: The number of minutes it took for President Obama to sack the Commander of US forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, after McChrystal claimed Obama was disengaged and intimidated by senior officers. 2014: The year by which the US Vice-President Joe Biden has said that US troops will leave Afghanistan "come hell or high water". Many have predicted that this will cause the Taliban to simply hunker down and wait until the US has left. 3.6m: The number of votes cast in the Afghan elections – the lowest turnout in any post-invasion election. 20%: The proportion of votes rejected as fraudulent in the Afghan election. 19: The number of Afghan election candidates disqualified for outright cheating. 2: The number of times Afghan President Hamid Karzai's mental fitness to rule was questioned this year. Firstly, by ex-UN envoy Peter Galbraith, who accused him of being a mentally unstable drug addict and then by veteran US reporter Bob Woodward who said he suffers from manic depression and doesn't always take his medication. 50: the number of years ago that 34th US President Dwight D Eisenhower said: "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." Natural Disaster Jamal Anderson Following the rising trend, 2010 has been a particularly horrific year for natural disasters. In January, the world saw the destructive power of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Haiti. More than 200,000 died and 1.5 million were left homeless. There were five other major earthquakes in 2010; all but one registered above 6 on the Richter scale. In February, Chile was struck with an earthquake measuring 8.8, the 7th strongest on record and 521 people died. River flooding in South America led to the death of around 15 people with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. Windstorm Xynthia swept across Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium and Germany late in February, causing inland and coastal damage which left 2 million homes without electricity. Heavy rains were responsible for extensive flood damage in Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Italy. Torrential rain was also witnessed in Madeira and parts of the Portuguese island were flooded killing 40 people. In the US, severe winter storms swept the country, affecting infrastructure in several regions, including Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and parts of southern New Jersey, and resulting in widespread electricity blackouts and disruption to schools, airports, roads and railways. In March, an Icelandic volcano erupted and an ash cloud descended upon most of Europe. Airports were closed causing international air travel chaos. Disasters continued throughout the year with landslides and floods in Bangladesh resulting in fatalities and causing havoc in June with flooding also taking place in China in May. Torrential rain in July resulted in the flooding of Pakistan, on a scale which was barely comprehensible. One fifth of Pakistan - an area the size of England - was flooded, with over 21 million people affected: "The monsoon rains which began to hit Pakistan in late July 2010 were the most severe for 80 years. They caused immediate flash flooding in the mountains of the north west of the country and ultimately flood waters worked their way south through the Indus and other river systems to engulf an area the size of England. Around 21 million people were affected with 10 million seeing their homes damaged or completely destroyed. Disasters Emergency Committee members have helped 1.2 million people already but many survivors continue to face huge challenges." (DEC) "Donor Fatigue" set in as charities saw a drop in donations. As 2010 comes to a close, people are still struggling to manage the consequences of this flood, with many still looking to rebuild their homes. In October, Indonesia was struck by twin disasters: an earthquake (magnitude 7.5) that triggered a tsunami was followed by the eruption of Mount Merapi. The death toll rose to 430. There are too many other disasters to list without causing "disaster news fatigue", but there are many more. Though the casualty toll may not be on the same scale, who can forget "snowmaggedon" in Europe and the US? In the US, FEMA recorded more than twice the average number of natural disasters. As of mid- December, there were 79 recorded incidents compared to the average of 34. There were "rare" tornadoes in parts of America and the largest earthquake to hit New York City for the last 18 years. Despite its own problems, America didn’t fail to offer its support to Israel which was afflicted with a forest fire that killed up to 40 people in December. Most were prison guards. Israel continues to suffer from the drought that began in spring 2010; analysts say this was a contributing factor. International rescue teams flew in from different parts of the world to help contain the fires. If only such demonstrations of compassion could be felt by the children of Palestine who continue, daily, to suffer the effects of a man-made disaster that has lasted decades. Allah is in control of all things and surely there are many lessons for us in these events, if we only stop and reflect. The Obama Con Continues Kamal Nuruddeen The best way to administer poison is with a sugar coating. This is a lesson that Obama knows well. Despite his Nobel Peace Prize credentials, he has expanded the US's belligerent policies in the Muslim world with more soldiers (Afghanistan), more contracted mercenaries (Pakistan), more drone attacks (pretty much anywhere a vassal state will provide political cover) and an expansion of the war (war over what? I can't quite remember anymore) into Yemen. Having exuded the promise of peace, he has done little to match the sugary rhetoric. The underlying venom remains unchanged. However, one cannot accuse Obama of complete duplicity. Having promised Israel his complete allegiance and record sums of money whilst he was campaigning for the presidency, he continued to fulfil those pledges in 2010 with record levels of military aid as well as the now standard political cover for Israeli actions on the international stage. Even so, there is no let up in pressure from the supporters of Zionism, with outrageous accusations of anti-Semitism ensuring Obama does not step out of line. So far, when it has come to Middle East policy, Obama has delivered the same as Bush, but with a better PR spin. The Rise of the EDL - Street Level Politics Karima Hamdan Coming back home - UmmahPulse has commented several times on the growing level of anti-Muslim rhetoric in the media and on the parallel growth of specifically anti-Muslim groups (such as the English Defence League (EDL) in the UK) as well as those who regularly use Islamophobic lies to prop up their political policies (like the Tea Party movement in the US). The fact that these groups are forging links, pooling resources and sharing information on a global scale have made us all pause for thought. The use of a street level army of thugs to form the vanguard of a political movement is a worrying trend that has been seen before. As Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels put it: "Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street." Recent Tory proposals to guarantee that a petition with over 100,000 signatures would be changed to a bill to be debated in the Commons is a worrying development, especially when one sees that the official EDL facebook page has nearly 70,000 members. A policy sold as giving ‘power to the people’ can rapidly degenerate into mob rule, especially when there is a well funded, mostly unregulated, polemic right wing media stoking the flames. Quran Burning Muhammad Tahir "Verily We sent down the Reminder (the Quran) and verily We will definitely protect it." (Quran 15:9) "Verily Allah will assist this religion, even through a sinner." (Bukhari) "Dude, you have no Quran." (Jacob Isom) We here at UmmahPulse believe strongly that those who would wrongly defame and abuse Islam and Muslims should be confronted and challenged. However, the reality is that if we are at all successful in this task, it is only a blessing from Allah. As He reminds us, the protection of the message of Islam is a responsibility that Allah has kept for Himself. We can only ask that He use us to accomplish His task. 2010 saw the emergence of "Quran burning" as a popular Islamophobic bonding exercise. But what was most striking about the most high-profile attempts to do so was their general failure (one right wing group's kerosene-doused Quran was stolen by shirtless skateboarder Jacob Isom) to incite anything other than increased sympathy for Muslims (surely not the desired effect), and claims by American government officials that burning the Quran would put American soldiers' lives at risk (not that occupying foreign countries might also be hazardous, but let's not digress). Just remember: It's not a war against Islam (we just want your resources)! Conclusions - Uncomfortable Parallels Karima Hamdan Much has been said about this current financial crisis being the worst since the Great Depression of the 1920s and 30s. At that time, governments were forced to cut public services while their people were struggling with record unemployment and social deprivation on a massive scale. It is no coincidence that there was a concurrent growth of far right movements across Europe, most notably the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. The parallels with our time are unmistakable, with the Muslim replacing the Jew as the universal symbol of hate to be despised. Having lived for decades in the UK, suddenly every part of our Islamic identity has come under scrutiny - from the food we eat to the way we dress to the way we interact with society. To my mind at least, Muslims are worse off this year than a year ago: increasingly attacked and lambasted, this trend does not seem to be abating. We may look back in the years to come and view 2010 as the time when the seeds of our greatest trial were first sown. Isolated from mainstream society, we will ultimately have to face a stark choice: assimilate and sacrifice our identity in order to remain "safe", or hold true to our ideals and risk ostracism. But as we go forward into this apparent darkness, some unassailable truths provide comfort and reassurance: there is only one God and He will protect and preserve the message He entrusted to His dearest messenger (may peace be upon him). His ancient plan is not the random ‘happenstance’ that it appears to us. The future of the Muslims depends on how they react to this stark choice and how deeply rooted within us is the knowledge that Islam is a train whose journey ultimately ends with Al-lah (English: The-God). It will keep rolling on whether we choose to board it or merely watch it pass by. May He make us among those who assist His religion. "Do men think that they will be left alone on saying 'We believe' and that they will not be tested? We did test those before them and Allah will certainly know those who are true from those who are false." (Holy Quran 29:2-3) {Ed note: Allah is Arabic for The God} "When asked about who suffers the greatest afflictions, the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) replied: 'The prophets, then those who come next to them, then those who come next to them. A man is afflicted in keeping his religion. If he is firm in his religion his trial is severe, but if there is weakness in his religion it is made light for him and it continues like that till he walks on the earth having no sin.'" (Hadith by Tirmidhi) "The believing man or woman continues to have affliction in person, property and children so that they may finally meet Allah, free from sin." (Hadith by Tirmidhi) "Those who say when afflicted with calamity: 'To Allah we belong and to Him is our return.' They are those on whom (descend) blessings from Allah and Mercy and they are the ones that receive guidance." (Holy Quran 2:156-157) "If any Muslim who suffers some calamity says that which Allah has commanded him: 'We belong to Allah and to Him shall we return: O Allah, reward me for my affliction and give me something better in exchange for it,' Allah will give him something better than it in exchange." (Hadith by Muslim) "How wonderful is the case of a believer! There is good for him in everything, and this is not the case with anyone except a believer. If prosperity attends him, he expresses gratitude to Allah and that is good for him; and if adversity befalls him, he endures it patiently and that is better for him." (Hadith by Muslim) #