The tendency for our Malaysian Government is to go and build another white elephant outside of the nation because not that many people will get to sniff any instances of greasing the palms and lubrications that usually takes place in mega projects like the one being proposed!
We are going to go down in history as a country that is infatuated with mega projects that usually reeks of half baked ideas such as this out of Malaysia Sports Arena that is supposed to be the motherlode of Malaysia's future sports superstars to shine forth bringing a delusional sense of glory to a screwed up government!
I mean, let's face the facts. This government seems hell bent on splurging and wasting so much funds that can be better used to improve the lives of poor Malaysians living below the poverty line in some states such as parts of Kelantan, Kedah, Perak, Pahang, Terengganu,Sabah and Sarawak!
This is criminal neglect and shirking of responsibility towards poor kampong people who sometimes are reduced to eating snails and go hungry whilst bloody politicians like this are so gung ho about spending money on building a Sports Complex out of the nation, giving employment to foreigners whilst the citizens who deserve to be given priority in government assistance are thrown bits and crumbs to eat as if they are not worthy to be truly cared for in the real sense!
I feel a growing deep down disgust in reading about our so called ministers and parliamentarians who waste so much time and energy on such useless pursuits whilst being blind to the needs of the poor and the downtrodden folks living a miserable life in the villages and fringes of civilisation in the interiors of this 'Bolehland'!
Are those poor unfortunate people only worthy to be given a pack of rice, a batik sarong and RM10.00 in hand when it is time for you slimy bloodsucking politicians come the General Elections? It's a reality, year in year out. Same old story with politicians ruse in duping the voters who are sadly yet to mature and figure out that power they have in their hands!
Will you then sully your 'high and mighty selfs' come the next General Elections where you would come unashamedly to shake the poor makciks and pakciks hands, shedding your 'crocodile tears' in front of the media cameras all for the show of 'being concerned' with the plight of the poor and the unfortunates of this land? As they say, it is all a mere 'drama swasta'!
All for a measly vote that will see you back in power in the next cabinet!
Goddamn you bloody parasites! May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mete out due justice to those who have betrayed our trusts!
Listen to the cries of those poor children and see their tears streaming down the poor, miserable faces as you gorge on your RM1000 dinners at posh and grand luxurious 5 star hotels at some Datuk or Tan Sri wannabe sponsored feasts thrown in your honor!
The Malaikats Munkar and Nakir are gonna be waiting for you when your soul is ripped off your sorry selfs come your Last Day on Earth!
They wouldn't be asking whether you have a hundred million ringgits in your bank accounts , ask about your immense wealth that you have amassed legally or illegally here on Earth?
They are not going to ask about your exclusive Sports Club memberships or how many Mercedes Benz's there are in your garage?
They will however ask you about the responsibilities that you have shirked and forgot that you were made ministers to help the poor and the destitutes no matter whether it is in your portfolio or not?
Remember, each passing second is being recorded as to what you have done with the opportunities that have been given to you now, instead of being party to wasting away millions of ringgits in cold hard cash that is in actual fact the Malaysian public's tax money and not your father's property to dispose off as you please!
You are in the monitoring of Almighty Allahu Akbar, Rabbul Jalil, Aliyyul Adzhim! Ponder.
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Tun Dr Mahathir's Returning Home Speech Transcript
FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TRANSLATED TRANSCRIPT OF TUN DR.MAHATHIR'S SPEECH TO A GATHERING OF HIS SUPPORTERS AT SUBANG AIRPORT UPON HIS RETURN FROM A TRIP OVERSEAS:Tun : I didn't expect that one day I would receive such a (mediocre) welcome..when I was the PM, people welcomed me in such large numbers...I didn't think that nowadays, I will not be allowed to meet people...what is there to be afraid of ?...not that many have come here..
That man is scared of me...not that I can do anything...I can just talk..
When I resigned my premiership...the accolades were overwhelming...praised so high.
When I went to England, couldn't speak to the students...am forbidden to visit Kelantan and speak to the former Assemblymen..
But it is said that I am not to speak to the Opposition...or to the NGO's...but UMNO themselves do not give me even an opportunity to speak to the (Malaysian) people...if what they have done is right (legitimate)...what is there to be scared of?..
I am not asking for much...just answer...answer the questions...I asked to disclose the agreement regarding the plans of Malaysia intending to sell sand (to Singapore)..to allow the fighter jets of Singapore to fly (over Malaysian airspace)...that they didn't expose ...the ones they exposed were supposedly my letters...my letters were nothing...I myself distributed them in London ..supposedly they have been declassified...
Declassify the letter ( regarding the proposal to sell Malaysian sand to Singapore) that I am asking!
I say declassify this..the offer from Malaysia to sell sand and allow the Singapore Air Force fighter jets to fly (over Malaysian airspace)...that they do not expose!...but instead bring out old letters ..letters that Singapore has long exposed (publicly)..
What is the point of 'declassifying' that?...It's already been declassified...so don't bother!
I am not asking that people gather like this...I just want to speak...give me a chance to speak a bit..
You ( PM Abdullah Badawi) have lots of spokespersons...so many of them...wherever one goes..there's someone to speak (on Abdullah Badawi's behalf )...they (the spokespersons) can just dismiss off this speech of mine ..
So what is there to be scared of?...give me a chance to speak to members of UMNO...there are UMNO members right here...
I went to London to speak to the students (there)..but couldn't...(the students) are asked ..are questioned...are you going to meet with the Tun?
Mubarak (Association of ex Assemblymen of Malaysia) who want to meet with me are not allowed to ...there's no 'Barak' @ Blessings already!
It's alright. I just want to say 'Thank you' ...I do not wish to make long speeches..
..only that I ask...do not be too afraid of me ...I do not eat people..
I can be silent too if there are people willing to speak on my behalf...so please tell others to say all kinds of things about me (sarcasm)!
He (Abdullah Badawi) is supposedly silent...won't say anything...
Not that long before ..3 years ago...(he) praised me to the extent that it smoked ( so bloody hot)..nowadays...I can't even meet with UMNO members..I am perplexed..
During Tunku Abdul Rahman's time (the First Prime Minister criticized Tun Dr M) ..he wrote in The Star..he wrote books...said all kinds of things ..supported those out to topple me...I didn't do nothing to Tunku Abdul Rahman..
Datuk Seri Anwar (during Reformasi) could have a gathering of 10,000 people...even that we didn't forbid...this welcoming my return is not allowed...I am saddened..
What is there to hide so much?..if what they have done is right...no need to hide..
expose it...show the deal offered to Singapore ..that's what I ask to disclose..
Okay..i won't disturb...I know that the Police need to do their work..we shouldn't disturb..we know that being government officers..we need to follow the government's directive..but it's not necessary to make open declarations of support..whatever it is we'll support!...
Reporter's question : Will you (Tun) stop voicing out?
Tun Dr Mahathir : This government is transparent..anyone can say anything ..only thing is that it won't be published in the newspapers...can speak out...but speak just to myself..
Reporter's question : So, Tun will continue (to speak out)?
Tun Dr Mahathir: I think this is a free country...as they say...but Kalimullah (Deputy Executive Group Editor of the New Straits Times) controls …
So, I want to speak..will speak..
Reporter's question : Is this crisis just a difference of opinion with Pak Lah?
Tun Dr Mahathir: This is a question of issues...not a matter of me going to see him , shake hands and everything's settled.
This concerns issues...issues must be overcome..why must you offer to Singapore a million cubic meters of sand?...Is it true that you offered it so? did you not?..that's what I am asking!
Oh!..Show Dr.Mahathir's letter ...that I approved the sale of the sand...it's not there in all those 'declassified letters...it's not there that I did approve anything..
Syed Hamid (Malaysia's Foreign Minister) says that it was I who instructed ( the sale of sand)..I don't know..maybe I appointed a Foreign Minister who doesn't know how to read letters...(sarcasm)
Reporter's question : What's your (Tun) main worry if this issue is not overcome?
Tun Dr Mahathir: This nation now is at a situation that is not that good...we have lost our honor..those in developing nations might praise us..America praises..Britain praises..Singapore praises...Australia praises..but if we want to praise ..to butter up others what's the use?..we should do the right thing ..even though the one's praising are just countries like Burkina Paso..that's alright..(sarcasm)
I am not looking for people to thump my back ...
(sarcasm-Pak Lah's golfing back thumping session with Singapore leaders )
Source : Agenda Daily 22/7/2006
UPM Students Fracas - Shameful Mob Behaviour!
Click on the topic link above and watch for yourselves the quality of certain 'students' at UPM, terrorising their fellow students for 'helping' new freshmen albeit they being 'unregistered' to do so!
To me, that is not the type of university students this nation can be proud of for they are nothing but mobsters masquarading as the future leaders of this nation!
Malays are known traditionally as cultured people, full of social courtesy and being polite. Sadly this incident will surely put that notion to severe test for it betrays the lowest standard of social behaviour that even the chimps in Zoo Negara will not want to emulate!
Is this the quality of students that Universiti Putra Malaysia has as it's Student Leader and his mob of foul behaving hooligans?
Damn! If it is so, then this nation is surely heading towards deep shit!
What subject are those idiots taking? Hooliganism 101?
Well, from the way they behave in that clip, they will surely graduate with flying colors! From being this nation's future leaders , I dare say that this mob is sure destined for the dust heap!
That is not the way these Malay 'students' should take to solve whatever problems those Chinese students in UPM have created by trying to help their fellow students who have just enrolled into UPM!
Have they not learned from their parents as how to behave towards others what more their fellow students and citizens of this country?
The old Malay saying goes like this ' Kalau hendak menarik rambut dari tepong, rambut jangan sampai putus; tepong usah sampai berselerak!'
It means : ' If you want to remove a hair from the flour ; take precautions as not to break it and not to spill the flour'.
The hidden meaning is that we need to use our wisdom in whatever we do especially in delicate situations such as removing the hair from the flour. It is a graphic example of traditional Malay etiquette and admired social customs when dealing with sensitive problems.
Looks like those Malay UPM students are in the wrong institution. Pudu Jail would be a better place for them to study the consequences of their shameful behaviours!
No wonder this nation seems stuck in progress when you have such goons destroying the nation in it's process!
What the hell is UPM gonna do about its criminal students actions?
Sweep it all under the carpet? Not that it's not the norm for the local authorities as we all know.
Let's just wait and see what is gonna take place or are we in for another comatose reaction?
To me, that is not the type of university students this nation can be proud of for they are nothing but mobsters masquarading as the future leaders of this nation!
Malays are known traditionally as cultured people, full of social courtesy and being polite. Sadly this incident will surely put that notion to severe test for it betrays the lowest standard of social behaviour that even the chimps in Zoo Negara will not want to emulate!
Is this the quality of students that Universiti Putra Malaysia has as it's Student Leader and his mob of foul behaving hooligans?
Damn! If it is so, then this nation is surely heading towards deep shit!
What subject are those idiots taking? Hooliganism 101?
Well, from the way they behave in that clip, they will surely graduate with flying colors! From being this nation's future leaders , I dare say that this mob is sure destined for the dust heap!
That is not the way these Malay 'students' should take to solve whatever problems those Chinese students in UPM have created by trying to help their fellow students who have just enrolled into UPM!
Have they not learned from their parents as how to behave towards others what more their fellow students and citizens of this country?
The old Malay saying goes like this ' Kalau hendak menarik rambut dari tepong, rambut jangan sampai putus; tepong usah sampai berselerak!'
It means : ' If you want to remove a hair from the flour ; take precautions as not to break it and not to spill the flour'.
The hidden meaning is that we need to use our wisdom in whatever we do especially in delicate situations such as removing the hair from the flour. It is a graphic example of traditional Malay etiquette and admired social customs when dealing with sensitive problems.
Looks like those Malay UPM students are in the wrong institution. Pudu Jail would be a better place for them to study the consequences of their shameful behaviours!
No wonder this nation seems stuck in progress when you have such goons destroying the nation in it's process!
What the hell is UPM gonna do about its criminal students actions?
Sweep it all under the carpet? Not that it's not the norm for the local authorities as we all know.
Let's just wait and see what is gonna take place or are we in for another comatose reaction?
Mahathir's back in town! Pak Lah's migraine returns.
Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamed, Malaysia's former Prime Minister with a 22 year track record is back in town!Unlike his successor, Abdullah Badawi, Tun Dr.Mahathir is a man who doesn't pull any punches when it comes to speaking his mind!
Abdullah Badawi , prefers to play the 'grandfatherly role' when it comes to speaking about the current questions being posed to him by his former mentor. From the looks if it, it is now more of Tun Dr.Mahathir turning into his tormentor!
Mahathir Mohamed is someone who doesn't back off from getting what he wants especially when the present Malaysian Government under Abdullah Badawi is dismantling his pet projects el pronto!
From the way I see it, Tun Dr.Mahathir will go on fighting to have Abdullah Badawi's leadership lose it's credibility for the sheer reasons that Abdullah Badawi seems not able to handle his role as Malaysia's Prime Minister with total control and clear vision.
We do acknowledge that people are a bit more able to express their opinions openly and criticize either the government or any other body without fear of the SB beating down their doors and end up in Kamunting.
But we can also see Tun Dr.Mahathir's point in that Malaysia ought to be able to dictate to Singapore regarding it's wishes to get things changed for the better in terms of demolishing it's part of the Johor Causeway at it's own expense to allow the seawater flow through under the proposed bridge and thus restore a better environment for the ecology of Johor's marinelife in the Straits of Johore.
One doesn't have to be a marine scientist to be able to figure out that the Causeway as it is has been blocking the free flow of the sea through the Straits of Johore since it was built.
The bridge would solve that problem once and for all.
Why should Singapore be so bloody calculative and stingy in not co-operating with Malaysia in replacing that old Causeway with a straight bridge that would solve the sea water flow problem and also upgrade the heavy traffic situation there which is creating traffic back up in both sides of the Causeway?
I am also peeved as to why Malaysia needs to surrender sand and airspace to Singapore's 'kiasu' leadership to build our own bridge using our own money?
Tun Dr.Mahathir will never back down from getting Abdullah Badawi to either answer his questions man to man or come up with answers from his own mouth and not from his 'delegation' of yes men in the form of the Cabinet Ministers.
Malaysia needs it's Prime Minister to be a firm and articulate leader. We need our leader to protect our nation's interests in the long run and get back what is ours rightfully as the billions of Singapore Dollars in the form of the CPF funds of millions of Malaysian workers such as myself being held back in Singapore by it's government.
Sabahans and Sarawakians when they leave Singapore after their working stint in the island republic get to withdraw their CPF funds when they stop working there but Peninsular Malaysians aren't allowed to withdraw our money when we leave Singapore! :(
Tun Dr. Mahathir said that for 22 long years , he has tried to negotiate with Singapore over such matters but as usual , our neighbour south of Johore is the bastion of Kiasuism, hence the current quagmire with them.
Abdullah Badawi has raised our costs of living by raising the petrol prices. This is what we get for voting the current government in. Mahathir may not be as clean as he himself admitted at the recent 'monologue' at the Century Paradise Club in Taman Melawati last month, but the old man didn't inconvenience us as much as Mr.'Nice Guy' has.
I await Tun Dr.Mahathir's further dramatics and agenda against Abdullah Badawi's leadership.
It is high time , the Malaysian Government proves itself to be a government for the people by the people and not just end up as another dictatorship trying to masquarade as a 'Cemerlang, Gemilang, Terbilang' government.
Actions speak louder than words or rhetoric. Abdullah Badawi has to take the lead now.
The Malaysian people are waiting to see what he has to say and share with us about Tun's questions.
There are still so many outstanding major corruption cases involving some major sharks that have evaded capture all this while.
Will they be caught in the net of the BPR or are they being 'reared' as part and parcel of our Malaysian Government's 'aquaculture projects'?
Fry the anchovies whilst feeding the sharks? Cemerlang betul!
Saddam Hussein's Letter to the American People
Although I am no fan of the deposed President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein al Tikriti, I do feel that it is noteworthy to read what he has to say to his captors citizens in America.
This letter is sourced from The Rebel Media Group.
Handwritten letter from President Saddam Hussein to the American people.
Posted by: Saddam Hussein on Friday, July 21, 2006 - 12:04 AM Print article Email to a friend
Dated: 7 July 2006.
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Mercy-giving.
“And among the Believers are men who are true to that which they pledged to God. Some of them have fulfilled their pledge by death and some of them still are waiting and they have not altered in the least. That God may reward the true men for their truth and punish the hypocrites if He will, or relent towards them, for God is forgiving, merciful. And God repulsed the infidels for their wrath. They gained no good. God averted their attack from the Believers. God is strong, mighty.” [Qur’an 33:23-25].
To the American people: Peace upon those who believe in peace and desire it, and the mercy of God and His blessings.
I address you in this letter from the place of my confinement, as my attempt on the basis of my moral, human, and constitutional responsibility so that no one among you might say that no one came to us with a message of peace after the war began, refuting the arguments for it and desiring peace for you and for our upright, loyal, heroic people.
And as I say this, I do not know whether my brothers and comrades who are leading the Resistance outside the prison have come to you with a letter before or not.
That is because the “democracy” of your leaders has prevented me since my arrest and until now from getting newspapers and magazines or hearing radio and television and has isolated me from the world and has isolated the world from me so that I might not hear or see anything from outside my place of confinement.
Is this the true face of democracy and human rights that they advocate outside America!? Or have your rulers lied about it?
This includes the killing of people in prisons and jails, some of them by means of the pistols of the American investigators. Or has all of this along with other details that would turn an attentive person’s hair white been concealed from you by your officials such that you do not know the truth!?
Anyway, I address you with this letter of mine in the hope that it will reach you and that you will hear it or read it. And on the basis of my responsibility to bring the facts before people, whatever their color or nationality, for that is our duty to them, just as they have a duty to us not to accept evil.
I address you today as my attorney the eminent lawyer and Professor Ramsey Clark has asked that I write this letter of mine to you.
Professor Ramsey has presented an excellent example of a humanitarian in his person and in his colleague Professor Curtis Dobler, both of whom left a positive personal impression on me. On this occasion I wish to salute their courage as they have volunteered for the task although they know the dangers that surround them in carrying out their duty, in particular after criminals have killed four of the defense attorneys.
People of America, it still seems to me that the officials in your government are still lying to you and are not giving you true explanations of the reasons that led them to embark on their aggression against Iraq.
In what they have said about the reasons they have deceived, from the starting point, not only the international community, and in particular the European Community but also the peoples of America themselves, knowing beforehand that the facts were contrary to what they were declaring.
Untrue is what they said, after their lies were exposed, about having been deceived by their intelligence agencies and by the stooges that they brought along to serve as their puppets in Iraq, just as old imperialism and the old empires of the 19th and 20th centuries used to do.
What we are saying is based on many facts, the major ones being as follows:
1. The inspection teams – that came to Iraq in the name of the United Nations and carried out searches even of some private houses as well as government departments, presidential palaces and government documents – those teams knew that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction because most of the leading members in those teams were Americans and British and in addition they had spies and volunteers of other nationalities.
Those teams searched Iraq piece by piece from one end to the other and never found any information contrary to what they and others were told by Iraqi government representatives.
The inspections lasted for more than seven years. And in addition to the teams that traveled by car and on foot, they used spy planes, helicopters, and satellites in space.
The American and English officials thought that this was their historic chance to strike Iraq and destroy its legitimate aspirations and the lofty cultural and scientific achievements made in the course of 35 years, making use of the information gathered by their spies in the inspection teams and making use of the so-called war on terror after the 11 September incident that struck America.
They shuffled the cards to bring up the goals that they had already decided upon earlier, and these were not the goals that they publicly announced at the starting line.
It was their assessment that the unjust embargo had not destroyed Iraq’s will nor halted its legitimate aspirations to develop economically, culturally, scientifically, and as a civilization in the conditions of a new independence.
They believed that Iraq had come close at that time to breaking the economic embargo as the result of the cooperation of those who cooperated with Iraq on the basis of mutual benefit and fraternal national feelings as far as the Arabs were concerned.
The officials in your country thought that this was their chance to impose their will on the world by means of their control of the Middle East’s oil and its production and marketing in new ways and for new goals – those about which we spoke in and before the year 2003 – in addition to attaining one of their Zionist goals and winning support in the election.
Iran and its lackeys played a dirty role in making aggression appear attractive and in facilitating its implementation.
2. The American officials did not withdraw from Iraq after they became hard pressed, but declared that the facts were contrary to what they had claimed before the invasion that took place in March and April of the year 2003.
If they had been truthful when they claimed that they had been deceived as a result of the information they had been given and which they used as the cover for their invasion, and which they declared at the time was sufficient justification for the invasion – declaring at the time that it involved things that they said affected the security of the United States – then they would have withdrawn from Iraq after discovering that that information had been false.
They would have apologized to the heroic Iraqi people, to the American people and to the people of the world for what they had done. None of the Americans asked their government before the war how Iraq, a country that had still not emerged from backwardness, could threaten the security of a country like America across the Atlantic. And for that matter why would Iraq want to threaten America, which at that time had not violated the territory of Iraq.
If the American officials wanted to promote the claim that Iraq’s threat was precisely involved in the opposing stances taken by Iraq and America over the Zionist occupation of the land of Palestine and other Arab land, it could be said that Iraq is not the only state that takes an opposing stance to that of America in regards to the issue, whether that be Arab states or other states in the world.
Furthermore, who has authorized America to make the countries of the world tailor their policies to America’s measurements, and if they don’t oblige, then war should be waged against them?
How can one understand America’s call for democracy if it does not permit a difference of opinion even in issues of a regional character, to say nothing of international ones?
Another lie was the claim of American officials that Iraq had links to what they called terrorism, although British Prime Minister Blair declared that Iraq does not have any ties to so-called terrorism and had no internationally prohibited weapons, forcing Bush to declare the same thing.
Despite that, none of the important American personalities asked President Bush on what sort of rational analysis or what sort of realistic information this claim rested.
Do you know, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, why they didn’t ask? Because some of your prominent personalities are directed in what they do by hidden forces that distorted the image you received of Iraq’s positions.
They had been laying the groundwork for years to facilitate aggression from the start.
Therefore no one asked the American officials, for example, why no Iraqi took part in the events of 11 September!?
And if the participation of individuals in the attack on American targets isn’t to be taken as proof of the involvement of any country in those events, then how do you accuse a state like Iraq, the features of whose political system are known, of so-called relations with terror?
How can you consider this charge to be one of only two on the basis of which aggression was launched against the people of Iraq, destroying their property and achievements and bringing their lives under daily and direct threat?
Do you know, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, that I asked one of the American officials who talked with me perhaps two weeks after my arrest, just what was it that you based those false charges on?
He said that as far as the weapons of mass destruction were concerned, “we didn’t have anything to confirm what you were saying.”
And as for the links to terrorism, he said, because you, Saddam Hussein, did not send a letter of condolence to President Bush after the incident [of 11 September].
I smiled bitterly and told him: as regards your claim that you didn’t have confirmation of our statements, it seems that your officials lie and imagine that officials in countries around the world do not tell the truth, or that many of those who have relations with you in fact do not tell you the truth, neither when they oppose your policies nor when they agree with them.
This is a dangerous matter, not only for the countries of the world but because they then pose a danger for America as well, if nobody in the world will tell America: ‘this is a mistake’ and ‘this is unacceptable’!
And at that time when American planes were striking targets in Iraq and destroying public and private property, killing Iraqi citizens including women and children for no reason and imposing on Iraq their unjust embargo, prohibiting Iraq from importing even pencils for children to use in primary schools, what exactly is it that should obligate Saddam Hussein to send a telegram of condolences to the president of the state whose officials have committed all those crimes, unless it be out of hypocrisy and weakness?
But because I am neither a hypocrite nor a weakling I didn’t send Bush a telegram of condolence.
But I did agree on the telegram sent containing condolences in the name of the government of Iraq and sent by Comrade Tariq Aziz, the Deputy Prime Minister, to our friend Ramsey Clark and through him to the stricken families.
Are the great states so deluded as to imagine that whoever does not send a letter of condolence deserves that war should be waged against him, his country, and his people!?
Here you see how the American officials used even your own blood to promote their reckless, aggressive policy.
Is this the kind of morality that people should have? Or men? Or officials?
There is nothing graver than for disasters to ravage people who have been stricken by delusions, committed wrongs, and wantonly despised the roles of others. The worst disease of the American officials who involved the Americans in war against Iraq is this.
3. After I was arrested they made vain attempts to use intimidation and threats against me.
One of their generals conveyed that intimidation and host threats and tried to bargain with me, promising to let me live if I agreed to read in my own voice and sign a prepared announcement that was shown to me.
That stupid announcement called on the people of Iraq and the courageous Resistance to lay down arms. They said that if I refused, my fate would be that I would be shot just like Mussolini, as my interlocutor put it.
But, as you know me and would expect of me, I disdainfully refused, not even touching that dirty document with my hand and sullying myself with it. I told them if I were given the chance to address my people, I would call them to more resistance.
Seven days later, to reinforce themselves, they sent a group to talk with me. They said they were from an American University and that they wanted to engage me in a broad discussion.
I agreed and I confirmed to them that Iraq didn’t have any of the things the American officials claimed and I advised them [the US] to leave Iraq quickly and apologize to the people, warning them that they were going to get what they now are facing and what they are now embroiled in – in fact, the fate I expect for them is worse than what they are facing now – and they will never have an adequate chance to pull their arms and equipment out of Iraq if the two halves of Iraq engulf them, and they will engulf them, God willing, because our people are deeply rooted and conscious.
They know that our liberation can be clean and complete only with their unity, and that tolerance must be the basis for the orientations of our people within their ranks, and that wounds must be bound up, not ripped open.
I say, I told them all that at that time but they didn’t change their methods; they didn’t replace the keys of falsehood, and they are still knocking on the doors of wrong, failing to try the door of legitimacy, even though they now know. In this connection, attached to this letter are some verses from a long ode; a selection of 56 verses. [Not translated here.]
4. It is neither reasonable nor convincing that a country like America to which the doors of the intelligence agencies in the east and most of the countries of the west have been opened did not know the truth and could not know the truth.
Although I am convinced and believe that many countries in the world have an interest in war or wars, she [the United States] does not have an interest in war even though she might believe she does. The contrary, in fact, is the case.
America is a big country on the other side of the Atlantic. It has developed a unique unparalleled power such that I think some people there imagine that it is on its way to attaining the crown of the world all for itself as a world empire.
Have they not learned a lesson from their war in Viet Nam?
The west used to promote the idea that world Communism and the Soviet bloc threatened their interests and also the security of the entire west. But despite that promotion, this was nothing but a flimsy cover.
Nevertheless, America used it and wrapped itself in it until the heroic Vietnamese people expelled them by force. As to their invasion of Iraq, it came in a situation that made the first step easy from the standpoint of the reaction of the international community because of the international balance of forces. But it came in a situation that might make it more costly that its war in Viet Nam. That is because when America was expelled from Viet Nam it did not lose its standing, or we might say it only lost a small part of its standing.
But when it is expelled and routed from Iraq, which has no great power to support it directly, it will lose the fundamental basis of its standing.
In fact it has now already lost the foundation for that standing and its reputation has begun to decay. It is no longer able to wield the big stick that it formerly threatened to use. It used to accomplish more by threatening to use force than by really using force.
I will go further and say that after its war in Iraq, that stick no longer frightens many people and America has come to need the silence of the smallest and simplest countries and tries to please them in order to get them to stay quiet about America’s crimes and reckless, deviant policies.
Before, many of the world’s countries used to court the United States and most countries in the world, all except a few, used to fear her threats or parried them with defensive arguments.
But now Mao Zedong of fond memory is laughing in his grave because his prediction has been fulfilled and America is a paper tiger.
This is by the will of the Living Eternal God, and by His agents on earth, the heroic Mujahideen in glorious, virtuous, militant, jihadist Iraq.
So God bless the heroic people of Iraq and God bless the jihad and the mujahideen.
Esteemed ladies and gentlemen of the peoples of America, the time has come to an end in which greatest and best-equipped armies could scatter the organized formations of the opposing army and thereby bring a war to a close.
Now you see our courageous army, our heroic people, and our Mujahideen replacing the system of organized formations with a new kind of warfare.
And when the Americans on the ground become targets in the vicinity of the guns of the revolutionaries, who attack them as deadly human bombs with nothing more than their bodies filled with faith in God, American superiority is worn down over time.
In fact in the near future that superiority will become a burden whose equipment will be difficult to withdraw.
So, will America trust the voice of rationality and logic that calls for the preservation of what still remains, or will Satan the deceiver and the hate-filled supporters of Zionism keep pushing the Americans until the waves swallow them and they sink to the depths of the raging sea?
Who, after all, appointed the American government to be the world policeman, to form the world in the mold that it likes, giving national orders to the countries of the world?
Saddam Hussein, ladies and gentlemen, is an honorable patriot and an honest man. He is a statesman resolute in implementing the law, just, but benevolent. He loves his people and his nation. He is straightforward, doesn’t double-cross or deceive. He speaks the truth even against himself.
Do tyrants like Bush like such characteristics? If he were a person like De Gaulle or even like Reagan, perhaps he would understand them, or at least would not abhor them.
But I must say to you that your country will discover more, esteemed ladies and gentlemen.
It has lost his reputation and his standing. Indeed the American who used to travel around the world respected and safe and welcomed wherever he went, is now no longer able to step outside America without a mine detector.
And the State Department issues warnings for you constantly about what world regions are dangerous to American lives .
It was American officials and their polices themselves that have created an atmosphere of anti-American hatred in the world by means of their arrogant behavior, their haughty aggressive attitude, their lack of respect for international law and the security of the world – including the security of my Arab Nation through their support for the Zionist entity in Palestine – and other world and human issues.
Today you are in a bad predicament with the world and nobody can rescue you but yourselves.
If you reform, you will open for the world and for yourselves a new opportunity.
But if you are heedless, that is your decision.
What you need is free and fair competition and peace in order to have security. The years that followed the 18th century had long gone when they came as invaders to the Middle East to bring back memories of things that awaken and arouse.
The Middle East, and the Arab homeland in particular, was the cradle of prophets and messengers from God.
Is the cradle of the prophets, where the prophets are buried in their tombs, also the home of devils and their mirror images – the malicious invaders?
We have believed, and our faith was suited to us, Then came the Zionists with a devil for a guide. They stormed in on us as invaders, unjust. The did not stop their advance nor sit still, Their diabolical patron has prepared their dilemma.
But as for us, we have the Merciful God as our Patron.
People of America, despite the crimes your government inflicted on our people, our Arab Nation and humanity, the people of Iraq – and I mean by that the Iraqis, not those with split loyalties who prefer to serve foreigners rather than their own people – I say the free people of Iraq even in their present circumstances are not thinking about their destiny alone but about the destiny of others wherever it’s possible to create a solution that treats a painful problem.
On this basis I said to some Americans when I was in my prison, why don’t you come to an agreement with the Resistance to designate a country with a charter and power to which the Resistance can hand over those American soldiers whom they capture, rather than executing them as currently is said to be taking place.
In fact the extent to which the Resistance is responsible for this is unknown, but people who are equitable know that America has not abided by international law in any of its activities in Iraq, including the Geneva Conventions regarding prisoners and detainees.
The Resistance has no secure place in Iraq where prisoners can be kept. So whether the Resistance is at all responsible, or whether the responsibility lies with some other parties that have no connection to the Resistance, the justification for it is that there is no secure place for prisoners to be kept.
Therefore in order to fulfill humanitarian needs and to eliminate the justification [for killing prisoners] I make this proposal to you and to the national Resistance and to anyone concerned, and I make this with the best of intentions.
If you accept it and respect the Geneva Conventions then the argument of those who kill rather than detain prisoners will have vanished.
But if your government does not accept it, then it will bear the responsibility for refusing and for whatever befalls our people and the heroic Resistance as a result of your government’s violation of international law.
This will be particularly true if the number of American prisoners increases in the future, and we think that it will increase.
Or is it that your government can’t see anything until it feels it?
Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for your government to look at all people as equals before international law regardless of the size of the countries to which they belong.
Whoever violates international law in his policies and the behavior of his army, he alone must bear the consequences for that policy. And if his policies are not in accordance with the letter of international law, he has no right to call others to protect his rights in accordance with that law.
Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, whoever missed his or her chance to take action to try to prevent the war still has a chance to act to end it and bring back peace and freedom to Iraq in accordance with the choice of its people without foreign interference by anyone whoever that may be.
People of America, I address you not from weakness nor as a supplicant.
I, my people, my brothers, comrades, and my nation – we address you on the basis of our moral and human responsibility. I tell you that officials whom you know, and first among them your President, lied to you and deceived you and tricked you using the media that portrayed Iraq to you as incorrigible, and Saddam Hussein as a hateful dictator, and that his people hate him and that his people are just waiting for their chance to get at him.
Some of them just wallowed in lying falsehood to the point that they openly declared that the Iraqis would meet the invading armies with roses and celebration.
I know that lots of people don’t do a lot of analysis; they don’t have the time or the ability or the desire to do careful assessments when presented with falsified news so as to uncover the truth.
The American peoples had no chance to inquire, for example: why, if the people of Iraq hate Saddam Hussein, how he managed to defeat the Iran of Khomeini after eight years in the aggressive war that Iran sought to impose on us under the slogan of exporting the revolution beginning with Iraq?
People of America, the victory over Khomeini’s Iran was not due to the short length of the war, but came only after eight years of grinding warfare in which tens of thousands fell and hundreds of thousands on the Iranian side.
Then if Saddam Hussein were a dictator, why did he establish a parliament with elections for the first time in the year 1980 during wartime, when there had been no parliament in Iraq since 1958?
If he and his government were dictators, how could he visit schools, universities, towns, and villages and spend the night with the people wherever the sun went down?
How could he travel around and lead at the battle front at night and during the day even in the trenches in the front lines on the battlefield among the Muslim soldiers!?
Yes, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, your government deceived you, and you, or rather most of you, had no chance to inquire of themselves or of others in order to discover the truth because the Zionists in the lobby who advocated the war together with some of the centers of power were deceiving you and tricking you, hiding from your eyes the real truth, exchanging the facts for falsified and slanted information.
Last but not least in this regard, if Saddam Hussein were a dictator hated and despised by his people, how is it that his people endured him and why was he chosen President by referendum?
People of America, the misfortunes that have afflicted you and afflicted our Arab Nation and within it our heroic Iraqi people – including the breakdown of America’s standing and reputation – were only caused by the reckless behavior of your government and by pressure from Zionism and power centers that influenced the government to commit those crimes and scandalous actions for specific ends that have nothing to do with the interest of the American peoples.
The massacres and blood that now flows in the streets and countryside of Iraq in torrents – the responsibility for that falls on America before all others.
You know, or rather you have now come to learn, that neither the stooges whom the American forces brought in on board their aircraft or as shamefaced presents aboard their tanks, nor Iran, which pushed and still pushes forward those who support it and whom they support, would be able to cause the bloodshed, or the destruction of the honor, and property of our people and our state had not America undertaken the aggression and invasion and issued the orders. It is still issuing orders in the Green Zone.
Therefore America bears the burden of all those crimes and outrages. So, will you put an end to what is going on by using the methods of direct truth without evasion and digression?
Or will you invite the machine of death to continue to eat away at the flesh of Iraqis and the flesh of Americans without doing anything to resolve this?
It is your historical responsibility, esteemed ladies and gentlemen. If you reform, you could save what remains of the standing and reputation of America and its legitimate interests. If you do nothing, you will be keeping silent over something evil.
“God grant us patient perseverance and let us die as Muslims.” [Qur’an, 7:126]
People of America, the wars that your government promotes in the world – one of them being the war in Iraq – with input from certain centers of power – which you know better than we – are not in the interests of the American people. You know better than many how you paid in blood so that you might liberate yourselves from British colonialism and after that how the United States of America was unified and what rivers of blood were shed in order for that to come about.
So, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, how do you accept this interference that abases America before it abases Iraq?
How can you accept not only the invasion but becoming mired in the internal affairs of Iraq?
You know that Iraq is a land of prophets, messengers, and righteous figures.
You know that Baghdad is the fourth holiest city in the Arab homeland – after Mecca, al-Madinah, and Jerusalem – in the sight of all of the Islamic world and all of our Arab Nation.
How can one imagine that Iraq could reconcile itself to colonial rule, even if it comes, this time, under another name and with other slogans?
Save your country, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, and leave Iraq.
Peace. God is greatest. God is greatest.
[signed] Saddam Hussein, President of the Republic of Iraq and Commander in Chief of the Mujahid Armed Forces.
7 July 2006.
This letter is sourced from The Rebel Media Group.
Handwritten letter from President Saddam Hussein to the American people.
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Dated: 7 July 2006.
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Mercy-giving.
“And among the Believers are men who are true to that which they pledged to God. Some of them have fulfilled their pledge by death and some of them still are waiting and they have not altered in the least. That God may reward the true men for their truth and punish the hypocrites if He will, or relent towards them, for God is forgiving, merciful. And God repulsed the infidels for their wrath. They gained no good. God averted their attack from the Believers. God is strong, mighty.” [Qur’an 33:23-25].
To the American people: Peace upon those who believe in peace and desire it, and the mercy of God and His blessings.
I address you in this letter from the place of my confinement, as my attempt on the basis of my moral, human, and constitutional responsibility so that no one among you might say that no one came to us with a message of peace after the war began, refuting the arguments for it and desiring peace for you and for our upright, loyal, heroic people.
And as I say this, I do not know whether my brothers and comrades who are leading the Resistance outside the prison have come to you with a letter before or not.
That is because the “democracy” of your leaders has prevented me since my arrest and until now from getting newspapers and magazines or hearing radio and television and has isolated me from the world and has isolated the world from me so that I might not hear or see anything from outside my place of confinement.
Is this the true face of democracy and human rights that they advocate outside America!? Or have your rulers lied about it?
This includes the killing of people in prisons and jails, some of them by means of the pistols of the American investigators. Or has all of this along with other details that would turn an attentive person’s hair white been concealed from you by your officials such that you do not know the truth!?
Anyway, I address you with this letter of mine in the hope that it will reach you and that you will hear it or read it. And on the basis of my responsibility to bring the facts before people, whatever their color or nationality, for that is our duty to them, just as they have a duty to us not to accept evil.
I address you today as my attorney the eminent lawyer and Professor Ramsey Clark has asked that I write this letter of mine to you.
Professor Ramsey has presented an excellent example of a humanitarian in his person and in his colleague Professor Curtis Dobler, both of whom left a positive personal impression on me. On this occasion I wish to salute their courage as they have volunteered for the task although they know the dangers that surround them in carrying out their duty, in particular after criminals have killed four of the defense attorneys.
People of America, it still seems to me that the officials in your government are still lying to you and are not giving you true explanations of the reasons that led them to embark on their aggression against Iraq.
In what they have said about the reasons they have deceived, from the starting point, not only the international community, and in particular the European Community but also the peoples of America themselves, knowing beforehand that the facts were contrary to what they were declaring.
Untrue is what they said, after their lies were exposed, about having been deceived by their intelligence agencies and by the stooges that they brought along to serve as their puppets in Iraq, just as old imperialism and the old empires of the 19th and 20th centuries used to do.
What we are saying is based on many facts, the major ones being as follows:
1. The inspection teams – that came to Iraq in the name of the United Nations and carried out searches even of some private houses as well as government departments, presidential palaces and government documents – those teams knew that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction because most of the leading members in those teams were Americans and British and in addition they had spies and volunteers of other nationalities.
Those teams searched Iraq piece by piece from one end to the other and never found any information contrary to what they and others were told by Iraqi government representatives.
The inspections lasted for more than seven years. And in addition to the teams that traveled by car and on foot, they used spy planes, helicopters, and satellites in space.
The American and English officials thought that this was their historic chance to strike Iraq and destroy its legitimate aspirations and the lofty cultural and scientific achievements made in the course of 35 years, making use of the information gathered by their spies in the inspection teams and making use of the so-called war on terror after the 11 September incident that struck America.
They shuffled the cards to bring up the goals that they had already decided upon earlier, and these were not the goals that they publicly announced at the starting line.
It was their assessment that the unjust embargo had not destroyed Iraq’s will nor halted its legitimate aspirations to develop economically, culturally, scientifically, and as a civilization in the conditions of a new independence.
They believed that Iraq had come close at that time to breaking the economic embargo as the result of the cooperation of those who cooperated with Iraq on the basis of mutual benefit and fraternal national feelings as far as the Arabs were concerned.
The officials in your country thought that this was their chance to impose their will on the world by means of their control of the Middle East’s oil and its production and marketing in new ways and for new goals – those about which we spoke in and before the year 2003 – in addition to attaining one of their Zionist goals and winning support in the election.
Iran and its lackeys played a dirty role in making aggression appear attractive and in facilitating its implementation.
2. The American officials did not withdraw from Iraq after they became hard pressed, but declared that the facts were contrary to what they had claimed before the invasion that took place in March and April of the year 2003.
If they had been truthful when they claimed that they had been deceived as a result of the information they had been given and which they used as the cover for their invasion, and which they declared at the time was sufficient justification for the invasion – declaring at the time that it involved things that they said affected the security of the United States – then they would have withdrawn from Iraq after discovering that that information had been false.
They would have apologized to the heroic Iraqi people, to the American people and to the people of the world for what they had done. None of the Americans asked their government before the war how Iraq, a country that had still not emerged from backwardness, could threaten the security of a country like America across the Atlantic. And for that matter why would Iraq want to threaten America, which at that time had not violated the territory of Iraq.
If the American officials wanted to promote the claim that Iraq’s threat was precisely involved in the opposing stances taken by Iraq and America over the Zionist occupation of the land of Palestine and other Arab land, it could be said that Iraq is not the only state that takes an opposing stance to that of America in regards to the issue, whether that be Arab states or other states in the world.
Furthermore, who has authorized America to make the countries of the world tailor their policies to America’s measurements, and if they don’t oblige, then war should be waged against them?
How can one understand America’s call for democracy if it does not permit a difference of opinion even in issues of a regional character, to say nothing of international ones?
Another lie was the claim of American officials that Iraq had links to what they called terrorism, although British Prime Minister Blair declared that Iraq does not have any ties to so-called terrorism and had no internationally prohibited weapons, forcing Bush to declare the same thing.
Despite that, none of the important American personalities asked President Bush on what sort of rational analysis or what sort of realistic information this claim rested.
Do you know, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, why they didn’t ask? Because some of your prominent personalities are directed in what they do by hidden forces that distorted the image you received of Iraq’s positions.
They had been laying the groundwork for years to facilitate aggression from the start.
Therefore no one asked the American officials, for example, why no Iraqi took part in the events of 11 September!?
And if the participation of individuals in the attack on American targets isn’t to be taken as proof of the involvement of any country in those events, then how do you accuse a state like Iraq, the features of whose political system are known, of so-called relations with terror?
How can you consider this charge to be one of only two on the basis of which aggression was launched against the people of Iraq, destroying their property and achievements and bringing their lives under daily and direct threat?
Do you know, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, that I asked one of the American officials who talked with me perhaps two weeks after my arrest, just what was it that you based those false charges on?
He said that as far as the weapons of mass destruction were concerned, “we didn’t have anything to confirm what you were saying.”
And as for the links to terrorism, he said, because you, Saddam Hussein, did not send a letter of condolence to President Bush after the incident [of 11 September].
I smiled bitterly and told him: as regards your claim that you didn’t have confirmation of our statements, it seems that your officials lie and imagine that officials in countries around the world do not tell the truth, or that many of those who have relations with you in fact do not tell you the truth, neither when they oppose your policies nor when they agree with them.
This is a dangerous matter, not only for the countries of the world but because they then pose a danger for America as well, if nobody in the world will tell America: ‘this is a mistake’ and ‘this is unacceptable’!
And at that time when American planes were striking targets in Iraq and destroying public and private property, killing Iraqi citizens including women and children for no reason and imposing on Iraq their unjust embargo, prohibiting Iraq from importing even pencils for children to use in primary schools, what exactly is it that should obligate Saddam Hussein to send a telegram of condolences to the president of the state whose officials have committed all those crimes, unless it be out of hypocrisy and weakness?
But because I am neither a hypocrite nor a weakling I didn’t send Bush a telegram of condolence.
But I did agree on the telegram sent containing condolences in the name of the government of Iraq and sent by Comrade Tariq Aziz, the Deputy Prime Minister, to our friend Ramsey Clark and through him to the stricken families.
Are the great states so deluded as to imagine that whoever does not send a letter of condolence deserves that war should be waged against him, his country, and his people!?
Here you see how the American officials used even your own blood to promote their reckless, aggressive policy.
Is this the kind of morality that people should have? Or men? Or officials?
There is nothing graver than for disasters to ravage people who have been stricken by delusions, committed wrongs, and wantonly despised the roles of others. The worst disease of the American officials who involved the Americans in war against Iraq is this.
3. After I was arrested they made vain attempts to use intimidation and threats against me.
One of their generals conveyed that intimidation and host threats and tried to bargain with me, promising to let me live if I agreed to read in my own voice and sign a prepared announcement that was shown to me.
That stupid announcement called on the people of Iraq and the courageous Resistance to lay down arms. They said that if I refused, my fate would be that I would be shot just like Mussolini, as my interlocutor put it.
But, as you know me and would expect of me, I disdainfully refused, not even touching that dirty document with my hand and sullying myself with it. I told them if I were given the chance to address my people, I would call them to more resistance.
Seven days later, to reinforce themselves, they sent a group to talk with me. They said they were from an American University and that they wanted to engage me in a broad discussion.
I agreed and I confirmed to them that Iraq didn’t have any of the things the American officials claimed and I advised them [the US] to leave Iraq quickly and apologize to the people, warning them that they were going to get what they now are facing and what they are now embroiled in – in fact, the fate I expect for them is worse than what they are facing now – and they will never have an adequate chance to pull their arms and equipment out of Iraq if the two halves of Iraq engulf them, and they will engulf them, God willing, because our people are deeply rooted and conscious.
They know that our liberation can be clean and complete only with their unity, and that tolerance must be the basis for the orientations of our people within their ranks, and that wounds must be bound up, not ripped open.
I say, I told them all that at that time but they didn’t change their methods; they didn’t replace the keys of falsehood, and they are still knocking on the doors of wrong, failing to try the door of legitimacy, even though they now know. In this connection, attached to this letter are some verses from a long ode; a selection of 56 verses. [Not translated here.]
4. It is neither reasonable nor convincing that a country like America to which the doors of the intelligence agencies in the east and most of the countries of the west have been opened did not know the truth and could not know the truth.
Although I am convinced and believe that many countries in the world have an interest in war or wars, she [the United States] does not have an interest in war even though she might believe she does. The contrary, in fact, is the case.
America is a big country on the other side of the Atlantic. It has developed a unique unparalleled power such that I think some people there imagine that it is on its way to attaining the crown of the world all for itself as a world empire.
Have they not learned a lesson from their war in Viet Nam?
The west used to promote the idea that world Communism and the Soviet bloc threatened their interests and also the security of the entire west. But despite that promotion, this was nothing but a flimsy cover.
Nevertheless, America used it and wrapped itself in it until the heroic Vietnamese people expelled them by force. As to their invasion of Iraq, it came in a situation that made the first step easy from the standpoint of the reaction of the international community because of the international balance of forces. But it came in a situation that might make it more costly that its war in Viet Nam. That is because when America was expelled from Viet Nam it did not lose its standing, or we might say it only lost a small part of its standing.
But when it is expelled and routed from Iraq, which has no great power to support it directly, it will lose the fundamental basis of its standing.
In fact it has now already lost the foundation for that standing and its reputation has begun to decay. It is no longer able to wield the big stick that it formerly threatened to use. It used to accomplish more by threatening to use force than by really using force.
I will go further and say that after its war in Iraq, that stick no longer frightens many people and America has come to need the silence of the smallest and simplest countries and tries to please them in order to get them to stay quiet about America’s crimes and reckless, deviant policies.
Before, many of the world’s countries used to court the United States and most countries in the world, all except a few, used to fear her threats or parried them with defensive arguments.
But now Mao Zedong of fond memory is laughing in his grave because his prediction has been fulfilled and America is a paper tiger.
This is by the will of the Living Eternal God, and by His agents on earth, the heroic Mujahideen in glorious, virtuous, militant, jihadist Iraq.
So God bless the heroic people of Iraq and God bless the jihad and the mujahideen.
Esteemed ladies and gentlemen of the peoples of America, the time has come to an end in which greatest and best-equipped armies could scatter the organized formations of the opposing army and thereby bring a war to a close.
Now you see our courageous army, our heroic people, and our Mujahideen replacing the system of organized formations with a new kind of warfare.
And when the Americans on the ground become targets in the vicinity of the guns of the revolutionaries, who attack them as deadly human bombs with nothing more than their bodies filled with faith in God, American superiority is worn down over time.
In fact in the near future that superiority will become a burden whose equipment will be difficult to withdraw.
So, will America trust the voice of rationality and logic that calls for the preservation of what still remains, or will Satan the deceiver and the hate-filled supporters of Zionism keep pushing the Americans until the waves swallow them and they sink to the depths of the raging sea?
Who, after all, appointed the American government to be the world policeman, to form the world in the mold that it likes, giving national orders to the countries of the world?
Saddam Hussein, ladies and gentlemen, is an honorable patriot and an honest man. He is a statesman resolute in implementing the law, just, but benevolent. He loves his people and his nation. He is straightforward, doesn’t double-cross or deceive. He speaks the truth even against himself.
Do tyrants like Bush like such characteristics? If he were a person like De Gaulle or even like Reagan, perhaps he would understand them, or at least would not abhor them.
But I must say to you that your country will discover more, esteemed ladies and gentlemen.
It has lost his reputation and his standing. Indeed the American who used to travel around the world respected and safe and welcomed wherever he went, is now no longer able to step outside America without a mine detector.
And the State Department issues warnings for you constantly about what world regions are dangerous to American lives .
It was American officials and their polices themselves that have created an atmosphere of anti-American hatred in the world by means of their arrogant behavior, their haughty aggressive attitude, their lack of respect for international law and the security of the world – including the security of my Arab Nation through their support for the Zionist entity in Palestine – and other world and human issues.
Today you are in a bad predicament with the world and nobody can rescue you but yourselves.
If you reform, you will open for the world and for yourselves a new opportunity.
But if you are heedless, that is your decision.
What you need is free and fair competition and peace in order to have security. The years that followed the 18th century had long gone when they came as invaders to the Middle East to bring back memories of things that awaken and arouse.
The Middle East, and the Arab homeland in particular, was the cradle of prophets and messengers from God.
Is the cradle of the prophets, where the prophets are buried in their tombs, also the home of devils and their mirror images – the malicious invaders?
We have believed, and our faith was suited to us, Then came the Zionists with a devil for a guide. They stormed in on us as invaders, unjust. The did not stop their advance nor sit still, Their diabolical patron has prepared their dilemma.
But as for us, we have the Merciful God as our Patron.
People of America, despite the crimes your government inflicted on our people, our Arab Nation and humanity, the people of Iraq – and I mean by that the Iraqis, not those with split loyalties who prefer to serve foreigners rather than their own people – I say the free people of Iraq even in their present circumstances are not thinking about their destiny alone but about the destiny of others wherever it’s possible to create a solution that treats a painful problem.
On this basis I said to some Americans when I was in my prison, why don’t you come to an agreement with the Resistance to designate a country with a charter and power to which the Resistance can hand over those American soldiers whom they capture, rather than executing them as currently is said to be taking place.
In fact the extent to which the Resistance is responsible for this is unknown, but people who are equitable know that America has not abided by international law in any of its activities in Iraq, including the Geneva Conventions regarding prisoners and detainees.
The Resistance has no secure place in Iraq where prisoners can be kept. So whether the Resistance is at all responsible, or whether the responsibility lies with some other parties that have no connection to the Resistance, the justification for it is that there is no secure place for prisoners to be kept.
Therefore in order to fulfill humanitarian needs and to eliminate the justification [for killing prisoners] I make this proposal to you and to the national Resistance and to anyone concerned, and I make this with the best of intentions.
If you accept it and respect the Geneva Conventions then the argument of those who kill rather than detain prisoners will have vanished.
But if your government does not accept it, then it will bear the responsibility for refusing and for whatever befalls our people and the heroic Resistance as a result of your government’s violation of international law.
This will be particularly true if the number of American prisoners increases in the future, and we think that it will increase.
Or is it that your government can’t see anything until it feels it?
Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for your government to look at all people as equals before international law regardless of the size of the countries to which they belong.
Whoever violates international law in his policies and the behavior of his army, he alone must bear the consequences for that policy. And if his policies are not in accordance with the letter of international law, he has no right to call others to protect his rights in accordance with that law.
Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, whoever missed his or her chance to take action to try to prevent the war still has a chance to act to end it and bring back peace and freedom to Iraq in accordance with the choice of its people without foreign interference by anyone whoever that may be.
People of America, I address you not from weakness nor as a supplicant.
I, my people, my brothers, comrades, and my nation – we address you on the basis of our moral and human responsibility. I tell you that officials whom you know, and first among them your President, lied to you and deceived you and tricked you using the media that portrayed Iraq to you as incorrigible, and Saddam Hussein as a hateful dictator, and that his people hate him and that his people are just waiting for their chance to get at him.
Some of them just wallowed in lying falsehood to the point that they openly declared that the Iraqis would meet the invading armies with roses and celebration.
I know that lots of people don’t do a lot of analysis; they don’t have the time or the ability or the desire to do careful assessments when presented with falsified news so as to uncover the truth.
The American peoples had no chance to inquire, for example: why, if the people of Iraq hate Saddam Hussein, how he managed to defeat the Iran of Khomeini after eight years in the aggressive war that Iran sought to impose on us under the slogan of exporting the revolution beginning with Iraq?
People of America, the victory over Khomeini’s Iran was not due to the short length of the war, but came only after eight years of grinding warfare in which tens of thousands fell and hundreds of thousands on the Iranian side.
Then if Saddam Hussein were a dictator, why did he establish a parliament with elections for the first time in the year 1980 during wartime, when there had been no parliament in Iraq since 1958?
If he and his government were dictators, how could he visit schools, universities, towns, and villages and spend the night with the people wherever the sun went down?
How could he travel around and lead at the battle front at night and during the day even in the trenches in the front lines on the battlefield among the Muslim soldiers!?
Yes, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, your government deceived you, and you, or rather most of you, had no chance to inquire of themselves or of others in order to discover the truth because the Zionists in the lobby who advocated the war together with some of the centers of power were deceiving you and tricking you, hiding from your eyes the real truth, exchanging the facts for falsified and slanted information.
Last but not least in this regard, if Saddam Hussein were a dictator hated and despised by his people, how is it that his people endured him and why was he chosen President by referendum?
People of America, the misfortunes that have afflicted you and afflicted our Arab Nation and within it our heroic Iraqi people – including the breakdown of America’s standing and reputation – were only caused by the reckless behavior of your government and by pressure from Zionism and power centers that influenced the government to commit those crimes and scandalous actions for specific ends that have nothing to do with the interest of the American peoples.
The massacres and blood that now flows in the streets and countryside of Iraq in torrents – the responsibility for that falls on America before all others.
You know, or rather you have now come to learn, that neither the stooges whom the American forces brought in on board their aircraft or as shamefaced presents aboard their tanks, nor Iran, which pushed and still pushes forward those who support it and whom they support, would be able to cause the bloodshed, or the destruction of the honor, and property of our people and our state had not America undertaken the aggression and invasion and issued the orders. It is still issuing orders in the Green Zone.
Therefore America bears the burden of all those crimes and outrages. So, will you put an end to what is going on by using the methods of direct truth without evasion and digression?
Or will you invite the machine of death to continue to eat away at the flesh of Iraqis and the flesh of Americans without doing anything to resolve this?
It is your historical responsibility, esteemed ladies and gentlemen. If you reform, you could save what remains of the standing and reputation of America and its legitimate interests. If you do nothing, you will be keeping silent over something evil.
“God grant us patient perseverance and let us die as Muslims.” [Qur’an, 7:126]
People of America, the wars that your government promotes in the world – one of them being the war in Iraq – with input from certain centers of power – which you know better than we – are not in the interests of the American people. You know better than many how you paid in blood so that you might liberate yourselves from British colonialism and after that how the United States of America was unified and what rivers of blood were shed in order for that to come about.
So, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, how do you accept this interference that abases America before it abases Iraq?
How can you accept not only the invasion but becoming mired in the internal affairs of Iraq?
You know that Iraq is a land of prophets, messengers, and righteous figures.
You know that Baghdad is the fourth holiest city in the Arab homeland – after Mecca, al-Madinah, and Jerusalem – in the sight of all of the Islamic world and all of our Arab Nation.
How can one imagine that Iraq could reconcile itself to colonial rule, even if it comes, this time, under another name and with other slogans?
Save your country, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, and leave Iraq.
Peace. God is greatest. God is greatest.
[signed] Saddam Hussein, President of the Republic of Iraq and Commander in Chief of the Mujahid Armed Forces.
7 July 2006.
Friday, July 21, 2006
Sufism-A Self Discovering Journey to those who want to know.
Each of us , human beings are created unique and different from one another.There are no immediate clones or exact copies of a human being right to the very miniscule DNA that scientists have only come to discover very recently.
The microscope was invented by Anthony Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) from Holland almost a thousand years after the lifetime of the Final Messenger of Allah, Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam completed his Mission and departed from this mortal Earth!
The very first Qur'anic revelations received by the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam was the first 5 verses of the Surah Al-'Alaq.
The Commandment by Almighty Allah to His Final Messenger is ' Iq'ra!' @ 'Read!Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam didn't ever learn how to Read nor Write.
This is another Hikmah of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in preserving and protecting the Mercy for all Mankind from being accused by those who are devious and demented in their selfs of 'authoring' the Holy Al-Qur'an al Kareem.
Read in the name of Thy Lord!
The second verse reads ' Iq'ra. Bismi rabbikallazi khalaq!
Meaning: 'Read. In the name of thy Lord and Cherisher Who Created man out of a mere clot of 'congealed' blood.
Now, a thousand four hundred twenty seven years ago, mankind never knew what a 'microscope' was! It wasn't invented until a thousand years later after the Revelation of the Holy Qur'an took place.
All people knew was that when a man and a woman had sexual intercourse, chances are that the woman might get pregnant with child.
How the conception takes place, what is the actual process of fertilization and conception was still a mystery to the whole of mankind in those times.
The second verse clearly explains so very scientifically how a foetus at its very early stage of development looks like. To the naked eye, that small foetus would only look like a small piece of congealed blood!
How could Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, an unlettered man , living in Arabia, 14 centuries ago have come to learn about such a scientifically accurate, unheard of knowledge to the whole of mankind, sitting in a small cave, on a pitch black dark night, high above the hills of Makkah?
Today, scientists and academicians, who are among the best in their profession, realise that those verses are not from Man but truely and purely Divine Revelations that were delivered to a man who was well known for his honesty and sincerity amongst his people. A man whom they called 'Al-Amin' @ 'The Trustworthy'.
Many of those scientists who didn't believe in the existence of God, after discovering the truth of the Qur'anic revelations, started to research and study the whole of the Qur'an and as they discovered that the Verses of the Qur'an are absolutely from Our Creator and way beyond the times of Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam and revelations regarding historical facts that Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam , who was unschooled , could never have come to know on his own, out of their own convictions, uttered their Proclamations of Faith and Belief in that 'There's no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah!'
With the advent of the microscope a thousand years later by the invention and discovery by Holland's Anthony Leeuwenhoek, only then did the world realise that there are minute , microscopic living organisms and cells in every living matter and then only in the last few decades have Mankind learned about the building blocks of cells, DNA's and chromosomes.
For those who choose to study and ponder about how did the Qur'an beat modern science to explaining so precisely and accurately about everything that only recently the socalled scientific world has 'discovered' about how we are conceived and what is the process of mankind's evolving from a single sperm cell and an ovum cell that after fertilisation evolves in an exact process that is explained in total accuracy by the Qur'an 14 centuries ago to an unlettered Prophet!
In the Holy Quran, God speaks about the stages of man’s embryonic development:
"We created man from an extract of clay. Then We made him as a drop in a place of settlement, firmly fixed. Then We made the drop into an alaqah (leech, suspended thing, and blood clot), then We made the alaqah into a mudghah (chewed substance)... 1 (Quran, 23:12-14)
Literally, the Arabic word alaqah has three meanings: (1) leech, (2) suspended thing, and (3) blood clot.
In comparing a leech to an embryo in the alaqah stage, we find similarity between the two .
Also, the embryo at this stage obtains nourishment from the blood of the mother, similar to the leech, which feeds on the blood of others.
Source : http://www.islam-guide.com/frm-ch1.htm
Today, mankind is racing across space, diving deep into the deepest crevasses and underwater canyons miles deep where everything is so pitch black and dark that through the Grace and Mercy of Allah SWT, fishes and other living creatures deep down there have evolved lights and phosphorence to find their way through the pitch black labyrinth and survive without ever seeing the rays of the sun.
For all of mankind's recent technological and scientific advances, Mankind has yet to learn about this mysterious unseen essence of Life that dwells within ourselves and known as the 'living spirit' @ the Soul / the Ruuh!
Sufism is a journey of Self Discovery that is both mystifying and confusing to those who have yet to settle down in their lifes and a process of building up a very strong connection between one as a humanbeing and Our Creator who has given us all that we require to strive in our own ways to deepen our Knowledge and Realisation about who we are, where we came from and where we might end up if we fail to study and seek, the many hidden answers to the challenges of Life!
Are the unlearned as similar to those who are in the know? An all familiar question that we often hear especially amongst those who appreciate getting to know and acquiring newer and newer realisations of the different stages of reality and why in these Akhirul Zaman, it is imperative for one who seeks the Mercy of God and wants to improve one's perception of one's being and where one is going to end up when we breathe this mortal Earth's air no more.
To those who are interested to learn about Sufism, there's only one particular advice I'd want to give. Do not go overboard in showing homage to your Masters. Be moderate, be kind and be humble.
Sufism is a process of purification of our Nafs @ Desires. It is a long journey that can see many of the travellers lose sight of their goals and at times disappear into the vast chasms of human interventions and misguidance.
It's best to study as to the sources and practices of any given Tariqah to avoid khurafat and Shirk whilst embarking on a journey to purify one's self. More postings in due time.
Fee amanillah people! Allah knows us best! Seek His Mercy in your own way, Insyaallah.
To those who want to learn with a proper Murshid @ Master, the sources are numerous in the worldwide web.
One link you might find useful is http://www.naqshbandi.org/frmchain.htm
Remember , Sufism is best travelled in moderation.
Anything more or less will see you stranded between the two stations that are the Al-Haqq and the Al-Batil.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala guide us all to His Oceans of Mercy! Amin ya Rabbal Alameen.
Karpal Singh-Dear YB, Remember apologising at Forum Keadilan ?
YB Karpal Singh. Currently Member of Parliament for Glugor, Penang Island. Chairman of the DAP @ Democratic Action Party of Malaysia.
A name synonymous with being the very bastion of the kind of advocate and solicitor who is immortalized in our Malaysian Courts of Justice as a man whom they call 'The Lion of the Courts'.
He is also preserved in time immemorial as one of Malaysia's prominent figures in cartoon by Lat, our national cartoonist extraordinaire.
YB Karpal Singh is also infamous for his 'cross my dead body before setting up an Islamic State in Malaysia' statement.
He made the statement way back in 1990 when he was on stage with his DAP party stalwarts at the Batu Lanchang Wet Market.
I was there too, among the hundreds of Penangites attending the General Elections Rally at that time. I was stunned for a moment by his unexpected anti Islam statement and being a simple citizen , didn't quite know what to say or do because, hello...this is a politician speaking, an important Opposition member and the man was a lawyer to boot...he still is...:P!
I was 41 at that time. Still green behind the ears as far as political awareness was concerned back then but I was a very,very committed Muslim (still am) and his words skewered my feelings deep inside when the reality of what he had just said sank in!
Amidst a sea of the DAP's ethnic Chinese Malaysian supporters milling around, I felt so alien , what with my white ketayap and goatee so distinctly standing out amidst all those Chinese faces!
I made my way out from the jam packed crowd cursing the man deep in my heart and also myself for not being in a position to rebut him there and then!
I had the misfortune to run into him again when he came around in his campaign rounds at the Chowrasta Wet Market in Georgetown and when he put out his hand in greeting, angry ol' me just looked at him in disgust and (sadly) I gave in to my bloody ego and ignored the fella and walked off! ( I wouldn't do that today-having grown older and maybe a bit more accepting of differences in opinions, etc).
He must have felt offended but then again, him being a wily ol' lawyer must be pretty used to being treated like that through his career.
Nevertheless, here I am saying to Karpal Singh : "Sorry brother . Shouldn't have done that. It was impolite of me as a person. Ma'af karo bada bayya!"
Anyway, time flew and things came to a head when our local hero -Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was sacked unceremoniously from being the Deputy Prime Minister in Sept 1998 and as a staunch DSAI supporter , I religiously followed any gatherings or events held in protest against DSAI's incarceration.
Came into being an event organised by the Opposition coalition known as 'Forum Keadilan'. It was held at the Dewan Sri Pinang, Penang and I was among the thousands of people gathered in that hall that night.
Datin Seri Wan Azizah and her daughter Nurul Izzah was among the panel seated on stage together with the DAP leaders including Karpal Singh, Lim Kit Siang, Chow Kon Yeow and others. I recall seeing the poet and lawyer Cecil Rajendra and also Rustam Sani, a writer being with them.
As expected , the crowd was really quite huge and the atmosphere was really very charged up. There was also two microphones set up at the aisles in the hall and I figured that there would be a Q & A session after the initial speeches by those on stage and made up my mind to get Karpal Singh to answer for his 'anti -Islamic State' stance that he had made and held up all those 9 long years since.
The funny thing was that not a single Malay Sultan, Prime Minister, Cabinet Minister, Politician or who the hell ever had faced up to the 'Lion of the Malaysian Courts' about his anti Islam state statement all those long 9 years? Imagine, the audacity of this Jelutong kampong fellow doing what I did? :P
I had never ever confronted anyone like this in my entire life, what more in a highly charged political forum and against a man most of us would have shied away from getting into odds against him.
My deep rooted disgust of him finally came to a stage where I told myself ' To hell with it! Better tell him to his face right now or forever hold my peace!'
The tensions in myself grew to a stage that anything might have happened. My ego however was telling me to go for it. So, this kampong guy with a goatee and a skullcap, wearing a T shirt that had DSAI's face emblazoned right upfront ( got the T shirt when I went to ask Anwar face to face about his guilt at his Cherok Tok Kun's house the day he came back from KL) and wearing a black sweater braved myself up to stand right before one of the microphones awaiting the opening of the Q & A session!
The forum was being videotaped and there were many cameras all over the Dewan.
When the Master of Ceremony, I believe it was Chow Kon Yeow, the current MP for Tanjong, opened up the session for the Q & A , I was right there waiting to ask my 9 year old deeply emotional and pent up question to Karpal Singh! :P
I started by first acknowledging and welcoming Datin Seri Wan Azizah and Anwar's daughter, the beautiful Nurul Izzah to Penang and then ( with a extra fast beating heart and feeling very,very self conscious) addressed my question to the man I had been hating in my heart all that while about his statement!
I just let loose and spilled my heart out and told him that I felt very hurt about his statement and asked him what was it that made him say that?
I told him that if he ever wanted to 'learn' about Islam, that he is most welcome to visit us at the Islamic Centre at Masjid Kapitan Keling, where I was the IPCI (Malaysia) Founding Secretary!
I invited him to come learn about Islam and that there is Justice in Islam for everyone!
The crowd erupted into cheers and many shouted at him 'Tarik balik ! Tarik balik!' meaning 'Withdraw (his statement) many times and the atmosphere was described articulately by Anil Netto from the Aliran magazine later on.
Many others came forward with their questions and there were lots of PAS members present too.
After the questions, the time to answer came and the veteran DAP politician took to the mic on stage !
What I remember clearly about his opening answers was these :
'Tadi saudara saya ada bertanya tentang statement yang saya lakukan pada tahun 1990! Saya mengaku ada buat itu statement . Tapi kami di dalam DAP bukan Anti Islam. Perlembagaan kita ada peruntukan kebebasan semua agama...etc
Jika saya ada menyinggung perasaan umat Islam, saya minta ma'af! ' ( If I had hurt the feelings of the Muslims, I apologise!)
and he rambled on...
The crowd broke into cheers and the tense atmosphere changed into a climate of joy and everyone was smiling and clapping their hands, etc.
I felt vindicated and later went on to meet Karpal face to face and we shook hands. Karpal further promised free legal services to the Memali victims and everyone left the forum feeling euphoric after that dramatic turn of events.
I adjourned to Tamil Street with my friends and Azman ( the Masjid Kapitan Keling's caretaker Aziz's son was the one who uttered 'Tarik Balik' so loudly first after my question to Karpal) was there to celebrate with me for session of Nescafe Tarik at Tamil Street ( after midnight).
Those who recognised me came up to thank me for asking that volatile question which saw the DAP 'Lion' apologise for the first time after 9 long, miserable years ( for me personally) but finally got my apology from Karpal Singh!
HARAKAH front paged the apology but the mainstream newspapers didn't give it prominence and I recall that only The Star had a small report published in it's inner pages! I didn't care!
For me , all that mattered was that I had succeeded in my pursuit of Karpal and felt vindicated.
I was not looking for media exposure or anything. I had that deep rooted anger boiling inside of me for all those years and I had to do what I did.
Karpal Singh went on to lose his seat in the Jelutong Parliamentary Elections in the next GE and after a period, only regained his MP post at a different constituency.
I went to purchase a Videotape of the Forum Keadilan from Chow Kon Yeow's office at Transfer Road and had it in my possession in my Kedah Road apartment where I left it and all my other belongings when I divorced and migrated to KL back in 2001 to start my life all over.
Today, I read The Sun and saw the report about dear ol' Karpal back to his favourite stance in lambasting Islam and whether Malaysia is actually an Islamic nation?
This prompted me to officially post about my moment in history before Karpal at the Forum Keadilan back in 1999!
My question to Karpal Singh, MP is simply this. 'Remember apologising, YB?'
We all know that Mahathir did a fast one when he declared this country as so.
- How can Malaysia be an Islamic country in the real sense when we do not have the Laws of the Syariah as the supreme laws of this nation?
- How can Malaysia be an Islamic country when we do not judge according to the Hudud laws of Allah?
- How can Malaysia be an Islamic country when we have South East Asia's largest beer brewery operating fully well in Petaling Jaya?
- How can Malaysia be an Islamic country when we have one of Asia's largest casino's operating in full swing atop Genting Highlands?
- I can keep going on , YB but the time for Friday prayers is looming near and yours truly needs to prepare for it, so I will follow up on all this 'How can' thingy after this to placate you. :)
Rest easy brother Karpal Singh. From the way this nation is going, it will be a very long, long time before your fears will be realised .
As long as PAS never takes over the government, you can sleep in peace.
Time for you to take it easy brother Karpal.
Enjoy the remaining moments of your life's time frame knowing that you have done all you can to try and stop the incoming Tsunami of Almighty God's promise to us mankind that Islam will reign supreme in the Last Ages!
Aisey, looking at all the Signs foretelling the impending Doomsday, looks like it is finally here bro.
What to do?
Just go with the flow or be ready to be swept away by Ad Deen ul Haq! :)
Have a nice day YB!
All my best regards.
Your fellow Malaysian.
Zainol Abideen a.k.a. Mahaguru58
(from Jelutong, Penang)
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Malaysia's History - Do not distort the past!
Can anyone deny that Malaysia today is where it is due to the joint efforts of the forefathers of today's Malays, Chinese and Indians, plus other minorities such as the Sikhs, Ceylonese, Eurasians, Armenians, Europeans, etc?Events that took place in the years before cannot be simply deleted from the pages of our history books and edited to suit our ideals as to what, who, why, which and other reasons that those events took place as they did!
Since the advent of the camera, however primitive it must have been before, these samples of pictorial records show how the 3 main different ethnicities lived and worked together to improve the quality of life for all Malayans until we finally achieved Independence from the British Colonialists.
Click on the pictures for a bigger view.
Times were hard back then but through a spirit of 'live and let live' our forefathers painstakingly carved out a decent place for all to live and co-exist with one another all these years , no matter that we are so different in our features and personalities. That's the beauty of the spirit of Muhibbah that has grown so deeply into the very fibres of our Malaysian society.
To those who have a hidden agenda to wreak havoc on our present ethnic relations between the various races, please reconsider and think whether it is worth to destroy the fragile peace we have today by distorting the past and do as some countries did in trying to rewrite History!The school textbooks must be prepared properly giving due mention to all those who sacrificed their lifes and record their noble deeds for the sake of the advancement of this nation.
The distortions must be corrected and justice must be seen to be served by destroying any of those history books which do not have the right records on print.
This distortion must be checked and corrected immediately for the sake of a stable future and continued spirit of co-operation amongst us.
Our forefathers sacrifices and contributions to this dynamic nation will surely be lost in the annals of time if attempts to delete them from being permanently recorded in our schools history books as solid proof that they too contributed their part in nation building are left unchecked!The May 13 riots of 1969 serve as a strong reminder of how things can go seriously wrong if religious and racial sentiments are allowed to be stoked and people goaded into breaking out into similar riots and public disturbances as before!
Nip the problems in the bud and if possible have good relationships within the various ethnicities of this nation within the norms of a multi racial, multi religious country.
Religious aspects and nuances should best be kept on a very clear line just like stacking the fragile chicken eggs in the tray.
Each existing within their own private boundaries and separated by a small space of cardboard but all existing together in one tray!
That symbolism reflects Malaysia, our home and abode on this Earth!
The Minister of Higher Education should surely appreciate our reminders about this and he should get this slip up corrected as soon as possible.
Some folks always ask the Chinese or the Indian Malaysians to 'return' to their ancestral lands whenever any disagreements crop up and sensitive issues are being played out by those who love agitating and creating mayhem amongst us!
Can we ever go live in those foreign lands? China will never accept the Malaysian Chinese to 'return' home for they themselves are already up to their noses coping with their almost 2 billion citizens and the same goes to India!
We are all Malaysians. We may disagree and quarrel amongst ourselves over matters such as religion, racial, bumi quota, this and that! That is part and parcel of life!
We even have our differences amongst our family members and at times can't stand the sight of them when we can't come to a settlement. Can we sever our ties with our relatives?
We can't, right? So, is the reality with us Malaysians, a rainbow of colors and attitudes! As long as we accord each other the rightful respect and consideration, I believe we can all just survive these testing times by remaining rational and settle our differences amicably!
Worse come to worse , just switch on your 'ignore mode' and just move ahead with our individual lifes! It will soon die down or just pass us by.
Life is a series of adjustments, people. We try and solve what we can , if we can, we get it settled.
If we can't, just let it pass. No point in brooding over matters beyond our control or power.
Let History be our judge for even Allah the Almighty swears by Time in the Surah Wal Asr.
A simple translation of the surah is as follows:
1. By Time,
2. Verily all human beings are in loss,
3. Except those who have achieved ‘Faith’, have performed Righteous deeds, and have emphasized to each other the teaching of ‘Truth’ and (the value of) ‘Patience’ (perseverance and constancy).
Appreciate our forefathers and our nation's heroes and heroines. Remember them by preserving their life stories in our History books as a heritage and treasure for the present and future generations of our lands.
Without yesterday, there will be no today and absolutely nothing much to look forward tomorrow! Think about it.
May peace reign in our nation forever . Ameen.
Nude Squat Victim-Do the right thing- Compensate her!
The world has seen her being forced to do a holding of the ear squat in the nude in a Royal Malaysian Police Station and she has had her privacy infringed by a policeman who took a 3G mobilephone camera videoclip and that clip of her has been entrenched in the worldwideweb through today's internet communications technology!
Who hasn't heard of the 'infamous nude squat' controversy victimising her?
The videoclip of her naked self performing the disgraceful squat has been forwarded all around the world and we all thought it was a Chinese national forced to do that squat in the nude to dislodge any contraband item or drugs that might have been inserted into her privates while being monitored by the tudung clad Malay policewoman at the Petaling Jaya Police Station!
How fired up was everyone, including myself where I lambasted the ones responsible in whichever blog was raising the issue! I remember posting in Lim Kit Siang's blog and also Teresa Kok's, if I am not mistaken! I sure was so bloody pissed off to watch that clip for it was very insulting for that tudung clad Malay policewoman to do that to a detainee!
There was also an audio of the recitation of the Holy Qur'an playing in the background akin to 'rubbing salt into the gaping wound' further infuriating whomsoever got to watch that clip!
There was no sense of erotica at all watching that poor woman suffer the disgrace and insult being perpetrated upon her dignity and honor as a woman! It was rather a raging sense of disgust watching someone be mistreated like that! Never mind whatever is her ethnicity or creed!
The police should be the very last persons to abuse the trust and power that the nation has entrusted to them!
No one should be mistreated like that , especially in a police station where one is supposed to be protected from harm whilst being processed for whatever 'offence' one is being charged with!
What more in that case where a male policeman had criminally outraged her modesty by taking a videoclip of her in a state of undress through a window!
We hear of Peeping Toms and sex predators roaming this nation to get their free voyeuristic kicks but that sordid episode shows that perverts and sexual predators exist in all areas and also in the very uniformed and armed forces who are supposed to protect the citizens at all given times and also when the 'suspects' are in police custody!
Taking someone into custody pending due process and being charged in a court of justice doesn't mean that the suspect's rights as a citizen automatically vanishes the minute he or she is handcuffed and arrested for a crime that is yet to be proven true and to be found guilty as charged!
The poor woman's demand that the PDRM compensate her has very solid grounds based upon the unimaginable dishonor that taping of her in the nude squat has stripped her of any sense of dignity remaining to face society since that incident!
The newspapers report that she is suing the PDRM for RM10,000,000.00!
A pretty large amount of money truely but can that ten million ringgits erase the untold sufferings she has gone through so far?
If she wins the case, she'll be a multimillionairess, sure but at the permanent loss of her prestige and she has been reduced to being ogled at by billions of strangers eyes and God knows what anyone has resorted to after watching that clip!
I hear that the scoundrel who videoclipped her has left the force but if this land has any sense of justice, he should be traced and charged in court for his offense that has further smeared an already blemished police force where lock up rapes have been reported and proven to be true as in the Ampang District Police Headquarters lockup case involving a Malay policeman and a female Filipino detainee!
Do the right thing, make sure she gets compensated and the pervert thrown into the slammer!
Who hasn't heard of the 'infamous nude squat' controversy victimising her?
The videoclip of her naked self performing the disgraceful squat has been forwarded all around the world and we all thought it was a Chinese national forced to do that squat in the nude to dislodge any contraband item or drugs that might have been inserted into her privates while being monitored by the tudung clad Malay policewoman at the Petaling Jaya Police Station!
How fired up was everyone, including myself where I lambasted the ones responsible in whichever blog was raising the issue! I remember posting in Lim Kit Siang's blog and also Teresa Kok's, if I am not mistaken! I sure was so bloody pissed off to watch that clip for it was very insulting for that tudung clad Malay policewoman to do that to a detainee!
There was also an audio of the recitation of the Holy Qur'an playing in the background akin to 'rubbing salt into the gaping wound' further infuriating whomsoever got to watch that clip!
There was no sense of erotica at all watching that poor woman suffer the disgrace and insult being perpetrated upon her dignity and honor as a woman! It was rather a raging sense of disgust watching someone be mistreated like that! Never mind whatever is her ethnicity or creed!
The police should be the very last persons to abuse the trust and power that the nation has entrusted to them!
No one should be mistreated like that , especially in a police station where one is supposed to be protected from harm whilst being processed for whatever 'offence' one is being charged with!
What more in that case where a male policeman had criminally outraged her modesty by taking a videoclip of her in a state of undress through a window!
We hear of Peeping Toms and sex predators roaming this nation to get their free voyeuristic kicks but that sordid episode shows that perverts and sexual predators exist in all areas and also in the very uniformed and armed forces who are supposed to protect the citizens at all given times and also when the 'suspects' are in police custody!
Taking someone into custody pending due process and being charged in a court of justice doesn't mean that the suspect's rights as a citizen automatically vanishes the minute he or she is handcuffed and arrested for a crime that is yet to be proven true and to be found guilty as charged!
The poor woman's demand that the PDRM compensate her has very solid grounds based upon the unimaginable dishonor that taping of her in the nude squat has stripped her of any sense of dignity remaining to face society since that incident!
The newspapers report that she is suing the PDRM for RM10,000,000.00!
A pretty large amount of money truely but can that ten million ringgits erase the untold sufferings she has gone through so far?
If she wins the case, she'll be a multimillionairess, sure but at the permanent loss of her prestige and she has been reduced to being ogled at by billions of strangers eyes and God knows what anyone has resorted to after watching that clip!
I hear that the scoundrel who videoclipped her has left the force but if this land has any sense of justice, he should be traced and charged in court for his offense that has further smeared an already blemished police force where lock up rapes have been reported and proven to be true as in the Ampang District Police Headquarters lockup case involving a Malay policeman and a female Filipino detainee!
Do the right thing, make sure she gets compensated and the pervert thrown into the slammer!
America's and British Spawn Wreaking Havoc in the Middle East!
The world conveniently chooses to ignore the reality that the present rogue regime rampaging all over Lebanon's major cities and infrastructure is the illegitimate 'State of Israel' spawned by British and American governments way back in the 1920s when they invaded and occupied Palestine, a sovereign Arab Muslim nation established since way before Biblical times!
The Israeli regime which has invaded and occupied Palestinian lands is a terrorist Zionist usurper of Arab Palestinian lands and the whole wide world knows it but continues to do absolutely nothing to uphold justice for the Palestinians, Syrians, Jordanians, Lebanese, Egyptians and other Muslim nations around the area!
Since coming over from England, Europe and America, the Zionists have practically taken over Palestine right before the very eyes of the castrated eunuchs calling themselves as the United Nations!
Is there Justice in the United Nations? Many a resolution has been passed against Israel throughout the entire length of the UN's coming into existence but as always the USA has been vetoing against such resolutions and will continue doing so till Doomsday!
The British were the very criminal culprits who treacherously shipped their troublesome and constant pain in their asses, Zionists from England and America to occupy by force the lands of the weakened Palestinians who were simply chased out from their homes and lands by the incoming Zionists and systematically massacred from existence under the approving eyes of their British and American patrons!
The massacre and extermination of the Palestinians continues to this very day and we still see the incompetent so called world League of Nations act as a freaking faggot in just whimpering in protest at the Israeli assaults upon sovereign Lebanon, a member country of the United Nations!
One does not need to have a PhD in History to know the facts that what is taking place before the whole wide world is pure genocide and criminal acts of illegal war by an illegal entity that calls itself as the State of Israel!
The current American President is well known for his strong support of Israel and will never condemn or try to stop America's bastard spawn in the Palestinian lands from wreaking further damage to Lebanon's infrastructure and destroy the country and its people to achieve their hidden objectives!
Isn't it preposterous for these bastards to say that they are waging war upon the 'terrorists' in the form of the Hezbullah?
Is protecting one's nation, one's people and one's lands from being destroyed by others apt to be called as being 'terrorists'?
How come when the USA and UK wage war upon other sovereign nations, they get to call themselves as the 'liberating forces' and their victims become known as 'militants, fundamentalists, extremists, guerillas, terrorists, etc?
Who is terrorising whom?
This is how the rogue nations of America, Britain and their European Union of occupiers of other free countries using such terminology 'whitewash' their criminal acts of war and destroy Muslim nations from every angle and turn the world's objections into portraying them as the 'saviours' whilst their victims and opposing victims to look as if they are the ones who are guilty!
Yes, guilty of resisting the invading occupiers from taking over their lands and destroying their people and their faith!
Armageddon is coming through the handiworks of these bullying 'superpowers' who through deceit, warmongering and objectives of world domination work out and do carry out their sinister plans to invade and dominate the Middle East which is the source of the richest oilfields in the world.
The Muslims of the world need to get off their sorry butts and do the needful. Protect and avenge the atrocities being carried out by America's and British bastard offspring , the Israeli Zionist regime before the whole Middle East is destroyed and demolished by the Kaffirs Laknatullah!
The Israeli regime which has invaded and occupied Palestinian lands is a terrorist Zionist usurper of Arab Palestinian lands and the whole wide world knows it but continues to do absolutely nothing to uphold justice for the Palestinians, Syrians, Jordanians, Lebanese, Egyptians and other Muslim nations around the area!
Since coming over from England, Europe and America, the Zionists have practically taken over Palestine right before the very eyes of the castrated eunuchs calling themselves as the United Nations!
Is there Justice in the United Nations? Many a resolution has been passed against Israel throughout the entire length of the UN's coming into existence but as always the USA has been vetoing against such resolutions and will continue doing so till Doomsday!
The British were the very criminal culprits who treacherously shipped their troublesome and constant pain in their asses, Zionists from England and America to occupy by force the lands of the weakened Palestinians who were simply chased out from their homes and lands by the incoming Zionists and systematically massacred from existence under the approving eyes of their British and American patrons!
The massacre and extermination of the Palestinians continues to this very day and we still see the incompetent so called world League of Nations act as a freaking faggot in just whimpering in protest at the Israeli assaults upon sovereign Lebanon, a member country of the United Nations!
One does not need to have a PhD in History to know the facts that what is taking place before the whole wide world is pure genocide and criminal acts of illegal war by an illegal entity that calls itself as the State of Israel!
The current American President is well known for his strong support of Israel and will never condemn or try to stop America's bastard spawn in the Palestinian lands from wreaking further damage to Lebanon's infrastructure and destroy the country and its people to achieve their hidden objectives!
Isn't it preposterous for these bastards to say that they are waging war upon the 'terrorists' in the form of the Hezbullah?
Is protecting one's nation, one's people and one's lands from being destroyed by others apt to be called as being 'terrorists'?
How come when the USA and UK wage war upon other sovereign nations, they get to call themselves as the 'liberating forces' and their victims become known as 'militants, fundamentalists, extremists, guerillas, terrorists, etc?
Who is terrorising whom?
This is how the rogue nations of America, Britain and their European Union of occupiers of other free countries using such terminology 'whitewash' their criminal acts of war and destroy Muslim nations from every angle and turn the world's objections into portraying them as the 'saviours' whilst their victims and opposing victims to look as if they are the ones who are guilty!
Yes, guilty of resisting the invading occupiers from taking over their lands and destroying their people and their faith!
Armageddon is coming through the handiworks of these bullying 'superpowers' who through deceit, warmongering and objectives of world domination work out and do carry out their sinister plans to invade and dominate the Middle East which is the source of the richest oilfields in the world.
The Muslims of the world need to get off their sorry butts and do the needful. Protect and avenge the atrocities being carried out by America's and British bastard offspring , the Israeli Zionist regime before the whole Middle East is destroyed and demolished by the Kaffirs Laknatullah!
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
The Culprits who have betrayed the Ummah!
The present state of carnage taking place in the Middle East is due to the fact that the so called OIC has failed to protect the Ummah!
They shamelessly hold office and go about as if they have done as much as they can but in actual truth they are yellowbellied scum duping the Ummah all these while!
What more do the OIC need to take place before they get even an iota of bravery in their useless hearts, devoid of any sense of shame, pride and chivalry to defend the Ummah?
We are all one Worldwide Brotherhood of Muslims and it's high time we really put to practice what Islam has been teaching all along!
The problem with the Ummah of today is that we still dwell on the differences between us and do not really trust or love our fellow Muslims , no matter what color is their skin, color of their eyes, status , position in life, etcetera?
Only when the Muslims return to their senses and realise that when we remain divided, we shall all fall and only if we arise to become united as One Ummah in the real sense, will we regain our true strength, our pride and our honor as the 'Khairul Ummah'!
All of the Ummah's leaders today are acting dumb and plain bloody stupid as they cowardly choose to ignore the reality that today, at this very second, the Lebanese are suffering, the Iraqis are being subject to the American's bombings, getting raped, tortured, burnt to their deaths and despite many more unmentionable horrid butcherings taking place before their very eyes, the so called leaders of the OIC choose to remain as mere spectators and useless commentators to the horrifying bloody carnage!
I would like to have the initials of the OIC typed here in the brightest of the yellow color to reflect what I think of them but it wouldn't show out as bright as I would love to have it displayed on your screen! Useless, cowards pretending to protect the Ummah!
Saiyidina Umar Al Khattab and other heroes of the Muslims would have wasted not a second to spit in their faces and to separate their sorry heads from being attached to their cowardly necks!
I am saying so out of my personal disgust in seeing the paralysed idiots still doing nothing to defend the Muslims in Lebanon and other places in the world!
What's the point of waiting for a useless, funds wasting bunch of idiots in suits and fancy attires , busy passing resolutions after numerous resolutions that is best used to wipe their sorry asses there in the United Nations HQ in New York!
America is the # 1 Terroriser of the Ummah! Wake up to the stark reality!
The US of A under the present dictatorship of George Bullshit Bush Jr as he has proved by his 'candid' speech to British Bootlicker Tony Blair yesterday in the CNN's live tv footage will never ever stop the Zionist Israelis from obliterating the Ummah in Lebanon and from there to the rest of the Middle East!
The cowardly armed forces of Lebanon are still standing idly by as their country is being bombed to bits by the Yahuds! They must all be on Prozac! Or taking julupes for their constipated minds! Sheeshh!!! Talk about being so numb and getting number!
Forget about Hezbullah being the socalled target of the bastards from Israel!
Isn't the daily wanton bombing of the Lebanese nation cause enough to scramble their forces to defend themselves or even to go counter attack the warring Zionists?
I don't know what to make out of this present paralysis plaguing the Muslims of the Arabian world?
What more does the Arab League want to suffer before they get to their senses and go fight the bastards from Israel?
Maybe they are waiting for the Zionist ground forces to come in and start massacring their wives and children before their very eyes before they even get to develop a slight, eeny meeny tiny murmur of rage in their feeble hearts or just kowtow to the Yahuds and raise up their sorry butts to be creamed before any sense of honor is to ever take place in their hearts?
I am totally not surprised anymore for the hadith of the Prophet SAW is being realised day by day by each passing second!
Folks here in Malaysia are still engaged with Siti Nurhaliza's soon to be married media brouhaha and conveniently choose to ignore the carnage taking place before their very eyes on the 'live footage' being screened on their plasma tvs in airconditioned comfort, sipping their lattes and espressos as if it doesn't matter to them, about seeing their fellow Muslims being killed and degraded by the Zionists!
Thats the bloody reality of the pitiful state of affairs of the one's who shamelessly call themselves champions of 'Islam Hadhari' !
Where the hell is the spirit of 'Jihad'?
Reduced to a whimpering sick diseased state of mind amidst the hundreds of thousands of druggies and cowardly masses in the entire Muslim Ummah!
When I see this inertia being displayed by the entire so called Muslim nations, I can feel that what the Prophet SAW said before regarding the 'Wahn' deeply rooted in the Muslims hearts to be exactly true and that this present Ummah deserves to get what the Kuffars are dishing out to them and that there is no more pride left in the hearts and souls of the entire bunch of those criminal culprits who shamelessly claim to be the 'leaders of the Ummah'!
None. Not a single Muslim leader worth his salt has come forward to defend the people in Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine!
There's no use in having the OIC, Arab League, Muslim League or whatever bloody league by which they congregate together and pretend to act as if they are looking out for the Muslims worldwide!
I say it's better to just disband all those chicken hearted organisations that are wasting funds and precious resources in passing out worthless and useless resolutions after resolutions and declarations!
The money saved would be better spent in providing food and shelter to the suffering millions all over the world!
I for one feel no more respect towards these cowards and can now understand why some people are reduced to doing what they do when being pushed so very deeply into the corner as the Palestinians and Iraqis have done in venting out their sheer frustrations after seeing their families, their homes and their lifes be destroyed by the rampaging terrorists forces of the US, UK and Israel throughout their lands under the guise of bringing 'Freedom' to them!
My point once again is that I can understand why they have been blasting themselves to bits and taking down their tormentors with them.
Suicide is haram in Islam but because the socalled Muslim organisations have deserted them to their deaths, they prefer to die with a sense of pride and as their symbol of struggle to liberate their people and their lands rather than miserably exist as victimised scum of this Earth!
The culprits that have forced those poor suicide bombers to take their own lifes are none other than those who are today calling themselves as Presidents, Prime Ministers, Emirs, Syeikhs, Sultans and this and that of the so called Muslim countries!
That's the truth, the plain truth and I do dare any of the present Muslim 'leaders' to prove me wrong!
May Allah SWT at least bring them to their senses or replace them with better leaders to save the Ummah's from their present nightmares! Ameen Ya Rabbal Alameen!
They shamelessly hold office and go about as if they have done as much as they can but in actual truth they are yellowbellied scum duping the Ummah all these while!
What more do the OIC need to take place before they get even an iota of bravery in their useless hearts, devoid of any sense of shame, pride and chivalry to defend the Ummah?
We are all one Worldwide Brotherhood of Muslims and it's high time we really put to practice what Islam has been teaching all along!
The problem with the Ummah of today is that we still dwell on the differences between us and do not really trust or love our fellow Muslims , no matter what color is their skin, color of their eyes, status , position in life, etcetera?
Only when the Muslims return to their senses and realise that when we remain divided, we shall all fall and only if we arise to become united as One Ummah in the real sense, will we regain our true strength, our pride and our honor as the 'Khairul Ummah'!
All of the Ummah's leaders today are acting dumb and plain bloody stupid as they cowardly choose to ignore the reality that today, at this very second, the Lebanese are suffering, the Iraqis are being subject to the American's bombings, getting raped, tortured, burnt to their deaths and despite many more unmentionable horrid butcherings taking place before their very eyes, the so called leaders of the OIC choose to remain as mere spectators and useless commentators to the horrifying bloody carnage!
I would like to have the initials of the OIC typed here in the brightest of the yellow color to reflect what I think of them but it wouldn't show out as bright as I would love to have it displayed on your screen! Useless, cowards pretending to protect the Ummah!
Saiyidina Umar Al Khattab and other heroes of the Muslims would have wasted not a second to spit in their faces and to separate their sorry heads from being attached to their cowardly necks!
I am saying so out of my personal disgust in seeing the paralysed idiots still doing nothing to defend the Muslims in Lebanon and other places in the world!
What's the point of waiting for a useless, funds wasting bunch of idiots in suits and fancy attires , busy passing resolutions after numerous resolutions that is best used to wipe their sorry asses there in the United Nations HQ in New York!
America is the # 1 Terroriser of the Ummah! Wake up to the stark reality!
The US of A under the present dictatorship of George Bullshit Bush Jr as he has proved by his 'candid' speech to British Bootlicker Tony Blair yesterday in the CNN's live tv footage will never ever stop the Zionist Israelis from obliterating the Ummah in Lebanon and from there to the rest of the Middle East!
The cowardly armed forces of Lebanon are still standing idly by as their country is being bombed to bits by the Yahuds! They must all be on Prozac! Or taking julupes for their constipated minds! Sheeshh!!! Talk about being so numb and getting number!
Forget about Hezbullah being the socalled target of the bastards from Israel!
Isn't the daily wanton bombing of the Lebanese nation cause enough to scramble their forces to defend themselves or even to go counter attack the warring Zionists?
I don't know what to make out of this present paralysis plaguing the Muslims of the Arabian world?
What more does the Arab League want to suffer before they get to their senses and go fight the bastards from Israel?
Maybe they are waiting for the Zionist ground forces to come in and start massacring their wives and children before their very eyes before they even get to develop a slight, eeny meeny tiny murmur of rage in their feeble hearts or just kowtow to the Yahuds and raise up their sorry butts to be creamed before any sense of honor is to ever take place in their hearts?
I am totally not surprised anymore for the hadith of the Prophet SAW is being realised day by day by each passing second!
Folks here in Malaysia are still engaged with Siti Nurhaliza's soon to be married media brouhaha and conveniently choose to ignore the carnage taking place before their very eyes on the 'live footage' being screened on their plasma tvs in airconditioned comfort, sipping their lattes and espressos as if it doesn't matter to them, about seeing their fellow Muslims being killed and degraded by the Zionists!
Thats the bloody reality of the pitiful state of affairs of the one's who shamelessly call themselves champions of 'Islam Hadhari' !
Where the hell is the spirit of 'Jihad'?
Reduced to a whimpering sick diseased state of mind amidst the hundreds of thousands of druggies and cowardly masses in the entire Muslim Ummah!
When I see this inertia being displayed by the entire so called Muslim nations, I can feel that what the Prophet SAW said before regarding the 'Wahn' deeply rooted in the Muslims hearts to be exactly true and that this present Ummah deserves to get what the Kuffars are dishing out to them and that there is no more pride left in the hearts and souls of the entire bunch of those criminal culprits who shamelessly claim to be the 'leaders of the Ummah'!
None. Not a single Muslim leader worth his salt has come forward to defend the people in Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine!
There's no use in having the OIC, Arab League, Muslim League or whatever bloody league by which they congregate together and pretend to act as if they are looking out for the Muslims worldwide!
I say it's better to just disband all those chicken hearted organisations that are wasting funds and precious resources in passing out worthless and useless resolutions after resolutions and declarations!
The money saved would be better spent in providing food and shelter to the suffering millions all over the world!
I for one feel no more respect towards these cowards and can now understand why some people are reduced to doing what they do when being pushed so very deeply into the corner as the Palestinians and Iraqis have done in venting out their sheer frustrations after seeing their families, their homes and their lifes be destroyed by the rampaging terrorists forces of the US, UK and Israel throughout their lands under the guise of bringing 'Freedom' to them!
My point once again is that I can understand why they have been blasting themselves to bits and taking down their tormentors with them.
Suicide is haram in Islam but because the socalled Muslim organisations have deserted them to their deaths, they prefer to die with a sense of pride and as their symbol of struggle to liberate their people and their lands rather than miserably exist as victimised scum of this Earth!
The culprits that have forced those poor suicide bombers to take their own lifes are none other than those who are today calling themselves as Presidents, Prime Ministers, Emirs, Syeikhs, Sultans and this and that of the so called Muslim countries!
That's the truth, the plain truth and I do dare any of the present Muslim 'leaders' to prove me wrong!
May Allah SWT at least bring them to their senses or replace them with better leaders to save the Ummah's from their present nightmares! Ameen Ya Rabbal Alameen!
Monday, July 17, 2006
Middle East Crisis-Who's the Culprit really?
I was having my dinner just now, watching CNN when the CNN Reporter started asking Lebanon's Home Minister ' Why is Lebanon not stopping the Hezbullah from attacking Israel?'
Of all the screwed up media manipulating, that surely takes the cake! Imagine the preposterous line of questioning that idiot from CNN was putting through to the Lebanese Minister!
Who the hell is attacking whom? Has any Lebanese fighter jets flew over and bombed Tel Aviv?
It is the Zionist rogue forces who are inflicting severe damage and loss of life upon the Lebanese people and the Hezbullah have just responded by shelling Haifa!
Are the Zionist lifes much more precious than those of the Lebanese? The way CNN, BBC and the other Western media are reporting, it is as if the Hezbullah are the ones who started all these escalating tensions in the region!
The Ummah would be better to watch out for these kind of manipulative and selective reporting coming from the Media Axis of Evil, twisting and distorting news and showing just the Hezbullah's few shells landing on Haifa whereas the major Lebanese infrastructures are being destroyed systematically by the terrorist regime of Tel Aviv!
As expected , the 'castrated' Arab leaders are still acting as if they know nothing of the massacre taking place upon their Lebanese brethren! What a bunch of useless morons.
No wonder , a rogue illegitimate nation such as Israel can get away with murder and still get the USA and Britain to exercise their veto against any bloody resolution against them by the bunch of eunuchs calling themselves as the 'United Nations'!
Kofi Annan is a stupid idiot with no powers or has the balls to uphold justice! What has the UN ever done to stop Israel? Nothing! Zilch! Na na!
The Muslim world is disoriented and living as cowards, running away at the slightest disturbance as if they can escape Maut if it is their time to leave this Earth. All foreign embassies and consulates are packing up and getting the hell out of Beirut as they know, no one's gonna come to the defence of Lebanon!
Not even when the whole Arab nations are just all around them. A useless cowardly bunch of spiritless people reduced to being just shadows of their forefathers who waged war against any oppressors and among themselves since time immemorial!
Just mark my words, the worse is yet to come! The whole Middle East is gonna go up in flames and bombed to bits because they failed to rally to the defense of their brethren and remain disunited just as the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam foretold a thousand over years ago!
The Arabs only way out is to return to the Sunnah and rally up support from their brother nations and unite as one against the Zionists and their patrons!
George Bush Jr is Israel's godfather and he knows pretty well that the Arabs don't have it in them to unite and be up to anything! It's all gonna be pure rhetoric and hot air coming out from under all those kaffiyehs and fine cotton robes hunkering down their big fat butts on plush cushions in air conditioned comfort , engaging in useless conferences after conferences that will end up in more disunity and escalated mayhem, from the looks of it!
Worse come to worse, you'll see the masses of Arabs descending here to Malaysia, to get away from the spiralling strife taking place in Lebanon and the Syrian border!
There are those who question the National Service trainees handling firearms training in their 2 year stint. Well, hello, look at what's happening in Lebanon?
We need to have our young people readied to be absorbed into our armed forces and be as the backup teams to aid our uniformed personnel when and if the situation deteriorates worldwide!
From the looks of it, I see this as the start to a whole bigger escalation of war throughout the world!
Enough of the useless wastage of funds and resources of this land being splurged on entertainment and hedonism. The nation needs to get itself ready to face any contingencies coming our way in the very near future.
Pak Lah needs to focus his energies and attention to the crisis emerging from the Middle East and forget about answering Tun Dr.Mahathir at the moment.
The OIC needs to stop saying 'Oh! I See! and do what they can to help their brother nations facing the Zionist Israeli's criminal acts of war against Lebanon and Syria, not forgetting the Gaza Palestinians.
We can just pray that the Arabs will soon wake up and start organising themselves to face Israel as a whole entity.
Of all the screwed up media manipulating, that surely takes the cake! Imagine the preposterous line of questioning that idiot from CNN was putting through to the Lebanese Minister!
Who the hell is attacking whom? Has any Lebanese fighter jets flew over and bombed Tel Aviv?
It is the Zionist rogue forces who are inflicting severe damage and loss of life upon the Lebanese people and the Hezbullah have just responded by shelling Haifa!
Are the Zionist lifes much more precious than those of the Lebanese? The way CNN, BBC and the other Western media are reporting, it is as if the Hezbullah are the ones who started all these escalating tensions in the region!
The Ummah would be better to watch out for these kind of manipulative and selective reporting coming from the Media Axis of Evil, twisting and distorting news and showing just the Hezbullah's few shells landing on Haifa whereas the major Lebanese infrastructures are being destroyed systematically by the terrorist regime of Tel Aviv!
As expected , the 'castrated' Arab leaders are still acting as if they know nothing of the massacre taking place upon their Lebanese brethren! What a bunch of useless morons.
No wonder , a rogue illegitimate nation such as Israel can get away with murder and still get the USA and Britain to exercise their veto against any bloody resolution against them by the bunch of eunuchs calling themselves as the 'United Nations'!
Kofi Annan is a stupid idiot with no powers or has the balls to uphold justice! What has the UN ever done to stop Israel? Nothing! Zilch! Na na!
The Muslim world is disoriented and living as cowards, running away at the slightest disturbance as if they can escape Maut if it is their time to leave this Earth. All foreign embassies and consulates are packing up and getting the hell out of Beirut as they know, no one's gonna come to the defence of Lebanon!
Not even when the whole Arab nations are just all around them. A useless cowardly bunch of spiritless people reduced to being just shadows of their forefathers who waged war against any oppressors and among themselves since time immemorial!
Just mark my words, the worse is yet to come! The whole Middle East is gonna go up in flames and bombed to bits because they failed to rally to the defense of their brethren and remain disunited just as the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam foretold a thousand over years ago!
The Arabs only way out is to return to the Sunnah and rally up support from their brother nations and unite as one against the Zionists and their patrons!
George Bush Jr is Israel's godfather and he knows pretty well that the Arabs don't have it in them to unite and be up to anything! It's all gonna be pure rhetoric and hot air coming out from under all those kaffiyehs and fine cotton robes hunkering down their big fat butts on plush cushions in air conditioned comfort , engaging in useless conferences after conferences that will end up in more disunity and escalated mayhem, from the looks of it!
Worse come to worse, you'll see the masses of Arabs descending here to Malaysia, to get away from the spiralling strife taking place in Lebanon and the Syrian border!
There are those who question the National Service trainees handling firearms training in their 2 year stint. Well, hello, look at what's happening in Lebanon?
We need to have our young people readied to be absorbed into our armed forces and be as the backup teams to aid our uniformed personnel when and if the situation deteriorates worldwide!
From the looks of it, I see this as the start to a whole bigger escalation of war throughout the world!
Enough of the useless wastage of funds and resources of this land being splurged on entertainment and hedonism. The nation needs to get itself ready to face any contingencies coming our way in the very near future.
Pak Lah needs to focus his energies and attention to the crisis emerging from the Middle East and forget about answering Tun Dr.Mahathir at the moment.
The OIC needs to stop saying 'Oh! I See! and do what they can to help their brother nations facing the Zionist Israeli's criminal acts of war against Lebanon and Syria, not forgetting the Gaza Palestinians.
We can just pray that the Arabs will soon wake up and start organising themselves to face Israel as a whole entity.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Serbanised Terrorist! Hahahahaha! Really?
MENJ told me recently that a fellow blogger who hates our guts for speaking up on behalf of Islam and Muslims has termed me as a 'serbanised terrorist'! :PHahahahaha! Really ? Well, I don't mind the terminology for it shows that certain people with a hidden agenda in demonising us are certainly displeased with both our efforts in sharing the real deal with the blogosophere!
This picture was taken of me in 1990. I have fond memories looking like that.
I mean, let's face it. What we are facing today are nothing much compared to the challenges, trials and tribulations that the Awliyas and Anbiyas i wal mursalin of before who suffered so much more compared to the brickbats coming our way.
We do receive bouquets from those who appreciate our efforts but those compliments best be kept to ourselves for we seek nothing but the Redha of Almighty Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in doing what we do here.
To be called a 'serbanised terrorist' to me is a measure of recognition that we do terrorise those whose hearts are full of hatred and enmity towards us who speak on behalf of the Ummah!
Not that we have been appointed by anyone but from our own conscience and realisation that if we don't stand up for the Muslims, the present apathetic masses wouldn't give a hoot about all these concerted efforts to portray Muslims and Islam in a bad light!
As Muslims, we follow the commandment of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in His Holy Qur'an, Surah An Nahl Chapter 16 Verse 125 :
"Invite (all) to the Way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: for thy Lord knoweth best, who have strayed from His Path, and who receive guidance."
Speaking for myself, I find this platform an appropriate realm to champion my faith and explain to those who do want to find out what Islam truly is and what it is not as it is made out to be from the numerous hate posts we find flooding the worldwideweb today.
As long as there exists individuals like that hate filled blogger sarcastically demonising us with such terms, the greater will be my resolve in carrying out my information efforts to show the world that Islam is not here to add to your problems but instead help mankind to attain salvation through submission to God's Will!
It is only a few misinformed individuals who abuse the faith by falling prey to the covert agendas of those who are out to discredit Islam.
The more they try to mislead the world about Islam, it is already being embraced by millions of people from all over the world including in the United States of America, where Americans from all walks of life are becoming Muslims on their own accord and mosques are being established all over the states in Northern America.
Far from being an enemy to the people, 'serbanised' Muslims like me are only out to terrorise the hearts of those who have fallen prey to the misleadings of those who are anti Islam and stricken with the severest case of Islamophobia.
Believe me, we don't bite except those who are clearly our enemies both sworn and covert. You have any biff with me , come meet me face to face and we'll see whether we can talk things out or just do what's the best way out.
I for one always prefer the diplomatic way unless I am pushed into a corner where kicking ass is the only alternative for me . Still have the 'asad' in dear ol' me!
What was that Muhammad Ali, the American boxer used to sing' float like a butterfly ; sting like a bee? In these times , we have better alternatives. :P
Best methods though would be to have an open dialogue over a fresh cup of coffee. Failing which, each just go our own ways unless the circumstances demand something else.
That, I leave it to Rabbul Jaleel, sometimes Sufi mureeds like me need to get the 'exercise' too.
'La haula wala quwwata illa billah hil aliyyil adheem'!
There's no other power save for Allah the Most Powerful! Allahu Akbar !
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Israel attacks Lebanon!!! Hezbullah declares WAR!!!
Israel , the rogue terrorist regime has launched attacks on Lebanon's infrastructures and bombed Hezbullah's leader Hassan Nasrallah's home causing serious damage and killed more than 60 persons!
I wonder what the Arab League is gonna do about this blatant acts of war by Israel upon one of their member states?
Are we watching history in the making and the advent of World War 3? What kind of a useless United Nations do we have where not a squeak comes out of a cowardly bunching of nations more adept at succumbing to the vetoes of the United States of America or better to be known as Under Satan's Administration!
It's gang of deputies such as the European Union are all just too happy to let Israel rampage all over the Middle East as that would just fit nicely into their world domination plans.
The Arab nations all are seriously infected with the sickness called 'Wahn' @ love for this earthly life and fear Death!
They are seriously divided and constantly having strifes with their brother nations throughout the Middle East!
All the wealth from the oilfields beneath their lands given by Almighty Allah is not gonna be of use to them when they are bloody cowards and damn stingy in helping out their fellow Muslims in Palestine, Iraq and now Lebanon!
Syria's next and then maybe Egypt! All the useless Amirs, Syeikhs, Sultans and Presidents of the Arab nations ought to be blasted to bits for allowing an illegitimate rogue regime like Israel to wreck havoc on one of their own!
I don't know what else needs to happen to these socalled Arab League before they wake up to this imminent danger approaching their nations?
The reality is that Israel kicked their asses way back in the 60s!
History could be repeating itself! What more with the world's super terrorists supporting Israel as it is.
That's the bloody reason why they won't allow Iran to develop it's nuclear program. North Korea's blatant nuclear weapons build up over the years is just ignored with mild rhetoric whereas if it was Iran doing those missile blastings over Japan, the USA and its gang of thugs would have invaded Iran in a split second!
That's the reality of our present lopsided world! Justice and fair play is extinct together with the dinosaurs! As far as the OIC are concerned , they are only good at holding demos and sending memos! The US would be wiping their asses with those memos for all they care!
When Muslim leaders just give lip service to the matter of uniting under a proper Muslim Union or Caliphate in the real sense , this is what they get!
Dishonor and destruction of their nations in due time ! At least now, we are gonna see what the Arabs are made of? Is it gonna be any resemblance of the spirit that Salahudin al Ayubi showed during the Crusades or are we in for another shameless display of cowardice by those who are supposed to be the Champions of the Ummah?
The next dawn will show us what's gonna be.
I wonder what the Arab League is gonna do about this blatant acts of war by Israel upon one of their member states?
Are we watching history in the making and the advent of World War 3? What kind of a useless United Nations do we have where not a squeak comes out of a cowardly bunching of nations more adept at succumbing to the vetoes of the United States of America or better to be known as Under Satan's Administration!
It's gang of deputies such as the European Union are all just too happy to let Israel rampage all over the Middle East as that would just fit nicely into their world domination plans.
The Arab nations all are seriously infected with the sickness called 'Wahn' @ love for this earthly life and fear Death!
They are seriously divided and constantly having strifes with their brother nations throughout the Middle East!
All the wealth from the oilfields beneath their lands given by Almighty Allah is not gonna be of use to them when they are bloody cowards and damn stingy in helping out their fellow Muslims in Palestine, Iraq and now Lebanon!
Syria's next and then maybe Egypt! All the useless Amirs, Syeikhs, Sultans and Presidents of the Arab nations ought to be blasted to bits for allowing an illegitimate rogue regime like Israel to wreck havoc on one of their own!
I don't know what else needs to happen to these socalled Arab League before they wake up to this imminent danger approaching their nations?
The reality is that Israel kicked their asses way back in the 60s!
History could be repeating itself! What more with the world's super terrorists supporting Israel as it is.
That's the bloody reason why they won't allow Iran to develop it's nuclear program. North Korea's blatant nuclear weapons build up over the years is just ignored with mild rhetoric whereas if it was Iran doing those missile blastings over Japan, the USA and its gang of thugs would have invaded Iran in a split second!
That's the reality of our present lopsided world! Justice and fair play is extinct together with the dinosaurs! As far as the OIC are concerned , they are only good at holding demos and sending memos! The US would be wiping their asses with those memos for all they care!
When Muslim leaders just give lip service to the matter of uniting under a proper Muslim Union or Caliphate in the real sense , this is what they get!
Dishonor and destruction of their nations in due time ! At least now, we are gonna see what the Arabs are made of? Is it gonna be any resemblance of the spirit that Salahudin al Ayubi showed during the Crusades or are we in for another shameless display of cowardice by those who are supposed to be the Champions of the Ummah?
The next dawn will show us what's gonna be.
Serban Issue - Diarrhoea of the Lip of those who are ignorant.
Recently, the Serban @ Turban worn by Muslims especially the Arabs and those living in the North African countries has been a subject matter in a court case here.
I am referring to a Federal Court ruling in dismissing an appeal by 3 Malay students against their being expelled from school 9 years ago as reported by The Star Online in it's 13th July edition.
Federal Court Judge Justice Abdul Hamid Mohammad however has raised the ire of Muslims in this land by his seeming to belittle the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam's Sunnah or Tradition in the manner in which he (Justice Abdul Hamid) expressed his personal views about the Serban and other matters concerning the Prophet's life and can be construed to be as a bit rude when addressing such a sensitive matter!
Just because Justice Abdul Hamid is a judge doesn't mean that he can simply say anything he pleases when it comes to the matter regarding the Sunnah of the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!
One needs to be a bit more sensitive and considerate when one speaks about matters concerning the Prophet SAW and when addressing the recent case concerning the Serban.
To me, those students should not be pressured into wearing the Serban to a national school where the general population of the students are consisting of a mixed ethnicity by their father.
Just imagine the pressure those 3 boys would be facing from their peers when they are forced to wear the Serban amidst a sea of normal , run of the mill Malaysian students consisting of Malays, Chinese, Indians, etc.
If let's say, those boys were in an Islamic school or pondok, naturally, they'd have no problems at all wearing their Serbans to school as we all know almost everyone would be wearing the same. But in this case, it will make them stand out and be the centre of attention.
Would that be good for them to face daily stress and being hassled by their school authorities over the headgear? I don't think so unless the boys themselves are wearing it on their own accord and religious convictions.
Whatever it is, the school authorities ought to have exercised better discretion rather than expel them over such a simple matter! The regulations allow the Sikh students to wear their turbans ; why the double standards when it comes to Muslims trying to wear the Serban?
The father should have thought about sending his sons to religious schools. He surely would have had no problems with the Serban issues with such educational institutions.
That is if the particular school allows such wearing of the Serbans, etc. Some Islamic schools have a standard ruling allowing the wearing of the Songkok, some wear skullcaps ,etcetera.
For the father to impose the wearing of the Serban's on his 3 sons, it is his prerogative but he needs to also take into consideration the emotional impact it will have on his sons in facing 'ribbing' and ridicule by their schoolmates.
To me as one who wore the Serban in my times of religious learning and special events, the Serban is best worn when one is attending a congregational prayer, 'Majlis Ilmu' and events that are religious in nature.
Until and unless, one lives a certain lifestyle where one practices daily such dressing up with the 'jubah' and 'serban' as this particular father does, then this situation wouldn't crop up and the boys wouldn't have been expelled from their school as they have been.
We used to have the Al-Arqam community who practiced a lifestyle that was unique in their own way. Malays adopting an Arabian outlook whilst keeping to themselves in their own environment. The problem nowadays is that we have two extremes in the Malay community.
On one side , we have these 'Arabized' Malays living according to what they intepret as living up to the demands and expectations of upholding the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad SAW whilst on the other hand we have Malays who try to outdo everyone else in coming across as 'Western' and modern as they can be.
Two different scenarios where there's a visible cultural clash that mirrors the sort of personalities that each tries to portray, supposedly to show who or what they are!
Wearing of the Serban needs to be taken care of the right situation and place. Wearing a Serban whilst riding a motorcycle on the roads and highways is not really a wise thing to do.
At the slightest collision or accident, that Serban is sure bound to go flying off from the wearer's head and he will definitely suffer severe head injuries when he lands on his head onto the hard road!
The Justice Abdul Hamid should have refrained from speaking as he did concerning the Prophet's Traditions as it is a grievious sin to ridicule or mock God Almighty's Greatest Messenger or even any of the various prophets!
He should have stuck to the contention that the Serban is just a cultural headgear and that it is not 'Wajib' to be won by a Muslim especially when it concerned schoolboys studying in a public school!
No need to infer or refer anything to the person of the Prophet SAW!
Sometimes even so called learned people suffer from bout's of 'Diarrhoea of the Lip' thus opening themselves to ridicule and questioned by the public?
What about that stupid wig they wear when holding court? Or the flowing gowns and white ribbons with frills and all? Is that supposed to show they are special or something above the rest of mankind or those who have to attend court?
Matters that concern sensitive topics such as regalia or religious apparel need to be handled with the utmost consideration so as not to offend any particular faith or culture. This Serban thingy is best left to rest.
The more anyone opens up his or her mouth and tries to belittle the tradition behind it like the judge's comments about the Prophet SAW's riding the camels and living in mud houses is tantamount to ridiculing the Holy Messenger.
Does Justice Abdul Hamid have a different Prophet to whom he shows respect to or he doesn't give a hoot about all that?
Speaking as he did has not made him any nobler in the eyes of us Muslims who do care about our Prophet SAW!
To me, I don't give a rat's ass about this fella talking trash about my Prophet whom I and billions of other Muslims love and respect most in our lifes.
He may be a Federal Court justice here on Earth but when the fella dies , his soul is gonna stand in Almighty Allah's Supreme Court above all courts and then he's gonna be in deep shit for having belittled Allah's Beloved in this case.
The best thing for Justice Abdul Hamid to do would be to apologise to all Muslims in Malaysia for his off color comments that have touched on the noble Muhammad Al Mustafa, Khatamun Nabiyyi Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, whose stature is so high and mighty that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala makes it a part of the Shahadah to confirm and attest that Muhammad is the Rasulullah after attesting that 'There's no God but Allah' to affirm one's being a Muslim!
No matter who you are in this world, you do not come close to even the dust on the soles of the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassalam's feet when compared to his lofty station in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's entire Creation!
Lately , the ignorants and the self deluded among the masses try to act as if they are the Ulamaks of the Muslims but ignore the Mufti's advice and views pertaining matters concerning Ad Deen ul Islam. Signs of the Time, eh?
As my friend MENJ wrote in his booklets recently 'When Apostates Become Shaykhs' ; there's sure bound to be many more nincompoops trying to teach us about our faith as proven in the recent times.
Looks like even the Kaffirs are trying to show that they know more about Islam than us from the way they try to speak about it. You can't speak about Islam if you know nuts about it. :P
I am referring to a Federal Court ruling in dismissing an appeal by 3 Malay students against their being expelled from school 9 years ago as reported by The Star Online in it's 13th July edition.
Federal Court Judge Justice Abdul Hamid Mohammad however has raised the ire of Muslims in this land by his seeming to belittle the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam's Sunnah or Tradition in the manner in which he (Justice Abdul Hamid) expressed his personal views about the Serban and other matters concerning the Prophet's life and can be construed to be as a bit rude when addressing such a sensitive matter!
Just because Justice Abdul Hamid is a judge doesn't mean that he can simply say anything he pleases when it comes to the matter regarding the Sunnah of the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!
One needs to be a bit more sensitive and considerate when one speaks about matters concerning the Prophet SAW and when addressing the recent case concerning the Serban.
To me, those students should not be pressured into wearing the Serban to a national school where the general population of the students are consisting of a mixed ethnicity by their father.
Just imagine the pressure those 3 boys would be facing from their peers when they are forced to wear the Serban amidst a sea of normal , run of the mill Malaysian students consisting of Malays, Chinese, Indians, etc.
If let's say, those boys were in an Islamic school or pondok, naturally, they'd have no problems at all wearing their Serbans to school as we all know almost everyone would be wearing the same. But in this case, it will make them stand out and be the centre of attention.
Would that be good for them to face daily stress and being hassled by their school authorities over the headgear? I don't think so unless the boys themselves are wearing it on their own accord and religious convictions.
Whatever it is, the school authorities ought to have exercised better discretion rather than expel them over such a simple matter! The regulations allow the Sikh students to wear their turbans ; why the double standards when it comes to Muslims trying to wear the Serban?
The father should have thought about sending his sons to religious schools. He surely would have had no problems with the Serban issues with such educational institutions.
That is if the particular school allows such wearing of the Serbans, etc. Some Islamic schools have a standard ruling allowing the wearing of the Songkok, some wear skullcaps ,etcetera.
For the father to impose the wearing of the Serban's on his 3 sons, it is his prerogative but he needs to also take into consideration the emotional impact it will have on his sons in facing 'ribbing' and ridicule by their schoolmates.
To me as one who wore the Serban in my times of religious learning and special events, the Serban is best worn when one is attending a congregational prayer, 'Majlis Ilmu' and events that are religious in nature.
Until and unless, one lives a certain lifestyle where one practices daily such dressing up with the 'jubah' and 'serban' as this particular father does, then this situation wouldn't crop up and the boys wouldn't have been expelled from their school as they have been.
We used to have the Al-Arqam community who practiced a lifestyle that was unique in their own way. Malays adopting an Arabian outlook whilst keeping to themselves in their own environment. The problem nowadays is that we have two extremes in the Malay community.
On one side , we have these 'Arabized' Malays living according to what they intepret as living up to the demands and expectations of upholding the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad SAW whilst on the other hand we have Malays who try to outdo everyone else in coming across as 'Western' and modern as they can be.
Two different scenarios where there's a visible cultural clash that mirrors the sort of personalities that each tries to portray, supposedly to show who or what they are!
Wearing of the Serban needs to be taken care of the right situation and place. Wearing a Serban whilst riding a motorcycle on the roads and highways is not really a wise thing to do.
At the slightest collision or accident, that Serban is sure bound to go flying off from the wearer's head and he will definitely suffer severe head injuries when he lands on his head onto the hard road!
The Justice Abdul Hamid should have refrained from speaking as he did concerning the Prophet's Traditions as it is a grievious sin to ridicule or mock God Almighty's Greatest Messenger or even any of the various prophets!
He should have stuck to the contention that the Serban is just a cultural headgear and that it is not 'Wajib' to be won by a Muslim especially when it concerned schoolboys studying in a public school!
No need to infer or refer anything to the person of the Prophet SAW!
Sometimes even so called learned people suffer from bout's of 'Diarrhoea of the Lip' thus opening themselves to ridicule and questioned by the public?
What about that stupid wig they wear when holding court? Or the flowing gowns and white ribbons with frills and all? Is that supposed to show they are special or something above the rest of mankind or those who have to attend court?
Matters that concern sensitive topics such as regalia or religious apparel need to be handled with the utmost consideration so as not to offend any particular faith or culture. This Serban thingy is best left to rest.
The more anyone opens up his or her mouth and tries to belittle the tradition behind it like the judge's comments about the Prophet SAW's riding the camels and living in mud houses is tantamount to ridiculing the Holy Messenger.
Does Justice Abdul Hamid have a different Prophet to whom he shows respect to or he doesn't give a hoot about all that?
Speaking as he did has not made him any nobler in the eyes of us Muslims who do care about our Prophet SAW!
To me, I don't give a rat's ass about this fella talking trash about my Prophet whom I and billions of other Muslims love and respect most in our lifes.
He may be a Federal Court justice here on Earth but when the fella dies , his soul is gonna stand in Almighty Allah's Supreme Court above all courts and then he's gonna be in deep shit for having belittled Allah's Beloved in this case.
The best thing for Justice Abdul Hamid to do would be to apologise to all Muslims in Malaysia for his off color comments that have touched on the noble Muhammad Al Mustafa, Khatamun Nabiyyi Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, whose stature is so high and mighty that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala makes it a part of the Shahadah to confirm and attest that Muhammad is the Rasulullah after attesting that 'There's no God but Allah' to affirm one's being a Muslim!
No matter who you are in this world, you do not come close to even the dust on the soles of the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassalam's feet when compared to his lofty station in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's entire Creation!
Lately , the ignorants and the self deluded among the masses try to act as if they are the Ulamaks of the Muslims but ignore the Mufti's advice and views pertaining matters concerning Ad Deen ul Islam. Signs of the Time, eh?
As my friend MENJ wrote in his booklets recently 'When Apostates Become Shaykhs' ; there's sure bound to be many more nincompoops trying to teach us about our faith as proven in the recent times.
Looks like even the Kaffirs are trying to show that they know more about Islam than us from the way they try to speak about it. You can't speak about Islam if you know nuts about it. :P
Mahathir's Dilemna-Spilling of the beans!
My,my,my! As each day unfolds, we are now being offered a juicy piece of news by the press and things that were classified as Official Secrets Act material @ OSA are now being declassified and presented to the Malaysian public to 'clear the air' about Tun Dr.Mahathir's broadside to the present government.
In a way, I see this as a good development for the nation. For the last two decades, Malaysians were kept in the dark and only alerted to whatever small beans that slipped out of the bag of the very government who were voted into power by us!
Transparency as we know it wasn't really the order of the day during Tun Dr.M's rule! The slightest opposition by his team players would see them bundled out of their posts and those who made too much noise would find themselves 'enjoying' an unexpected trip to Kamunting's government sponsored R&R that folks like Lim Kit Siang, Karpal Singh and the likes found out during Operatian Lalang!
Today, the situation looks pretty interesting with the spilling of the beans from both sides as to who did what and why?
In a sense, all this coming 'clean' should be good for the country. At least, the general blanket of fear and secrecy will no longer hang over anyone who dares to ask questions about issues that affect them and the nation itself.
Tun Dr.Mahathir tries to paint a picture of him being a good citizen by asking all these questions about matters which actually has his participation in all the decisions made.
The reality that he knew each and every bit that went on with his projects and proposals surely contrasts very clearly with his seeming to be a good boy in lampooning the present players in team Barisan Nasional.
Dealing with 'kiasu' Singapore is no easy task. As a Malaysian who has CPF funds due to me from Singapore from my 6 years of working in the island republic from 1980 to 1986, I always followed whatever news came out from the 'negotiations' between Malaysia and Singapore about it.
Unfortunately, Singapore has always been screwing Malaysia with its 'either you kowtow to my package deals' or 'nothing doing' kiasu attitude doesn't favor us in the long run.
From the matter of 'bloody cheap raw water' being supplied to the 'Israeli wannabe' upstart republic over the decades, to the matter of the seawater blocking Johor Causeway, to it's wanna fly its warplanes scouting over our Malaysian peninsular to its stockpiling of our Malaysian contribution funds in its Central Provident Fund @ CPF refusing to release the billions of our hardearned cash to us when we leave the island, Keretapi Tanah Melayu lands in the republic, asking for sand to be supplied for its land expansion projects, the Royal Malaysian naval base in Woodlands, Pedra Branca @ Pulau Batu Putih issues, the damage being done to the ecology in our Straits of Johor by its land reclamation works in the sea bordering us, and its endless poke it to you gestures when 'dealing' with the Malaysian government, Singapore has not been a very good 'neighbour' in the long run to us!
I welcome all this exposures and declassifications of socalled OSA documents as a result of the BN Government today being pushed into a corner by Tun Dr.Mahthir's goading for 'answers'!
As if he doesn't know what they are. He knows everything that took plce and is taking place for surely for someone who had been calling the shots for 22 long years as the Prime Minister, his sources of intelligence would have matured to something even Scotland Yard would be proud of.
Let this unravelling of all that had been swept under the carpet come out in the open. We would all then have access to all the nitty gritty details of the wheeling and dealing that took place and is currently going on in government.
The Malaysian public deserves to be told why our government seems so lethargic when dealing with our 'kiasu' neighbouring republic south of the peninsular?
We ought to wake up from the slumber that seems to be holding back this country when dealing with an upstart nation that has been giving us the short end of the stick in negotiations all this while. What dirty secrets are there that made Malaysia get screwed each and everytime the BN government sat at the meeting table with Lee Kuan Yew's government?
Tun Dr.Mahathir was the man in charge all those 22 years! He has a lot to spill out! Let the spilling of the beans begin!
In a way, I see this as a good development for the nation. For the last two decades, Malaysians were kept in the dark and only alerted to whatever small beans that slipped out of the bag of the very government who were voted into power by us!
Transparency as we know it wasn't really the order of the day during Tun Dr.M's rule! The slightest opposition by his team players would see them bundled out of their posts and those who made too much noise would find themselves 'enjoying' an unexpected trip to Kamunting's government sponsored R&R that folks like Lim Kit Siang, Karpal Singh and the likes found out during Operatian Lalang!
Today, the situation looks pretty interesting with the spilling of the beans from both sides as to who did what and why?
In a sense, all this coming 'clean' should be good for the country. At least, the general blanket of fear and secrecy will no longer hang over anyone who dares to ask questions about issues that affect them and the nation itself.
Tun Dr.Mahathir tries to paint a picture of him being a good citizen by asking all these questions about matters which actually has his participation in all the decisions made.
The reality that he knew each and every bit that went on with his projects and proposals surely contrasts very clearly with his seeming to be a good boy in lampooning the present players in team Barisan Nasional.
Dealing with 'kiasu' Singapore is no easy task. As a Malaysian who has CPF funds due to me from Singapore from my 6 years of working in the island republic from 1980 to 1986, I always followed whatever news came out from the 'negotiations' between Malaysia and Singapore about it.
Unfortunately, Singapore has always been screwing Malaysia with its 'either you kowtow to my package deals' or 'nothing doing' kiasu attitude doesn't favor us in the long run.
From the matter of 'bloody cheap raw water' being supplied to the 'Israeli wannabe' upstart republic over the decades, to the matter of the seawater blocking Johor Causeway, to it's wanna fly its warplanes scouting over our Malaysian peninsular to its stockpiling of our Malaysian contribution funds in its Central Provident Fund @ CPF refusing to release the billions of our hardearned cash to us when we leave the island, Keretapi Tanah Melayu lands in the republic, asking for sand to be supplied for its land expansion projects, the Royal Malaysian naval base in Woodlands, Pedra Branca @ Pulau Batu Putih issues, the damage being done to the ecology in our Straits of Johor by its land reclamation works in the sea bordering us, and its endless poke it to you gestures when 'dealing' with the Malaysian government, Singapore has not been a very good 'neighbour' in the long run to us!
I welcome all this exposures and declassifications of socalled OSA documents as a result of the BN Government today being pushed into a corner by Tun Dr.Mahthir's goading for 'answers'!
As if he doesn't know what they are. He knows everything that took plce and is taking place for surely for someone who had been calling the shots for 22 long years as the Prime Minister, his sources of intelligence would have matured to something even Scotland Yard would be proud of.
Let this unravelling of all that had been swept under the carpet come out in the open. We would all then have access to all the nitty gritty details of the wheeling and dealing that took place and is currently going on in government.
The Malaysian public deserves to be told why our government seems so lethargic when dealing with our 'kiasu' neighbouring republic south of the peninsular?
We ought to wake up from the slumber that seems to be holding back this country when dealing with an upstart nation that has been giving us the short end of the stick in negotiations all this while. What dirty secrets are there that made Malaysia get screwed each and everytime the BN government sat at the meeting table with Lee Kuan Yew's government?
Tun Dr.Mahathir was the man in charge all those 22 years! He has a lot to spill out! Let the spilling of the beans begin!
Friday, July 14, 2006
Pak Lah returns tomorrow. Will he face Tun Dr.M?
The whole nation awaits to see if our Commander in Chief of Malaysia Incorporated has regained his health, his strength and his wits to face his current tormentor Al Tabib Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad once and for all?
There's nothing that the PM should shy away from meeting face to face his former mentor if the PM's hands are clean and as he claims to be championing his battle cry of 'Cemerlang, Gemilang, Terbilang!' throughout his 3 year old premiership!
Not that Abdullah Badawi doesn't know how to deal with the 81 year old Tun. If the BN Government that he's leading today is really innocent of any foul play when it concerns the Tun's pet projects being put into 'cold storage' or ready to be incinerated , then there's no reason for Pak Lah to have any fears or shrinking of anything!
Just be man enough to visit Tun at his home as Tun himself did when he went to patch up things with the late Tunku. Not that Pak Lah doesn't know the way to the Mines?
There's golf courses there too. Tun said the other day that he doesn't know how to play golf. Maybe Pak Lah can teach the old man a thing or two as to how to swing a golf club and pat each other's back?
That might do the trick and keep the ol' doc happy....for a while. The thing with ol' Tun is that he needs new games and projects to keep him happy and occupied. If you let him be, well, those of us who were at the Century Paradise Club heard from his own mouth that he @ the Tun has a 'suspicious mind'.
Not wise to let an 81 year old suspicious mind gent running around without having his questions answered!
Hey maybe, we can have a nice ol' Debat Perdana between the PM and the Tun!
Now, won't that be a fitting return to your image as this nation's Supreme Leader once and for all and if you can come out with flying colors with nice, crisp answers to placate the Tun, that will be your fait accompli for all time ?
None would dare call you Mr.Jelly Belly anymore dear Sir.
Are you gonna make Malaysians happy or are we in for another bout of 'you ask this , I keep elegantly silent' ?
Welcome home Pak Lah. The nation awaits your next move.
Israel Attacks Lebanon-US morphs into the 3 Monkey syndrome!
We now read and see how the Israeli illegal terrorist regime attacks and destroys Lebanese infrastructure at will under the pretext of seeking revenge for Hezbullah's capture of it's terrorist 'soldiers'!A blatant undeclared war before the very eyes of the whole world and the so called Sheriff of Planet Earth morphs into the 3 Monkeys! 'See No Evil; Hear No Evil; Speak No Evil' syndrome.
Fits the USA to a 'T'. On trumped up charges and deception, the USA launched a full offensive against Iraq and invaded the sovereign nation for no other purposes than to rob and pillage the ancient lands of Babylon for the black gold flowing under it's soil!
That's the main reason why the US under George Wacko Bush waged war against Iraq under false pretences of freeing the people from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein!
Yes, Saddam was a mean bloody dictator who deserves to be executed for his crimes against the civilians of Iraq but what difference does the USA make from Saddam's dictatorship when it has wreaked havoc on the Iraqis lifes and destroyed the infrastructure of the ancestral lands of the Awliyas and Anbiyas of Islam , reduced the country to be almost nothing but rubble , here and there and the people living in mortal danger of being obliterated from the face of this Earth?
Is America trying to exterminate the Iraqis for the Israelis to expand into the land?
Isn't this so bloody clear that the US of A is a bloody terrorist state itself in coming over and destroying another civilisation under deception and false charges of Iraq having Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Isn't the very nation that speaks of Freedom this, Freedom that reeking of Nuclear Weaponry and the largest stockpile of Nuclear Warheads on Earth accusing the pot of being black when its own arse is as dark as the blackest hole in space?
Who owns the largest stockpile of Nuclear weapons in this whole freaking world if not America?
Israel, an illegitimate bastard nation borne out of the adulterous union of good ol' USA and 'Greaaat Britain' is today committing crimes against the sovereign nation of Lebanon and the socalled Champions of Freedom and Democracy pretend as if nothing's going on before them!
What a bunch of hypocrites who have nothing but a hidden covert agenda of world dominion but not having the moral standards of declaring their animosity and hatred of the Islamic world upfront like the days of yore!
No matter what you call yourself, remember that you are answerable to God Almighty!
What goes around comes around, and if we were to look at the Holy Books of God, things are taking place as foretold. Just get ready to reap what you are sowing.
It's time for the Arabs to wake up from their coma! Are you waiting for the missiles to come blast your backsides? Sheesh! Talk about inertia. These guys are terrific at it!
Whatever it is , the USA and Great Britain sure have their hands bloodied. UN , just go sleep !
That's what you guys do best. Seminars and conferences all year round, when criminals have their way, the so called mighty UN just closes their eyes, stuffs shut the ears and play dead!
Humbug!
Thursday, July 13, 2006
PROTON GEN-2 ₤1 Deposit Offer!
They have done it again!I just want you to take a look at how 'Cemerlang! Gemilang! Terbilang!', our national car dealership can be when it comes to bending over backwards to accommodate the foreigners when selling Malaysia's pride overseas!
₤1.00 @ RM6.00 -RM7.00 is all it takes for one to qualify as paying deposit with terms as below:
Valuable Finance OffersTerms & Conditions
Finance is available to people aged 18 and over, subject to status when purchasing a new vehicle through Proton Finance Ltd. Indemnities may be required. Offer ends 30th September 2006. Regular finance payments required. 0% Finance and £1 deposit offers cannot be used on the same vehicle. Terms and conditions apply, please see your local Proton dealer for further details.
Visit http://www.proton-wira.co.uk/gen2/offers/pound_deposit.asp and witness for yourself how Proton under it's new leadership is so desirous in greasing itself up before our former Colonial Masters and willing to spread wide open for the rest of the world but here in Malaysia do not even bother to take care of the Malaysian citizens who have bought and supported the bloody national car all this while!
Look at how they offer freebies to the UK customers whilst over here in Malaysia , Proton treats it's car buyers like aliens! What a bloody shame!
I speak as a frustrated Wira user who has so many bones to pick with the manufacturers!
Talk about pimping oneself to the world whilst neglecting the issues with the Proton cars here on our nation's roads and streets!
Do Proton give us the same service and treatment that they so willingly OFFER to the overseas market?
Are Malaysians not good enough to get similar offers and services like the ones in the UK?
Malaysians not good enough for you to call us 'Good morning govnor? Care for a Gen-2?
I don't know about you folks but the minute my finances permit me , I am gonna dump this
!#$%^&* Wira and go for a Japanese import!
Maybe a Korean 4 SUV! Hey , what the heck, go for an American import!
To hell with trying to support my national car when they don't give a shit about us !
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Islam is perfect ; Muslims are not!
I have been reading in so many forums, websites, blogs, news magazines, etc about many differing views discussing religious issues especially ones that tend to focus on Islam.
I know that for many Non Muslims and even some Muslims themselves, the trend nowadays is to pick a fight, argue and quarrel over Islamic matters. Even those who don't believe in God want so very much to be in the ring!
Just pop in to Malaysia-Today.net and you will see some bloggers comment about Islam with such a venomous streak, I don't think you'll ever wanna cross paths with such persons, ever ! :P
That's how Islam is attracting all kinds, both the Good, the Bad and also unfortunately the so very Ugly!
The thing is that for all the hoo ha and hype about Islam this, Islam that, media exploitation of some individuals or groups who have their own agendas but misusing Islam as their cause , all expose the false accusations being heaped upon Islam!
Let me reiterate one point here. ISLAM IS PERFECT! MUSLIMS ARE NOT.
As humanbeings, we never will be perfect! Show me anyone who claims to be perfect and I dare say that fella is a liar! For as humanbeings, we will always have our shortcomings!
From the East to the West, there will never be a perfect humanbeing! Never has been and never ever will there be one! From our parents , the Prophet Adam Alaihisalam and our Mother, Siti Hawwa right down to the people who will be alive on this Earth when Doomsday arrives, there will never be anyone who is perfect!
Perfection belongs only to Allah the Almighty. God, Most Supreme, Most Perfect. There's nothing else save Allah and His Way of Life that He has revealed to us mankind that is Perfect.
Muslims today are facing all kinds of persecutions and challenges in our lifes. Each and every Muslim, male and female are constantly facing daily provocations, testing of their faith and the very symbol that they represent , to be those who submit to the Rules and Regulations of Islam.
Do you for a fleeting second, think it is easy to be a Muslim in these times? Only those who are patient and persevere will see some success in their lifes.
Just recently , there has been a series of bomb explosions that were set off at crowded Mumbai (Bombay) train stations in India, killing hundreds of innocent commuters.
Rohan Gunaratna, the socalled expert on terrorism points his accusing finger at Lasykar At Toiyibba, a Kashmiri separatist group who are said to be the main perpetrators of this massacre!
India has always been a land of constant upheaval and strifes sparked off quite easily due to it's billion over citizens living in a society that is a volatile potpourri of religious,racial and caste differences easily ignited into a frenzy of mob mentality that has been proven again and again to rage uncontrollably, destroying the fragile peace that usually sets in after months of sufferings and carnage.
The Muslims in India are caught in a vicious dilemna! To them, everyday could be their last day on Earth. A hundred million over Muslims trying to survive in an ocean of a billion Hindus is not an easy thing to do.The slightest commotion set off by those with an open agenda will see the Muslims dragged out to the streets, raped, viciously chopped and slaughtered by rampaging mobs of a people goaded into doing things they normally wouldn't even dream of because of one major cause-economic disparity.
Most Muslims are good in business. Just like the Jews, Muslims are very much into trade and even here in Malaysia, the local Malays envy the Indian Muslims who always thrive when carrying out their business enterprises.
From a small pushcart selling 'Mee Goreng Mamak', these industrious fellows would eventually end up setting up shop as a medium sized restaurant into the 'Mamak Bistro's' we see at Bangsar, Taman Tun, all over KL, Penang, Ipoh, Kuantan, Kota Baru, etc .and in every small town or city in Malaysia, you can see the tremendous growth of the Indian Muslims businesses.
Why is that so? A major reason could be because MOST Muslims do not indulge in the forbidden activities such as the ones usually known as the major sins.
What are they?
The Major Sins that a Muslim or a Muslimah must not do is to :
1- Associate any partner with God.
Al-Qur'an (4:48 & 116/ 31:13/ 5:72/ 18:110)
This is the one MAJOR sin above all the other sins that Allah the Almighty will not forgive unless he or she truly repents and does not repeat it.
SYIRIK is the term given to this and those who did so out of ignorance need to repent truly honestly sincerely before Allah.
This is called TAUBAT NASUHA and one doesn't have any other options but to never take any chances with it when it comes to the matter of submitting to none other except Allah!
in Targeeb: "If a slave runs away from his master, his prayer is not accepted".
Al-Qur'an (6:121)
58- Knowingly claim to be the son/daughter of someone other than your father/mother
in Bukhari: "Who claims to be the son or daughter of other than his father knowingly, will not enter paradise".
59- Argue in vain.
Al-Qur'an (29:46/ 40:4)
60- Deprive people of drinking your water.
Al-Qur'an (67:30)
61- Cheat people in a weight or a volume of goods for which they have paid.
Al-Qur'an (83:1-6)
62- Take for granted what God gives you - health, wealth, family, job, education,etc.
Al-Qur'an (6:44)
63- Say unkind words about the Prophet's companions,
in Bukhari: "Don't say unkind words about my companions". etcetera.
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I will try and share about each and every of the subjects highlighted above in future postings but being terribly busy at the moment with a major program I am handling , needs me to put my priorities right.
Insyaallah, when Time permits, I'll write on them in the near future.
Remember my words' Islam is perfect' Muslims are not!
That doesn't mean we can't keep on trying to better ourselves in all aspects of our lifes and be among those who submit ourselves to none but Almighty Allah, Lord, Creator and Sustainer of us all! Insyaallah!
Our five daily prayers are those special times when we are standing, bowing, and prostrating before the Supreme Master of us all, asking to be cleansed and purified from our slip ups and we attain the Peace in our hearts and souls from Subuh to Zohor, Zohor to Asar, Asar to Maghrib, Maghrib to 'Isya and from 'Isya to Subuh, day in , day out.
A continuous cycle of prayer and submission to God. 5 times a day for the rest of our lifes.
What's better than to have a constant recharging of the spirit within us , to glorify Allah and to express our gratitude to Him for all that He has given us and to cherish whatever we have ?
"O Allah, I seek forgiveness for every sin, I committed, about which, of course, You know inside and out, from the beginning to the end of my life.
Whether committed deliberately or intentionally, few or many, abstruse or manifest, old or new, secretly carried out or openly done; and for whatever wrong I have done!
I turn repentant unto You and beseech You to bless Muhammad and the children of Muhammad and forgive all my unjust acts I did to wrong the people (because they have rights which I have to recognize and fulfill) but You have full authority to forgive those wrongdoings whenever and howsoever You wish, O the most merciful."
Ameen. Ya Rabbal Alameen!
May Peace be upon us all. InsyaAllah!
I know that for many Non Muslims and even some Muslims themselves, the trend nowadays is to pick a fight, argue and quarrel over Islamic matters. Even those who don't believe in God want so very much to be in the ring!
Just pop in to Malaysia-Today.net and you will see some bloggers comment about Islam with such a venomous streak, I don't think you'll ever wanna cross paths with such persons, ever ! :P
That's how Islam is attracting all kinds, both the Good, the Bad and also unfortunately the so very Ugly!
The thing is that for all the hoo ha and hype about Islam this, Islam that, media exploitation of some individuals or groups who have their own agendas but misusing Islam as their cause , all expose the false accusations being heaped upon Islam!
Let me reiterate one point here. ISLAM IS PERFECT! MUSLIMS ARE NOT.
As humanbeings, we never will be perfect! Show me anyone who claims to be perfect and I dare say that fella is a liar! For as humanbeings, we will always have our shortcomings!
From the East to the West, there will never be a perfect humanbeing! Never has been and never ever will there be one! From our parents , the Prophet Adam Alaihisalam and our Mother, Siti Hawwa right down to the people who will be alive on this Earth when Doomsday arrives, there will never be anyone who is perfect!
Perfection belongs only to Allah the Almighty. God, Most Supreme, Most Perfect. There's nothing else save Allah and His Way of Life that He has revealed to us mankind that is Perfect.
Muslims today are facing all kinds of persecutions and challenges in our lifes. Each and every Muslim, male and female are constantly facing daily provocations, testing of their faith and the very symbol that they represent , to be those who submit to the Rules and Regulations of Islam.
Do you for a fleeting second, think it is easy to be a Muslim in these times? Only those who are patient and persevere will see some success in their lifes.
Just recently , there has been a series of bomb explosions that were set off at crowded Mumbai (Bombay) train stations in India, killing hundreds of innocent commuters.
Rohan Gunaratna, the socalled expert on terrorism points his accusing finger at Lasykar At Toiyibba, a Kashmiri separatist group who are said to be the main perpetrators of this massacre!
India has always been a land of constant upheaval and strifes sparked off quite easily due to it's billion over citizens living in a society that is a volatile potpourri of religious,racial and caste differences easily ignited into a frenzy of mob mentality that has been proven again and again to rage uncontrollably, destroying the fragile peace that usually sets in after months of sufferings and carnage.
The Muslims in India are caught in a vicious dilemna! To them, everyday could be their last day on Earth. A hundred million over Muslims trying to survive in an ocean of a billion Hindus is not an easy thing to do.The slightest commotion set off by those with an open agenda will see the Muslims dragged out to the streets, raped, viciously chopped and slaughtered by rampaging mobs of a people goaded into doing things they normally wouldn't even dream of because of one major cause-economic disparity.
Most Muslims are good in business. Just like the Jews, Muslims are very much into trade and even here in Malaysia, the local Malays envy the Indian Muslims who always thrive when carrying out their business enterprises.
From a small pushcart selling 'Mee Goreng Mamak', these industrious fellows would eventually end up setting up shop as a medium sized restaurant into the 'Mamak Bistro's' we see at Bangsar, Taman Tun, all over KL, Penang, Ipoh, Kuantan, Kota Baru, etc .and in every small town or city in Malaysia, you can see the tremendous growth of the Indian Muslims businesses.
Why is that so? A major reason could be because MOST Muslims do not indulge in the forbidden activities such as the ones usually known as the major sins.
What are they?
The Major Sins that a Muslim or a Muslimah must not do is to :
1- Associate any partner with God.
Al-Qur'an (4:48 & 116/ 31:13/ 5:72/ 18:110)
This is the one MAJOR sin above all the other sins that Allah the Almighty will not forgive unless he or she truly repents and does not repeat it.
SYIRIK is the term given to this and those who did so out of ignorance need to repent truly honestly sincerely before Allah.
This is called TAUBAT NASUHA and one doesn't have any other options but to never take any chances with it when it comes to the matter of submitting to none other except Allah!
In these times, there are many who try to be smart alecs and come up with cock and bull reasons as to why they don't believe in Allah or go and associate that this being, this entity, that person is divine , this person is a wali Allah , one who has Karamah, this and that.
Such persons commit SHIRIK when they hold someone or something other than Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in awe and fear that if he or she didn't pay homage to that being or thing, they will be in mortal danger etc. then that person is guilty of Associating with Allah, God Almighty, whatever it is they are afraid of or in awe of!
The only way out is to study about Tawheed @ Faith in Allah SWT and repent from that major sin.
Check out the other major sins listed below and do your own research if you want to know more about why I say ' ISLAM IS PERFECT but MUSLIMS ARE NOT!
Muslims are different from other people because they submit to Almighty Allah whilst the others to whatever they choose. The present general idea to associate ISLAM to whatever some Muslims do in it's name is not fair to the faith for Islam never asks its followers to go blow themselves and others to bits as we have all seen in the present days and the decades before.
If there is any sin involved with a Muslim's act or deed, the fault lies upon the person him or herself!
They are the ones (including myself) who are responsible for our mistakes ; not the Faith of Islam itself.
When we pray 5 times a day as enjoined by Allah SWT, it is we who beseech the Almighty to forgive us our sins , committed knowingly or otherwise.
It is entirely up to Allah whether He wants to forgive us or not but it is our duty to keep ourselves redeemed from our constant mistakes as mere mortals and to try our level best not to screw up our lifes whilst being alive here on Earth.
In the meantime, we live our lives according to the fundamentals of our faith and as per our individual sense of knowledge and religious know how.
In between, we live just as any other normal beings in taking care of ourselves, our loved ones, our fellow neighbours and citizens in trying to acquire the best of this life and God willing, the life in the Hereafter.
2- Kill a human being intentionally - except in battle, or if he/she kills someone or for self-defence.
Al-Qur'an (4:93/ 25:68-70/ 5:32/ 81:8 & 9)
3- Believe in magic, witchcraft and the like.
Al-Qur'an (2:102)
4- Neglect to perform your regular prayers Salah
Al-Qur'an (19:59 & 60/107:4 &5/ 63:9/ 74:42-48)
5- Neglect to pay your regular charity Zakah
Al-Qur'an (3:160/ 41:6 & 7/ 9:34 & 35/ 63:10)
6- Break your fast during the month of Ramadan without a valid reason.
Al-Qur'an (2:183 & 184)
7- Neglect to perform pilgrimage Hajj if you can afford it financially and you are in good health
Al-Qur'an (3:97)
8- Be rude to your parents.
Al-Qur'an (17:23 & 31: 14)
9- Sever ties with relatives
Al-Qur'an (4:1/ 47:22 & 23/ 13:20 &21/ 2:26 & 27)
10- Engage in sexual relationships outside of marriage:fornication or adultery
Al-Qur'an (17:32/ 25:66-70/ 24:2)
11- Commit homosexual acts
Al-Qur'an (11:82 & 83/ 26:165-166/ 21:74)
12- Take or give interest on money @ Riba
Al-Qur'an (3:130/ 2:275)
13- Take the money of orphans or the oppressed, when you are entrusted with it.
Al-Qur'an (4:10/ 6:152/ 4:6)
14- Fabricate lies regarding God or His Prophet
and in Bukhari & Muslim:"Whoever makes up a lie on me (Muhammad) will end up in Hellfire".
(39:10)
15- Run away from the battlefield which is established for the sake of Islam.
Al-Qur'an (8:16)
16- Inflict injustice on people under your care.
Al-Qur'an (42:42/ 14:42 & 43/ 26:227/ 5:79)
17- Be arrogant and conceited.
Al-Qur'an (40:27/ 16:23/ 2:34/ 31:18)
18- Be a false witness
Al-Qur'an (25: 72/ 22:30/ 40:28)
19- Consume intoxicating beverages - beer, wine, etc., and /or take intoxicating drugs - hash,cocaine,heroin, syabu, etc.
Al-Qur'an (5:90-91)
20- Gambling - bet money, buy lottery tickets, etc.
Al-Qur'an ( 5:90-91/ 5:3)
21- Spread a lie about a Muslim woman regarding her character.
Al-Qur'an (24:23-24/ 24:4)
22- Take unlawfully from the possessions of the enemy when you are victorious.
Al-Qur'an (8:58/ 3:161)
23- Steal
Al-Qur'an (5:38)
24- Terrorize and / or rob travellers
Al-Qur'an (5:33)
25- Swear - to confirm a lie.
Al-Qur'an (3:77)
26- Support injustice
Al-Qur'an (14:42-45/ 42:42/ 26:227/ 11:102
27- Be an unjust ruler or official.
Al-Qur'an (42:42)
28- Eat the unlawful and keep what does not belong to you.
Al-Qur'an (2:188)
29- Commit suicide.
Al-Qur'an (4:29-30)
30- Lie.
Al-Qur'an (3:61/ 51:10/ 40:28/ 58:14)
31- Pass judgements on any deeds-without the guidance of the Quran & Sunna.
Al-Qur'an (5:44/ 5:45/ 5:47)
32- Take or give bribes.
Al-Qur'an (2:188)
33- Imitate your opposite sex.
in Bukhari:"God condemns the women who imitate men and the men who imitate women".
34- Pretend not to know when your wife commits adultery.
Al-Qur'an (24:3)
35- Be a husband for the purpose of allowing a divorced woman to remarry her ex-husband after he has divorced her three times.
In Nasai:"Condemn the Mohalil : husband, and the Mohalal Loh:ex-husband".
36- Neglect to hygienically clean yourself thoroughly after you visit the washroom.
Al-Qur'an (74:4)
37- Try to impress people.
Al-Qur'an (4:142/ 107:4-7/ 2:264)
38- Keep religious knowledge to yourself.
Al-Qur'an (35:28/ 2:159/ 3:187)
39- Break pledges
Al-Qur'an (8:27/ 12:52)
40- Remind people of good deeds you have done for them.
Al-Qur'an (2:264)
41- Disbelieve in destiny -Qada' & Qadar
Al-Qur'an (54:47-49)
42- Spy on people.
Al-Qur'an (49:12)
43- Gossip.
Al-Qur'an (68:10-11)
44- Condemn a Muslim, in Bukhari : "Condemning a Muslim is like killing him / her".
45- Break promises, treaties or agreements.
Al-Qur'an (17:34/ 5:1)
46- Believe in astrology.
Al-Qur'an (17:36)
47- Challenge the authority of your husband - for married women - unless it is against the Quran and Sunna.
Al-Qur'an (4:34)
48- Make statues - for worship.
Al-Qur'an (33:57)
49- Act in despair when a disaster strikes - such as losing a loved one in Bukhari: "They don't belong to us, those who slap their faces and tear their clothes - to express grief - and act as the pagans do".
50- Inflict injustice upon people.
Al-Qur'an (42:42)
51- Be rude / offensive to the deprived, poor, homeless, etc.
Al-Qur'an (4:36)
52- Be rude to your neighbours. in Ahmed: "I swear by God that you are not a believer till your neighbour is secure from your mischief".
53- Be rude to your Muslim brothers and sisters.
Al-Qur'an (33:58)
54- Inflict harm on your Muslim brothers and sisters.
Al-Qur'an (33:58)
55- Dress lavishly.
Al-Qur'an (31:16)
56- Wear silk or gold - for men
in Abu Dawood: "It is unlawful for the men of my nation to wear silk and gold".
in Targeeb: "If a slave runs away from his master, his prayer is not accepted".
Al-Qur'an (6:121)
58- Knowingly claim to be the son/daughter of someone other than your father/mother
in Bukhari: "Who claims to be the son or daughter of other than his father knowingly, will not enter paradise".
59- Argue in vain.
Al-Qur'an (29:46/ 40:4)
60- Deprive people of drinking your water.
Al-Qur'an (67:30)
61- Cheat people in a weight or a volume of goods for which they have paid.
Al-Qur'an (83:1-6)
62- Take for granted what God gives you - health, wealth, family, job, education,etc.
Al-Qur'an (6:44)
63- Say unkind words about the Prophet's companions,
in Bukhari: "Don't say unkind words about my companions". etcetera.
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I will try and share about each and every of the subjects highlighted above in future postings but being terribly busy at the moment with a major program I am handling , needs me to put my priorities right.
Insyaallah, when Time permits, I'll write on them in the near future.
Remember my words' Islam is perfect' Muslims are not!
That doesn't mean we can't keep on trying to better ourselves in all aspects of our lifes and be among those who submit ourselves to none but Almighty Allah, Lord, Creator and Sustainer of us all! Insyaallah!
Our five daily prayers are those special times when we are standing, bowing, and prostrating before the Supreme Master of us all, asking to be cleansed and purified from our slip ups and we attain the Peace in our hearts and souls from Subuh to Zohor, Zohor to Asar, Asar to Maghrib, Maghrib to 'Isya and from 'Isya to Subuh, day in , day out.
A continuous cycle of prayer and submission to God. 5 times a day for the rest of our lifes.
What's better than to have a constant recharging of the spirit within us , to glorify Allah and to express our gratitude to Him for all that He has given us and to cherish whatever we have ?
"O Allah, I seek forgiveness for every sin, I committed, about which, of course, You know inside and out, from the beginning to the end of my life.
Whether committed deliberately or intentionally, few or many, abstruse or manifest, old or new, secretly carried out or openly done; and for whatever wrong I have done!
I turn repentant unto You and beseech You to bless Muhammad and the children of Muhammad and forgive all my unjust acts I did to wrong the people (because they have rights which I have to recognize and fulfill) but You have full authority to forgive those wrongdoings whenever and howsoever You wish, O the most merciful."
Ameen. Ya Rabbal Alameen!
May Peace be upon us all. InsyaAllah!
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Zionist Insolence! Just look at their blatant rudeness!
Just look at the insolence being shown by the Zionist Israelis!It is haram for anyone to stand before those who are performing their prayers to Allah SWT!
I really feel so pissed off looking at this photo.
Do those of you who are Non Muslims now realise why the general Muslim population can never compromise with the rogue Zionist illegitimate state of Israel's existence?
It is these sort of rude insolent actions of the bloody Zionists that push some individuals to sheer frustration and carry out self destructive acts borne out of helplessness and nothing else!
Photo source:http://tinyurl.com/m6s8p
It is not that I support suicide bombings that have been carried out by some individuals there but I can understand the extreme situations that have forced them to that acts!
I just do not know why the United Nations can be so powerless to stop the Zionists from terrorising the poor Palestinians? The UN should be scrapped and let each nation defend itself!
After all, that's the bloody reality today, isn't it? The mighty overwhelming the weak!
It's a lawless world after all! The Zionists Israelis can do just about anything and no one would say or do any corrective actions or even condemn them!
But if Iran starts to build a nuclear reactor for harnessing it's energy resources, World War 3 looms in the horizon! Talk about double standards!
North Korea blasts off its missiles in absolute disregard of America and its allies, what do the powers that be do? Yup, 3 monkeys syndrome all over again.
What world justice are some nations talking about?
PAS courting Tun Dr.Mahathir ? Wake up TG Nik Aziz!
I read about Tuan Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat's asking his Parti Islam SeMalaysia leaders to befriend the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad.
Tuan Guru Nik Aziz still exerts quite an influence on the direction of his party.
Personally, I feel it's good of Nik Aziz to ask that the young and old of the PAS leadership to come out of their self imposed media blackouts that used to be their norm before and start being open about their feelings and aspirations for their party.
One thing though, they need to be very clear about where they stand as to their party's objectives in setting up an Islamic government in Malaysia when and if they ever get to run this country.
Just talking about an Islamic state but not having the brains and the brawn to go about setting it up will be just a waste of everyone's time, resources and effort.
Old firebrands like Tuan Guru Hj.Hadi Awang do not have the human to human personal approach and in touch with what's really going on in the minds and hearts of the average PAS member and sympathisers.
Gone are the days when kampong folks can sit and gape in awe at all the rhetoric spewing out of the boom voiced speakers of yore like Tuan Guru Hadi Awang or laugh at the bawdy jokes of Mat Sabu and the likes!
With the advent of the internet, multimedia and communication tools, the general public now are more aware of all that's taking place and if anyone tries to pull a fast one on the public, he or she will very soon be found out, grilled by the ever roving press and hung out to dry in the public eye like the keropok lekor laid out in the East Coast sun!
You can only bullshit the people a bit at a time but eventually you'll be found out! Once it happens, people will no longer want to give you any attention; what more follow you like they used to.
Dialogue between PAS leaders and their former adversaries like Tun Dr.Mahathir is alright but what does PAS expect to gain from all this?
Does PAS expect Mahathir to don a ketayap and sit with Nik Aziz and the jama'ah on a PAS stage and then stand up to condemn Pak Lah and Najib Tun Razak about why the hell have the BN government shelved all of Tun's major projects , etcetera?
Nik Aziz needs to wake up from his noon siesta. Tun Dr.Mahathir is a seasoned politician. He doesn't need to 'pelok Arab' with anyone. All he's doing at the moment is just watching out for his 'pet projects' and his reputation! He doesn't give a hoot about PAS and personally, I think he never will!
PAS will do better to put it's grassroots organisation in the proper perspectives. Select good people to man it's very basic down to earth party committees.
Teach them the basics of Islam and raise up good Da'ee's. Educate them and teach them all the skills necessary to keep up with the times . Teach them to use computers, IT, the latest technologies. Equip them with people skills. Select only those who are sincere and not grab any of the UMNO has beens or PKR rejects.
Once the grassroots are firm and steady, then further add language skills to the party members.
Learn good Malay, English, Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew, Hindi , even Tamil if they want and then go out to the masses.
Learn to listen to what the Malaysian people want, fear and wish for the future of themselves and their children.
Only by winning the people's hearts and minds and being sincere about it will PAS ever stand a fighting chance to ever succeed in their political aspirations. And one last but most important thing, PAS needs to be really, really humble going about all these things.
Forget the past, realise the present and work towards the future!
God willing, you might get what you wish for. Just putting to print what I think about this.
Palestinians Expulsion (1947-1948) Article by Robin Miller
The Expulsion of the Palestinians, 1947-1948
Words (excluding footnotes): 1857
Date: October, 2001 (revised, and title changed, 1/31/2002)
The "Palestinian refugee problem"--that is, the human tragedy created by the Israeli expulsion of the Palestinians from their homeland, Palestine--remains a seemingly insoluble aspect of the Middle East puzzle.
Yet the expulsion of the Palestinians was an inescapable outcome of the United Nations' 1947 decision to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states the following year. (The Arab state never came into existence.)
Before the partition, Jews comprised only one-third of the population of Palestine, which held some 608,000 Jews and 1,237,000 Arabs.
Even within the area designated for Israel under the U.N. partition plan, the population consisted of some 500,000 Jews and 330,000 Arabs.
How could a country with such a large Arab minority become a Jewish homeland?[1]
The answer is that it could not. A massive population transfer would be required.
And this was understood by Jewish military leaders during the war of 1947-1948.
David Ben-Gurion, father of Israel and leader of its military, confidently predicted on February 7, 1948, that "there surely will be a great change in the population of the country" over the next several months.
He was right.[2](The inevitable conflict between Jewish colonization of Palestine and the rights of the indigenous Palestinians was foreseen from the beginning.
Theodor Herzl, the father of political Zionism, articulated the Zionist colonial plan in his 1896 book _Der Judenstaat_ (The Jewish State).
Recognizing that a people would not surrender its homeland voluntarily, he wrote: "An infiltration is bound to end badly.
It continues until the inevitable moment when the native population feels itself threatened, and forces the government to stop a further influx of Jews. Immigration is consequently futile unless based on an assured supremacy.")[2.5]
At the beginning of the strife in late 1947, it is likely that the Jewish political leadership in Palestine would have rejected any formal plan to expel the Palestinians. (Although that would change by the following June, as discussed below, when the new Israeli government prohibited the return of all Palestinian refugees.)
There was, however, a shared belief by many of the Jewish (later Israeli) military leaders during the war that the entire Palestinian population was the enemy.
Acting on that belief, the Jewish militias (the official Haganah and the unofficial Stern Gang and Irgun) engaged in a consistent course of conduct that was intended to--and did--cause the Arab population to flee.
(The Israeli myth that the Palestinians left on instructions from Arab leaders has long since been shown to be a fabrication.)[3]
There is ample evidence of forcible expulsions. The most notorious was the Lydda/Ramle death march.
On July 12 and 13, 1948, on the direct order of Ben-Gurion, Israeli forces expelled the 50,000 residents of the towns of Lydda and neighboring Ramle.
Yitzak Rabin, later to become Israeli Prime Minister, wrote in his memoirs that "there was no way of avoiding the use of force and warning shots in order to make the inhabitants march the ten or fifteen miles" required to reach Arab positions.
Before they left, the townspeople were "systematically stripped of all their belongings," according to the Economist newspaper in London. Many of the expelled died in the 100-degree heat during the trek.[4]
Eventually the refugees from Lydda and Ramle made their way to refugee camps near Ramallah.
Count Folke Bernadotte, Swedish nobleman and United Nations mediator, attempted to offer aid.
He later wrote that "I have made the acquaintance of a great many refugee camps, but never have I seen a more ghastly sight than that which met my eyes here at Ramallah."
(Later that year, Bernadotte was murdered by the Stern Gang. One of its leaders, Yitzhak Shamir, became Israeli Prime Minister in 1983.)[5]
Forcible expulsions were commonly practiced by the Jewish/Israeli military during 1948: Qisariya on February 15; Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri, al-Rama and Khirbat al-Sarkas in April; al-Ghabisiya, Danna, Najd and Zarnuqa the next month; Jaba, Ein Ghazal and Ijzim on July 24; and al-Bi'na and Deir al-Assad on October 31, among many others.
Israeli historian Benny Morris has identified 34 Arab communities whose inhabitants were ousted.
We may never know the full extent of the ejections, though, because, as Morris notes, the Israeli Defense Forces Archive "has a standing policy guideline not to open material explicitly describing expulsions and atrocities."[6]
More often, though, the instruments of expulsion were the terrorizing and demoralization of the Arab population. Jewish military forces used several tactics in pursuit of these goals.
One was psychological warfare.
Radio broadcasts in Arabic warned of traitors in the Arabs' midst, spread fears of disease, reported confusion and terror among the Arabs, described the Palestinians as having been deserted by their leaders, and accused Arab militias of committing crimes against Arab civilians.[7]
Another effective psywar tactic involved the use of loudspeaker trucks.
At various times they urged the Palestinians to flee before they were all killed, warned that the Jews were using poison gas and atomic weapons, or played recorded "horror sounds"--shrieks, moans, the wail of sirens and the clang of fire-alarm bells.[8]
A second tactic, economic warfare, was a favorite of Ben-Gurion, who described "the strategic objective" of the Jewish forces to be "to destroy the [Arab] urban communities."
"Deprived of transportation, food, and raw materials," he later noted with satisfaction, "the urban communities underwent a process of disintegration, chaos, and hunger."[9]
A third technique to induce Arab flight was military attack on a town's Arab population.
These assaults often used Davidka mortars--horribly inaccurate, but useful for creating terror--and barrel bombs.
The latter consisted of barrels, casks, and metal drums filled with a mixture of explosives and fuel oil.
Rolled into the Arab section of a town, they created "an inferno of raging flames and endless explosions."
Another destructive maneuver described by writer Arthur Koestler was the "ruthless dynamiting of block after block" of the Arab community.[10]
Not uncommonly, the Jewish forces resorted to simple terrorism.
Sometimes this took the form of bombs planted in vehicles or buildings: 30 killed in Jaffa on Jan. 4., 1948, with a truck bomb; 20 killed the next day when the Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem was bombed; 17 killed by a bomb at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem two days later.[11]
More often, a Jewish military force entered an Arab village and massacred civilians, either during a night raid or after the seizure of the village.
The massacres started early: Major General R. Dare Wilson, who served with the British troops trying to keep peace in Palestine before the end of the British Mandate, reported that on Dec. 18, 1947, the Haganah murdered 10, mostly women and children, in the Arab village of al-Khisas with grenades and machine gun fire.
Wilson also described how on Dec. 31 the Haganah slaughtered another 14, again mostly women and children, again using machine guns and throwing grenades into occupied homes, this time in Balad Esh-Sheikh.[12]
Throughout 1948, the massacres continued: 60 at Sa'sa' on Feb. 15; 100 murdered in Acre after its May 18 seizure by the Haganah; several hundred at Lydda on July 12, including 80 machine-gunned inside the Dahmash Mosque; 100 at Dawayma on Oct. 29, with an Israeli eye-witness reporting that "the children were killed by smashing their skulls with clubs"; 13 young men mowed down by machine guns in open fields outside Eilabun on Oct. 30; another 70 young men blindfolded and shot to death, one after another, at Safsaf the same day; 12 killed at Majd al-Kurum, also on Oct. 30, with a Belgian U.N. observer writing that "there is no doubt about these murders"; an unknown number killed the next day at al-Bi'na and Deir al-Assad, described by a U.N. official as "wanton slaying without provocation"; 14 "liquidated," according to the Israeli military's report, at Khirbet al-Wa'ra as-Sauda on Nov. 2.
[13]A particularly repugnant method of killing employed by the Jewish militias was the blowing up of houses with their occupants still inside, often at night.
The militia would place explosive charges around the stone houses, drench the wooden window and door frames with gasoline, and then open fire, simultaneously dynamiting and burning the sleeping inhabitants to death.
[14]The supreme act of terrorism by Jewish militias was the slaughter of nearly the entire village of Deir Yassin on April 9, 1948.
According to Jacques de Reynier, a Swiss physician working for the Red Cross who arrived before the bloodletting had ended, 254 people were "deliberately massacred in cold blood."
"All I could think of," he later said, "was the SS troops I had seen in Athens."
According to Meir Pa'il, who served as a communications officer for the Haganah in Deir Yassin and was present during the assault, 25 male survivors were taken to Jerusalem and paraded through the streets in a perverse victory celebration, then shot in cold blood.
[15]Menachem Begin, the leader of the Irgun, one of the militias involved in the horror at Deir Yassin, called the atrocity a "splendid act of conquest."
In 1977, Begin was elected Prime Minister of Israel.
[16]The massacre at Deir Yassin played a crucial role in undermining the morale of the Palestinian population.
As de Reynier, the Swiss physician, wrote, "a general terror was built up among the Arabs, a terror astutely fostered by the Jews."
[17]Once the Israeli military had forced the Palestinians to flee, various Israeli institutions attempted to insure that there would be no return.
The new Israeli government decided on June 16, 1948--just a month after Israel had declared independence, and before half of the refugees had even become such--that it would not permit the Palestinians to return to their homeland.
The military, meanwhile, worked to render return a physical impossibility.
Its forces leveled 418 Palestinian towns and villages, erasing the majority of Palestinian society from the face of the earth.
[18]Completing the process of dispossession, Israel took control of land owned by the Arabs whom it would not allow to return.
Before 1948, Jews owned only 1.5 million of the 26 million dunams of land in Palestine. (A dunam, the local measure of land area, is a quarter-acre.)
After the eviction of the Palestinians, Israel controlled 20 million dunams, an increase from 6% to 77% of the total. They simply stole an entire country.
[19]Moshe Dayan, Israeli war criminal(my emphasis), described this reality succinctly in a 1969 speech: "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. ... There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."
[20]While a wrong of these incalculable dimensions can never be truly rectified, simple considerations of justice require that the Palestinian refugees from what is now Israel, and their descendants, be permitted to return home.
Robin Miller can be contacted at robin@robincmiller.com.
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The world today seems oblivious to this criminal existence of the illegitimate state of Israel and the daily massacre and genocide being perpetrated upon the Palestinians by the bastards calling themselves the State of Israel!
The spineless Arab nations leaders all around Palestine and acting like the 3 'See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Speak No Evil' monkeys should be ashamed to call themselves Muslims.
It is this state of affairs that was foretold by the Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW that in the Last Ages (present) the Muslims will be so powerless against their enemies (the present and past leaders of Israel, USA, UK, EU,etc) and will be 'feasted upon' by their nemesis.
In 'Islam Hadhari' Malaysia, our leaders are very busy with splurging millions of ringgits entertaining tourists and the likes with Citrawarna this , Konsert and Fiesta that whilst their fellow Muslims in Palestine, Iraq, Chechnya, Kashmir ,etc. are being killed and blown to bits over there and living in conditions worse than rats in the sewers!
Then we have the drama swasta's of showing large mock cheques purporting that we are 'doing something' for the Palestinians when in fact no matter how many donations are being collected in the name of the Palestinians , it doesn't change the reality that they will never be able to return to their lands and demolished homes and live in peace!
As a Muslim, it hurts me to see all this happening before this so called 'civilised ' world where people speak of 'freedom of this, freedom of that, human rights, animal rights, faggot rights, lesbian rights, and every bloody other rights but all play blind before the PALESTINIAN RIGHTS!
What a load of drivel!
Words (excluding footnotes): 1857
Date: October, 2001 (revised, and title changed, 1/31/2002)
The "Palestinian refugee problem"--that is, the human tragedy created by the Israeli expulsion of the Palestinians from their homeland, Palestine--remains a seemingly insoluble aspect of the Middle East puzzle.
Yet the expulsion of the Palestinians was an inescapable outcome of the United Nations' 1947 decision to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states the following year. (The Arab state never came into existence.)
Before the partition, Jews comprised only one-third of the population of Palestine, which held some 608,000 Jews and 1,237,000 Arabs.
Even within the area designated for Israel under the U.N. partition plan, the population consisted of some 500,000 Jews and 330,000 Arabs.
How could a country with such a large Arab minority become a Jewish homeland?[1]
The answer is that it could not. A massive population transfer would be required.
And this was understood by Jewish military leaders during the war of 1947-1948.
David Ben-Gurion, father of Israel and leader of its military, confidently predicted on February 7, 1948, that "there surely will be a great change in the population of the country" over the next several months.
He was right.[2](The inevitable conflict between Jewish colonization of Palestine and the rights of the indigenous Palestinians was foreseen from the beginning.
Theodor Herzl, the father of political Zionism, articulated the Zionist colonial plan in his 1896 book _Der Judenstaat_ (The Jewish State).
Recognizing that a people would not surrender its homeland voluntarily, he wrote: "An infiltration is bound to end badly.
It continues until the inevitable moment when the native population feels itself threatened, and forces the government to stop a further influx of Jews. Immigration is consequently futile unless based on an assured supremacy.")[2.5]
At the beginning of the strife in late 1947, it is likely that the Jewish political leadership in Palestine would have rejected any formal plan to expel the Palestinians. (Although that would change by the following June, as discussed below, when the new Israeli government prohibited the return of all Palestinian refugees.)
There was, however, a shared belief by many of the Jewish (later Israeli) military leaders during the war that the entire Palestinian population was the enemy.
Acting on that belief, the Jewish militias (the official Haganah and the unofficial Stern Gang and Irgun) engaged in a consistent course of conduct that was intended to--and did--cause the Arab population to flee.
(The Israeli myth that the Palestinians left on instructions from Arab leaders has long since been shown to be a fabrication.)[3]
There is ample evidence of forcible expulsions. The most notorious was the Lydda/Ramle death march.
On July 12 and 13, 1948, on the direct order of Ben-Gurion, Israeli forces expelled the 50,000 residents of the towns of Lydda and neighboring Ramle.
Yitzak Rabin, later to become Israeli Prime Minister, wrote in his memoirs that "there was no way of avoiding the use of force and warning shots in order to make the inhabitants march the ten or fifteen miles" required to reach Arab positions.
Before they left, the townspeople were "systematically stripped of all their belongings," according to the Economist newspaper in London. Many of the expelled died in the 100-degree heat during the trek.[4]
Eventually the refugees from Lydda and Ramle made their way to refugee camps near Ramallah.
Count Folke Bernadotte, Swedish nobleman and United Nations mediator, attempted to offer aid.
He later wrote that "I have made the acquaintance of a great many refugee camps, but never have I seen a more ghastly sight than that which met my eyes here at Ramallah."
(Later that year, Bernadotte was murdered by the Stern Gang. One of its leaders, Yitzhak Shamir, became Israeli Prime Minister in 1983.)[5]
Forcible expulsions were commonly practiced by the Jewish/Israeli military during 1948: Qisariya on February 15; Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri, al-Rama and Khirbat al-Sarkas in April; al-Ghabisiya, Danna, Najd and Zarnuqa the next month; Jaba, Ein Ghazal and Ijzim on July 24; and al-Bi'na and Deir al-Assad on October 31, among many others.
Israeli historian Benny Morris has identified 34 Arab communities whose inhabitants were ousted.
We may never know the full extent of the ejections, though, because, as Morris notes, the Israeli Defense Forces Archive "has a standing policy guideline not to open material explicitly describing expulsions and atrocities."[6]
More often, though, the instruments of expulsion were the terrorizing and demoralization of the Arab population. Jewish military forces used several tactics in pursuit of these goals.
One was psychological warfare.
Radio broadcasts in Arabic warned of traitors in the Arabs' midst, spread fears of disease, reported confusion and terror among the Arabs, described the Palestinians as having been deserted by their leaders, and accused Arab militias of committing crimes against Arab civilians.[7]
Another effective psywar tactic involved the use of loudspeaker trucks.
At various times they urged the Palestinians to flee before they were all killed, warned that the Jews were using poison gas and atomic weapons, or played recorded "horror sounds"--shrieks, moans, the wail of sirens and the clang of fire-alarm bells.[8]
A second tactic, economic warfare, was a favorite of Ben-Gurion, who described "the strategic objective" of the Jewish forces to be "to destroy the [Arab] urban communities."
"Deprived of transportation, food, and raw materials," he later noted with satisfaction, "the urban communities underwent a process of disintegration, chaos, and hunger."[9]
A third technique to induce Arab flight was military attack on a town's Arab population.
These assaults often used Davidka mortars--horribly inaccurate, but useful for creating terror--and barrel bombs.
The latter consisted of barrels, casks, and metal drums filled with a mixture of explosives and fuel oil.
Rolled into the Arab section of a town, they created "an inferno of raging flames and endless explosions."
Another destructive maneuver described by writer Arthur Koestler was the "ruthless dynamiting of block after block" of the Arab community.[10]
Not uncommonly, the Jewish forces resorted to simple terrorism.
Sometimes this took the form of bombs planted in vehicles or buildings: 30 killed in Jaffa on Jan. 4., 1948, with a truck bomb; 20 killed the next day when the Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem was bombed; 17 killed by a bomb at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem two days later.[11]
More often, a Jewish military force entered an Arab village and massacred civilians, either during a night raid or after the seizure of the village.
The massacres started early: Major General R. Dare Wilson, who served with the British troops trying to keep peace in Palestine before the end of the British Mandate, reported that on Dec. 18, 1947, the Haganah murdered 10, mostly women and children, in the Arab village of al-Khisas with grenades and machine gun fire.
Wilson also described how on Dec. 31 the Haganah slaughtered another 14, again mostly women and children, again using machine guns and throwing grenades into occupied homes, this time in Balad Esh-Sheikh.[12]
Throughout 1948, the massacres continued: 60 at Sa'sa' on Feb. 15; 100 murdered in Acre after its May 18 seizure by the Haganah; several hundred at Lydda on July 12, including 80 machine-gunned inside the Dahmash Mosque; 100 at Dawayma on Oct. 29, with an Israeli eye-witness reporting that "the children were killed by smashing their skulls with clubs"; 13 young men mowed down by machine guns in open fields outside Eilabun on Oct. 30; another 70 young men blindfolded and shot to death, one after another, at Safsaf the same day; 12 killed at Majd al-Kurum, also on Oct. 30, with a Belgian U.N. observer writing that "there is no doubt about these murders"; an unknown number killed the next day at al-Bi'na and Deir al-Assad, described by a U.N. official as "wanton slaying without provocation"; 14 "liquidated," according to the Israeli military's report, at Khirbet al-Wa'ra as-Sauda on Nov. 2.
[13]A particularly repugnant method of killing employed by the Jewish militias was the blowing up of houses with their occupants still inside, often at night.
The militia would place explosive charges around the stone houses, drench the wooden window and door frames with gasoline, and then open fire, simultaneously dynamiting and burning the sleeping inhabitants to death.
[14]The supreme act of terrorism by Jewish militias was the slaughter of nearly the entire village of Deir Yassin on April 9, 1948.
According to Jacques de Reynier, a Swiss physician working for the Red Cross who arrived before the bloodletting had ended, 254 people were "deliberately massacred in cold blood."
"All I could think of," he later said, "was the SS troops I had seen in Athens."
According to Meir Pa'il, who served as a communications officer for the Haganah in Deir Yassin and was present during the assault, 25 male survivors were taken to Jerusalem and paraded through the streets in a perverse victory celebration, then shot in cold blood.
[15]Menachem Begin, the leader of the Irgun, one of the militias involved in the horror at Deir Yassin, called the atrocity a "splendid act of conquest."
In 1977, Begin was elected Prime Minister of Israel.
[16]The massacre at Deir Yassin played a crucial role in undermining the morale of the Palestinian population.
As de Reynier, the Swiss physician, wrote, "a general terror was built up among the Arabs, a terror astutely fostered by the Jews."
[17]Once the Israeli military had forced the Palestinians to flee, various Israeli institutions attempted to insure that there would be no return.
The new Israeli government decided on June 16, 1948--just a month after Israel had declared independence, and before half of the refugees had even become such--that it would not permit the Palestinians to return to their homeland.
The military, meanwhile, worked to render return a physical impossibility.
Its forces leveled 418 Palestinian towns and villages, erasing the majority of Palestinian society from the face of the earth.
[18]Completing the process of dispossession, Israel took control of land owned by the Arabs whom it would not allow to return.
Before 1948, Jews owned only 1.5 million of the 26 million dunams of land in Palestine. (A dunam, the local measure of land area, is a quarter-acre.)
After the eviction of the Palestinians, Israel controlled 20 million dunams, an increase from 6% to 77% of the total. They simply stole an entire country.
[19]Moshe Dayan, Israeli war criminal(my emphasis), described this reality succinctly in a 1969 speech: "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. ... There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."
[20]While a wrong of these incalculable dimensions can never be truly rectified, simple considerations of justice require that the Palestinian refugees from what is now Israel, and their descendants, be permitted to return home.
Robin Miller can be contacted at robin@robincmiller.com.
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The world today seems oblivious to this criminal existence of the illegitimate state of Israel and the daily massacre and genocide being perpetrated upon the Palestinians by the bastards calling themselves the State of Israel!
The spineless Arab nations leaders all around Palestine and acting like the 3 'See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Speak No Evil' monkeys should be ashamed to call themselves Muslims.
It is this state of affairs that was foretold by the Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW that in the Last Ages (present) the Muslims will be so powerless against their enemies (the present and past leaders of Israel, USA, UK, EU,etc) and will be 'feasted upon' by their nemesis.
In 'Islam Hadhari' Malaysia, our leaders are very busy with splurging millions of ringgits entertaining tourists and the likes with Citrawarna this , Konsert and Fiesta that whilst their fellow Muslims in Palestine, Iraq, Chechnya, Kashmir ,etc. are being killed and blown to bits over there and living in conditions worse than rats in the sewers!
Then we have the drama swasta's of showing large mock cheques purporting that we are 'doing something' for the Palestinians when in fact no matter how many donations are being collected in the name of the Palestinians , it doesn't change the reality that they will never be able to return to their lands and demolished homes and live in peace!
As a Muslim, it hurts me to see all this happening before this so called 'civilised ' world where people speak of 'freedom of this, freedom of that, human rights, animal rights, faggot rights, lesbian rights, and every bloody other rights but all play blind before the PALESTINIAN RIGHTS!
What a load of drivel!
OIC-Stop talking and start organising a Caliphate!
The present state of affairs concerning the OIC @ Organisation of Islamic Conference is just like the proverbial acronym of 'Oh! I See'.
All these years of having the OIC in existence hasn't really done much in terms of providing safety and security to the Muslims of the world!
Since 1969, all these countries have done nothing much to prevent the Israeli regime from butchering the poor Palestinians and till this very moment, Israel is doing exactly that by destroying the infrastructure of Gaza and killed many civilians in just a flimsy excuse of seeking the release of one of it's terrorising 'soldier'.
The expulsion of the Palestinians from their homes and lands back in 1947-1948 is today being perpetrated a second time around while the useless OIC is being in a trance of self induced sense of 'achievements' of resolutions after useless resolutions!
All these years of having the OIC in existence hasn't really done much in terms of providing safety and security to the Muslims of the world!
Since 1969, all these countries have done nothing much to prevent the Israeli regime from butchering the poor Palestinians and till this very moment, Israel is doing exactly that by destroying the infrastructure of Gaza and killed many civilians in just a flimsy excuse of seeking the release of one of it's terrorising 'soldier'.
The expulsion of the Palestinians from their homes and lands back in 1947-1948 is today being perpetrated a second time around while the useless OIC is being in a trance of self induced sense of 'achievements' of resolutions after useless resolutions!
A brave Palestinian journalist who was on duty photographing the recent Israeli invasion of Gaza was shot at by the regime's terrorists and is in a serious condition today! What has the bloody OIC done about it? Nothing! Na na..zilch!!!
Click here to see for yourselves the atrocities being perpetrated by the Israeli regime against the Palestinians whilst the OIC's Syeikhs, Amirs, Sultans, Presidents, Prime Ministers and Protector of the Two Holy Cities wallow in their palaces and luxurious lifestyles!
The way the OIC go about holding numerous seminars in plush, luxury hotels all around the 56 member countries, year in , year out has not stopped atrocities against Muslims of the world for the sheer reason that these fellas running the show are not united in their hearts and all of them have succumbed to their love of this world and have the fear of death in their hearts!
Not one of them is a 'Salahuddin Al Ayubi' at heart or an 'Omar Mokhtar' in defending the Ummah and Muslim lands! The useless OIC waste so much money, time and efforts in holding the seminars,symposiums, this and that without even thinking to go back to the proper method of overseeing the welfare of the Muslims by re-establishing a Caliphate in the real sense of the word!
What is the point of having the OIC around when they can do nuts about the Israelis terrorising the Palestinian Muslims for so long?
What can the 56 member countries of the OIC do when the Al-Aqsa Masjid is constantly at threat of being blown to bits by the Zionist terrorists who do all these acts with the full support of their American and British patrons?
The entire Muslim nations pretending to be champions of the Ummah are in reality being led by a bunch of castrated eunuchs , wasting precious time, energy , efforts and resources by beating around the bush but in reality getting sodomised by the policies of a useless United Nations and a state terrorist in the name of George W. Bush!
Only if the socalled leaders of the 'Oh I See' come to their senses and really sit down to establishing a Caliphate where the 56 member countries pool their resources together and form a proper responsible Islamic grouping that really puts its words into practice and stand ready to defend the Muslims with their very own lifes if they have to , will the malady of being useless eunuchs disappear from the lifes of the Ummah!
What is there to live like bleeding cowards and fear the enemies of Islam when today most of the Middle East Muslim nations have so much wealth to share and pool their resources unlike the harsh times of the Prophet Muhammad SAW and the first Caliphates?
The Ottoman Empire disintegrated because the 'Caliph's then didn't follow the actual teachings of the Prophet SAW and they committed CBT @ Criminal Breach of Trust!
The trust that the Muslims of those times placed upon them. The Ottomans splurged on all the major sins and pleasures available to them at those times and forgot to take care of and protect the Caliphate.
History records how corruption, debauchery and general apathy set in to the immoral fibres of those holding authority and power corroded the frameworks of the so called Caliphate and the rest is all there printed and published in black and white and now in 'living color' in the History books of the world!
Today, we have a body that shamelessly calls itself the 'protectors' of the Ummah and pretends to fight for the Muslim nations!
'Sheer poppycock' would be the response of the British!
'A bunch of bloody ragheads' with the heart of a chicken and the hide of a bloody buffalo!' would be the insult by the 'American Yankee'!
Do the b'leaders' of the 'Oh! I See ' have even an iota of sense or shame left in them ?
The present sorry state of affairs plaguing the Palestinians, Iraqi's, Chechnyan's, Kashmiri's and so many other Muslim ummahs are entirely the fault of these cowards masquerading as the 'Protectors' of the Ummah!
Only by re-establishing the Caliphate can the OIC redeem the honor and return the pride of the Muslim Ummah worldwide!
Till then, just wallow in the mire and stick up your butts into the air like the ostriches do and keep pretending that all's well in this world and that the Muslims of this world are just alright!
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Tariqat Naqsyabandiah- a Sufi mureed's memories
Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
As a Muslim, I sought deeper knowledge of my faith in various schools and paths of realising my inner yearnings to improve my religious practices.
After being involved in Dakwah as the Founding Secretary of the Islamic Propagation Centre International with my fellow Da'ee's, Brother Haji Mohamad Yassin of Standard Chartered Bank Penang and Brother Haji Kamarudin Abdullah of the Malaysian Airline System, I sought to learn more about the inner sanctum of spiritual knowledge of Islam, that is Sufism.
Tariqat Naqsyabandiah led by Syaikh Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani Al Qubrusi An-Naqsyabandi was the tariqat that I was introduced to by my best friend, Haji Yassin.
The Tariqat's Zawiya was established at the residence of Syaikh Haji Zainuddin , the son in law of one of Penang's former Governor , Tun Dr.Awang at Bukit Jambul, Penang.
Tariqat Naqsyabandi is well known to be the 'rich man's tariqat because you'll see royalties, ministers, dignitaries, vvip's, etc gracing the majlis dhikr every Thursday night at the Zawiya.
The atmosphere was always very pleasant because you sort of feel the tranquility and the surroundings of the forest reserve and hills all around giving a heightened sense of peace to perform the dhikrs.
Most of the Tariqat mureeds would be in their Tariqat Naqsyabandi pointed caps (I still have mine) and nicely wrapped turbans made of the finest cotton, wearing nice jubahs, smelling of the fragrant English Rose attar and pleasantly well mannered people that one can ever meet in one's life.
The overall atmosphere was always so pleasing to the soul and I cherished every minute of being in the company of the Muslims who gathered to celebrate the praising of Allah SWT in a majlis that involves congregational prayer, group dhikrs followed by a lecture/sermon by the Syaikh present.
At times , we would be lucky to have the presence of our Tariqat's leaders from Lanarca, Cyprus or Lebanon.
I took bay'ah from Syaikh Adnan Adil Al-Haqqani, the brother of Syaikh Nazim and among the Tariqat's Khalifah's, circumventing the globe , setting up Zawiyas and Islamic Centers all over the world.
YM Raja Ashman Sultan Azlan Shah, is the Khalifah of the Tariqat Naqsyabandi Malaysia and I have had the pleasure of making my acquaintance of the prince during the Thursday night Majlis Dhikrs that I have attended in Penang before.
YM Tengku Bahaudeen of the Negri Sembilan Royalty also frequents the majlis every now and then.
The late elder sister of Dato Seri Hishamuddin Tun Hussein Onn was also a mureed of the Tariqat and I did meet her once before.
Coming back to the matter of seeking the Blessings of Allah SWT by involving oneself in efforts to improve one's religious practices , it has always been encouraged to get a teacher or a mursyid when learning about the Deen.
Whether we like it or not, there do exists different levels of religious practices according to the level of 'Ilm that one has acquired. For those who just came into Islam, it is important to study from a teacher about the basics of Fardhu Ain.
Fardhu Ain is the building blocks of practicing Islam and as such, one must know how to perform the obligatory prayers, supplementary prayers, dhikr after prayers, do's and don'ts in Islam, etcetera.
There are various opinions as to the matter of Tariqat's being a deviation of what the Prophet Muhammad SAW left us to follow as to his Examples @ Sunnah's and the Holy Qur'an in carrying out our religious practices.
Generally, each and every Muslim can just stick to the basics and just perform the 5 daily prayers and fulfill each of the 5 Principles of Islam and 6 Principles of Iman. Just doing all that would already suffice their obligations as a Muslim.
But to those who want to add further value and seek more Blessings of Allah SWT, then comes the matter of additional prayers and dhikr.
This is all up to the individual Muslim or Muslimah in seeking enrichment of their self appreciations of a higher level of religious spiritualism that is widely known as the World of Sufism.
It is up to the individual whether he or she wants to learn about such practices. In these tormentuos times, the human spirit is easily parched up by the trials and tribulations of the daily grind and exhausting times for each individual in living their life's in both the metropolitan cities and also in the rural neighbourhoods of the countrysides.
By being in the company of like minded Muslims who gather to celebrate and praise Allah the Almighty and offer Salawats and Salams to Rasulullah SAW, the Muslim's souls are at peace with their Maker and the ones who perform the Dhikr find their souls enriched with Sakinah @ Peace of Mind and are able to go through their lifes with a sense of balance and strength of purpose, Alhamdulillah.
For myself, I found it pleasant to be in the Majlis Dhikr practiced by the Tariqat Naqsyabandi. As to the matter of some mureeds going overboard in their relationship with the Syaikh or the Mursyid, I'd say it is up to the individual to be moderate in all that they do, including the matter of becoming 'taqsub' with the Syaikh.
My personal experiences in being with the Tariqat Naqsyabandi has always been pleasant and I look forward to going to the KL Zawiya soon.
May Allah SWT bless the ones who seek His Baraqah and strive to improve themselves in all ways that are enjoined and lawful according to the tenets and principles of Islam.
Again, the onus is on ourselves not to go astray or be extreme in our daily practices. Be aware of those who seek to take advantage or abuse our friendships or relationships with them.
Even in our daily lifes, relationships with anyone in our lifes must be always be kept in moderation. So is religious practices, working, doing business, even being online or whatever?
Too much of anything is always too bad and I feel this posting has reached it's end for today.
Will be sharing more in my following posts, InsyaAllah!
Friday, July 07, 2006
Muslims have lost those loving feelings..whoa those loving feelings..
Attending Friday prayers today sadly exposes to me that Muslims in general have lost that loving feeling towards one another!
Everyone seems to be in a bloody hurry to get home or whatever else is sniping at their heels. This is not something that I am conjuring up from my own 'ignorance' or failing to 'sangka baik' upon my fellow Muslims. No sirree!
Those of you who are Muslims know that I am telling the truth and that the truth when disclosed sure hurts very deeply especially those who prefer to have the 'Pollyanna' syndrome plugging their minds and clogging up their brains!
My Friday observations here is meant to jolt those of you who have been unwittingly been led to get up after the salam by the Imam and join the others in leaving the masjid before even joining in the congregational do'a with the Imam.
Muslims nowadays are stricken with a severe case of 'who the hell cares?' syndrome and no one bothers to advice the other when it comes to matters concerning the Adab and Tertib concerning prayer rituals.
Children keep playing noisily whilst the Khutbah is being 'read' and there are petty traders and hawkers still plying their wares regardless of the need for them to stop their trade and concentrate on listening to the Khutbah ; no matter that nowadays it's just prepared script by the Department of Religious 'Advancements' @ JAKIM!
Things are slowly going to rot by way of ignorance and 'Tidak Apa'thy' of those who are supposed to lead the Muslims in observing the proper manners and Sunnah's of the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!
Just take a look at the faces coming out of the masjid and all seeming to rush back to where they came from!
Nobody save for the elderly and for 'fundamentalists' like me bother to give the salam to others no matter whether I know them personally or not! I figure guys like me are considered 'dangerous' to others for I ask them to do something that is no longer being practiced!
That is to love and care for my fellow Muslims in good faith not bothering whether the fellow coming my way is a bloody thief , scoundrel, corrupt, adulterer, whatsoever?
Who the hell knows what whoever truely is ? Just extend that hand of yours and greet your fellow Muslim with a sincere heart and leave it to Allah SWT to judge whatever the person or persons coming our way have done in their lifes!
That's why I am saying that Muslims are now giving credence to that forlorn sounding song's lyrics:
' You've lost that loving feeling...whoa those loving feelings..
You've lost those loving feelings ..now it's gone ,gone ,gone...
And I can't go on...whoa whoa whoa....:P'
To those of you who know what I'm talking about, if you make it to the next Juma'at prayers, take time to sit and say 'Ameen' to the do'a of the Imam and then just go on giving the Salam to those you meet on your way out of the masjid and flash those pearlies at the ones whom you greet!
You never know that you are making someone's day special and they'll go home pleased to have met you, InsyaAllah!
Spread the salam, have 'sangka baik' upon your fellow Muslims but be a smart cookie too and watch out for the 'zalims' who look like 'alims' at the same time! :)
We all know the stories ...Just be smart and sensible...Smile! You are on Allah's SWT candid camera! :) He knows us best! InsyaAllah!
Everyone seems to be in a bloody hurry to get home or whatever else is sniping at their heels. This is not something that I am conjuring up from my own 'ignorance' or failing to 'sangka baik' upon my fellow Muslims. No sirree!
Those of you who are Muslims know that I am telling the truth and that the truth when disclosed sure hurts very deeply especially those who prefer to have the 'Pollyanna' syndrome plugging their minds and clogging up their brains!
My Friday observations here is meant to jolt those of you who have been unwittingly been led to get up after the salam by the Imam and join the others in leaving the masjid before even joining in the congregational do'a with the Imam.
Muslims nowadays are stricken with a severe case of 'who the hell cares?' syndrome and no one bothers to advice the other when it comes to matters concerning the Adab and Tertib concerning prayer rituals.
Children keep playing noisily whilst the Khutbah is being 'read' and there are petty traders and hawkers still plying their wares regardless of the need for them to stop their trade and concentrate on listening to the Khutbah ; no matter that nowadays it's just prepared script by the Department of Religious 'Advancements' @ JAKIM!
Things are slowly going to rot by way of ignorance and 'Tidak Apa'thy' of those who are supposed to lead the Muslims in observing the proper manners and Sunnah's of the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!
Just take a look at the faces coming out of the masjid and all seeming to rush back to where they came from!
Nobody save for the elderly and for 'fundamentalists' like me bother to give the salam to others no matter whether I know them personally or not! I figure guys like me are considered 'dangerous' to others for I ask them to do something that is no longer being practiced!
That is to love and care for my fellow Muslims in good faith not bothering whether the fellow coming my way is a bloody thief , scoundrel, corrupt, adulterer, whatsoever?
Who the hell knows what whoever truely is ? Just extend that hand of yours and greet your fellow Muslim with a sincere heart and leave it to Allah SWT to judge whatever the person or persons coming our way have done in their lifes!
That's why I am saying that Muslims are now giving credence to that forlorn sounding song's lyrics:
' You've lost that loving feeling...whoa those loving feelings..
You've lost those loving feelings ..now it's gone ,gone ,gone...
And I can't go on...whoa whoa whoa....:P'
To those of you who know what I'm talking about, if you make it to the next Juma'at prayers, take time to sit and say 'Ameen' to the do'a of the Imam and then just go on giving the Salam to those you meet on your way out of the masjid and flash those pearlies at the ones whom you greet!
You never know that you are making someone's day special and they'll go home pleased to have met you, InsyaAllah!
Spread the salam, have 'sangka baik' upon your fellow Muslims but be a smart cookie too and watch out for the 'zalims' who look like 'alims' at the same time! :)
We all know the stories ...Just be smart and sensible...Smile! You are on Allah's SWT candid camera! :) He knows us best! InsyaAllah!
Tajudin Ramli's spilling of the beans-Tun Dr.M's migraine?
We all knew deep in our hearts that something fishy was going on with our 'Wau Bulan' @ MAS not flying as high and steady as it did 10, 20 years ago.The disclosure by MAS's former chairman Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli about the way Former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad and Former Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin utilised him to buy shares in MAS to help out Bank Negara's foreign exchange losses in 1994 now makes sense why this nation had to go through the 'economic crisis' a few years later.
The Sun is really brave enough to expose this 'spilling of the beans' at this opportune time when we citizens are at last getting to hear the juicy nitty gritty details of top government and corporate wheeling and dealing that would make a good script for a Bolehwood blockbuster movie!
The drama and film producers must be rubbing their hands with anticipation to get ideas for their next series of 'Astana Idaman' and the likes.
I mean, look at Air Asia. With super top management in the likes of Datuk Tony Fernandez, this cheapfares domestic and now regional airlines is making waves in South East Asia putting to shame our so called national airlines which I hear is gonna lay off 3000 of it's employees soon and another few thousand later!Does Air Asia fly it's planes using kerosene as it's fuel?
How come they can make a profit flying people so cheaply and still be able to grow from strength to strength?
It's no secret! Tony Fernandez leads by example!
No frills, no glamour ding dong bells and unnecessary expenditure like renovating CEO's office, no million ringgit oil painting gracing the walls, no ehem ehem, whatever!
Proper and honest management by Tony Fernandez has shown that Air Asia is bound to fly real high while MAS is landing where it is today because of the GOM of the day decided to play footsie with the national airlines funds and thought they could get away with it.
There is a Malay saying ' Bangkai gajah takkan boleh ditutup dengan nyiru!' meaning 'the carcass of an elephant can't be hidden @ covered up by palm fronds!'
From the looks of it, we Malaysians can expect to see the unravelling of 22 years of Tun Dr.Mahathir's government leadership as this disclosure is surely the first of a very long list of cover-ups by our GOM.
All the major players surely must be sweating by the buckets from now on. Spa's and sauna's better be ready to sign them up for the weather just turned foul for the bloody rich and infamous! :P
There can be only so much that anyone can do to play hide and seek with the natural law of justice. Whatever goes up is sure bound to deflate in time and come crashing down.
Watch out for the 'Wau Bulan'! Looks like the kite strings are tangling up ..and watch out for the glass glued strings...don't know who else is going to suffer some cuts from the looks of it!
The MAS HQ building is already up for sale. Anyone looking for a million ringgits priced secondhand oil painting? Can slow talk one. :P
Surah Al Qaari'ah Juz 30 Verse 1 to 11 ( Doomsday)
Assalamualaikum Waris Tok Naga,
I would like to draw your attention to Surah Al-Qaari'ah Chapter 30 Verses 1 to 11, in the
Al-Qur'an Al-Kareem.
I mean you no disrespect and assume that you are a Muslim and thus feel it's important that I show you what disbelieving in the Yaum al Qiyamat @ Doomsday entails.
Those who doubt or disbelieve in the Final Day are not among the Mukmins.
Clear and straightforward. To be a Muslim , one has to have full conviction in all 5 Principles of Islam and 6 Principles of Iman.
Doubts , disbeliefs, 50-50 standings will only lead a Muslim to be a Kaffir.
I am not charging you with that accusation or implying it; but your comments to me sounds close.
Be aware of the consequences of what we say, think and reason. We will be held accountable for it.
Allah the Most Knowing, Most Supreme knows best as to what led you to comment as you did but believe me, if you had stated so in a spur of the moment, then you have all the avenues to repent and correct your Aqeedah. InsyaAllah.
I encourage you to visit this link. You might find it useful to correct whatever misconceptions you find yourself in. Asking your nearest Ulamak or Imam about such matters might also do you good. You can also read up on Iman here. Hope these links help.
It is all up to us to seek for Knowledge about anything. In these days where we have the Internet at our disposal, all we have to do is to use the search engine and look it up. Good, bad and the ugly are all there at our disposal. Choose what best suits you and fulfills your needs. The choice is ours. Choose wisely what we feed to our minds.
We are responsible over ourselves and when situations permit , we need to look out for our fellow humanbeings, Muslims and otherwise. Who knows, if Allah SWT so wills that we help enlighten another through our sharing of information, that someone would come to realise his or her birthright to be a Muslim,InsyaAllah!
You may contact me by email for further discussions on this. Insyaallah, we can clear whatever confusions there might be in a more amicable way.
Wishing you a blessed Juma'at, I remain your brother in Islam,
Mahaguru58. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi ta'ala wabarakatuh.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Matthias Chang - From being a durian to a cucumber?
I just knew it was coming. It was just a matter of time.
For Tun Dr.Mahathir's former Political Secretary, Lawyer Matthias Chang to have taken to task and even wished to spit in the faces of the UMNO Top Guns like Hishamudin Hussein Onn, Khairy Jamaluddin and the likes, brother Matthias needed to be at least a Super Durian and fully shielded from all angles against counter attacks!
Alas, his wargames have been abruptly ended with a RM50million ringgit lawsuit from NST's Datuk Kalimullah!
RM50 million is no joke my friends! Unless you are so rich and bloated with cash that you don't know what to do with, it pays to at least get yourself some sort of protection when you want to mess with such taikors!
I thought the way brother Matthias was going about with his press conferences and 'hantam sama dia' sessions, he was a waterproof, shockproof, lawsuit proof fighter. Looks like he isn't!
Tun Dr.Mahathir hasn't given his blessings for Matthias 'blastings' it seems.
When the Super Durians come a rolling, all ye cucumbers better get a moving!
A letter to a friend which I feel is worth sharing with you
A fellow blogger wrote to me lamenting the fact that she is disillusioned with all that's taking place in our nation and shared with me her feelings that the Truth doesn't matter to her anymore.
I replied to her these words which I feel is worth sharing with you, too for it reflects how we should as citizens not just let things take their course without us playing a role in forging a common destiny as long as we shall live here in this land called Malaysia and also be responsible towards our roles as being among the people of Bolehland!
Assalamualaikum Dr.
Now that I have an idea as to who you are and the level of intelligence that I can address you accordingly, let me reiterate to you that it is important for each of us to be aware of what's taking place in this nation.
As citizens, we are accountable to ourselves, our families, our communities, our state, our nation and to our world that we live in.
We are required by our faith to stop wrongdoings that take place before us with our hands, speak out against it if we can't do the first, then to hate the wrongdoings in our heart if we can't manage the second! The third option is definitely the testament of our iman being in it's lowest standards and close to being a disbeliever in Allah!
The above injunctions are from an authentic hadith of Rasulullah SAW and as Muslims, we are bound to obey Allah SWT and His Final Messenger, Muhammad ibni Abdullah, Khatamun Nabiyy.
To say that the Truth doesn't matter as long as no one bothers you is a denial of responsibility.
Allah SWT created us all for a purpose. That purpose being none other than to submit ourselves to Him and to follow the Way of Life that He delivered to all mankind through His Chosen One, the blessed Messenger, Muhammad SAW.
Muhammad SAW is the Guide for us all by way of the example of his entire life and how he lived till the day that he died and returned to the Presence of Allah SWT.
In our present days of living in these Last Ages, we see all the Signs of the Coming of the Doomsday manifesting itself right before our very eyes as foretold by the Prophet SAW.
It is up to each of us to realise our current state of affairs in living right now as a Muslim, a spouse, a parent and as a member of society to do our part in preserving the peace, upholding the Truth of Islam, nurturing our loved ones especially our spouses and caring for our children firstly and then our relatives, our neighbours, our fellow Muslims, our fellow citizens, our nation and our world.
We have a responsibility to make sure that we do our deeds. We speak up for ourselves and others in ensuring that those who wield executive powers over us do not take us for granted and do not commit injustice upon us.
If everyone were to think like what you say you want to do, very soon, this land will be festering in tyranny and destruction of social order will soon disintegrate into becoming a cesspot of all kinds of sins and injustice.
Without our participation as rightful citizens of this nation, wrought into existence through the blood,sweat and tears of our forefathers, Malaysia can and will go to hell if we as the citizens do not hold to account all those who sit on the thrones and seats of political leadership over us .
Do not for a second think that you as a person amount to nothing!
You will be absolutely wrong if you allow yourself to fall into the pit of disillusion just because the majority of the masses out there couldn't care less about who runs the show or dictates this and that as they please.
They the present rulers and leaders of this nation will do exactly that , if the 24 to 25 million Malaysians think exactly like you!
They will raise the taxes, increase the prices of all the basic necessities, they will even order you not to treat the poor who come to seek treatment from you at your hospital!
Even as we speak, the quality of life for the common folks are already deteriorating because they do not have health insurance! They are forced to sit for hours at ends awaiting their turn to be seen by doctors like you because they can't afford to pay more for preferential treatment that private hospitals provide.
I know because I too used to suffer like that when I had to seek medical treatment back home in Penang, yes at the same hospital you are working now. Being a kampong man, I wasn't rich enough to go to Gleneagles or Adventist!
Yet I persevered and Alhamdulillah, I am content with where I am right now, in terms of living a lifestyle that is several notches higher than what I was accustomed to.
You are an important member of our society. You can't afford to live in an imaginary world where everything is rosy and even if it was , there are still thorns for you to watch out among the stalks of the fragrant roses you find yourself in.
You have a role to play in this theatre of life that the Almighty has cast us in. You need to speak up for yourself and those who depend on you to protect your rights, preserve your peace and station of life that you have acquired by struggling to be where you are right now.
You should ignore the crass attitudes of those who choose to mire themselves in a world of hatred and indifference to the feelings and sensitivities of others especially those who spew racist venom in their every comment on Malaysia Today and other blogs, websites, etc.
I have learned the art of rebuttal to a stage where there are those like you who find my writings to be honest, straightforward but not totally offensive even when I speak on matters as sensitive as religion and as obnoxious as politics, of the Malaysian kind.
My blog has been linked to in major forums and blogs recently which shows that what I say or share is being appreciated and considered fit enough to be registered as being among the Major Malaysian Bloggers.
In a sense , I feel honored to be accorded such placings and I try my very best to broach on matters that are important to me and everybody else. As usual, there will be those who differ from me and try their best to abuse and insult me in their caustic comments but I have grown indifferent to those 'trolls' who only know how to comment and criticize others but do no blogging or writing on their own blogs and some don't even have one.
We have our responsibilities in watching out for ourselves when we live in a society. We need to look out for our rights so that they are not taken away from us. Politics is part and parcel of our lifes. If we don't bother about what goes on around us, we might find ourselves like a trapped mouse on the labyrinth of life!
Wish you well and am here to help point out to you what I myself have come to learn about in my journey of living here as a Malaysian citizen first and now as a Blogger.
Wabillahi taufeek walhidayah, wassalamualaikum warahmatullillahi ta'ala wabarakatuh.
Your friend,
Mahaguru58.
I replied to her these words which I feel is worth sharing with you, too for it reflects how we should as citizens not just let things take their course without us playing a role in forging a common destiny as long as we shall live here in this land called Malaysia and also be responsible towards our roles as being among the people of Bolehland!
Assalamualaikum Dr.
Now that I have an idea as to who you are and the level of intelligence that I can address you accordingly, let me reiterate to you that it is important for each of us to be aware of what's taking place in this nation.
As citizens, we are accountable to ourselves, our families, our communities, our state, our nation and to our world that we live in.
We are required by our faith to stop wrongdoings that take place before us with our hands, speak out against it if we can't do the first, then to hate the wrongdoings in our heart if we can't manage the second! The third option is definitely the testament of our iman being in it's lowest standards and close to being a disbeliever in Allah!
The above injunctions are from an authentic hadith of Rasulullah SAW and as Muslims, we are bound to obey Allah SWT and His Final Messenger, Muhammad ibni Abdullah, Khatamun Nabiyy.
To say that the Truth doesn't matter as long as no one bothers you is a denial of responsibility.
Allah SWT created us all for a purpose. That purpose being none other than to submit ourselves to Him and to follow the Way of Life that He delivered to all mankind through His Chosen One, the blessed Messenger, Muhammad SAW.
Muhammad SAW is the Guide for us all by way of the example of his entire life and how he lived till the day that he died and returned to the Presence of Allah SWT.
In our present days of living in these Last Ages, we see all the Signs of the Coming of the Doomsday manifesting itself right before our very eyes as foretold by the Prophet SAW.
It is up to each of us to realise our current state of affairs in living right now as a Muslim, a spouse, a parent and as a member of society to do our part in preserving the peace, upholding the Truth of Islam, nurturing our loved ones especially our spouses and caring for our children firstly and then our relatives, our neighbours, our fellow Muslims, our fellow citizens, our nation and our world.
We have a responsibility to make sure that we do our deeds. We speak up for ourselves and others in ensuring that those who wield executive powers over us do not take us for granted and do not commit injustice upon us.
If everyone were to think like what you say you want to do, very soon, this land will be festering in tyranny and destruction of social order will soon disintegrate into becoming a cesspot of all kinds of sins and injustice.
Without our participation as rightful citizens of this nation, wrought into existence through the blood,sweat and tears of our forefathers, Malaysia can and will go to hell if we as the citizens do not hold to account all those who sit on the thrones and seats of political leadership over us .
Do not for a second think that you as a person amount to nothing!
You will be absolutely wrong if you allow yourself to fall into the pit of disillusion just because the majority of the masses out there couldn't care less about who runs the show or dictates this and that as they please.
They the present rulers and leaders of this nation will do exactly that , if the 24 to 25 million Malaysians think exactly like you!
They will raise the taxes, increase the prices of all the basic necessities, they will even order you not to treat the poor who come to seek treatment from you at your hospital!
Even as we speak, the quality of life for the common folks are already deteriorating because they do not have health insurance! They are forced to sit for hours at ends awaiting their turn to be seen by doctors like you because they can't afford to pay more for preferential treatment that private hospitals provide.
I know because I too used to suffer like that when I had to seek medical treatment back home in Penang, yes at the same hospital you are working now. Being a kampong man, I wasn't rich enough to go to Gleneagles or Adventist!
Yet I persevered and Alhamdulillah, I am content with where I am right now, in terms of living a lifestyle that is several notches higher than what I was accustomed to.
You are an important member of our society. You can't afford to live in an imaginary world where everything is rosy and even if it was , there are still thorns for you to watch out among the stalks of the fragrant roses you find yourself in.
You have a role to play in this theatre of life that the Almighty has cast us in. You need to speak up for yourself and those who depend on you to protect your rights, preserve your peace and station of life that you have acquired by struggling to be where you are right now.
You should ignore the crass attitudes of those who choose to mire themselves in a world of hatred and indifference to the feelings and sensitivities of others especially those who spew racist venom in their every comment on Malaysia Today and other blogs, websites, etc.
I have learned the art of rebuttal to a stage where there are those like you who find my writings to be honest, straightforward but not totally offensive even when I speak on matters as sensitive as religion and as obnoxious as politics, of the Malaysian kind.
My blog has been linked to in major forums and blogs recently which shows that what I say or share is being appreciated and considered fit enough to be registered as being among the Major Malaysian Bloggers.
In a sense , I feel honored to be accorded such placings and I try my very best to broach on matters that are important to me and everybody else. As usual, there will be those who differ from me and try their best to abuse and insult me in their caustic comments but I have grown indifferent to those 'trolls' who only know how to comment and criticize others but do no blogging or writing on their own blogs and some don't even have one.
We have our responsibilities in watching out for ourselves when we live in a society. We need to look out for our rights so that they are not taken away from us. Politics is part and parcel of our lifes. If we don't bother about what goes on around us, we might find ourselves like a trapped mouse on the labyrinth of life!
Wish you well and am here to help point out to you what I myself have come to learn about in my journey of living here as a Malaysian citizen first and now as a Blogger.
Wabillahi taufeek walhidayah, wassalamualaikum warahmatullillahi ta'ala wabarakatuh.
Your friend,
Mahaguru58.
American Armies Returning To be Homeless in USA
I read today in Yahoo News about the US Army soldiers or in this case the occupying forces of George Walker Bush Jr. , the current American President who are returning home after their part in the massacre and genocide of the Iraqi civilians to a taste of the same thing they have perpetrated while being on their 'tour of duty' in Iraq!Click here to read about one of their many crimes in Iraq!
I can feel no pity to these murderers and legions of the devilish, idiotic, recalcitrant idiot they have installed on Capitol Hill, Washington, United States of America or as I see it 'Under Satan's Administration'!
George Wacko Bush Jr, an epitome of American madness today.
This idiot keeps saying that the rest of the world 'hate the 'freedom' enjoyed in America. Yeah, right!
Freedom to bash to bits Blacks in the cities and ghettos of America, freedom to throw into the slammer, millions of poor Americans who are forced to steal, rob and pillage the masses because they don't have the means to seek a honest living. Discriminated for decades because of the difference in their skin color, difference of faith, nationalities etc.
The media as we all know it can conjure up a different image as they are paid to. A saint can be turned into a sinner and vice versa cleverly using all the media and technology advancements available today at their disposal. Americans are very,very good at this and we all know what they can do.
So, if they want to show a caring,loving America, they cleverly edit, cut and paste, insert music clips etc , meant to stir the emotions and evoke passions depicting them as so holy,moly, by God they can do it , these media moguls in America.
If they so choose to demonise you, they can also do it. They can come up with voice editing to make it seem so real that you were the one saying all that *&^%$#!. This is evident in even Hollywood film productions like Forrest Gump where Tom Hanks is shown interacting with the late President Johnson etc.
So, be careful of what you read, hear and see what American media is dishing out to the world.
The general populace of America are not to be blamed for as far as I have come to realise that they, the American people are sort of closed in their mindset and do not actually know much about what's really happening in the rest of the whole wide world.
If you follow the general train of thought of the average American citizens on the forums, blogs and websites of the world wide web, you can sense the blinkered views of the average American mind.
Americans are being brainwashed systematically almost each and every passing second into believing that the rest of the world are their enemies and that they are under threat of being blown to bits by 'terrorists' as the conceited '9-11' fiasco is played out over and over again by the propaganda network of the present US Administration through the multimedia.
Save for a small percentage of Americans who do travel the world and realise what their country has done and is doing to the weaker nations elsewhere and those who learn about the real situation out of the USA, the rest simply do not bother to know about the rest of the planet and to them they don't know about us or the 'Far East'.
Some only knew about us when the Petronas Twin Towers were the tallest buildings in the world and even that through maybe the 'Guinness Book of World Records' tv program.
If not, they would be thinking that Malaysians live on the tree , swinging from branch to branch. So, in a sense Tun Dr.Mahathir has put Malaysia on the world map, theoretically speaking!:P
Recently, a team of American professionals came to KL, and were invited by TV3 to share their findings about the truth of what really happened on September 11th, 2001?
They exposed many things about why they say that the 9-11 WTC demolition was an inside job by the powers that be in the USA to wage a criminal war against the Muslims of the world under guise of reprisal of 'terrorists attacks'.
The website www.whatreallyhappened.com exposes clearly as to what took place there in New York on that fateful day and why murdering 3000 over WTC workers and visitors were considered 'expendable numbers' to further the grandiose American Imperialism plans of George Bush Jr. and his cronies to rob and rampage throughout the oil rich middle East under guise of waging a war against the terrorists and the 'Axis of Evil'.
Today, those masses of Americans who thought they were 'fighting' for their country are returning to broken homes, scattered families, disillusioned situations, homelessness and being wretched broken diseased souls rotting away on the side alleys and underground colonies of good ol' USA!
This is not my concoction or my 'vitriol of hate' against the American Army who are so bloody stupid so as to follow the demented policies of their crazy and maniacal warmongering President. People will say, what can the soldiers do? They cannot go against direct orders for they are signed and sworn to obey their commanders. I say it's all bloody nonsense!
Knowing that the 'enemies' are all just hapless victims of their leaders, the American soldiers would do best to quit the army and seek their livelihood doing business or working in companies or industries to seek their living.
It's easy for me to say that but hello...aren't we talking about America? The world's greatest economy? Home of the free and the land of the brave?
Aren't you brave enough to stand up to the idiocies of your dimwitted President? Is this what the founding fathers of America fought for and gained independence from the British Colonial Masters?
I say to these 'returning ' Iraqi vets " Serves you right! You shall reap here in the USA what you have sowed in the lands of Iraq! How's life treating you now? You are only getting your dues here on Earth for the massacres you have carried out on the Iraqis over there. Wait till you die and see what other goodies God has in store for ya! Hell Yeah!!!'
Forgive me for being honest as to what I wish for these ravagers of peace in lands that did them no harm, physically! If it was anyone that has caused hurt to America, it is that idiot they call Commander in Chief in the White House. The Devil in disguise and his pack of thieves in power.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
When Apostates Become Shaykhs by MENJ
This book by Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi is sure to incur the ire of those who are so devoted about apostasising those among the Malays who are Muslims just in name!We hear that about 250,000 Malays have apostasised from being Muslims and are just awaiting the 'greenlight' from the authorities to come out in the open and declare themselves as being no longer Muslims!
I am not surprised because here in KL, the way some Malays go about trying to out western the rest is simply outrageously disgusting!
Even the Non Malays do not go to such extent to portray themselves as being the 'in' crowd and do not go bleaching their black hairs blond!
They also idiotically wear T shirts with foul words ablazed upfront .
Some Malay men sport earrings shamelessly and pierce themselves on the eyebrows, noses, lower lips etcetera...:P
I mean it's alright if your parents are mixed or Caucasian for you to come across as if being a Malay with tanned brown skin is something to be ashamed of.
Speak about losing one's identity as a Malaysian in the true sense of the word. All these arises from the parental lack of upbringing skills and holding on to the traditions of our forefathers.
Being modern is not wrong if we adopt and adept the modern technologies and use them to advance ourselves but losing the very essence of our being is simply asking for destruction of our roots and values.
As it is , a growing number of Muslim Malays today have lost their sense of respect to the elders and the Ulamaks of this land. In among the Signs of the Last Days foretold by the Prophet Muhammad SAW, His Holiness the Final Messenger said that the Ulamaks @ Scholars will be ignored and the Rulers will be made up of those who are the worst amongst the people.
This is an authentic Hadith of the Prophet SAW. As true Muslims , those of us who value and uphold each and every Hadith of the Prophet SAW as among our guidelines in living our lifes know that such signs are already here in our present times.
These apostates or those eager to leave the faith are only asking to be punished accordingly to the Laws of the Shari'ah. The thing is the present state of affairs regarding the implementation of God's Laws is sort of being in a limbo. Thus , the presence of so called apostates in such large numbers doesn't surprise me. What's gonna become of them?
Let's wait and see.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Apostasy. No Joy for Lina right now.
If there is any one being in the spotlight nowadays on account of her wanting to have her 'apostasy' recognised by the High Courts of Malaysia, right now it is definitely someone who has 'joy' in her name but isn't really revelling in it as in the case of Lina Joy.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/7/4/nation/14732476&sec=nation
The Malaysian Bar Council also highlights this case very prominently as they have always supported similar cases whenever one comes up. You can check their posting here.
As expected, the International Christian Response are following the news about this case very closely as you can read in their site here.
Cases like these tend to go crash against the brickwall of the Laws and Regulations of the nation.
My fellow blogger and Online Mujahidin Mohd.Elfie Nieshaem Juferi @ MENJ has written a book on the Apostates problem. It's titled 'When Apostates become Shaykhs'. You can access his book at http://books.menj.org/apostates
I am not a legal eagle but as a person who reads a lot , I do refer to such things as the Constitution of Malaysia whenever the need arises.
This is just the regional Malaysian Mankind's constitution which at times runs contrary to Allah the Almighty's Constitution for all humanbeings which is the Holy Qur'an that supercedes each and every law created by man.
An important part of the Malaysian Constitution is referred to:
Article 11 Clause 4 of the Malaysian Constitution states clearly that :
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(1) Every person has the right to profess and practice his religion and, subject to Clause (4), to propagate it.
(2) No person shall be compelled to pay any tax the proceeds of which are specially allocated in whole or in part for the purposes of a religion other than his own.
(3) Every religious group has the right -
(a) to manage its own religious affairs;
(b) to establish and maintain institutions for religious or charitable purposes; and
(c) to acquire and own property and hold and administer it in accordance with law.
(4) State law and in respect of the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Labuan, federal law may control or restrict the propagation of any religious doctrine or belief among persons professing the religion of Islam.
(5) This Article does not authorize any act contrary to any general law relating to public order, public health or morality.
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(1) Without prejudice to the generality of Article 8, there shall be no discrimination against any citizen on the grounds only of religion, race, descent or place of birth -
(a) in the administration of any educational institution maintained by a public authority, and, in particular, the admission of pupils or students or the payment of fees; or
(b) in providing out of the funds of a public authority financial aid for the maintenance or education of pupils or students in any educational institution (whether or not maintained by a public authority and whether within or outside the Federation).
(2) Every religious group has the right to establish and maintain institutions for the education of children in its own religion, and there shall be no discrimination on the ground only of religion in any law relating to such institutions or in the administration of any such law; but it shall be lawful for the Federation or a State to establish or maintain or assist in establishing or maintaining Islamic institutions or provide or assist in providing instruction in the religion of Islam and incur such expenditure as may be necessary for the purpose.
(3) No person shall be required to receive instruction in or take part in any ceremony or act of worship of a religion other than his own.
(4) For the purposes of Clause (3) the religion of a person under the age of eighteen years shall be decided by his parent or guardian.
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All the above has been sourced from : http://www.helplinelaw.com/law/constitution/malaysia/malaysia01.php
From the Surah At Tauba Verse 109, Al Qur'an Al Kareem
9:107 AND [there are hypocrites] who have established a [separate] house of worship in order to create mischief, and to promote apostasy and disunity among the believers, and to provide an outpost for all who from the outset have been warring against God and His Apostle.
وَالَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُواْ مَسْجِدًا ضِرَارًا وَكُفْرًا وَتَفْرِيقًا بَيْنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَإِرْصَادًا لِّمَنْ حَارَبَ اللّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ
مِن قَبْلُ وَلَيَحْلِفَنَّ إِنْ أَرَدْنَا إِلاَّ الْحُسْنَى وَاللّهُ يَشْهَدُ إِنَّهُمْ لَكَاذِبُونَ
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/7/4/nation/14732476&sec=nation
The Malaysian Bar Council also highlights this case very prominently as they have always supported similar cases whenever one comes up. You can check their posting here.
As expected, the International Christian Response are following the news about this case very closely as you can read in their site here.
Cases like these tend to go crash against the brickwall of the Laws and Regulations of the nation.
My fellow blogger and Online Mujahidin Mohd.Elfie Nieshaem Juferi @ MENJ has written a book on the Apostates problem. It's titled 'When Apostates become Shaykhs'. You can access his book at http://books.menj.org/apostates
I am not a legal eagle but as a person who reads a lot , I do refer to such things as the Constitution of Malaysia whenever the need arises.
This is just the regional Malaysian Mankind's constitution which at times runs contrary to Allah the Almighty's Constitution for all humanbeings which is the Holy Qur'an that supercedes each and every law created by man.
An important part of the Malaysian Constitution is referred to:
Article 11 Clause 4 of the Malaysian Constitution states clearly that :
11
(1) Every person has the right to profess and practice his religion and, subject to Clause (4), to propagate it.
(2) No person shall be compelled to pay any tax the proceeds of which are specially allocated in whole or in part for the purposes of a religion other than his own.
(3) Every religious group has the right -
(a) to manage its own religious affairs;
(b) to establish and maintain institutions for religious or charitable purposes; and
(c) to acquire and own property and hold and administer it in accordance with law.
(4) State law and in respect of the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Labuan, federal law may control or restrict the propagation of any religious doctrine or belief among persons professing the religion of Islam.
(5) This Article does not authorize any act contrary to any general law relating to public order, public health or morality.
12
(1) Without prejudice to the generality of Article 8, there shall be no discrimination against any citizen on the grounds only of religion, race, descent or place of birth -
(a) in the administration of any educational institution maintained by a public authority, and, in particular, the admission of pupils or students or the payment of fees; or
(b) in providing out of the funds of a public authority financial aid for the maintenance or education of pupils or students in any educational institution (whether or not maintained by a public authority and whether within or outside the Federation).
(2) Every religious group has the right to establish and maintain institutions for the education of children in its own religion, and there shall be no discrimination on the ground only of religion in any law relating to such institutions or in the administration of any such law; but it shall be lawful for the Federation or a State to establish or maintain or assist in establishing or maintaining Islamic institutions or provide or assist in providing instruction in the religion of Islam and incur such expenditure as may be necessary for the purpose.
(3) No person shall be required to receive instruction in or take part in any ceremony or act of worship of a religion other than his own.
(4) For the purposes of Clause (3) the religion of a person under the age of eighteen years shall be decided by his parent or guardian.
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All the above has been sourced from : http://www.helplinelaw.com/law/constitution/malaysia/malaysia01.php
From the Surah At Tauba Verse 109, Al Qur'an Al Kareem
9:107 AND [there are hypocrites] who have established a [separate] house of worship in order to create mischief, and to promote apostasy and disunity among the believers, and to provide an outpost for all who from the outset have been warring against God and His Apostle.
وَالَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُواْ مَسْجِدًا ضِرَارًا وَكُفْرًا وَتَفْرِيقًا بَيْنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَإِرْصَادًا لِّمَنْ حَارَبَ اللّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ
مِن قَبْلُ وَلَيَحْلِفَنَّ إِنْ أَرَدْنَا إِلاَّ الْحُسْنَى وَاللّهُ يَشْهَدُ إِنَّهُمْ لَكَاذِبُونَ
Waallatheena ittakhathoo masjidan diraran wakufran watafreeqan bayna almumineena wairsadan liman haraba Allaha warasoolahu min qablu walayahlifunna in aradna illa alhusna waAllahu yashhadu innahum lakathiboona
No matter what we say or advice such folks like Lina Joy and her fellow apostates, such matters concerning 'Riddah' @ Apostasy depend on the judgements and way of rule of the prevailing 'Ulul 'Amri @ the Rulers where such persons are bound to as citizens and subject to their decisions with regard to either implementing the Laws of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, follow the rulings in the Hadiths of Rasulullah SAW or the Manmade Laws upheld by the nation.
It's not easy for the government of Malaysia to handle such cases for they rule over a mixed population and as such are caught in a quandary.
Like the proverbial Malay saying ' Ditelan mati emak; diluah mati ayah'. If they allow the apostasy, they run afoul of Allah's Laws and in the Hereafter will stand charged with abetting a major sin against Allah SWT!
When they deny the apostasy request, Non Muslims and NGO's take them to task that they are infringing the rights of the person concerned.
This dilemna is because this nation is not ruled according to the Shariah but British Laws inherited from the Colonial Masters and adopted as the Constitution. The reality is that not a country in the entire world actually rules according to the Qur'an. They make an attempt to impose certain laws and conveniently neglect other aspects of the Shariah.Hence, the 'caught between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' syndrome.
All I can wish for is for the Government of Malaysia to do what's right. That would be to follow the Laws of Almighty Allah, Rabbul Jaleel, Lord and Master of the Entire Creation.
Humanbeings may rant and rave here on Earth but in the finality of Life, will die and pass on to the realm of the Yaum al Barzakh and face the Supreme Master of us all, Lillah hi rabbilalameen, Allahu Akbar.
No advocate worth his or her laurels can win against the Judgement of the Creator, can they?
Bloody Cheapskates Banks! No wonder they get robbed
I read in the Star today that banks here pay a measly sum of only RM35.00 to security firms transporting money per trip within 20km of the city limits as reported here.I just don't understand the logic for banks who make millions if not billions of ringgits in profits annually from all the cash being deposited into their accounts and which the banks in turn utilise such funds for their other moneymaking services via housing loans, this loan that loan have the 'Scrooge' mentality when paying 'peanuts' to security firms transporting the cash here and there!
Picture of Security Services Association of Malaysia President Encik Zainal Abidin Kinta : Source : The Star Online
RM35 is nothing compared to the lives of the security guards involved in such duties! How can this travesty of justice be allowed to be left unchallenged by the authorities?
I think that the banks,finance companies, jewellers, etc must not be allowed to take advantage of the security guards like these.
No wonder Security Companies pay miniscule salaries to security guards and couldn't be bothered to vet the guard job applicants as reported by the Malay Mail lately.
They take in retirees and persons suffering from ill health as security guards, throw them a uniform or two and expect these poor people to lay down their lives for the banks and finance companies when robberies take place!
It's high time that the Kementerian Dalam Negeri looks into the welfare of the security guards being taken for a ride by the 'cheapskate' banks of this nation!
They can invest in billions, beautifying their interiors of the banks, and project a spanking ultra dynamic modern building etcetera but fail to take care of the very people who risk their lifes and limbs protecting the banks and their customers by paying such a pittance!
The saying 'you pay peanuts; you get monkeys' is very apt here ! Not implying that the guards are monkeys or anything but am reiterating my viewpoint that it is criminal for the banks to pay so little for such life threatening tasks being carried out by the thousands of poorly paid security services personnel daily throughout this country!
Security guards have always been having a bad reputation because of a few rotten apples who got in to the position because security companies are hard pressed to get good, qualified people to be in the force!
It's all coming back to square one! The clients of the security companies! The main ones are such banks! RM35 is way too little to put to risk lives of the security guards, in transporting millions of cold,hard cash for a pittance!
The report in the Star asks how much will you want to pay for transporting RM5million ringgits in cash?
I'd suggest 1% of the amount being in transit from point A to B! That is only RM50,000.00 compared to the lives of two or three armed guards, the cost of the armored van, etc!
A 1% service fee would be a very reasonable price to pay by the banks or any other finance companies or jewellers to the security firms for each trip no matter what amount with a minimum cash amount to be transported to be set at RM50,000.00 per trip.
That's only RM500.00! Not worth at all for the guards lifes to be put to risk!
The standards of services of the security companies rests on how much they are being paid! The safety aspects need to be taken into consideration by the banks and finance companies engaging the services of such companies.
The Security Services Association of Malaysia ought to rally the security companies together in demanding that the banks ,finance companies,goldsmiths and jewellery companies pay them accordingly to the amount of cash they are handling daily, putting their guards lifes at risk of being shot and killed on duty as another guard is reported to have been shot to death by robbers at a Poh Kong Goldsmith branch yesterday. The dead guard was only 22 years old!
Does anyone care?
Dakwah Walkabout -My IPCI Days
Now and then, I'd reminiscise about the days when I used to go on Dakwah Walkabouts on the streets of Georgetown,Penang with my fellow IPCI members, back in the 90s!
I was the Founding Secretary of the Masjid Kapitan Keling based Islamic Propagation Centre International (Malaysia).
My memories of those days are still fresh and I long for such experiences to return to me here in KL through my Dakwah activities.
These photos were taken during our after Isya prayers 'meet the people' on the streets of Georgetown, Penang Island.
Chulia Street is a favourite location for us to go on this impromptu sessions where we would hand out pamphlets and brochures to tourists and visitors from all over the world who converge on to the backpackers streets of Penang.
Europeans and Americans were the most enthusiastic people we met on the streets. They were always curious about Islam and many of them visited us at the IPCI the next day, to ask us as to all that Islam is about and what it is not.
Picture shows the founding members of the IPCI (Malaysia) with Haji Abdurrahman , a visiting Islamic Activist from the UK.
L to R : Haji Mohd.Yassin, Haji Kamarudin Abdullah, Haji Abdurrahman, Zainol Abideen a.k.a Mahaguru58 (since blogging in 2004)
Haji Yassin works as a bank clerk in Penang. Haji Kamarudin is a former Roman Catholic turned Da'ee and works as a Passenger Services Assistant with Malaysian Airlines in Penang.
Haji Abdurrahman is a full time Islamic activist from the UK and travels the world to share info about Islam. I used to work for a leading Penang Diamond & Gold Muslim Jeweller opposite the mosque as a Sales Executive. At every given opportunity , we would converge at the IPCI centre and attend to hundreds of visitors coming from all over the world daily. We cherished each and every moment of being able to continue the noble work of the Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW in our own limited ways. Alhamdulillah hi rabbil alameen!
Some people think that to do Dakwah is just keeping the Sunnah like growing a beard, dress like an Arab, brush your teeth with a toothstick @ miswak and then go on a 3 days, 40 days, 4 months sojourn from one masjid to another and 'worry' about the state of affairs concerning the religion!
It most certainly is not. The Prophet Muhammad SAW used to go on dakwah walkabouts and short journeys to towns and cities in the Arabian peninsular. He didn't just sit at his corner in the mosque in Madinah al Munawarrah and wait for people to go seek him for knowledge about Islam.
Today, we see so many Islamic associations, organisations and movements, all claiming to be striving in the path of Allah and His Messenger. They build up a false image of themselves being the true ones following the Ways of the Prophet SAW yet we see their existence as being uneffective as to the objective of reaching out to the masses.
Reason being none other than the Ego that reigns supreme in each person's heart. Many who label themselves as this and that, put up impressive looking scrolls and religious credentials fatten up their posteriors sitting in airconditioned offices and think that they are doing a 'jihad' in the Way of Allah the Almighty!
Far from it! Islam is a person to person way of life based on total submission to Allah the Almighty and following the example shown by Muhammad, the son of Abdullah, Most Beloved of Allah.
When the Da'ee's start losing control over their Ego's, Dakwah dies a natural death for they no longer are willing to go meet the people in the streets. They no longer wish to share to people about Islam and instead wait for 'speaking opportunities' either at the various 'Forum Perdana's or televised programs and do not bother to reach out to the ignorant masses and teach the actual teachings of Allah SWT through their being comfortable in offices or they congregate at the masjids but stick to their own 'clique' and not mix with the jama'ah.
How is the relationship between the Da'ee's and the Ummah ever going to improve?
The situation will deteriorate by each passing day till no one gives a hoot about Dakwah or even about Islam, God's Way of Life for all mankind.
We need to reach out and start touching lifes of those whom we can meet while being still alive. Do not waste away your lifes without sharing the info which you have come to acquire with others. The truth stands clear for all to see. At times, we get the chance but think, it's okay. Someone else will do it (sharing information) and the Faith of Islam will be upheld forever.
If everyone starts thinking that way, what's gonna happen to Islam? Fade away into the night?
Not in a million years! Islam is getting subscribers in the millions every given month throughout the world! It is up to us to set that standard high and uphold it with our best shot! Amin.
But for now, this blogging platform serves us well in spreading information. Let's reach out and start sharing our love and respect to one another! Ameen!
Sunday, July 02, 2006
O Lord, it's hard to be humble..especially politicians!
The entire nation is awaiting with bated breath, the coming arbitration meeting between Tun Dr.Mahathir, former PM with current Prime Minister Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.The mediator is said to be Tun Khalil Yaacob, Melaka's Yang Dipertua Negeri.
I recall this popular song which goes like this..
'O Lord, it's hard to be humble..when you're perfect in every way! Can't wait to look in the mirror..cos I get better looking each day..To know me is to love me...and so on..
Are both our past and present leaders thinking that they are so perfect and sinfree? No way! No one's perfect and free from defects save for Almighty Allah, God, Most Perfect Most Supreme!
If they had been singing the song above, they need to go for a new selection. Maybe more of 'Demi Negara Yang Tercinta; Bakti dicurah penuh setia....' should remind them of their duties towards the nation. We can't afford to be in a situation where the government seems to have run aground in the sandbars of political tempest and storms! We seriously can't have the government getting bogged down with internal strifes and political doldrums!
I am also perplexed as to how obstinate both our past and current Prime Ministers can be when it comes to not wanting to cut through all the redtape and self imposed restrictions and barriers erected between themselves for no other reason than not willing to humble themselves before each other.
How can we expect these two leaders to still play their important positions as leaders of ASEAN, NAM and the OIC effectively when a most important meeting between them can be so hard to be set and a 3rd party in the person of Tun Khalil Yaacob needs to be there to make it happen?
Is it proper for the nation's top leaders past and present to be adviced by their subordinate? So, can't the PM run this country on his own intelligence and leadership? Is the Melaka Yang DiPertua Negeri so much more capable of solving this 'egoistical' problem?
Speaks bad about the PM's capability to govern us all, doesn't it? I sincerely pray that this isn't so? If it is true that the PM doesn't know how to handle a former PM asking questions, imagine the scenario if more serious and severe situations take place in the future? Who's gonna be calling the shots, then?
We can't have our PM being lost in the wilderness. We need our PM to be our nation's problem solver. We need our PM to be telling his men to do this and that. He can't go soft on us now! Whatever Tun Dr.Mahathir had done for the nation is past and recorded in history. No one can deny that. That doesn't mean it is good to let their ego's get the better of them.
Talking about ego, don't the two leaders realise that they are setting a bad example and precedent for the nation's politicians and future leaders by behaving so recalcitrantly?
Both Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad and PM Dato Seri Abdullah Badawi must be willing to put aside their ego's and lay it all open on the table between them and come to a compromise.
It is very important for both these leaders to set a precedent for the nation to follow when settling differences and work together to forge a stronger government that takes care of itself and also the welfare of the very citizens who voted them into power.
PM Abdullah Badawi must stop being 'elegantly silent' and take a stand to explain whether it is true that his decisions are being orchestrated by Khairy Jamaludin, his son in law and UMNO Youth's Deputy Head?
As this nation's Prime Minister, Dato Seri Abdullah Badawi is responsible to the nation to lead with courage, strength of purpose and come across as truely being in command of the Barisan Nasional Government and fulfill his duty to us all as the Commander in Chief of Malaysia Incorporated!
All these lambasting of him being Mr.Jelly Belly and Mat Lembik is not good for the nation in the long run! PM Abdullah Badawi owes this nation a strong leadership. He promised us all to be strong and just towards every citizen who voted him into power with the highest majority of votes in the previous General Elections.
I remember listening to him speaking at the PWTC at the last UMNO General Assembly that "Pak Lah bukan macam Tun Dr.Mahathir! Tun Mahathir mula mula keras lama lama lembik! Pak Lah mula mula lembik lama lama keras!" meaning 'I am unlike Tun Dr.Mahathir! Tun Mahathir's (administration?) originally was hard but eventually became soft. I started soft (in his administrative style?) but eventually am getting harder!'
Everyone broke out in laughter at the PWTC for it seemed as if Pak Lah was cracking an adult joke as to the matter of getting soft and getting hard being implied by the new PM!
The problem now is that as matters are getting out of hand as far as Tun's taking this government to task and he (the Tun) getting harder in his demands and questioning, the PM is not only getting softer in asking the cabinet ministers to fight for him in replying to Tun, he is getting more and more 'elegantly silent' as referred to by Tan Sri Musa Hitam, another former Deputy Prime Minister!
We can't afford to have our nation's Prime Minister becoming soft and silent! No way! He needs to know he doesn't have that option! He is this nation's Commander in Chief and he needs to act as one!
We need to have a dynamic, strong, smart and compassionate Prime Minister. PM Abdullah Badawi has no choice but to get rid of his current malaise of being stricken with a sense of inertia when confronted by the former PM, Tun Dr.Mahathir! Abdullah Badawi needs to take charge and stop being influenced by any other person be it family or friends.
Malaysia's government is not a small company that can be run by families or dynasties. History will record each and every decision taken today by those who claim to be our leaders and time will tell whether they have been true to their oaths of office or no better than pirates who plundered the wealth of this nation under guise of being wolves in sheepskin!
We pray that our nation is spared such catastrophes in the near future and that the current leadership come to their senses and reaffirm their positions as elected officers and ministers who are responsible to the people who have given them their trusts and votes to run the government proper! They also are responsible towards Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala as the 'Ulul Amri' of the Ummah!
The nation awaits to see if the two leaders will be willing to co-operate with each other and put the problems raised in the right and correct perspectives and work in tandem towards a mutually acceptable solution. Insyaallah!
Friday, June 30, 2006
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim meeting Pak Lah Down Under?
I read today a most interesting piece of news that is sure going to make someone lose sleep tonight!That someone might very well be our Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak , the DPM who should really worry about what's happening today as reported by a strong UMNO backed online newsmedia.
Agenda Daily exposed today that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is flying off to Australia today!
I guess all Malaysians know who's holidaying 'Down Under' with the entire family. Could this turn of events bring about a reunification of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim with our nation's beleagured Prime Minister who is facing a barrage of questions from Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's former Premier who is now a 'thorn' on both their sides?
A really spectacular out of the blue scenario for those who relish such drama taking shape in our nation's political theatre!
Wow! Najib must really be losing sleep tonight and it's not gonna be because of the World Cup soccer live telecasts, you bet!
It's just amazing... that's life for you folks! High up above and almost there ; then suddenly all hell broke loose and DSAI was smashed into the slammer!
DSNTR is today facing the dilemna of the uncertainty of his career's pinnacle or am I jumping the gun here?
Let's all open up that pack of menglembu nuts and see the show!
Que sera sera...whatever will be ..will be ....
Are Malaysians going to see something fruitful coming out of this eventual meeting between Pak Lah and the only other man who has the calibre to assist Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi salvage his leadership from going down under as the shortest premiership of them all or be up and above with their banners flying high and in all its glory?
Get that pack of nuts going ...this is a terrific twist of tales to miss....
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Question # 3 to Tun Dr.Mahathir discussed
Mr.P.Gunasegaram then goes on to ask Tun Dr.Mahathir a most intimate question about Tun's pet project ; 'Proton'!Among all of Tun Dr.Mahathir's achievements during his 22 years of being the Prime Minister of Malaysia, apart from the Petronas KLCC, North South Highway, KLIA, Sepang F1 Circuit, Langkawi's development, MSC, and so many other developments, Proton is a subject very close to his heart!
When anyone praises or criticizes Proton, it is Tun Dr.Mahathir who feels it very deeply in his heart and soul! Proton is his brainchild.
When I attended the 'monologue' last Saturday, I could sense his attachment to the national car industry when he spoke with such a passion lambasting all who played a part in screwing Proton to becoming a liability to the present BN Government after sacking the former Proton Chief Executive Tan Sri Tengku Mahaleel, who had taken Proton to making huge profits and had been adding to the government's coffers with billions of sales tax ringgits to now being in the red and 'ridiculed' by every Ahmad, Ah Seng and Samy!
You must really view the videoclip of Tun's Century Paradise Club speech to digest what Tun had to say about Proton's current state of affairs and the one's responsible for it's slide from being one of the nation's pride of achievement to its current state for being the general public's main bone of contention!
I for one think that Tun Dr.Mahathir ought to be allowed to spill out all that has been stored in his 81 years old brain so that we may learn about the pro's and con's of all that has lead to the present stalemate of this nation's leadership quandary!
Really, Mr.Guna, if only you can arrange for a 'Dialogue' or as we all got it at Kelab Century Paradise on Saturday the 24th of June, 2006 a 'Monologue' by the Tun , this time by The Edge biznews group, I am sure that the turnout will be in the thousands if you could arrange for a bigger premise and location! Yang Mulia Raja Petra Kamaruddin, Editor of Malaysia Today.Net will surely be just too happy to help!
The whole nation is on 'the edge' to learn what the former Premier has to share with us, the voters about all these questions that you have posed to him in your "Question Time" column.
The million dollar question is whether the Tun would be willing to fulfill our wish to have a proper Dialogue this time around minus all the sideshow politicians wanting to share the spotlight on Tun as did 'Mr. Froggie' at the Century Paradise Club!
Okay back to your question.
"You went ahead with the national car project in 1983 despite a number of experts disagreeing with you, especially with respect to lack of economies of scale.
Isn't it true that Proton's profits over the last 20 years came out of vastly higher prices that the Malaysian public hs to pay to subsidise Proton, resulting in considerable hardship for Malaysians who need cars because of the poor public transport system?
More lately, why was it necessary for Proton to buy a stake in a failed Italian motorcycle manufacturer when it could not even produce cars competitively?"
Reasonable questions to ask Tun!
As a Wira owner ourselves, I find this question very relevant because the national car's high price and not that high quality compared to foreign imports which are cheaper and have better performing engines and accessories really makes me want to rally behind Mr.Guna and yell 'Yeah! Tun! Let's hear what you have to say about this?'
Really! Wira has so many things wrong with it. Sit back for I have a long list of problems that I want to dish out here publicly with regards to our 'pride and joy' national car!
- The dashboard meter. The system is all screwed up. At times when I fill up,the fuel gauge needle shows empty. When the tank is about to dry up, the fuel gauge shows full! :P So does the temperature meter. It will go up and down as it pleases! So much for our pride in the bloody Wira!
- The fragile bumper! How many times have you been driving on our roads only to see the Wira up ahead with a sagging bumper about to drop off like the disposable diapers on a baby half showing its butt because the diaper is swollen full with baby pee. The idiots who designed the bumper ought to be laid out on the highways and let us run them over with our bloody Wira's! Imagine just having a bumper for show- yeah, that's what it is -just for show! It is held up by a few spaced out clips! Yeah, just some plastic clips which snap off at the slightest bump into it by even a bicycle! No sense of protection at all if the car be involved in a crash!
- The central locking system. Everytime the weather turns rainy, the central locking system go haywire! The locks just pop up on their own and the car's not locked anymore! I have to manually push in the door locks and they stay locked for a few seconds; then pop up again as if there's a bloody 'toyol' in there playing tricks with me!
What bloody engineering is that to be proud of? Only my financial constraints keep me grumbling inside as I have to drive the bloody car daily and count my 'blessings' that at least we still have a car to transport us from point A to B without being drenched when it rains and burnt by the sun when it's the flaming hot midday afternoon solarheat!
So, in this question # 3, Mr.Guna , you have my full support in asking Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad about Proton! The quality doesn't qualify it's current prices!
Another last point of query, why the hell do we need to kowtow to the foreign market and offer the Europeans better quality export models, fully equipped with all the optional accessories, warranties, this and that and so damn cheaper than the price we Malaysians have to pay for the inferior local version?
Are we, Malaysians the perpetual scapegoats for the leader's to offer as sacrifice?
What kind of a stupid logic is that? Following the classic Malay proverb:
'Kera di hutan disusukan, anak di pangkuan mati kelaparan!' Orang lain dapat bunga, rakyat dapat tahi! Aiya!!!! Mana boleh macam ni?
Can you answer that for us ,Tun? Why the double standards?
Are you still having the 'subservient to the colonial' mentality?
For all your brouhaha against the West, Proton under your advisory seems so bloody eager to suck up to the 'Orang Putih'!
Care to share your 'monologue' with us about this Tun?....Please......
Question No.2 to Tun Dr.Mahathir discussed
The 2nd question raised by Mr.P.Gunasegaram , Group Executive Editor of the biznews The Edge:Press Freedom. Your criticism of the government got plenty of coverage in the local media whereas during your time, criticisms against you by two former prime ministers were muted in the mainstream newspapers.Editors in UMNO-linked newspapers too were removed during your time for not toeing the line.
What did you do to advance the cause of responsible press freedom?
I really wonder why Mr.Gunasegaram is asking the obvious? :P
Take anyone of us, put the fella up as the Prime Minister of this Bolehland!
Do you honestly will allow any kampong fellow not worth his sarong take you to task about matters that involve the freedom to screw you in the public eye and allow the fellow to breathe to the next minute ?
I have yet to meet anyone so magnanimous as what Mr.Guna is asking the Tun here why or what did Tun do to advance the freedom of the press?
We all read and accept that the Tun was not your run of the mill 'Okay Okay Guy'!
Tun Dr.Mahathir took no shit from nobody during his time in power and even to this day do I know that he will just accept whatever any young or old upstart comes up with against him!
At the recent Dialogue, he stated clearly that he will speak his mind and there was a sense of a 'veiled threat' from the Tun that if you go try to screw him , he'll screw you right back!
Now, that's a real 'jantan' talking! He doesn't pack his bags off and take the whole family on a trip 'Down Under' to avoid the shit hitting the fan!
Tun Dr.Mahathir may not be a bloody angel and over the years , he has slammed down hard on those who dared raise his ire and is worthy of being called a bloody dictator but the man is definitely not a chicken when it comes to defending himself!
This Nazri fellow barking and yelping at the Tun is but just looking out for his vested interests. Any of the cabinet ministers who are taking Tun Dr.Mahathir to task are simply taking care of their bowl of rice or whatever! Period.
He or she who doesn't show support and allegiance to the PM today won't see the light of day in the next GE, plain and simple. This is commonsense, isn't it?
It's just every man or woman in position looking out for themselves! Kiasuism at its' best.
Hello!!!! We are talking about lucrative positions, perks and all that comes with the cabinet ministerial positions and all the freebies that come with it.
No bills to worry about, all those allowances, transported to and fro by luxury automobiles, airconditioned comfort, pampered skincare and doting by the ignorant minions, palatial mansions, cashflowing so freely as if there's no tomorrow....who in their right mind would want to lose all these by allowing press freedom to criticize the main man, the top honcho, el supremo, the Peeee Emmm!
Mr.Guna, you are a good joker. Asking the Tun what did he do to 'free' the press?
Any ruler who did that today will see himself, splayed wide open, crucified for all his slip-ups, and tarred if not feathered on the main news tomorrow! Isn't that what a 'free press' can do sir?
Naturally, the Tun as any other Prime Minister or President, Agong, Sultan, Amir, this and that will never allow folks in the press to screw them as you please.
If they did, it's 'Selamat tinggal pujaan....you know the swansong!' He did it his way, the Master of Malaysia for 22 press throttled years! :P
Today, Tun Dr.Mahathir is definitely the 'darling of the press' for everytime he opens his mouth, every mic, every tape recorder, video recorder , now we have 'dvd' recorder will be thrust his way! Revel , O ye Reporters , for Mahathir's got something to say!!!
He's given you your wish Mr.Guna. You are now free to publish all that he has to say and share about the present leadership. That is , if he is still allowed to speak of 'cos!
You never know what's gonna happen in Bolehland! Anything goes!
That takes care of Question # 2! More coming later. Got to run off now. Another meeting :P
Selamat bertugas people ! Be good!
Ten Commandments - Whomsoever obeys it is no different from us Muslims!
The Ten Commandments5:1 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.
2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
3 Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.
4 The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,
5 while I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain.
He said:
6 “‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
7 “‘You shall have no other gods before [1] me.
The Muslim Creed of Faith reads 'La ila ha ill lall lah! There is no God but Allah!
Let the Christians and Muslims come to common terms between us in the understanding of this verse and commandment of Allah the Almighty that is a crucial part of the Testimony of Faith for a Muslim and one of the Ten Commandments brought by the Prophet Musa Alaihisalam.
Verily we both agree that there is no God but Allah The Almighty!
The only difference is the definition of God as understood by Christians to be Jesus Christ, born to the Virgin Mother Mary @ Siti Mariam.
We Muslims accept Eesa Alaihisalam as a mighty Messenger of Allah who was created without a human father as a Sign of Allah's Majesty and Supreme Power and Creator!
We just need to clear the confusion about the matter of a being who is created and born to a woman by 'immaculate conception' and the matter of acknowledging the Power of God Almighty, Allahu Akbar ! That's all. No need to have any delusions about it.
8 “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Visit any masjid on Earth and you will see no icons, no images, no statues of Allah the Almighty.
We have calligraphic and copper toolings of the verses of the Qur'an Al Kareem and the Kalimah's of Allah SWT and the name of the Prophet Muhammad SAW as a decoration only and do not pray towards such items.
The Kaabah in Makkah Al Mukaramah is but an object of focus for mankind to direct their solat to Allah SWT from all corners of the Earth.
The same can't be said for the many statues and iconic images being erected in churches everywhere. Such acts clearly run contrary to the commandment above.
Can any learned Christian out there share their opinions on this? Thank you.
There are those out there who misquote me, think that I am another Muslim terrorist etcetera! :P
Yeah, I too am a 'Muslim Fundamentalist' as Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad proudly proclaims.
I believe in God Almighty and His Messengers, starting from :
1. Our Father :Nabi Adam as 2.Nabi Idris as3.Nabi Nuh as 4.Nabi Huud as 5.Nabi Shaleh as
6. Nabi Ibrahim as 7.Nabi Ismail as 8. Nabi Luth as 9.Nabi Ishaq as 10.Nabi Ya'qub as
11. Nabi Yusuf as 12.Nabi Syu'aib as 13.Nabi Ayyub as 14.Nabi Dzulkifli as 15.Nabi Musa as
16.Nabi Harun as 17.Nabi Daud as 18. Nabi Sulaiman as 19.Nabi Ilyas as 20.Nabi Ilyasa as
21.Nabi Yunus as 22.Nabi Zakaria as 23.Nabi Yahya as 24. Nabi Isa as 25.Nabi Muhammad saw
and also other 124,000 of prophets who have been sent down to Mankind through the ages. I stand guilty of being a Believer , so sue me! :)
Err, did you notice that I also believe in all the Jewish Prophets including Moses @ Musa Alaihissalam (may peace be upon him) and the Noble and Mighty Prophet Jesus Christ the Messiah @ Isa Al Masih ibni Maryam Alaihissalam?
Instead of griping about what I am not, why can't those of you who are blinkered in your views choose to see the similarities between us and not be among those who have a disease, a sickness in the hearts and souls , refusing to seek a better understanding amongst us, Muslims and the rest?
A Christian by the name of Emmanuel has commented to me about the apostasy case in YB Chow Kon Yeow's blog and I find him worthy of dialogue for he has good manners and sense of engaging in decent discussions about matters as sensitive as religion.
This is the kind of people who are mentioned by Allah SWT that amongst the People of the Book @ meaning the true Jews and the Christians who are among those whose hearts are pure in seeking the Mercy of God.
As the Christian King Negus of Ethiopia gave shelter and refuge to the early Muslims fleeing the persecution of the Qureishy Arabs during the Prophet Muhammad's lifetime, so do I believe still exist good Christians who deserve our respect and goodwill when engaging in such discussions.
I welcome such good Christians to share your views in a manner befitting the noble example shown by An Najashi to us Muslims.
There's so much we can share and speak about instead of the useless venom and diatribe I find in some narrowminded vermin online.
May God guide us all. Ameen.
Which Christian or Muslim can deny the essence of Justice and Goodwill that can emit from these if fully practiced by those who claim Moses @ Musa Alaihissalam (may peace be upon him) as among the Prophets whom we are told to honor as among Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's Messengers?
Excerpts from the Ten Commandments:
Thou shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
10 but showing steadfast love to thousands [2] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
11 “‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
12 “‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.
13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
15 You shall remember that you were a slave [3] in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
16 “‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
17 “‘You shall not murder. [4]
18 “‘And you shall not commit adultery.
19 “‘And you shall not steal.
20 “‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
21 “‘And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.’
22 “These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
23 And as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders.
24 And you said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man and man still live.
25 Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die.
26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived?
27 Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’
28 “And the Lord heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the Lord said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken.
29 Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants [5] forever!
30 Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.”
31 But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’
32 You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
33 You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.
22 Questions to Tun Dr.Mahathir-Discussing Question 1
continued from yesterday:
From Question 1:-
- Did you make the Anti Corruption Agency more independent and effective?
As I was saying yesterday, the ACA @ BPR is but another government agency set up with noble intentions to stop the practice of Corruption in this nation.
Good intentions, noble in aims and objective but as all good things and intentions face, implementation rests in the hands of those who are known to be selective and choosy as to which 'fish' they want to catch and haul in.
I don't have to tell you the stories one by one for till Yaum al Qiyamat @ Doomsday, there'll never be an end to those corrupt ones at large.
Selective prosecution seems to be the order of the day, and the wily ol' Tun is all knowing about this too. The way things are being done at the ACA since it's formation , we the people have been seeing how certain VVIP's got away scot free whilst the unlucky idiots in the form of the small and medium fry got skewered just for show. 'Hey! We are doing our jobs...blah blah blah!'
What happened to the one who caused the Perwaja Steel mill to go under?What happened to the MEC? What happened to this and that? Why is multimedia piracy still a major headache in this country? Why did the MRR2 crack in so many places and the perpetrators still roaming free? The list is endless..
Can we put it all down on just that wily old man? Shouldn't those who gobbled up all the lubrication money be brought before the courts and we even hear of the judiciary being tainted with the same maladies! We hear of judges enjoying all paid for overseas trips, etc.
If they want to crucify Tun Dr.Mahathir, then by all means, bring forth the evidence and charge the ex Premier for his 'Executive Decisions' which have any base of corrupt practices. I am sure that the Legal Eagles of the Opposition have their intelligence sources too.
Bring forth your proof and get the Tun by his balls if they (those who are asking him about this corruption cases) have the black and white to substantiate their charges! I am sure none of us the citizens would object!
- Did you ensure that the Police and the Judiciary did their jobs properly and reduce corruption in their ranks?
Just as in the discussion above, the onus on the accuser is to bring and show proof. We are living in a material world and people will only believe in anything if they can see it, touch it, feel it. Matters concerning the physical world need physical evidences to back up the proof of existence.
The root of all these is the rank and file of every organisation. Sometimes, the top management will be so corrupt and they gobble up everything that comes their way and the minions below scramble and fight for scraps that fall off from up above. So, what can we the public or anyone do about it when these are the very institutions who are supposed to be free from sin and malpractice. Sue them? Nahh..wishful thinking.
Over the years, such things become part and parcel of the organisation and you can't scrape it off just at the surface. You can't even revamp the whole system because the habits have seeped into the marrows. Maybe for lip service, you can haul up one or two jackasses who were so blatantly idiotic of being brash about it and thus got fried. You can only grumble and mumble out in all the nations's kopitiams, warungs, coffeehouses and hotel lobbies but the reality is that, it's virtually impossible to combat graft worldwide. It's human nature to enjoy things that they didn't work hard for it. Not like Donna Summer! :P She works hard for the money! :))
- Did you ensure that Cabinet Ministers,Menteri Besar's and Chief Ministers not have income beyond their legal means?
One term in office and you see the fellows lives change absolutely overnight from high class to extraordinary wealthy save for Nik Aziz, the Kelantan MB! That old man just is too comfortable in his kampong house to want to move in to palatial mansions.
If you want to charge Tun Dr.Mahathir for failing to impose financial borders and guidelines to how much wealth can a Cabinet Minister, MB or Chief Minister acquire and have within his or her bank accounts, it will have seen the Tun get kicked off after Term 1 of his premiership.
It's an open secret, isn't it that in politics it is all a matter of mutual wealth accumulation. You close one eye, I close one of mine! You sapu this, I sapu that. The millions of idiotic supporters below can just take a flying leap into whatever suits them.
Dato'Seri Anwar Ibrahim during his periods of wandering in the 'wilderness' often stated the lines below " Yang kaya semakin kaya; yang miskin papa kedana" that means 'the rich get wealthier; the poor become wretched and worser'! As if our dear DSAI is living as a squatter!:P
I have nothing against these fellows living their acquired lifestyles if they have earned it honestly. If they got all these illegally, then there's no Blessings from Allah on to them and their families. Tragedies befall those who rob,cheat,steal and bribe their way up to the upper echelons of high society! The reality is that no matter how high one climbs in the stratas of public life, they will one day be interred in the very bowels of Mother Earth just the same as the millions of ordinary folks when they too die and lay cold and stiff in their caskets!
- How many 'big guns' were prosecuted for corruption offenses during your long tenure?
We all know the status and statistics. No point in asking Tun the obvious. Not that many maa!
- What happened to 'Bersih,Cekap and Amanah'?
It could also mean 'Sapu Bersih, Cekap Makan Suap and Amanah in keeping it all a secret! :P Who is ever going to spill the beans? And for what? You think that anyone who has enjoyed their ill gotten gains is going to be willing to stand there in the witness box and betray himself and others for doing what they did? Mr.Gunasegaram, dream on. The Tun's not gonna talk. It will be a classic Mother of all bloopers if he even gave your query a slightest of thought!
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That's it for this morning. Following up on Question 2 later. Selamat bertugas everyone! :)
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
22 Questions for Tun Dr.Mahathir dissected and discussed.
The Edge Group Executive Editor P.Gunasegaram came up with 22 questions for the man in the news lately, the nation's ex Premier, Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad.
The photocopies here were distributed by someone to those of us who attended the recent Dialogue organised by Raja Petra Kamaruddin, Malaysia Today.Net and other NGO's with Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad.
An announcement was soon made not to distribute flyers or pamphlets by the organisers so I figured that these 22 Questions photocopies weren't recognised by them.Anyway, the Dialogue didn't actually turn out to be a proper dialogue and Tun Dr.Mahathir came out with witty remarks and sarcastic barbs aimed at his successor and the '3rd party' which we all understand to refer to Pak Lah's son in law Khairy Jamaluddin.
Tun Dr.Mahathir as we all know him is a master at handling crowds and playing up to the audience. When written questions were put to him he went through them and only answered those that he wanted to answer; so the 'Dialogue' became a 'monologue'!
I asked him about the 'Islam Hadhari' concept in my question form. Luckily , he did answer mine. :P
I like what he said about the insignificance of Abdullah Badawi trying to come up with a new terminology of 'Hadhari'.
It is as if Abdullah Badawi knows better than the Greatest Messenger of Allah, the Holy Prophet Muhammad al Mustafa, Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!
The Prophet Muhammad SAW just received one Final Message of Islam from Allah the Almighty. The Sahabahs learned only one Way of Life in Islam. There was no talk of Sunni and Syiah. No madhabs Hanafi,Shafie,Hambali and Maliki. There wasn't a criteria that to preach about Islam, one had to go to Al-Azhar and graduate with a Masters in this and that to pass on the message of the Prophet.
Today, the whole world is full of 'ulamaks' who divide and confuse the masses rather than unite in submission to Allah. Even here in Malaysia, we, the Ummah are divided into so many factions and movements, each claiming to be the right ones. What more can I say about the latest concept being bandied about by our 'ulul amri's' .
For all his excesses and dictatorship, the 81 year old Tun still has his wits about him and refuses to play along with the present leadership.For that I can concur with him on not acknowledging this new fanciful delusion of the current leaders of UMNO being the best in the Islamic world and that they are the 'Khalifah's in coming up with such concepts of 'Islam Hadhari'!
Does that mean , through the centuries , all the awliyas and the anbiyas i wal mursalin are idiots and didn't know nuts about Islam? Such is the tendency of mankind to innovate and try to reinvent something that is already complete and perfect as testified in Rasulullah Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam's Final Khutbah to all Mankind!
Even Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells Mankind that the deliverance of the matters concerning the Faith of Islam is complete and that we are to abide by all that the Prophet SAW has passed on to us as per these verse of the Surah Al Mae'dah Verse 3:
"This day the disbelievers despair of prevailing against your religion, so fear them not, but fear Me (God)! This day have I perfected for you your religion and fulfilled My favor unto you, and it hath been My good pleasure to choose Islam for you as your religion (5:3).
On that point, Tun Dr.Mahathir gets my support.
But that's not the end of the story. The 22 questions being posed to Tun should get his attention and God willing, before Tun passes on to the Yaum Al Barzakh ( Realm of Life after Death), he should be man enough to face up to his fellow Malaysians and answer each and every of these reasonable questions.
I have went through the questions being posed and feel that maybe we the bloggers ought to discuss about them too one by one. As citizens , whether we like it or not, our lives have been subject to decisions taken by Dr.Mahathir's premiership through the 22 long years of his being in power.
We have been affected by all his decisions and at this momentous period of our nation going through this 'testing times ', we the people ought to be given the answers by Tun before he returns to the Creator of us all, Allah Azza Wa Jalla!
Let's take a look at:
Question No.1.' On Clean Government. You came to power in 1981 and introduced the slogan"Bersih,Cekap dan Amanah" which means 'Clean, Efficient and Trustworthy'.
- What did you do to further that?
- Did you make the Anti Corruption Agency more independent and effective?
- Did you ensure that the Police and the Judiciary did their jobs properly and reduce corruption in their ranks?
- Did you ensure that Cabinet Ministers,Menteri Besar's and Chief Ministers not have income beyond their legal means?
- How many 'big guns' were prosecuted for corruption offenses during your long tenure?
- What happened to 'Bersih,Cekap and Amanah'?
Now, it is easy for Mr.Gunasegaram or any of us to pose such questions to Tun like this. The consideration is:
'What will we have done if we were (just thinking aloud) in Mahathir's shoes?'
You think it is easy to run a country? Some people can't even manage themselves, what more a family, a small shop,a department, a company, an industry, a district, a state what more a whole country?
There are all kinds of people we have to deal with. Each with their own individual attitudes and personalities. Even in a family, there are all kinds of temperamental stuck up individuals we have to contend with. Some are so freaky that we wish we could strangle the living daylights out of them and some put on a false front of being Mr. or Miss Goody Two Shoes!
I can just visualise the kind of people manning all those government departments and offices.
Haven't each and everyone of us faced the bloody stuckup attitudes of those annoyingly recalcitrant 'Little Napoleons' stubbornly delaying due process and progress of each application, procedure and implementation of things that border from the simplest need to apply for this or that in our daily lives to matters that concern tenders and contracts worth peanuts or up to whatever amounts per situation?
How do you expect Mahathir to answer for each and every bloody individual in all those government offices and departments? It's all a matter of co-operation and delegation of authority.
In some departments, even though you have a decent head of department worth every sen or ringgit that he or she is being paid, there comes the reality of having to deal with all those useless 'office politics' and backstabbing, conniving, sucking up to the bosses, internal warfare and all kinds of shit spewing about those government offices and departments that mess up the system!
We conveniently call it 'red tape' or 'bureaucracy'! Mahathir or any other person (that includes you and me ) can't do nuts about the individual attitudes of all those hundreds of thousands of people who are called 'civil servants'. I don't see anything 'civil' in their bloody attitudes!
~~~ I will be following up on this. Gotta go to a meeting. :P Yeah...face up to the bloody redtape ! Wish me luck that I manage to cut through the mental block some are facing! :)
Catch you all later. Have a productive day. Really! I mean it .
Monday, June 26, 2006
Chow Kon Yeow is a very happy man nowadays!
DAP Tanjong MP, Chow Kon Yeow is a very happy Christian nowadays.His blog entry happily proclaims his joy that at long last his fight to see to it that Malay Muslims can now easily apostate from Islam is bearing fruit under the Islam Hadhari based current Malaysian government!
WOW!!! And we thought Tun Dr.Mahathir was the 'freemason thinking' everything goes leader!
What a total 360 degrees turnabout for the status of Islam as this nation's bastion of faith!
Chow Kon Yeow must be thanking the 'Elegantly Silent' leadership for at long last opening the door for those Malays who no longer want to be Muslims to queue up and apply to apostate without fear according to what his blog entry under 'Religion' column says.
He quotes the Article 11 of the Federal Constitution relating to 'Freedom of Religion' of Malaysia's citizens.
If you read his blog posting , the answer by the Minister in the PM's Department in charge of Religious Affairs says that as of now, the Negeri Sembilan Islamic Religious Administration Enactment carries provision regarding application from persons who want to get out from their Islamic religion.
The Syariah Court can hear the application to leave the religion and then would make a declaration that the person has renounced his or her religion!
WOW! Is this true? Has this Cemerlang, Gemilang, Terbilang Pak Lah's Islam Hadhari based BN Government really come to this?
PAS MP for Pengkalan Chepa Dato Hj. Abd. Halim Abd.Rahman is reported in Chow's blog that he asked the Home Affairs Minister to state the number of Malays who have applied to change their names in their IC's for the past 5 years and the number of applications approved and their reasons?
According to Chow's blog, 3220 Malays have applied for the name changes in their MyKads from 2001 to 2005 and 2685 applications have been approved!
Lina Joy and others must truly be praising the Islam Hadhari BN Government for being so 'Elegantly Silent' about this latest developments in Bolehland!
Any 'coming out' party for Ayah Pin planned, Chow?
Tun Dr.Mahathir in the recent Dialogue lambasted the idiotic notion of reinventing the Islamic faith by his current nemesis . Wonder what the Tun has to say about this exposure by Chow?
Rest of Tun Dr.Mahathir's Press Conference Transcript
continued..
Question: (In your speech just now) Tun mentioned about a corruption case that you asked for prosecution to be carried out before you resigned ?
Tun Dr.Mahathir : I can't mention names..but I'm sure the ACA knows this. There are cases that have been decided to be taken action...but haven't yet. I don't know why?
Question(Agenda Daily): Tun, in your speech just now, you gave the impression that there is a 3rd party influencing the government...can you tell us openly who it is?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: Oh..I don't know. Heard it from people...whether it's true or not, I don't know.
I heard that on Level 4..(in the Prime Minister's Department-Putrajaya). You go and have a look..whether there are tables and chairs..who's there?...an office boy present..from Oxford...from Cambridge..
Question: Are you (Tun) frustrated with Datuk Seri Rafidah's statement that she has given full explanations about everything and won't give any further statements(about the AP's) etc?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: She hasn't given me any explanations!..About why she gave the AP's to her former officers (in MITI) in large numbers? And why those AP's were sold?..now explain that!
Is that in line with the government's stand? She has yet to explain..she just said yes she gave..(the Approved Permit's)...don't ask anymore questions..
(The BN Government) claims to be transparent?...explain then..Why these two persons (Rafidah's ex officers) are still receiving (the AP's) and still importing cars? I know what (car)models that they are importing.
Actually the giving of the AP's to them should be cancelled!
Question: To what extent would you (Tun) act if the explanation given by the government doesn't satisfy you?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: As they say (Malay proverb)..to the core of the wormholes!(to the marrow) It's not only a matter of (giving) explanations!..there's a need to correct whatever is not right!
The bridge(JB-Singapore Causeway)..for example..Why can't we build the bridge in Malaysia? I want to know. If (the Government) says ..can't..I want to question it.
Question(Agenda Daily): When you say that (to the core of the wormholes); will that (Tun's seeking answers) be to the extent of joining forces with the Opposition parties?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: No! I am not involved with the Opposition (parties). I am by myself.
Question: You (Tun) have criticized the Government..people are saying that there are talks of sacking you (Tun) from UMNO?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: He (PM Abdullah Badawi) wants to sack (me)? (Go ahead) sack me! Person with power can sack! Just sack!..What's wrong with that?..I have been sacked (before)!
People did say that when I was sacked before (Tunku's time)...I went up on the PAS platform..whereas the person now (referring to PM Pak Lah) never joined the Opposition..(but still)..tried to topple me (when Pak Lah joined Team B-Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah's camp)..even that I didn't take offense...I took (Pak Lah) back!
So many of those who opposed me before ..I am the one who took them back..gave them positions till they reached the peak (of power)!
I am not bringing up the past...it's okay if there's no (sense of) gratitude!
Question : Looks like in Malaysia , whenever there's a certain issue..that thing cools down fast!
When there's any issue coming up, the people don't bother to check on it ..the matter dies off just like that!
What is your view about all this when in a week or two, people start to forget (about the issues) when something else crops up?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: (Jokingly) That's up to you (the media) to keep it (the issues) hot! Nowadays even though it's being said that the press is free but they erase (issues)..but instead go and dig out dirt about me ...there's lots more...I have carried out mega projects...Ani Arope is angry with me ..
Question: (In your speech just now) Tun said that there is a company that wants to sell sand (to Singapore before the bridge project was cancelled)! Do you have (any) proof?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: I don't have any documents (of proof)..but I do know that to sell sand ; there must be someone getting money..who it is I don't know..
Question: You(Tun) still question the sale of Agusta to Gevi sPA?
Tun Dr.Mahathir : We (Tun) received information from foreign sources ..that Gevi sPA is an absolutely unknown company! We (Tun) do not know about it's background.
Who are the shareholders? What business do they do? Why of all the companies in the whole wide world...they go and choose (Gevi sPA)? That puzzles me!
Explain to me so that I won't be puzzled anymore.
Question : You (Tun) spoke just now (in Tun's speech) about the involvement of Pak Lah's son in law (Khairy Jamaluddin)?
Tun Dr.Mahathir : (With a cynical expression) ..Eh..eh..I didn't say so.. I said 'someone who's highly educated!
Question : You (Tun) spoke of (being a greenhorn) having a runny nose?
Tun Dr.Mahathir : That is about runny noses..lots of people have runny noses!
Question : Tun used to have reserves (replacements) before.
What do you think about people being interested in young bloods absolutely? Is it viable that important positions be given to youngbloods?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: They are very brilliant (youngbloods)! You can't ignore their advice!
Intelligent people ..you can notice them clearly! We can see his writings in the newspapers...extraordinary! I have never seen such writings before!
Question: About your criticisms, will they affect the nation's stability?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: I trust the Malaysian people. They are rational thinkers. ..but when I was the PM, there was a person who challenged me ..to the extent that I was almost toppled..but now it (any challenge to the current PM ) is absolutely out of the question because of preserving stability...don't say even anything (about the government)!
That even those who commit crimes...betray the nation's integrity and honor..I can't criticize..because (they) want stability.
All these (Tun's taking the BN Government to task) will not have happened if (the issues were) answered properly..but here they are (the government) telling the public not to criticize!
Mankind is full of sins...we need to criticize every now and then. Not criticizing at all is not good!
Question: When Tun was the Prime Minister before..Tun Ghafar was the Deputy PM..there was an official who received vetting from the Special Branch (SB)..this person was said to be an agent of a foreign power.
Why was this person not taken action against under the ISA when you were in power before?
NOTE: IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE QUESTION IS REFERRING TO SOMEONE WHO IS NOW VERY INFLUENTIAL IN A LOCAL NEWSPAPER.
Tun Dr.Mahathir: We do not use the ISA that simply just because he is interested in another country...that (being interested in a foreign country) is not an offense.
But if we take him (the person) to rule the nation..then that's wrong! That man is a person who's not loyal to our nation..if we let him be the leader, that's wrong! That's why we didn't allow him to hold the (leadership) position.
But about him being infatuated with whomever..that's his affair!
Question: Many of those present in the event today are made up of those who were your main adversaries before?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: I have spoken to my main adversaries many times before. That's why when I went around, there were lots of questions..there were unfriendly questions!
In one meeting, there were questions as to why I didn't quit my position? (unclear as to what particular position)
I spoke not only to those who were friends but also to people who didn't like me too!
I speak for myself...I don't go and ask my ministers to speak on my behalf (as PM Pak Lah did )
Question: When Tun was the PM, were there any officers not paid by the government but by the private sector to 'work' in the ministries?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: I didn't have..but my Deputy did (have an officer)..salary paid by others but working for him! That's my Deputy ..not me.
Question: Now do you hear (of this)?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: I do hear of this ..but it's a rumour..we can't believe in rumours.
What's your comment about the sale of the AIROD company to Singapore? What's your views about the selling of (it's) shares to Singapore?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: We are free to sell to anyone nowadays! Can even sell this nation to Singapore! we can even sell our honor ..what more about AIROD?
Question: Are you planning to make a comeback?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: No! Absolutely not! 22 years (being the Premier) is enough!
Question: Tun's criticisms (against Pak Lah's Government) has raised doubts in the people?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: You say that there are people who are disturbed with what I say..but I see everyone supporting ..not that they are supporting me! with me everything's not right..and I am not saying anything ...I have already left (the Premiership)...support.(?)
Question: About a writing in the column (Datuk Kalimullah Hassan's writing in the NST newspaper) regarding your meeting with Pak Lah in Japan?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: He reported wrongly. Said I was the one who wanted to meet..not me who wanted to meetup...so everything was arranged by someone who is now known as a spindoctor..like those who want to spin a story to get some benefits.
Those who were useless in the Straits Times have all already quit. They chose to resign..they can't work. They realised that they were useless to be editors. They quit..so those who are at (that newspaper) are all experts!
Question: What do you (Tun) want now?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: That the wrongs are corrected..don't condemn me..don't criticize..because I am the former..no longer the Prime Minister...just be silent..that's all.
So, I want to know why surrender our honor ( by cancelling the bridge project)? There must be reasons. Is it about selling our sands?..I want to know.
Question: You said that Pak Lah reneged from his promises to you! What were those promises?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: He knows...I know.
Question: When were the promises made?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: Just before I let go of the position (Prime Ministership)
Question : Were those promises reneged this year?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: Reneged two weeks after I gave up the post (of PM)..so fast!
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The copyright of the above transcript belongs to Agenda Daily Dot Com Sdn Bhd. All of their rights are reserved.
I am just sharing the translation here as a social service to those who were not there and want to know what transpired at the press conference between Tun Dr.Mahathir and the media.
The speech of Tun Dr.Mahathir is too long for me to translate into English. Just get hold of the VCD of the 'Dialogue' when it becomes available to the public.
Hope you enjoyed reading the transcript which I have translated exclusively for those who want to be aware of what took place at an event that is absolutely the results of YM Raja Petra Kamaruddin's big heartedness in arranging it all even though he himself was once incarcerated by the ex PM's government for voicing out his thoughts as he (RPK) saw fit without fear or favor and paid a price for it ( by briefly being imprisoned for daring to tell the truth)!
From humble beginnings , Malaysia-Today.Net has grown to be an alternative source for those of us who appreciate news reporting on a more free no holds barred perspective.
Some say, RPK has been 'lubricated' by the Tun with millions to enable this dialogue to speak his piece. Is there any base to this allegations?
Let's wait and see if RPK starts living a lifestyle that befits the 'Rich & Famous' giving credence to the rumours! :P
As RPK himself confessed to me that he doesn't have money to invest in my proposals to him to invest in Canadian Landbanking projects for a major firm from there and that he's just surviving on his pension, I take his word and believe him.
As the saying of Winston S.Churchill goes :
Question: (In your speech just now) Tun mentioned about a corruption case that you asked for prosecution to be carried out before you resigned ?
Tun Dr.Mahathir : I can't mention names..but I'm sure the ACA knows this. There are cases that have been decided to be taken action...but haven't yet. I don't know why?
Question(Agenda Daily): Tun, in your speech just now, you gave the impression that there is a 3rd party influencing the government...can you tell us openly who it is?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: Oh..I don't know. Heard it from people...whether it's true or not, I don't know.
I heard that on Level 4..(in the Prime Minister's Department-Putrajaya). You go and have a look..whether there are tables and chairs..who's there?...an office boy present..from Oxford...from Cambridge..
Question: Are you (Tun) frustrated with Datuk Seri Rafidah's statement that she has given full explanations about everything and won't give any further statements(about the AP's) etc?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: She hasn't given me any explanations!..About why she gave the AP's to her former officers (in MITI) in large numbers? And why those AP's were sold?..now explain that!
Is that in line with the government's stand? She has yet to explain..she just said yes she gave..(the Approved Permit's)...don't ask anymore questions..
(The BN Government) claims to be transparent?...explain then..Why these two persons (Rafidah's ex officers) are still receiving (the AP's) and still importing cars? I know what (car)models that they are importing.
Actually the giving of the AP's to them should be cancelled!
Question: To what extent would you (Tun) act if the explanation given by the government doesn't satisfy you?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: As they say (Malay proverb)..to the core of the wormholes!(to the marrow) It's not only a matter of (giving) explanations!..there's a need to correct whatever is not right!
The bridge(JB-Singapore Causeway)..for example..Why can't we build the bridge in Malaysia? I want to know. If (the Government) says ..can't..I want to question it.
Question(Agenda Daily): When you say that (to the core of the wormholes); will that (Tun's seeking answers) be to the extent of joining forces with the Opposition parties?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: No! I am not involved with the Opposition (parties). I am by myself.
Question: You (Tun) have criticized the Government..people are saying that there are talks of sacking you (Tun) from UMNO?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: He (PM Abdullah Badawi) wants to sack (me)? (Go ahead) sack me! Person with power can sack! Just sack!..What's wrong with that?..I have been sacked (before)!
People did say that when I was sacked before (Tunku's time)...I went up on the PAS platform..whereas the person now (referring to PM Pak Lah) never joined the Opposition..(but still)..tried to topple me (when Pak Lah joined Team B-Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah's camp)..even that I didn't take offense...I took (Pak Lah) back!
So many of those who opposed me before ..I am the one who took them back..gave them positions till they reached the peak (of power)!
I am not bringing up the past...it's okay if there's no (sense of) gratitude!
Question : Looks like in Malaysia , whenever there's a certain issue..that thing cools down fast!
When there's any issue coming up, the people don't bother to check on it ..the matter dies off just like that!
What is your view about all this when in a week or two, people start to forget (about the issues) when something else crops up?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: (Jokingly) That's up to you (the media) to keep it (the issues) hot! Nowadays even though it's being said that the press is free but they erase (issues)..but instead go and dig out dirt about me ...there's lots more...I have carried out mega projects...Ani Arope is angry with me ..
Question: (In your speech just now) Tun said that there is a company that wants to sell sand (to Singapore before the bridge project was cancelled)! Do you have (any) proof?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: I don't have any documents (of proof)..but I do know that to sell sand ; there must be someone getting money..who it is I don't know..
Question: You(Tun) still question the sale of Agusta to Gevi sPA?
Tun Dr.Mahathir : We (Tun) received information from foreign sources ..that Gevi sPA is an absolutely unknown company! We (Tun) do not know about it's background.
Who are the shareholders? What business do they do? Why of all the companies in the whole wide world...they go and choose (Gevi sPA)? That puzzles me!
Explain to me so that I won't be puzzled anymore.
Question : You (Tun) spoke just now (in Tun's speech) about the involvement of Pak Lah's son in law (Khairy Jamaluddin)?
Tun Dr.Mahathir : (With a cynical expression) ..Eh..eh..I didn't say so.. I said 'someone who's highly educated!
Question : You (Tun) spoke of (being a greenhorn) having a runny nose?
Tun Dr.Mahathir : That is about runny noses..lots of people have runny noses!
Question : Tun used to have reserves (replacements) before.
What do you think about people being interested in young bloods absolutely? Is it viable that important positions be given to youngbloods?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: They are very brilliant (youngbloods)! You can't ignore their advice!
Intelligent people ..you can notice them clearly! We can see his writings in the newspapers...extraordinary! I have never seen such writings before!
Question: About your criticisms, will they affect the nation's stability?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: I trust the Malaysian people. They are rational thinkers. ..but when I was the PM, there was a person who challenged me ..to the extent that I was almost toppled..but now it (any challenge to the current PM ) is absolutely out of the question because of preserving stability...don't say even anything (about the government)!
That even those who commit crimes...betray the nation's integrity and honor..I can't criticize..because (they) want stability.
All these (Tun's taking the BN Government to task) will not have happened if (the issues were) answered properly..but here they are (the government) telling the public not to criticize!
Mankind is full of sins...we need to criticize every now and then. Not criticizing at all is not good!
Question: When Tun was the Prime Minister before..Tun Ghafar was the Deputy PM..there was an official who received vetting from the Special Branch (SB)..this person was said to be an agent of a foreign power.
Why was this person not taken action against under the ISA when you were in power before?
NOTE: IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE QUESTION IS REFERRING TO SOMEONE WHO IS NOW VERY INFLUENTIAL IN A LOCAL NEWSPAPER.
Tun Dr.Mahathir: We do not use the ISA that simply just because he is interested in another country...that (being interested in a foreign country) is not an offense.
But if we take him (the person) to rule the nation..then that's wrong! That man is a person who's not loyal to our nation..if we let him be the leader, that's wrong! That's why we didn't allow him to hold the (leadership) position.
But about him being infatuated with whomever..that's his affair!
Question: Many of those present in the event today are made up of those who were your main adversaries before?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: I have spoken to my main adversaries many times before. That's why when I went around, there were lots of questions..there were unfriendly questions!
In one meeting, there were questions as to why I didn't quit my position? (unclear as to what particular position)
I spoke not only to those who were friends but also to people who didn't like me too!
I speak for myself...I don't go and ask my ministers to speak on my behalf (as PM Pak Lah did )
Question: When Tun was the PM, were there any officers not paid by the government but by the private sector to 'work' in the ministries?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: I didn't have..but my Deputy did (have an officer)..salary paid by others but working for him! That's my Deputy ..not me.
Question: Now do you hear (of this)?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: I do hear of this ..but it's a rumour..we can't believe in rumours.
What's your comment about the sale of the AIROD company to Singapore? What's your views about the selling of (it's) shares to Singapore?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: We are free to sell to anyone nowadays! Can even sell this nation to Singapore! we can even sell our honor ..what more about AIROD?
Question: Are you planning to make a comeback?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: No! Absolutely not! 22 years (being the Premier) is enough!
Question: Tun's criticisms (against Pak Lah's Government) has raised doubts in the people?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: You say that there are people who are disturbed with what I say..but I see everyone supporting ..not that they are supporting me! with me everything's not right..and I am not saying anything ...I have already left (the Premiership)...support.(?)
Question: About a writing in the column (Datuk Kalimullah Hassan's writing in the NST newspaper) regarding your meeting with Pak Lah in Japan?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: He reported wrongly. Said I was the one who wanted to meet..not me who wanted to meetup...so everything was arranged by someone who is now known as a spindoctor..like those who want to spin a story to get some benefits.
Those who were useless in the Straits Times have all already quit. They chose to resign..they can't work. They realised that they were useless to be editors. They quit..so those who are at (that newspaper) are all experts!
Question: What do you (Tun) want now?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: That the wrongs are corrected..don't condemn me..don't criticize..because I am the former..no longer the Prime Minister...just be silent..that's all.
So, I want to know why surrender our honor ( by cancelling the bridge project)? There must be reasons. Is it about selling our sands?..I want to know.
Question: You said that Pak Lah reneged from his promises to you! What were those promises?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: He knows...I know.
Question: When were the promises made?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: Just before I let go of the position (Prime Ministership)
Question : Were those promises reneged this year?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: Reneged two weeks after I gave up the post (of PM)..so fast!
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The copyright of the above transcript belongs to Agenda Daily Dot Com Sdn Bhd. All of their rights are reserved.
I am just sharing the translation here as a social service to those who were not there and want to know what transpired at the press conference between Tun Dr.Mahathir and the media.
The speech of Tun Dr.Mahathir is too long for me to translate into English. Just get hold of the VCD of the 'Dialogue' when it becomes available to the public.
Hope you enjoyed reading the transcript which I have translated exclusively for those who want to be aware of what took place at an event that is absolutely the results of YM Raja Petra Kamaruddin's big heartedness in arranging it all even though he himself was once incarcerated by the ex PM's government for voicing out his thoughts as he (RPK) saw fit without fear or favor and paid a price for it ( by briefly being imprisoned for daring to tell the truth)!
From humble beginnings , Malaysia-Today.Net has grown to be an alternative source for those of us who appreciate news reporting on a more free no holds barred perspective.
Some say, RPK has been 'lubricated' by the Tun with millions to enable this dialogue to speak his piece. Is there any base to this allegations?
Let's wait and see if RPK starts living a lifestyle that befits the 'Rich & Famous' giving credence to the rumours! :P
As RPK himself confessed to me that he doesn't have money to invest in my proposals to him to invest in Canadian Landbanking projects for a major firm from there and that he's just surviving on his pension, I take his word and believe him.
As the saying of Winston S.Churchill goes :
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen'
May the truth prevail in our lifetimes as to what actually is being done to us and this nation. Amin ya Rabbal Alameen.
Mankind plans and designs according to their nafs but in the end it is but Allah SWT who decides!
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Transcript of Tun Dr.Mahathir's Press Conference Yesterday
This article is originally being posted at http://tinyurl.com/kyuvv , the Agenda Daily.It's bad enough to see Megat Junid seating next to Tun Dr.Mahathir. the former Malaysian Prime Minister.
The sight of the 'Froggie' and potential asskisser in the seat next to Tun is regrettably uneditable for authenticity. So, please bear with it.
Hahahahahaha....
Here's the transcript of the press conference which I am translating for you into English. The original is in Bahasa Malaysia @ Malay. I am going to follow the exact manner of their reporting.
Question: Has the Proton Chairman Azlan Hashim explained about the sale of the MV Augusta motorcycle company?
Tun Dr Mahathir : That was not an explanation ; was only repeating what he has said before this especially about the MV Agusta (company). Who's Gevi Spa?...have they even been involved in this (motorcycle) business?
How do they know it's a good business? How was the actual sales process done? Was there any announcement by them that they (Proton) wanted to sell Agusta? Were there other bidders? Did anybody else know about it?
Did they (Proton Management) ask for a price higher than 1 Euro? (RM4.00)
Question: About the speech just now (unintelligible question)?
Tun Dr.Mahathir : I am not happy with some issues. There are several other issues that I haven't voiced out yet...that I am not satisfied..but I don't have to bother about them.
Question: Azlan (Proton Chairman)said he wants to meet Tun but says you are busy ?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: When he was first appointed, he came to see me and discussed about the ways he wanted to manage Proton. He confessed to me that his appointment wasn't to remove Tengku Mahaleel (former Proton Chairman).
He confessed to me. Then he did what he said he wouldn't do. Never informed me (update) ..would have been alright if he even came to ask me .
What's the point of coming to see me? To give me a report?...reports can be just written.
Selling of Agusta they didn't ask me. Did everything themselves. At this moment I don't know who's the CEO because it looks like the Chairman of the (Proton) Board is the CEO.
He decides everything. Apart from Tengku Mahaleel , several persons have already resigned...good people.
Congratulations for launching the new Proton...Satria Neo...but it was supposed to be launched last year...why the delay?
Question: But he (Azlan) had asked for an appointment with Tun?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: He had wanted to meet me. ..but I thought what's the point of him meeting me if it is only to tell me what he has already done? That can be wrote down.
It's okay if he sends to me reporting what he has done. So, what's the point in coming to see me?
I have seen him. He made a confession that he was appointed not to displace the CEO but that's exactly what he has done...So, how am I to trust someone like this?
Question (Agenda Daily): Is there any chances of Tun sitting together with Pak Lah and discussing (matters) amicably?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: Sitting (with Pak Lah) is no problem. ..discussing...can't say. If we are to do anything ; don't do it on a social basis only.
He (Pak Lah) came to meet me (social visit) in Japan...but it was nothing. In Japan (Pak Lah) came to see me when I was about to go to a meeting...for 10 minutes...that's all.
Question(Agenda Daily): A lot of people are asking whether there's no way for this (tiff between Tun Dr. M and the BN Government) to be settled amicably?
Tun Dr.Mahathir : I don't know..there are people more powerful than me...just talk only...(when they) return...it's cancelled.
Question (Agenda Daily) : About the allegations of the former TNB Executive Tan Sri Ani Arope (about the flagrant giving of IPP contracts during Tun's Premiership) would Tun (be willing to) answer?
Tun Dr.Mahathir : I won't answer! now go and seek out all that happened during my time...to disgrace me! Go and dig out (information from) Ani Arope...dig out (info from) Syed Ahmad Aidid (former Supreme Court Judge)...search for more..there's lots...I know (sarcastically) ...lots of sins...22 years (his premiership).
To know whether (you have )freedom or not..criticise the present (government)...can criticize or not?...but we shall all see..we support...no need to publish in the newspapers...we use all (?)...line up all the ministers..we support...just raise up your hands!
Why go and ask them (former ministers) one by one..(their opinions)?...waste of time only.
Question : Tun Musa Hitam (ex Deputy PM) says Tun are having the post losing power syndrome?
Tun Dr.Mahathir: He thinks we are like him..he's the one suffering from that sickness.
That's the reason why I had to give him a job. When he quit ( as Tun's Deputy)...even though he tried to topple me (from power)..I chose him to be sent to the United Nations...appointed him to many positions.
I (after resigning as the PM) never asked for any positions..except to be the Advisor. As Advisor, i didn't even ask to be paid but this Petronas are very bad (jokingly) ...give me money! Proton don't pay me even a sen!
~~~continued tomorrow. :)
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Personalities at the Dialogue Session of Tun Dr.M
The young ABIM President Yusri Mohamad was there at the Dialogue session organised by Malaysia Today.Net and NGO's for Tun Dr.Mahathir this morning at the Kelab Century Paradise, Taman Melawati, Hulu Kelang, Selangor.
I spoke with him and shared my concerns about the growing social problems amongst the Ummah.
He is a Lecturer in Law and heading the Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia, our nation's foremost Muslim Youth Organisation.
ABIM is the organisation where former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim made his mark in the arena of Islamic Youth activities and eventually caught the eye of Tun Dr.Mahathir , the UMNO President and Premier.
Rather than let the charismatic young Anwar Ibrahim join PAS, Tun Dr.Mahathir successfully influenced DSAI to join him in UMNO and groomed the influential youth leader to be his successor. History records the meteoric rise of DSAI and his subsequent fall from power to being a reformist leader with an agenda to climb up the rungs of political aspirations in this nation!
This is my photo with the Deputy President of PAS, the Islamic Party of Malaysia.
Ustaz Nasharuddin Mat Isa is the symbol of PAS's new leadership who are willing to change for the better as he has shown by showing up with his colleagues at an event of their former nemesis and adversary in the form of Tun Dr.Mahathir, UMNO's ex President and former Premier.
That speaks well for PAS to want to shed their ego's and come listen to what the 'enemy' has to say about affairs concerning the nation.
This is my photo taken with a renowned Ulamak of Malaysia, the respected Islamic Scholar Al-Ustaz Muhammad 'Uthman El-Muhammady, a 'Tokoh Ma'al Hijrah', and a Very Distinguished Academic Fellow of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC) based in the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM).
It's an honour for me to be in the company of such a distinguished scholar. May Allah SWT bless him and grant him the best of health, 'ilm and wealth. Amin ya Rabbal Alameen.
This is myself recording a photographic moment with the well known writer in Harakah, PAS's official newspaper, Mr.Subky Latif.
He has been writing a column in Harakah known as 'Min Aina Ila Aina'. I used to read Harakah before when I was living in Penang and following his writings.
After a while , one tends to get sick of reading just 'bad news' from a newspaper which neglects to really portray the true image of the Islamic advocacy of inviting to the truth and balanced reporting of events and circumstances that take place in our nation.
So, I stopped reading Harakah and just browse the online edition if I feel like it. The writers need to be fair when reporting or writing about the true picture of life here.
Subky Latif is a fair viewed person and his writings are alright. I wish him well.
Tun Dr.Mahathir's Dialogue Event Photos
Tun Dr.Mahathir emphasising a point during his after Dialogue coffeebreak with VIPs from his former Cabinet such as Tan Sri Megat Junid, former Proton CEO Tengku Tan Sri Mahaleel, PAS Deputy President Ustaz Nasharuddin Mat Isa, PAS Vice President Datuk Husam Musa,PAS Youth Head Salahudin Ayub, PAS Central Committee Member Mahfuz Omar,etc.
Photos from http://www.agendadaily.com/cms/index.jsp
There was a full house crowd at the Paradise Hall, Kelab Century Paradise, Taman Melawati, Hulu Kelang, Selangor this morning, attending Tun Dr.Mahathir's Dialogue with Malaysia Today's and NGO's event.
Quite surprising to see a large number of PAS top guns and also Parti Keadilan Rakyat's Saifuddin Nasution seated up front to hear Tun Dr.Mahathir's side of the latest scenario concerning the BN Govt's acts of cancelling projects he started.
We can never forget the old adage that tells us about politicians who prove to us time and time again that in their chosen careers, there's no permanent friends or enemies. Today's worst enemies will turn to be their best associates and vice versa.
I applaud the present PAS leadership who have made an effort to forge ties and reestablish the enjoined 'Silaturrahim' with UMNO's former President whom the past PAS leadership abhorred with a passion that alienates them from the Malaysian citizenry.
Ustaz Nasharuddin's willingness to lead his team change their mindset for the better will see PAS making inroads into Malaysian's hearts. Well done. Where there's a willingness to put the ego's to rest, the future for mankind will definitely be better.
Tun Dr.Mahathir's Dialogue at Century Paradise Club today!
Well, my request to YM Raja Petra Kamarudin to have a special column for Tun Dr.Mahathir at the Malaysia Today Independent News Blog turned out even better.YM Raja Petra roped in all the NGO's and even political parties and held an exclusive dialogue with the former Malaysian Premier at the Century Paradise Club, Taman Melawati, Hulu Kelang, Selangor this morning.
It was a full house with overflowing crowds who came to see and hear for themselves what Tun Dr.Mahathir had to share about the latest news.
Even the PAS Deputy President Ustaz Nasharuddin, 3 Vice Presidents , former Cabinet Ministers, VVIP's, NGO's like ABIM,UIA Islamic Scholars, MT regular bloggers such as yours truly and individuals took the opportunity to ask him questions and to listen to his off the cuff explanations as to why he has taken the present BN government to task for kowtowing to the whims and notions of an Oxford graduate pulling the strings of the puppets in power today!
Malaysia Today is posting the videos taken during the dialogue at it's website.
Many issues were raised by the participants and posed to Tun Dr.Mahathir who in his usual point blank and witty remarks poured out his feelings and reasons in his answers.
Among the various topics Tun Dr M spoke about was the way the Cabinet ministers are blindly expressing their total support to the current PM!
Blind support by the ministers for no other reason than that the fellow they are supporting is the Prime Minister! They will support just anyone who becomes the PM! It doesn't matter whether the fella is this or that, as long as you become the Prime Minister, we will support you!
No questions asked! Total support, a 1001% ! Hidup ..............................(just fill in the blanks)!!!
Frankly speaking , I feel Tun Dr.M already knows that the ministers from day one have been carrying his balls for the very same reason that they have to protect their own interests.
It comes as no surprise to me for the same apple polishing culture exists in any organisation what more in government ministerial positions where kickbacks and side incomes are the order of the day and once in power , the future for these fellas and their generations are already secured with millions and millions filling up their coffers forever.
We were then told by Tun Dr.M about the lies that the BN Government is pushing down our throats that the Government doesn't have money!
Profits from Petronas of more than RM80 billion just last year saw the Government's coffers being swelled by more than RM30billion in taxes alone and then again, who owns Petronas if not the Malaysian Government itself?
From a RM2billion startup capital from the Government, Petronas has been making tonnes of money from its operations in 36 countries worldwide and is the main moneymaking machine for the government!
Tun further said that he knows where the government is stashing its billions and if they still claim not to have money, he can show them where the money is himself!
He said if it's true that all the mega projects that he carried out during his premiership was a waste of funds, just imagine a scenario where you take away all the infrastructure that he helped the government build in the name of development out of the country!
Remove the North South Highway, remove the KLCC, KLIA, LRT's, Monorail, Putrajaya,etcetera! Imagine the country without all it's modern infrastructure!
Imagine the country without the national automobiles! What kind of a lifestyle would the citizens of this country be living in?
You need to watch the videos in full to catch the full essence of what took place this morning at the Kelab Century Paradise!
He then went on to spill the beans about Pak Lah's 'Elegant Silence'! The main reason is none other than that our Mr.Prime Minister listens to Khairy Jamaluddin, his son in law who is the puppet master behind the PM's Department! He kept referring to KJ by speaking of 'Oxford Grad' in his lambasting Pak Lah! The media were having a field day! :D
The crowd just loved all the exposes being thrashed out by the Tun! Shouts of support rang out from the audience and thunderous applause broke out with each of the Tun's disclosures about the powerplay in our nation's BN Government!
PAS leaders surely loved each and every morsel of info coming out of the Tun's mouth! And to think that just 3 years ago, these same fellows were calling Tun Dr.Mahathir as 'Mahafir'aun', 'Mahazalim', etc! :P
As they say about politicians; "Yesterday's sworn enemies, today's chummy buddies"! or at least they are trying to be in Tun Dr.M's good books!
He spoke about the bridge project connecting JB and Singapore. Works on the project had already started when he was still the Prime Minister. The present Cabinet Ministers were in his government when the project was started. None of them objected back then. Total support!
Even Singapore didn't object back then and there was no conditions laid down by them when the project was mooted by the Malaysian Government under Dr.Mahathir! Lee Kuan Yew accepted, Goh Chok Tong said it's okay and there was no talk about Malaysia having to supply Singapore with more than a billion cubic metres of sand, allow the Singapore Air Force to fly its fighter jets over Johore airspace, etc!
Within months of him stepping down and handing over power to Abdullah Badawi, the bridge project was shelved by the present BN Cabinet for reasons that certain parties who stood to make millions from the contract, were unable to do so for reasons that are considered 'top secret', etc.
The double track project for the KTM was also shelved by the present government. Proton from a RM500 million startup capital by the Government, has made more than RM30billion for the government. He says he doesn't understand how the previous Proton management which made so much money for the government could be replaced by the government and now causing Proton to be in the red?
Perodua now makes so much more money than Proton. Who's responsible for this ?
He also spoke about the AP's. He says how the Ministry of International Trade and Industry abused the allocation of the AP's to a couple of persons only. To learn more about the details of what he said, I suggest you to go watch the videoclips in full at the Malaysia-Today.Net.
There was so many things he spoke about that I would be taking so much time to fully write about all the matters he shared. The man is truly extraordinary as a speaker. He can just go on and on like that although he is now 81! Talk about stamina and focus of mind.
You hear Abdullah Badawi talking in his raspy croaky voice on TV and you want to reach for the remote for the sheer run of the mill 'Cemerlang, Gemilang, Terbilang' rhetoric sort of makes you want to puke! Don't even start to think about the difference between the two men. Miles apart!
Same goes for the next in line. To date, none of the cabinet ministers have the oratory skills of the Grand Old Man of Malaysian politics!
For bloopers, tantrums and saliva spewing bullshit, we all know who are the fellows you can expect to dish out that kind of stuff! The acronyms start with LKY and SV. Figure it out.
To sum it all up, I loved being there and got to meet YM Raja Petra in person. Also got to share some ideas and plans with the PAS leadership, ABIM's President, UIA's Scholar Ustaz Muhammadiy, etc.
Thanks for making this happen YM Raja Petra! Alhamdulillah.
Looking forward to our MT Bloggers Meetup. Insyaallah.
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