Its no longer about policy which is rudderless, but about the character of the leadership that has backed off from the tough decisions that needed to be made last year and will need to be made this year and the following…

The hindraf march is a public indictment of the MIC under Samy Vellu as much as it is a public indictment of the DAP under YB Kit for failing to make the issue of Indian marginalization part of its rallying call.

Didn’t Uthaya say that the Chinese and the DAP are fighting their own battles and the Indians are left to fight theirs? Perhaps not in those same exact terms but essentially so?

Muslims take part in Friday prayer at the National Mosque in Kuala Lumpur
Religious freedom is guaranteed under Malaysian law
The Malaysian government has reversed a decision to ban a Christian newspaper using the word Allah to refer to God.

The government had threatened to refuse to give the Weekly Herald a publishing permit if it continued to use the word.

The paper’s editor said the word had long been used by Christians to refer to God in the Malay language.

The ruling was immediately condemned by civil rights and Christian groups in Malaysia, who said it infringed their right to practice their religion.

But Malaysia’s internal security department demanded the word be removed, saying only Muslims could use it.

‘Over-zealous ministers’

Now the government has back-tracked.

In a fax to the Herald’s editor, the government says it will get its 2008 permit, with no conditions attached.

Father Andrew Lawrence told the BBC he was delighted, saying prayers had been answered.

He blamed politics and a general election expected here in 2008 year for what he said were the actions of a few over-zealous ministers in the Muslim-dominated Malay government.

Religious issues are highly sensitive in Malaysia, which has a 60% Muslim population.

Religious freedom is guaranteed in the law but minority groups have accused the Muslim Malay majority of trying to increase the role of Islam in the country.

It is The ‘Green Lungs’ Zone for us to breath in Fresh
Air in the living vicinity.

We strongly object to any kind of land abuse and land
rape over the virgin/secondary jungles…!!!

Similarly, if every race thats been marginalized bring their discontent and fight for their right, we will suddenly realize that the whole nation will awake. The current Hindraf march is another example of a good rise against the discrimination.

All Malaysians who are marginalized, please show defiance towards injustice and fight in your own way without resorting to violence.

May God bless Malaysia.

Upon logging unto Uncle Kit’s blog, my login handle was readily available but now I’ll have to login by typing name and password. Anyone has any idea…Just askin…

The Don lives a rich imaginary – you can also say delusional – life. He even fights windmills. In his mind’s eye, they are giants and the windmill blades are giant’s arms. His tilting their blades – even to extent of injuring himself in the process - is likened to wrestling with the Giant’s arms.

Don Quixote exercise in tilting at windmills is, by way of figure of speech, a reference to perservering in a hopeless and unproductive activity that is not expected to produce any concrete or meaningful result.

“The very purpose of a buffer is to promote sustainable development by separating conflicting land uses,” said planning expert Derek Fernandez in response to Selangor State Secretary Datuk Ramli Mahmud’s statement in theSun today that buffer zones can be developed.

Fernandez said Ramli’s remarks are against Selangor Government’s own policy in relation to planning and development which are contained in the Selangor Structure Plan as well as the Petaling District Structure Plan and the National Urbanisation Policy - all of which are binding on the State.

“Therefore any statement or policy cannot be made on an ad-hoc basis, but must be in writing and contained in the various structure plans in accordance with the Town and Country planning Act 1976,” he said.

Fernandez said these plans are formulated after public participation and any statement of planning policy and land use which has not gone through these processes can be challenged and cannot be effectuated.

He said the Act will not allow any development on these lands unless it is consistent with the structure plan. By contrast, there are specific provisions in the plan that require the preservation of buffer.
http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/content/view/12526/2/