Opposition candidates are busy campaigning and delivering their speeches to “shake & wake” the rakyat.

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From One Caring Malaysian To Another

The mufti of Perak has not only been inciting Muslims under his guidance to persecute people of other religions, but has been uttering seditious words from time to time.

He even has the cheek to say that the Indians and Chinese are the rich ones in this country and are bullying the Malays. And this he says that the Malays cannot tolerate. What is trying to say? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

I wonder when you have such imbecile to lead the flock, what moderation and tolerance can one expect?

What a fantastic way to promote racial harmony, tolerance and peace in order to create “Malaysia, truly Asia.”

We should be very careful how we use the term “Malay-Islamic hegemony” today and during elections. We do not want to alienate Malay voters. YB Kit uses the term “UMNO political hegemony” which is the right term to use because the approach is then inclusive rather than exclusive.

This election is all about the abuse of power and the corruption etc by UMNO leaders - and not Malay leaders i.e. by an UMNO led government rather than a Malay led government.

Malaysia/UMNO style and view of Islam had been self-limiting. A casual observation of the way of life of say,Muslims in Middle East, shows that the Malay-Muslim world-view is quite limiting. Socio-political stance taken by the Malaysian government through the decades had indeed been a major contributing factor.Consider this:
the king of Saudi Arabia did not allow the kissing of hands , noting that that is disallowed in Islam. On the contrary here in Malaysia, it seem that it is the Islamic way of greeting an elder, and it is being practised more widely now than before, as if it is the correct thing to do.

In Malaysia on ecan easily feel that the Malays think that Islam belongs to them and that a malay is equivalent to a muslim. Far from that. A religion is a belief and a practice. One has to profess it and through practice and adoption of the religion will one gradually be accepted as a believer, and only then be known as a practioner of that particular religion. Even then the religion does not belong to the practioner. One can be a muslim, butISlam does not belong to him. But here religion is treated like a commodity. The feeling here is that Islam belongs to the malays; which is errorneous.

Mr Farish Noor, please share your thoughts on my short comments. Thank you.

I think it is pointless to state when the Islamic genie began. Suffice to say that LKY noticed that as early as 1964. This country is about Malay-Islamic hegemony from the very beginning. If LKY can see it more than 40 years ago, why the rest of us are we so dumb?

Badawi has already paved the way by declaring our country NOT secular. Its a stupidity that will cost our children and grandchildren untold injustices and condemnation.

Today at 15: 39.02 (2 hours ago)
Can we have only one type of Islam where girls are allowed to wear mini-skirt?

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believe me, you don’t want to be caught with a mini skirt. not with lebai kamal bin put around!

My take is that Islam Hadaari is a new name for a system already with us the past 50 years. A system not quite like the real Islam but one designed for a multi-ethnic-religious fabric.

When a body is snatched, a Hindu is forced to rehabilitate or when bibles are seized, Malaysians in general are blindsided in blaming IH.

In reality, a theological cloak is enveloping Malaysia vide a pincer movement comprising a particular wahabbi inspired media and generations of wahabbi educated muslims in our midst, firmly entrenched particularly in the civil service. With their financial institutions and investments in place, it is surreptitiously gaining foothold undermining our multi-cultural and religious fabric.

These wahabbi educated civil servants give the orders to cause the mischief and their media ‘partner’ promptly blows it up attributing blame to IH.

On the pretense of fair journalism, this particular media has been consistently embarrassing Malaysia and consequently IH on various issues. The same treatment is accorded moderate Turkey. It is common knowledge that Wahabbism is taken as the real thing and is at odds with any other strain such as IH which it considers a joke.

It’s a shame to hear our Information Minister shouting himself hoarse from time to time, struggling to identify the demon and with his poor command of language not helping.

When I hear our Prime Minister expressing consternation on such issues, I believe he is trying to tell the movement. “Please stop radicalising us. Malaysia is not a typical Middle-East country but a melting pot of cultures and religions”.

UMNO under Tunku, Tun Razak and Hussein and even Mahathir was moderate but less and less so. Somewhere along the line and under who else but Mahathir, somebody let the Islamic genie out of the bottle and now they cannot put it back where it belongs!

The man responsible for the ‘letting out of the Islamic genie from the bottle washed on our shore’ in the ealry 80s is now campaigning to defeat UMNO. Maybe he thought it was a different genie - the one that wiggles her nose and everything disappears.

That was, is and will be the ideology of UMNO. It is with that purpose, that gerrymandering took place ever since election was held. It was to ensure the vote bank stay full that Article 153 was included, the harbinger to divide and rule, or an insurance to perpetual UMNO rule. NEP was meant to explain away the power struggle within UMNO, and later seized upon to create the condition for money politics which allow the rich and powerful to control election within UMNO.

To ensure that Malays stay within the vote bank, UMNO pretends again that they are the saviour of Muslims. Based on the qualification of the grandfather as a learned religious person, PM AAB considered that religious knowledge could be transferred through genetic codes. He then had the audacity to be founder of a new religious sect, Islam Hadari. A knowledgeable religious person might not be a good preacher, who might not be at the same time a person who could perform well as a PM. As it turned out PM AAB failed in all fronts, as self-styled Imam Hadari, or a PM who could not even recognise that the country had not the proper institutions to run on autopilot.

UMNO had long experience of pursuing its secret agenda in the name of well distorted justifications. Modern age requires modern approach to religion, so AAB was advised. Like all things in Malaysia which exist in form rather than in substance, such as conducting election to satisfy the form of democracy without the conditions for free and fair campaign, and clean list of eligible voters, Islam Hadari allows PM AAB to be misrepresented as a Prophet hadari. When Muslims around the world are free to choose to leave Islam should they so please, Islam Hadari forces Muslims to die with the religion. And more, living non-Muslims are made Muslims and subject to Muslim burial upon death.

When race and religion could not ensure vote bank UMNO would one day do away with voting all together. The declaration of Islamic state facilitates introduction of theocracy when they cannot be certain of retaining power. To UMNO election is just going through the form in the name of democracy. When the outcome becomes uncertain, the form could be dispensed off.

All ills in the country originated with the desire of UMNO to grow its vote bank. Consequently the wealth and health of the nation suffers. The country gained the sense of Ketuanan Melayu and a purer Malays Malaysia. Was it worth it? The community fewer in number had either to accept or to leave.

Today at 15: 39.02 (2 hours ago)
Can we have only one type of Islam where girls are allowed to wear mini-skirt?

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If you look at Indonesia,you will see better understanding of Islam.Not many women wear tudung. Maybe less than 5% and many wear miniskirt to work.
Fundamental islam is not popular anymore. The Turkish gov is now trying to evaluate the hadiths which contain blasphemy and all the stoning and oppression against women including the tudung will be removed.That’s what I call moderate.Not like UMNO and PAS.

Hishamudin is a shame to his ancestors, people will be quite suprise this person is related to Tun Hussein Onn. Hishamudin had got no balls to be a revolutionary figures depite being UMNO youth president, what he did instead is bowing to those mediocre, unimposing, insignificant, average, insipid “cari makan” politician in UMNO. He must be running out of idea to pleased those morons when he decided to brandish his keris at the UMNO GA, only to be challenge when he is going to use it. How stupid can one be? If he is still the Education Minister, we are done! That’s why he will never be the Prime Minister. Khairy Jamaludin can dream on!

With the kind of education standard being provided in Malaysia, people can’t tell. As long as UMNO in power, Malaysians will grow more stupid.

I suppose that Pak Lah intend to right the wrong when he took the helm, but after 4 years, either he is losing the fight because he is impotent and useless or he succumbed to the political pressure of UMNO and became part of the blood suckers, or everything he preached since day one is just a script written by somebody. Either way, he is clearly a loser who can’t keep his promises.

Furthermore, the five economic regions have almost been proved to be pranks by EPU officers themselves. It is doubtful that any proper and professional survey and planning has been conducted for those projects. How in the world can something that massive being conceived within months, wherereas each 5 years of Malaysian Plan was prepared carefully for years before they were launched.

So tell me, do you believe in IDR, NCER, ECER, SCORE and SDC? Can someone tell me how the figures promised came from? Who prepared the masterplan? Anyone can prepare that and bullshit about the figures. And after about a year of IDR, can we see anything out of it? Where are the investors, Pak Lah’s “middle east investors”?

Now back to Islam Hadhari. Does the “religion” teach you to lie and corrupt? Think, and make good use of the March 8th election.

The primary reason for this failure lies in the dynamics of the Malaysian governmental system and the politics of the ruling UMNO party itself.”

Islam Hadhari is being “lauded” for the wrong reasons, it has torn the country further apart, non only with the other races but among Malay muslims as well. In Malaysia now, we already have three brand of Islam), PAS Islam and UMNO Islam, then within UMNO, emerged the Islam Hadhari, the results, we have many confused muslims. One can only imagine if this goes on, we will have different factions of many confused muslims, soon after that we are going to become like the middle east, where problems can no longer be solved. But here in Malaysia you have the Chinese and Indians. We are not going to sit around and do nothing.

From the mouth of a religious mufti (of Perak) …….

Such mentality still exists today

How can we overcome this racial problem in Malaysia ?

Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beX8vJDXMfo

From One Caring Malaysian To Another

That’s the whole problem, mother of all problems in Malaysia, the Malay Muslim vote that makes this competition between UMNO and PAS is sickening, it is always the same old thing, religion, what progress did it bring except more and more “masjid” being built across the country. Now not only you can go to the “masjid” and pray, now you also can go there sight-seeing, with ligthing effect at night, great!

Islam Hadhari is a fake, Islam Hadhari is a mistake, Islam Hadhari is not Islam. Islam Hadhari is Abdullah Badawi. Know how to sleep only.

A political leader faces two challenges in relation to the constituency he leads.

One is how one set the right goal and vision for his people, having regard to their strengths and weaknesses, and then cajole, persuade, educate, guide and usher them, even in the face of resistance, towards this right goal and vision predicated on a higher organisation of thought and behaviour.

To be sure, a leader must be able strike the balance to make sure the pace of change pushed for must be at a level not to far ahead of goal’s or vision’s acceptability by the peoples he leads having regard to their prejudices, habits of thought and cultural norms.

If the disconnect or dis-junct between what is pushed for and what may be accepted is to great, the peoples whom he leads will reject his leadership, he will lose political power and position and ability to direct their affairs to his political rivals.

However if he is too overly worried of losing the perks of his political power and position, he may end up placating and pandering to the given prejudices and mindset of his peoples at best or otherwise even fanning, inciting and exacerbating these rather than breaking out of these to change towards nearer the goal or vision set.

Whether one has the ability to forge the right balance is what distinguishes the mediocre, unimposing, insignificant, average, insipid “cari makan” politician from a statesman.

In relation of working towards the goal and vision, instead of taking two steps backward in order to advance three steps forward as a Statesman could do, it will otherwise be a case of two steps forward to be followed by three steps backwards – which is what is happening here in the context of what Dr Farish discussed!

The standard of politicians here is of a state leaving much to be desired. There is not only a scarcity/paucity in terms of statesman’s qualities or lack of ability to recognize and recruit candidates of ability and vision but what is more scary is that when occasionally such an ability shows himself, he is either reprimanded, disciplined, silenced, sidelined or even pushed out – the case in point being Datuk Zaid Ibrahim.

How come we in Malaysia cant change our Government after 50 years bcos investors will go away ?

Bullshit

Basically it boils down to this:
“We are the masters and we make the decisions. All you MUST do is follow our instructions and do not question us”.

In other words, do not THINK and do not CRITICISE.

It may not be much but it might give a few more votes for the oposition. I can’t do it alone. Can you, yes YOU currently reading this, help out?

Malay language:
Undi pembangkang.Bn dah gagal rakyat.korupsi,jenayah,petrol,tol,makan semua naik tapi gaji & ringgit turun.Undi pembangkang!Kalau tak puas hati,pilihanraya depan undi baliklah bn.apa nak takut?hantar mesej ni kepada semua org

English:
vote opposition.bn has failed the rakyat.corruption,crime,petrol,tol,food all increase but our salary & ringgit is down.vote opposition!if they can’t perform,vote bn back next time.what is there to lose?pass this to all