DAP’s challenge is to ensure that Malaysia’s “masyarakat madani” under the Anwar unity government is one that will make Malaysia a first-rate world-class nation guided by democracy, the rule of law, good governance, anti-corruption, and a global economic and education system
Posted by Kit in nation building on Thursday, 19 January 2023, 7:03 am
I wish Kepong DAP happy and productive Chinese New Year.
We are in challenging times. We must ensure that the Anwar unity government can last five years, but even more important, we must ensure that Malaysia’s “masyarakat madani” under the Anwar unity government is one that will make Malaysia a first-rate world-class nation guided by democracy, the rule of law, good governance, anti-corruption, and a global economic and education system.
Hadi has sullied the good name of Malaysia in international society, and he should prove that the Federal Government and five State Governments are promoting Islamophobia, or he should recant, admit his mistakes and retract his allegation that the DAP is promoting Islamophobia
Posted by Kit in Hadi Awang on Tuesday, 17 January 2023, 10:08 am
PAS President Hadi Awang has sullied the good name of Malaysia in international society, and he should prove that the Federal Government and five State Governments are promoting Islamophobia, or he should recant, admit his mistakes and retract his allegation that the DAP is promoting Islamophobia.
DAP has four Federal Ministers, 40 Members of Parliament, a state Chief Minister, a state Deputy Chief Minister, 14 State Executive Councillors, and 91 state Assembly persons. It is part of the Federal Government and five State Governments.
Hadi should substantiate his allegations that the DAP is anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist, and promoting Islamophobia or retract his allegations, or be proved to be an irresponsible and immoral political leader who is prepared to make all sorts of preposterous allegations to serve his own political interest
Posted by Kit in Hadi Awang on Monday, 16 January 2023, 2:17 pm
The Amanah President, Mohamad Sabu, had called the PAS President, Hadi Awnag as the “biggest liar in the world”.
Speaking at a Kuala Kedah ceramah on Thursday night, Mohamad Sabu said PAS won a large number of seats in the 15th General Election by creating a false perception against the Pakatan Harapan and said:
“In GE15, PAS won big because PAS is the biggest liar in the world.
“The biggest liar is also its president Hadi Awang.
“He is an ulama but in his ripe old age, he has become a liar and the Malays believed his lies.”
Three days have passed and there is no rejoinder from Hadi to Sabu.
We were educated to be Malayans and later Malaysians six decades ago and it came as a shock that the Deputy Prime Minister said in 2010 that he was Malay first and Malaysian second
I was in Batu Pahat on Friday night to celebrate the 98th birthday of the my brother-in-law, Ho Lai Chee, which was also a reunion for me with Lai Chee’s far-flung offspring from Sydney, Singapore, and London.
Early before dawn on Saturday, I spent two hours walking the streets of Batu Pahat, to smell the air and revisit the sights of the town where I spent my primary and secondary years, starting from Cheng Siu Chinese primary school to Batu Pahat English School and then Batu Pahat High School.
Malaysia’s greatest paradox — national unity in a plural Malaysia
Posted by Kit in nation building on Thursday, 12 January 2023, 2:20 pm
It is Malaysia’s greatest paradox — national unity in a plural Malaysia.
We have been talking about “national unity” for six decades but we have never been more divided today than in Malaysia’s history.
Is Hadi guilty of “Malaysia-phobia”, distrust, and phobia of all things which are multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-cultural?
The DAP Penang State Assemblyman for Pengkalan Kota Daniel Ooi is right — Malaysia does not want “moral police” to enforce their moral laws on others.
The question is whether the PAS President, Hadi Awang is suffering from “Malaysiaphobia” — a distrust or phobia of Malaysia as a plural society with all its multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-cultural characteristics.
Anwar must walk the talk of his anti-corruption commitment and produce results within a year when Transparency International releases its Corruption Perception Index 2023 next January
Posted by Kit in Anwar Ibrahim, Corruption on Tuesday, 10 January 2023, 11:27 am
The 10th Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, must walk the talk of his anti-corruption commitment and produce results within a year when Transparency International (TI) releases its 2023 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) next January.
It is too late for Anwar to do anything to improve Malaysia’s rank and score in the TI CPI 2022 which will be released later this month — which is likely to be the worst in the history of Malaysia in the 28-year series of TI CPI despite the 2019 TI CPI under the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government which was the best TI CPI in 25 years.
Jalan Raja Uda is the only street in Malaysia, and probably the world, to have 10,000 red-silk lanterns to welcome the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit — heralding a Successful World-Class Malaysia in the making
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, nation building on Monday, 9 January 2023, 12:32 pm
The ceremony tonight to light the 10,000 red-silk lanterns at Jalan Raja Uda in Butterworth is significant not only because Jalan Raja Uda is the only street in Malaysia, and probably the world, to have 10,000 red-silk lanterns to welcome the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit in two weeks’ time, it marked the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia and a reset of Malaysia to make Malaysians all over the world proud to be Malaysians.
Malaysians relieved that Kota Kinabalu Move to topple the Hajiji government has failed — a salutary reminder of the fragility of the Anwar unity government, and the overriding need for political stability for the next five year for Malaysia to start anew to become a first-rate world-class plural nation
Posted by Kit in Hadi Awang, Sabah on Sunday, 8 January 2023, 11:57 am
Malaysians are relieved that Kota Kinabalu Move topple the Hajiji government has failed — although it is a salutary reminder of the fragility of the Anwar unity government, and the overriding need for political stability for the next five year for Malaysia to start anew to become a first-rate world-class plural nation.
The Kota Kinabalu Move has acted as a vaccine to strengthen the resolve of Malaysians that they have enough of plots and counter-plots in Malaysian politics, that what Malaysia needs is political stability for the next five years for Malaysia to undo the wrongs and abuses of the last six decades of Malaysian nation-building which had reduced Malaysia to a second-rate mediocre country.
If criticism of Hadi means promoting Islamophobia, then Muhyiddin Yassin is most guilty of promoting Islamophobia in Malaysia
Posted by Kit in Hadi Awang on Saturday, 7 January 2023, 11:14 am
If criticism of PAS President, Hadi Awang means promoting Islamophobia, then Muhyiddin Yassin is most guilty of promoting Islamophobia in Malaysia.
Hadi will find it easy to look up the archives to find past videos of Muhyiddin labelling PAS as “parti ajaran sesat”, which I have never done.
Hamzah and Sanusi have made it easier to prove that there is no such thing as an irresistible “green tide” phenomenon to transform Malaysia into a theocratic state
Posted by Kit in Elections, Perikatan Nasional on Friday, 6 January 2023, 10:39 am
The Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Hamzah Zainudin and the Kedah Menteri Besar, Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor have made it easier to prove that there is no such thing as an irresistible “green tide” phenomenon to transform Malaysia into a theocratic state.
Hamzah, in his Concorde Club speech, said Perikatan Nasional (PN) could capture Selangor state government and that PN has a 50-50 chance to capture Negeri Sembilan in the state general elections of Penang, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Kedah, Kelantan, and Terengganu to be held in the first half of the year.
Hamzah’s “Door always open” statement at the Concorde Club yesterday a sombre reminder why the Anwar unity government should have zero tolerance to toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion which are based not only on falsehoods but could destroy the Anwar government and plural Malaysia as well
Posted by Kit in Unity Government on Thursday, 5 January 2023, 11:42 am
The “Door always open” statement by the Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Hamzah Zainudin, that he does not discount the prospect of Perikatan Nasional (PN) returning to power is a sombre reminder why the Anwar unity government should have zero tolerance to toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion which are not only based on falsehoods but could destroy not only the Anwar government and plural Malaysia as well.
A PN government is not concerned about achieving a tiger economy for Malaysia, or restoring Malaysia’s greatness as world-class plural nation in education, health, social, or environmental terms, but in a direction which will end up on Malaysia’s Centennial in 2057 as a divided, failed, and kleptocratic state.
The six State General Elections will be a crucial test whether the Anwar unity government will have political stability to last for five years to give Malaysia a chance to change course to again become a first-rate world-class plural nation
Posted by Kit in Anwar Ibrahim, Elections, Unity Government on Wednesday, 4 January 2023, 2:01 pm
Firstly, I must congratulate V. Ganabatirau for his 91,801 vote-majority win in the Klang Parliamentary constituency in the 15th General Election, the third parliamentary constituency with the largest majority.
His 115,539-vote win in the Klang Parliamentary Constituency has proved that Klang is one of the strongest bases of the DAP’s Malaysian Dream for a united, just, democratic, and prosperous plural nation which is of first-rate world-class standards.
Why the three-week eerie silence of the accusers to cite a single instance to prove DAP is anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist and promoting Islamophobia from the 14-year DAP-led Penang State Government from 2008 to 2022?
Three weeks ago, I invited Malaysians from Perlis to Johore, as well as in Sabah and Sarawak, to cite an instance of the DAP being anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist and promoting Islamophobia from the 14 years of DAP-led Penang State Government from 2008 to 2022.
But there were no takers. Instead, there was a long eerie silence which does not befit honest, upright, and righteous accusers of wrongdoing by others.
Why is Muhyiddin Yassin not the Parliamentary Opposition Leader?
Posted by Kit in Muhyiddin Yassin, Parliament on Monday, 2 January 2023, 4:25 pm
Why is Muhyddin Yassin not the Parliamentary Opposition Leader?
Is he retiring from politics?
Malaysia must spend the last third of Malaysia’s Centennial to make the nation great again and not again lose the national compass as entrenched in the Malaysian Constitution and Rukun Negara as happened in the second third of the Centennial
Posted by Kit in nation building on Sunday, 1 January 2023, 4:09 pm
Today is the first day of the new year 2023.
2023 will be tough and challenging year for Malaysia, for we want to compete with the world by becoming a world-class nation and not destroy ourselves by fighting among Malaysians through the use of toxic and divisive politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion.
Malaysia started New Year on good and proper footing — let us make Malaysia great again where abuses of power, corruption, and kleptocracy are no more associated with Malaysia
Posted by Kit in Anwar Ibrahim, Unity Government on Sunday, 1 January 2023, 11:41 am
Malaysia started the 2023 New Year on a good and proper footing.
The old year of 2022 ended with an unprecedented stretch of 15 days in double-digit figures for the Covid-19 pandemic cases and 19 consecutive days in single-digit figures for Covid-19 deaths — with even one day (Christmas Day on Dec. 25) with zero death.
2023 will be make-or-break year for Anwar Unity Government and Malaysia to be great again
Posted by Kit in Anwar Ibrahim, Unity Government on Saturday, 31 December 2022, 4:19 pm
2023 will be a make-or-break year for Anwar Unity Government and Malaysia to be a great again.
The Anwar Unity Government has started on the right footing in its first month office, vindicating what Anwar promised after he was appointed the 10th Prime Minister by the Yang di Pertuan Agong on Nov. 24, 2022 that he would not compromise on good governance, the anti-corruption drive, judicial independence, and the welfare of ordinary Malaysians.
The Rulers, led by the Yang di Pertuan Agong and the Sultans of Johore and Selangor, have set a good example to all Muslims in Malaysia in wishing “Merry Christmas” to Christians in Malaysia for the country to be a global example of a plural nation where there is unity, understanding and harmony among the different religions in the country, consistent with Islam as the official religion of the country
The Rulers, led by the Yang di Pertuan Agong and the Sultans of Johore and Selangor, have set a good example to all Muslims in Malaysia in wishing “Merry Christmas” to Christians in Malaysia for the country to be a global example of a plural nation where there is unity, understanding and harmony among the different religions in the country, consistent with Islam as the official religion of the country.
Malaysia has a big chance under Anwar unity government to rebuild Malaysia into a first-rate world-class plural nation – don’t spoil it
Posted by Kit in Anwar Ibrahim, Unity Government on Thursday, 29 December 2022, 10:52 am
A clarification is in order with regard to my statement yesterday entitled: “Anwar should ignore Mahathir and learn the most important lesson of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan Government — carry out as many of the ‘reformasi’ institutional reforms in the early months of the new government as he may not have five years”.
I am aware that the naysayers are jumping on the statement as proof that Lim Kit Siang does not believe that Anwar Ibrahim will last five years as Prime Minister and fortified their resolve to topple Anwar Ibrahim as Prime Minister ala-Sheraton Move political conspiracy as soon as possible.
