Dr M kata Najib dah tidak bermaya lagi...
Dr Mahathir Mohamad berkata Perdana Menteri Najib Abdul Razak cuba untuk tenteramkan kebangkitan ketegangan kaum dan agama tetapi tidak berdaya untuk berbuat demikian.
Mahathir ditanya sama ada keadaan semasa mencerminkan kepimpinan Najib yang lemah Najib dan haruskah dia terus memimpin negara?
" Terpulang kepada rakyat , mereka yang memilih beliau. Najib cuba untuk melakukan kerja yang baik tetapi dia kini dalam keadaan yang sukar ," katanya kepada pemberita di Kuala Lumpur hari ini.
Najib telah diletakkan ke dalam satu kedudukan yang sukar, di mana rakyat menuntut liberalisme tetapi pembangkang cuba salahgunakan keadaan seperti itu, katanya.
" Dia dalam kedudukan yang sangat sukar, apabila dia(Najib) cuba mengambil sesuatu tindakan , ramai yang berkata dia tidak liberal, tetapi jika tidak, perkara lebih buruk.
"Rakyat tidak memberi mandat yang kuat kepadanya(Najib), " katanya , merujuk kepada keputusan pilihan raya umum lalu .
Sepanjang tempoh perkhidmatan beliau , Mahathir - yang sentiasa memperoleh mandat dua pertiga - diketahui tegas terhadap mereka yang cuba mengancam keselamatan negara.
Bagaimanapun, Mahathir juga dituduh menghancurkan perbezaan pendapat dan musuh-musuh politiknya dengan mengamalkan pemerintahan secara kuku besi.
Sementara itu, bekas Perdana Menteri juga mengambil menegur Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma ) atas kenyataan kontroversi .
Mahathir berkata,kenyataan "Cina adalah penceroboh" tidak melakukan apa-apa yang baik untuk negara.
"Hakikatnya ,orang Cina di sini ,adalah warganegara Malaysia dan ada hak sebagai warganegara, " katanya.
"Kita tidak mahu orang ramai menghasut supaya ada rusuhan kaum. Isma perlu menyimpan pendapat itu pada diri mereka sendiri, " tambah bekas Perdana Menteri , yang dirinya dulu telah dituduh menimbulkan ketegangan kaum.
Beliau juga mendakwa Isma tidak memahami apa sebenar termaktub dalam Al-Quran, bila Isma berkata hudud patut dikenakan ke atas orang bukan Islam.
"Saya fikir dia tidak membaca Al-Quran dengan betul.Allah tidak suka orang yang menimbulkan rusuhan, "katanya.
Bekas presiden Umno turut menasihatkan parti , yang akan menyambut ulang tahun ke-68 pada hari Ahad (11 Mei) , untuk mendengar suara rakyat dan Pembangkang, sebagai satu cara untuk mengukuhkan sokongannya.
"Sebagai pemimpin politik , seseorang mesti mendengar apa yang telah diperkatakan oleh rakyat, terutama pembangkang.
Walaupun anda tidak perlu melayan pembangkang yang mahu menjatuhkan kerajaan , jika anda mengabaikan mereka, anda mungkin terus kehilangan sokongan, "katanya.
Beliau menggesa Umno untuk belajar daripada dari sejarah di mana banyak parti politik telah gagal untuk terus hidup.
Sementara itu, Mahathir seolah-olah tidak yakin jika Sarawak perlu mendapatkan royalti minyak 20 peratus kerana ia adalah sebuah negeri yang kaya , dan mencadangkan bahawa Kedah, di mana anaknya Mukhriz menerajui negeri ini, perlu mendapat manfaat daripada royalti minyak.
"Terpulang kepada kerajaan untuk membuat keputusan, sama ada ia perlu memberi atau tidak . Tetapi saya mendapati bahawa Sarawak adalah negeri yang kaya, " katanya.
"Kedah tidak mempunyai minyak, bukannya memberikan mereka 20 peratus,(mengapa tidak) beri Kedah tiga peratus , kita tidak meminta banyak. Kedah adalah sebuah negeri miskin, lebih miskin daripada Perlis.tegas Mahathir - mk
Helloooo Mahathir, Kelantan ada minyak tapi tak dapat royalti pasai apa? Bukan hang punya pasaikah??? Cakap kot juboq...ts
Tolong diam, kenyataan anda menyakiti negara, kata Dr Mahathir kepada Isma...
Bekas perdana menteri itu berkata kenyataan daripada pemimpin Isma tidak konstruktif.
Kenyataan Dr Mahathir itu sebagai tindak balas kepada Isma yang melabelkan kaum Cina sebagai 'penceroboh' dan menggesa agar hukum hudud dikenakan kepada semua rakyat Malaysia dan bukan sahaja umat Islam.
"Dia sepatutnya simpan sahaja pandangannya. Mereka tidak membantu keadaan negara ini," katanya pada sidang media selepas melancarkan buku Reminiscences of Insurrection: Malaysia's Battle against Terrorism 1960-1990 oleh Leftenan Kolonel Mohd Azzam Mohd Hanif Ghows hari ini.
Dr Mahathir berkata kenyataan Isma tidak membantu mengekalkan keamanan negara, dengan menambah, kaum Cina juga adalah rakyat Malaysia dan mempunyai hak mereka sendiri.
"Kita tidak perlukan sesiapa untuk menghasut supaya berlaku rusuhan kaum dan perkara sebegitu," katanya.
Tentang cadangan terbaru Isma bahawa hudud perlu dikenakan bagi umat Islam dan bukan Islam, perdana menteri paling lama Malaysia itu menyuruh Isma itu supaya 'mematuhi Al-Quran'.
"Jika dia sudah membaca Al-Quran dengan teliti, ia mengatakan Tuhan tidak menyukai mereka yang menghasut supaya berlaku huru-hara atau kekacauan.
"Jadi dia patut mematuhi Al-Quran," kata Dr Mahathir menjawab kenyataan presiden Isma, Abdullah Zaik Abdul Rahman yang mengatakan undang-undang jenayah Islam itu patut dikenakan kepada semua rakyat Malaysia.
Beliau juga berkata mereka yang menyebabkan ketegangan antara agama merupakan mereka tidak belajar daripada sejarah.
"Mereka tidak belajar daripada sejarah. Tiada manfaatnya menyebabkan ketegangan, konfrontasi dan ketidakstabilan. Mengapa kita perlu bergaduh? Kita saling menyakiti satu sama lain dan akhirnya apa yang kita dapat?"
Beliau berkata Datuk Seri Najib Razak kini dalam situasi yang sukar untuk meredakan ketegangan agama yang semakin meningkat.
"Beliau sedang cuba melakukan tugasnya dengan baik tetapi situasi ini sukar. Anda (pengundi) tidak berikannya mandat yang cukup kuat," katanya, merujuk kepada keputusan Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 (PRU13) di mana kerajaan memerintah Barisan Nasional menang dengan majoriti mudah.
"Anda mahukan liberalisasi, dan apabila kami sudah liberal, ia disalah gunakannya. Jika anda ambil tindakan, kami dituduh sebagai tidak liberal pula." tambahnya. - tmi
Dr M says Najib lacks teeth to bite...
Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak is attempting
to quell the rise of religious and racial tension but lacks the power to
do so.
Mahathir was asked if the current situation reflected Najib's poor leadership and if he should continue leading the nation.
"It is up to the people, they elected him. Najib is trying to do a good job but is he in a difficult situation," he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur today.
Najib
was put in a difficullty position, where the the people demanded
liberalism but the opposition misused such a situation, he said.
"He's in a very difficult position, when you (Najib) take action, people said you are not liberal, but if you don't, things get worse.
"You (voters) have not given him a strong mandate," he added, referring to the last general election results.
During his tenure, Mahathir - who always secured a two-thirds mandate - was known to come down hard on those who threatened national security.
However, he was also accused of crushing dissent and political opponents with an iron fist.
Meanwhile, the ex-premier also took a swipe at Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) over its controversial remarks.
Mahathir said the "Chinese are intruders" remark did do any good for the nation.
"The fact is, the Chinese are here, they are Malaysian citizens and have every right as citizens," he said.
"We don't want people to instigate racial riots. Isma should keep such opinions to itself," added the former premier, who himself has been accused of stoking racial tension.
He also claimed Isma has no proper understanding of the text of the Quran, to have said hudud should be imposed on non-Muslims.
“I think he doesn’t read the Quran properly. It said, God does not like people who create riots,” he said.
The former Umno president also advised his party, which will be celebrating its 68th anniversary on Sunday (May 11), to listen to the people and opposition, as a way to strengthen its support.
“As a political leader, one must listen to what has been said by the people, especially the opposition. Though you don’t need to entertain the opposition which wants to topple the government, if you ignore them, you might continue to lose support,” he said.
He urged Umno to learn from the lesson from the history where many politic parties had failed to survive.
'Kedah should get three percent oil royalty'
Meanwhile, Mahathir seems unconvinced if Sarawak should get its 20 percent oil royalty as it’s a rich state, and suggested that Kedah, where his son Mukhriz helms the state, should benefit from a partial oil royalty.
"It’s up to the government to decide, whether it should give or not. But I find that Sarawak is a rich state,’ he said.
"Kedah has no oil, instead of giving them 20 percent, (why not) give Kedah three percent, we’re not asking much. Kedah is a poor state, poorer than Perlis.
Earlier,
Mahathir applauded army veteran Lt-Col Mohd Azzam Mohd Hanif Ghows for
spending five years to prepare his coffeetable book, a collection of
photos during insurrections between 1960 and 1990, saying that
Malaysians shouldn't forget their history.
He said both late former South African president Nelson and him had once shared their experiences of how their governments were able to keep the country safe from insurgency.
"The guerrillas survived because people provided them with resources and not revealing their whereabouts.
"People at first mistakenly thought the guerrillas were fighting for freedom, but the government able to convince them, these people tried to impose their ideology which happened to be authoritarian and dictatorial.
"Mandela was quite startled at that time, because this was not what he thought, he thought that the people would support the struggle for freedom.
"Of course, his struggle was for freedom, but not the guerrillas," he said.- mk
Mahathir was asked if the current situation reflected Najib's poor leadership and if he should continue leading the nation.
"It is up to the people, they elected him. Najib is trying to do a good job but is he in a difficult situation," he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur today.
Najib
was put in a difficullty position, where the the people demanded
liberalism but the opposition misused such a situation, he said."He's in a very difficult position, when you (Najib) take action, people said you are not liberal, but if you don't, things get worse.
"You (voters) have not given him a strong mandate," he added, referring to the last general election results.
During his tenure, Mahathir - who always secured a two-thirds mandate - was known to come down hard on those who threatened national security.
However, he was also accused of crushing dissent and political opponents with an iron fist.
Meanwhile, the ex-premier also took a swipe at Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) over its controversial remarks.
Mahathir said the "Chinese are intruders" remark did do any good for the nation.
"The fact is, the Chinese are here, they are Malaysian citizens and have every right as citizens," he said.
"We don't want people to instigate racial riots. Isma should keep such opinions to itself," added the former premier, who himself has been accused of stoking racial tension.
He also claimed Isma has no proper understanding of the text of the Quran, to have said hudud should be imposed on non-Muslims.“I think he doesn’t read the Quran properly. It said, God does not like people who create riots,” he said.
The former Umno president also advised his party, which will be celebrating its 68th anniversary on Sunday (May 11), to listen to the people and opposition, as a way to strengthen its support.
“As a political leader, one must listen to what has been said by the people, especially the opposition. Though you don’t need to entertain the opposition which wants to topple the government, if you ignore them, you might continue to lose support,” he said.
He urged Umno to learn from the lesson from the history where many politic parties had failed to survive.
'Kedah should get three percent oil royalty'
Meanwhile, Mahathir seems unconvinced if Sarawak should get its 20 percent oil royalty as it’s a rich state, and suggested that Kedah, where his son Mukhriz helms the state, should benefit from a partial oil royalty.
"It’s up to the government to decide, whether it should give or not. But I find that Sarawak is a rich state,’ he said.
"Kedah has no oil, instead of giving them 20 percent, (why not) give Kedah three percent, we’re not asking much. Kedah is a poor state, poorer than Perlis.
Earlier,
Mahathir applauded army veteran Lt-Col Mohd Azzam Mohd Hanif Ghows for
spending five years to prepare his coffeetable book, a collection of
photos during insurrections between 1960 and 1990, saying that
Malaysians shouldn't forget their history.He said both late former South African president Nelson and him had once shared their experiences of how their governments were able to keep the country safe from insurgency.
"The guerrillas survived because people provided them with resources and not revealing their whereabouts.
"People at first mistakenly thought the guerrillas were fighting for freedom, but the government able to convince them, these people tried to impose their ideology which happened to be authoritarian and dictatorial.
"Mandela was quite startled at that time, because this was not what he thought, he thought that the people would support the struggle for freedom.
"Of course, his struggle was for freedom, but not the guerrillas," he said.- mk
Hudud portends bad news for DAP in coming polls...
While Bukit Gelugor and Teluk Intan are Chinese-majority constituencies, comprising 75 percent and 42 percent of Chinese voters respectively, the controversy over hudud is expected to be “trump card” for DAP's rivals, given that mudslinging occurs widely during elections.
DAP will be facing MCA in Bukit Gelugor and Gerakan in Teluk Intan.
Should the two Chinese-dominant parties of the BN attack DAP by playing up on hudud, there is no chance for the country’s biggest opposition party to avoid addressing several questions, such as how to stop the implementation of hudud, and to resolve the fissure between Pakatan and PAS in particular.
Working closely together among the Pakatan component parties DAP, PKR and PAS is crucial for the mixed seat of Teluk Intan, which comprises 38 percent Malay voters, as DAP will need the assistance of PAS to penetrate those areas.
‘DAP has failed to protect the Chinese’
Penang MCA’s deputy chairperson Tan Teik Cheng is of the opinion that the Bukit Gelugor by-election is the opportunity for MCA to tell the Chinese that “DAP has failed to protect the Chinese” and that “PAS is beyond DAP's control”.
“PAS
insists on tabling a Private Member's Bill on hudud in Parliament, but
DAP can't do anything about this... the Chinese must see this clearly,”
Tan (right) told Malaysiakini when contacted.He said MCA leaders would go all out to tell the Chinese how DAP “betrays” the community by asking them to support PAS that proposed hudud bill which is pervasive to non-Muslim.
However, the late incumbent MP Karpal Singh's thumping victory with a majority of more than 42,000 votes in the 2013 general election could well indicate that MCA only has a slim chance of taking the tiger's den.
The intense debate on hudud took on another angle when Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Jamil Khir Baharom told Parliament on March 27 that Putrajaya was willing to assist the PAS-led Kelantan government to implement hudud.
After Kelantan government gave positive response by proposing the tabling of a Private Member's Bill in the forthcoming session of Parliament, it went on to form a joint technical task force with the federal government to push for hudud.
DAP must explain the ‘mess’ to the people
In Perak, the state DAP secretary Wong Kah Woh said the urgent task for the party leaders now was to explain to the Chinese constituents that Umno was the one that initiated the mess.
“We
need to explain to the voters, once again, that DAP is against hudud,
and they need to know Umno is the first that challenged PAS (to table
the hudud Bill),” said Wong (right), who is the Canning assemblyperson.As for by-election strategy, he reminded Pakatan leaders not to follow the tones set by BN, but to keep highlighting issues of corruption, the much criticised goods and services tax and the country’s education system.
Despite urgings from several top DAP leaders for PAS to quit Pakatan if did not back down on its theocratic goals, some Pakatan leaders maintained that the allies remained cooperative with one another.
Perak PAS deputy chairperson Nizar Jamaluddin told Malaysiakini that his party would “do its level best” in the campaign for the Teluk Intan seat.
“Umno tries to split us (Pakatan), but look, the revolts from non-Muslim parties in BN, like MCA and Gerakan, and the Christian leaders in East Malaysia, are greater than (opposition to hudud from) DAP and PKR... there is no rift within Pakatan,” Nizar said.
The former Perak menteri besar pointed out that the voters in semi-urban Teluk Intan were concerned about local issues, rather than hudud.
Meanwhile, PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu said hudud “is far from the implementation stage” and this would not bring any negative impact upon the DAP in the coming by-elections.
“Hudud remains at the discussion stage so far, without any concrete outcome... PAS will go all out to campaign,” said Mat Sabu, who is also Penang PAS commissioner.
'Hudud not a key issue in mixed seats'
However, Gerakan remains cautious about using the hudud issue as one of its weapons in the Teluk Intan campaign.
This is due to considerations to ensure that the 38 percent of the Malay voters in the mixed seat are not offended by Gerakan's aggressive objection against the Islamic penal system, as this may result in a possible loss of Malay votes.
To this, Teluk Intan Gerakan division acting chairperson Choo Weng Kee said the party should note that the Changkat Jong state seat under Teluk Intan is a Malay-majority area.
“We must explain to the Malays mildly. We are not anti-Islam by being against hudud, but that such a system is not suitable in Malaysian context,” Choo said.- mk
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