DAP mahu bina masjid di Kelantan...

DAP hari ini mengumumkan rancangan mereka untuk membina sebuah masjid untuk masyarakat Islam di sekitar Kampung Pasir Tumboh, Gua Musang Kelantan.

Setiausaha Organisasi DAP Anthony Loke Siew Fook berkata, cadangan itu dipersetujui selepas mereka mendengar permohonan daripada imam serta penduduk  di kawasan berkenaan.

Kata Loke, pemimpin kanan parti itu, Lim Kit Siang sendiri mengarahkannya membuat pengumuman itu.

"Kami bersedia untuk membina masjid di Kampung Pasir Tumboh," katanya dalam ucapan di majlis penyerahan rumah Gabungan Impian Kelantan, tengah hari tadi.

Rumah itu dibina dengan sumbangan orang ramai dan setakat ini sebanyak 40 unit siap dibina dan diserahkan kepada pemilik yang layak.

Setiap satu rumah dibina dengan kos antara RM15,000 hingga RM20,000.

Bantu atas dasar kemanusiaan

Menurut Loke, DAP berkarap penduduk dan jawatankuasa masjid di situ boleh bersepakat untuk membenarkan pembinaan dijalankan.

"Kami membantu atas dasar kemanusiaan," katanya.

Loke memberitahu, DAP memberi jaminan wang yang akan digunakan nanti adalah hasil sumbangan derma orang ramai dan bebas daripada sebarang unsur haram seperti judi.

Sebelum itu imam Kampung Pasir Tumboh Abdul Mutalip Seman menegaskan penduduk setempat berharap ada pihak yang membina masjid mereka yang rosak teruk akibat banjir tahun lalu.

"Bantuan daripada Gabungan Impian Kelantan dan pertubuhan bukan kerajaan yang lain,  kini kami berjaya tinggal dalam rumah selesa semula.

"Cuma yang masih rosak dan belum dibaiki sekarang ini adalah masjid kami.

"Kami harap DAP dan pertubuhan bukan kerajaan lain sudi membantu membangunkan masjid pula," katanya.

Menurut Abdul Mutalib, beliau dan penduduk kampung tidak ada masalah dalam soal siapa yang membina masjid berkenaan. - mk

 

DAP to build mosque in Kelantan...

DAP has announced plans to build a mosque for the Muslim community in Kampung Pasir Tumboh, Gua Musang, Kelantan.

Party organising secretary Anthony Loke said they agreed to do so after receiving a request from the local imam (mosque leader) and residents.

Loke said DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang had instructed him to make the announcement today.

"We are ready to build a mosque in Kampung Pasir Tumboh," Loke said in his speech at a ceremony held with regard to the houses built by NGO Gabungan Impian Kelantan today.

The houses were constructed from public donations and 40 units have been built and handed to deserving owners.

Each house had cost between RM15,000 and RM20,000 to build.

Meanwhile, Loke said DAP hoped that residents in Kampung Pasir Tumboh as well as the mosque committee would agree to the construction of the mosque.

"We are helping on the basis of humanity," he said.

He added that DAP assured that funds to build the mosque would be from the public and free of haram (forbidden) elements such as gambling.

The mosque in Kampung Pasir Tumboh had been damaged by floods which occurred in December last year.

Speaking at the same function, Kampung Pasir Tumboh’s imam Abdul Mutalip Seman said residents have no qualms as to who builds the mosque.

"We are now able to live comfortably with help from the Gabungan Impian Kelantan as well as from other NGOs.

"The only thing that has yet to be fixed is our mosque. We hope  DAP and other NGOs are  willing to build our mosque," he added. - mk

Dr.M - Kalu rombak kabinet, Najib kena berambus dulu...

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak perlu menjadi orang pertama meletak jawatan dalam Kabinet jika berlaku rombakan seperti yang digembar-gemburkan, kata Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Kenyataan sinis tersebut dibuat bekas perdana menteri itu mengulas laporan akhbar dikawal kerajaan, New Straits Times hari ini, mengatakan rombakan Kabinet akan berlaku selepas Hari Raya Aidilfitri.

"Perlu ada rombakan Kabinet, dan orang pertama perlu angkat kaki adalah perdana menteri," katanya di Kuala Lumpur hari ini.

Dr Mahathir berkata demikian kepada wartawan selepas sidang antarabangsa Plight of Rohingya Part 2 Crime Against Humanity, di Muzium Kesenian Islam.

Memetik sumber, laporan NST itu berkata, Najib merahsiakan perkara berkenaan, tetapi mungkin akan merombak Kabinet untuk menunaikan janji yang dibuat semasa pilihan raya.

Perdana menteri dilaporkan sudah mempertimbangkan idea tersebut sebelum ini, untuk merombak jawatan menteri di kalangan ahli Umno, tetapi rancangan itu dibatalkan kerana "keadaan yang tidak diduga".

Rombakan tersebut dikatakan akan menyaksikan perubahan portfolio membabitkan seorang atau 2 menteri yang akan digantikan dengan wajah baharu.

Bagaimanapun, Menteri Pertahanan Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein dan Menteri Pelancongan dan Kebudayaan Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz menafikan rombakan Kabinet akan berlaku. – tmi

Mahathir backs cabinet reshuffle, minus Najib...

Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad today supported widely-speculated claims of a cabinet reshuffle but said the first person to be removed should be Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

"There should be a reshuffle with the first person to go being the prime minister," he told a press conference in Kuala Lumpur this evening.

He was responding to news reports that a cabinet reshuffle was on the cards, after a few ministers voiced dissent against Najib's management of 1MDB.

However, Tourism Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz (photo) dismissed the likelihood of any cabinet reshuffle.

Nazri also slammed Mahathir for attacking Najib's administration, labelling his views as unimportant.

However, Mahathir today shot back at Nazri, saying the latter could not differentiate between right and wrong.

"Losing money is not important, it's only a few billion, we are a rich country.

"We borrow RM42 billion and lose part of it, that's okay, we can borrow some more, " he said sarcastically. - mk

Apa lagi PAS mahu...

Boleh dikatakan semuanya berjalan seperti yang diingini – atau sekurang-kurangnya kelihatan seperti yang diingini.

Mereka mahu ‘parasit’ disingkirkan; Anwarinas disembelih dan dicampak ke tepi; sesiapa yang membantah atau mempersoal, dijentik.

Kemuncaknya ialah membatalkan kerjasama dengan DAP.

Ia memang sudah tercapai, bukan? Usul dirangka, dibincang dan dibawa ke muktamar. Sesuatu usul apabila dibawa ke sidang tentulah pihak yang mencadang, mahu ia diterima sebagai matlamat akhir.

Gila apa mahu usul dibawa tetapi tidak diterima?

Nah, ia juga sudah tercapai. Pedulilah sama ada ia dibahas atau tidak. Lebih baik diterima tanpa dibahas daripada dibahas tetapi tidak diterima.

Dewan Ulama PAS tentu tidak stabil berfikir jika usul berkenaan dicadangkan dan mahu ia ditolak. Pedulikanlah jika ia tidak dibahaskan kerana mana tahu tiba-tiba ia diketawakan.

Bukankah PAS sebuah parti yang kuat?

Bertanding semua kerusi

Sekarang kumpulan ulama sudah menguasai seluruh badan PAS. Di sayap pemuda, yang menjadi ketua bukan saja ulama, malah anak para ulama.

Dewan Muslimat juga diisi dengan tokoh-tokoh yang hebat. Perlu apa lagi si Aishah yang pernah menjadi penyanyi popular itu. Sama seperti tidak perlunya seorang doktor toksikologi serta peguam dalam jawatankuasa pusat PAS.

PAS hari ini tidak memerlukan apa-apa kecuali reda Allah. Perjuangan bukan tentang mencapai kemenangan sangat. Yang penting, seperti tajuk ucapan dasar presiden parti itu, ialah istiqamah.

Untuk berpencak di medan politik yang serba rumit, PAS hari ini tidak perlu bimbang kerana mereka ada siku dan lutut. Jika perlu, serban juga boleh dijadikan senjata.

Strategi berperang PAS hari ini juga lebih unik. Daripada berdua atau bertiga, PAS berpendapat mereka akan menjadi lebih gagah dan lincah jika bersendirian.

Daripada bertanding di semua kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak, pasti PAS di bawah kepimpinan semasa boleh berkira-kira untuk menyertai pilihan raya umum di setiap kerusi yang dipertandingkan Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya.

Mana tahu mungkin ahli PAS akan dapat menjadi menteri besar bukan saja di Kelantan, malah Negeri Sembilan, Melaka, Johor, Perak, malah Pulau Pinang.

Nah, apa lagi yang PAS mahu apabila bertegas mendakwa usul memutuskan hubungan dengan DAP itu belum muktamad? - roketkini

Systemic Breakdown ataupun "system yang sudah breakdown"...

What does this 1MDB fiasco really mean? It is the eventual culmination of a 'systemic' breakdown.

In other countries (say Thailand, UK, South Korea, Singapore etc) the entire Cabinet could have been kicked out by their own party, forced to resign by the Parliamentarians, thrown out of office by the people or something like that. We have seen this happening in Thailand, South Korea, Greece and other countries.

But not in Malaysia. The party dare not throw out the top guy because of the loss of patronage. Money.

The Cabinet Ministers will not resign in protest because of the system of patronage. Money again.

The government machinery will not protest also because they dont want to lose their jobs. Plus, they dont want to lose opportunities to get cushy jobs, gomen contracts, projects etc after their retirement or for their children. Money.

So everyone just shuts down and says 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'.

It is a complete breakdown of the system.

Our system is based on a very good template. There is little or no difference between our system of government and say Singapore, UK, Australia or India.

Every five years we have an opportunity to choose our government. We have a similar Civil Service hierarchy, a very, very similar legal system, judiciary etc. The systems are the same.

But we are closer to India in being a society that condones corruption. Close one eye, or both eyes.   We are far, far from say a Singapore, UK, South Korea or Australia.

So what gives? I think it is the culture and the traditions. We have extremely weak cultural and traditional values.  Our cultures and our traditions do not create a higher order society.

And in corruption, there is great unity among all races in the country. All our races are 100% united when it comes to being corrupt.

We may not like each other on the basis of skin colour, language, religion, race etc. But when it comes to corruption, it is back slapping, hand shaking, dangduting, yam senging jolly good fun all the way. Forget about race, religion, skin colour, language etc. Corruption unites us. There is great multi racial, multi cultural Malaysian team spirit in corruption. 

The division of corruption used to be racially divided.  The Chinese were always the givers because they are the ones who needed the approval for the condo project, approval for the factory, approval for the foreign workers, foreign maids etc. The Malays were on the other side of the counter, at the receiving end.

But that too has changed.  Now the givers and takers are anyone and everyone.

In India, they often have to bribe their Civil Service bosses to get a promotion. This is a very common occurence.  Let me share an old story. A young guy in India (who was a State hockey player there) got a job as a Government Health Inspector. It was a low level job. But the whole family celebrated, with nasi beriani and all.

The reason being the job could make plenty of side income - they told me this with much pride. As a Health Inspector the young man could check on restaurants, factories, hotels etc. He could get bribes from unhygienic establishments who had flouted the law.  So the young guy could start earning corrupt money.

If he wants to get a promotion - to go higher - he must pay his bosses to promote him. The bosses also know that once promoted he can make even more money from corruption. So they take a cut up front.

To my utter shock I was told just a few days ago that this practise has now come to Malaysia. It is found in a certain service. To go up a certain rung you have to pay RM50,000.  The bosses know the lower rung can pay that amount because that is the 'collection' they can get at the lower rung. 

I was told bosses in the same service also take money for transfers. Because if you are transferred from the 'jaga rumput' department to the 'jaga orang' department, surely your money collection will be higher. So, pay up front to the bosses a little.

If this is becoming common in this service, soon it will spread (if it has not already) to other departments and branches of gomen.

Watch out folks. We really need to change plenty of things. - syedsoutsidethebox

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