Biar saya mati berdiri daripada hidup melutut...

Dua pertuduhan terhadap saya di bawah Akta Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia dan Kanun Keseksaan atas dakwaan rasuah adalah tindakan penganiayaan politik yang dilaksanakan dengan tujuan menghancurkan saya sebagai Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang.  

Kedua-dua pertuduhan di bawah Akta Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) dan Kanun Keseksaan kerana perbuatan rasuah adalah jelas penganiayaan atau pendakwaan politik yang semata-mata untuk menghancurkan saya sebagai ketua menteri Pulau Pinang.

Saya telah menjelaskan kepada SPRM bahawa pembelian banglo dari Phang Li Koon adalah dilakukan dengan tulus hati, antara individu yang tidak mempunyai kepentingan perniagaan, atas dasar kerelaan penjual dan pembeli tanpa sebarang paksaan atau sebarang balasan istimewa daripada saya mahupun kerajaan negeri.

Phang adalah kawan isteri saya tidak mempunyai hubungan perniagaan yang aktif dengan kerajaan negeri. Dia bukan seorang pemaju perumahan dan banglo dia menjual saya untuk RM2.8 juta telah dibina pada tahun 1980-an.

Terdapat percubaan untuk menyamakan kes saya dengan kes bekas Menteri Besar Selangor, Dr Mohd Khir Toyo. Ini sama sekali adalah salah.

Tidak seperti kes Khir Toyo, Phang tidak kerugian sebanyak RM5 juta tetapi mencatatkan keuntungan kecil RM300,000 hasil pembelian asalnya pada harga RM2.5 juta.

Tidak seperti kes Khir Toyo, Phang bukan seorang pemaju perumahan baru yang bergantung kepada kerajaan negeri untuk meneruskan perniagaannya.

Bagi  pertuduhan kedua berkaitan kelulusan permohonan Magnificent Emblem Sdn Bhd (MESB) untuk menukar status tanahnya daripada tanah pertanian kepada tanah perumahan; MESB tidak berjaya melakukan pertukaran status hartanahnya kepada tanah perumahan.

Hartanah tersebut masih kekal sebagai tanah pertanian.

Apa faedah yang didapati MESB apabila ia tidak mendapat kelulusan pertukaran status terbabit apabila ia tidak mendapat izin akhir daripada Majlis Bandaraya Pulau Pinang.

Saya juga hairan dengan apa yang bermula sebagai serangan politik jahat terhadap saya kononnya menjual tanah Taman Manggis yang sepatutnya diberikan kepada orang miskin akhirnya berakhir tanpa sebarang penghujung.

Apa guna menteri BN kecoh-kecoh tentang Taman Manggis?

Jelas sekali tidak ada apa-apa yang salah dengan penjualan tanah Taman Manggis, dan sebaliknya saya didakwa kerana membuat keputusan bagi MESB yang akhirnya tidak pun memberi mereka sebarang faedah.

Malangnya tidak ada pun tuduhan rasuah apabila wujud keterhutangan sehingga RM50 bilion atau apabila wang berjumlah RM2.6 bilion atau RM4 bilion masuk ke dalam akaun peribadi anda. Tetapi boleh pula wujud rasuah apabila orang yang dituduh korup tidak pula mendapat sebarang faedah.

Saya tidak akan melutut

Saya tidak akan tunduk kepada permainan politik kotor dan ganas ini untuk memusnahkan reputasi saya atau imej Pulau Pinang sebagai negeri paling bersih dan paling baik urus tadbirnya di Malaysia.

Kami bangga dengan pelaksanaan tender terbuka dan bangga dengan pujian daripada Transparency International dan laporan tahunan Ketua Audit Negara.

Kita tidak akan biarkan BN untuk cuba memalit lumpur ke muka kita demi menyembunyikan skandal rasuahnya sendiri. Kita akan buktikan bahawa kita tidak bersalah di mahkamah.

Kita akan berjuang untuk membuktikan bahawa kerajaan Pakatan adalah kerajaan yang mendahulukan rakyat, dan menjulang tinggi prinsip-prinsip integriti, keadilan, kebebasan dan demokrasi.

Masih ada harapan untuk Malaysia yang bersih dan bebas daripada rasuah, penyalahgunaan kuasa dan penindasan.

Kita tidak boleh biarkan BN merompak masa depan anak cucu kita, sebagaimana mereka telah merompak masa depan kita.

Negara jenis apa yang kita mahu untuk anak cucu kita nanti, apabila mereka yang meraih untung dan derma berbilion ringgit tidak dituduh rasuah, sedangkan mereka yang tidak mendapat faedah didakwa rasuah.

BN boleh dakwa saya, tetapi tidak akan dapat membunuh iltizam saya demi membebaskan Malaysia daripada rasuah.

BN boleh memangsakan saya, tetapi tidak akan menghancurkan semangat saya untuk membebaskan saya daripada mereka yang merompak masa depan anak cucu kita.

BN malah boleh menghina saya dengan mengurung saya semalaman tanpa sebab, tetapi mereka tidak akan berjaya menukar putih menjadi hitam, dan hitam menjadi putih. Yang benar tidak akan menjadi salah, dan yang salah tidak akan menjadi benar.

BN tidak akan dapat menghancurkan kekuatan parti saya - pemimpin dan ahlinya berdiri bersama untuk berjuang ke arah penambahbaikan demi Malaysia yang lebih baik, dengan keadilan, kebebasan dan demokrasi.

Jika BN rasa ia boleh mematahkan semangat saya dengan menahan saya, mereka salah sama sekali!

Saya lebih rela mati daripada hidup melutut. Malaysia yang bebas, adil dan makmur untuk semua mesti diperjuangkan! - LIM GUAN ENG

I will die standing than live on my knees...

The two charges against me under the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act and the Penal Code for corrupt practice are a clear act of political persecution motivated solely to destroy me as Penang chief minister.

I had explained to MACC that the purchase of the bungalow from Phang Li Koon is above-board, an arms-length transaction on a willing buyer and  seller basis without any coercion or special favours granted from me or the state government.

Phang is a friend of my wife and has no active business relationship with the state government. She is not a housing developer and the bungalow she sold me for RM2.8 million was built in the 1980s.

There have been attempts to draw similarities between my case and former Selangor menteri besar Mohd Khir Toyo. This is wrong.

Unlike Khir Toyo’s case, Phang did not make a loss of RM5 million but recorded a small profit of RM300,000 from her original purchase price of RM2.5 million.

Unlike Khir Toyo’s case, Phang is not a housing developer that has to be reliant on state government to continue her business.

On the second charge relating to the approval of Magnificent Emblem Sdn Bhd's (MESB) application to re-zone its land from agricultural to residential use, MESB did not succeed in re-zoning its property to residential (purpose). The property still remains an agricultural land.

What benefit is there to MESB when it could not get final re-zoning approval to agricultural (use) from Majlis Bandaraya Pulau Pinang?

I am also puzzled by what started off as a vicious political attack on me selling out Taman Manggis land meant for the poor has came to nothing. Why all the hype about Taman Manggis land by BN ministers then?

Clearly, there is nothing wrong with Taman Manggis land sale and instead I am charged with making a decision for MESB that finally did not gain them any benefit.

Sadly, there is no corruption with huge RM50 billion debts or RM2.6 billion or RM4 billion in your personal bank accounts. But it is now corruption even when the alleged corrupt party did not gain any benefit.

Vicious political plays

I will not submit to such dirty and vicious political plays to destroy my reputation or Penang’s image as the cleanest and best-run state in Malaysia.

We are proud of our open competitive tenders and proud of our accolades from Transparency International and the annual Auditor-General’s Reports.

We will not allow BN to throw mud to hide its own corruption scandals. We will prove our innocence in court.

We will fight to prove that the Pakatan Harapan government is a people-centric government that upholds its principles of integrity, justice, freedom and democracy.

There is still hope for a Malaysia that is clean and free from corruption, abuse of power and oppression. We must not allow BN to steal our children’s future as they have stolen ours.

What type of country do we want our children to grow up when those who gained benefits and donations amounting to billions of ringgit are not charged with corruption while those who gained no benefit are prosecuted for corruption?

BN can prosecute me but it will not kill my passion to free Malaysia from corruption.

BN can victimise me but will not crush my spirit to free Malaysia from those who steal our children's future.

BN can even humiliate me by unnecessarily detaining me overnight but will not succeed in changing white to black and black to white. Right cannot become wrong and wrong cannot become right.

BN will not break my party's unity – we stand together as leaders and members to battle for reforms towards a better Malaysia with freedom, justice and democracy.

If BN feels that they can bend or break me by arresting me, they are wrong! I will die standing (rather) than live on bended knees. A free Malaysia, a fair Malaysia, a prosperous Malaysia for all is worth fighting for! - LIM GUAN ENG

Ketua Menteri Lim Guan Eng akan didakwa berhubung zon semula tanah di Balik Pulau dan pembelian hartanah, jelas Pengerusi DAP Pulau Pinang Chow Kon Yeow.

Beliau menjelaskan perkara zon semula tanah itu tiada kaitan dengan isu Taman Manggis.

Sebaliknya, ia berkenaan permohonan zon semula tanah oleh Magnificent Emblem Sdn Bhd, dimana Phang Li Koon salah seorang pemiliknya. Permohonan itu ditolak oleh majlis perbandaran, katanya sebelum ini.

Li Koon merupakan bekas tuan tanah kepada Guan Eng yang membeli sebuah banglo darinya tahun lalu.

“Kami DAP Pulau Pinang menganggap dakwaan itu direka untuk membunuh kerjaya politik saudara Guan Eng.

“Kita menyeru semua penyokong DAP supaya bertenang mengharungi ribut melanda dan tunggu kata putus tindakan susulan selepas kami bermesyuarat,” kata Kon Yeow kepada pemberita di luar ibu pejabat Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) di Jalan Northam malam tadi.

Kon Yeow berkata Guan Eng didakwa kerana meluluskan zon semula sebidang tanah pertanian di Balik Pulau kepada tanah perumahan selaku Ketua Menteri.

Sebelum dibawa pergi oleh SPRM, Guan Eng berpesan kepada Kon Yeow supaya tabah menghadapi dugaan ini.

“Beliau beritahu saya supaya tempuhi krisis politik ini dan pastikan kerajaan negeri kekal utuh,” katanya.

Guan Eng akan didakwa di bawah Seksyen 23 Akta SPRM kerana meluluskan permohonan zon semula tanah milik syarikat Phang Li Koon, Magnificent Emblem dan di bawah Seksyen 165 Kanun Keseksaan kerana membeli hartanah bawah nilai pasaran.

Seksyen 165 Kanun Keseksaan menyatakan bahawa barangsiapa, yang menjadi penjawat awam menerima sesuatu benda yang berharga dengan suatu balasan yang ia ketahui tidak mencukupi, daripada seseorang yang ia ketahui ada mempunyai hubungan dengan kerja-kerja rasminya, melakukan kesalahan yang boleh dihukum dengan penjara atau denda atau kedua-duanya sekali. - fmt

Kalau tangap Guan Eng satu strategi, ia adalah suatu kesilapan? 

Kenapa Lim Guang Eng tidak Najib, soal Mat Sabu

Guan Eng's Arrest : End Of The Lim Dynasty...

If you go back to that video where Tun Dr Mahathir spoke in Penang most recently, at one point Dr Mahathir looks at Guan Eng and says, "he has some problems there" (or words to that effect). Dr Mahathir was referring to the bungalow case. When I heard Dr Mahathir say that I knew the matter was serious.

My UMNO friend who smsed me this news about five minutes ago said 'tak puas hati Boogees tak kena2 lagi'.

I agree bro. But two wrongs do not make a right.  Just because Boogees can get away with blatant corruption does not recuse other politicians from the same wrongs.

Granted that they have moved quite fast against Guan Eng - which normally happens when the opposition is involved. Khir Toyo's case took years.

I see similarities between this case and Khir Toyo's case.  You cannot separate the two. 

However Khir Toyo's case took so much time to go through the courts.  Well, Khir Toyo is not a DAP member.

Guan Eng will be charged and then he will have the right to defend himself.  But how long will the Court process take? 

It can really screw up the timetable for the DAP if the case goes to full hearing before the next General Election.  

But even despite that can Guan Eng continue as Chief Minister when he has been charged for corruption,  even when out on bail and during the court process? 

Good governance and transparency says otherwise.  

Well hail then to Prof. Dr. P. Ramasamy s/o Palanisamy the Deputy Chief Minister of Penang. Will he be elevated to Chief Minister? Or will the Indians be the "fetchers and getters" only?

If Guan Eng "kena" and is found guilty, who will lead the DAP into the next GE?  The DAP will most likely retain Penang. 

Who will be the DAP's candidate for CM?  

This is a major opportunity for Prof Ramasamy  to show what the Indians can do. 

If Guan Eng is sent off to jail,  it will be the end of the Lim Dynasty in the DAP. For 50 years, since 1966, Lim Kit Siang has held sway over the DAP.   By any measure this is a family show. 

Having said that the DAP is not without its second echelon leadership. They have plenty of talent.  Whether Mr Lim Senior will allow the DAP free rein to develop and bloom on its own is to be seen. 

Guan Eng has been jailed before - over the Rahim Thamby Chik case.  (That was a mess, we still dont know who really slept with whom).

Lim Guan Eng and I were classmates at the Melaka High School in 1976 and 1977. Later when I got my first bank job at the United Overseas Bank (then known as Chung Khiaw Bank) in 1987, Guan Eng had just left the bank less than a year before me to go full time into politics.  I have only met him once (for a few seconds) since 1977.

It is sad to hear about an old classmate facing something like this. - syedsoutsidethebox  

Netizens want MACC to go after other big fish...

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s arrest is dominating social media, particularly on Twitter, with many netizens weighing in on the matter.

Ooi Zhi Yi said he was waiting to see how DAP would react to the arrest of their party’s secretary-general as the secular party had in the past slammed the anti-graft agency over the death of Teoh Beng Hock, an aide to a Selangor DAP assemblyman, but praised them over its investigation into the 1Malaysia Development Berhad state investment fund.

Teoh died while in MACC’s custody in 2009.

“Let’s see what they shall say now,” he tweeted.

Fellow Twitter user Syahir urged the MACC to go after other leaders.

“It’s time to catch the ‘biggest fish’ in Malaysia. Not only LGE.”

Meanwhile, Azwari Zainal Abidin implied that the MACC only worked fast when it came to investigating Opposition leaders.

“If it is Najib (Razak) they are afraid ,” he said, alluding to the prime minister.

Another user, identified as Teropong Mata, said Lim’s arrest served as a reminder to the Opposition to stay away from shady transactions.

Shahnon Salleh said that Lim’s arrest was not at all surprising.

“If Khir Toyo was found guilty of the same offence, what is stopping MACC from charging LGE?” he said alluding to the former Selangor menteri besar, who was convicted of purchasing a piece of property lower than the market price and sentenced to a year in prison.

Lim was arrested earlier today by MACC and will be charged under Sect 23 of the MACC Act for allowing an application to rezone a piece of land owned by Phang Li Khoon’s company Magnificent Emblem and Sect 165 of the Penal Code for buying property below market value.

Section 165 stipulates that it is an offence for a public servant to obtain anything without consideration from persons concerned in any proceeding or business transacted by such a public servant.- fmt

Bekas tahanan ISA dapat RM5.16 juta...

Story kat SINI dan SINI  

cheers.

Sayakah si ‘kafir harbi’ yang layak dibunuh itu...

Mufti Pahang Datuk Seri Dr. Abdul Rahman Osman diminta jujur dan berterus-terang untuk menyatakan siapakah sebenarnya ‘kafir harbi’ yang dimaksudkan.

Permintaan ini dibuat Ketua Parlimen DAP Lim Kit Siang dalam satu kenyataan apabila mufti berkenaan berkeras tidak mahu menarik semula kenyataan bahaya itu atau meminta maaf kerana melabel DAP sebagai ‘kafir harbi’.

Kata Kit Siang, label ‘kafir harbi’ itu amat bahaya dan berbaur hasutan serta boleh menjejaskan keamanan, keselamatan dan keharmonian negara yang memayungi masyarakat pelbagai lapisan kaum dan agama.

“Saya masih menunggu respon Abdul Rahman terhadap kenyataan saya semalam di Gelang Patah. Saya minta beliau berlaku jujur dan berani untuk menyatakan secara spesifik adakah saya orangnya si ‘kafir harbi’ yang layak dibunuh itu?” soal Kit Siang dalam satu kenyataan.

Dalam masa yang sama, Kit Siang juga menuntut penjelasan mufti berkenaan adakah label ‘kafir harbi’ dibuat kerana DAP lantang memperjuangkan nasib rakyat tertindas dan jika demikian, bila pula masanya beliau menjadi ‘kafir harbi’.

“Adakah kerana saya bangun bersuara di Parlimen pada tahun 1978 menentang UMNO-Barisan Nasional mengisytiharkan darurat untuk merampas Kelantan dari PAS?

“Atau adakah kerana saya mengkritik cara kerajaan menangani tragedi Memali pada tahun 1985 yang telah mengorbankan 18 nyawa dan mendesak supaya Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja ditubuhkan bagi menyiasat tragedi hitam itu?” tanya beliau.

Ujarnya, adakah label itu dilontarkan kerana Lim Guan Eng mempertahankan maruah seorang gadis Melayu di Melaka sehingga dimasukkan ke penjara akibat dan hilang kelayakannya sebagai Ahli Parlimen Kota Melaka, malah hilang kelayakan pencen dan hak mengundi selama lima tahun?

“Mungkinkah juga kerana pada tahun 2000 saya mengecam Kerajaan Persekutuan yang merampas royalti minyak Terengganu sebanyak lima peratus kerana PAS menang di Terengganu dan membentuk kerajaan negeri dengan Hadi Awang sebagai menteri besar?” Kit Siang menyoal.

Kesal dengan apa yang berlaku, beliau kehairanan kerana walaupun Malaysia memiliki pasukan khas anti keganasan yang memantau segala pergerakan dan ancaman penganas ISIS, ia tidak mampu menangkis pemikiran ekstrem agama ala-ISIS seperti kontroversi ‘kafir harbi’ yang hangat diperkatakan saat ini.

“Siapa yang lebih berbahaya, sama ada anggota ISIS Mohd Rafi Udin yang memberi amaran tiada lagi keamanan di Bukit Aman atau kenyataan Mufti Pahang yang mencetuskan polemik ‘kafir harbi’ tertuju kepada orang bukan Islam dan DAP khususnya,” soalnya lagi. – Roketkini.com

DAP jadi 'kafir harbi' bila M'sia di ambang PRU14

300 Ketua Cawangan UMNO,17 Bahagian leaders Quit UMNO in Sempoerna...

Sulabayan assemblyman Datuk Jaujan Sambakong has resigned from Umno citing the suspension of party vice-president and Semporna division chief Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal as unfair.

“I have quit the party,” Jaujan told The Star Online.

He said those who also quit the party included Semporna Umno permanent chairman Datu Eranza Saribu, 17 division and 300 branch leaders.

Jaujan, the Semporna Umno vice-chairman, said they were unhappy with the “unfair” suspension of Shafie, who is Semporna MP. Continue reading here...

My comments :  So what if Shafie worked hard for the party? So what if Shafie helped UMNO enter Sabah (oops)?  What you did for the party is not relevant.

What is relevant is "Do you support crooks and thieves?"

If you cannot support crooks and thieves, then all your previous contributions to the party become useless. It is not relevant.

The important thing is can you help a hippo carry bagfuls of dirty underwear onto  a getaway plane? If you can, you are in. If you cannot, you are out.  It is as simple as that. 

Well I hope that the resignation of Husni Hanadzlah, this resignation of 300 Branch Chiefs in Sempoerna, the resignation of 17 division level leaders and the resignation of the assemblyman will trigger an exodus from UMNO.

Semua ahli UMNO yang masih belum berhenti atau menarik diri dari jawatan dan keahlian perlu fikir rapi keadaan paling genting sekarang yang menimpa seluruh negara kita dan semua kaum dan lapisan masyarakat kita. Hanya ahli UMNO yang boleh menyelamatkan keadaan sekarang.

Tindakan tegas dan berani 300 Ketua Cawangan Sempoerna, 17 pemimpin Bahagian dan ADUN Sulabayan patut dicontohi.  Darah pejuang pelaut Bajau dan Suluk. 

Jika ahli UMNO masih hendak tunggu lagi orang lain pula yang akan datang menyelamatkan keadaan.    UMNO akan lenyap. Ahli UMNO akan muflis.- syedsoutsidethebox  

A self-proclaimed IS member posted on his Facebook account to claim responsibility for the grenade attack in Puchong.The police are still verifying the authenticity of the claim.The early morning incident took place at about 1.30 a.m. today. At least six people were injured. - mysinchew

Rambut bibik Mama pun sekali dandan RM1,200-RM2,500.

Dua kali dandan tinggai,belen RM100...

Nak tanya pasai apa???

cheers.

‘Melayu hilang kuasa jika UMNO tumbang' hanyalah mitos...

Malaysia tidak akan bergerak daripada politik mundur berbaur perkauman dan membina landasan politik baru berasaskan isu, jika tiga mitos yang dialami masyarakat di negara ini tidak dapat dihapuskan, dakwa Ketua Parlimen DAP Lim Kit Siang.

Katanya, dua daripada tiga mitos tersebut bagaimanapun telah pun dibuktikan tidak relevan dalam dua pilihanraya umum yang lalu.

Menurutnya, dua mitos yang mengatakan bahawa kaum Cina bakal musnah jika MCA dikalahkan dan nasib kaum India bakal terjejas jika MIC ditewaskan telah dipatahkan dalam Pilihanraya Umum (PRU) Ke-12 dan Ke-13.

Bagaimanapun, menurutnya, pola politik perkauman sedemikian tidak akan terhenti melainkan mitos ketiga yang mendakwa kaum Melayu bakal menjadi kaum yang terpinggir jika UMNO berjaya diatasi pembangkang, berjaya dinafikan.

“Ia adalah penipuan yang nyata, kerana kaum Melayu tidak akan kehilangan kuasa politik jika UMNO ditendang keluar dari Putrajaya,” katanya dalam ceramah kopitiam di Pekan Nenas semalam.

Beliau berkata demikian sebagai mengulas kenyataan Bekas Ketua Hakim Negara, Tun Abdul Hamid Moha­mad yang mendakwa bahawa kaum Melayu bakal musnah sekiranya UMNO ditumbangkan.

Mengulas lanjut, Kit Siang yang juga Ahli Parlimen Gelang Patah berkata, kaum Melayu tidak akan kehilangan kuasa ekoran peratusan populasi kaum berkenaan yang meningkat saban tahun berbanding kaum lain di negara ini.

“Daripada 165 kerusi Parlimen di Semenanjung Malaysia, majoriti 114 adalah kerusi yang dipegang kaum Melayu yang mewakili 70 peratus, manakala 22 majoriti kerusi kaum Cina dan 29 kerusi campuran. Tidak ada satu pun kerusi majoriti dari kaum India,” tambahnya.

Justeru katanya, Malaysia tidak akan menjadi negara demokrasi yang normal seperti negara rantau lain sehinggalah mitos Melayu hilang kuasa itu dibuktikan palsu semata-mata. – Roketkini.com

Maaf cakaplah. Melihat angka² yang didakwa telah diagihkan buatkan aku makin sangsi. Agih ke mana dan kat sapa? Kerana di luar sana banyak lagi aduan yang layak terima zakat mengatakan mereka tak dapat bantuan dari pusat zakat.Lihat angka juta² diagihkan tu, aku khuatir 'teragih' ke simulator golf.

Dah kutip RM2.2 bilion satu tahun pun masih tak cukup lagi kah? Nak kutip berapa banyak baru dikatakan cukup itu ??? Kutip berbilion2 ringgit sampai kiamat pun takkan cukup kalau guna duit zakat untuk beli hartanah, ubahsuai pejabat, sibuk nak bina menara berbelas2 tingkat, masjid, taja akhbar BH/NST ke sekolah, tadika, bantuan perkahwinan dan sbgnya... - f/bk

Bila aku dok promosi kepada kawan² supaya zakat tahun ni dibayar terus kepada asnaf tanpa melalui mana² pusat pungutan zakat, datang la beberapa individu menegur. Katanya, zaman nabi; zakat itu sendiri dikutip oleh amil lantikan nabi. Maka buat apa nak lawan apa yang dibuat nabi? Siap bagi hadis bagi kuatkan hujah. 

Haram Bayar Zakat Terus Kepada Asnaf Kata Mufti...

Aku tak nafikan memang nabi ada lantik amil bagi pihak nabi untuk kutip zakat dari umat Islam. Yang membuat orang tak mahu bayar bukan sebab amil. Tapi sebab pengagihan tak betul. Kutip berjuta² malah ada negeri yang sampai berbillion setahun kutipannya. Tapi masih ada asnaf yang terabai. Maka apa masalahnya umat Islam Malaysia nak serahkan sendiri zakat mereka kepada asnaf? Lagi pun aku tak jumpa hatta 1 hadis yang larang berbuat demikian.- f/bk

While Anwar rots, the rakyat relax...

Shocking, isn’t it? Many of you wanted former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to ‘save’ Malaysia. He was jailed before he could accomplish this and it angered you, but only briefly.

Whilst Anwar languishes in jail, his health deteriorating, and his family feeling anxious, what did we do? Nothing! The call to release him received a lukewarm response. Did we remember his demands for change, and that he’d galvanised the opposition parties under one banner? No!

All we remembered was that Anwar was jailed, for sodomy. Many did not care that it was a politically motivated plot, just as we do not care about his condition now. “Malaysians mudah lupa,” to paraphrase former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The truth is, Malaysians are selfish. What happens to others is none of their concern. Another death in police custody? One less prisoner to feed. Another abandoned baby? They should have taken precautions before having sex. Another sexually abused child? She’s young; she’ll get over it. Another girl is raped? Serves her right for dressing immodestly. One wonders if ‘they’ would have been as callous and indifferent if Anwar had been their father, husband, boyfriend or son.

Anwar’s daughter, Nurul Izzah, has appealed to the PM to allow medical treatment and physiotherapy for her father. Anwar suffers from a bad back and a shoulder injury. Continual moving from place to place has exacerbated the 70-year-old’s blood pressure and his back problem. His muscle damage worsened when he was denied a bed during his first month in detention. Doctors have also found a growth in his kidney.

Remember the euphoria when Anwar carried the aspirations of the Malaysian rakyat in the Reformasi movement? Just before his arrest in 1998, Anwar addressed record crowds about the unjust Mahathir rule. On his release in 2004, he crystalised the three political parties, PAS, PKR and DAP into an effective opposition coalition.

Today, the irony is that the same people who championed Anwar have embraced his nemesis, Mahathir, or teamed up with Umno Baru. A student learns from his master. The seed which Mahathir planted earlier enabled Najib Abdul Razak to jail Anwar in 2015.

So what has happened to the tens of thousands of Malay youths whom Anwar inspired by ‘Reformasi’? Or the businessmen who once complained about cronyism? Or the Chinese, whom the Malay ultras accuse of overstaying their welcome?

Malaysian loyalty is easily bought by bags of rice, or a fistful of dollars. The opposition need not bother about teaching democracy, rule of law and human rights, when we can’t decide what it means to have principles, or demand that our politicians are accountable.

Malaysians seem unable to separate fact from fiction, and some Malays are stupid enough to believe Najib when he said that God helped him win the by-election.

Blaming him for Islamisation

So why are Malaysians reticent about helping Anwar? For a start, they blame him for the Islamisation of Malaysia, but are they aware that Anwar is not 100 percent responsible?

The roots of our extremism lie in the Iranian revolution of 1979. The resurgence of the Islamic movement, and the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini, was closely monitored by both PAS and Mahathir, the then-deputy PM.

Muslims from around the world, including delegations from PAS and the Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (Abim), paid homage to the ayatollah, but it is alleged that Anwar warned Malays that the ayatollah’s brand of Islam was unsuitable for Malaysia. Anwar said that Malaysians had their own culture, and he wanted democracy, whereas the ayatollah referred to democracy as the equivalent of prostitution.

Mahathir was worried by the re-energised PAS, and Umno’s potential loss of Malay votes. When he became PM in 1981, Mahathir had noticed Anwar, the leader of Abim. The charismatic Anwar was creating waves, leading strikes to highlight the poverty and starvation in northern Malaya. Mahathir persuaded Anwar to join Umno, to counter PAS’s Islamic credentials.

Today, with Anwar in prison, PAS and Umno Baru are in league with one another. PAS’s president, Hadi Awang, has revived the conservative brand of Islam which Anwar once rejected.

Cartoonist Zunar has alleged that after GE13, and before the formation of his cabinet, Najib tried to meet Anwar, when the latter was visiting Indonesia. Najib’s plan was to entice Anwar to accept the post of deputy PM. Aware that the rakyat’s requests for reform would not be met, Anwar declined to meet Najib.

We ignore Anwar’s sacrifices, all of which have cost him his health, family life and his freedom. The sodomy charge is a red herring. Anwar was jailed because he is the catalyst for change. He refused the offers of political asylum, because the rakyat’s needs came first.

The sodomy allegations were set up to get Anwar out of the way, because Najib and Umno Baru feared his ability to galvanise the opposition.

Today, some of us are absorbed in our own world and reluctant to support efforts to release Anwar. Aren’t we better than that? Remember that once, Anwar made us proud to call ourselves Malaysian. Now, Malaysia is the butt of foreign jokes.- Mariam Mokhtar,mk

Dr.Danial Zainal Abidin Ulas Isu DAP Kafir Harbi

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Parti 'kafir harbi' inilah yang tentang kezaliman BN/UMNO...

Pada tahun 1978, bila Kjaan Pas di Kelantan dirampas secara zalim dan tidak demokrasi, sebuah parti yg dikatakan "kafir Harbi" iaitu DAP adalah satu2nya parti yg membela Pas waktu itu. Ini diakui sendiri oleh Hadi Awang, Presiden Pas. 

Begitu juga, sewaktu peristiwa Memali yg mengorbankan Syuhadak Us Ibrahim Libya dan para pengikutnya, di Parlimen waktu itu parti "Kafir Harbi' iaitu DAP ini lantang mendesak kerajaan zalim UMNO/BN untuk melakukan Suruhanjaya Diraja Bebas dan pembentangan kertas putih bagi menyiasat tragedi yg berlaku. 

Apabila wang royalti petroleum dirampas dari Kjaan Tganu sebaik saja Pas mengambil alih kjaan Tganu, sekali lagi lantang DAP parti 'Kafir Harbi" ini mengecam tindakan zalim kerajaan UMNO/BN ke atas Kjaan Tganu di bawah Pas.

Di waktu seorang anak gadis Melayu Islam di bawah umur di Melaka dirogol sehingga melahirkan anak oleh seorang pemimpin politik, bangkit Lim Guan Eng, salah seorang pimpinan DAP "kafir harbi' ini membela nasib anak gadis Melayu Islam tersebut sehinggakan Guan Eng rela dipenjarakan. Sila rujuk beritanya di sini 

Kita juga masih ingat, seorang gadis Melayu Islam yg berfurdah dibuang kerja kerana enggan menanggalkan furdahnya, bangkit Karpal Singh seorang peguam dan pimpinan utama dari DAP parti 'kafir harbi' ini membela nasib Muslimah tersebut. 

Di Parlimen, suatu ketika, diwaktu kerajaan Umno/Bn ingin mengadakan judi bolasepak Piala Dunia, DAP sebuah parti 'kafir harbi' sebulat suara bangun di Parlimen menentang cadangan kerajaan diwaktu itu. 

Sesungguhnya, DAP memiliki banyak sejarahnya. Pernah digelar pemimpinnya sebagai mengikut cara "Omar Abdul Aziz' sehinggalah pernah digelar juga "kafir harbi". Semua gelaran itu bergantung kpd kepentingan kita untuk menunjukkan DAP itu baik atau buruk. 

DAP baik ketika mereka menguntungkan kita dan DAP buruk ketika kita tidak beruntung. Nasib kamulah DAP ... lahir dalam politik di Malaysia. - Wfauzdin Ns

Pahang Mufti should state specifically whether I am “kafir harbi” who should be killed - Kit Siang

7 Tanda2 Pilihanraya Umum ke-14 semakin dekat...

1. Al-Quran dikoyak-koyak dicarik-carik dan dicampak hingga bertaburan di atas jalanraya di Johor oleh 'pasukan provokator dalaman' supaya orang Melayu berasa marah kepada Cina dan India kafir serta mood perkauman dapat dihidupkan semula. Gerakan underground ini dijalankan supaya orang Melayu bersatu di bawah UMNO dengan momokan kononnya kaum lain anti-Islam.

2. Mufti 'negeri Serambi Genting Highlands' dengan tiba-tiba tanpa angin dan ribut menghamburkan celaan kepada parti DAP sebagai kafir harbi dan musuh Islam supaya orang Melayu membenci kaum yang berada di dalam DAP serta rakan-rakan politiknya atas nama Islam walhal perompak dan penyamun harta negara tidak digelar sebagai musuh Islam pun.

3. Dua pemimpin 'heavyweight' UMNO yang menentang Najib selaku Presiden UMNO iaitu Muhyiddin dan Mukhriz ditendang keluar begitu sahaja bagaikan sampah daripada UMNO biarpun kedua-duanya masih memiliki kerusi DUN dan PARLIMEN yang mewakili kepada Parti UMNO itu sendiri.

4. Serangan terhadap Tun Mahathir mula dilancarkan secara terbuka oleh Najib dan konco-konconya termasuk tindakan-tindakan terbaru, menghentikan segala keistimewaan Tun M sebagai bekas Perdana Menteri Malaysia selama 22 tahun, jawatan-jawatan pengerusi dilucutkan, Yayasan Kepimpinan Perdana disekat, dan diancam sekatan keluar negara.

5. Shafie Apdal digantung keahlian sahaja tetapi tidak dibuang pula daripada UMNO seperti Muhyiddin dan Mukhriz kerana negeri 'fixed deposit' UMNO dan Barisan Nasional adalah di Sabah bah bulibahkaloko dek kerana mentaliti mereka masih cap kapal layar. Rakyat Sarawak pula sungguh sayang kepada Adenan Satem

6. Siasatan kes syarikat 1MDB berjaya disenyapkan hingga menemui jalan mati. Isu hutang besar syarikat tersebut dengan bukti-bukti kehilangan duit berbilion-bilion ringgit pun sudah dilihat basi oleh majoriti 'rakyat Malaysia yang bodoh', malas berfikir dan suka menerima sampul duit.

7. Parti PAS sudah berjaya dijinakkan bak anak kucing oleh UMNO dan dilemahkan. PAS juga akan membantu UMNO menyapu bersih semua kerusi Melayu hasil perpecahan dalam kalangan parti-parti pembangkang yang akan mewujudkan situasi 3 penjuru UMNO-PAS-AMANAH. Dasar PAS ketika ini juga bukanlah untuk menjadi sebuah parti yang memimpin negara ini.- f/bk

Kit Siang is not a Chinese and I am not a Malay. We are all Malaysians first...

So Umno thinks they are in total control of all things Malaysians! They can ram through legislation in Parliament. They no longer answer questions of public interest by stone walling or simply dismiss, ignore or just not giving the answers that our representatives in parliament asks them. They arrest members of parliament at the very gates of parliament or anywhere they chose to do so. 

The Judiciary do their bidding. PDRM act as their bully boys to harass, persecute, intimidate, detain, arrest and persecute at will any one this Umno led BN government think to be a threat to them. 

This BN government keeps an uneasy truce with the civil service by using a big stick to intimidate and harass civil servants and periodic bonuses and raises in salaries which this nation can ill afford. Everyone else that has any dealings with government are under their spell as intimidation and money are used whenever needed to keep them all subjugated.

It would seem that way if you are easily intimidated. 

It would seem that way if you are impressed by superficiality and easily persuaded by the main stream media, one sided television programs favouring the BN government or the endless threats to punish and imprisoned any one that is a threat to "national security".....a euphemism for the Umno led BN government...though I submit that a "corrupt and arrogant" BN government, would be closer to the truth. 

Let Umno think what they want.  Let BN do their worst.  Let Najib think that cash is King and he being the man with billions in his bank account is the King. 

For all I care let those in Umno do their worst to the opposition, to the Chinese, to the Christians and anyone else they care to do their worst to. 

I say to them all...F**k Y*u!    

They cannot block every blog that tells our people that these Umno and BN leaders are pillaging and plundering their country.

They cannot prevent every Malaysian from thinking, wanting and doing what is best for themselves and for their country.

They cannot bludgeon every demonstrators and every protestors that dares to stand against the might of this odious corrupt government into submission. 

They cannot detain, arrest and incarcerate every dissident, every anti government activists and opposition politician that stands in their way of governing this nation of ours for their financial gain and political advantage.

And when the next general election is upon us, there is nothing they can do to stop our people from voting to elect them out of government and out of our lives.

There is nothing they can do, unless they intend to not let us chose those whom we want to lead us! 

Do you think they will do so?

Do you think Najib and this Umno led BN government will dare to even consider this possibility... or do you think that they already have in mind to do just that? 

Do not jump to conclusion. Do not second guess what they will or will not do. 

In a fight with Najib and this Umno led BN government we cannot control what they will do. 

We can control only ourselves! 

For all that they now control, for all the money that they have and for all the political will that they can garner to hold on to political power at all costs, what they cannot teach themselves and those who are with them, is courage!  

Courage to face those who are against them when the odds are not in their favor. 

Courage to stand up for what they believe in if they think they will lose what they have. 

And of course they cannot teach their people to have the courage to do what the opposition have been doing all these years....persevere and continue to fight for what they think is right...no matter the odds. 

And this courage that I talk about.... many of us and our leaders have by the spadeful. 

Almost all leaders in the opposition have  faced time in prison.

All leaders within the opposition have been under the threat of going to prison. 

All have had the probability of losing their ability to earn a living, to feed their family or even lose all that they have, thrown in their face by the Umno led BN government just because they oppose the government. 

But physical and mental threats to their personal self no longer trouble any one any more. 

Today going to prison is par for the course not only for opposition leaders but for opposition supporters too....and we expect physical and mental abuse to be meted out by PDRM upon anyone of us at any confrontation - peaceful or otherwise.

And yet as ready as we are for anything that this corrupt and arrogant Umno led BN government can throw at us, there are still times when our leaders and us are moved to tears.

And today I see that Lim Kit Siang has been moved to tears when an idiot of a state mufti classify non-Muslims Malaysians as “kafir harbi” who could be slain.

No my friend...to me Lim Kit Siang is not a "kafir harbi" nor is he a Chinese. He is not a Chinese and I am not a Malay for we are all Malaysians first.  

Lim Kit Siang is first a Malaysian Leader of the first order! He is among the people crucial in ensuring that the Malaysia that we want, the Malaysia that we need and the Malaysia that we aspire to, will become a reality. 

This Lim Kit Siang is also a Malaysian admired and respected by many Malaysians.....any Malaysians .....and then, somewhere in that mix...he is also a Chinese. 

But if anyone seeks to malign and unfairly chastise the Malays, I will not be quite and I know what I will do....and so will Lim Kit Siang know what to do if any one seeks to malign and unfairly chatise the Chinese  for we will not hesitate to defend our own, for that too is the way of Malaysians. What will we do?.....remember this from Pulp Fiction?

So when Kit Siang cries I too am moved to tears....and so should you if you care and has love for this nation of ours.  

Once you and I are done crying...let us all think together what we need to do together to ensure that there will be a general election when one is due...and that we can, in that general election, choose the government we want without fear or favor.
    
All this starts now...you must understand that the fight starts now....in earnest. Send a message, in any way you can, that if this Umno led BN government is thinking about NOT having a general election to ensure that they WILL continue their pillaging and plundering of our nation for another five years....you must send a message to them that you will not stand for it.

Lim Kit Siang will not stand for it....so why should you! - Hussein Abdul Hamid,steadyaku47

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