Friday 13 November 2009

Catch up on the Real News from Malaysia

This blog will be on a semi-hiatus for a while.

There are lots of places to catch up on what is really happening in Malaysia, for example:

FREE MALAYSIA TODAY

MALAYSIA TODAY

MALAYSIAKINI

THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER

and many good blogs.


Amor patriae



Love of country




Aequa tellus pauperi recluditur, regumque pueris



The impartial earth is opened alike for the pauper and the children of kings



Of course if you like fairy stories, fantasies, selected news, distortions and reflections of the facts, you know where to find them.


Aquila non captat muscas



The eagle doesn't capture flies




Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem



Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

Friday 6 November 2009

MALAYSIAN BOXER BEATEN & SLASHED BY MEN IN BLACK– JEALOUSY &/or RACISM?


Perabagaran


The Star had a rather brief and toned down report, click HERE

A more detailed report can be read by clicking HERE

Extract:

Mr Perabagaran said the men, all dressed in black, gloated about the attack and asked him: 'With your condition like this, how are you going to go to the SEA Games, do you think there are no boxers in Kuala Lumpur who are better qualified than you?'

'I feel these people were jealous because I was selected for the SEA Games ... It was also sad that nobody from the National Sports Council came to visit me in the hospital,' he added.

It may well have been jealousy, I certainly hope there was no racial element in this despicable incident.

Questions also need to be asked why the Malaysian National Sports Council ignored Perabagan's plight.

This incident brings shame to sports and also to Malaysia.


I suppose it will just be swept under the carpet as is usually the case!


O tempora, O mores!




Oh, the times! Oh, the morals!




Vulpem pilum mutat, non mores



A fox may change its hair, not its tricks.

Thursday 5 November 2009

Watch out for the LANGUAGE POLICE IN MALAYSIA


This is not a joke!

MIND YOUR LANGUAGE FOLKS!!

Malaysians are soon to have another enforcement unit, this time for the sacrosanct Malay Language 'Bahasa Malaysia'.

What a bloody laugh!
Talk about 'Fiddling while Rome burns!

Read all the crap HERE



Three Cheers for P Ramlee!



Risus abundat in ore stultorum


Abundant laughs in the mouth of the foolish

WHITHER JUSTICE & RULE OF LAW IN MALAYSIA?

Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin

SEVEN SENSIBLE QUESTIONS ABOUT ARREST OF EX MUFTI DR. ASRI

Seven questions on the arrest of Asri

Letter from Dr Chandra Muzaffar dated 4th Nov 2009, published on line by Malaysiakini HERE

"I refer to the Malaysiakini report Ex-Perlis mufti freed on bail: Jais feels the heat?

The arrest of former Perlis Mufti Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin raises disturbing questions.

One, isn't it unjust to arrest a person and take him to court while investigations on him are still on-going?

Two, doesn't this smack of arbitrariness and high-handedness, and doesn't it erode established judicial norms and the rule of law?

Three, wasn't the deployment of an extraordinarily large number of Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (Jais) staff and police personnel a show of force which was tantamount to abuse of power?

Four, since Asri has been giving talks in Selangor and elsewhere for a while now, what was the reason for arresting him only at this point in time?

Five, was the arrest a well-orchestrated move by certain religious authorities, backed by some Muslim NGOs, to dissuade the federal government from going ahead with the appointment of Asri as the new head of a potentially influential Islamic 'dakwah' foundation, Yadim?

Six, if this was the motive, doesn't it show that there are religious institutions and groups in the country that are intolerant of views on Islam which are different from theirs, however humane and rational some of these views may be, and however well-grounded they are in the Qur'an?

Seven, isn't such intolerance a betrayal of the respect for differences of opinion, and for dissent, embodied in Quranic thought and in the practice of the Prophet?

It is important to ask these questions because Asri's crude and coarse treatment echoes the authoritarianism of certain groups in other parts of the Muslim world that has led to tension and conflict.

This is why any attempt by any group to monopolise religion and marginalise alternative voices should be checked immediately.

It was one of the causes of the closing of the Muslim mind in past centuries and was partly responsible for the decline of Islamic civilisation."

I put forward three more important questions:-

  1. Are there hidden dark forces behind the arrest of Dr. Asri?
  2. Is it Selangor UMBO and the federal BN / UMNO government who are the puppet masters of some folks in JAIS.
  3. Is the UMNO ex MB Khir Toyo the covert instigator, the 'batu api'?

To me this smells like a component part of the insidious UMNO plot to overthrow the opposition state government of Selangor.

So the answers to the above three questions may be 'YES'!


Diligite justitiam, o judices terrae


Cherish justice, o judges of the earth

Tuesday 3 November 2009

Bernard Khoo, (MALAYSIAN BLOGGER ZORRO) to appear at Commercial Crimes Dept

Bernard (Zorro) will have to appear tomorrow at the Police Commercial Crimes Department, Kuala Lumpur tomorrow 4th November 2009.

Fellow blogger and lawyer Haris Ibrahim of the People’s Parliament is to represent him.

The Star reports this HERE


Cui bono?



For whose benefit is it?

DUBAI, UAE TO APPOINT FEMALE MUFTIS

WHEN WILL THAT HAPPEN IN MALAYSIA I WONDER?

BASED ON THE RECENT EVENTS WHEN THE FORMER MUFTI OF PERLIS STATE [Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin] WAS DETAINED, THERE MAY BE VERY LITTLE PROGRESSIVE THOUGHT IN MALAYSIA, HOW SAD!
Read about it by clicking HERE

Gulf Arab Emirate of Dubai plans to appoint female muftis by the end of next year in an unprecedented step that could trigger opposition from some Muslim conservatives.

It sounds like a postive move to me.

Read all about it by clicking HERE


Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet


Whoever fears they would not succeed sat still. (For fear of failure, they did nothing.)