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Tuesday, 1 September 2009
THE MALAYSIA OF TOMORROW
By Nurul Izzah Anwar
AUG 31 — I can’t say that I know Datuk Zaid Ibrahim very well. Our past encounters have been limited to a fleeting hello in front of the steps of my alma mater, the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in 2006, another chat during a reception in honour of Datuk Ambiga Sreevanesagan in June and, most recently, at the PKR’s recent EGM. It’s amazing, but perhaps unsurprising that he has in these three years evolved from an ambiguous reformist in Umno into the conscience of all Malaysians.
I had always been impressed by his outspokenness, and his willingness to fearlessly voice out his views on issues of national importance is nothing short of inspirational. Zaid does not mince his words where many hesitate to call a spade a spade, especially where it matters the most.
An articulate Malay speaking out for a multiracial and progressive Malaysia is terribly important in this current political climate. For our own community, Zaid epitomises how the Malays might redefine ourselves, to re-imagine a world where we do not think that we are inferior or threatened but are rather confident in whom we are.
In reading Zaid’s book Saya Pun Melayu, I sense the need for Malays to embrace a new paradigm on what it means to be Malay. Many indeed are doing so and this is a heartening. “Malay” need no longer carry connotations of dependency on the state, insecurity or the crippling feeling alienation and the lack of self-worth.
The word “Malay” can and must eventually mean a call to embrace a broader Malaysian identity, along with a true, inclusive nationalism that is proud of who we are individually but also in what we have accomplished together. We can be sure of our identities and yet still be a part of something greater than all of us — and this is something all the ethnic groups in Malaysia ought to aspire to.
Zaid’s book highlights that fact that we need to look beyond the stereotypes and take an objective, albeit positive look at our community’s accomplishments. We have made great strides in business, the arts, education and the professions. Our success extends from Lembah Pantai where Malays own vibrant businesses selling products made by Malays to the flourishing nasi lemak stalls in Kota Baru.
We attend leading universities throughout the world, increasingly through our own merit. We can count internationally recognised choreographers, painters, cartoonists, writers, and film directors amongst our numbers.
Beyond these markers, our success can more often that not be seen at home through our everyday acts of compassion and sensitivity to others, which spread to our fellow Malaysians to become a national virtue. The kindness shown towards our children, parents and neighbours is perhaps one of the most important signs of who we Malays are as a community. These are real achievements that no one can or would want to take from us.
I’m not denying that we still have a long way to go in moving our community forward, nor am I unmindful that a lot of our successes would not have been in possible without the NEP and its institutions. However, it has become patently obvious that these structures are now holding the Malays back, and that the world has changed since then.
The Malays and, as a-matter-of-fact, all Malaysians need to change as well if we want to remain relevant in this world. We need to step away from our obsession with all things racial and realise that the project of nation-building is not a zero-sum game. Malaysia can never succeed until and unless its entire people feel like they are truly a part of it.
Why then does the old paradigm of ethnic insecurity persist? Why does suspicion and acrimony towards our fellow Malaysians and they towards us still linger? Why are mainstream newspapers calling for ethnic conflict, accusing minority communities of all sorts of ludicrous plots?
The sad reality is that these myths are being perpetuated by Umno and Barisan Nasional for their own gain. The fact is that Umno wants to keep the Malay community under its suzerainty forever. They do this by focusing on what we have supposedly not achieved, rather than acknowledging our gains and potential.
They claim to want to protect and uplift the Malay community, but all they have been doing for the last few years is playing on their fears and prejudices. The same can be said for the Barisan components with the non-Malays. This glass-half-empty mentality is being used by Umno/BN to protect each other and to ward off challenges to their stranglehold on power.
We’ve seen from the case of Zaid of how Umno demonises anyone who steps out of the pattern of complete loyalty to the party and who have different ideas on how to improve the livelihoods of Malays and Malaysians. We have also as of late seen their scare tactics in action. They have labelled people as “traitors” for calling for a new path of development for Malaysia. They prefer to protect their interests rather than allow the Malaysian people — especially the Malays — to benefit from reform, less corruption and more inclusion.
Umno also regrettably perpetuates the myth that the Malay community is perpetually under threat from their non-Malay counterparts, and that Umno is the only party that can save them from this supposed “servitude”. This, rather than anything else, is why race relations have gotten worse in Malaysia.
You cannot expect harmony in a country where its largest ethnic group is constantly bombarded with the message that the minorities are supposedly out to get them and take away their rights. Yet, they chose to follow this tactic since they believe in the short term this will strengthen Umno and bring Malays back to the party.
They use these “attacking” tactics because they cannot offer anything else. They have shown that they would prefer to entrench those in power rather than allow new ideas and reforms to increase our chances for greater success. There is a real danger that their short-sightedness may cost future generations of Malaysians dearly.
The fact is that Malays have nothing to fear. We are demographically the largest ethnic group in Malaysia and the birth rate is going to keep it that way. Our position in the constitution is enshrined and this isn’t going to change either.
That is what Umno and the Malay extremists do not get, and what the community as a whole needs to understand. The non-Malays and Malays who challenge Umno are not seeking to reduce the position of the Malays in anyway, but to defend and uplift all Malaysians. We have to understand that we are all tied together and that we all have a stake in the land. We cannot survive individually as Malays, Chinese or Indians but as Malaysians.
Our non-Malay fellow citizens are not “challenging” our rights or “insulting” or culture and religion — rather they are calling for our nascent nationhood to be allowed to achieve it’s full potential than for us to remain stuck in our ethnic and mental ghettos. The liberals and moderates amongst the non-Malays also suffer from the depredations of extremists within their own communities — they deserve our support as well. The wave of reactionary politics that is engulfing us can only be turned back if progressive Malaysians stand firm against their threats and untruths.
While it is true that much more needs to be done to address those who have not benefited — for all Malaysians — the focus on what we don’t have rather on what we have accomplished only undermines us. We need to imagine a better future, for Malays and Malaysians — this will incidentally make it easier for all of us to achieve what we might lack.
The Malaysia of tomorrow cannot be one in which we are blinded by fear and negativity. The first step in imagining and defining a better future for all of us is to open our eyes and speak out like Zaid and others like him.
http://www.malaysiainsider.com/index.php/malaysia/36435-malays-speaking-without-fear-
Thursday, 27 August 2009
KERJA PENGKHIANAT SEBENAR !
Berikut adalah 17 pengkhianatan UMNO terhadap orang Melayu yang sempat disenaraikan oleh Dato’ Kamaruddin Jaafar di dalam Majlis Hi-Tea anjuran PAS Kawasan Gombak pada 16 Ogos lalu di Markaz Tarbiah PAS Pusat , iaitu;-
1. Melemahkan institusi raja-raja Melayu yang menjadi simbol ketuanan Melayu.
2. Melemahkan sistem kehakiman negara.
3. Menarik balik royalti rakyat petroleum rakyat Terengganu yang majoriti orang Melayu.
4. Memperkenalkan PPSMI; menghapuskan bahasa Melayu.
5. Menarik peruntukan geran kepada Sekolah Agama Rakyat, tempat belajar agama anak-anak Melayu.
6. Memperkenalkan meritrokrasi; mengurangkan peluang belajar anak-anak Melayu.
7. Memperkenalkan PTPTN dan mengurangkan biasiswa kepada anak-anak Melayu.
8. Persempadanan semula pilihanraya oada 2002; mengurangkan kawasan majoriti orang Melayu.
9. Menafikan hak royalti rakyat Kelantan yang majoriti Melayu.
10. Memperkenalkan Islam Hadhari yang mengelirukan orang Melayu.
11. Menyenaraiawamkan syarikat TH Plantation yang dahulunya dimiliki 100% oleh Tabung Haji dan dimiliki oleh orang Melayu. Tetapi sekarang orang bukan Melayu boleh memiliki saham TH Plantation.
12. Menggabungkan syarikat-syarikat konglomerat orang Melayu iaitu; Sime Darby,Guthrie dan Golden Hope, dan sekaligus mengurangkan peluang orang Melayu daripada tiga syarikat kepada satu syarikat sahaja.
13. Memetik kenyataan Mufti Perak, Dato’ Harussani – 250 ribu orang Melayu murtad. Semua ini adalah di bawah pemerintahan kerajaan Umno.
14. Mewujudkan Wilayah Iskandar yang menjadi zon bebas, maka orang-orang Singapura boleh masuk secara bebas ke sana.
15. Krisis Menteri Besar di Perlis dan Terengganu apabila Umno sendiri yang menentang keputusan Sultan di negeri berkenaan.
16. Membubarkan Kementerian Pembangunan Usahawan yang menjadi sumber bantuan usahawan-usahawan Melayu.
17. Memperkenalkan liberalisasi ekonomi, maka sekaligus menghapuskan Dasar Ekonomi Baru yang tujuannya membantu ekonomi orang-orang Melayu Bumiputra.
Petikan dari : Laman Marhaen
Sunday, 23 August 2009
PESANAN TGNA PADA PENGUNDI PTG PASIR
“Padahal mereka tidak disuruh kecuali supaya menyembah Allah dengan memurnikan (mengikhlaskan) ketaatan kepadaNya dalam (menjalankan) agama dengan lurus.” (Sebahagian dari Ayat 5 : Surah Al Bayyinah)
Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarokatuh
Tuan/Puan bakal-bakal pengundi sekalian,
Alhamdulillah. Menjelang 1 Ramadhan 1430, genaplah 8 warkah rayuan pengundi yang telah saya tulis dan tandatangani. Entah apalah rahsia yang tersimpan dalam lipatan perbendaharaan ilmu Allah yang Maha Luas itu sehingga berlaku 8 pilihan raya kecil sejak Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-12, tiada siapa jua yang mampu menekanya.
Apa yang hanya boleh kita baca dari 7 pilihan raya kecil yang telah berlalu, parti yang bertanding dari Pakatan Rakyat (PR) telah menang sebanyak 6 kali berturut-turut. BN cuma menang 1 kali; itupun di Batang Ai,Serawak. Ini realiti dan ini kenyataan.
Pada kali ini Kerusi Permatang Pasir menjemput kita sekali lagi untuk turun ke gelanggang. Walaupun dengan penuh berat, kita terpaksa melepaskan Allahyarham Dato’ Hamdan kita untuk kembali menemuiNya.
Bagi kita yang hidup, tuntutan sambungan jihad demi sebuah tanggungjawab wajib diteruskan. Sudah 3 penggal calon kita bersusah payah untuk mengangkat Islam dan sudah 15 tahun rakyat di Permatang Pasir memperbaharui kepercayaan agar PAS terus menerajui kerusi Dewan Undangan di Permatang Pasir ini.
Jika dibaca nilai istiqamah pengundi di sini di masa-masa lalu, ia jelas menunjukkan betapa tingginya iltizam, kenyakinan dan komitmen mereka. Walaupun mereka tentu boleh faham bahawa apalah sangat memberi kemenangan kepada PAS di kerusi ini dari segi memerintah negeri, namun pada saya, majoriti yang diraih Allahyarham pada 8 Mac 2008, melebihi 5,000 undi adalah teramat mahal.
Bagi pengundi Islam tanpa mengira bangsa, mereka tentu ingin merakamkan sokongan mereka kepada sebuah gerakan Islam yang membawa perjuangan Islam syamil yang sebenar. Mereka tidak sanggup memangkah parti Umno yang mengamalkan Islam dari klon sekular; agama suku dan politik suku. Mana boleh diasingkan iman dengan Islam dan Islam dengan politik? Islam jenis sekular yang diperjuangkan oleh Umno inilah yang saya namakan sebagai Islam palsu.
Sebagaimana adanya wang palsu, rambut palsu atau kad pengenalan palsu; begitu jugalah dengan Islam palsu. Benda palsu; nampak macam sebenar tetapi ia tetap tidak asli. Bagi yang ahli, dia akan tetap tahu membezakan antara bunga hidup dengan bunga plastik. Dengan keadaan tidak tulin itulah timbulnya keraguan. Soalnya bolehkah yang diragu-ragu (syak) itu dibawa untuk mendapatkan anugerah Syurga Allah di akhirat kelak?
Saya bercakap dari sudut aqidah dan kaedah. Jika buat begini ia boleh jadi begini. Jika tidak sempurna wudhu’, amalan sembahyang tidak diterima. Jika tolak Islam dari Allah, maka dengan apa nak digantikan? Ini bukan soal saya mendahului Tuhan atau lebih tahu dari Tuhan. Ini soal kaedah. Saya percaya, para pengundi Islam di DUN Permatang Pasir boleh dengan mudah memahami persoalan ini.
Manakala bagi pengundi bukan Islam pula pada umumnya, saya seakan boleh menyelami keresahan yang sedang bergolak di hati saudara saudari sekelian. Di sana ada tuduhan rasuah berjumlah RM10 juta yang katanya melibatkan pemimpin MCA. Di sana juga ada kes kematian misteri seorang anak muda bernama Teoh Beng Hock sewaktu berada di dalam siasatan (custody) SPRM.
Di sana juga ada kes kematian Kugan sewaktu berada di dalam tahanan polis. Dengan insiden stadium runtuh dan gelanggang akuatik yang tidak selamat di Terengganu, keretakan yang berlaku di lebuh raya MRR2 serta LDP dan skandal di PKFZ Pelabuhan Klang yang bernilai berbilion ringgit, ramai pemimpin Umno yang kena gantung dan disabitkan kesalahan mengamalkan politik wang termasuklah Ketua Menteri Melaka yang masih ada sekarang, buruknya layanan ke atas rakyat yang berhimpun secara aman untuk mengangkat nota bantahan ISA kepada DYMM Yang Dipertuan Agung, cederanya Sdr. Wong dan Gobalakrishnan di tangan SPRM dan Polis – pengamal undang-undang, para pencinta demokrasi dan pejuang hak asasi tidak mempunyai lain-lain harapan pemulihan untuk negara kita.
Apa yang ada hanya satu sahaja iaitu mengekalkan kerusi yang sudah dikuasai oleh PR dan dapatkan sebanyak mungkin kerusi-kerusi tambahan dari Umno/BN jika berlaku lagi pilihan raya kecil. Ini adalah langkah persiapan untuk mengambil alih kerusi, kemudi di Putrajaya tidak lama lagi.
Hanya melalui cara ini sahaja Malaysia akan memperkukuhkan sistem dua parti yang boleh menyemak Institusi Kehakiman, pelaksanaan “rule of law” dan perjalanan demokrasi. Melalui laluan baru inilah, Malaysia akan menjalani proses tajdid, transformasi dan reformasinya yang sebenar. InsyaAllah, ini akan berlaku tidak lama lagi.
Melihatkan trend sokongan non-muslim kepada calon Parti Islam SeMalaysia dan PR, khususnya di Parlimen Permatang Pauh yang telah memenangkan Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan di Parlimen Bukit Gantang yang telah memenangkan Dato’ Seri Nizar Jamaludin baru empat lima bulan yang lalu, saya cukup mempunyai keyakinan.
Mari kita sama-sama perbesarkan majoriti kita di DUN N11 ini agar menjadi kekal, tidak kurang dari 5,000 undi, sekurang-kurangnya untuk ujian pada 25 Ogos 2009. Tinggalkan Umno dengan syurga politik wangnya. Mari kita terus istiqamah untuk tetap berada di tengah-tengah gelora kesedaran rakyat demi menafikan Umno/BN yang sudah laih dan kehilangan stamina mulai sekarang.
Jangan tertipu lagi untuk percayakan slogan-slogan baru yang dikitar semula. Dulu Islam Hadhari. Kini One Malaysia pula. Esok entah apa pulalah. Umno ni nak jadi apa, entahlah. Nak kata udang pun tidak. Ikan pun bukan. Ingatlah pesan pepatah Melayu: Jika sudah kepalanya ular, mustahil ekornya belut.
Akhir kata, gunakanlah kesempatan membuang undi pada kali ini dengan penuh cermat. Walaupun kita berpuasa dan kemungkinan kita boleh jadi letih tetapi tidakkah Peperangan Badar yang berlaku dalam bulan Ramadhan itu pernah membawa kemenangan yang besar?
Tiada perbuatan yang lebih mulia pada hari mengundi di bulan Ramadhan pada kali ini melainkan memangkah parti yang boleh membela maaruf dan kebaikan; sekaligus menolak kemungkaran, rasuah, kezaliman dan ketidak adilan. Undilah Sdr. Saleh bin Man. Undilah PAS dan PR demi keadilan Islam.
“Ya Allah, saksikanlah. Hamba sesungguhnya sudah menyampaikan.”
NIK ABDUL AZIZ BIN NIK MAT
Mursyidul Am PAS
Merangkap Menteri Besar Kelantan
Tanggal : 1 Ramadhan 1430
22 Ogos 2009
Dari :Laman M@RHAEN
Thursday, 20 August 2009
1MALAYSIA -MENTERI KELENTONG LAGI !
Natural forest cover figures suspect
IN a recent report, Deputy Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainudin denied claims by some international NGOs that Malaysia is destroying its natural forests to plant oil palm. He also asserted that 60 % of Malaysia was covered by natural forests.
These are incredulous claims. According to the book, Deforesting Malaysia, by Jomo K. S., Chang Y. T. and Khoo K. J., only 56% of Malaysia was covered by natural forests in 1991. Since then, there has been rampant destruction of natural forests for conversion to commodity crops, for hydro-electric and water supply dam-building projects and other types of land development. In addition, logging activities have degraded our forests.
Once a tropical forest is destroyed it takes millions of years for comparable biodiversity to evolve again. In 2008, Malaysia gained new notoriety around the world when it emerged as the country with the third longest list of plants and animals threatened with extinction in the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red Alert of Threatened Species.
I beseech the deputy minister to tell Malaysians and the world by what magic has Malaysia been able to destroy her forests so aggressively on the one hand and on the other hand increase its reported cover of natural forests year by year?
JC Tansen Petaling Jaya
Updated: 10:32AM Wed, 19 Aug 2009
From :The Sun
Saturday, 15 August 2009
PENGKHIANAT MELAYU ?
Utusan Meloya media cetak yang tidak pernah 'tak tipu' melaporkan demo anti Anwar puluhan ribu akan berhimpun di Padang Merdeka Batu Pahat 13hb Jumaat ini ...
Lihatlah berapa punya puluhan ribu berdemo ! Boleh mati dengan lawak bodoh Utusan ni yang nak kelentong tak menjadi ! Kesian para pendemo entah berapa di'lasuah' untuk berdemo ! Begitulah salah satu kelintongan media haprak kerbau tunggangan UMno !
Sila kesini juga : http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/25682/84/
Friday, 7 August 2009
H1N1-KEMBALILAH PADA AL QURAN dan HADITH
Mudah-mudah Allah selamatkan kita dan keluarga kita, jiran tetangga, seluruh ahli Jamaah pendukung Al Quran dan Hadith, seluruh pendukung keadilan dan penentang kezaliman dan mereka yang beriman kepada hari Pembalasan.
Inilah hasil buah tangan yang kita terima dari kerja-kerja zalim mereka yang zalim, Bala ini datang sebagai hukuman bagi mereka yang membuat dosa dan sebagai peringatan kepada mereka yang beriman kepada Allah.
Semua tahu dan banyak kali ustaz-ustaz bagitau, jikalau terlalu banyak maksiat dan kezaliman dalam masyarakat maka Allah akan turunkan pelbagai penyakit yang pelik yang berjangkit dan sukar pula diubati.
Justeru itu, Kembalilah kepada Allah bagi mereka yang zalim dan membuat dosa dan bagi mereka yang beriman mudah-mudahan jadikan wabak ini sebagai dugaan dari Allah untuk meningkatkan lagi Iman dan Takwa kita kepada Allah.
Wallahua'lam.
Monday, 3 August 2009
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