this is the ‘1malaysia” that najib spoke of. don’t u think that najib umno are super hypocritical, by right be “bangkitlah melayu islam it’s utusan malaysia again. like an automatic artillery that has gone out of control sokonglah pakatan”
EditIn line with that agenda, the newspaper interviewed some controversial figures from a few right-wing Malay organisations, including Ibrahim Ali, who talked about disunity in the Malay community and weakening of their political forces, paving way for the Chinese and Indians to bring up “excessive” demands.
By TAY TIAN YAN/Translated by DOMINIC LOH/Sin Chew Daily
This is the ‘1malaysia” that najib spoke of.
Nothing is new and will get worse.Exactly like his father.
“Operasi Lalang” will be commencing soon as they planned it to happen somewhere in Perak .Hopefully PR leaders will not falls into their crappy trap.
don’t u think that najib & umno are super hypocritical by right be “Bangkitlah Melayu, sokonglah PAKATAN”
It’s Utusan Malaysia again. Like an automatic artillery that has gone out of control.
On its front cover two days ago, it published a picture of PM Najib attending a Sikh festivity.
Najib was at a Sikh temple in KL, and surrounded by enthusiastic Sikhs, he made a capati on the spot.
The same photo, which was published in almost every other newspaper, augurs well with Najib’s “One Malaysia” concept to mould a truly united and amicable environment, while protruding the new prime minister’s approachable image.
Everything has been perfectly normal, up to this point.
But on top of the picture, there was this bold headline: “Bangkitlah Melayu!” (Rise up Malays).
These two words were transmitted from the reader’s pupils straight up to the brain, and got blasted off in the central nervous system.
That, was the cover story on that day.
Any sensible soul could tell this was not news, but “non-news” willfully designed by the newspaper’s editors.
To put it in a more crude manner, some kind of specific agenda had been created.
In line with that agenda, the newspaper interviewed some controversial figures from a few right-wing Malay organisations, including Ibrahim Ali, who talked about disunity in the Malay community and weakening of their political forces, paving way for the Chinese and Indians to bring up “excessive” demands.
The main point was: the Malays must rise up and stay united to oppose the increasingly excessive demands from non-bumiputras!
Reading the headline, and comparing that to the picture of Najib attending the Sikh festivity, I couldn’t help but shook my head in bewilderment.
I didn’t know whether I should laugh or cry over such a glaring antithesis.
This is some kind of “anti-climax,” like a child suddenly shrieks and bursts into tears just as the movie reaches a climax in the cinema hall.
Good heavens, the emotion is lost, the atmosphere gone, and the movie no longer captures the audience’s hearts.
The “One Malaysia” concept so painstakingly designed by the prime minister is now poured with cold water by this UMNO-controlled daily.
The new prime minister has repeatedly urged Malaysians to walk out of their racial confines and stay united.
I can’t imagine what will happen if a Chinese newspaper has churned out a similarly toned headline: “Rise up Chinese!”
But one thing we can be sure of: Nothing is going to happen to Utusan Malaysia, and the newspaper can continue to play up racial issues and manipulate racial emotions.
It can stay solitarily outside the “One Malaysia,” and embrace its own version of Malaysia.
And its reporters and editors would not have to “go back to school and learn all over again.”The trail of terror continuesIt’s Utusan Malaysia again. Like an automatic artillery that has gone out of control. public executions and the murder of over a thousand civilians in the Swat valley by Taliban style terrorists are horrifying examples of atrocities committed by militant groups thriving on political Islam. Global Muslim communities require urgent measures in condemning the agenda of political Islam that distorts religious scriptures to legitimise violence. This ideology of Islamism is threatening to replace a moderate and spiritual Islam, leading to the destruction of society, particularly oppressing women and minorities.Muslims have a moral responsibility to engage in the social, political and economic development of the societies they live in. malaysian Muslim societies would do well in following the exceptional efforts of the Indian clerics in denouncingpolitical terrorism and de linking it with Islam. Sincere moral outrage needs to be expressed at barisan atrocities in malaysia and Pakistan, political kidnappings and assassinations, militancy in Kashmir, Shia Sunni killings in Iraq and Pakistan, fatwas that condone suicide bombings in the Israel Palestine conflict and other such atrocities that effect innocent lives. Muslims require the consensus of the international in combating racial extremism but our credibility is lost when we demonstrate selective outrage as in the aftermath of the Danish cartoons.
Political Islam draws its lifeblood from the ideology of fighting the oppressor, but has clearly become the oppressor. Even though some Islamist groups have renounced violence and accepted the principles of democracy, marginally improved their stand on women and minority rights, they remain socially conservative. In Jordan, the Islamist party does not support the rights of women to file for divorce. In Kuwait the Islamists fought against the right of women to vote. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood will not allow a woman or a person from a minority community to become head of state. Unfortunately, militant Islamist groups thrive in the political vacuum created by oppressive regimes in most Islamic countries.Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA mengklasifikasikan cara penahanan ini adalah yang paling zalim sejak 10 tahun yang lalu kerana ahli keluarga mahupun peguam tidak diberi sebarang maklumat mengenai kedudukannya sekarang.
Faisal Mustaffa, Malaysia Today
Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang baru, Datuk Seri Najib Razak telah menunjukkan taringnya kepada rakyat dengan menggunakan akta yang paling ditakuti rakyat Malaysia, Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) dengan tiga orang baru ditahan untuk disoalsiasat.
Ketiga-tiga tahanan baru itu; Agus Salim (32), Abdul Matin bin Anol Rahmat (60) dan Johar bin Hassan ditahan pada awal peralihan kuasa. Agus ditahan pada 5 Mac di tempat perniagaannya manakala Abdul Matin ditahan pada 1 April di kediamannya. Tidak ada laporan yang dapat diperolehi bagi pihak Johar.
Walaupun penangkapan tersebut berlaku sebelum Najib menjadi Perdana Menteri ke-6, namun ini adalah satu bukti yang amat nyata di mana kerajaan Malaysia akan emnggunakan ISA untuk kemandirian mereka.
Ketika memberi ucapan sulungnya pada 3 April lalu, Najib yang berjanji untuk mengkaji semula ISA, dan mengumumkan pembebasan 13 tahanan. Namun, setelah diteliti, pembebasan tersebut juga disertai dengan sekatan tertentu termasuk tidak dibenarkan ke luar daerah dan terpaksa melaporkan diri di balai polis tertentu dalam jangkamasa terentu.
Walaupun di satu sudut mereka membebaskan tahanan dengan bersandarkan kepentingan rakyat dan hak asasi manusia, namun di sudut lain mereka melanggar prinsip yang sama dan masih menahan rakyat Malaysia secra arbitrari dan tanpa bicara.
Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI) mengklasifikasikan cara penahanan ini adalah yang paling zalim sejak 10 tahun yang lalu kerana ahli keluarga mahupun peguam tidak diberi sebarang maklumat mengenai kedudukannya sekarang.
Semasa Agus dan Abdul Matin ditahan, mereka diberi nombor dan pegawai yang bertugas untuk dihubungi di Bukit Aman tetapi ianya tidak dapat dihubungi.
Kesemua mereka ditahan di Johor di bawah Seksyen 73 (1) ISA 1960 semakan 1972 iaitu penahanan selama tempoh 60 hari untuk disoal-siasat. Tempoh 60 hari di bawah ISA merupakan satu tempoh berlakunya proses intimidasi serta penyeksaan fizikal dan mental terhadap tahanan.
Penahanan ketiga-tiga mereka ini tidak diumumkan oleh pihak berkuasa polis atau kerajaan dalam mana-mana saluran media. Mereka digelapkan daripada sebarang maklumat tentang keadaan dan di mana mereka ditempatkan.
Menurut adik Agus yang ditemui, Junaidi Salim (27) abangnya ditahan ketika selepas solat Asar dan memakai apron untuk meneruskan kerjanya sebagai tukang masak di sebuah restoran tomyam di Larkin, Johor.
Agus yang berasal dari Medan, Indonesia didatangi seorang anggota polis yang menyampaikan sepucuk surat yang mengatakan bahawa dia ditahan. Rumahnya digeledah dan semuanya dirakan dengan kamera video oleh polis. Lima buah kereta polis megiringi tahanan tersebut.
Abdul Matin pula ditahan pada Rabu, 1 April lalu jam 7.30 pagi di Ulu Tiram, Johor Bahru di mana ketika ditahan beliau didatangi 12 anggota polis membawa surat penahanan tersebut. Abdul Matin dituduh sebagai ahli Jemaah Islamiyah (JI).
Suhakam Keji Tindakan Kerajaan
Sewaktu memorandum dihantar oleh GMI kepada Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia (Suhakam) 17 April lalu di ibu negara, pesuruhjayanya Datuk Siva Subramaniam berkata Suhakam telah menyatakan bahawa ISA ialah sebuah akta yang tidak berlandaskan kepada hak asasi manusia.
Suhakam telah mengadakan bersiri lawatan ke pusat tahanan dan melihat sendiri keadaan mereka. Mereka juga dipisahkan oleh cermin penghadang ketika dilawati ahli keluarga dan peguam.
Dalam implikasi secara tidak langsung pula, Siva memberitahu bahawa ada bekas tahanan yang kehilangan ahli keluarga terutama sekali apabila ditinggalkan isteri dan sukar untuk mendapat sebarang pekerjaan.
Pada tahun 2003, Suhakam pernah mencadangkan supaya ISA dimansuhkan dan diganti dengan akta baru seperti Akta Terorisme tetapi tidak pernah diteliti oleh kerajaan atau dibentangkan di Parlimen.
ISA membenarkan penahanan tanpa perbicaraan dan tanpa perlu kepada pembuktian. ISA juga membenarkan kuasa yang luas, arbitrari dan tidak boleh dicabar mahkamah yang menyebabkan berlakunya penyeksaan fizikal dan mental seperti mana yang telah terbukti dalam banyak kes terdahulu.
Datuk Siva Subramaniam, Pesuruhjaya Suhakam
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