(Bernama) - Umno is truly an Islamic party, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak said, although it does not use the “Islamic label” in championing the cause of Islam and the country.
Mahathir and his political successors have what can only be described as the Reverse Midas Touch. Everything precious that they touch instantly turns to shit.
read this to understad the real sinner
Part1 The treachery of the invertebrate Tun Dr Mahathir: An Islamic administration must respect laws what about your administration for 22years?
As a student I knew of the horrors of the Holocaust and other human tragedies, but merely as a distant thunder: The violation of human rights and crimes against humanity were only an abstract notion.
That was all fated to change with my arrest under the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA) of Malaysia, which allows for indefinite detention without trial. My crime? I had known Anwar Ibrahim, the deputy prime minister and finance minister of Malaysia, as a close personal friend for many years. We shared and strove for a vision of life firmly rooted in human dignity. We struggled for building an intellectual and political milieu for free expression. Together, we subscribed to the idea of economic prosperity, gender and racial equality and a civil society.
Alas, the Malaysian dictator, Mahathir, under the growing burden of corruption and cronyism, conspired to halt the march of freedom. In order to build his fraudulent case against Anwar, Mahathir himself ordered my arrest.READ MORE A VULTURE, NAMED MAHATHIR WHAT KIND OF MUSLIM YOU ARE TO DO THIS TO YOUR MUSLIM BROTHER
A VULTURE, NAMED MAHATHIRAs a student I knew of the horrors of the Holocaust and other human tragedies, but merely as a distant thunder: The violation of human rights and crimes against humanity were only an abstract notion.That was all fated to change with my arrest under the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA) of Malaysia, which allows for indefinite detention without trial. My crime? I had known Anwar Ibrahim, the deputy prime minister and finance minister of Malaysia, as a close personal friend for many years. We shared and strove for a vision of life firmly rooted in human dignity. We struggled for building an intellectual and political milieu for free expression. Together, we subscribed to the idea of economic prosperity, gender and racial equality and a civil society.Alas, the Malaysian dictator, Mahathir, under the growing burden of corruption and cronyism, conspired to halt the march of freedom. In order to build his fraudulent case against Anwar, Mahathir himself ordered my arrest.My kidnapping and detention by the infamous Malaysian Special Branch taught me how it feels to be forcibly separated from one’s wife and children. How it feels to be searched and seized, disallowed to make phone calls, handcuffed, blindfolded, stripped naked, driven in an animal cage, shaven bald, endlessly interrogated, humiliated, drugged, deprived of sleep, physically abused. What it’s like to be threatened, blackmailed, tormented by police lawyers, brutalized to make a totally false confession, hospitalized for a consequent heart ailment, and treated as a psychiatric patient with symptoms of Stockholm syndrome.Barely surviving on a meager diet of rancid rice and chicken along with 12 medicines a day, I spent nearly four months handcuffed around the clock to my hospital bed, under the watchful eyes of the prison guards.Thereafter, my ability to speak, read and write took a considerable time to show signs of recovery. Short-term memory lapses were frequent. I existed in a fluid state in which suicidal tendencies, depression and despair were punctuated by fits of rage and indignation.Weekly visits of less than an hour by my wife, Nadia, with our young children — Aisha and Omran — were my only contact with the outside world and the only inspiration to live on.In collusion with the lawyer appointed on my behalf by the police, the Malaysian authorities refused the legal assistance of my choice, coercing me not to mount an appeal against the court verdict and threatening me with greater punishment under new charges if I didn’t co-operate.Simultaneously, Nadia constantly endured police harassment, wiretapping and disruption of our e-mail and bank accounts. Some of our friends were met with the same fate and were compelled to abandon us when we needed them most.But, in attempting to scare off and alienate my friends, how terribly mistaken were Malaysian autocrats in aping gross Gestapo tactics. How they underestimated the temper of freedom in so many places around the world, above all among friends in the West.Floodgates of human compassion were opened when the futurist author Alvin Toffler, who Mahathir asked to advise him on a pet high-technology project, sent a message of protest to the Malaysian leader within 72 hours of my capture. In a major interview with the Western press, Mahathir even felt it necessary to make assurances — unfulfilled, of course — about my well being.With every passing day, the rising tide of concern for my plight seemed to personify the words of Elie Wiesel: “Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor. Never the victim. Never the tormented.”Friends and strangers alike took a stand and support began to mushroom everywhere. Nadia related to me in the hospital how Amnesty International had declared me a “prisoner of conscience,” and how Pen International adopted me as a “writer in prison.” Against all odds, two prominent Malaysian lawyers, Manjeet Singh Dhillon and Balwant Singh Siddhu, offered their services unconditionally. To top it all, an international coalition — Friends of Dr. Anees — came into existence in defence of my rights. The core group of Naseer Ahmad, Baseer Hai, Safir Rammah, Jamal Mubarak, Anees Ahmad and Naeem Siddiqui mounted a media campaign with phenomenal success.What touched my heart was that the person, Kamal Mubarak, who set up the Web site had never met me in person. From the depths of my confinement, I could see the magic of human compassion had begun to defeat oppression.The pinnacle was reached after my release in the warm hug laced with watery eyes of an Amnesty friend in Toronto, Margaret John, who witnessed a pledge of solidarity between me and Devan Nair, the former president of Singapore, for we had come to share a similar fate.My victimization at the hands of Mahathir’s “Asian values” has transformed me in another way. All my adult life, like so many in the Muslim world, I have suspected under every nook and cranny some conspiracy by the West to keep us down. Yet, in this seminal experience of my life, my friends in the West succeeded in saving me, while Mahathir, a Muslim, did everything to destroy me. And he is trying to do the same to Anwar again through his obliging courts on totally fabricated charges.Mahathir has demonstrated that, though a proclaimed Muslim, his heart is blind to compassion. Tyranny is the hallmark of his bankrupt concept of “Asian values.”My tragedy, and that of my friend Anwar, ought to make our fellow Muslims think very hard when they ponder the West and its role in the world. As we set out to shape our collective destiny in the 21st century, will the values of Mahathir or Jefferson serve us best? Mahathir himself made that choice for me. Sic semper tyrannis.These are words of Dr. Munawar A. Anees
read thisNAJIB PRAYERS AT the grandest Hindu shrine in Malaysia, IS UNFORGIVEABLE to the muslims The UMNO is on the verge of implosion says Deputy Prime Minister
I am sure the PM and his rosy porky will not be going to USA again anytime soon UNLESS it is an unofficial visit. This infamous couple was handed a 'mother of all' snubs when they met no leader and held no official talks. Of course nothing of this made it to Who would ever thought of coming if the organizer of this conference is the racist “Ketuanan UMNO”?
If they have been treating their own citizens of other races as “2nd class citizens”, what about foreigners with different skin color than the “Ketuanan” skin color? I bet even worse!
It is better if the “Ketuanan” conducts this conference by having their own kind to give the lectures. Maybe they can use the BTN format to do that and change the title to “International Conference of Ketuanan Unity”!
And, they can also “syok sendiri” by harping during the conference that they are the most superior race in this world. . .! our MSM .
Famous names snub Umno-flavored international Islamic conference
Mon, Dec 14, 2009National
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak (picture), whose ascent to the highest office in the land was marred by allegations of corruption and murder, is keynoting an international Islamic conference scheduled to take place in Kuala Lumpur this week.
The Second International Muslim Unity Conference is slated for tomorrow and Wednesday at the Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur.
Also representing Malaysia at the conference is former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed. Deputy Prime Minister Muhyidduin Yassin is also expected to make an appearance.
The conference website has listed the names of prominent scholars as confirmed speakers. They include several world famous individuals who are in fact not coming.
It is learnt that Shaykh Dr. Tawfik Ramadan Al Bouti, senior lecturer at Damascus University, is not attending and neither is renowned Sunni scholar Habib Ali al-Jifri of Yemen, founder and Director of the Tabah Foundation.
Although neither could be reached for comment, individuals close Mahathir and his political successors have what can only be described as the Reverse Midas Touch. Everything precious that they touch instantly turns to shit.
I believed the Islamic is a very sacred wording. And someone or leaders who is alleged for murder, corrupted, destroy the country, cheated on the rakyat and what not are there for the conference? heaven? may hate their (mahathir)? holy ghost……… ulterior motif
to the scholars indicated concerns about the sponsorship and format of the event.
Perdana Leadership Foundation’s close association with the conference, the high profile participation of senior Umno politicians and the venue itself suggest ulterior political motives at play.
The PWTC is widely known to be the headquarters of Umno and the location where the party’s annual meetings are held. It has repeatedly witnessed heated racist rhetoric.
Noticeably absent from the programme are two of Malaysia’s most well known and respected religious figures, Kelantan Mentri Tok Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat and former Deputy Prime Minister and current opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.
Both Nik Aziz and Anwar are listed among the world’s 500 most influential Muslims in a recent publication by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Jordan.
Anwar has also been mentioned by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the world’s most important thinkers in 2009. And last year Time magazine placed him in its Top 100 list.
The absence of these two prominent individuals from the Unity Conference’s programme, which describes the intent of the conference as promoting unity and world peace, was raised as a question to conference organiser Muhammad Umar, a British national and Chairman of the Ramadhan Foundation.
A response was issued indicating that the “Ramadhan Foundation is an independent organisation that has a policy of not becoming involved in the internal politics of any country.”
Overshadowing the conference’s message of unity is the very public infighting among Umno leaders over the curriculum of the National Civics course, BTN, which the opposition parties have highlighted as an instrument for promoting ultra-Malay nationalism.
Keynote speaker Mahathir has come out publicly in support of the BTN courses and Minister Nazri Aziz has called him a racist for disagreeing to a revamp of the course module.
..in line with keeping them bodoh and in the dark!
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