Nurul Izzah Anwar, who has been accused by Umno of supporting apostasy for Muslims, met with Selangor religious officials today and submitted her a transcript of a speech she made to clarify her statement on religious freedom.
The PKR vice-president’s statement, at a public forum on “Islamic State: Which version, whose responsibility?” in Subang Jaya last Saturday, has resulted in attacks from several religious hawks and Umno politicians suggesting that her remarks meant she supported Muslims renouncing Islam and turning “murtad” or apostate.
“I have lodged a report which tells the real story to JAIS director Datuk Marzuki,” she said, after meeting with the Selangor Islamic Religious Department.
“Thank God, JAIS had given good co-operation.”
Nurul Izzah was accompanied by her lawyer Fadlina Sidek while meeting the director and three officers of JAIS to lend her co-operation on the matter.
Fadlina told reporters that the legal action against Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia, Berita Harian and a number of blogs for allegedly twisting her statement in the recent forum will go ahead.
Nurul Izzah also confirmed that she had lodged complaints against the publications to JAIS.
Datuk Zulkifli Noordin, vice-president of Malay right-wing group Perkasa, was quoted yesterday as being willing to provide a lawyer to Utusan Malaysia if Nurul Izzah decides to go ahead with her suit.
In a forum organised by Perkasa last night, Zulkifli said that he was willing to defend the daily pro-bono,
“We’re not defending Utusan Malaysia, we’re defending the Malay race, Islam,” he said.
Race and religion issues are inseparable in Malaysia, where the Malays — who make up 60 per cent of the 28 million population — are constitutionally defined to also be Muslims.
I am not sure whether this is an UMNO trait or a political trait. Yet no where is this trait more incorrigibly present than in Malaysia. This dastardly habit of UMNO political leaders to seek association and hence glorification through larger than life souls. This yearning yet degrading pilgrimage for false pedestals through quasi religious cum political workshops
Latest, but not last in this list has been Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin comments Let us revisit this ‘s exact statements to get an exact idea of the inept, disconnected staggering.”Nik Aziz should be bold enough to state the truth when opposition pact leaders issued statements that contradicted with Islam and the principles of PAS’ political struggle”
“As per psychology, if we can compare the IQ level of Deputy Prime Minister and that of Umno info chief is retarted smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don’t have to actually eat it to know it’s shit.
NIK AZIZ: WON’T CALL IT AN INFLAMMABLE COMMENT, FOR THE VERY IDEA OF COMPARING INTELLIGENT QUOTIENTS QUESTIONS BOTH THE EMOTIONAL AND THE INTELLIGENT QUOTIENT OF THE COMMENTATOR HERSELF.
PAS SPIRITUAL LEADER DATUK NIK ABDUL AZIZ NIK MAT WAS REPORTED TO HAVE SAID IN THAT SPEECH. THE IDIOTIC INSENSIBILITY OF THE CONCEPT APART, WHAT STRIKES ONE INSTANTLY IS THE AUDACITY TO BRING A HIGHLY REVERED PERSONALITY ON ONE STAGE WITH A POLITICALLY HUNTED INDIVIDUAL.I WON’T CALL IT AN INFLAMMABLE COMMENT, FOR THE VERY IDEA OF COMPARING INTELLIGENT QUOTIENTS QUESTIONS BOTH THE EMOTIONAL AND THE INTELLIGENT QUOTIENT OF THE COMMENTATOR HERSELF. WHAT IS ALARMING IS THAT IT ISN’T A ONCE IN A BLUE MOON KIND OF A STATEMENT. THIS IS BECOMING A PATTERN, LONG ADOPTED BY OUR ILLUSTRIOUS POLITICAL LEADERS. I WON’T CALL IT AN ATROPHIED VIEW. FOR BEHIND THIS ATTRACTIVE, RELIGIOUS EDIFICE, IS A WELL DESIGNED POLITICAL MOTIF TO TICKLE THE POPULAR SENTIMENT. AND THE IDEA TO HIGHLIGHT AND HIJACK SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S UNIVERSAL SPIRITUALISM INTO ITS OWN RUSTIC HOMEBRED THOUGHT PROCESS IS A PERFECT POLITICAL PLOY, HOWSOEVER SILLY, INANE AND PATHETIC IT MAY SOUND. SADLY THIS HYPOCRITICAL TRAIT WILL CONTINUE. THIS TEMPTATION TO DRAG LARGER THAN LIFE SOULS OUTSIDE THEIR ORBIT…THIS GREED TO ADVERTIZE AND SELL THEM AS COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS FOR INSTANT PROFIT. UNLESS OF COURSE, WE FATHOM THE SHALLOWNESS OF THIS CIRCUS AND LEARN TO TRASH THE CLOWNISH INSENSIBILITIES OF ITS PLAYERS.
Najib is not yet over for his party. But it won’t be long before the party is over for him. That much should be obvious from the cascade of developments. Even as a core group of UMNO leaders went into a huddle to deliberate on their president’s future, there were ominous signs that things weren’t going too well for Najib. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin , stayed away from the meeting. His absence left little room for doubt that he would not want to be seen to be associated with any move that might give Najib a reprieve. Even a temporary one, in his reckoning, would have disastrous consequences for the UMNO. It would stymie, for instance, the party’s efforts to exploit the anti-corruption mood in the country – a mood that, in his eyes, will translate into a massive vote of no confidence in UMNO.For Umno, the biggest hurdle to victory at the 13th general election is the perception that it is a corrupt and elitist party that practises cronyism, its secretary-general said today.
Datuk Tengku Adnan Mansor told state news agency that it will be tough to fix the misperception because many of Umno’s critics were disgruntled partymen who chose to break away and form their own splinter groups, like PAS and PKR.“The problem we are facing is perception.
The choice beforeUMNO is harsh. Should it decide to cut its umbilical ties with PERKASA, it will court suicide in the elections for it is critically dependent on PERKASA cadres during the campaign. If, however, it allow Mahahir to dictate its ideology and policies, its bid to expand its social base is bound to come a cropper. UMNO have found a way out of this dilemma
After we won the 2004 general elections, probably we were negligent until the opposition succeeded in labelling Umno a crony party, elitists, corrupt and all sorts,” he was reported saying,Corruption will be a decisive issue in the next generalelection.Corruption leads to misgovernance. Misgovernance exacerbates poverty and malnutrition because resources meant for the poor are siphoned off by political middlemen and local officials.“tyranny of the unelected and unelectable”. The real tyranny, as events unfolding before us have shown, is the tyranny of the elected – and of those related to the elected.Politicians in UMNO regard themselves above the people. They are wrong. Their job is to serve. Not for nothing does the word “minister” mean “servant” in Latin from which it is directly derived. The minister who defend members of their feudal dynasties should understand whom they are accountable to –. A democracy of, by and for the people must serve three purposes. It must reflect the peoples’ will, encourage their participation in democratic governance, and deliver benefits to them. That is the change we must wring from today’s feudal governance.Without
He said that while Umno has its own “cybertroopers”, the party has always urged them to report only the truth and nothing defamatory, suggesting that other online news sources were unreliable.
He said that while Umno has its own “cybertroopers”, the party has always urged them to report only the truth and nothing defamatory, suggesting that other online news sources were unreliable.
The editorial voice of Mingguan Malaysia, the weekend edition of the Utusan newspaper considered to be Umno’s mouthpiece.mouthpiece.
UTUSAN is more Malay then Muslim. believe every religion teaches love instead of hate. Is this all about race. Are we not Malaysia. Have those non-bumi not assisted those lagging behind all this while? UTUSAN hope MALAYS will realize utusan a pariah .
Awang Selamat, the way I look at it, it’s you who are the real threat to the nation. You are a racist and I am terribly ashamed to call yourself a fellow Malay.
Perception? Wow I know umno is detached from reality but I didn’t know it’s that chronic. I guess if you lie so often, you’ll believe your own lies. He said umno cybertroopers only told the truth and nothing defamatory? The tag befits the party and is not a misperception.Just because it is able to hide all the evidences and used all its resources to prevent legal investigation of the allegations by ngos and the opposition does not mean there is no truth in the allegations.How else can the party justify frequent and rampant waste of public funds,negotiated instead of open tenders,big chunks of projects awarded to known allies,admitted money politics practised by its leaders ? No use trying to defend the indefensible or blame it as the work of the opposition.
umno won the 2004 general election on the slogan . Ever since, Felda settlers has been nurtured to ensure unenlightened voting influenced by race, region and religion, underwritten by money and muscle power.The Putrajaya MP told the wire news service that although both he and party president Datuk Seri Najib Razak were working to fix the lopsided image, it was proving to be tough as there was still some former members who held a strong grudge against Umno. party’s biggest problem is not perception because the fact is that the Rakyat’s perception of your party matches the reality that is deep inside – that is – you are corrupt to the core. That’s the truth and that’s the reality. It’s not just a perception. It’s been perpetuated by your leader and the leaders before him for decades.
That is your biggest problem man! You don’t even realize it, you continue to deny it and you continue blame others and blame PR. There is no cure for you.
Fortunately the Rakyat are beginning to be enlightened and are can no longer trust in whatever you say. Don’t think you own this country and you can continue to lord over us trying to give us lip service while you plunder behind our backs.
You will reap what you sow and you will reap destruction in the coming GE.BN should spend at least one term as Opposition. Then they can return as the true people’s party like pre-independence period. As it is even now many BN MP’s can be good Opposition to Pakatan government so that Pakatan will always be on their toes. After GE 13 why not ?
“Umno is a political party, we never promise richness [sic]. This we have stressed,” Tengku Adnan, popularly called Ku Nan, was reported saying.
“It’s tough to repair if he is still resentful and has grudges. This is the hardest. We are still in the restoration stage to correct the situation,” he added, according to an extract of the transcript published by the news wire agency.
He also blamed the widespread negative perception of Umno with some within its ranks who had painted a false and distorted image of the party having promised largess to individuals instead of the public good.
“Probably the view brought by the Umno person is wrong,” he said, adding that it was not easy to face people with desires and who had egos.
He reminded Umno members that the party not only represented the Malay community but encompassed the entire Malaysian society at large.
Tengku Adnan told Bernama that he could see voters were becoming increasingly turned off by online news coverage and were returning to the mainstream media to get their regular news fix, saying this was eroding society’s trust in electronic and social media.
resources, the party cannot fund its candidates. Its vote bank of the rural poor and minorities have challenged it and formed their own parties. Some have succeeded It’s a sign of our times that these steps, which political leaders considered normal in the first two decades after Independence, appear almost outlandish today. That is the extent of damage the tyranny of the elected has done to India’s political morality.
These questions point to only one certitude: UMNO will continue to tie itself up in knots in the weeks and months ahead. As the country heads for the general election, that is what will make it a party with a difference.
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