Cambridge Syllabus In Malaysia?

One of my pet peeves is the state of education in Malaysia.

This is the reason why BN ministers can systematically deny that tear gas was shot into Tung Shin hospital when heaps of videos can be found on youtube, proving otherwise.

This is the reason why Malaysians cower in fear, afraid to speak out, frightened to stand up to authority.

They have been taught not to think, but merely to accept what the authority (in this case, the teacher) tells them.

So when someone tells me that they are going to revamp our education system, I get excited.

I start thinking that there is hope for Malaysia after all. But as usual, my hopes are dashed.

Apparently, this education is solely for Mara colleges.

Like Sarojini, I want to know why.

Cambridge syllabus: Why only in 45 Mara colleges?

August 15, 2011
FMT LETTER

From Sarojini C, via e-mail

The article Cambridge curriculum at Mara colleges in the In Brief section of the NST on Sunday spoke about the offering of the Cambridge International General Certificate of Education in 45 Mara Junior Science Colleges nationwide by 2016.

As it is one of the most recognised qualifications in the world, I, as a fellow citizen of Malaysia, am thrilled at the prospect of such world-class education, but at the same time cannot help but wonder why such syllabus cannot be offered to government schools as well, as this appears to suggest a double standard in our education syllabus.

I understand that there may be a lack of resources to implement such syllabus on a national basis, and more time may be required for such a big move, but at a time where national schools are bickering over the usage of English in the teaching of the Math and Science subjects, such a move to implement the Cambridge syllabus, which I assume will be fully in the English medium.

Why only in the 45 Mara Junior Sc! ience Co lleges? It his seems to suggest that there would be inequality in the education offered in such Mara colleges and national schools. As education is a basic right for every child, be it a child in a Mara college or a child in a national school, it would only be fair if the same syllabus is applied in both Mara colleges and national schools alike, be it the Cambridge syllabus or the current syllabus.

Read the rest on the web.

Bekas tentera mengaku pangkah 'dacing' sakan...

Seorang bekas anggota tentera mendakwa, beliau telah menanda ribuan kertas undi pos semasa bertugas sebagai kerani tadbir ketika pilihan raya ketujuh dijalankan. Kamarulzaman Ibrahim, 53, mendakwa beliau bersama beberapa lagi rakannya diarahkan supaya berbuat demikian oleh pegawai pemerintahnya.

Beliau mengaku berbuat demikian sepanjang tiga hari menjalankan tugas berkenaan di Kem Terendak, Melaka.

Katanya, beliau telah menanda kertas undi berkenaan "sehingga lenguh tangan" dan turut menandatangan setiap borang yang dikepilkan bersama kertas undi tersebut.

Bercakap dalam sidang media di ibu pejabat PAS hari ini, Kamarulzaman berkata, beliau berbuat demikian kerana "sekadar menurut perintah." Selain Kamarulzaman, turut tampil membuat pendedahan hari ini ialah dua orang lagi anggota dan seorang pegawai tentera.

Jadi ruang untuk manipulasi memang terlalu besar," katanya yang turut mendedahkan bahawa beliau turut diarahkan untuk memangkah undi bagi pembangkang.

"Sebab itu memang ada tempat yang PAS menang dengan undi pos," katanya yang menambah, kertas undi yang dibekalkan ke kem berkenaan bukanlah untuk sesuatu kawasan pilihan raya sahaja.

Selain Kamarulzaman, turut tampil membuat pendedahan hari ini ialah Mohamed Nasir Ahmad yang pertama kali muncul pada awal bulan ini dengan dakwaan berhubung penyalahgunaan undi pos di Kem Sandakan pada 1986. Mohamed Nasir Ahmad, 50, mendakwa pernah memangkah lebih 400 kertas undi pos dalam tugasnya di kem itu.

Apa yang menghairankannya, tidak sampai 100 orang daripada setiap batalion didakwa telah mendaftar sebagai pengundi pos, namun kertas undi tetap dikeluarkan atas nama mereka, dakwanya lagi. Tamba! hnya, ke rtas undi berkenaan mungkin dikeluarkan untuk anggota yang bakal bersara dan menjalani latihan peralihan.

"Mereka ini duduk berterabur di serata negeri. Mana ada masa untuk balik ke kem," katanya lagi yang berkata anggota tentera telah menerima arahan melalui perintah tetap supaya tidak terlibat dalam politik.

"Kita tidak ambil penting sangat apa yang kita buat itu. Bila ada gelombang BERSIH, barulah kita ada kesedaran," katanya lagi.

Turut bercakap dalam sidang media tersebut ialah seorang bekas pegawai tentera, Mejar (B) Risman Mastor dan seorang bekas anggota komando tentera udara, Mohd Kamil Omar.

Mohd Kamil mendakwa, beliau pernah ditawarkan satu "habuan" oleh pegawai atasannya untuk tugas menanda "sekotak kertas undi." Mohd Kamil bagaimanapun mendakwa, beliau tidak menjalankan tugas berkenaan kerana mengetahui perkara itu "tidak betul."

Risman(kiri) pula mendakwa beliau pernah menanda kertas undi ketika bertugas semasa pilihan raya dijalankan pada tahun 1978. "Tapi saya tidak ingat berapa sebab nak cepat," katanya lagi yang menganggarkan jumlah yang ditanda itu didakwa tidak lebih daripada 100 kertas undi. Risman yang bersara pada tahun 1996 itu mendakwa telah berbuat demikian ketika bertugas di Kem Majidee, Johor.

Mengulas dakwaan yang dilakukan bekas tentera berkenaan, ketua pemuda PAS Johor Suhaizan Kaiat berkata pergerakan itu akan meneruskan usaha mendedahkan masalah dalam sistem pengundian pos.

Mekanisme sedia ada tidak membolehkan SPR dan juga wakil parti politik mengesan kesemua kertas undi yang dibekalkan kepada pengundi pos, katanya. Beliau juga berharap kerajaan akan dapat melaksanakan perubahan ke atas sistem pilihan raya, sebelum pilihan raya ke-13 dijalankan.

Ex-soldiers admit to postal vote fraud...

Postal vote manipulation has been a common practice in the military for many years - so it seems - now that more retired military personnel are speaking up. Now, four ex-military personnel have confessed to committing election fraud - the same way an ex-army man said he did so earlier this month.

The four, who had served at army and air force bases across the country, say they marked thousands of postal votes in three separate general elections between 1978 and 1999.

The four - Major (Rtd) Risman Mastor, Kamarulzaman Ibrahim, Mohamed Nasir Ahmad and Mohd Kamil Omar - said they were ordered by their commanding officers to mark postal votes for the hundreds and thousands of personnel who were out in the field.

Kamarulzaman, who was a clerk working at the Terendak army camp in Malacca, said he was ordered to spend three days marking thousands of ballot papers during the 1986 general election.

The 53-year-old said he was given three pens of different colours, which he used alternately to sign the postal votes in the absence of the army personnel who were on their tour of duty.

For example, I would use a blue pen to sign for one serviceman and a black pen to sign for his wife. I was also ordered to mark votes for the opposition, he said at a press conference hosted at the PAS headquarters by the party's youth wing.

When asked how many postal votes he signed, Kamarulzaman said he could not remember the exact number but was sure that it ran into the thousands.

If you want to say how many, let's just say my hand went numb (from signing the ballot papers). I basically voted for soldiers from all over the country.

'It was the wrong thing to do'

Kamil, a retired Air Force commando based at the Butterworth Air Force base, claimed he was offered a reward if he complied with the order to mark a ! box full of postal votes during the 1999 general election. The 21-year veteran however refused to carry out the order, saying that he realised it was not right for him to mark ballots for his colleagues.

They gave me a box, and expected me to mark all the ballots in 30 minutes. I realised it was wrong, said the 49-year-old, adding that he has no idea what the reward was since he did not carry out the order.

Nasir, 50, who was a clerk based in Sandakan during the 1986 general election, said he and another colleague were told to split over 900 postal votes between them to be marked on behalf of their fellow soldiers. He pointed out that being in the military, orders are orders and that soldiers were not too bothered about politics.

Even after retirement, we didn't care so much about politics. But when Bersih came about, we started to realise that what we did was not right, he said.

Risman stressed that this practice went as far back as the 1978 general election, when he and nine others were ordered to go through around 200 sacks - each containing 10 postal votes - during his time at the Kampung Sawah army camp in Port Dickson. I did it just that one time... I don't remember the figures but I believe there were about 10 (ballots) in each sack. In effect there were just 10 of us actually voting, he said.

Their expose today is the second after an ex-army man came forward earlier this month, making a similar claim that he was ordered to mark postal votes for other personnel.

source:malaysiakini

Daftarkan Pasukan Beruniform Sebagai Pengudi Parti Kerajaan

THE STORY OF THE TWO IDS

cheers.

Registered voters having MyKad numbers that do not exist...

Even as the BN and Pakatan Rakyat trade barbs over the proposed parliamentary select committee on electoral reform, more flaws are being exposed in the electoral rolls by political parties and members of public.

The latest discovery by a PAS supporter shows several registered voters in Kedah having MyKad numbers that do not exist.

This information is posted on a Facebook page registered to a Pengundi PAS Kedah (Kedah PAS voter) and is accompanied by screen-capture images (left) of the search result from the Election Commission's (EC) website.

It shows the seventh and eighth digits of the MyKad numbers of three voters are listed as '00'. These two digits are used to indicate the place of birth of the MyKad holder.

According to the National Registration Department (NRD) website, which lists the codes for states in Malaysia and foreign nations, the code '00' does not exist.

When contacted, an NRD customer service officer confirmed that there is no such code and requested this reporter to lodge an official report with the department.
A check with the NRD portal - which allows people to check the status of identification documents - showed that there is no record of the three MyKad.

When accessed this morning, the EC online verification system confirmed the voting details of the trio:


1. Shapiza binti Ghazali
MyKad no: 811020002568
Voting constituencies: Bukit Lada (! state), Pokok Sena (Parliament)


2. Hasrullizam bin Halim
MyKad no: 800604002563
Voting constituencies: Bukit Pinang (state), Pokok Sena (Parliament)


3. Rosmadi bin Chik
MyKad no: 801111002544
Voting constituencies: Kota Siputeh (state), Jerlun (Parliament)

EC chairperson Abdul Aziz Yusof has repeatedly explained that every voter registration will be checked with the NRD database through the Agency Link-up System.

Therefore it is not known how the three voters were registered in the electoral roll despite their MyKad numbers being invalid.

"If they had been checked, the NRD would not have verified the existence of MyKad number with code '00'. If it was the fault of clerks, why are there so many people with the code '00' unless it was (a deliberate mistake)," Pengundi PAS Kedah says on the Facebook page.

"I hope that there will be a concrete explanation from the EC and NRD. A check with NRD shows that there is no record (of such MyKad), so where do these people come from? Born on the planet of Pluto?"

32 entries 'cleaned out'?

The Facebook page also posted screen-capture images of 32 Kedah voters who allegedly have a double identity in the electoral roll. However, the double identity did not exist when Malaysiakini checked with the EC online verification system this morning.

According to Abdul Aziz, the EC is 'cleaning' the electoral roll, including the removal of double registrations, on a daily basis based on NRD information.

Over the last two weeks, Malaysiakini has highlighted flaws in the electoral roll, including 'permanent resident voters' whose status in the NRD database had been 'upgraded' to 'citizen' within hours, and 'clone' voters who have two entries in the electoral roll or two different MyKad.

Under pressure from the opposition and electoral reform coa! lition B ersih 2.0, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak announced on Monday that a bi-partisan parliamentary select committee on electoral reform would be formed.

source:malaysiakini

Pengundi dengan MyKad tidak wujud pula dikesan

Hantu, jembalang dan pontianak semua jadi pengundi

Ini bukan KESILAPAN tapi PENIPUAN....

cheers.

Esei aneh Berita Harian

Seorang teman menyedarkan saya tentang esei aneh Berita Harian, akhbar milik syarikat UMNO, Kata Sepakat Kendali Pilihan Raya Pembangkang.

Saya tidak mempertikaikan Abraham Lincoln. Bagus jika Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak ingin mengikut jejak langkah Abraham Lincoln yang mengatasi masalah perhambaan di Amerika, terkenal dengan sikap mempertahankan politik sosok tengah dan memimpin kabinet yang dipenuhi dengan lawan-lawannya yang berbakat Team of Rivals.

Cuma saya tak rasa Najib sampai ke maqam Abraham Lincoln.

Pun begitu yang saya nak pertikaikan sebenarnya mengapa diselit bahawa Abraham Lincoln keturunan Yahudi? Umum mengetahui betapa sensitifnya UMNO ini dengan perkataan Yahudi sehingga Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim misalnya dituduh ejen Yahudi. Sentimen yang ditanam selama inilah yang menyaksikan Yossi Benayoun, pemain Chelsea dari Israel diboo sewaktu bermain di Malaysia baru-baru ini.

Ini bukan sikap yang diajar Islam walaupun kita semua menentang kezaliman rejim Zionis Israel di Palestin.

Masalahnya, sarjana umumnya menganggap Abraham Lincoln tiada keturunan Yahudi. Sebelum ini tanggapan ini timbul kerana namanya Abraham (Ibrahim) tetapi kita seolah-olah lupa Nabi Ibrahim a.s. juga dihormati oleh masyarakat Kristian. Sebab itu Ibrhaim dianggap bapa kepada penganut hanif atau penyembah Allah s.w.t. yang mempertahankan keEsaan Allah.

Adakah ini mesej dari sosok keras UMNO kepada Najib? Jangan berlembut dengan Pakatan Rakyat, jika tidak

Ijat Panjang kawan kita memerlukan sokangan

Noor Izzar Jamaludin atau lebih dikenali sebagai Ijat Panjang (31 t! ahun) se orang aktivis yang gigih. Beliau yang che'GuBard kenali sejak 1999 lagi tidak pernah kenal erti penat dalam berjuang. Beliau bukan orang senang tetapi tumpuan isu rakyat membela orang susah menjadi keutamaan perjuangan beliau.

Kini Doktor mengesahkan Hijat terkena sejenis penyakit kulit yang dipanggil Pemphigus Vulgaris. Penyakit ini memang jarang ditemui...Hijat adalah pesakit keempat yang pernah doktor temui di hospital ini...jika anda ingin tahu butiran lanjut tentang penyakit ini...anda boleh layari di sini.

Telah hampir lebih setengah tahun beliau keluar masuk hospital. Kini syarikat insuran tidak lagi membayar kos perubatannya kerana sudah sampai had yang ditetapkan dalam polisi.

che'GuBard seru semua teman-teman , khususnya adik beradik SAMM untuk sama menyumbang seorang sedikit. Semua penyelaras SAMM pusat dan penyelaras negeri telah bersetuju menyumbang RM 100 - RM 50 seorang. Sumbangan sedang dikumpulkan dan akan disampaikan kepada Ijat, insyaAllah pada petang sebelum Eidulfitri.

Kepada yang sudi membantu sila salurkan sumbangan ke akaun Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad no akaun 05012010074930.

Selepas memasukkan sumbangan sila sms ke 0126937908 (Zam, penyelaras perbendaharaan SAMM).

Sah muka depan berita harian menipu !

Seorang tukang kasut yang didakwa membawa pisau dalam perhimpunan BERSIH 2.0 menuntut gantirugi RM 10 juta dan permohonan maaf secara terbuka oleh Berita Harian - akhbar yang memuatkan laporan itu.

Menurut notis tuntutan Abdul Razak Endot, Berita Minggu dan The New Sraits Times Press (M) sebagai penerbit dan pencetak dikehendaki mematuhi notis itu dalam tempoh 21 hari dari tarikh penerimaannya.

Notis itu dihantar oleh tetuan Sazali & Lim pada 10 Ogos lalu.

Harian itu masih mempunyai seminggu untuk memenuhi tuntutan itu sebelum tindakan mahkamah dimulakan.

Menurut notis itu lagi, Berita Harian pada 10 Julai lalu didakwa membuat pernyataan berupa fitnah di muka depannya melalui foto dan kapsyen yang membawa makna Abdul Razak sebagai perusuh yang membawa pisau.

Abdul Razak juga mendakwa foto itu dipinda dan/atau dikacauganggu dengan sengaja untuk memberikan gambaran dia memegang sebilah pisah dan kapsyennya pula merupakan fitnah.

"Pernyataan-pernyataan dan paparan imej/foto yang dipinda tersebut adalah palsu, tidak berasas dan merupakan fitnah jahat terhadap pelanggan kami dan dibuat dengan niat untuk memfitnah pelanggan kami dan merosokkan nama baik serta reputasi dan telah menyebabkan pelanggan kami dipandang rendah oleh masyarakat," notis itu dipetik.

Abdul Razak, 32, juga akan memulakan tindakan mahkamah tanpa sebarang makluman jika tuntutan itu tidak dipatuhi dan kos notis itu akan ditanggung oleh Berita Minggu.

Berita Minggu (edisi Ahad Berita Harian) sehari selepas perhimpunan BERSIH menyiarkan gambar Abdul Razak di muka depan dengan tajuk: "Seorang perusuh membawa pisau dalam perhimpunan haram".

Tajuk kecilnya pula berbunyi: "Perusuh guna senjata, batu, lawan polis". Gambar yang sama juga dimuatkan di halaman utama New Sunday Times (edisi Ahad New Straits Times) dengan tajuk: "Peaceful (Aman)?".

Dianggap sosok 'misteri' sebelumnya, Abdul Razak bagaimanapun pada 17 Julai tampil pertama kali di pentas ceramah PAS di Kuala Lumpur menafikan dakwaan itu, sebaliknya mendakwa beliau hanya memegang sebatang bendera Malaysia kecil. - malaysiakini

Minit Mesyuarat JK Fatwa P.Pinang Yang Meluluskan Larangan Guna Pembesar Suara!

Saya adalah antara blogger prihatin yang paling awal memberi ulasan menjawab isu larangan penggunaan pembesar suara untuk bacaan Al-Quran ketika subuh di P.Pinang. Saya menyokong tindakan berani JHAIPP yang s! aya kira cuba memperbetulkan apa yang selama ini difikirkan betul.

Sila rujuk entry saya di sini - http://edyesdotcom.blogspot.com/2011/08/menjawab-isu-larangan-bacaan-al-quran.html

Seperti yang kita jangkakan, UMNO melalui media putar belitnya pasti akan spin isu ini seolah-olah merekalah yang lebih mengetahui tentang hukum syarak sedangkan apa yang sebenarnya cuba mereka perjuangkan ialah melayu, bukannya Islam. Jadi mereka akan berbuat apa sahaja demi melayu hingga sanggup menjual agama.

Jangan kita lupa bagaimana mereka melebung umat islam 1Malaysia dalam isu judi kuda di Pulau Pinang tidak lama dahulu. Mereka menyembunyikan hukum sebenar mengenai hukum mengurus kewangan negera dalam mengagih bantuan kepada fakir miskin.

Kali ini mereka sekali lagi menyerang kerajaan negeri P.Pinang dengan mengakatan kononnya arahan pengeluaran pekeliling larangan guna pembesar suara itu adalah dari DAP. Sesungguhnya negeri Pulau Pinang cukup sinonim sebagai medan UMNO mendagang agama demi kepentingan survivalnya.

Atas faktor menyampaikan kebenaran, saya tampil bersama minit mesyuarat jawatankuasa fatwa yang membawa kepada keputusan larangan tersebut. Mesyuarat tersebut juga telah dipengerusikan sendiri oleh Datuk Mufti Hj Hassan Hj Ahmad, seorang ulama yang disegani.

Bersama ini dikepilkan sekali senarai kehadiran, dalil dan dokumen berkaitan minit mesyuarat tersebut. (semuanya di awal entry kerana method update dari BB yg serba terhad)

Pujian harus diberikan kepada YB Malik selaku exco agama P.Pinang, termasuklah pegawai kerajaan negeri Chegu Zulkifli Mohamed dan Mohd Fitri Ibrahim dan Zulkifli Hj Ibrahim SAMM yang memainkan peranan besar dalam menangani isu yang cuba di'spin' oleh puak regim yang tidak bertanggungjawab. Tindakkan pantas memberi kefah! aman ber kaitan larangan tersebut menyelamatkan bukan sahaja JHAIPP dan pejabat mufti, malah martabat Islam juga tidak sempat dicemari dengan cubaan mengelirukan umat Islam.

Diharap dengan pendedahan dokumen penting ini, tidak akan ada masyarakat yang memandang serong terhadap keputusan yang dilakukan oleh JHAIPP, terutamanya apabila membabitkan tuduhan keterlibatan kerajaan negeri dalam melontarkan arahan. Apa yang kita sedia maklum, kerajaan negeri yang diketuai DAP sangat peka dan prihatin dalam menjaga martabat Islam di P.Pinang dengan pelbagai inisiatif dan bantuan yang melebihi kebanyakkan negeri lain.

Dalam entri ini juga, saya mengambil kesempatan memetik sepenuhnya kenyataan Dr Asri Di Bawah;

Oleh: Dr Asri

Saya amat bersetuju dengan keputusan Jabatan Mufti Pulau Pinang yang mengeluarkan arahan agar suara bacaan al-Quran tidak dikuatkan melalui pembesar suara seperti yang berlaku di kebanyakan masjid sebelum waktu solat. Fatwa atau arahan ini bagi saya selaras dengan kehendak syarak. Seperti yang lepas, saya berpegang kepada alasan-alasan berikut menyokong keputusan berkenaan;

1. Apa yang Islam syariatkan untuk diangkat suara, hanyalah azan. Adapun selain dari itu, tiada nas yang menyuruh kita menguatkan suara sehingga mengganggu orang lain. Bahkan perbuatan itu dilarang oleh Nabi s.a.w. Apatah lagi dalam Islam ketenteraman orang lain dipelihara melainkan jika ada pengecualian tertentu yang diizinkan oleh syarak.

2. Walaupun bacaan al-Quran dan zikir amatlah baik. Namun kita tidak boleh memaksa orang lain mendengar bacaan kita. Mungkin orang lain ingin membacanya sendiri, atau ingin membacanya pada waktu lain, atau mereka sedang sakit atau ada anak kecil yang tidur, atau mereka tidak difardukan solat seperti wanita yang haid atau bukan muslim dan lain-lain.

3. Ramai orang bukan muslim keliru antara azan dan bacaan-bacaan selain azan yang ! dilaungk an menerusi corong pembesar suara. Mereka menyangka bacaan-bacaan itu adalah azan yang disuruh oleh Islam, lalu mereka bersangka buruk dengan Islam yang harmoni ini. Apatah lagi bacaan itu mengambil masa yang lama, sedangkan azan yang sebenar tidak lebih dari lima minit.

4. Sebenarnya, Nabi s.a.w sendiri telah melarang orang menguatkan bacaan al-Quran dalam masjid sehingga mengganggu jamaah lain. Dalam hadis Nabi s.a.w, kata Abu Sa'id al-Khudri:

"Ketika Nabi s.a.w beriktikaf (beribadah dalam masjid), baginda mendengar mereka mengangkat suara bacaan (al-Quran) sedangkan ketika itu Nabi s.a.w berada di tempat ibadah baginda. Lalu baginda mengangkat langsir dan bersabda: "Ketahui setiap kamu bermunajat kepada tuhannya, jangan sebahagian kamu menyakiti sebahagian yang lain. Jangan kamu angkat suara bacaan melebihi yang lain dalam solat" (Riwayat Abu Daud dengan sanad yang sahih).

Dalam hadis ini Nabi s.a.w melarang mengangkat suara bacaan di masjid sehingga mengganggu mereka yang lain yang sedang beribadah, atau menyakitkan orang lain. Jika mereka yang berada dalam masjid yang memang bersedia untuk beribadah pun, tidak dibenarkan untuk diangkat suara bacaan sehingga mengganggu konsentrasi mereka, mana mungkin untuk dikuatkan suara bacaan melalui pembesar suara sehingga menggangu mereka yang di luar masjid. Mungkin mereka itu mempunyai anak kecil, orang sakit dan seumpamanya.

Ulama besar di zaman ini, Al-Syeikh Muhammad Salih al-Uthaimin r.h mengulas hadis ini dengan katanya:

"Realiti hari ini menyaksikan apa yang disebut oleh hadis ini. Ini yang kita lihat mereka yang melakukan hal ini dengan menunaikan solat menggunakan pembesar suara (luar masjid). Mereka itu jika menyakiti sesiapa yang ada di sekeliling mereka, maka mereka berdosa..tiada syak lagi meninggal perbuatan ini lebih afdal yang pada hakikatnya tiada faedah pun, sebab insan tidak bersolat dengan mereka yang di luar masji! d, sebal iknya dengan mereka yang berada dalam masjid..dengan itu kita berpesan kepada saudara-saudara kita, khususnya para imam masjid jangan lakukan ini..boleh jadi sesetengah orang telah solat dan perlu tidur dan berehat, boleh jadi dia sakit lalu terganggu dengan suara ini, boleh jadi juga masjid dekat dengan rumah, pada musim panas pula dan anak-anak kecil terganggu dengan bunyi pembesar suara. Kesimpulannya, masalah ini telah menimpa sesetengah orang sehingga mereka menyakiti jiran-jiran masjid atau rumah mereka dalam perkara yang tiada faedah baginya". (Ibn Uthaimin, Syarh Riyadh al-Salihin: http://www.ibnothaimeen.com/all/eBook-o.shtml).

Bayangkan kenyataan ini dikeluarkan oleh ulama besar dan terbilang tersebut di negara Saudi Arabia yang penduduknya kesemuanya muslim. Bagaimanakah pula bagi negara yang seperti kita.

5. Ulama silam juga telah mengingatkan hal ini, bahawa bacaan-bacaan lain di menara-menara masjid adalah dilarang kerana boleh mengganggu orang ramai. Al-Imam al-Hafizd Ibn Jauzi (meninggal 597H) pernah berkata:

"Antara tipu daya Iblis ialah mereka yang mencampur adukkan azan dengan peringatan, tasbih dan nasihat. Mereka jadikan azan perantaranya lalu bercampur aduk. Para ulama membenci segala yang ditambah kepada azan. Banyak kita lihat orang yang bangun waktu malam lalu memberikan peringatan dan nasihat atas menara azan. Dalam kalangan mereka ada yang membaca al-Quran dengan suara yang tinggi lalu menghalang tidur orang ramai dan mengganggu bacaan orang yang bertahajjud. Kesemuanya itu adalah perkara-perkara munkar". ( Ibn Jauzi, Talbis Iblis, 159, Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyyah).

Ini adalah larangan ulama pada zaman yang belum ada pembesar suara yang gangguannya tidaklah setakat mana, bagaimana jika mereka melihat keadaan pembesar suara pada zaman ini?

Maka, dengan itu memang wajar arahan meminta dielakk! an bacaa n-bacaan yang dibuat melalui pembesar suara yang boleh mengganggu orang luar dan dalam masjid. Mematuhi hal ini bukan kerana isu politik semata, tetapi itu arahan Nabi s.a.w. dan juga menjaga Islam yang harmoni. Umat Islam Pulau Pinang sepatutnya menyokong keputusan ini, dan saya menyokongnya.

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Semoga artikel maklumat ini dapat disebarkan ke seluruh pelusuk negara agar mereka faham, mengapa Pulau Pinang acapkali dijadikan medan mengelirukan fahaman umat Islam oleh pihak terdesak.

Electoral Reform a Must Before Next General Election

By Kee Thuan Chye | Malaysian Digest

PRIME Minister Najib Razak is suddenly so generous in calling for electoral reform. He has even called for the establishment of a parliamentary select committee (PSC) to look into this. While it is still premature to say whether this will ensure effective participation by the Opposition in the process, it is nonetheless a radical change from his previous stubborn position against Bersih 2.0s demands for free and fair elections.

As with much of Malaysian politics, there is probably more to all this than what appears on the surface. Najib must have been comforted by some assurance of electoral victory and possibly a landslide one before he would allow himself to accede to an initiative begun by Bersih 2.0. Otherwise, he would be seen to be weak by his own party, Umno, which no doubt would have players in the wings with knives behind their backs.

One hopes this assurance of certain victory does not involve giving illegal immigrants the right to vote. In light of Wanita PKRs revelation that it has evidence of illegal immigrants taking an oath to vote for BN, this is disturbing.

Thats putting it mildly. For nothing could be so heinous on the part of our government, indeed any government, than to sell the country to foreigners just for the purpose of staying on in power. Such a move of granting citizenships to immigrants overnight would also be extremely unfair to the many who have lived in this country for decades and continue to hold red! ICs. Bu t above all, it is the sinister motive that makes it inexcusable.

Talk has indeed been rife for the past few months that a project of this sinister nature is already in the works. More suspicions were raised when the Election Commission (EC) announced it would use the biometric system to identify voters as this is the system also being used by the Government in its 6P amnesty program to register foreign workers as well as illegal immigrants. Opposition politicians are especially worried that those not qualified to vote could in the process get registered as voters. The illegal immigrants that Wanita PKR says were made to swear an oath of allegiance to Umno/BN are allegedly from the 6P amnesty program.

This sort of tactic, together with the granting of citizenships to new immigrants, has supposedly been used in Project M (also known as Project IC) in Sabah when Mahathir Mohamad was prime minister, so that the demographic and voting patterns would favor BN and entrench it as the ruling regime there. If this is being repeated now, it would reaffirm BNs ruthless tendency to stoop to underhand tactics to serve its own cause, without any regard for the people.

There is also the possibility that Najibs call for the setting-up of a PSC is merely a public relations ploy, in light of what Dewan Rakyat Deputy Speaker Datuk Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar has said in response that it would take a year before the committee can conclude discussions.

If Najib had prior knowledge of that before making his announcement, then his move counts for nothing. The next general election (GE) may very well be called soon, less than a year from now. Which means it may be held prior to the electoral reform. Which means it may be held with the shortcomings of the current system still intact. How can that be satisfactory?

If doing it via the PSC takes too long, even though Najib still has one and a half years left before calling for fresh polls, then another method must be sought.

For example, on ! the pres sing and crucial issue of cleaning the electoral roll, which has been found to be full of dirt and discrepancies, Bersih 2.0 chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan has suggested this: Set up a committee, give it three months and lets just clean it up. Why not take this suggestion up? The committee could be made up of the EC, BN and Pakatan Rakyat representatives, the Bar Council and Bersih 2.0.

A few other issues can also be addressed through stakeholder discussions that could take only a matter of a few months.

One is the debate on Bersih 2.0s advocacy for the use of indelible ink versus the ECs proposal to use the biometric system.

Another is the debate over the length of the campaign period. Bersih 2.0 is asking for a minimum of 21 days but the EC has been giving excuses against it. In the 1959 and 1964 GEs, the campaign period was as long as 35 days, and for the one in 1969, it was 28 days. A reasonable length of time is needed to let voters acquaint themselves with the candidates and their promises, but Najib has scoffed at the idea that a short campaign period is a disadvantage to the Opposition, claiming that Pakatan Rakyat campaigns every day with a ceramah here and a ceramah there. He, however, ignores the fact that his own ruling party gets to campaign day in day out on a much larger scale through the mass media it controls.

Even during the campaign period, the ruling party has almost total access to the print and broadcasting media. Prior to the 1999 GE, Opposition parties were given at least a bit of airtime on RTMs radio stations to broadcast their manifestoes. But in 1999, the Government announced that as RTM was Government-owned, preference would be given to government parties. Since then, no Opposition party has been heard on the air.

It is for this reason that one of Bersih 2.0s demands is the granting of free and fair access to the media to all political parties. As the ruling party becomes merely a caretaker government when a general election is in progress, ! it shoul d not hog the media facilities but instead open them up to all political parties, including the Opposition. Resolving this issue through discussion should also not take long.

Neither should the issue of reforming postal voting.

Whatever the process adopted to ensure that electoral reform is achieved, it is imperative that it be completed before the 13th GE. If Najib is truly sincere about reform, if his statements that we will only want to form a government if the rakyat truly chooses Barisan Nasional and that I do not want to be prime minister without the peoples support are to be believed, he should make a pledge not to call for the 13th GE until the reform has been effected.

And while all this is going on, lets not forget that Bersih 2.0 is still considered illegal, after Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein declared it so last month. He should now admit that if it had not been for Bersih 2.0s insistence on electoral reform, embodied in its eight demands and publicly vented in its July 9 mass rally, we would not have arrived at this point.

Hishammuddin should admit that Bersih 2.0 has demonstrated the power that civil society can have to pressure the ruling party to re-examine its stand. He should also note that the Deputy Speaker has now actually said, that as electoral reform is a matter of great importance to the public interest, It is best we discuss it in-depth and involve all stakeholders including Bersih, NGOs, the Bar Council and civil society.

If no less than the Deputy Speaker of Parliament has expressed recognition of Bersih 2.0, isnt it about time that Hishammuddin revoked his order against the group?

14,000 'foreigners' in Penang's state electoral roll...

Penang PAS alleges it has detected about 14,000 'foreigners' in the state electoral roll and has launched an investigation into the matter so that a report can be filed with the Election Commission soon. State PAS Youth secretary Afnan Hamimi Taib Azamudden said the alleged irregularities were detected by the party's election committee over the week.

He added that the party has its own computer system which has been able to detect the said number of foreigners or permanent residents with the middle number '71' in their identity cards.

"The number of this kind of voters in the electoral roll is very high and sudden. Also the controversy over Mismah has made us very suspicious," he told Malaysiakini today.

Recently, Malaysiakini exposed a case where an individual named Mismah - was initially listed as a PR holder but was included in the latest update to the country's electoral rolls. Her status was however changed to full citizenship just hours after the issue made the headlines.

The Election Commission clarified that it was a mere "technical glitch" where the National Registration Department had failed to update its data despite Mismah having received full citizenship since January this year.

Mismah however denied any irregularity in the granting of her Malaysian citizenship.

PAS had earlier pointed out that checks conducted in Selangor, Perak, Penang, Johor, Kelantan and Terengganu yielded similar cases where PR holders were registered as voters, with at least 1,100 identified in Selangor alone.

On Aug 4, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng claimed that the state saw a sudden surge of 32,000 voters in just three months, while 6,000 had! been dr opped due to death and change of address.

He added that among others, the Batu Maung state constituency, currently held by state exco member Abdul Malik Kassim from PKR saw a shocking increase of 1,400 postal votes.

On Aug 9, the PAS Penang election department revealed it had found 237 "suspicious" names in the electoral roll.

The findings revealed several inconsistencies including voters with two identity cards with different names, different people with similar names and similar ID numbers, as well as those with similar names with different birthdates, registered as voters in two different areas.

Meant to divert attention

Meanwhile, Afnan Hamimi said the controversy over the ban on use of loudspeakers for the recital of verses from the Quran by the Penang Fatwa Council before dawn prayers was planned to divert attention from irregularities revealed in the electoral rolls.

He urged the debate be stopped and more focus be placed on the "issue of betrayal" by certain quarters who had compromised the future of the country into the hands of foreigners through dubious practices involving the MyKad and the electoral roll.

The Penang Fatwa Council had been criticised for allowing the state government under Lim to 'interfere' in the matter.

Lim, however, had denied any involvement and this was duly confirmed by Mufti Hassan Ahmad in a recent press conference.

Afnan Hamimi added the Election Commission had admitted that it was unable to prepare a completely clean electoral roll as demanded by Bersih 2.0.

source:malaysiakini

cheers.

Kes - kes penipuan di Malaysia. Umno lemah kena tipu oleh Mca

Gambar atas ialah WARGA Singapura, Sharida Abdul Majid, 46, mengaku tidak bersalah di Mahkamah Sesyen Shah Alam, hari ini atas pertuduhan menipu pengasas RHB Bank, Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Hussain, dengan menggunakan dokumen palsu, membabitkan kerugian RM7 juta. Menurut fakta kes Sharida memperdayakan Rashid Hussain dengan kononya dia memperolehi kontrak kaitan Sultan Brunei. Menariknya macam manalah Rashid Hussain yang hebat yang dikatakan mampu terlepas apabila dia sendiri antara punca masalah ekonomi negara apabila memulakan urusan dengan Soros tetapi ditipu oleh janda anak 4 ini. Jika difikir Sultan Brunei tak ada masa pun nak terlibat perniagaan nilai RM 7 juta.

Dia ditangkap dikediamanya selepas laporan polis dibuat oleh Rashid dan dibawa ke mahkamah dalam keadaan bergari. Sementara perbicaraan berlansung dia diberi ikat jamin RM1juta dan pasport nya diserahkan ke mahkamah. Jumlah jaminan kemudian dikurangkan ke setengah juta.
Tun Dr. Ling Liong Sik, didakwa kerana menipu kabinet ketika beliau menjawat jawatan Menteri dan Presiden MCA. Ini baru betul... kabinet yang majoriti melayu Umno dieketuai oleh Tun Dr. Mahathir yang konon hebat sangat ditipu oleh seorang tauke. Penipuan melibatkan nilai bilion ringgit wang rakyat dalam urusan PKFZ.

Beliau dibawa ke mahkamah dengan begitu terhormat selepas ditahan. Itupun apabila desakan dilakukan semakin kuat untuk tindakan diambil dalam isu PKFZ. Kelihatan seorang pembantu Melayu sentiasa setia menjadi tukang angkat beg beliau. Bayangkan jika! keadaan sebaliknya sudah tentu gambar-gambar ini akan dipergunakan oleh Umno untuk membakar sentimen perkauman. Persoalanya bukan cina atau melayu tetapi Mca berjaya menipu Umno yang lemah mengendalikan kabinet.
Dia juga diberi jaminan untuk bebas sementara perbicaraan berlansung dengan jaminan RM 1 juta.
Bukan seorang Presiden MCA berjaya perdaya kabinet. Seorang lagi Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy yang berdepan tuduhan menipu kabinet tetapi kali ini dibawah pimpinan Abdullah Hj Ahmad Badawi. Walaupun ketika itu kononya Abdullah ada sekumpulan penasihat muda yang cerdik lulusan luar negara namun ia tertipu dengan projek yang sama PKFZ dan turut bernilai bilion wang negara hilang. Ternyata Umno begitu lemah hingga boleh ditipu Mca, atau Umno begitu ghairah makan komisen sehingga tak sedar ditipu.

Dia juga mendapat jaminan untuk bebas sementara perbicaraan dengan nilai RM 1juta. Di iring dengan cara terhormat ke mahkamah, selepas pendakwa dapati ada kes beliau menipu negara.

Sekadar menulis untuk mengajak kita semua berfikir !

Statement on Tajuddin Ramli vs GLCs issue

The Tajuddin Ramli vs GLCs saga is just a symptom of a broken economy. While we are focusing on the details of the shocking collusion brought about by Nazris letter supposedly advising GLCs to drop their legitimate legal claims, followed up with Datuk Seri Najibs off-site settlement rationale, this must be seen as an attempt to engineer a closure to what has been BNs long tradition of economic plundering via NEP and selected bumiputera captains of industry.

We must not forget how Tajuddin Ramli was awarded, mismanaged, and bailed out from MAS at an estimated total loss to the economy to the tune of more than RM8 billion.

This is economic plundering at its worst.

Let us not forget the plundering of public finances happening even right now through the so-called Economic Transformation Program. The top 10 biggest projects will require a total investment of RM142 billion, 77% of which will be from public financing via GLCs. This proves that the figure of 92% private financing is nothing more than political whitewashing.

This again amplifies my call that Malaysia is a broken economy. And how will we fix this broken economy? Without sounding over-simplistic, it is a matter of competition. Competition will almost always produce the best economic scenario for the rakyat.

To compound this non-competition, we should not turn our gaze away from the MAS-AirAsia share swap. If things subsequently turn awry, will Putrajaya intervene in the MAS boardroom yet again as it has done historically over the past decade?

YB Nurul Izzah Anwar
MP Lembah Pantai
Vice President KEADILAN

Skim Pak Man telo dan bahananya

Jikalau Pak Man Telo yang mengasaskan Skim Cepat Kaya masih lagi menjalankan skim tersebut tentunya dia orang yang paling gembira di Malaysia. Masakan tidak sebagai pengasas skim ini tentunya dia akan menjadi perujuk utama kepada pelbagai skim yang sedang beroperasi di Malaysia.

Pertama, kita ada Skim Perunding 1Malaysia, di mana skop tugasan hanya melibatkan persembahan kepada kerajaan tentang bagaimana hendak menunjukkan kepada rakyat bahawa negara akan bankrap. Selesai sahaja, dapatlah berpuluh-puluh juta.

Kedua, Skim Kurangkan Subsidi Rakyat, buatlah pelbagai unjuran, angka dan sedikit ugutan bahawa subsidi perlu dikurangkan, nyatakan rakyat perlu mengikat perut dalam zaman yang makmur ini. Balasannya juga maha lumayan menjangkau jutaan ringgit. Hai, sekadar makmal sahaja sudah boleh meraih RM24 juta.

Ketiga, Skim Miliki RM75 juta, skim ini amat menarik; di mana perjanjian dibuat dengan pemaju perumahan melibatkan sebidang tanah yang kini diduduki oleh majoriti setinggan Melayu. Pindahkan saja setinggan ni ke rumah flat atau penempatan rakyat. Selepas dipindahkan, hanya perlu menunggu beberapa tahun sebelum saham dalam syarikat kerjasama dijual untuk RM75 juta. Begitulah sebuah yayasan yang ditubuhkan oleh parti pemerintah, oleh sebuah negara berjaya meraih untung RM75 juta.

Keempat, Skim Cincin Berlian RM24 juta. Caranya mudah; hanya simpan duit ketika anda belum lahir lagi dan tanpa diduga, apabila anda mencecah umur 50 tahun ke atas, maka anda berpeluang untuk miliki cincin berlian yang maha bernilai itu. Apa yang paling penting ia tidak akan dikenakan cukai import dan perkhidmatan lumayan, bukan?

Kelima, Skim Kapal Selam yang punyai masalah (kadangkala) tidak boleh menyelam. Caranya mudah hanya cadangkan kepada kerajaan pembelian kapal selam atau apa-apa senjata untuk keperluan ketenteraan, kemudian kenakan komisen. Hanya terma, komisen jangan disebut. sebaliknya cukup sekadar menyatakan ia bayaran perkhidmatan sokongan.

Pulangannya bukan main; minimum pu! n sudah mencecah RM500 juta dan kalau peralatan lebih canggih, maka bolehlah kita tambah keperluan selenggaraan untuk membolehkan peralatan tu terus beroperasi. Kos selenggara mampu mencapai sampai satu bilion ringgit!

Saya boleh saja menyenaraikan pelbagai lagi skim di Malaysia; namun rasanya helaian dalam akhbar Sinar Harian tidak mencukupi kerana terdapat beribu-ribu skim, Skim Sapu 1Malaysia, Skim Curi-Curi Wang Malaysia, Skim Ambil Bangunan MRT, Skim paksa GLC Pinggirkan saman untuk selamatkan kroni, Skim Lesap Wang Zakat dan pelbagai skim cepat kaya yang berilhamkan Skim Cepat Kaya Pak Man Telo.

Skim ini berkemungkinan memastikan parti pemerintah mengekalkan kuasa dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang dengan menjadikan penduduk tetap sebagai pengundi.

Tetapi kepada rakyat yang setia kepada negara, tidak pernah lupa membayar cukai dan zakat, tidak pernah lupa membayar pelbagai lagi cukai termasuklah cukai air kumbahan, semua skim yang diperkenalkan ini dilihat sebagai Skim Memiskinkan Rakyat, Skim Melesapkan Harta Negara dan paling penting Skim Melupuskan Hak Rakyat.

Mengapa, kerana inilah sedang berlaku kepada rakyat yang sedang berhempas pulas mengikat perut kerana kenaikan harga melampau, bagaimana harga barang naik disebabkan keputusan parti pemerintah menarik balik subsidi minyak kepada industri pengangkutan yang merupakan penyebab utama kenaikan harga barang.

Bagaimana ia menggugat kehidupan rakyat apabila kenaikan harga barang ini tidak diikuti dengan kenaikan gaji, malah gaji minimum yang dijanjikan masih lagi tidak ditunaikan, walhal janji untuk mengawal harga barang hanya janji-janji kosong.

Apakah Skim NKRA, ETP dan pelbagai lagi yang di perkenalkan telah berjaya membantu rakyat, malangnya tidak ada yang dapat dibuktikan setakat ini; sedang dana negara sudah dibelanjakan, dong!

Angin sepoi-sepoi berserta alasan itu sahaja yang diperoleh rakyat, yang terus cuba dijahilkan dengan skim-skim yang gah pada nama sahaja tetapi tiada faedah kepada rakyat yang kini! berhada pan dengan tekanan maha teruk dan terpaksa pula berhadapan dengan pelbagai kesan sampingan yang diwujudkan oleh skim-skim yang diperkenalkan. Kesimpulannya: ayuh, kita hapuskan skim-skim ciptaan ini, ayuh kita hentikan skim yang menggugat kesejahteraan rakyat agar tidak dibiarkan sukses sebagai Pak Man Telo selama-lamanya!

(Pertama kali disiarkan di Sinar Harian, 16 Ogos 2011)

Pakatan fulfilling election promises

FMT LETTER

From Selangor Resident, via e-mail

I refer to report, MPSJ saves RM200,000 through open tender system for road repairs in the Star on Aug 18 and would like to express my happiness over the fact that it is being implemented throughout Selangor.

Its not just an election rhetoric anymore. Its being practiced by the entire Pakatan Rakyat Selangor government at all levels. The report quotes the Selangor executive councillor, Teresa Kok as saying:

Previously, there was no open tender and it was done through negotiated tender. Several damaged roads were identified in Puchong and Kinrara and estimated cost was RM1million. However, through open tender, we were able to save RM200,000 which can be used to repair other roads

At a time when government wastage is a norm, hearing news like this is music to my ears. Kudos to the Selangor Pakatan Rakyat state government. When the government saves, the people can enjoy more facilities and services without having to pay more taxes.

It also proves that Pakatan Rakyat is fulfilling their election promises of a clean and transparent government. Not to mention their battle against corruption. Selangor Pakatan government has proven to the people that they not only talk about eradicating corruption, they walk the talk too.

Bravo, Pakatan Rakyat of Selangor.

Protes Satu Nama Dalam Daftar Pemilih, Bayar RM10

Artikel ini cuba menunjukkan bukti bahawa undang-undang yang dipakai oleh SPR ini adalah ciptaan UMNO dan bukan untuk kebaikan bersama.

Setiap 3 bulan, SPR akan mempamirkan senarai pengundi baru untuk dimasukkan ke DAftar Pemilih mengikut KAwasan2 Parlimen.

Sekiranya kita tidak puas hati atau mempunyai masaalah dengan daftar pemilih tersebut, kita wajib membayar RM10 untuk SATU nama yang kita hendak protes.

Bayangkan kalau kita jumpa 100 pengundi hantu dalam fatar pemilih tersebut, kita kena menyediakan RM1000 untuk memprotes.

Ingat, wang tersebut hanya mengizinkan kita memprotes. Tidak semestinya selepas membayar RM1000 itu, protes kita akan diterima.

Maknanya, kalau kita protes 100 nama dan membayar RM1000 ringgit dan SPR hanya menerima protes 5 nama dan mengekalkan 95 nama yang lain, wang RM1000 yang telah dibayar itu hangus.

Jelas, bagi Tulang Besi, peraturan ini adalah ciptaan UMNO dan Barisan Nasional bagi menyokong UMNO dan Barisan Nasional.

UMNO tahu rata-rata parti pembangkang tidak berduit. Nak bayar sewa pejabat pun terpaksa berpuasa berhari-hari untuk bayar sewa.

Inikan pula untuk memprotes 100 nama atau 1000 nama atau 10000 nama.

Senarai pengundi baru yang terbaru menunjukkan bilangan lebih 300000 nama. Bayangkan kalau kita protes separuh, yakni 150000, maka kita wajib menyediakan RM1.5 juta ringgit semata-mata untuk memprotes.

Benarlah kata orang ramai, SPR itu adalah biro UMNO yang bertugas memenangkan UMNO dalam setiap pilihanraya.

Moga Allah SWT melaknat mereka yang menjalankan penipuan ini. AMIN!!!!!


Tulang ! Besi

BNs Perak assembly sitting just a rubber stamp...

Perak Pakatan Rakyat state representatives staged a walkout at the one day assembly sitting yesterday as the assembly has become a mere rubber stamp.

Former Perak Menteri Besar Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin said Speaker R Ganesan had also disallowed debates and questions.

The sitting was called just to fulfill the requirement that it needs to be held every six months under the Perak constitution.

There was no agenda of what was going to be discussed and most of our questions went unanswered. It was a total mockery of democracy; a contempt, and a shame to the house, Nizar told FMT.

Nizar said he believed the mere three-hour sitting yesterday was the first of its kind and never occurred when Pakatan Rakyat ruled the state.

During our time we had four days at least, I managed to convene sessions lasting five days with ample time for all parties to ask questions. Today (Monday), nothing of consequence was done, no bills were discussed.

Whats the point of having a meeting just for the sake of it? This was just rubber stamping we couldnt even ask questions, our microphones were turned off. We had to shout and yell. We couldnt do anything, complained the PAS Pasir Panjang assemblyman and Bukit Gantang MP.

MB not answering questions

Nizar said the illegal Speaker Ganesan had also brushed aside pertinent matters related to the welfare of the people.

Certainly August is the time for a midterm review, but they had nothing. How could you run a state like this?

The Menteri Besar Zambry Abdul Kadir also couldnt answer my question of his expenditures of overseas trips. Even (Prime Minister) Najib (Tun Razak) r! evealed in parliament that he spent RM17 million overseas trips with his wife, he said.

(Zambry had later maintained that he did not waste any government money for any holidays as all were important official trips.)

Nizar also said the current Perak state assembly disallowed online news portals to cover its sittings and only welcomed mainstream media such as Utusan Malaysia and Bernama. In addition, Nizar also questioned the constant presence of policemen.

DAPs Sungkai assemblyman A Sivanesan also asked why his question on Ramadan bazaars was rejected yesterday. I was merely asking if the waiver they are giving to stall owners now would be extended during Deepavali and Chinese New Year, he said.

Speaker: No urgent matters

Meanwhile, the Perak Speaker lashed out at the opposition for consistently finding reasons for walking out of the house every single time. Ganesan explained that the original two-day session was finished in one day as there were no urgent matters or bills to be debated and passed, adding that there was nothing wrong in that.

We have to fulfil the requirement under the Perak constitution. How could they complain about this as it was also the practiced in the Kedah state legislative assembly, he said.

Ganesan also defended himself over allegedly being biased, saying: I was giving them equal opportunities. Two extra question was also given to the Pakatan side. What they are claiming is all bullshit.

People who are inside the dewan know exactly what happens toward the end of the day the opposition always finds some excuse to walk out so they can blame Barisan Nasional. They are always misleading the Press and the public with their theatrics, he said.

This was not the first time the BN-led Perak state assembly has been criticised for being a rubberstamp house.

Pakatan Rakyat has always complained that ever since BN wrested the Pakatan-led state government in 2009 following the defection of three P! akatan e lected representatives, they have been bullied.

source:FMT

SIDANG DUN PERAK 2 JAM SAHAJA ...

cheers.

PENENTANGAN TERHADAP KEBENARAN PASTI HANCUR

Firman Allah bermaksud:

Maka tiap-tiap (mereka itu) Kami seksa disebabkan dosanya, maka antara mereka ada yang Kami timpakan kepadanya hujan batu kerikil dan antara mereka ada yang ditimpa suara keras yang mengguntur, dan antara mereka ada yang Kami tenggelamkan; dan Allah sekali-kali tidak hendak menganiaya mereka, akan tetapi merekalah yang menganiaya diri mereka sendiri.

Perumpamaan orang-orang yang mengambil pelindung-pelindung selain Allah adalah seperti labah-labah yang membuat rumah. Dan sesungguhnya rumah yang paling lemah ialah rumah labah-labah kalau mereka mengetahui.

Sesungguhnya Allah mengetahui apa-apa saja yang mereka seru selain Allah. Dan Dia Maha Perkasa Maha Bijaksana.

Dan perumpamaan-perumpamaan ini Kami buatkan untuk manusia; dan tiada yang memahaminya kecuali orang-orang yang berilmu.

Allah menciptakan langit dan bumi dengan hak. Sesungguhnya pada yang demikian itu terdapat tanda-tanda kekuasaan Allah bagi orang-orang mukmin.

[ Surah al-Ankabut: 40-44 ]

Razak 'tukang kasut' tuntut RM10juta...

Seorang tukang kasut yang didakwa membawa pisau dalam perhimpunan BERSIH 2.0 menuntut gantirugi RM 10 juta dan permohonan maaf secara terbuka oleh Berita Harian - akhbar yang memuatkan laporan itu.

Menurut notis tuntutan Abdul Razak Endot, Berita Minggu dan The New Sraits Times Press (M) sebagai penerbit dan pencetak dikehendaki mematuhi notis itu dalam tempoh 21 hari dari tarikh penerimaannya.

Notis itu dihantar oleh tetuan Sazali & Lim pada 10 Ogos lalu.

Harian itu masih mempunyai seminggu untuk memenuhi tuntutan itu sebelum tindakan mahkamah dimulakan.

Menurut notis itu lagi, Berita Harian pada 10 Julai lalu didakwa membuat pernyataan berupa fitnah di muka depannya melalui foto dan kapsyen yang membawa makna Abdul Razak sebagai perusuh yang membawa pisau.

Abdul Razak juga mendakwa foto itu dipinda dan/atau dikacauganggu dengan sengaja untuk memberikan gambaran dia memegang sebilah pisah dan kapsyennya pula merupakan fitnah.

"Pernyataan-pernyataan dan paparan imej/foto yang dipinda tersebut adalah palsu, tidak berasas dan merupakan fitnah jahat terhadap pelanggan kami dan dibuat dengan niat untuk memfitnah pelanggan kami dan merosokkan nama baik serta reputasi dan telah menyebabkan pelanggan kami dipandang rendah oleh masyarakat," notis itu dipetik.

Abdul Razak, 32, juga akan memulakan tindakan mahkamah tanpa sebarang makluman jika tuntutan itu tidak dipatuhi dan kos notis itu akan ditanggung oleh Berita Minggu.

Berita Minggu (edisi Ahad Berita Harian) sehari selepas perhimpunan BERSIH menyiarkan gambar Abdul Razak di muka depan dengan tajuk: "Seorang perusuh membawa pisau dalam perhimpunan haram".

Tajuk kecilnya pula berbunyi: "Perusuh guna senjata, batu, lawan! polis". Gambar yang sama juga dimuatkan di halaman utama New Sunday Times (edisi Ahad New Straits Times) dengan tajuk: "Peaceful (Aman)?".

Dianggap sosok 'misteri' sebelumnya, Abdul Razak bagaimanapun pada 17 Julai tampil pertama kali di pentas ceramah PAS di Kuala Lumpur menafikan dakwaan itu, sebaliknya mendakwa beliau hanya memegang sebatang bendera Malaysia kecil.

source:malaysiakini

Kau saman akhbar penjilat punggong UMNO ini sampai depa bankrap...

cheers.

Taxation- Should be income based or wealth based?

Someone told me yesterday that government coffers are almost empty. Coffers if not properly managed will be empty. It is a simple system of managing input and output. Coffers need to be filled on a sustainable basis to meet the community needs. Today, Malaysian taxation system is income dependent. The more one earns the more he pays. The weakness of such system is that it has an impact on family disposable income. A salaried worker who pays a fixed amount of taxes on a fixed income will suffer when the cost of living goes up. It can be seen today on how the reduced disposable is affecting a family unit in the urban area.

It is time that we moved on from such an unfair system. It is unfair to the productive person who worked hard to give a good life to his family. It is unfair to the middle income group that continues to pay tax despite having a lower disposable income because of rising cost of living. The solution lies in the proven system that is based on Quran and Hadith where taxes are imposed based on wealth and not income.

Taxation based on wealth resulted in man making productive used of its assets to generate income. The owners of idle asset will feel the pinch of having unproductive asset as they have to pay taxes on those asset and the assets does not generate income. It will force asset owners to be productive i.e. it will stimulate the economy. The nation coffers would be more if the taxation is based on asset as typically corporations and individuals has assets but tends to show modified profits.

While wealth based taxation has its merits, implementing the operational side of it is a different issue. I am not sure which country in the modern time practices such system. Whatever it is, I believe it is time our thinkers start exploring an alternative system. The current system is making the middle class poorer.