The PKR Youth chief Shamsul disagreed.argued that a strong message must be sent to those allegedly involved in spying.The failure of government especially our prime minister to come out with a strong stance is causing this despicable act to continue,l
SINGAPORE is under the spotlight following the latest revelations that it is a key “third party” in providing intelligence on Malaysia to the “Five-Eyes” intelligence grouping.
According to top secret documents leaked by former United States intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the city state, along with South Korea, were playing key roles in helping the US and Australia tap telecommunications links across Asia on the Internet backbone — undersea fibre optic cables that shuttle online communications between countries.
The PKR Youth chief said other countries leaders like Brazil, Germany and Indonesia had reacted strongly by demanding for apology and cancelling trip to Washington to show their disgust over US and Australia’s spying activities in their countries.US and Australia’s spying activities was thrust to global limelight by American whistleblower Edward Snowden who revealed the existence of a global espionage network by both country upped the ante by alleging that Singapore had aided an intelligence group to spy on Malaysia.US embassy in Kuala Lumpur was listed by Snowden as one of the monitoring station to tap telephones and monitor communication networks using XKeyscore, a top-secret intelligence tool Singapore Straits Times .
Singaporean can drive to Malaysiaa very large truck of suspect cargo through the door marked ‘patriotism’. Once the integrity of the nation is invoked and the spectre of social and to create communal unrest is seen as being at stake, the state buys for itself a lot of room for actions that might have otherwise seemed unpalatable. In that sense, the decision to impose some kind of regulation on social media The refuge nation Singapore governtment owned Straits Times.and United States are planning fierce retribution against Malaysia episode has been discussed falsehoods and exaggerations. threadbare by all. misadventure stings itself Go On A WitchMalays in Malaysia were attracted to hardline groups who claim to champion their rights, as they felt the country’s major Malay-based political parties have ditched them for non-Malay votes, the power of unsubstantiated rumour is hardly a new phenomenon; we have many instances of it from Singapore occurs political scandal in this case the key role was played by a new technology, one that promises to free up information from being controlled by a few.
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“Muslims are attracted to NGOs… like ours because the political parties cannot prioritise Malay and Muslim rights,” Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma), Abdullah Zaik Abd Rahman, was quoted as saying.
Abdullah is of the view that Malays and the position of Islam in the country were being threatened by liberals, Christians and groups advocating gay rights.
Adding to their list of enemies were what they termed “deviant” Shi’ite Muslims, all of whom they said threatened the sovereignty of Malay rulers by “invoking equality and freedom of religion”.
And while their views may seem outlandish to many, hardline groups represented by the likes of Abdullah have been gaining support among Malays.
The paper said Malays felt that both Umno and PAS, two of the country’s largest Malay-based political organisations, have failed to defend Malay-Muslim privileges because the parties were now going after non-Malay support.
Associate Professor Shamsul Adabi Mamat, political analyst at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, said the hardline groups were comprised of inactive members of political parties who felt their parties had not been assertive enough on Malay and Islamic issues.
Another analyst said Umno would risk losing support from other races if it stressed too much on Malay-Muslim issues.
“Race-based groups like Umno cannot be voicing Islam and Malay rights too much, or they will lose the multiracial votes so they need some prominent pressure groups to do it for them,” Shaharuddin Badaruddin of Universiti Teknologi Mara, told the Straits Times.
After more than 40 years of affirmative action, many non-Malays and even some Malays viewed race-based policies as outdated, and instead were calling for a needs-based approach to poverty.
This shift, according to the report, has not sat well with groups like Isma.
Over the next three to four months, Isma plans to hold at least 20 forums on such topics as “Christianisation and survival of the Malay”, “Christian threat in Malaysia” and “Threat of liberalism”.
The group claims to have 20,000 members nationwide with hundreds more to be recruited by the month, while Perkasa, the other Malay rights group, claims to have “hundreds of thousands” of members, the report added. Perkasa’s membership is said to overlap with that of Umno.
The Straits Times said the groups were vocal, and recalled how protests by Perkasa and another Malay rights NGO called Jati, had shut down a festival to highlight gay rights in Kuala Lumpur, Seksualiti Merdeka.
The same groups were also behind protests in the wake of the Allah controversy. A ruling on October 14 banned Catholic weekly Herald from using the word Allah in its Bahasa Malaysia edition.
Abdullah had then urged Christians who disagreed with the court’s decision to migrate.
Former commissioner with Suhakam, the human rights commission, said groups like Isma were hurting their own cause by vilifying those who did not share their views.
“Asking people to get out of Malaysia if they disagree with certain issues is not an argument, it’s a bully method,” the Straits Times quoted Muhd Sha’ani Abdullah as saying.
the truth too can be deeply contentious. The attack against Muslims in is unprecedented in the naked use of every instrument that is available to singapore government .demonising all private information as a sinister form of secret, and making the truth, no matter how private or how sensitive, a public commodity, Wikileaks builds a crude model of our reality, one which ignores the need sometimes for information to be cloaked and for appearances to be maintained. Not all truth sets us free, and while the withholding of information has undoubtedly been used to create power asymmetries, not all information can carry an air of presumptive righteousness. By setting it free in its rawest form, Wikileaks shows us that truth too has limits on its value. Wikileaks makes the truth pornographic, by making it a titillating display of undifferentiated wares, a laying bare of the inner for the satisfaction of sight alone.
In an earlier era, when the transmission of information was centrally regulated, it was easier to think of it as a resource that needs to be shared more widely and made more accessible. More information was almost always better, and the battle to extract more was often a heroic one. The reason why journalism was seen through a lens of romance was because it represented the act of extricating the truth from the jaws of the powerful and the corrupt.Singapore’s ISA LAW for instance has been a key instrument in enabling government powerful and hitherto opaque institutions. But with the greater penetration of the market into media and the dramatic democratisation of information, not just in terms of being able to access but also in being able to broadcast it, the default belief in its inherent and limitless legitimacy needs to be rethought.As media gets seen as having an axe to grind, its coverage of issues gets to be consumed with a filter in place. This creates many parallel narratives of truth, each claiming that it represents reality better.the news comes to us contaminated and our 0doubts about it taint it even further. And social media, which bypasses traditional channels of information, is in the name of freedom of expression, able to re-circulate rumours that speak to the deepest anxieties of those vulnerable. The valorisation of the freedom of expression is a product of its context; as information becomes less scarce, more motivated and less inhibited in its expression of human frailties, it might be time to evaluate whether we need more robust mechanisms for creating some sense of order. The value of free expression was derived in part from its scarce availability; today’s problem is the one that comes with its chaotic plenty. Not regulating this in any way may not be as a romantic an idea as it once was.
