Who is the real you PAS AHMAD ZAMRI ?
WHERE THE MALAYS IN KAMPONG BARU AND KAMPONG PANDAN GONE TO? ALIEN HAS TAKEN OVER DURING PAS LAST TERM IN TITIWANGSA
Why PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang always the issue ?
That’s a lesson political parties which preach secularism but practise communalism will have to learn quickly before 2014 closes in on them.The DAP has rubbished the efforts of its opponents to reignite the debate on the aims of PAS’ hudud law,
2013 election will be fought between “secular and radical fundamentalist forces, fear meanwhile is Muslim vote polarization that will work against it in the next general election. But the Muslim vote bogey is just that – a bogey. while deeply religious themselves, have moved beyond wanting to see religion used as a political tool.
Datuk Johari Abdul Ghani said that Islam was being hijacked by some people in Pas who were trying to strip it of its spirituality.
“Anybody who is using religion to control you, they consider themselves a better Muslim, Christian, Jew than you are, so you have to follow,” Youssef said, adding that although members of the Muslim Brotherhood call themselves Islamists, he doesn’t know what that means.
“I don’t know what ‘Islamists’ is,” said Youssef, who is the host of a comedic show in Egypt called “El Bernameg” (“The Program.”) “I know one religion: Islam.”
PAS, which has changed its Islamic state struggle to that for the welfare state, is a party that is becoming more confused and is increasingly confusing its members and supporters, a political analyst said today.
“PAS is in this situation because it believes in the lies it created, the most obvious being that DAP is ready to accept the implementation of hudud in the country, although DAP had repeatedly rejected it,” Dr Ibrahim Ghafar said.
He told Bernama that those who repeated their lies would end up believing them as true.
Commenting on a statement by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak that PAS was naive in believing that DAP accepted the implementation of hudud, he said it was true that come election time PAS would play up the hudud issue for fear of losing the support of Malay voters.
Ibrahim said DAP would issue a statement at the same time saying that it strongly opposed implementation of the hudud because it did not want to lose its non-Muslim supporters.
“Actually, both parties are playing games and making this an issue for election. There is no mention of implementing the Hudud law in the opposition’s manifesto,” Ibrahim said.
He said this also applied to DAP’s readiness to use the moon symbol in the 13th general election, which the PAS leaders and supporters believed without thinking about the actual message being conveyed by DAP.
“The DAP’s message is easy…that PAS not only bows to the DAP in allowing the word Allah to be used in Malay language bibles but also in other matters,” he said.
He said DAP, which had already got PAS to change its struggle, also knew how to take advantage of PAS’s current confused state.
Because of this, he said, voters must be extra cautious in deciding which party to choose.
He said PAS could not be counted on to champion Islam and the interests of the Malays because currently there was no PAS leader capable of acting wisely on police issues for the Malays and Muslims.
Unlike in PAS there was calmness and intelligence in Umno and its component parties which were consistent with its struggles for national development and the people’s wellbeing, he added.
“We have less than seven years to work hard to achieve Vision 2020, to turn Malaysia into a high-income nation, and the Barisan Nasional government has already put the country on the right track.
“Let’s not gamble our fate in the disunited opposition coalition which has become more confused and is far from achieving anything,” said Ibrahim.
The Role of the Individual vs. the Role of the Group – In much of the Muslim world, people are often seen not as individuals but as members of particular families, clans, tribes, ethnic groups, or religions. In the Muslim and Arab world, a problem between two people can become a problem between two families, with the individual becoming a “soldier” in the ensuing feud. What an individual might think personally – who is right and who is wrong – becomes irrelevant, fostering a mindset that obstructs the impersonal and dispassionate analytic thinking that defines the modern world.
All that large sections of the P119 TITIWANGSA voters want to do is vote out PAS CANDIDATE AHMAD ZAMRI’. But if that rage and hope coalesce into a movement the voices from the street of Titiwangsa, the country, its politics and its people will have a lot to answer – to itself and to the world watching it. Because then we will never be able to hold any politician accountable for the wrong that he does or oversees or fails to stop. And that will be too much of a price to pay – even if it is in the name of Islam. Or the promise of it.
Voters must Knock PAS CANDIDATE AHMAD ZAMRI Out and make Pas a fringe party that they used to be. Pas Muslims remain a minority though,Muslims making up 65 percent of Malaysia population the most part, they have been living in harmony with Malaysian of other faiths, and protected by a somewhat fragile secular democracy.
But all has not been well lately. The PAS media is contributing to the polarization and marginalization of Malaysia’s Muslim population, and worst yet, “demonizing” them., “Is this the responsible behavior of the media? I think it is a totally irresponsible behavior which is promoting communalism in the country.suarakeadilanmalaysia.wordpress have raised voice against this, but they said I am suppressing the media.”
Ethnic unrest in Myanmar has cast a wider spotlight on Buddhist-Muslim tensions in southeast Asia.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the president of Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, is warning of a wider fallout, which could fuel growing inter-faith unrest across the region.
Security forces in Myanmar have been accused of a vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing against minority Muslims. But a report by Human Rights Watch has also raised concern about who was at the heart of much of the violence, and in many cases, it says Buddhist monks were either involved or even leading attacks against Muslim communities.
Nasrudin’s remarks appear to back PAS president Datuk Seri Hadi Awang who leapt to defend Pakatan ally DAP, after the secular party came under repeated fire for opposing hudud and the formation of an Islamic theocracy.
In his article titled “Hudud: DAP Menentang, Umno Menolaknya (Hudud: DAP Opposes, Umno Rejects)”, Hadi said that there were no issues with PAS working with the secular party even though the DAP has repeatedly stated that it will not brook the creation of an Islamic state or support the enforcement of the religious criminal code that prescribes, among others, the amputation of hands for theft.
PAS Youth chief Nasrudin Hassan challenged today political foe Umno to draw up its version of hudud, the Islamic penal code, and present it to Parliament to be made law, as both parties battle for the crucial Malay-Muslim vote ahead of key elections.
Nasrudin was responding to former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad who reportedly said that Umno could help PAS set up an Islamic state and enforce hudud if the Islamist party quits the Pakatan Rakyat opposition pact and rejoined the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
“I challenge Umno to complete its draft and then present it in Parliament. If it fulfills the requirements of Islam as commanded by Allah, I am confident PAS MPs will support it.
“If Umno is not willing to do it, then know that Umno is only capitalizing on hudud as a political tool in the face of the 13th general election,” the PAS man said in an article published in the party’s paper, Harakah Daily, today.
The idea that Buddhist monks could lead attacks on another group of people for religious reasons seems quite shocking …Sam Zarifi , Asia Pacific Director at the International Commission of Jurists an international human rights group. |
Yudhoyono is sounding a note of caution and says the violence could cause problems for Muslims elsewhere in the region.
“I will encourage Myanmar to address it wisely, appropriately and prevent tension and violence. We in Indonesia are ready to support them to reach those goals,” he said
Earlier this month, eight Buddhist monks were allegedly beaten to death by Rohingya Muslims at an Indonesian detention centre. It is all serving to raise concerns across the region.
In Sri Lanka, where Muslims make up nine percent of the population, interfaith tensions are also causing concern.
Extremist Buddhist groups like the Bodu Bala Sena – or Buddhist strength force - say they are protecting their culture against Muslim influence.
Buddhist extremists have carried out attacks on Mosques, and Muslim-owned businesses. In southern Thailand, tensions between Muslims and Buddhists have a historical dimension.
Thailand annexed the Malay Muslim state of Pattani more than a hundred years ago. Muslims were not fully integrated into what is a predominantly Buddhist nation and a Muslim separatist movement has raged there for a decade.
And in countries like Malaysia and Indonesia, Buddhist-Muslim tensions have arisen from their economic standings. Chinese Buddhist minorities are seen as relatively wealthier than the native Muslim populations.
In Myanmar, the discord can be traced back to British colonial rule, when the country was known as Burma. Many Muslims migrating from India and what is now Bangladesh were given preferential treatment.
This is not the problem between Buddhist, Muslim or Christians – this a problem with the government and religious minorities …Maung Kyaw Nu , the Burmese Rohingya Association in Thailand |
Resentment grew after independence in 1948, and has been gaining momentum.
And this is one of the problems – a monk named Wirathu, has become known on the Internet as the Burmese Bin Laden. Wirathu was jailed for 25 years in 2003 for inciting anti-Muslim hatred, but freed under a general amnesty in 2010.
Since his release he has gone back to preaching against Muslims. In one sermon he declared:
“We are being raped in every town, being sexually harassed in every town, being ganged up on and bullied in every town.”
And in another sermon he warned:
“In Rakhine State, with their populaton explosion they are capturing it. And they will capture our country in the end.”
So are there any solutions for this ethnic problem? How much time will it take before peace can be achieved, and what will be the consequences of these tensions?
Inside Story, with presenter Hazem Sika, discusses with guests: Maung Kyaw Nu from the Burmese Rohingya Association in Thailand, and a former political prisoner; Alex Berzin, a Buddhist scholar and teacher; and Sam Zarifi, Asia Pacific Director at the International Commission of Jurists, an international human rights group.
“I think that it is unfair to characterise these religious conflicts, I think that people are just using the … dominant religion of the various group to characterise these groups, but there seem to be much more ethnic differences, and ethnic conflicts … ”- Alex Berzin, Buddhist scholar and teacher |
