Caretaker de facto law minister Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz today welcomed “principled” ex-PKR Zulkifli Noordin, who is contesting on a BN ticket in the Shah Alam parliamentary seat.he has little support outside of Perkasat. Never mind, his UMNO public relations agency has subdued even the new media reporters
“He is a winnable candidate,” said Nazri at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur today.READMOREThe Ghost Darren Kang Tien Hua out to trap his murder at the place where he was mudered
He added that he has always liked Zulkifli personally, calling the Perkasa vice-president a good speaker, a good politician, a good principled man and one who can draw crowds and gain support for the coalition.Roll up, roll up…for the Perkasa Hype Tour that is dying to take you away…from reality, from conciliation, from tolerance, from grace, from the Constitution. Roll up, the Perkasa Tour will provide strong leadershipREADMOREINSP AZILAH HADRI, 30, AND KPL SIRUL AZHAR TOLD LAWYER ZULKIFLI NORDIN ORDER COME FROM NAJIB
I have this on good faith from a friend , who is neutral about Zulkifli . He affirmed a story I heard about a bunch of Hindutva thugs, who chased a car because they had determined it was carrying pork. They seemed to have had intelligence…no, information, because intelligence is not part of the Perkasa, only bigotry. They chased this butcher but he managed to escape into Petaling street market, a chinese neighborhood, where they dare not venture.ALl these Universities never been published in the papers locally, which means not recognised or doesn’t exist. JPA and MQA should confirm whether these degrees from these universities are recognized. These universities are in website but are they Recognized is the question. Surprise that even those bn goons have to resort to fake degress. There are countless … Read more
What has been the unique feature of the last decade (2000-2009)–the first decade of the new millennium–that ended four years ago? In the first world, where such events are duly kept record of, it has been the sociological debate between multiculturalism and assimilation.
Because there has been no clear outcome of this debate (perhaps, since it largely concerns the large immigrant and non-native populations in developed countries), the ghastly and morally outrageous crime of what is known as honour killing (but can be really be termed hubris killing) continues to take place also on their soil. For fear of being labeled ‘culturally insensitive,’ governments fail to identify, adequately report or solve this problem.
The cultural argument against multiculturalism countering the ethical and legal one of the universal nature of human values is that culture is merely a direct result of the unique geography rather than history of a particular place. Cutlery, dishwashers (which never took off in India), wines and sunbathing in the northern hemisphere offer specific illustrations of this principal at work while closer home it is the wok, the handloom gamchha and paan. To start living in cold Norway from the scratch, one has to learn to build a house. Hence, the need for adaption, acclimitization, learning of new habits, integration. When in Rome, do as Romans do, so goes the proverb.
In an assimilationist victory in November 2010, Switzerland voted to proscribe minarets following a four-year local opposition to a construction by the resident Turkish association, which may be short-lived, however, as the UN has slammed the ban as ‘discriminatory’. But west of the channel, the British Nationalist Party, which seeks to restore the overwhelmingly white ethnicity of Britain that existed prior to 1948, welcomed one ‘Mr Singh next door’ as its first Asian-origin member. And though the far-right Dutch Party for Freedom, whose leader Geert Wilders advocates banning the Quranand curbing Muslim religious freedom, ranked second in elections to the Netherlands parliament (he was subsequently snubbed by Turkey whose politicians refused to see him citing his views so that he was forced to cancel the trip. He performed poorly in the 2012 general election), there is a sneaking suspicion somewhere that the Establishment has at last appropriated a beautiful movement that started off as a clutch of robust, neoconservative voices that called for the return of foreign emigrants to their respective lands. For the success of a nation, at the root of it, is based on the strength of the morals of its people which directly influence the quality of their life. This campaign said to the migrant gold digger: If you want to preserve your ethnicity, go back to your country and make it on its soil. And help your country do the same. Or else become one of us. There is no middle path.…Read More →BAL KESHAV THACKERAY, FOUNDER OF SHIV SEN INSPIRED SO MUCH FEAR IN PEOPLE.JUST LIKE UMNO’S MAHATHIR AND PERKASA
But the strongest and most robust of these voices (Jorg Haider of Austria who died in 2008, Jean-Marie Le Pen of France who finished fourth in the 2007 national elections, Pia Kjaersgaard of the Danish People’s Party that has been the country’s third largest party in three successive elections since 2001 and Umberto Bossi, the incumbent Italian reforms minister) was that of former Marxist, homosexual and pragmatist, the flamboyant Pim Fortuyn. Portrayed as a Far Right populist, Fortuyn fiercely rejected this description of himself. Calling Islam “a backward culture”, he said if it were legally possible he would close the borders for Muslim immigrants to prevent what he saw as corruption of the Dutch way of life. He formed his party, LPF (Pim Fortuyn List) in February 2007, swept the preliminaries and was on the cusp of victory in the general election when he was assassinated just nine days prior to the polling. His party went on to win an unprecedented debut in Dutch parliament.
It was Fortuyn’s, and not George W Bush’s, that was the first, unequivocal and clearly unapologetic voice against radical Islam. What’s more, he offered the only viable solution — legal recourse and not invasion — a little prior to the time when Bush began to swallow his by-then infamous words, ‘war against Islam’.
Today, LPF has no presence in Holland. But since March 1, 2006, people who want to settle in the Netherlands are required to pass the “integration test” in their own country which includes a film which exposes the would-be immigrants to scenes of kissing homosexual men and topless women. Themessage is, “If you can’t tolerate gay lifestyle and public nudity, you are not allowed to be here.” So Europe which stopped the march of Islam in the medieval times would seem set to play a similar role, that of blocking Islamic radicalism, in the present era.
In 2004, the painter’s great grandnephew and filmmaker Theo Van Gogh and the Somalian-origin intellectual and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, both critics of Islam, shot Submission, a 10-minute documentary on women in Muslim societies, that provoked strong reactions from the audience. Van Gogh, who refused protection, was shot two months after the film’s release while he was bicycling to work. Two years later, Hirsi Ali became the centre of a new controversy surrounding her citizenship when a television channel reported that she had given false information when applying for asylum and had covered the fact that the main reason for her migration had been threat of forced marriage. She was forced to resign from parliament and currently lives in the United States.
Amartya Sen’s 2006 treatise Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time) puts forward the concept of multiple identity and roles at the individual level as a critique of Samuel Huntington’s seminal The Clash of Civilizations written a decade ago but fails to satisfactorily determine an answer to the dilemma of social loyalty should a national or political conflict of interest arise. Cases in point include US president Barack Obama’s initial policy on BPO jobs, Jaguar spurning Tata Motors in 2007 (insinuating that the US public was not ‘ready for ownership out of India of a luxury car brand such as Jaguar&rsquo
and the rise of Nicki Haley and Bobby Jindal.
The escapism of Hirsi Ali (whose father, too, is a political figure in Somalia) that sparked her identity fraud in real terms was essentially a result of her defeat to sociopolitical forces in her native land. She remains a divided, contentious figure: one who was neither allegiant to nor nurturing of her natural identity but who protested its shortcomings.
If Hirsi Ali criticised Islam by becoming an outsider and pointing out along with others its exclusive need of reform, Iranian-Canadian Muslim refusenik Irshad Manji (The Trouble With Islam Today, St Martin’s Press, 2004) has fulfilled that objective by becoming the sole person, man or woman, worldwide, to have actually donned that difficult mantle, attempting to reinterpret and amend the religion from inside and stressing on upholding what she finds original and true in it, particularly where the roles and responsibilities of the sexes are concerned.
Irshad’s documentary, Faith without Fear, follows her journey to reconcile faith and freedom. Released in 2007, the film depicts the personal risks Manji has faced as a Muslim reformer. Disturbingly, her detractors dismiss her scholarship as coming from a western and hence privileged background.
On the ground, though, Iran’s Neda Agha Soltan is not the only martyr for the cause of Muslim renaissance, much hoped for but yet to arrive in 2010 or even in 2012, as the country goes to polls again this year. The Arab Spring has travelled to Bangladesh where it has taken a unique form. For the first time, some Muslims have recognized the argument for atheism and secularism if not reconciled it with their faith and for the first time a modern oriental culture has eschewed both escapism and atavism and looked history in the eye.
Flashback again to 2010-end when a rights forum reports the story of a 10-year-old Afghan girl whose face was disfigured with acid for going to school by the Taliban. She still goes to school today. Her parents, she said then, had told her that so long as she is not killed by them she must continue to receive her education and attend those classes.The powers that be in UMNO have repeatedly dressed up vindictiveness as a virtue, but if the king is naked, he deserves to be told that. I know that anyone can be sent to jail for at least a day if someone powerful doesn’t like something—like this blog.http://suarakeadilanmalaysia.wordpress.com Everybody knows kerismudin is a macho samseng … Read more
