Friday, May 29, 2009

IGNORAMUSES

This country has always had its share of extremists. Some have
even resorted to arms, some are just myopic racists. The Dong
Zio Jong is typical of the latter.

However of late. More specifically after the last general
elections, these extremists have become more vociferous, even
taking to the streets demonstrating, causing so much
inconvenience. And by doing so holding
the general public to ransom.

These extremists are becoming more daring simply because they
can count on the opposition inclined Bar Council for sympathy
and support and of course more importantly they can count on
every opposition party in the land, the PKR especially to come
to their aid.

I just cant imagine what will happen to this country if Chin
Peng and those of his ilk are allowed to return. I am sure
there are enough ignorant fools and a sufficient number of
extremists too who will welcome this evil doer with garlands.
Please let us not be deluded by GERAKAN's Teng Hock Nan.

The ignoramuses the extremiists and the dormant communists
are a very combustible mix. They should never be allowed to come
together. For if they do, then i am inclined to believe this
beautiful nation is headed for dangerous times.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

MENGAMALKAN DEMOKRASI

Malaysia memanglah sebuah negara yang mengamalkan sistem demokrasi. Negara kita telah mengamalkannya sejak dari merdeka dahulu dan belum berlaku dalam sejarah negara ini pilihanraya tidak diadakan. Rakyat negara ini bila sampai tempoh masanya diberi peluang untuk mengundi bagi memilih kerajaan yang mereka kehendaki.

Walaupun begitu ada saja pihak, terutamanya dari kalangan pemimpin-pemimpin parti pembangkang yang kerap saja dengan lantang mengatakan bahawa Malaysia bukan sebuah negara yang demokratik. Ceramah-ceramah yang mereka adakan tidak henti-henti kesana kesini, kehulu kehilir, masuk kampong keluar kampong, masuk pekan keluar pekan, masuk bandar, dalam masjid-masjid dan surau-surau, mereka mengatakan Malaysia sebuah negara yang tidak mengamalkan demokrasi.

Di dalam Parlimen pun mereka mengatakan Malaysia bukanlah sebuah negara yang demokratik. Sedangkan mereka telah pun dipilih menjadi wakil rakyat dan bergelar YB. Tidakkah menghairankan seorang wakil rakyat yang telah dipilih oleh rakyat dan mempunyai kerusi dalam Parlimen mengatakan Malaysia bukan sebuah negara demokratik.

Beberapa bulan dahulu, di Johor ada seorang wakil rakyat parti pembangkang menuduh Malaysia mengamalkan sistem “apartheid”. Kita hairan seorang yang bergelar wakil rakyat dipilih untuk rakyat tidak memahami apa itu “apartheid”. Sungguh memalukan. Wakil rakyat sepatutnya mempunyai cukup ilmu dan sepatutnya memahami apa itu “apartheid”. Jadi benarlah, YB berkenaan sangat daif dan cetek ilmu pengetahuannya. Dan sepatutnya tidak menjadi wakil rakyat.

Akhir-akhir ini demokrasi di negara kita semakin dieksploitasi oleh pihak-pihak yang berkepentingan sempit, chauvinist, dan racist. Hindraf umpamanya telah mengadakan demonstrasi jalanan sehingga tercetus rusuhan. Menuduh berlaku ‘ethnic cleansing’, menuduh kerajaan memusnahkan beribu-ribu buah kuil dan beberapa lagi tuduhan yang tidak masuk akal.

Selepas pilihanraya yang lalu, parti pembangkang telah dapat menawan beberapa buah negeri, Pulau Pinang, Perak, Selangor dan Wilayah Persekutuan yang sekarang diterajui oleh DAP. Oleh kerana kemenangan besar ini, sudah ada pemimpin-pemimpin dikalangan mereka yang bertindak biadap mengatakan supaya azan di masjid-masjid patut ditiadakan. Ini berlaku di Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. Perbuatan seperti ini sudah tentu menjejaskan perhubungan antara kaum dan sangat merbahaya kerana ia menafikan hak agama Islam sebagai agama rasmi negara ini.

Demokrasi memerlukan pengamalnya memahami cara mana demokrasi seharusnya atau sebaiknya diamalkan. Sebagai sebuah negara yang merdeka, Malaysia baru berusia 51 tahun. Dalam sejarah negara-negara, ini bererti Malaysia adalah sebuah negara yang amat muda. Perjalanan kita sebagai bangsa, masih amat jauh. Oleh itu, kita amat memerlukan kepda perpaduan dikalangan semua kaum.

Pemimpin parti politik yang suka mencanangkan atau memainkan emosi serta sentimen perkauman yang sempit, rakyat keseluruhannya harus nyahkan. Untuk mengamalkan demokrasi dengan jayanya dan untuk mendapatkan manfaat yang sebaiknya dari sistem itu sendiri, kita mesti mempunyai ilmu dan pengetahuan tentang “parameters” yang diberikan oleh demokrasi. Jika tidak, kita sendiri sebagai rakyat Malaysia akan mematikannya. Tanpa demokrasi, Malaysia akan menjadi sebuah negara yang huru-hara dan kita tentu tidak mahu malapetaka seperti ini menimpa bumi Malaysia yang bertuah ini.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Pewaris Muda

Anak muda pewaris segala.
Tak sayangkah pada bangsa, agama dan negara?
Tak sayangkah pada ibu bapa, tanah tumpah darah,
kampung halaman, sanak saudara….

Tidak belaskah melihat ibu bapa semakin dimakan usia,
garis-garis kerut di dahi menjadi seribu kedut, dan harapan bertukar menjadi kerisauan, dirundung keresahan belaka?

Masa dibiarkan berlalu begitu sahaja.
Hari demi hari dengan sia-sia.
Tidakah berasa sayang, rugi.
Waktu yang begitu berharga dibiarkan berlalu dan diri demi hari semakin dewasa?

Tidakah ada rasa kasih pada bumi warisan orang dahulu kala.

Zaman berzaman perjuangan mereka
dengan titisan keringat, darah serta air mata,
tempat mereka bersemadi akhirnya.

Mengapa?
Dengan mudah hilang arah
meniru perbuatan yang membawa padah,
menurut nafsu hingga hilang waras dan masa hadapan tergadai, punah ranah.

Tidakkah nanti kesal.
Kesalahan yang tidakkah nanti sampai tertebuskan.

Anak muda marilah selagi kudrat pada tulang empat kerat dikurnia Allah
Budi dan bakti taburkanlah
Insya-ALLAH hidup akan bertuah.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

The Terrible Hypocrisy About Israel

…the Europeans were the most racist and anti-Semitic from their age of exploration right up to Hitler’s “final solution”. Spain, you may remember, was one of the greatest culprits.

January 2, 1492 saw the formal surrender of Moorish Granada to Christian Spain. Under the terms of the surrender agreement, all the conquered Moors were to be allowed to remain in the territory and practice their faith, unless they chose to convert to Christianity or emmigrate to Africa.

However, ten years later, the agreement was abruptly abrogated by the Spanish monarchs Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon, and all Muslims were ordered to embrace Christianity or be expelled forthwith.

On August 2, 1942 the final deadline arrived for the expulsion from Spain of its entire Jewish population. Some 120,000 to 150,000 were forced to flee from homes and lands their families had occupied for generations, in some cases for centuries, to take with them only their most immediate personal possessions but not, however, their gold, silver, jewels, or currency, which were left behind for the Spanish crown and its agents.

This anti-Semitic persecution by the Spanish Christians predated the first German Nazi anti-Semitic persecution by 441 years. But long before the arrival of Hitler, the Spanish – followed later by the British, the French, the Dutch, the Italian, the Portuguese, the Belgians and other Europeans – gave full rein to their genocidal impulses from the Americas to Africa, Asia and Australasia. If you wish to go into some of the details of this most shameful and most horrific episodes of human history, read Robert A. Williams, Jr’s book, of which I had cited earlier.

The Arabs and the Muslims did not persecute the Jews; as a matter of fact, many of the Jews expelled from various parts of a supposedly Christian Europe sought and obtained refuge in Arab and Muslim countries.

The cruel irony today is that Europeans, who have this great guilt complex about the Jews they had persecuted for so long and so viciously, are trying to give lectures to the Arabs and the Muslims and the world at large about human rights, racism and civilizations. Yes, including the British, the Anglo-Saxon cousins of the Americans, whenever they forget conveniently the Balfour Declaration of November 1917.

One may or may not fully agree with Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s version of the Jewish Holocaust during the Second World War in Europe. But that doesn’t mean Ahmadenijad is necessarily wrong on everything he says about racism and extreme cruelty perpetrated by Israel and Zionism.

But then again, the Iranian leader has been so demonized by the West that no rational discourse on his arguments is possible with, and in, the West.

However, surely Susan Nathan is not in that unfortunate and unenviable position? Not yet, hopefully. At least not fully yet.

Susan Nathan is a British-born Jew. On the 10th of October 1999, Susan Nathan left London to take up the ‘Law of Return’ offered by Israel to Jews throughout the world.

Within months of her arrival in Tel Aviv she decided to cross the ethnic divide between Jewish and Arab Israelis (Palestinian who are Israeli citizens, as distinct from the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) to settle in Tamra, a town of 25,000 Muslims, between the port of Haifa and the Sea of Galilee (which is actually a lake), living as guest of the Abu Hayjas family.

It was here at first hand that she learned about the great suffering and neglect endured by the one million Arab Israeli citizens, about 20 per cent of the entire population, it was also through this extraordinary and courageous experience that she discovered the myths and lies of Zionism and the Zionist state.

The result of it all is Susan Nathan’s book, The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish Arab Divide (Harper Perennial, London,2006)

The Sunday Times of London calls the Book “An eye-opening account”. The Tablet describes it as “A powerful, readable and courageous book.”

British Journalist Jonathan Dimbleby says: “The Other Side of Israel is a deeply troubling book. It should be ready by anyone who wants to understand the reality of life for the Arab citizens of Israel……Her experiences transform her from an ardent Zionist into an eloquent but sorrowful critic of the state she had previously revered.”

Let’s read some of the things she has to say:

“…the extensive confiscation of Arab communities’ agricultural land by the Jewish state. Some Arab areas have lost all their farming lands…”(p.9)

“Many people in Tamara, like other Palestinians, have loved ones still living in refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria more than five decades after they were forced to flee during the war that founded the Jewish state.”(p.16)

“In the callous, Orwellian language of Israeli bureaucracy they and another quarter of a million Israeli Arabs are know as ‘present absentees’: present in Israel in 1948, but absent from their homes when the authorities registered all property in the new Jewish state. Everything these refugees owned, from their own land and homes to their possessions and bank accounts, has been confiscated and is now owned by the state.”(p.18)

More than four hundred Palestinian villages were destroyed by the Israeli army during and after the war in 1948, to prevent the refugees from returning. There was even a special government department created to plan the destruction.”(p.18)

“Arab politicians are considered hostile to the state unless they join a Zionist party, and Arab parties have been excluded from every government in Israel’s history.”(p.31)

“…my critical comments about Israel not having invested in any new housing schemes for the Arab minority in the state’s fifty-five years, despite the population having grown seven-fold.”(p.35)

“In Arab communities across Israel there are tens of thousands of homes judged illegal by the state, and under threat of demolition.”(p.51)

“In fact, it was clear they (left-wing Israelis) had no Arab friends at all. I was mortified. The revelation that I had stumbled across the same kind of master-servant relationship as exists in South Africa was something I was little prepared for. For a week I was racked by pains in my stomach and head. It was as if I was purging myself of all the lies I had been raised on.”(p.54)

And Susan Nathan’s book has about another 250 pages to go. She must have been demonized as a “self-hating Jew” by the Zionist establishment for telling the painful truth about racism in Israel, this former AIDS Counsellor in London in her fifties.

- The above is an excerpt from an article by Fan Yew Teng. Obviously, it is alright to be anti-Palestine but raise a word against Israel and one will immediately be branded anti-Semitic.

Israel is indeed the most cruel and racist regime in the world.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Selsema Babi

Wah! Lagi sekali manusia digemparkan dengan penyakit yang dibawa oleh binatang durjana babi.

Di sana sini kerajaan yang berkemampuan mengambail berbagai-bagai tindakan, memberi amaran dan menyediakan keperluan vaksin demi menyelamatkan rakyat mereka.

Kita dapat lihat di kaca t.v. di beberapa negara orang ramai memakai topeng muka, tidak mengadakan keramaian dan di Mexico tempat puncanya penyakit durjana ini, sekolah pun ditutup.

Tapi bagaimana pula bagi negara-negara yang kerajaannya miskin, rakyatnya daif, hidupnya melarat, makan pun kekadang sesuap sehari atau sesuap beberapa hari, malanglah nasib mereka jika wabak ini menjelma di negara mereka.

Negeri Sembilan pernah terkenal (sangat memalukan) sebagai negeri pengeluar daging babi yang terbesar di rantau Asia Tenggara. Memang sangat memalukan. Tapi Allah maha kaya kerana sayangkan kita umat Islam, diturunkanNya bala kecil dalam bentuk penyakit J.E. Maka gemparlah buat seketika seluruh negara. Dan kerana itu hari ini selepas binatang jijik itu dihapuskan, Negeri Sembilan menjadi sebuah negeri yang terselamat. 

Sungai-sungai yang sangat tercemar dahulu dengan bau dan najis yang tak tertahan dihidu sudah kembali bersih dan mempunyai  hidupan akuatik.

Orang-orang Cina perlulah bersyukur dan berterima kasih kepada kerajaan negeri yang ada hari ini, kerana mengawal dengan ketat supaya penternak-penternak babi mengikut syarat yang ditetapkan, kalau tidak, mungkin bukan di negara Mexico, tetapi di Bukit Pelanduk tercetusnya penyakit selsema babi ini.

Saya berharap, seluruh rakyat berharap, supaya kerajaan negeri dimana-mana sahaja ternakan babi dibenarkan, memastikan kawalan yang ketat dan pematuhan kepada syarat-syarat yang ketat dan supaya jabatan veterinar memantau dengan ketat agar kita semua terselamat dari wabak selsema babi ini.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Jangan Melenting MCA!

Akhbar2 berbahasa cina cekap pada mensasikan laporan supaya menjadi isu, lebih2 lagi kalau ia melibatkan pemimpin UMNO. Dan mereka juga berkongsi maklumat supaya laporan yang disiarkan dalam akhbar mereka senada atau setidak tidaknya saling sokong menyokong. 

Memang di PRK, terutamanya di Bkt. Gantang, jelas dapat di lihat helah muslihat pengundi Cina. Wajah mereka berubah2 mengikut siapa yang berada di depan mereka. Jadi BN, UMNO khususnya telah terpadaya. 

Saya rasa MCA dan GERAKAN sudah awal2 lagi sudah dapat baca riak air muka kaum sebangsa mereka. Tetapi takut untuk mengakui atau menyatakannya. 

MCA dan GERAKAN sudah hampir tidak berkesan lansung. Kaum cina lebih ramai berminat pada DAP dan Dong Ziao Jong dengan agenda chauvinis mereka. Kalau nak cakap pasal meritocracy, MCA dan lebih2 lagi GERAKAN sudah tidak punyai apa2. Kerusi2 kabinet yang mereka duduki itu semuanya adalah ihsan dari PM sahaja. 

Cumanya pemimpin kita mesti berani dan tak perlu takut bila berkata benar.