Ibrahim Ali and Hasan Ali...

My say....


Ibrahim Ali, as Wong Chun Wai, the group chief editor of The Star Publication rightly pointed out is a political dinosaur. He is now on a new lease of life and unleashes unmitigated damages by conjuring up "ghost" enemies. No race, religion and royalty is beyond his rebuke! The way he handles the Chinese who are pendatangs, the Christians who is suppose to usurp the government and now even the way he "summons" the Sultan of Selangor to sort out the DUMC raid fiasco, is nothing short of contempt and treason. One wonders why he is not in the ISA shortlist? In the whispers, its is said he if fueled by Mahathir Mohammed's support and now basically gets away with anything. 

Lately another idiot by the name of Hasan Ali, the PAS councilor in Selangor is also shooting from the hip. He is now backing the JAIS raid in the DUMC church and without any supporting evidence. The current Menteri Besar of Selangor, Khalid Ibrahim, rightly came about to diffuse the situation. Gag order is being imposed until JAIS can come out with the "proof" they declared they have! Why again are the Christians being persecuted? Is it because that they offer the least resistance and instead prays and forgives their enemies? Is Hasan Ali not stopping at anything to prove that Islam is an intolerant religion, when most of the rakyat knows that Islam is peace loving? The actual reason is educated rakyat knows he is also being slighted for the Menteri Besar's post in Selangor and his vengeance is for all to see. He has caused endless arguments among colleagues in the Opposition front. One really shudders how he would manage the wealthiest state in Selangor as MB with good precedent of his good pal, Mohd Khir Toyo. Khir, of course, did nothing short of plundering  the state of Selangor! Indeed, greed and political ascendency is his ambition, and not the desire of promulgation of Islam. It is left to be seen how the PAS CWC handles this wayward politician, before he becomes an embarrassment and a liability to their good name. A good article follows by .

ANALISIS

Cubaan Exco Selangor, Hasan Ali untuk mengocak air tenang kerajaan negeri dengan isu serbu gereja bakal diketahui hari ini.

PAS Selangor akan menyatakan pendirian rasmi berhubung perkara serbuan ke atas Gereja Methodist di Damansara Utama (DUMC) Rabu lalu yang menyaksikan Pakatan Rakyat dihentam sebegitu teruk hingga DAP terpaksa berdiam diri mencari susur galur cerita yang sebenarnya.

Namun begitu, terima kasih kepada bekas pegawai polis yang menjelaskan isu ini, Zaman Khan yang sekaligus membuatkan persoalan serbuan ini kembali terarah kepada Hasan Ali.

Namun begitu, apa tujuan sebenarnya Hasan Ali berbuat demikian?

Kita mesti kembali kepada sejarah untuk melihat siapa dia sebenarnya

1999 Kisah Bermula

Hasan Ali memulakan penglibatan politik dengan menyertai PAS beberapa bulan sebelum pilihanraya umum ke 10, dan bertanding di DUN Sungai Burung dalam parlimen Tanjong Karang, Selangor.

Jangan lupa, tahun yang sama dia juga menang kerusi Parlimen Parit Buntar, Perak.

Kedua-kedua kerusi parlimen dan DUN dimenangi akibat daripada isu pemecatan dan pemenjaraan bekas Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Anwar Ibrahim pada 2 September 1998.

Bagaimanapun, dia bukan setakat mahu menang saja, malah lebih dari itu.

Projeknya pada masa itu adalah mahu menjadi Menteri Besar, dengan andaian Barisan Alternatif (BA) ketika itu berjaya menguasai Selangor.

Namun perancangan Allah lebih tersusun.

Hasan gagal jadi Menteri Besar kerana Selangor masih dikuasai Barisan Najis pimpinan Khir Toyo.

Dia cuma setakat jadi Ketua Pembangkang sebab PAS menang kerusi terbanyak di DUN Selangor.

Maka projek tersebut langsung berkubur tak berbatu nesan.

2004 Tak Terdaya

Cubaan kedua pada 2004 nampaknya membuatkan Hasan Ali tak boleh berbuat apa-apa.

Dia kalah di kerusi DUN yang sama di tangan Barisan Najis akibat daripada situasi yang memihak kembali kepada Umno-APCO setelah Mahathir berundur dan digantikan Pak Lah pada 31 OKtober tahun sebelumnya.

2008 Misi Hampir Terlaksana

Dengan penyusunan semula kawasan pilihanraya dan tsunami politik yang dibawa oleh Anwar Ibrahim dan Pakatan Rakyat dengan sokongan padu, akhirnya Hasan Ali menang di kerusi baru yang ditandinginya, N 17 Gombak Setia, dalam parlimen Gombak.



Akan tetapi, walaupun Pakatan Rakyat berjaya menguasai Selangor dengan menang 36 kerusi, Hasan Ali tetap tidak berjaya menjadi Menteri Besar seperti yang diidamkannya sejak 1999 lagi.

PKR menang kerusi terbanyak dengan 15, diikuti DAP 13 dan barulah PAS yang kalah kebanyakkan kawasan yang ditandinginya di tangan Umno-APCO cuma menang dengan lapan kerusi.

Hasan Ali masih lagi tak puas hati, kerana pada akalnya, jika PAS tak bersama Pakatan Rakyat, sebaliknya ber"asmara" dengan Umno-APCO, dia akan perolehi cukup kerusi untuk bentuk kerajaan negeri.

Umno-APCO menang 20 kerusi manakala PAS menang 8 kerusi, seri dengan Pakatan Rakyat gabungan PKR dan DAP yang juga punyai kerusi sekiranya PAS angkat kaki dan tubuhkan KERAjaang PerpaduWang.

Perancangan mewujudkan KERAjaang PerpaduWang dirancang asalnya oleh bekas Menteri Besar sendiri, Khir Toyo dan Hasan Ali.

Malam sesudah Pakatan Rakyat merampas Selangor, Khir menelefon Hasan Ali sebagai Pesuruhjaya PAS negeri untuk menyatakan hasrat Khir yang terpendam...

Perancangan Khir, Hasan Ali cuma perlukan beberapa ADUN dari PKR saja untuk melompat.

DUN Selangor mempunyai 56 kerusi, dan majoritinya kawasan Melayu di luar bandar seperti Sungai Besar, majoriti kawasan Cina seperti Subang Jaya dan campuran majoriti India seperti di Ijok, Kuala Selangor.

Masa itu, DUA ADUN PKR khabarnya akan melompat dengan bantuan Umno-APCO menjadikan jumlahnya Barisan Najis 30 manakala Pakatan Rakyat (PKR dan DAP) cuma tinggal 26 kerusi sahaja.

Di sinilah bermulanya espiod "tarik-tali" dan "sembunyi-sembunyi" hinggakan mengheret Presiden PAS, Tuan Guru Hadi Awang dan timbalannya ketika itu, Nasharuddin Mat Isa ke dalam "perangkap" yang dipasang Hasan Ali!

Umno-APCO telah menyatakan bahawa Hasan Ali telahpun dijanjikan jawatan Menteri Besar sekiranya dia dapat meyakinkan cukup ADUN untuk menyeberang.

Tidak diketahui berapa juta pula yang telah dijanjikan.

Pada masa itu, dia mempunyai hanya dua dari Pas dan dua lagi dari PKR yang bersetuju menyertainya.

Semua ini berkaitan dengan wang dan kuasa.

Dia masih mahu menjadi Menteri Besar dan kalau diperlukan menyeberang ke Barisan Nasional dengan penyokong yang cukup untuk menubuhkan kerajaan baru, dia akan melakukannya asalkan dia menjadi Menteri Besar.

Semasa rampasan kudeta di Perak pada 2009, Hee Yit Foong, ADUN Jelapang yang berada dalam DAP sejak 20 tahun lalu, melompat kerana wang.

Dia telah menerima RM15 juta dari Vincent Tan.

RM10 juta lagi dibayar apabila semuanya selesai.

Dia memerlukan wang untuk membayar kembali hutang-hutang suaminya kerana judi.

Keadaan ini juga berlaku terhadap Lee Lam Thye yang dipaksa meninggalkan DAP supaya dia dapat melangsaikan hutang isterinya kerana judi.

Barisan Najis membantu membayar hutang isterinya, sebaik saja dia meninggalkan kem pembangkang dan mula menyokong kerajaan.

Berbalik kepada kisah Hasan Ali di Selangor, sewaktu hampir-hampir KERAjaang PerpaduWang terlaksana, tiba-tiba kesemua yang dirancang gagal juga.

Usaha berbulan-bulan dengan air liur Khir dan Noh Omar serta direstui Pengerusi Umno-APCO negeri, Najib Altantuya punah.

Hasan Ali terkedu, Mursyidul Am PAS, Tuan Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat mengarahkan semua rundingan dengan Umno-APCO ditamatkan atau berdepan dengan tindakan keras.

Hadi Awang tiba-tiba senyap seolah-olah dia langsung tak tahu apa yang berlaku.

Sejak gagalnya KERAjaang PerpaduWang, Hasan Ali seolah-olah membalas dendam.

Satu persatu isu timbul demi mencetuskan kocakan dalam Pakatan Rakyat.

Isu penjualan arak di Selangor hingga memaksa Ronnie Liu bersalaman dengannya, pembiayaan dan peruntukan kewangan negeri yang diberikan disalur kepada rakan-rakannya yang ramai dalam Umno-APCO, adalah contoh beberapa hal yang sengaja direka untuk mencalarkan imej kerajaan negeri.

Tidak ketinggalan, hubungan rapatnya dengan Pengerusi SYABAS, Rozali Ismail yang berjiran dengannya hingga membawa isu penajaan syarikat berdarah Umno-APCO itu dalam Muktamar PAS di Selangor pada 2009 ekoran kemenangan Pakatan Rakyat turut sama jadi bahan panas.

Apa yang mahu dimaksudkan di sini adalah, bukan sekali, bukan dua kali, malah berkali-kali Hasan Ali menggunakan akal otak dan bukan berpandukan Al-Quran dan Hadith dalam membuat keputusannya.

Hinggalah ADUN Meru, Dr Rani Osman mengamil alih usai Muktamar PAS yang lalu, barulah nama Hasan Ali senyap dari persada politik Selangor.

Dan serbuan terbaru Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (JAIS) yang dikaitkan dengan Hasan Ali nampak segalanya muncul kembali.

Soalannya, apa tindakan PAS terhadap beliau?

Apa pula yang mahu dibuat oleh Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim?

Apa kedudukan Hasan Ali selepas penjelasannya pagi ini??

Buat penulis, kesimpulannya cuma satu.

Hasan Ali adalah jelmaan Ibrahim Ali.

Bukan dalam Umno-APCO, tetapi buat Pakatan Rakyat.

Hasan Ali dan Ibrahim Ali, kedua-duanya sama saja

Finally, is both these "Ali"s in debt? Blame it then on their on inept handling of finance and not always depending on the government's largesse. This writer ask again that the sanctity of race, religion and royalty not be touched, failing which, the Home Minister and the current governement should take appropriate action! Use ISA if must because this is indeed dealing with national security!

Oh, those two "Ali"s............... and more so in the sacred month of Ramadhan! ....ish ish.

English education failure?

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Muhyiddin Yassin, our DPM and Education minister said he is stumped as to why the standard of English could not be improved in the curriculum. Isn't it obvious that when the teachers could not string a sentence properly, what do you expect the students to learn? I would hazard a guess that they would also struggle with basic English grammar in that light.

It is time we arrest the ghastly level of English proficiency in our TEACHERS first. Then at least you have a hope in getting the students to learn. Hiring external help is not the solution. The problem is not admitting that our lowly level of education standard and the rate of passing underperforming graduates are the major concern. Only then would hiring professional English lecturers and tutors help. English proficiency decline is therefore but the symptom of his bafflement. Also, having the Information ministry broadcast that learning English is not unpatriotic would actually start pointing to the right direction.

If he was brave enough to revert Science and Mathematics to Bahasa Malaysia soon, I wonder if he has the guts to do away with buckling to the pressure of the ultra conservative Malays and that improving our standard of tertiary education! He is put in such a time like this with the authority to do so. Only time will tell if he can lived up to that expectation.

1Malaysia email or really really helping the rakyat?

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This writer read with a lot of amusement why Najib Razak and Hishamuddin Hussien for that matter allow themselves to be shot time and again over issues which are considered needless in the first place. Hisha recently for his AlKitab explanation and to a certain degree perceived high-handedness, and now his cousin Najib with his carried-away idea of 1Malaysia email.

In the first place, was it necessary to pump in RM50m into the project? Why does this writer says its the government? If it was not the government agreeing to the project, how would a company with financial irregularity practice as noted by Bursa Malaysia would be able to get approval to utilized such a project that is considered "national" in essence? Why "national" as it seems? Because why would some shitty company want to re-invent the wheel again and create email services, of all things? The fact that the CEO took pain to explain that they are funding the project really raises a mistrust to the educated rakyat. What irks them is 50m would do a lot more than to have another email to their name. It shows wrong priority in the part of the prime minister in this case!

It was indeed a calculation error to further try win the rakyat i would think. And now the mad scramble for the CEO of the company to come out refuting that Putrajaya is not coming out with even a sen for financing! Najib is on damage control now to refute the perceived wastage from the rakyat now, suffering from high cost of food and runaway inflation that they are!.

Najib would do well, as a finance minister, to see from his walk-abouts, that help is needed by the rakyat. His priority should be to improve the purchasing power of our Ringgit now. That was something Mahathir Mohamed did noticeably good even during the height of the Asian Crisis. This writer recalled Mahathir spoke of not about increment of wages but purchasing power parity some years ago. Mahathir, for all his shortcomings, did not fail in the finance ministerial capacity. That should be Najib's priority to alleviate the sufferings of the rakyat. Indeed, during his walk-about, did he really notice that its the poor that still need help or only the yes-men surrounding him wherever he goes? Get down from your high horses sometimes, and see that lot of Malaysians actually still could not afford an internet connection in the rural areas, much less an email!

Is the Federal Constitution still being regarded?

We know the courts are already subjugated. The admin, judicial and legislation are all now UMNO backed. Where is the other partners in BN to voice out when you need them?


Article from the Malaysian Insider:

KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 — Christians in Malaysia say they are angry and fed up with the Najib government for what they see as a systematic move to deny their religious rights enshrined in the country’s highest law.
Spurred by the Home Ministry’s latest seizure of 30,000 Malay Bibles that cost US$26,000 (RM78,000) from Kuching port, the churches rallied together and issued a stinging rebuke today against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
They demanded he “prove their (the government) sincerity and integrity in dealing with the Malaysian Christian community on this and all other issues which we have been raising with them since the formation of the Christian Federation of Malaysia in 1985”.
“The Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM) is greatly disillusioned, fed-up and angered by the repeated detention of Bibles written in our national language, Bahasa Malaysia.
“It is an affront to them that they are being deprived of their sacred scriptures. Many are wondering why their scriptures are considered a threat to national security. All these actions in relation to the detention of the Bibles continue to hurt the Malaysian Christian community,” it said in a statement today signed by its chairman, Bishop Ng Moon Hing.
They demanded the government immediately release all Bibles detained.
The CFM is the umbrella body that represents over 90 per cent of churches in the country.
Malaysian Christians make up close to 10 per cent of the 28 million population; with the biggest numbers based in Sarawak and Sabah, where the main language used by the Bumiputeras in churches is Bahasa Malaysia.
The CFM noted that the federal government has been thwarting all attempts to import Malay Bibles from outside Malaysia since March 2009, “despite repeated appeals which resulted in the prime minister making a decision to release the Alkitab held in Port Klang in December 2009 which was reported to CFM leaders by several Cabinet ministers and their aides.
“This is notwithstanding that the government in its attempt to justify its position against the use of the word ‘Allah’ in the Alkitab, the government had given the assurance that the Bible in Bahasa Malaysia will be freely available, at least in Sabah and Sarawak,” it said.
The Catholic Church had won a landmark judgment on December 31, 2009 that gives it the right to publish the word, but has effectively been barred from doing so pending the government’s appeal.
The group pointed to two separate shipments totalling 15,000 copies that had been seized by Home Ministry officials and left to languish for over a year at Kuching port and Port Klang in Selangor.
CFM said officials at Port Klang have steadfastly refused to release the 5,000 copies imported by the Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM).
“In absolute disregard of this decision, the 5,000 copies of the Alkitab remain detained,” CFM said.
It added that there were other shipments of Bibles and other Christian material before March 2009 that were confiscated by ministry officials that have yet to be returned to their owners.
One such case involves Sarawakian Christian Jill Ireland Lawrence Bill, whose personal collection of Christian CDs — bought on a trip to Indonesia — were seized by Malaysian Customs officials at the airport here in May 2008 allegedly for being a threat to national security.
Jill filed to sue the Home Ministry at the High Court here but her case has also been languishing in the courts.
Her lawyer, Annou Xavier, told reporters in Putrajaya that the case was fixed to be mentioned today, but no hearing date was given.
CFM questioned if the government was powerless to act against these “little Napoleons” who substitute their own interests and agenda in place of the prime minister’s directives”.
“We would ask how the government’s transformation programme can be successfully implemented if civil servants can blatantly refuse to obey the prime minister’s order?”
Ng told The Malaysian Insider today that he had personally raised the hold-up of the Bibles with the prime minister during a Christmas open house last year.
“He said he was surprised and told me ‘I need to go back and check but I’ll look into it’,” Ng said, relating his conversation with Najib.
He added that the PM was likely told that the Kuching shipment has been released without knowing anything about the Port Klang shipment.
The Malaysian Insider understands that the first consignment of 10,000 copies seized at Kuching port was released on Christmas last year after the prime minister stepped in.
Ng said the churches would continue to apply pressure on the Najib administration.
“We will not stop appealing. If we give up, it means the end of our religion,” the head of Malaysia’s Anglican church said.

pro-business? how about the SMEs?

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For so long SMEs has been the mainstay to help the economy. But the recently in light of what is claimed as abuse from SMECorp CEO, the grants has completely frozen for about a year now. So typical of the government agencies thinking when they cannot stop abuses or effectively streamline a proper system of delivery, everything comes to a grinding halt. What does this writer mean by typical? It means they have no consideration at all for the other bona fide organizations that badly needs the funding.

We know how much the banks loath lending to SMEs especially start-ups. But can you blame the start-ups without the proper colleterals? Some banks are even stupid enough to ask for two or three-years audited report or accounts when the start-up is barely a year old before they begin negotiation. So this impasse chokes up the system.

SMEs, for that matter, requires funding to at least reach a growth stage. Al Pacino, in his excellent role in "Scent of a Woman" succinctly puts it in his famous sentence: You got to nurture it! But it's hardly the case in Malaysia. Many does not pass the McKinsey's 2-year survival hurdle without proper capitalization. Sometimes its unfair to note that these government agencies wants to see finished products before dishing out a matching loan. Please see MTDC website as an example. Its like telling a baby to walk before he is provided with milk anymore.

They grant system works but is only failed by lax enforcement or even a proper system in place. Some officers of these agencies do not even give proper advise or are ill-informed themselves. So don't victimised all in the hope to find the perfect solution. This writer had heard of a Japanese firm just decided to give up endorsing his Malaysian partners' company because of all these inconsistency.

PM Najib, you have gotten what you wanted to put Malaysia in the limelight of the global credit rating agencies again by aggressively pursuing cost-cutting measure at the expense of the rakyat. Yet in all, the rakyat and even SMEs had continued supporting you. With the strong investments coming in back for June and July as an indication at least, please restore back some faith to the rakyat diutamakan thrust in your 1Malaysia concept! Hopefully something good in the upcoming budget and 10th Malaysian Plan.

Indeed: no money no talk! Tis a deathwish nobody wants for our vibrant SMEs. It's as serious as that!

further reading: http://freemalaysiatoday.com/fmt-english/politics/barisan-nasional/9134-reinstate-grant-system-for-smes-govt-told

Liars to list?

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The recent fiasco of Focus Point listing pulling out from listing really showed that the Bursa Malaysia nearly put liars to list. This is tantamount to allowing cheats to gain the public's money and it must be stopped. Recently, Focus Point Holdings Bhd wanted to list in the stock market. But consumer complaint that they did not have qualified personnel to dispense contact lenses on top of having not enough of such personnel. The third charge was that they did not have enough K-metres which this writer could conclude that Focus Point Holdings must have put on record for SC that they had such equipments. These are serious charges. Be it sabotage on the part of their internal disgruntled staff or what not, is not the question in mind as Focus Point had vehemently denied the allegations.  But the following day, they tendered their apologies thus admitting that the allegations which they refuted proved to be true. In effect, they lied! I urged the SC to be tough on such liars. It is these kinds that would eventually manipulate the market and drive away the much needed investors' funds.

Place a heavy punishment on them! Let not such action be let off easily. Send a loud and clear message that cheaters do not prosper! Let them not be able to be listed for the next few years at least. If Focus Holding thinks this writer is one of the saboteur, let it be so! This writer, for one, am only a concerned Malaysian consumer. I have nothing against their listing, but against their wrong principles. More and more liars and cheats are getting their way, and to compound it further, getting away with it. Bigwigs and hotshots prominent businessmen have to toe the line too!

Read for yourself :
1) http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTIMES/articles/lpcfpd-2/Article/index_html
2) http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTIMES/articles/foccus/Article/index_html

Backwards, backwards!

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It seems the saying is true that when we have idle minds, idle hands and nothing else better to do, they will turn inwardly and start demonizing anything that is even petty!  The clerics' progress is really astounding! Go Malaysia go.

KUALA LUMPUR: Muslims must not wear the famous Manchester United red jersey because of the “devil” emblem on its team crest, Malaysian clerics said today.
Manchester United and the rest of the English Premier League are massively popular in Muslim-majority Malaysia and the rest of the Asian region, but conservative religious scholars said the jersey is un-Islamic.

Also off limits are the shirts of teams including Brazil, Portugal, Barcelona, Serbia and Norway, all of which carry images of the cross on their team emblems.

“This is very dangerous. As a Muslim, we should not worship the symbols of other religions or the devils,” Nooh Gadot, a top Islamic cleric from the southern Johor state, told AFP.

“It will erode our belief in Islam. There is no reason why we as Muslims should wear such jerseys, either for sports or fashion reasons,” said Nooh, an advisor to the Johor religious council.

“Even if it (the jersey) is a gift, we should decline it. It is even more sinful when people realise this is wrong and still buy these jerseys to wear,” he added.

Nooh said there was no “fatwa”, or religious edict, against the shirts but that one was not needed when it was clearly wrong for Muslims to don such a garment.

“These Muslims should repent, repent immediately,” he said.

Another leading cleric, Harussani Zakaria, a cleric from northern Perak state, agreed that devils should be shunned, not celebrated.

“Yes of course in Islam we don’t allow people to wear this sort of thing,” he told AFP. “Devils are our enemies, why would you put their picture on you and wear it? You are only promoting the devil.”

Malaysia is a generally moderate Islamic country, but conservative clerics have issued controversial edicts in the past including a ban on the ancient practice of yoga, which is criticised for including Hindu religious elements. -AFP

Read more: Muslims should not wear ManUtd jerseys http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/MuslimsshouldnotwearManUtdjerseys/Article#ixzz0vAxmv0C6