While City Hall and the Public Works Department have "confirmed" that the massive project at Lot 65, Seksyen 60, Persiaran Mahameru — near Carcosa Seri Negara, right next to the Southeast Asia Regional Center for Counter Terrorism (SEARCCT) — is for the former premier, its status remains very much a mystery as the Federal Territory Land Office as well as the Prime Minister's Department, ironically the project owner, denied any knowledge of such a project.
Beliau berkata ini berikutan ada sesetengah pimpinan peringkat cawangan parti enggan menerima kemasukan generasi muda yang kebanyakannya terdiri daripada mereka yang berkelulusan tinggi kerana bimbang kedudukan mereka tergugat.
"Sekarang ini ramai orang Melayu memiliki ijazah dan inilah cabaran kepada ketua-ketua cawangan, mereka takut disingkir dan diganti dengan mereka yang punyai pelajaran lebih tinggi.
>> So true. Attempted to register several young professionals into UMNO Bahagian Putrajaya without success. The reason stated was that the online form was incorrectly filled. With the recent constitutional amendment, more office bearers will be able to register members, that's a good sign for aspiring individuals to join the cause.
Sesungguhnya tida ada yang lebih menyayat
Sekali lagi Denmark mendapat perhatian dunia apabila Parti haluan kanan Danish’s People Party melancarkan kempen membantah pembinaan masjid pertama yang diluluskan oleh Majlis Perbandaran Copenhagen baru-baru ini (Sinar Harian, ruangan Global@Sinar 11 Sept 2009). Katanya, pembinaan masjid ini akan ditaja sepenuhnya oleh pihak Iran yang merupakan “terror regime”. International Civil Liberties Alliance di laman web www.libertiesalliance.org telah melancarkan petisyen online untuk membantah pembinaan masjid pertama di Denmark. Ahli Parlimen Denmark Martin Henriksen pula berkata, sudah tiba masanya Negara Barat meminta supaya Negara-negara Islam meminta maaf kerana kekejaman ke atas wanita, hukum merejam batu dan sebagainya yang dianggap melanggar hak asasi manusia.
Kita juga masih ingat insiden di mana seorang pelukis kartun dari Denmark menimbulkan provokasi besar dengan melakar sebiji bom di dalam serban junjungan besar Nabi Allah Muhammad SAW . Akhbar Jylland-Posten yang memaparkan segmen itu mengeluarkan kenyataan untuk meminta maaf jika terbitan itu menyinggung perasaan umat Islam walaupun tidak salah di sisi undang-undang Denmark.
Pertama sekali, Ahli Parlimen Denmark itu bertanggapan bahawa semua Negara Islam mengamalkan system perundangan yang sama. Ini jelas menunjukkan kemunduran beliau di arena global. Kedua, pihak yang membantah pembinaan masjid itu secara jelas menunjukkan sifat hipokrit orang Barat di Denmark yang melanggar hak asasi manusia dalam menindas kepentingan minoriti di Negara mereka. Ketiga, dana yang disalurkan dari Negara Iran untuk pembinaan masjid pertama di Denmark dianggap dana yang datang dari regim pengganas atau “terror regime”. Ini satu tanggapan yang membinasakan dan sengaja menyimbah petrol ke dalam api untuk memprovokasi umat Islam.
Ini juga menunjukkan bahawa sindrom “Islamophobia” masih nyata dan jelas di kalangan masyarakat Barat secara am, seperti menganggap semua yang berjanggut itu pengganas dan menahan suspek pengganas berdasarkan profil nama dan agama. Penulis berpendapat bahawa bantahan yang keras perlu dibuat oleh Pihak Wisma Putera atas tragedi ini. Di waktu kegawatan ekonomi yang teruk yang melanda Negara-negara Eropah berpunca dari kerakusan Wall Street dengan penjualan “sub prime mortgages”, “derivative speculation” dan spekulasi harga minyak yang melampau oleh penyangak ekonomi menyebabkan ketidakstabilan ekonomi dunia, negara-negara ini terutamanya Denmark perlu sedar bahawa banyak sumber dana untuk menghidupkan semula syarikat-syarikat yang telah menyeleweng wang rakyat datangnya dari negara-negara Islam juga, seperti contoh dana dari Kuwait Investment Authority untuk membela Citi Group sebanyak USD 1B.
Negara-negara Islam juga perlu bijak dalam menangani masalah ini dan janganlah jadikan bantahan di jalan (street protest) sebagai jawapannya. Kita perlu menggunakan kebijaksaan seperti menggunakan kekuatan ekonomi negara Islam dalam menyelesaikan isu ini. Mesej yang penting untuk disampaikan ialah Islam yang mempunyai penganut kira-kira 1 billion tidak mengamalkan dasar keganasan, malah akan membela nasib orang-orang yang tertindas, seperti contoh rakyat Palestin yang setelah lama ditindas oleh pihak Zionis dan baru-baru ini niat regim Zionis untuk membina penempatan haram baru di Tebing Barat, walaupun dikecam oleh PBB. Jika Ahli Parlimen Henriksen dari Denmark ingin membela hak asasi manusia, mulakanlah perjuangan anda di Palestin.
That would be muslims then!
Well let’s blunt their bayonets and hammer their helmets. Sign the SIOE petition Stop all mosque building in Denmark http://www.petitiononline.com/stpmsqdn/petition.html "
Disebabkan tidak memahami hal inilah, umat Islam pening kepala dengan pandangan tokoh-tokoh agama hari ini yang bermacam-macam. Jika ulama itu berniaga, mungkin dipengaruhi urusan bisnes, yang politik mungkin dipengaruhi urusan politiknya. Begitulah seterusnya. Jalan keluar, kita menyemak alasan dan hujah setiap mereka dan bertanya: adakah ini daripada Allah dan rasulNya, atau tuan ‘rasa-rasa’ sahaja?!."
Brutally similar to local scenery, 2-1/2 years to the next general election, 2 months to party constitutional amendments. Other than that, nothing revolutionizing to win hearts and minds.Economist: A landslide victory for the DPJ in Japan
The victors have an emotive name for it: seiken kotai, or regime change. It came in brutal fashion on Sunday August 30th when Japan, Asia’s richest democracy, dumped the party that has ruled it for almost all of the last 53 years and gave a huge win to one that until recently had little idea of how it would govern.
In a historic result, unofficial results showed that the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), a leftist grouping of ruling-party renegades, social democrats and socialists, was heading for a landslide. It is led by Yukio Hatoyama, a mild-mannered career politician likely to be the next prime minister. He promises a government less beholden to the powerful civil service, wants to temper the free market and is keen to dole out cash to the disadvantaged in the economically stagnant and ageing country. He declined to name a cabinet until he is confirmed as prime minister in a special session of the lower house, or Diet. That may be within the next two weeks.
Jubilant cries of Banzai! echoed around the DPJ’s victorious campaign offices. NHK, the public broadcaster, said the party had won 308 seats in the Diet, with almost all the seats counted, as polls had largely predicted. The DPJ hopes to forge a coalition with two minor parties that would give it a two-thirds majority, enabling it to force through legislation. But the three parties do not see eye to eye on all issues, which means plenty of haggling will be needed. The DPJ already holds the upper house.
For the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) there was no disguising its anguish, as discredited heavyweight after heavyweight fell, often to young, telegenic DPJ novices shrewdly drafted in as giant-killers. Taro Aso, the visibly shaken prime minister, conceded defeat, describing the result as “very severe”. When he dissolved parliament in July to hold the elections, the LDP held 300 seats. NHK’s count showed it had won 119 seats so far, almost the same as the puny number the DPJ held before the elections.
The raw numbers, however dramatic, only partly tell of the upheaval this could mean for Japanese politics. The LDP has had its hands on almost every lever of power for more than half a century; even when it briefly lost office in 1993, it regained it within 11 months because the forces assembled against it fell apart.
During much of its tenure, it held power because it helped deliver rising prosperity to a country that had only recently endured the ignominy of second-world-war defeat and American occupation. After taking office in 1955, it turned Japan into one of America’s firmest cold-war allies.
But as Japan’s economic miracle faded, and the country sank into a deflationary funk in the 1990s, the LDP clung onto power largely thanks to an entrenched system of patronage and lavish use of the pork barrel. It used public funds or access to Japan’s vast pool of private savings to launch public-works projects that for its last two decades in power kept its grass-roots supporters, such as farmers and construction workers, loyal.
None of that spending generated a sustainable recovery, however, nor did reforms by Junichiro Koizumi, a political one-off who revived the LDP’s fortunes during the last election in 2005, but whose followers, known as “Koizumi’s children”, were crushed by the DPJ this time round. Instead Japan has become saddled with a debt projected to rise to twice the country’s ¥497 trillion ($5.3 trillion) GDP, and it remains dangerously dependent on its large exporters. Figures released in the closing days of the campaign showed unemployment, exacerbated by the global financial slump, hit a record 5.7% in July. Deflation has also re-emerged; consumer prices fell 2.2% in July from a year earlier.
The LDP’s failure to improve people’s lives was one of the twin pillars of the DPJ’s successful campaign. The other was the LDP’s complicity with an all-encompassing bureaucracy that has been guilty of staggering incompetence recently, not least by losing millions of personal-pension records in 2007. The public has also been vexed by the practice of rewarding top civil servants with plum jobs at firms they formerly supervised. The DPJ has vowed to stamp out that policy.
But how well it can fulfill its manifesto pledges—repeated with worthy insistence on the campaign trail—will depend on many factors. Firstly, it may need to reach some sort of accommodation with civil-service mandarins, because only a handful of its most senior members have experience at cabinet level. Its spending proposals are largely to be funded by cutting waste from government spending; that is always easier to promise than to deliver.
Meanwhile, Japan’s economy is still poised precariously between recovery and renewed slump. If the recovery fails to materialise, it will not necessarily be the DPJ’s fault. But it will be the first test of its administrative competence in a country that is crying out for good leadership.
Besides naming a cabinet, Mr Hatoyama, who has appeared to flip-flop on sensitive issues such as Japan’s occasionally subordinate relationship with America, is soon likely to have to step onto the world stage. He hopes to travel to New York in September for the UN general assembly, and will probably meet Barack Obama on that trip.
But as he sets out to introduce a new era of political openness and accountability to Japan, he will be dogged by a thorny question that was already being put to him as he cautiously claimed victory on Sunday night. That is the position of Ichiro Ozawa, the DPJ’s former leader, who orchestrated this remarkable election victory and is a master manipulator eminently capable of pulling Mr Hatoyama’s strings.
So far, the new leader has ducked the question. But Japan, for all that it will celebrate dealing the LDP a punishment it has long deserved, will want an answer. Otherwise its people may fear they have replaced one dark force with another.
By Shanon Shah:"MENURUT Nasrudin Hassan Tantawi, Ketua Pemuda PAS, konsert Michael Learns to Rock pada 5 Sept 2009 kelak "akan membawa umat leka dan lalai malah merosakkan moral dan akhlak mereka". Daripada ayat ini saja, saya sudah boleh agak yang tidak ada sesiapa pun dalam Pemuda PAS yang pernah mendengar lagu Michael Learns to Rock.
Bagi saya, Michael Learns to Rock adalah kumpulan muzik yang paling membosankan di dunia. Bila saya terdengar lagu mereka berkumandang di pasar raya atau restoran, saya akan keluar dari tempat-tempat sedih ini. Bila lagu mereka diputarkan di radio atau televisyen, saya akan matikan bunyi dengan serta-merta. Ya, kalau saya ditahan dalam lokap, satu kaedah yang paling berkesan untuk mendera saya ialah dengan memaksa saya mendengar lagu Michael Learns to Rock. The Actor? Sleeping Child? 25 Minutes? Bunuhlah saya, bunuh saya sekarang".
KUALA LUMPUR - MUSLIMS in Malaysia have been barred from attending a concert by US hip hop band the Black Eyed Peas sponsored by Guinness which is owned by the world's biggest spirits group Diageo.
The move comes after a Malaysian Islamic court sentenced a 32-year Muslim woman to be caned after she was caught drinking beer in a hotel and at a time when an opposition Islamic party has moved against beer sales.
>> Only Muslims from Malaysia?
KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Ogos (Bernama) -- Raja Muda Perak Raja Dr Nazrin Shah pada Khamis mengingatkan rakyat khususnya orang Melayu mengenai tujuh wasiat Raja-Raja Melayu yang menjanjikan kesejahteraan, kedamaian dan keamanan jika mereka bersatu dan berpegang teguh kepadanya.
Menurut baginda, wasiat yang disampaikan semasa Raja-Raja Melayu menurunkan tandatangan persetujuan pembentukan Perlembagaan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu pada 5 Ogos 1957 ialah :
* Kami namakan dan kami panggil dia, bumi yang kamu pijak dan langit yang kamu junjung PERSEKUTUAN TANAH MELAYU (sekarang dikenali dengan nama Malaysia);
* Kami isytiharkan dan kami simpan untuk kamu dan kami benarkan kamu isytihar dan simpan untuk anak cucu kamu, selain gunung-ganang, tasik dan hutan simpan, TANAH SIMPANAN MELAYU sehingga nisbah 50 peratus, selebihnya kamu rebutlah bersama-sama kaum lain;
* Bagi menjaga kamu dan bagi melindungi anak cucu kamu serta harta hak milik kamu, kami tubuhkan REJIMEN ASKAR MELAYU selain untuk membanteras kekacauan dalam negara dan ancaman dari luar negara;
* Kami kekalkan dan kami jamin Kerajaan dan Kedaulatan RAJA-RAJA MELAYU memerintah negara ini;
* Kami isytiharkan ISLAM adalah Agama Persekutuan;
* Kami tetapkan bahasa kebangsaan ialah BAHASA MELAYU;
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