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Malaysian PM warns over ISIL influence



World Bulletin / News Desk
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday warned that his country and international community would not tolerate any form of violence and extremism committed by ISIL.
Razak said Malaysia condemns what he called ISIL's blatant misrepresentation of Islamic teachings, when it says the sadistic brutality, torture and murder of innocent men, women and children were justified.

He made Malaysia's stand at the Leaders' Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism at the United Nations in New York.

"Renounce your virulent creed of hate, violence and extremism and be guided back towards the righteous path, or face the consequences," he was quoted as saying by The Star Online.
The Summit was hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden.
As the chair of the Southeast Asian nations grouping ASEAN this year, Razak said Malaysia is leading the region towards combating all forms of extremism, including the possible spreading of ISIL beliefs in the region.
"We must make pre-emptive arrests if necessary and if there is irrefutable evidence, to save innocent lives," Razak said, referring to over 100 people detained in recent months by the Malaysian police, all suspected of having inclination towards ISIL.
He underlined that Malaysia's law enforcement and security agencies have been working quietly to combat the menace.
Collaboration with international law enforcement agencies has been strengthened, especially in intelligence gathering.
Razak said Malaysia was aware of ISIL's fast-spreading influence in cyberspace, thus proposed that ASEAN countries' government must come up with an organised strategy to counter the lies being spread by the ISIL online supposedly in the name of Islam.
Malaysia is also exploring the potential of establishing a regional digital counter-messaging communications centre to combat ISIL efforts.

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http://m.themalaymailonline.com/mala...jib-tells-umno


Be brave like ISIL fighters, Najib tells Umno


KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 — Umno must emulate the bravery of a Middle Eastern militant group that defeated an Iraqi force outnumbering it nearly 30 to one if the Malay nationalist party is to survive, Datuk Seri Najib Razak said yesterday.

The Umno president and prime minister was listing virtues that were needed to allow the Malay nationalist party to continue in power, during a dinner to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its Cheras branch yesterday.

“For example, when someone dares to fight to their death, they can even defeat a much bigger team.

“As proof — whether we agree or not is another matter — the group ISIL with the strength of just 1,300 people, can defeat an Iraqi army of 30,000 soldiers, until four, five generals with three, four stars run for their lives, jump out the window at night. Why? Because they are afraid of those who are brave,” he told more than 1,000 Umno members in attendance.

He also stressed the importance of being loyal to god, the party, and friends.


Najib said having wisdom and foresight in battles as well as the ability to organise is also crucial in strengthening the party.

The Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (ISIL) is a splinter group of al-Qaeda that wants to set up an Islamic caliphate encompassing both Iraq and Syria.

ISIL is viewed as a terror organisation by authorities both here and abroad.

A Malaysian suspected of being a member of ISIL was believed to have been the suicide bomber who killed 25 members of an Iraqi police team last month.

Earlier this month, three local men were arrested by police for suspected links to ISIL.

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Malaysian PM warns over ISIL influence



World Bulletin / News Desk
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday warned that his country and international community would not tolerate any form of violence and extremism committed by ISIL.
Razak said Malaysia condemns what he called ISIL's blatant misrepresentation of Islamic teachings, when it says the sadistic brutality, torture and murder of innocent men, women and children were justified.

He made Malaysia's stand at the Leaders' Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism at the United Nations in New York.

"Renounce your virulent creed of hate, violence and extremism and be guided back towards the righteous path, or face the consequences," he was quoted as saying by The Star Online.
The Summit was hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden.
As the chair of the Southeast Asian nations grouping ASEAN this year, Razak said Malaysia is leading the region towards combating all forms of extremism, including the possible spreading of ISIL beliefs in the region.
"We must make pre-emptive arrests if necessary and if there is irrefutable evidence, to save innocent lives," Razak said, referring to over 100 people detained in recent months by the Malaysian police, all suspected of having inclination towards ISIL.
He underlined that Malaysia's law enforcement and security agencies have been working quietly to combat the menace.
Collaboration with international law enforcement agencies has been strengthened, especially in intelligence gathering.
Razak said Malaysia was aware of ISIL's fast-spreading influence in cyberspace, thus proposed that ASEAN countries' government must come up with an organised strategy to counter the lies being spread by the ISIL online supposedly in the name of Islam.
Malaysia is also exploring the potential of establishing a regional digital counter-messaging communications centre to combat ISIL efforts.

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http://m.malaysiakini.com/news/314198

The things Singaporeans take for granted, no alalalalalehlong like killing chicken in morning to wake you up.



PKR Youth: All states must also ban mosque loudspeakers




PKR Youth urges all states to emulate the Penang Islamic Council’s ban on the use of loudspeakers by mosques other than to broadcast the azan.

The Penang Mufti Office in a letter on Sept 1 said the edict by the state fatwa committee to ban the use of loudspeakers other than for the call for prayer, will be gazetted soon.

“Respect for each other must be encouraged, given Malaysia’s multicultural and multi-religious nature.

“Thus, we support the fatwa by the Penang mufti based on the spirit of maqasid syariah (the objectives of the syariah).

“In fact, it should be used as an example for all other states in Malaysia,” PKR Youth religious bureau representative Wan Ji Wan Hussin said.

Wan Ji, an Islamic scholar, said Islamic teachings dictate that no other matters should be broadcast from a mosque besides the call for prayer, for the express purpose of reminding believers to pray.

Similarly, he said, non-Muslims should also avoid practices which disturb others unless it is something that is compulsory in their religion or culture.

“If Muslims respect non-Muslim practices involving loud noises, then non-Muslims in this country must likewise respect the azan.

“We pray that the spirit of respect among religions and races in this country goes on, for the sake of our future,” he said.

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Child marriages not rare in Malaysia with 15,000 underage brides, activists say

How fucking disgusting are these assholes!!! Should chop off their pedo dicks! I don't care what your religion say but pedophilia is just universally wrong.



KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2 — A coalition of eight gender equality groups denounced today the government’s attempt to gloss over the issue of child marriages in the country as a rarity.

Citing statistic from United Nations’ reports, the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) said there were as many as 15,000 Malaysians who were married off before the age of 19, contrary to the low figures given by the prime minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor at a function in the US yesterday.

The group highlighted that there is an even more worrying trend in the country, especially in poorer states, to marry off young girls to their rapists.

“In addition, in East Malaysia where poverty is higher… many girls are still married off at a young age. Child marriages are definitely not rare in Malaysia,” JAG said in a statement.

National news agency Bernama has reported Rosmah as telling an international group at the Ford Foundation breakfast meeting yesterday that the incidence of child marriages was rare in Malaysia due to good education and low poverty rate.


“The enrolment of boys and girls in primary education is 99 per cent while about 70 per cent of girls are now enrolled in universities,” Rosmah was quoted as saying.

Citing the United Nations Human Rights Council’s resolution to end child marriage, the coalition urged the government to acknowledge the issue and give a more accurate picture on it.

In Malaysia, the legal minimum age for marriage under civil law for both genders is 18, with marriages involving those under this age requiring consent from the state mentri besar or chief minister.

Islamic laws here places the legal marrying age for Muslim boys and girls at 18 and 16, with girls aged below 16 allowed to be married off with the consent of the Shariah court.

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1MDB controversy turned into racial conspiracy to divert attention, says former Special Branch deputy chief

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/ma...ntion-says-for



KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 — The racially-tinged claim of a purported conspiracy to overthrow the ruling government is a tactic to shift the public’s attention from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) controversy, says former deputy chief of the police’s Special Branch Datuk Abdul Hamid Bador.

Abdul Hamid reportedly alleged that this bid to confuse the public is meant to halt ongoing investigations on the state-owned firm.

“In line with that effort (to stop the investigations), they are confusing the public by conjuring a stale script that there is supposedly a conspiracy to topple the government, which doesn’t make sense.

“Who wants to topple the government? Supposedly it’s the Chinese who are taking power?” he was quoted saying in an open letter by news portal Malaysiakini.

Abdul Hamid Bador: A conspiracy to topple the government ‘just doesn’t make sense’. — File pic
Abdul Hamid Bador: A conspiracy to topple the government ‘just doesn’t make sense’. — File pic
In his October 1 letter directed at the government, Abdul Hamid reportedly claimed that this was a “wicked” tactic to turn a matter of alleged “criminal breach of trust” into a “racial issue”.

Abdul Hamid also reportedly claimed that there have been attempts to hamper local investigations into the 1MDB controversy, including through the removal of Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail as Attorney-General, the arrest of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers and the disruption of investigations by Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and a special government taskforce.

The taskforce has since been disbanded and rebranded into a new taskforce that does not include a specific probe on 1MDB as one of its brief, while the PAC’s probe will only resume after the replacement of its chairman and several members who have been made ministers and deputy ministers.

The controversy surrounding 1MDB spilled over to Putrajaya, when the US-based Wall Street Journal cited government investigations in its report of the alleged movement of almost US$700 million (RM3.1 billion) through 1MDB-linked entities into Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s accounts, which the MACC has said is a donation by a Middle Eastern source.

Following a Cabinet reshuffle in late July that saw Umno leader Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin losing his deputy prime minister post over what some suspected to be his vocal views on 1MDB, speculation of a purported plot to remove Najib Razak as prime minister cropped up but later died down.

The Bersih 4 rally on August 30 and 31 for institutional reforms was declared illegal by the government while the leader of organiser Bersih 2.0, Maria Chin Abdullah, was reported calling for Najib’s removal through a vote of no confidence in Parliament.

Critics of the Bersih 4 rally claimed that it was dominated by the Chinese, while Najib later explained on September 18 that it was declared illegal because it was planned as part of an alleged bid to topple the administration by demonstrating in a place where preparations were being held for the Merdeka celebration.

Najib recently said that a counter-rally on September 16 by red-shirt participants in favour of Malays and him was allowed to go on as it was not aimed at toppling the government, among other reasons.

1MDB is currently under investigation for corruption and mismanagement domestically as well as by various authorities in several countries, including Hong Kong, Switzerland and the UK.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/ma....iNBTapci.dpuf

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Go ahead and slap the Chinese if you have the guts, Dr M tells Umno deputy minister

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/ma...-umno-deputy-m


Umno’s Pasir Salak MP Datuk Tajuddin’s off-the-cuff remark appears to have riled up even his political allies in Barisan Nasional.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today scoffed at an Umno leader who is getting flak after saying the ethnic Chinese should be “slapped”, and challenged Datuk Tajuddin Abdul Rahman to carry out the act.

The former prime minister was visibly amused when asked for his view on the “lempang” remark by the Pasir Salak MP

Lempang is a Malay term to describe the act of slapping.

“Lempang? Ask him to lempanglah. It’s easy to say. When we have the government backing us we are brave, but outside we are not brave,” he said dismissively at a news conference.

Tajuddin had initially accused news portal Malaysiakini — which first ran a story on his remark — of misquoting him in its story but later claimed he merely said it in jest, after an audio recording was posted online.

The agriculture and agro-based industries deputy minister said he did not fear any disciplinary action from his party over the incident as he had not issued any inappropriate statement in an official capacity.

However, Tajuddin’s off-the-cuff remark appears to have riled up even his political allies in Barisan Nasional, with both MCA and Gerakan saying they will issue a formal protest note and ask the coalition leadership to punish the Perak lawmaker.

Tajuddin’s remark was ostensibly in response to a comment by Chinese ambassador to Malaysia Huang Huikang in Petaling Street last week, that Beijing would not hesitate to speak out against any threat that may affect the country’s ties with Malaysia, in commenting on the communal tension here.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/ma....4apT8kgI.dpuf

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Malaysia not just for Malays, but for Muslims, says hardline Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir

Just hope their stupidity do not spread....



HTM spokesman Abdul Hakim Othman speaks to members of the media during a press conference in Seri Kembangan, on October 3, 2015. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa

SERI KEMBANGAN, Oct 3 — The Malaysian chapter of hardline Islamists Hizbut Tahrir chided local Muslims today for their preoccupation with race, warning that tribalism is stopping the community from uniting with their brethren worldwide.

Hizbut Tahrir Malaysia (HTM) said many Malaysian Muslims have been influenced by “unIslamic thoughts” that cause them to insist that the country belongs solely to the Malays.

“The Muslims in Malaysia, who are mostly Malays, are still fighting for the Malays, their race. Whereas, in Islam that is haram [forbidden],” HTM spokesman Abdul Hakim Othman told reporters at the sidelines of the group’s Muktamar Khilafah 2015, a congress on establishing a caliphate.

“Malaysia is not owned just by the Malays. For Hizbut Tahrir, we are fine with any Muslims that come here, as this is a country for Muslims. Where anybody deserves to be here.”


In a speech made in the congress, HTM activist Omar Hussein accused Western powers of dividing Muslims into nation-states, causing them to identify more with their nationalities rather than their faith.

“Verily, the reason behind Muslims’ weakness and disunity is because Muslims these days are separated and segregated by the tribal divisions,” Omar told hundreds who attended the congress.

“With nation-states in which political games have been arranged by the West since the fall of the caliphate on March 3, 1924.”

The date refers to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire’s caliphate, following the Turkish national movement led by Turkey’s first president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

HTM’s remark today came amid claims by several Umno leaders that racism is in line with Islamic teachings, with Tan Sri Annuar Musa saying in a pro-Malay rally last month that acting in defence of Malay honour was permitted in Islam so long as other races were not oppressed in the process.

Similarly, another leader in that #Merah169 rally, Sungai Besar Umno chief Datuk Jamal Md Yunos also claimed in an interview this week that Islam requires him to prioritise his race before his nationality.



HTM aims to establish an Islamic state in Malaysia and a worldwide caliphate as part of its global network, although it has never explained how.

It had previously said that Putrajaya must implement all of Allah’s laws, and not just hudud, in a comprehensive Islamic rule that encompasses every aspect of government, including its economic, social and foreign policies as well as education.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/ma....MyTTs6QC.dpuf

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Singapore is not an island

http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/...-not-an-island

Since 1957, first Malaya then Malaysia, was premised on a political and social compact that had Malay dominance as its cardinal principle. So long as this was not challenged, other races could have their own space. In political terms, this compact was reflected in a system structured around an alliance of race-based political parties with the dominant Malay party - United Malays National Organisation or Umno - at its centre.

Supporters of pro-democracy group Bersih gathering near Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown on Aug 29.
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The Chinese were represented by the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), later joined by Gerakan; the Indians by the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC). Two opposition parties, the Democratic Action Party (DAP) and Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS ), were in principle multiracial, but in practice largely Chinese and Malay and in any case were peripheral.

It was our refusal to accept the system's cardinal principle that led to Separation from Malaysia in 1965. But it was a system that had its own coherence and until relatively recently, it did not serve Malaysia badly. And despite the complexities of bilateral relations and occasional periods of tension, over the last 50 years, it was a system we learnt to work with, while going our own way.

That familiar system is now under immense stress. It is not certain that it can hold together.

PRESSURE POINT

The pressure point is religion. Arab influences from the Middle East have for several decades steadily eroded the Malay variant of Islam in which adat or traditional practices coexisted with the Quran in a syncretic, tolerant synthesis, replacing it with a more austere and exclusive interpretation of Islam. This is one aspect of a broader process of globalisation which is a sociocultural and not just an economic phenomenon. It has changed the texture of Malaysian society, I think irreversibly.

It is impossible for any country to insulate itself from globalisation. Religion in Singapore is not immune from globalisation's consequences, and not just in our Muslim community. Evangelical Christianity is one example. But Singapore is organised on the principle of multiracial meritocracy. So long as this is accepted by all races and religions as the foundation of our identity, the most corrosive political effects are mitigated. In the Singapore system, God - every God - and Caesar are separate and so all Gods must perforce co-exist, with the state playing the role of neutral arbiter.

Not so in Malaysia.

The cardinal principle of Malay dominance is enshrined in the Constitution, which also places Islam as the first component in the definition of a Malay. This makes the mixture of religion and politics well-nigh inevitable. Umno politicians have been unable to resist the temptation to use religion for electoral advantage. They are responding to the logic of the system as it has evolved.

In 2001, former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad made a fundamental political error when he tried to undercut PAS by declaring that Malaysia was already an Islamic state. A constitutional controversy ensued. But the most damaging consequences were political not legal. Tun Dr Mahathir's incautious declaration gave a sharper political focus to the changes in the interpretation of Islam that were under way and catalysed a competitive dynamic in which those inclined to religious moderation were inevitably outbid and overwhelmed.

The result has been an increasingly pronounced emphasis on religion in Umno's political identity and a significant and continuing narrowing of the political and social space for non-Muslims.

Surveys show that Malaysian Malays privilege Islamic credentials over other qualities they look for in their leaders. A Merdeka Centre survey this year revealed that 60 per cent of Malaysian Malays polled identified themselves as Muslims first rather than Malaysians or even Malays. Demography accentuates the political impact of these attitudes. In 1957 the Chinese constituted 45 per cent of Malaya (West Malaysia). In 2010, they constituted only 24.6 per cent of Malaysia including East Malaysia. Malay fertility rates are significantly higher than both Chinese and Indians.

In the 2013 Malaysian General Election, the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition got only 13 per cent of the Chinese vote. Two days after the election, Utusan Malaysia, an Umno mouthpiece, pointedly asked "Apa Lagi Cina Mau?" (What more do the Chinese want?)

The question was provocatively phrased, but not entirely unreasonable. Prime Minister Najib Razak tried hard to win back Chinese votes but got almost nothing for his efforts. MCA won only seven seats. Gerakan was wiped out.

The DAP won 38 seats, the largest number in the opposition coalition.

A NEW SYSTEM IN THE MAKING?

The Chinese parties in BN had clearly lost the trust of Chinese voters. Can MCA win back Chinese votes? Doubtful. MCA is obviously powerless to stem the narrowing political and social space for non-Muslims; the fecklessness of its leaders exposed by constant scandals and internal bickering.

In 2013, BN lost the popular vote but retained its parliamentary majority because of the 47 seats it won in East Malaysia. Native East Malaysians are not ethnically Malay but are classified as bumiputera. Some in Umno began to question whether it was really necessary to work with the Chinese at all. The declining numbers of Chinese in the Malaysian population will sooner or later make them electorally irrelevant to Umno and BN had already retained power without their votes.

Nor can the opposition coalition of the DAP, PAS and Anwar Ibrahim's Parti Keadilan Rakyat - Pakatan Rakyat (PR) - form a new multiracial system. PR was always a motley crew. Although its component parties are in theory multiracial, they have nothing in common except the ambition to displace BN. Only Anwar's charismatic personality and political skills held them uneasily together.

Anwar is now in jail and PR has fallen apart. PAS has left. Without Anwar, Keadilan's future is bleak. The DAP is subject to the demo- graphic constraints of a falling Chinese population and is unlikely to make substantial electoral advances beyond its present strength, although it will probably retain what it now holds. PR's successor - Pakatan Harapan - a coalition of the DAP, Keadilan and a minor breakaway faction from PAS, is a forlorn hope (pun intended).

PAS has purged its moderate leadership and is now led by the ulama. Umno is increasingly relying on religion to legitimise itself. Umno and PAS may eventually form some sort of de facto if not de jure alliance that could be the core of a new ruling system. There may be token ornaments of other races, but the Malaysian system will then comprise an overwhelmingly dominant Malay government with a DAP-led Chinese opposition. This will be potentially explosive.

I do not know if such a system will really replace the current system, but it certainly seems possible, even probable. It will not happen overnight. But the controversy over 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) could well hasten its emergence. The recent demonstrations seem to foreshadow such a development.

STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN UMNO

The anti-government Bersih demonstrations held in late August this year were, despite a sprinkling of other races, predominantly Chinese affairs. PAS, which had joined previous Bersih demonstrations, stayed away. The organisers claimed the demonstrations were apolitical, but the DAP with Keadilan clearly played significant roles.