The onus is on Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak or his deputy to deny Umno/BN’s involvement.
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KUALA LUMPUR: The nationwide roadshow to character-assassinate and smear the name of Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim was the brainchild of Umno Youth Leader and Minister for Youth and Sports, Khairy Jamaluddin, who announced at the first stop of the roadshow in Kelana Jaya last Tuesday that the Barisan Nasional (BN) was launching the campaign, featuring Sodomy II lead prosecutor Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, to explain the February 10 Federal Court judgment as it had “kept silent for six years because the trial was in progress”.
Will the Chief Justice of Malaysia also be leading Federal Court judges to join the nationwide roadshow to justify and win in the court of public opinion on their decision against Anwar which has not found support among the majority of thinking Malaysians?
“Malaysia has become a very strange and abnormal country, where the strangest of things can happen,” said DAP elder statesman Lim Kit Siang.
Unless the Prime Minister or the Deputy Prime Minister is prepared to come out openly to deny Khairy’s claim that the BN is behind the Shafee roadshow against Anwar, warned Lim who is also DAP Parliamentary Leader and Gelang Patah MP, “Malaysians can only conclude that the Umno/BN leadership is continuing its vile and vicious vendetta against Anwar even after incarcerating him for the fourth time in his life”.
It’s not enough that a few Umno leaders have expressed reservations about Umno/BN involvement with Shafee’s anti-Anwar tirade.
It’s not enough for Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan to claim that the campaign to smear Anwar was not funded by Umno or the government.
Who is a Deputy Minister or unnamed Umno leaders to rebut the announcement and admission of a full Minister like Khairy Jamaluddin?
Lim noted that Mohd Azmi Abdul, the president of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisations, in his article in malaysiakini “Let’s stop this ‘Sodomy Politics’, now” summed up not only the objection but the repulsion of ordinary Malaysians at the depths plumbed by those in authority in the vile campaign of character-assassination against Anwar, when he asked:
“Shafee’s character assassination of Anwar at the forum, with Anwar having no opportunity to defend himself, was despicable, unethical, unIslamic and cowardly.
“How can one sink so low! The roadshow shows how disconnected Shafee and Khairy (Jamaluddin) are from the teachings of Islam, resulting in them losing their moral compass.”
In the second stop of Shafee’s nationwide roadshow on Saturday night in Permatang Pauh, the media were told that they were banned from reporting the event, which was even more unfair to Anwar as it meant that the lawyer was at liberty to say anything he liked against the jailed leader while hiding from the media.
Shafee’s roadshow against Anwar, continued Lim, to have a second bite of the cherry as he could not win in the court of public opinion, is also an admission that the Federal Court’s 5-0 unanimous opinion convicting Anwar in the Sodomy II case and sentencing him to five years jail lacks credibility whatsoever.
“Although the five Federal Court judges found Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan a credible witness, the court of public opinion does not find the Federal Court decision a credible one, which also means that the court of public opinion does not agree with the Federal Court and holds that Mohd Saiful is not a credible witness.”
The Shafee roadshow, reiterated Lim, must be halted immediately.
FMTKUALA LUMPUR: The nationwide roadshow to character-assassinate and smear the name of Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim was the brainchild of Umno Youth Leader and Minister for Youth and Sports, Khairy Jamaluddin, who announced at the first stop of the roadshow in Kelana Jaya last Tuesday that the Barisan Nasional (BN) was launching the campaign, featuring Sodomy II lead prosecutor Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, to explain the February 10 Federal Court judgment as it had “kept silent for six years because the trial was in progress”.
Will the Chief Justice of Malaysia also be leading Federal Court judges to join the nationwide roadshow to justify and win in the court of public opinion on their decision against Anwar which has not found support among the majority of thinking Malaysians?
“Malaysia has become a very strange and abnormal country, where the strangest of things can happen,” said DAP elder statesman Lim Kit Siang.
Unless the Prime Minister or the Deputy Prime Minister is prepared to come out openly to deny Khairy’s claim that the BN is behind the Shafee roadshow against Anwar, warned Lim who is also DAP Parliamentary Leader and Gelang Patah MP, “Malaysians can only conclude that the Umno/BN leadership is continuing its vile and vicious vendetta against Anwar even after incarcerating him for the fourth time in his life”.
It’s not enough that a few Umno leaders have expressed reservations about Umno/BN involvement with Shafee’s anti-Anwar tirade.
It’s not enough for Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan to claim that the campaign to smear Anwar was not funded by Umno or the government.
Who is a Deputy Minister or unnamed Umno leaders to rebut the announcement and admission of a full Minister like Khairy Jamaluddin?
Lim noted that Mohd Azmi Abdul, the president of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisations, in his article in malaysiakini “Let’s stop this ‘Sodomy Politics’, now” summed up not only the objection but the repulsion of ordinary Malaysians at the depths plumbed by those in authority in the vile campaign of character-assassination against Anwar, when he asked:
“Shafee’s character assassination of Anwar at the forum, with Anwar having no opportunity to defend himself, was despicable, unethical, unIslamic and cowardly.
“How can one sink so low! The roadshow shows how disconnected Shafee and Khairy (Jamaluddin) are from the teachings of Islam, resulting in them losing their moral compass.”
In the second stop of Shafee’s nationwide roadshow on Saturday night in Permatang Pauh, the media were told that they were banned from reporting the event, which was even more unfair to Anwar as it meant that the lawyer was at liberty to say anything he liked against the jailed leader while hiding from the media.
Shafee’s roadshow against Anwar, continued Lim, to have a second bite of the cherry as he could not win in the court of public opinion, is also an admission that the Federal Court’s 5-0 unanimous opinion convicting Anwar in the Sodomy II case and sentencing him to five years jail lacks credibility whatsoever.
“Although the five Federal Court judges found Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan a credible witness, the court of public opinion does not find the Federal Court decision a credible one, which also means that the court of public opinion does not agree with the Federal Court and holds that Mohd Saiful is not a credible witness.”
The Shafee roadshow, reiterated Lim, must be halted immediately.
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