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Fight Pakistan fire with fire, Indian Army chief orders commanders on LoC.

Rajat Pandit | TNN | Jan 15, 2013 | New Delhi :: India on Monday demonstrated its renewed resolve to fight fire with fire along the volatile Line of Control, directing all its battalion commanders on the fiercely-contested boundary to retaliate with all their might if the Pakistani Army provokes them by violating the ceasefire or pushing militants into J&K.

“I expect all my commanders on the LoC to be aggressive and offensive in face of provocation and fire…No passivity is expected from them. Their response has to be measured and for effect,” said a tough-talking General Bikram Singh, a day ahead of Army Day celebrations.

The fact that the Army chief issued an unequivocal warning to Pakistan to cease and desist from misadventures along the border is a confirmation there is going to be no immediate de-escalation of tension, especially as a defiant Pakistan refused to own up to the beheading of an Indian soldier and mutilation of another’s body by its elite SSG commandos on January 8.

Speaking around the same time that Pakistan brushed aside India’s charges at the brigadier-level flag meeting at the Chakkan-Da-Bagh crossing point in Poonch district, Gen Singh accused Islamabad of resorting to “outright lies”.

Pakistani Army’s cross-border raid on January 8 was a “premeditated and pre-planned” operation that would have needed at least 10 days of preparation and reconnaissance, he said. The Indian jawan’s beheading was a “gruesome, most unpardonable act” that went against the “basic ethics” of soldering and tenets of the Geneva Convention, he added.>>Read details in TOI.

Indian Army Chief warns Pakistan, says will choose the time and place to retaliate.

New Delhi | Jan 15, 2013 :: Indian Army Chief General Bikram Singh hit out strongly at Pakistan over the killing of two Indian soldiers and continuous ceasefire violation. He warned Pakistan that the Indian Army will retaliate to Pakistan’s attack. “I have given very categorical directions to the Northern Command. When we are provoked we shall respond immediately. I expect my commanders to be aggressive in the face of firing. We will retaliate to Pakistan’s attack at a place and time of our choosing,” General Bikram Singh said.

Talking tough against Pakistan, General Bikram Singh rejected Pakistan’s claims of an Indian operation at the Line of Control killing one soldier. “No operation was carried out by the Indian Army on January 6 as claimed by Pakistan,” General Bikram Singh said.

He called the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistan ‘gruesome’ and ‘unpardonable’ and said beheading the soldier was unacceptable. “This incident has had strategic nuances, beheading our soldiers is not acceptable. The act was against ethics and principles of rules of engagement,” General Singh said. He added that India will register a strong protest at the flag meet of the two countries.

General Bikram Singh also said that Pakistan Army’s attack in Mendhar was pre-planned.

The long awaited flag meeting between Indian and Pakistani commanders in the Poonch sector will take place on Monday afternoon. India had requested for the Brigadier-level flag meet in an attempt to ease the tension at the India-Pakistan border>>Read details in IBN Live.

Sex slave aged 11 'branded with initial of her abuser': Child trafficker 'used a heated hair pin to mark her as his property'

• Nine men are accused of grooming and abusing vulnerable girls in Oxford
• Child sex ring allegedly abused several girls - aged 11 to 16 over eight years
• Gang member allegedly branded one schoolgirl with 'M' for Mohammed
• Group's second victim, aged 14, told a friend 'she just wanted to be loved'

In the dock: Kamar Jamil, Akhtar Dogar, Anjum Dogar, Assad Hussain, Mohammed Karrar, Bassam Karrar, Mohammed Hussain, Zeeshan Ahmed and Bilal Ahmed are accused of abusing vulnerable girls as young as 11 over the course of eight years in Oxford. They all deny the charges

A girl of 11 was sold to a child trafficker who branded her with his initial, a court heard yesterday.

Mohammed Karrar, 38, also loaned her to abusers around the country for £600 an hour, it was alleged.

Over five years she was repeatedly raped by large groups of men in what she described as ‘torture sex’, the jury was told.

Seven men of Pakistani origin and two from North Africa are accused of 79 offences against six vulnerable white British girls. The charges include child rape, sexual trafficking and child prostitution.

Noel Lucas QC, prosecuting, said Karrar – known as Egyptian Mo – bought the youngest victim from an unnamed man just after her 11th birthday.

He befriended her with gifts of perfume and hard drugs but then began to beat her up and raped her, the Old Bailey was told.

He branded her with one of her hair pins, which he had twisted into the shape of an ‘M’ and heated with a cigarette lighter. It left a scar on her left buttock.

‘He regarded her as his property,’ Mr Lucas said. ‘He showed her no regard. If she had the temerity to resist, he beat her.

‘He branded her to make her his property and to ensure others knew about it.’ At the age of 12 she was introduced to Karrar’s brother Bassam, 33, who is also accused of raping her.

The girl ‘describes the Karrars as sick sex monsters’, Mr Lucas said. ‘They were always talking about sex and spoke about women in a vile manner.

‘Mohammed Karrar liked her to dress up and act out role play. Both brothers used to beat her.’

From the age of 12 the girl was sold to groups of Asian men who violently raped her in private homes and guesthouses around Oxford and elsewhere. Sometimes she was injected with heroin or given date drugs to ensure she complied with the gang’s sick demands, it was alleged.

Mr Lucas added: ‘It became routine for her to be taken to various locations, houses and hotels by the Karrar brothers so she could treat their guests. She would be made to dress up, wear very short skirts and a bikini top, do her hair and put on lots of make-up.

The jury of seven men and five women at the Old Bailey were told that the men targeted care homes and schools to find their victims

By the end of the evening she would have been sexually used and abused by all the men. She would be so drugged up as to be unable to feel the pain.’

Just after her 12th birthday the girl told Karrar she was carrying his child. He allegedly beat her up and then took her to a house in Reading where she was given a ‘backroom abortion’ using a crochet hook.

On other occasions Karrar raped the girl in the living room of her own home as her father slept in another room, it was said.

Sometimes his friends would arrive at her house and they would allegedly rape her too. The girl, who came from a troubled family, naively believed ‘Mo’ loved her and was going to marry her when she was 16, the court heard.

During a trip to the Lake District in 2007, when she was 14, she is said to have been called by Karrar on her mobile phone.

David Hughes, a social worker, answered and Karrar allegedly asked to speak to her.

When Mr Hughes refused, Karrar allegedly said: ‘If you don’t get her I’ll **** you up, I’ll **** her up and I’ll **** her mum.’ Later the girl told the social worker of ‘men who took her to houses’.

In January 2008, she told police a man called ‘Egyptian Mo’ had raped her in London nine months previously. Two years later the girl contacted her alleged attacker for an apology but was raped again, the court heard.

Kamar Jamil, 27, Akhtar Dogar, 32, his brother Anjum Dogar, 30, Assad Hussain, 32, Mohammed Karrar, Bassam Karrar, Mohammed Hussain, 24, Zeeshan Ahmed, 27, and Bilal Ahmed, 26, deny all the charges against them.

The trial continues.

A 15-year old Girl raped in Directorship Department of Women’s Affairs

..two weeks back, four women in Daikundi province committed suicide in one week due to domestic violence, forced engagement and marriage, and poverty

By Zafar Bamyani

Officials in a human rights office in Daikundi province say that a 15-year old girl was raped in the Directorship Department of Women’s Affairs of this province. Six guards of this office have been arrested on suspicions of being involved.

It is not yet clear whether the girl was gang-raped or raped turn by turn, but local authorities have said that her condition is not serious. They also said that if needed the girl will be sent to Kabul for treatment.

Razaq Ilkhani, the police chief of Daikundi said, “It is not yet confirmed, but all the people accused, peons and guards, are all in the Directorship Department of Women’s Affairs and after investigations we will find out (whether it was gang-rape or just rape).”

Jawad Daadgar, the head of the provincial Independent Human Rights Commission, told Ashna Radio of VOA, “The people mainly accused in the case, along with five others who are counted as accessories, have all been caught and arrested.”

Orphan Child

The rape victim is said to be an orphan child who had been sent from the Center for Educating Children in Daikundi to the Directorship Department of Women’s Affairs so that she could be looked after in a ‘safe house’. This 15-year old girl who didn’t want her name to be revealed, belongs to the Sange Takhat district of Daikundi.

Habiba Shujayee, supervisor of the Directorship Department of Women’s Affairs told Ashna Radio that steps have been taken to fully investigate the case, “According to law, we will support this victim. We have also informed all the legal and judicial bodies to seriously follow the case.”

On Wednesday, the police detained all the male workers of the Directorship Department of Women’s Affairs and closed the site of the incident.

Rape in the Directorship Department of Women’s Affairs is reported while two weeks back, four women in Daikundi province committed suicide in one week due to domestic violence, forced engagement and marriage, and poverty.

Tensions can flare if Sabah RCI sensationalised, Musa Aman tells newshounds

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 — Sensational coverage of the ongoing royal inquiry into Sabah’s foreign population explosion could spark unnecessary tension, its chief minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman reminded journalists as witness testimonies of illegal immigrants being fast-tracked for citizenship is raising the mercury ahead of Election 2013.

Questions are being asked of the ruling Barisan Nasional’s (BN) role over the last two decades in failing to stem the flood of illegal immigrants into Malaysia’s easternmost state, which has seen its population grow from just over 630,000 in 1970 to over 3.1 million in 2010 — more than double the national standard.

“Many sensitive issues have been raised by the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants that is currently being held.

“We cannot interfere in the deliberations and the testimonies in the continuing hearing. We also should not rush into any conclusions while the Inquiry is proceeding,” said Musa (picture) in a brief six-paragraph media statement to The Malaysian Insider last night.

The state’s longest-serving chief minister urged reporters to be mindful of their coverage of the RCI, “to avoid bringing about any kind of unnecessary tension among the public”.

“The government has no control over editorial content. We believe in the freedom of the press,” said the 61-year-old, who has been in office since March 2003.

“At the same time, in a sensitive situation such as the RCI, sensational coverage will not bring any positive results or effects for the state of Sabah or the country as a whole,” he added.

Musa had also made a similar request last week at a closed-door meeting with state English-language media representatives from New Sabah Times, Daily Express, The Borneo Post, andBN-controlled newspapers New Straits Times (NST) and The Star, as well as national news agency Bernama.

The issue of illegal immigrants has turned emotive among Sabah natives like the Kadazandusun and Murut communities, many of whom feel that the state has been robbed of its sovereignty through the massive influx of foreigners from neighbouring Philippines and Indonesia.

It is no secret that Sabahans are angry and want these foreigners shipped back to their home countries in one way or another. They also often blame the immigrants for robbing them of job opportunities and for the rise in the state’s social, economic and security problems.

Recent statistics from a 2010 census of Sabah’s population showed an extraordinary 390 per cent increase from 636,431 citizens in 1970 to 3,120,040 citizens in 2010, more than double the national population growth of just 164 per cent.

About 28 per cent of Sabah’s 3.2 million-strong population are foreigners, numbering at 889,000 people.

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s longest-serving prime minister who was in power from 1981 to 2003, has been accused of spearheading the so-called “Project IC”, in which citizenships were allegedly given to immigrants for their votes.

But former Sabah Chief Minister Tan Sri Harris Salleh, who administered the state from 1976 to 1985, has denied the existence of “Project IC”.

Dr Mahathir had last Thursday admitted to granting citizenship to foreigners during his tenure, but insisted it was all done according to the law. He has also said he is willing to testify to that before the RCI if subpoenaed.

The citizenship-for-votes allegation is one of the key issues that has been raised in the run-up to Election 2013, which must be called by April when the ruling Barisan Nasional’s mandate expires.

The public inquiry in Kota Kinabalu that kicked off on January 14 is chaired by former Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Steve Shim Lip Kiong.

A total of 167 witnesses are expected to be called to testify, according to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who finally agreed to set up a royal inquiry last year.

The royal panel has until March to wrap up its investigation.

The hearing will resume on January 28.

Stop Perkasa or lose votes, warns MIC

The ruling coalition must take immediate steps to curtail Ibrahim Ali and Perkasa if it wants to win over the non-Muslims voters, says Vell Paari.

PETALING JAYA: A furious MIC leader today lashed out at Malay nationalist movement Perkasa’s chief Ibrahim Ali for fanning religious and communal tension by provoking potential violence against non-Muslims.

MIC strategic director S Vell Paari said the government must take criminal action against Ibrahim immediately to stop the situation from getting out of hand.

“He should not be allowed to go on saying what he wants and wherever he wants and in the presence of whoever it may be to intimidate and threaten any Malaysian, let it be Muslims or non Muslims,” Vell Paari said today.

“To incite a criminal act against a fellow Malaysian due to religious difference is criminal in nature and action should be taken against him.”

He also urged the Barisan Nasional leadership to immediately clarify it’s stand on Perkasa.

“First and foremost he is a nobody and not a decision or policy maker in BN. He can’t be allowed to go on pretending that he is speaking on behalf of the BN.

“And to see him making such provocative remarks in the presence of former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad is not going to look good on BN, especially with elections just around the corner,” he said.

He said people like Ibrahim should be isolated and made known that Malaysia has moved forward, and not stuck in a time warp.

He also said that he would be urging his party leadership to clearly state their stand against Perkasa to the BN leadership.

Vell Paari was responding to Ibrahim’s call earlier today for Muslims to seize and burn copies of Bibles which contain the term “Allah” or other Arabic religious words.

Stressing that he was not instigating communal tension, the Pasir Mas MP insisted that it was the only way to stop non-Muslims from stirring the sensitivities and sentiments of the majority of population in the country.

Ibrahim had said certain non-Muslim groups were out to provoke the Muslims by using the term “Allah” or any other Arabic religious words in the Bible.

He said this at the Perkasa conference in Penang today. The chief guest to the conference was Mahathir.

Vell Paari also had a word of advise for Mahathir.

“Please enjoy your retirement and please stop making life difficult for Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak who is working his heart out to fix the mistakes that was done in the past.

“Your recognition of Perkasa is acting detrimental to the effort of Najib and BN,” he said.

‘Probe pre-independence immigrants’

If the government can form a RCI to probe citizenships given to about 200,000 Sabah immigrants, why not on those pre-independence immigrants? asks the former PM

PERMATANG PAUH: Former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamed cynically suggested the federal government form a royal commission of inquiry to probe if the one million “foreigners”, who were given citizenship during independence, were entitled to it.

He suggested for the commission to probe ancestral backgrounds of the “foreigners” to determine on whether they deserved their citizenship.

If the government can form a commission to probe the citizenship given to some 200,000 Sabah immigrants, he asked on “why not on those pre-independence immigrants?”

He told this at a crowded hall when officiating a Perkasa convention on “Penang Malays Economic and Education Transformation” in UiTM campus here today.

Nonetheless he said he was not seriously demanding for such commission, but only wanted certain amount of fair play in such inquiries.

“I’m not serious about it. But they must be fair,” the country’s fourth premier told a press conference later.

Dr Mahathir seemed clearly frustrated by mounting criticisms against him over allegations of a citizenship-for-votes scheme in Sabah that occurred in the 1990s during his premiership.

He said Sabah’s illegal immigrants deserved their citizenships given that the law allowed for it if a person had stayed in the country for more than 10 years.

“It was a co-incidence that they were given citizenship during election time,” Mahathir told newsmen.

Earlier in his keynote address, he said pre-independence immigrants should be grateful to the Malays for their citizenships, given by first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.

Unlike natives of Myanmar and some African nations, he said the Malaya natives, both pribumis and bumis, did not chase out the immigrants when then Malaya got its independence from the British colonial masters.

Ungrateful immigrants out to rid Malay privileges

He said the Malays generously allowed the immigrants to be citizens, speak their languages and practise their respective cultures, something that even neighbouring Thai and Indonesian natives failed to do.

Although Malays constituted 80% of Malaya’s voting population during independence time, he claimed that they willingly shared power with the immigrants even though it would reduce their vote bank to 60% and weaken their own political strength.

“We allowed the immigrants to flourish among us and let them even to dominate the economy. We also did not stop their language and cultural growth,” said Mahathir.

However, instead of being grateful to Malay kindness, he lamented that the immigrants were now plotting to remove the Malay privileges.

Political power aside, he said the Malays only wanted 30% of the economic share, while others still have 70%.

“But they even want to seize Malay political power now,” cautioned Mahathir.

He hinted that this was a possibility due to Malay disunity caused by PAS and a certain power crazed Malay leader from Permatang Pauh (Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim).

Claiming that Malays were once strongly united under a single Umno umbrella, he blamed both for causing the Malays to split to three and weakening their political strength.

He called on voters not to be emotional, but to be wise in choosing the right government in the next general election.

He added that those who can’t use the brain to think wisely were equivalent to animals. “Malays must back Umno and Barisan Nasional to strengthen their political position.

“If you choose wrongly, you will face dire consequences,” he warned.

Burn ‘Allah’ Bibles, Perkasa chief to Muslims

Proclaiming he is not instigating communal tensions, Ibrahim Ali says it's the only way to stop non-Muslims from stirring sensitivities

PERMATANG PAUH: Perkasa president Ibrahim Ali has called on Muslims to seize and burn copies of Bibles which contain the term “Allah” or other Arabic religious words.

Stressing that he was not instigating communal tension, the Pasir Mas MP insisted that it was the only way to stop non-Muslims from stirring the sensitivities and sentiments of the majority of population in the country.

He said certain non-Muslim groups were out to provoke the Muslims by using the term “Allah” or any other Arabic religious words in the Bible.

Under the Non-Islamic Religion (Control on Expansion Among Muslims) Act 1988, he said non-Muslims are prohibited from using several Arabic religious terms, including Allah, in their prayers or scriptures.

“Muslims must unite to protect their religion. They must seize those Bibles, including the Malay editions, which contained the term Allah and other Arabic religious terms, and burn them.

“This is the way to show our anger against disrespect to our sensitivity,” he told a press conference after delivering his presidential speech at a Perkasa convention here today.

‘Pre-election tactic’

Held at UiTM campus, the convention was on ‘Economic and Education Transformation of Penang Malays’.

Ibrahim was referring to a police report lodged by Persatuan Mukabuku Pulau Pinang this week alleging that two men have distributed Bibles to Muslims pupils at the entrance of a secondary school in Jelutong town on the island.

He said it was wrong for non-Muslims to distribute Bibles to Muslims as such activities were also banned under the 1988 Act.

He said certain non-Muslim groups dared to infringe the law to stir Muslim religious sentiments merely to fish for votes in the forthcoming general election.

He claimed that their pre-election tactic was to provoke Muslims to be busy in a polemic among themselves on religious issues, such as using “Allah” in the Christian holy book, Bible.

“This is a deliberate attempt to divert the Muslim attention from political issues,” said Ibrahim.

Will Najib survive after GE13?

The question is if Umno will allow Najib to continue to helm the party and country if BN only wins with a smaller majority or without parliamentary two-thirds.

GEORGE TOWN: Can Najib Tun Razak survive as prime minister after the country’s 13th general election?

This was the biggest political question today as Malaysians await the forthcoming dissolution of the parliament, said DAP’s Bukit Bendera MP Liew Chin Tong.

Of course, he said Najib would sure to lose power if Barisan Nasional was defeated.

But, he said the question was whether Umno would allow Najib to continue to helm the party and country if BN won the election with a smaller majority or without parliamentary two-thirds.

“As the nation waits for the next polls, a new question emerges – can Najib survive as prime minister?” asked Liew in his article in the latest edition of DAP mouthpiece, The Rocket.

Najib took over the reins of Putrajaya on April 3, 2009 from Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, to become the country’s sixth prime minister.

Liew claimed that Umno undercurrents were now troubled by the reality that Najib was no game changer in winning extra Malay supports and securing more non-Malay support with his “1Malaysia” slogan for Umno and BN.

Although Najib appeared not to be a racist in a vulgar way, Liew said the Umno president was unable to stem racist campaign by his own party, Malay supremacist organisation Perkasa and Malay daily, Utusan Malaysia.

Liew fired a broadside against Najib for his failure to work with Pakatan Rakyat state governments, especially after the malicious “coup” in Perak in February 2009.

He said Najib’s attempt to stamp his mark on Umno by fielding winnable candidates had also backfired.

“After vacillating on when to dissolve parliament for the last three years, the immediate question now is will there be a person by the name of Najib leading BN into the next election?” asked Liew.

The Altantuya factor

He also recalled his brief 10-minute conversation with Najib, then deputy premier and defence minister, when they first met during Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore some three months after the last general election on March 8, 2008.

He claimed Najib has promptly told him three things, firstly that he had nothing to do with the murder case of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu.

Secondly, he was not a racist and had many non-Malay friends and lastly, he wanted BN to start thinking about how to cooperate with the “opposition” state governments.

When he shared Najib’s views with certain Umno friends, Liew said one instantly suggested that Najib was highly perturbed by Altantuya case, “so much so that he had to mention it and be defensive about it even when meeting a stranger at the first meeting.”

Liew said the re-emergence of Altantunya case through various accusations made by carpet trader Deepak Jaikishan “is more than what meets the eyes.”

He also noted that Najib and his wife Rosmah Mansor has been tight-lipped after nearly two months since the Deepak accusation first surfaced.

“Their elegant silence imitates Abdullah’s style of avoiding real issues,” said the DAP parliamentarian.

Dr M, we don’t need your racist rants

The current generation of Malaysians are sick and fed up of your constant racist rants, Vell Paari tells Mahathir.
COMMENT

By S Vell Paari

PETALING JAYA: MIC strategic director S Vell Paari responds to former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s recent claims on citizenship rights.

Mahathir’s claim: If the government can form a commission to probe the citizenship given to some 200,000 Sabah immigrants, he asked “why not on those pre-independence immigrants?”

Vell Paari’s response: Unlike the 200,000 Sabah immigrants, the pre-independence immigrants were not illegal immigrants. Our forefathers worked and many gave their lives to the building of Malaysia. Our forefathers fought along the Malays to gain independence. Unlike in Sabah where the immigrants were given citizenship for your political agenda.

Mahathir’s claim: He said the Malays generously allowed the immigrants to be citizens, speak their languages and practise their respective cultures, something that even neighbouring Thai and Indonesian natives failed to do.

Vell Paari’s response: Like Malaysia there are also immigrants in Thailand and Indonesia from China and India who are allowed to practice their respective culture and languages. Unlike your discriminating views, a Chinese became PM of Thailand and the current PM of Thailand is of the same non-Thai bloodline. In Indonesia I have Indian friends who are either second or third generation Indonesians and they speak in Tamil. In Indonesia they even had a picture of Lord Ganesha on their currency. Hinduism and Christianity are also practiced. They have greater freedom of religion. Would you have allowed that under your prime ministership? Please do not create tension for our country with Indonesia and Thailand to justify your lame excuse.

Mahathir’s claim: He added that those who can’t use the brain to think wisely were equivalent to animals.

Vell Paari’s response: Just because you have a warped process of thinking, don’t insult others. On the same point, don’t also insult animals. Unlike you, they were not evil enough to send Anwar Ibrahim to jail to rid of a political opponent. For your political survival for six years, you denied him to his family. Don’t mistake me, I am a BN politician and it’s in my DNA to make Pakatan Rakyat look bad and it’s in Pakatan’s DNA to do vice versa but they are my political opponents and not enemy. Sometimes political agenda must be set aside to do what is right for Malaysia as a whole.

Unlike you, they are not evil enough to attack a man who was going throught a personal issue as in the case of Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. A man who during his prime ministership was going through the pain of his wife suffering from a terminal illness. A man who was torn between the duties to his wife and country. If you were in his shoes, would you been able to cope? I doubt it. During the Bosnian conflict, you broke out in tears and could not speak. You cried as they were of your faith but in the case of Tun Badawi, knowing his personal grievous, you still hounded him with no emotion and humanity. And you still do.

Mahathir’s claim: He lamented that the immigrants were now plotting to remove the Malay privileges.

Vell Paari’s response: Well what did you do in Sabah by giving 200,000 illegal immigrants citizenship. Were they Malays? More like Pakistanis and Filipinos. You plotted to remove the rights and privileges of the Sabah people. Let’s be frank and say that this was done to reduce the majority of Christians in Sabah.

You gave citizenship to a MNLF commander and his fighters. You jeopardised the national security of the country. You have sent people to ISA on lesser charges. You committed treason in playing with the country’s national security for your political agenda.

Mahathir’s claim: Unlike natives of Myanmar and some African nations, he said the Malaya natives, both pribumis and bumis, did not chase out the immigrants when Malaya got its independence from the British colonial masters.

Vell Paari’s response: You are mistaken again. There are nearly about 1.5 million Indians living in Myanmar and in Africa also a vast number of immigrants continue to live. But in the case of you, when a legally elected Fijian government with an Indian PM was overthrown by a military coup, you invited the commander of the coup to Malaysia and advised him on implementing a similar bumiputera policy in Fiji to undermine the Indian population. You gave the same advise to South Africa after apartheid. Further more you applied you own form of apartheid in Malaysia against the non-Malays. Whereby in a subconscious way, the message was to convert to have access to development. If we have so much of disunity and racism in the country, it’s because of you.

Tun Mahathir, we the next generation of Malaysians will not and cannot be influenced by your racist views to create a wedge between the Malays and non Malays in the country. We are today witnessing a renaissance of Malaysia.

You are bitter and angry that you were told to give up the prime ministership. You are angry with the former and current prime ministers who did not and do not adhere to your racial policies of divide and rule.

So my advice to you is not to interfere with Najib Tun Razak’s Herculean task of undoing the wrongs done by you to Malaysia and Malaysians. We the current generation are also sick and fed up of your constant racist rants.

S Vell Paari is MIC’s strategic director

Bishop raps Ibrahim Ali's 'burn Bibles' statement

Catholic Bishop Dr Paul Tan Chee Ing is appalled by Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali's statement urging Muslims to burn Bibles that use the term ‘Allah' for God, describing it as "an incendiary statement that far exceeds the bounds of civil discourse in Malaysia".

The head of the Catholic Church in the Malacca-Johor diocese, Bishop Paul Tan, said that now that Ibrahim's "incendiary remarks are in the public domain, let's wait and see what the authorities will do about it".

"If there is going to be any point to that slogan ‘1Malaysia' then this is the time when we can see for ourselves if the concept is mere sloganeering to win votes or an earnest of the government's desire to unite the people in all their diversity," argued the prelate.

It was reported that the Pasir Mas MP yesterday urged Muslims to seize and burn copies of the BM Bibles, Alkitab, to stop the Christians from offending the religious sensitivities of Muslims.

"Muslims must unite to protect their religion. They must seize those Bibles, including the Malay editions, which contained the term ‘Allah' and other Arabic religious terms, and burn them.
"This is the way to show our anger against disrespect to our sensitivity," website Free Malaysia Today quoted Ibrahim as telling a press conference after delivering his presidential speech at a Perkasa convention in Penang.

The keynote speech at the '2013 Penang Malays Economic and Education Transformation' convention was delivered by former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Bishop Paul Tan said he was for freedom of speech but that right does not excuse someone crying "fire" in a crowded theatre even if the crier was motivated to call attention to defects in the fire-fighting equipment in the house.

"The right to free speech does not absolve one of responsibility to protect the rights of others," he opined.

'Shoot first and verify later'

The Catholic leader said the ostensible grounds for Ibrahim's call - a police report that alleged that two men had distributed Bibles to Muslim students at the entrance to a secondary school in Jelutong, Penang - does not furnish good reason to discard the bounds of civil discourse and opt for the inflammatory that could lead to disrupting the fragile harmony of an already strained society of diverse religious and cultural sensitivities.

"In recent years, we have heard of alleged Christian plots to topple Islam as the official religion of the country and sundry other reports of Christian proselytising of Muslims - all of which were alleged and not proven," observed the Jesuit-trained prelate.

"This alone should give pause to those apt to use the latest allegation of Christian proselytisation of Muslims as grist for more Christian bashing.

"It seems the absence of confirmation of past allegations is no restraint on current propensities to shoot first and verify later," asserted the bishop.

"This leaves matters in the hands of the authors of that concept of ‘1Malaysia' - whether they are purveyors of hype or promoters of a new Malaysia in which minorities are not targeted to suit the electoral calculations of those threatened by a surge in public consciousness," he added.

Ex-don: BN parties and rulers should respond to Dr M

Umno, MCA, MIC, and the Conference of Rulers should respond to former prime minister Dr Mahathir Muhamad’s statement yesterday because it undermines the social contract between Malaysia’s three main races, said constitutional law expert Abdul Aziz Bari.

He said that when Mahathir mooted a royal commission of inquiry on first prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman’s granting of a million citizenships to a million immigrants in pre-independence Malaya, it was tantamount to saying that they had obtained citizenship illegally.

“Funnily enough, Mahathir, in his attempt to save his skin has somehow shot Umno’s own foot.

“When he said that Tunku has committed the same crime he has actually undermined the notion of social contract which among others include the acceptance of the Malay special privilege position on the part of Chinese and Indians in return for the citizenship status.

“Umno, MCA and MIC should not keep quiet. They must state their position. Mahathir has virtually said that the Chinese and Indians got their citizenship through immoral and illegal means,” he said in a statement today.

The former law professor also pointed out that there is a huge difference between what Tunku did and what Mahathir allegedly did.

Therefore, he said there is no need for the RCI that Mahathir suggested because, “unlike Tunku, what was done by Mahathir in 1994 looks like a crime and worse, treason against the nation”.

He explained that this is because Tunku was merely following the recommendations of the Reid Commission report, which were later incorporated in Part III of the federal constitution.

“Several schedules have also been included (in the constitution) to explain them further. The Conference of Rulers had been tasked to oversee that.

“Thus they must break their silence on this issue, just as the rulers did in 2009 when Umno began to spin the issues pertaining to monarchy, Islam and the privileged position of the Malays,” he said.