Lagi video buli pelajar tersebar

PETALING JAYA – Rakaman video seorang pelajar kolej dibuli tersebar di laman sosial Facebook, sejak ia dimuat naik, pagi Sabtu.

Video tersebut sebelum ini dimuat naik di YouTube, telah dibuang dari oleh pengendali laman web video berkenaan atas kesalahan memuat naik kandungan yang bercorak mengancam, buli atau menakutkan.

Bagaimanapun video bekrenaan, dimuat naik di Facebook dan tersebar secara meluas.

Rakaman video tersebut memaparkan, sekumpulan pelajar perempuan berpakat membuli seorang pelajar perempuan yang merupakan penuntut di sebuah kolej swasta tempatan.

Pelajar berkenaan dilihat diganggu oleh seorang wanita yang berpakain berwarna ungu yang menuduh mangsa telah mencuri wangnya.

Mangsa mendakwa pelajar berkenaan mencuri duitnya kerana dia dilihat seperti ‘seorang pencuri’ dan datang dari ‘keluarga yang berkasta rendah.’

Pada minit ke-16 klip video berkenaan, pembuli didengar menghina mangsa dengan menggunakan bahasa lucah, menamparnya berulang kali serta memukul dia dengan satu botol plastik kosong.

Suspek juga dilihat menarik rambunt mangsa.

Sementara rakan-rakannya yang lain dilihat hanya ketawa terbahak-bahak sambil merakamkan kejadian buli berkenaan dengan menggunakan telefon bimbit.

Pada satu ketika, ketua kumpulan buli berkenaan mencari dilihat mencari objek untuk memukul mangsa namun ia berjaya ditahan oleh seorang pelajar perempuan lain.

Insiden berkenaan dipercayai berlaku di bilik asrama kolej berkenaan.

Ketua kumpulan berkenaan kemudiannya menelefon ibunya dan memberitahu situasi yang berlaku melalui pembesar suara.

Ibu pelajar berkenaan kemudiannya berkata kepada mangsa “Saya akan tumbuk muka anda’ dan “Saya akan dapat ke asrama dan mengajar anda di sana”.

Mangsa yang tidak berdaya itu dilihat menangis dan akhirnya meminta maaf dia mengakui dia melakukan kesilapan.

Walaupun mangsa memohon maaf, aksi dalam video berkenaan bertukar ganas apabila seorang lagi pelajar yang memakai baju berwarna hitam dilihat mula memukul mangsa.

Mangsa yang sebelum ini hanya berdiam diri, melawan balik namun tidak berjaya.

Rakaman video tersebut berakhir dengan adengan pembuli meningatkan mangsa agar berhati-hati dan tidak bertindak di luar batasan kerana akibatnya sangat buruk, menurut sumber mStar.

Sehingga berita ini ditulis, pihak pengurusan kolej tidak dapat dihubungi untuk mengulas mengenai isu berkenaan.

Ku Nan to KL folks: Don't be 'demo-crazy', just file a complaint

Hindu minorities are being brutally attacked in Bangladesh after Quader Molla’s hanging.

War Criminal - Butcher of Mirpur, Abdul Quader Molla hanged to death. Gross violence in Bangladesh leading to a civil war. Helpless Hindu minorities are being attacked in many places.  

Upananda Brahmachari | Kolkata | Dec 13, 2013:: Jamaat-Shibir men and its Islamist allies resorted to vandalism, arson and attacks on cops and the opponent groups including Hindu minorities in different places of the country leaving at least seven dead soon after the Supreme Court cleared the way for executing war criminal Abdul Quader Molla who was executed finally on Thursday at dot 10-01 pm BST at Dhaka Central jail.

Abdul Quader Molla was know as Mirpurer Kasai (Butcher of Mirpur). As per source he killed 3 times much Muslim than Hindus at the time of BD Struggle for Independence as reported. Kader was a dangerous Jamatee and Rajakar as well. These people supported Pakistan and opposed BD liberation.

On May 28, last year, the tribunal framed six charges that include: the killing of Mirpur Bangla College student Pallab; the killing of the poet Meherunesa, her mother and two brothers; the killing of journalist Khandker Abu Taleb; a mass killing in Ghatarchar of Keraniganj; the killing of 344 people in Alubdi village in Mirpur; and the killing of Hazrat Ali Laskar, his wife, three daughters and two-year-old son.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 found Molla guilty on five charges and acquitted him on one charge related to the Ghatarchar killing, and sentenced him to life imprisonment. But the Supreme Court found him guilty on all charges and awarded him death for killing Hazrat Laskar and his family members.

Reuters reported that the authority of “Bangladesh executed Islamist opposition leader Abdul Quader Molla on Thursday for war crimes he committed in 1971, in a move likely to spark more violent protests less than a month before elections are due to be held.

Molla was hanged at Dhaka Central Jail after a dramatic week. He won a reprieve on Tuesday hours before he was sent to the gallows.

After two days of  legal argument, the Supreme Court rejected his application for a review of the death penalty.”

War criminal Quader didn’t wince once, neither did his heart skip a beat when he led his men to thrash a two-year-old child to death and slit the throats of a pregnant woman and two minor girls in the whirlwind in 1971.

Around 42 years later, Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Molla finally had to pay for these acts of cold-blooded savagery, as he walked the gallows at 10:01pm in the first-ever execution in a war crimes case.

The bad news coming from Bangladesh. The execution of Quader Molla triggered the deadly violence in Bangladesh in a very wide range. Dhaka, Satkhira, Coxbazar, Khulna, Comilla, Chittagong, Noakhali are the most affected areas where the peaceful and apolitical minority Hindus are being attacked under the repercussion of hanging of Quader Molla.

As reported in Kalaer Kantha (a Bengali daily newspaper), the Hindu minorities in Khuruskul Hindu village in Coxbazar were attacked after the news of Quader’s execution spread in the air. After 10-30 pm of Thursday, the Jammat activist  attacked the house of some relatives of  Swapan Pal in Palpara. The armed Jammati perpetrators ransacked at 10 houses and shops in Palpara and Timebazar. The attackers looted the shops and set fire in households. Dadul Das, the president of Coxbazar Hindu Festival Committee (Hindu Puja Udjaapan Samity) conveyed the insecurity of the resident minority Hindus under an Islamic threat perception increasing day by day.

In a separate reporting the a reporter of Kalaer Kantha  reported the attack on minority Hindus in Jugipara in Satkhira as an aftermath of Quader Molla’s hanging on Thrusday. The Jamaat activists attacked the Hindu minority citizen and put fire in four Hindu houses. The perpetrators blocked the roads by putting huge trunks of road-side trees to put hurdles to rescue operation by police and RAB (rapid action battalion).

The situations in Bangladesh is rapidly changing in the face of an apprehended civil war in Bangladesh. The Jamaat-e-Islami of Bangladesh announced that it would hold a gayebana janaza for its assistant secretary general, war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah, today and enforce a countrywide shutdown on Sunday.

The turmoil in Bangladesh sparks tension in neighbouring West Bengal too.

The Kolkata police have sounded a high alert after the hanging of Jamaat-e-Islami leaser Abdul Quader Molla in Dhaka Central Jail.

The city has witnessed many protest demonstrations in the past few months against the Bangladesh war crimes trials.

Organisations like the West Bengal Minority Youth Federation have spearheaded these protests, even submitting memorandum to the Bangladesh deputy High Commission in city’s Bangabandhu Sarani (previously Circus Avenue) to stop the trials.

Kolkata has a strong population of Urdu-speaking Muslims, many of whom fled Bangladesh after it was born during the 1971 Liberation War against Pakistani forces.

Jamaat enjoys considerable support among them.

Kolkata police commissioner Surojit Kar Purkayastha is said to have asked for heightened security at the Bangladesh deputy high commission.

The deputy high commission in Kolkata  is housed in a historic building where Bengali diplomats revolted against Pakistan and set up the first diplomatic outpost of the provisional government of Bangladesh in exile.

Other areas with high concentration of Urdu-speaking Muslims like Park Circus, Metizbruz, Gardenrich, Tiljala, Taltola and Rajabazar have been identified for intense security, police officials said.

The intensifying political crisis in Bangladesh  with the ensuing elections there is producing  sectarian violence  and the attacks on minorities. Meanwhile, the court cancels the registration of Jamaat-e-Islami which is no more eligible to participate in the vote . Many a Jamaat leaders are awaiting in the  death-row for their conviction in war crimes. The situations will go grim further with the head counts.

The Union Home Ministry  in India apprehends a  sabotage in India  as a retaliation of Jammat for their set back in Bangladesh.  In a very revealing report from Intelligence source, it  is told that the exiled Jammatis are trying a ‘Hindu killing field mission’ by making juvenile suicide squad. Out of  a workable plan,  Bangladesh Jamaat operators will make  inroads in West Bengal using this region as a transit zone.

To prevent the cross border terrorism,  militant infiltration and Muslim influx in  India from Bangladesh, BSF has to tighten surveillance in West Bengal-Bangladesh border. As per report,  Jamaat-e-Islam has a networking among 108 Islamic outfits covering Afghan Council, Council of the Islamic Revolution , the Islamic Jihad Group , Awakening of Muslim People, Indian Mujaheddin, Rohingya Islamic Front. Some of these organizations have their secret organization to make an Islamic state in India.

Some Muslim organisations like Popular Front of India, All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen, All India United Democratic Front, Jammat-e-Islami-Hind expressed their softness to the War criminals of Bangladesh as they were all the Sahaba (Lieutenant)  of Islam. Many of these organisations are covertly connected with their Bangladeshi counterparts to accomplish a Jihad in India en route west Bengal.

In this critical juncture of post Quader hanging in Bangladesh, the pro-Hindu organisations in India and the International Hindu Community must raise their voice to stop attack on minority Hindus in Bangladesh and the total restrain of Jehadi activities in India, especially in the  porous International border areas of West Bengal and Bangladesh.

The hanging of Quader Molla is the easiest prey for the supporters of Jamat-BNP fundamentals for attacking minority Hindus in Bangladesh. As per reports of Bangladesh media, Hindus are being attacked ruthlessly in many places. If Bangladesh may enter into a havoc civil war again, the  minority  Hindus will be the gross victim. But, Indian media, particularly Bengali media of Kolkata will be busy with the minority rights in India.

Indeed, it is a hard time for the minority Hindu-Buddhist-Christians in Bangladesh. We have to share their persecution to protect them.

Courtesy: BBC | Reuters | Kaler Kantha.

White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite Linked to Kenya Grenade Attack

Samantha Lewthwaite is a widow of one of the 7/7 London bombers

 

Terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite has been linked with the failed grenade attack on British tourists in Kenya.

The Muslim convert, dubbed the White Widow, is accused of ordering the attack on the tourists who were travelling to a wildlife safari at the Masai Mara national park.

The grenade failed to detonate when it hit the window of the Toyota 4X4. It is believed to have been thrown by a man, who later fled the scene.

The grenade was later safely detonated. The Foreign Office said it was urgently looking into the reports.

Lewthwaite, 29, who is already accused of plotting to kill hundreds of British tourists in Mombasa with fellow British accomplice Jermaine Grant in a separate attack, has now been linked to the incident.

A senior security source in Kenya told the Daily Mirror: "It's the two-year anniversary of Lewthwaite going on the run and intelligence reports suggest she may have ordered the attack.

"She is being hunted on multiple terror charges and we know her links to al-Shabaab fanatics spread through Africa.

"This was a deliberate attempt to kill tourists and has all the hallmarks of a White Widow-instigated operation."

Kenya has seen a number of grenade attacks since 2011, when it invaded southern Somalia to try and oust al-Shabaab insurgents.

Lewthwaite, originally from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was named the most wanted woman in the world after being linked to the Westgate shopping massacre in Nairobi in which 70 people were killed.

A grenade attack in Kenya which killed three football fans who were watching the Italy vs England Euro 2012 game has also been linked to Lewthwaite.

The widow of 7/7 Kings Cross bomber Germaine Lindsay, Lewthwaite was arrested with her accomplice Grant in 2011 but escaped along with her three children. She has been on the run in Africa ever since. She is currently believed to be hiding in Somalia.

Following the grenade attack, Mombasa police say they have strengthened security in the area.

Mombasa's police chief Robert Kitur said: "We are appealing to everybody to exercise caution, especially over this festive season, and to share information with security agencies to win the war on terror.

"We have intensified security at tourist hotels and other vital installations to avert terrorism attacks."

-ibtimes.co.uk

Yemen TV airs horrific images of Qaeda-claimed assault

SANAA - Yemeni state television has aired horrific images of an Al-Qaeda-claimed assault on a defense ministry complex in Sanaa showing the assailants executing civilians and medics in cold blood.

The footage, taken from surveillance cameras, were aired on Yemen TV late on Wednesday and show the attack and its aftermath.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed the attack that took place on December 5 in broad daylight and killed 56 people.

The images show a car packed with explosives detonated at the gate to the complex, sending soldiers, medics and civilians gathered inside the compound running for cover.

After the blast, heavily armed militants dressed in combat fatigues are seen wandering through the corridors of the complex, shooting anyone they see, including a wounded female nurse who appears to be looking for help.

Another gunman in military uniform calmly approaches a group of people huddled in a corridor after the initial blast, before pulling a hand grenade from his jacket and hurling it at them.

The group scrabbles for cover, before the grenade explodes and smoke blocks the screen.

Elsewhere in the complex, a man with a young girl are seen looking for a place to hide. Their fate is not shown, while a doctor is seen running to rescue a wounded man before one of the attackers shoots both dead.

A preliminary report into the attack had said most of the attackers were Saudi.

Investigators had already said the assailants wore military fatigues and penetrated the sprawling Sanaa complex in the confusion created when the suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into the gate.

They said the bodies of 12 attackers were recovered after security forces retook the area.

Among the dead were medics from the Philippines, Germany, Vietnam and India. Civilian patients as well as soldiers were also killed, Yemen's supreme security committee had said.

No space outing but Roshini still has last laugh at the guys

(TMI)When she was picked for a Florida space camp, the male chauvinists came out of the
woodwork to attack her with derogatory remarks.

Postgraduate student Roshini Muniam's dream of becoming Malaysia’s first female astronaut may have crash-landed but she did join more than 100 participants in the United States for the programme.

Out of the number, only 23 were picked to go to space, of whom two were women – one each from Thailand and Norway.

“The fact that two women made it, regardless of whichever nation they are from, proves that women are capable after all,” she said on her Facebook page on December 6.

Netizens threw their support behind Roshini after she became a victim of trolls. They had targeted her profile which appeared on Axe deodorant’s Apollo Space Race Facebook page in September after she won an online competition to go to space.

One troll expressed surprise at a woman’s desire to go to space while another said women can't go to space when they menstruated.

The insulting posts were subsequently removed.

When the Malaysian leg of the competition closed on September 17, Roshini beat four male finalists to qualify as the country's sole representative to the Florida space camp.

Thanking everyone for their support, the 27-year-old said she was grateful for the experience, including getting a taste of G-Force and zero gravity and meeting American astronaut Edwin Eudgene “Buzz” Aldrin Jr, the second person to walk on the Moon.

“I hope my journey doesn't end here. It's for you to continue. Perseverance is a journey of discovery and self-realisation.

“One small experience for me, one big step for women and youth all over the world,” she wrote on her Facebook page.

Roshini’s Facebook page was swamped with congratulatory messages.

Rekha Dass said Roshini was an inspiration to youth, while Norhamidah Mohd Yusof wished her well in her future adventures, noting that she had accomplished a lot.

Roopa Yamini Fai Letchumann said Roshni was a symbol of pride for Malaysian women.

“Though you dint (sic) win the competition, you've proved that if you want something, you should go all out for it and the universe would favor those who persevere. Kudos!” – December 13, 2013.

'Loyar buruk' Surendran raises Ku Nan's ire

Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor today tagged PKR vice-president N Surendran "crazy" and a "loyar burok" (braggart) for likening the opposition's struggle against Umno to an "anti-apartheid" struggle.

"If Surendran says that Umno follows an apartheid system, please ask him how there are Indian and Chinese schools in this country?" Tengku Adnan asked during a press conference at the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) training centre today.

"That is his problem. He wants to be popular, he wants people to pay him as a lawyer, he's a loyar burok. He's crazy, even in Parliament, the speaker told him to get out," he said.

Tengku Adnan has just returned from South Africa, where he represented the Malaysian government at the Nelson Mandela funeral in Suweto.

"Umno is an anti-apartheid party, that is why the government sent two ministers to represent Malaysia. I went to Africa representing the government and Umno," he said.

On Dec 9, Surendran had said that the Malaysian politician who comes closest in comparison with South Africa's iconic leader Mandela was Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Surendran himself was responding to Umno, after party president Najib Abdul Razak had, during the Umno AGM, likened Umno's struggle to Nelson Mandela's anti-apartheid struggle.

‘Syiah movement can lead to militant activities’

IGP also discloses the police are working closely with the respective state religious departments to monitor followers of the Syiah sect.
UPDATED

SHAH ALAM: The Syiah movement in the country if not monitored and controlled could lead to militant activities, the Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said today.

Declaring that he was responsible for the country’s safety and maintaining peace and order, Khalid said the police did not want any situation that could disturb the nation’s peace and stability.

Yesterday, the Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the government would go hard on Syiah actvities, which were banned in Malaysia.

The Home Ministry also issued a five-page statement outlining “evidence” of PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu being involved in Syiah activities.

Mohamad Sabu has since denied the allegation and was threatening legal action against the government.

The Syiah community was a movement with militant elements, Khalid told reporters at the Selangor police headquarters.

He also disclosed that the police were working closely with the respective state religious departments to monitor followers of the Syiah sect.

“Some followers who were arrested previously by the police were Syiah followers.

“We are working with Jakim (the Department of Islamic Development) to monitor their movements closely,” he added.

He said the government did “not want what happened in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to happen here.”

Khalid also said the ministry’s revelations on the Syiah sect yesterday were to alert the public.

He said the movement if not monitored and controlled could lead to militant activities.

“When it comes to the country’s safety, I am responsible for maintaining peace and order. We do not want any situation that can disturb the peace of our country.”

The top cop cited Pakistan as an example where tensions and clashes between the Sunnis and Syiah were frequent.

“We need to curb this from the start,” he added.

Meanwhile, Khalid addressing the media at Bukit Aman this afternoon said the police will work closely with JAKIM to curb Syiah teachings in the country.

He concurred with the idea mooted by Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to have a police task force to counter syiah teachings.

He said the police will have further discussions with an aim of forming the task force as soon as possible.

Referring to countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan, Khalid said discord between Sunni and Syiah followers had impacted the peace of these nations.

‘We will protest if silence continues’

A group of MIC leaders are planning a “huge” protest outside the party headquarters soon, as the MIC leadership continues its silence over the party's recent election.

PETALING JAYA: Disgruntled MIC leaders would hold a protest in front of the party headquarters if the party does not respond to allegations of malpractice in the just concluded party polls.

A MIC leader, who declined to be named, said a group of party leaders were planning the protest to pressure the MIC leadership to break its deafening silence over the allegations.

The MIC polls held on Nov 30 in Malacca, was marred with allegations of fraudulent votes being cast, among others.

The polls process came under close scrutiny after candidates found disparity between votes cast and ballots counted.

Several quarters have also alleged that the total number of delegates who voted to pick three vice-presidents and 23 central working committee members were not identical.

The MIC held its internal elections to pick three vice presidents and 23 members to the party’s all powerful central working committee. A total eight candidates contested for the veep positions while a whopping 88 aspirants fought it out for the CWC seats.

Todate several leaders have tendered their appeal to the party leadership to declare the polls null and void due to the discrepancies.

Party president G Palanivel has yet to make an official stand on the matter. The president has also yet to appoint the party secretary general, treasurer general and the information chief.

Palanivel’s silence has thrown the party into confusion as leaders and members are unsure if the new leaders picked on Nov 30 are the actual office bearers of the party.

“Everyone is in the dark. We just cannot be issuing press statement one after another. The president must wake up and answer all the allegations. Otherwise, we have to wake him up by holding this protest.

“We know it is bad for party image. But we do not mind as our agenda is to save the party from sinking to a new low,” said the leader who declined to be named.

The leader also slammed Palanivel labeling him as “selfish and not fit to lead the party”.

“The party is in a crisis but Palanivel is enjoying his holidays overseas,” he said.

He said Palanivel was doing nothing to get back the trust of Indian community instead was only keen in holding on to the party presidency.

Meanwhile, when contacted, former MIC youth chief T Mohan confirmed that he has also sent in his appeal to the party headquarters demanding for a recount of votes.

Mohan said while he accepted defeat he was not satisfied the way the election was conducted.

“I strongly believe the election was not clean,” “For now I will wait for the president’s response. If he does not respond, I will discuss with other candidates on our next step,” he added.

Mohan contested the vice president post but lost coming in sixth of the eight candidates.

Hadi: Tongkat Ali, Kacip Fatimah berasal dari pengaruh Syiah

Hadi sedar fahaman itu tidak sesuai bagi masyarakat Islam di Malaysia dan bertegas menegah ahlinya daripada terpengaruh dengan perjuangan Syiah.

PETALING JAYA: Fahaman Syiah sudah bertapak lama di rantau ini sejak dulu sehinggakan budaya masyarakat tempatan tanpa sedar turut dipengaruhi oleh ajaran itu.

“PAS sudah mengerti betapa jahilnya masyarakat rantau ini dengan ajaran Islam, sehingga pengaruh Syiah telah pun mempengaruhi masyakat serantau alam Melayu secara bebal dengan menamakan herba tempatan yang dipercayai paling berkhasiat dengan panggilan Tongkat Ali dan Kacip Fatimah,” kata Presiden PAS Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang.

Tongkat Ali, atau nama saintifiknya Eurycoma longifolia (turut dikenali pasak bumi) dan Kacip Fatimah (Labisia pumila) merupakan sejenis herba tempatan digunakan secara tradisional bagi tujuan kesihatan dalaman.

Wujud dakwaan yang mengatakan tumbuhan terbabit dinamakan oleh pengikut Syiah sempena nama keluarga Nabi Muhammad SAW; Tongkat Ali (Saidina Ali bin Abi Thalib) Kacip Fatimah (Fatimah Az Zahra).

Hadi berkata, pihaknya bagaimanapun sedar fahaman itu tidak sesuai bagi masyarakat Islam di Malaysia dan bertegas menegah ahlinya daripada terpengaruh dengan perjuangan Syiah termasuk perkembangan Revolusi Iran.

“PAS tetap mendukung demokrasi dan bersedia menghadapi penipuannya dan ahlinya yang didapati terkeluar daripada landasannya.

“Sama ada terkeluar dengan sendirinya daripada PAS atau diambil tindakan setelah terbukti dengan adil tanpa menjejaskan dasar dan konsep perjuangan Islam mazhab Ahli Sunnah Wal Jama’ah (ASWJ) yang didukung oleh PAS secara istiqamah dan muhasabah,” katanya.

Tegasnya,PAS mempertahankan parti itu tetap teguh berpegang kepada ajaran ASWJ selaras dengan perlembagaan parti yang mewajibkan setiap ahlinya menganut fahaman tersebut.

Menurutnya, Fasal 7(1) Perlembagaan PAS menetapkan bahawa hukum tertinggi kepada PAS ialah Al Quran, Hadis, Ijma’ Ulama dan Qiyas; iaitu sumber hukum para ASWJ.

“Ini dengan sendirinya memberi makna bahawa setiap ahli PAS wajib menganut mazhab ASWJ dan tidak diizinkan mazhab yang lain.

“Perkara ini tidak ada dalam perlembagaan parti lain, termasuk UMNO sendiri,” katanya dalam kenyataan hari ini.

Katanya, disebabkan prinsip itu PAS sendiri akan mengambil tindakan mengambil tindakan disiplin terhadap mana-mana ahlinya yang mengamalkan fahaman lain termasuk Syiah.

“Oleh kerana berprinsipkan ASWJ nilah maka Jawatankuasa Disiplin PAS boleh bertindak terhadap aliran mazhab yang lain dalam PAS, bukan sahaja dalam kes disiplin salah laku terhadap pentadbiran PAS,” katanya.

Namun beliau menegaskan pendirian itu tidak bermakna PAS dilarang mengadakan sebarang hubungan dengan pengikut mazhab lain dan semua pihak termasuk dikalangan bukan Islam.

“Begitulah PAS menyokong kerajaan Malaysia mengadakan hubungan diplomatik dengan Iran, Oman, termasuklah negara Barat dan Komunis,” katanya.

Beliau berkata umat Islam wajib kembali semula kepada budaya ilmu yang tinggi dengan menggunakan teknologi maklumat terkini bagi menolak mazhab yang lemah secara hujah, dalam masa yang sama menyedari adanya agenda penjajah baru yang mengulang tayang senario lama dengan solekan baru yang disesuaikan dengan situasi terkini.

Mengambil iktibar daripada krisis negara Islam di Timur Tengah, Hadi berkata PAS meletakkan langkah politik seperti yang ditetapkan dalam hukum agama dan tidak menjadikannya sebagai alat permainan untuk mendapat kuasa tanpa mengira dosa dan pahala.

“PAS pernah dituduh Syiah apabila menyokong Iran dalam perang teluk yang pertama, ketika Saddam Husain menyerang Iran dengan senjata barat, dan PAS pula menentang campur tangan Amerika menyerang Iraq, sikap yang berbeza dengan Iran.

“Bukan kerana menganut ideologi Parti Ba’ath, tetapi dapat membaca permainan politik serantau,” katanya.

Meeting racism

At the Dubai International Film Festival, the writer finds an unmistakable sign of discrimination, whose basis appeared to be the colour of one’s skin.
COMMENT

For years, every time people spoke about racism in the West, I would shut them up. I have never faced it, I would argue with them.

And in all the 30 years that I have been travelling to Europe and elsewhere outside India, my country, I have never seen racial prejudice.

It would have existed, but I have never been at the receiving end of it.

I would tell all those who complained about racism in the West that this was an evil seen widely in India as well. The racism against colour (the obsession with fair skin), the racism against caste and religion, and now that against the less well-to-do in society were everyday truths.

However, I did learn, much to my disappointment and dismay, that racism there indeed was outside Indian shores, only that it was subtly camouflaged.

And I faced it, and of all places in Dubai, a city that was literally built, brick by brick, by Indians and Pakistanis. Here I was an Indian made to feel somewhat unwelcome.

At the 10th edition of the Dubai International Film Festival – an annual event I have covered for many years – I found an unmistakable sign of discrimination, whose basis appeared to be the colour of one’s skin.

The other day, as I sat waiting for an interview with the Irish movie director, Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father, Dream House), I noticed to my utter disbelief that white journalists were getting longer time with Sheridan than what was allocated to me.

While I was given only 10 minutes with a director as renowned as Sheridan, there was certainly one white reporter from England who spent a good 20 minutes with the helmer. I timed this, and meticulously.

Not just this, the same British journalist got a full 20 minutes with Naomie Harris on a one-to-one session plus another 20 minutes with her in a round-table interview with five other scribes.

I got a place only in the round-table, and in the 20 minutes I got with the five others shooting sometimes inane questions, I need not have been part of this junket, a junket for which I had to hang around for nearly an hour.

Mind you, that British reporter was a freelancer, and with hardly the kind of credentials I have – 35 years in two of India’s most renowned dailies, The Statesman in Kolkata and The Hindu in Chennai. And now a columnist with one of the country’s biggest newspapers, Hindustan Times. I also write for a paper in the Gulf, and this one from Malaysia.

Yet, the London-based DDA Public Relations – in charge of interviews — chose to ignore me. Or at least, it did not think that I deserved more time.

Was India not important for DDA? Or, was the colour of my skin not fancy enough for Dubai? I would never know. But, then, now I do know that there is racism even in Dubai.

Gautaman Bhaskaran is India Editor of FMT, and Chennai-based author, columnist and movie critic. He may be emailed atgautamanb@hotmail.com

Ekonomi masih dimonopoli bukan Bumiputera, kata Naroden

Daripada 70 peratus (atau 1.96 juta) kaum Bumiputera ini hampir 100,000 orang atau hanya lima peratus sedang melibatkan diri dalam perniagaan secara kecil dan Mikro (PKM)

KUCHING: Kaum Bumiputera masih jauh di belakang dalam bidang ekonomi di negeri ini, dan ia masih dimonopoli oleh kaum bukan Bumiputera.

Menteri Muda di Pejabat Ketua Menteri (Pembangunan Usahawan Bumiputera) Datuk Haji Mohd Naroden Majais berkata, jika dilihat pecahan penduduk negara ini mengikut kaum daripada 28 juta penduduk, 60 peratus adalah kaum Bumiputera dan 40 peratus kaum bukan Bumiputera, di Sarawak daripada 2.8 juta penduduk, 70 peratus kaum Bumiputera dan 30 peratus bukan Bumiputera.

“Daripada 70 peratus (atau 1.96 juta) kaum Bumiputera ini hampir 100,000 orang atau hanya lima peratus sedang melibatkan diri dalam perniagaan secara kecil dan Mikro (PKM), hanya 45,000 orang (atau 2.3 peratus) sedang giat dalam perniagaan dalam Kategori Kecil dan Sederhana (PKS),” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika berucap di Seminar Mengenai Peluang Bumiputera Dalam Peruntukan Saham Khas MITI dan Analisis Pelaburan Dalam Syarikat Berhad di salah sebuah hotel terkemuka di sini, hari ini.

Katanya, jika dilihat kaum Bumiputera adalah kaum yang terbesar dan kaum Bumiputera penyumbang kumpulan ‘pekerja’ dan kumpulan pasaran terbesar dalam Pembangunan Ekonomi Negeri.

“Oleh itu, program-program memperkasa kaum Bumiputera ini harus kita laksanakan untuk menseimbangkan jurang perbezaan ini dengan tidak menjejaskan keistimewaan kaum-kaum lain,” ujarnya.

Katanya, dengan keseimbangan jurang perbezaan itu nanti kerajaan ingin melihat semua rakyat akan dapat memaanfaatkan kesejahteraan, keharmonian serta kestabilan politik yang sedang dinikmati selama ini dengan lebih bermakna lagi.

“Jadi, untuk mengurangkan ketidak seimbangan antara kaum ini kaum Bumiputera harus lebih agresif dalam merebut segala peluang-peluang yang telah disediakan oleh Kerajaan baik dari segi latihan generik dan latihan kemahiran teknikal, bantuan-bantuan kewangan, promosi, pemasaran dan sebagainya,” jelasnya.

Katanya, semua program itu adalah semata-mata untuk memperkasakan masyarakat perdagangan dan perindustrian Sarawak supaya lebih banyak mencebur diri dalam apa jua jenis perniagaan untuk meningkatkan pendapatan diri dan seterusnya menyumbang kepada Pertumbuhan Ekonomi Negara dan Negeri.

“Adalah menjadi harapan seminar yang penuh keilmuan ini amat penting bukan serta memberi pengetahuan peluang-peluang pelaburan serta saham-saham di bawah peruntukan MITI dan agensi-agensinya,” tambahnya.

Malah, katanya, seminar seperti itu penting bagi menyampaikan hasrat kerajaan untuk mengajak lebih ramai rakyat Sarawak khususnya kaum Bumiputera supaya turut serta menyertai program pelaburan yang dianjurkan kerajaan.

“Kita ingin memastikan lebih ramai kaum Bumiputera memiliki ekuiti dan saham dalam peruntukan yang disediakan oleh kerajaan, ini selaras dengan visi dan misi Perdana Menteri melalui pengumuman beliau dua bulan yang lalu supaya lebih ramai Bumiputera memegang Ekuiti dalam Ekonomi Negara,” katanya.

Menurutnya lagi, masyarakat tidak ada pilihan lain melainkan memperkasakan kaum Bumiputera supaya mereka berupaya melihat segala peluang-peluang yang ada dan seterusnya berjaya mengambil bahagian dalam Pembangunan Ekonomi Negara.

“Dengan ini jurang perbezaan dari segi Pendapatan, Pemilikan Ekuiti dalam Hartanah, Bangunan Perumahan dan Komersial dan seterusnya dalam Pembangunan Ekonomi melalui perniagaan akan dapat dikurangkan,” katanya.

The Star reporter awarded for story on plight of orang asli

The Star 

PETALING JAYA: The Star journalist Isabelle Lai (pic) has picked up a special recognition award for her work on the plight of the orang asli in Kelantan at the 2013 regional Indigenous Voices in Asia awards.

The awards were held in conjunction with Human Rights Day on Dec 10 and organised by the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) to acknowledge media professionals who cover issues on indigenous people.

In her Dec 28 story titled Orang Asli Logged Out, Lai wrote that an estimated 10,000 orang asli are living in dire straits due to extensive logging and forest conversion.

She visited several orang asli villages in Gua Musang to take a look at how they were now surrounded by vast areas of logged forest which had been converted to monocrop industrial plantations.

The years of logging have caused small animals such as squirrels, monkeys and wildboars, which are hunted by the orang asli, to decrease drastically.

“I also interviewed several orang asli activists who are now fighting to have their land rights legally recognised. They claim that all of these activities have been done throughout the years with no prior consultation, as well as with little regard for their well-being,” said Lai, who received a cash award of US$300 (RM963.33) and a certificate.

Society of Indonesian Environ-mental Journalists chief editor IGG MahaAdi picked up the outstanding reporting award, while AFP’s Nepal correspondent Deepak Adhikari also received a special recognition award.

Cops Rescue Abducted Baby

GEORGE TOWN, Dec 13 (Bernama) -- Police have rescued a seven-month-old baby girl who was reported abducted from her grandmother's home in Air Itam here Thursday after arresting a senior citizen believed to have bought the child.

Penang Criminal Investigation Department chief, SAC Mazlan Kesah said police, acting on a tip-off, arrested the baby's 'buyer', a 60-year-old man in Balik Pulau, Friday afternoon.

He said the baby was reportedly abducted by two women at about 3pm when they visited the baby's grandmother's house in Air Itam on the pretext of taking the baby to play.

"The grandmother allowed them to take the baby because she knew one of the women, aged 43 years, but the grandmother began to suspect something was amiss when the two women did not return after 30 minutes," he told reporters, in George Town.

"The grandmother then attempted to contact the suspect but did not get an answer and she then lodged a police report at 7pm. The grandmother knew the 43-year-old suspect as they used to work together as security guards," said Mazlan.

Police then tracked her down to a house in Tanjong Tokong and arrested her. She told the police that she had sold the baby to an elderly man for RM3,000.

He added that police were tracking down all the suspects involved in the case.

In another development, Mazlan said police arrested three men believed to be 'transporters' for a syndicate that brought in 38 Myanmar and Bangladesh nationals in Seberang Perai Utara, last week.

"We've arrested 13 members of the syndicate, believed to be the largest alien smuggling syndicate in the north. The syndicate is manned by foreigners. Two of them have been charged," he said.

On Dec 1, Penang police rescued 38 Myanmar and Bangladeshi men who were in a physically weak condition because they were not being fed properly by a syndicate which brought in foreigners, in a house in Bagan Jermal, Butterworth.

India's 5 year old 'Google Boy'

A five year-old Indian boy has been given the title 'Google boy' by the local media for his incredible ability to remember facts. At an age when his other friends are learning basic reading and writing Kautilya Pandit answers complicated question about world geography, per capita income, gross domestic product and global politics. Jasvinder Sehgal went to meet him in his village 90 miles from the Indian capital of New Delhi.