BAGHDAD: The United Nations says that more than 1,200 Iraqis were killed in November by acts of terrorism and violence.
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Wednesday, 3 December 2014
UN: More than 1,200 Iraqis killed in November
BAGHDAD: The United Nations says that more than 1,200 Iraqis were killed in November by acts of terrorism and violence.
According to the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq,…
Nigeria: Kaduna Police Hunt for Husband Who Macheted Wife
By Juliet Oyoyo
Kaduna — Kaduna State Police Command has declared one Musa Rabiu wanted.
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Kaduna — Kaduna State Police Command has declared one Musa Rabiu wanted.
He was said to have inflicted severe machete cuts on his wife, Ramatu Ibrahim, over…
By Juliet Oyoyo
Kaduna — Kaduna State Police Command has declared one Musa Rabiu wanted.
He was said to have inflicted severe machete cuts on his wife, Ramatu Ibrahim, over allegation of depriving him sex.
The middle-aged woman, who is still in coma, was reported to be presently receiving treatment at a private hospital on Rabah Road, Kaduna North Local Government area as a result of injuries she sustained.
According to investigations by Daily Independent, Ramatu Ibrahim's husband had called her under the pretense that he wanted to see her so they could reconcile their differences for the sake of their marriage.
He was said to have asked her to meet him at their former house located at Layin Masalachin Bugaje in Malali, where he is the gate man.
Ramatu revealed: "since I was not suspecting any foul play, I went there the next day as agreed by 10.00 a.m.
"When I got there, he started talking to me on how he intends to bring me back to the house as his wife.
"What spoiled the whole thing was that at about 12.30 p.m., after we had finished discussion and I have agreed to go back, he said we should go into the room and catch fun like husband and wife.
"I refused outrightly and told him that he has to go to my people in Mararaban Jos and intimate them on the new development before that could happen; I guess that made him angry.
"The next thing I saw, he removed his clothes, that he wanted to have his bath. But unknown to me, he went in to get a machete and before I knew what was happening, he started inflicting cuts all over my body.
"I could not do anything but to pray to Allah because He knows and sees everything.
"When he was done inflicting machete cuts me, he put his clothes on, locked me in the house and left the premises.
"It was by God's grace I managed to drag myself out of the house to the gate where I tried to call the attention of passers-by who later alerted the proper authorities and I was brought to the hospital," Ramatu said.
She said during the 10 months that their marriage lasted, "Musa had been very wicked to me".
"I never visited my relations, as anytime I asked him to go home and see my family, he refuses, even the day my junior sister came to visit us, he was very unhappy about it and he even asked me if I told her what was happening between the two of us and I said no," Ramatu narrated.
According to her, the matter was reported to the police who have launched a manhunt for the husband who is said to be at large.
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Kaduna — Kaduna State Police Command has declared one Musa Rabiu wanted.
He was said to have inflicted severe machete cuts on his wife, Ramatu Ibrahim, over allegation of depriving him sex.
The middle-aged woman, who is still in coma, was reported to be presently receiving treatment at a private hospital on Rabah Road, Kaduna North Local Government area as a result of injuries she sustained.
According to investigations by Daily Independent, Ramatu Ibrahim's husband had called her under the pretense that he wanted to see her so they could reconcile their differences for the sake of their marriage.
He was said to have asked her to meet him at their former house located at Layin Masalachin Bugaje in Malali, where he is the gate man.
Ramatu revealed: "since I was not suspecting any foul play, I went there the next day as agreed by 10.00 a.m.
"When I got there, he started talking to me on how he intends to bring me back to the house as his wife.
"What spoiled the whole thing was that at about 12.30 p.m., after we had finished discussion and I have agreed to go back, he said we should go into the room and catch fun like husband and wife.
"I refused outrightly and told him that he has to go to my people in Mararaban Jos and intimate them on the new development before that could happen; I guess that made him angry.
"The next thing I saw, he removed his clothes, that he wanted to have his bath. But unknown to me, he went in to get a machete and before I knew what was happening, he started inflicting cuts all over my body.
"I could not do anything but to pray to Allah because He knows and sees everything.
"When he was done inflicting machete cuts me, he put his clothes on, locked me in the house and left the premises.
"It was by God's grace I managed to drag myself out of the house to the gate where I tried to call the attention of passers-by who later alerted the proper authorities and I was brought to the hospital," Ramatu said.
She said during the 10 months that their marriage lasted, "Musa had been very wicked to me".
"I never visited my relations, as anytime I asked him to go home and see my family, he refuses, even the day my junior sister came to visit us, he was very unhappy about it and he even asked me if I told her what was happening between the two of us and I said no," Ramatu narrated.
According to her, the matter was reported to the police who have launched a manhunt for the husband who is said to be at large.
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Cops went overboard stopping church’s Bahasa Malaysia service, says MP
Complaints about "noise" and the use of a shoplot by a church in Bangi saw police officers disrupting the Bahasa Malaysia service last Sunday, a move criticised by the area's…Complaints about "noise" and the use of a shoplot by a church in Bangi saw police officers disrupting the Bahasa Malaysia service last Sunday, a move criticised by the area's MP, Ong Kian Ming, who said such matters should have been handled by the local council instead.Ong, the Serdang MP, confirmed the incident at the Bethany Church with the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF), the umbrella body of evangelical churches in Malaysia of which the church is a member.
"From what I know, the church is located in a shoplot and there were complaints that it should not be used as a church.
"But the police should not have gotten involved as this is a matter for the local council. And the police should definitely have not interrupted any worship service of any religious group," Ong told The Malaysian Insider.
An NECF spokesperson said the church conducts services in Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia as most of its 200 congregants are Indonesia.
NECF was alerted to the intrusion at 11.20am on Sunday and advised the church leaders to lodge a police report.
The spokesperson declined to comment further until the organisation received a full report from the church.
The police reportedly told the church's pastor that they were acting on complaints by "neighbours".
The church, however, is located in a largely commercial area near the Perhentian Kajang bus station.
Its Indonesian pastor, Nelson Sembiling, told The Malaysian Insider that two police officers came on Sunday while he was 10 minutes into delivering the sermon.
They did not enter the church but called a few of the members outside and told them to bring out the church's leader.
"I went out and identified myself as the pastor and asked if we could finish our service first before discussing the reason for their visit.
"The officers said no and said we had no licence to operate as a church.
"I then told them to raise the matter with NECF as the organisation handles these things, such as church registrations, for us. 'We are just here to conduct our worship service, we are not disturbing anyone,' I told the policemen."
Nelson said the officers insisted that he stop the service failing which they would call "their inspector".
They did, and then told the pastor that the church service could continue for that day but added they would return.
"They said we could continue the service for today (Sunday) and they would come back with letters of complaint that they have received. I am not sure what they meant by this," Nelson said.
Those attending the church are mostly female Indonesian migrants working at factories and who live in the area, the pastor added.
The church began holding services at its present location in September this year, and is a branch of another church in Malacca, he said.
Both churches are part of the Gereja Bethel Indonesia network of churches and were started in Malaysia to cater to Indonesian Christians working and living here.
The church occupies the second floor of the shoplot and rents it from a Malaysian Chinese owner, whom Nelson said has full knowledge that the premises is being used as a church.
The only complainant he knew of, the pastor said, was a woman who lived on the third floor above the church who had on occasion expressed her displeasure to some of the church members.
The operator of a stationery shop on the same row as the church, Syed Mohamad, told The Malaysian Insider that he had heard of complaints about noise by other shoplot occupants in the area as the service which started at 10am on Sundays would sometimes last till 2pm. – December 2, 2014.
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Guan Eng calls Umno man’s bluff, says slurs aimed at all Chinese
Permatang Pauh Umno division chairman Datuk Mohd Zaidi Mohd Said had uttered derogative remarks against the Chinese, and he did it twice, said Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.Playing…
Permatang Pauh Umno division chairman Datuk Mohd Zaidi Mohd Said had uttered derogative remarks against the Chinese, and he did it twice, said Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.Playing a video of Zaidi's controversial speech at last Friday's Umno general assembly today, Lim said the Umno man made the remarks against the Chinese twice without indicating that he meant only "some Chinese".
He was rebutting Zaidi's statement yesterday that he used the words "kadang-kadang" (sometimes) and "segelintir" (a few) in his speech when saying that the Chinese gained wealth and influence from illegal activities in Penang.
"He said 'kekuatan Cina kadang-kadang dijana melalui perniagaan haram' (the strength of the Chinese is sometimes generated through illegal businesses).
"That remark is directed to all the Chinese, not 'segelintir'. With 'kadang-kadang', even if its 50% and not 100% of the time, it still carries the same meaning, having the same effect."
He added that Zaidi's other remark that the Chinese in Penang will fear the Malays if enforcement action was taken against them over illegal activities.
"With that, he had said it twice... it is clear that Zaidi made those remarks. He should not be a coward. Just admit it, if you had said it. If you feel it was wrong, then retract and apologise."
As the clip was played, Zaidi was also heard uttering the word “keling” in his speech, a derogatory word referring to Indians.
Lim said Zaidi should not stir up racial sentiments for the sake of politics, adding that he should also
not twist and turn, and try to deny what he had said."Here you try to blame others. That is the racist face of Umno," Lim said, referring to Zaidi claiming that his speech was misinterpreted by some media.
Zaidi yesterday called a press conference and told the media that the word “kadang-kadang” was omitted in the reports, causing the news reports to give an "inaccurate picture" of the content of his speech.
He said what he meant was not all the time and not all Chinese were making money and gaining power through illegal means.
"The word 'kadang-kadang' showed that not all (the Chinese in Penang) were like that. In Malay, the word 'kadang-kadang' means very seldom.
"I uttered the word very clearly in my speech... I did not say all the Chinese in Penang. I meant 'kadang-kadang ada segelintir orang Cina di Pulau Pinang' (sometimes some Chinese in Penang) were involved in such activities.
"The word 'kadang-kadang' was omitted in my speech... this shows malicious intention to split the people, cause them to fight," he said.
Zaidi also reportedly said that his speech was directed at raising the issue of weaknesses in the enforcement authorities under both the federal and state governments that did not take action to eradicate illegal businesses like gambling, prostitution and entertainment outlets.
Lim said Zaidi had still made a serious allegation, and if the Umno man has information of the illegal activities, he should have gone to the police with the details.
It was the police's job to go after the people involved in the illegal activities, not the local authorities, he said, adding: "Don't tell me Zaidi as an Umno leader does not even know this. The police is also under the federal government."
"Zaidi wanted to attack me with his allegation but instead, he also attacked the police."
Lim also asked what Barisan Nasional component parties MCA and Gerakan thought of Zaidi's explanation.
"What will they do? Will they still work with Umno? We will also see what the police will do now that police reports have been lodged against Zaidi," he said.
Batu Uban assemblyman Dr T. Jayabalan from PKR and Lim's political secretary and Air Itam assemblyman Wong Hon Wai yesterday lodged police reports against Zaidi at the northeast district police headquarters.
After Zaidi's speech, MCA vice-president Senator Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun said the party condemned Zaidi in the harshest terms for his false and wild accusations against the Penang Chinese.
She added that Umno must look into it and take action against any of its members, who insult the sensitivities of others, to prevent social unrest that can be caused by extreme views, and to arrest the negative effects on inter-ethnic harmony.
Chew, who also heads Penang MCA, said in a statement on Saturday that it was pathetic Zaidi sought to score cheap political mileage by resorting to rubbish claims of magnifying “vice activities” to slander the Penang Chinese. – December 2, 2014.
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Intentionality
Therefore, I find the attorney-general’s (AG) statement that there was no intentionality for wrong-doing in the Perkasa leader’s statement more telling about the AG and his way of thinking than whether the leader did in fact mean to burn the Malay Bibles. The AG is merely imputing intentions of another.
Intentionality in Organisational Behaviour is a complex subject of serious study. In fact, my professor of public administration, Dr Michael Harmon, wrote two books on this subject. One is called ‘Action Theory’ and the other is called ‘Organizational Theory for Public Administration’. Both are excellent and should be made compulsory reading for all those who want and intent to join public services; both policy people and execution people.
If the AG is politically neutral he would not have expressed his views about this matter without explicit evidence which leads to that conclusion. But, now it seems that he has assumed the role of pseudo-investigator, evidence evaluator, and judge about the prosecution probabilities.
If,
in fact there was a police investigation about his statement, then the
AG must reveal the actual evidence of the tape-recording, and/or actual
speech with the real text to prove there was no evidence of
intentionality to actually burn Bibles.He must prove that it was only conjecture about the real feelings of Malay Muslims (and, mind you, not Arab Muslims) and their intentions, and if such Malay Bibles were in fact distributed with ‘Allah’ in the text to refer to God Almighty; that is, the God of Abraham, Isaac (Ishmael) and Jacob.
The actual context of the statement is what can help us resolve this matter; not the AG’s opinion or even any sultan’s opinion. And, as with the recent Cameron Highlands case, there is no point for that sultan to lose his temper and show anger, after the horses have bolted the stable, so to say. Why not present the evidence about who is doing all this illegal logging; then, we will all know the truth.
Truth will set us free
I am a very big truth bug. I want to know the truth about any matter and will not stop my pursuit until I know the truth about whatever the matter, and however small it is. A colleague of mine at the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti) once told me, “Just let sleeping dogs lie; do not bug truth and truth will not bug you!” Wrong.
I believe that truth will set us free. At least that is what the bible promises and I have experienced. Truth has that freeing value; and it is an existential feeling about all matters in life, whether past, present, or future issues. Christians believe Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. That is either a fact, and therefore true; or a lie and therefore not true.
Truth matters in all of life, and therefore we have to hold all public personalities to these truths that matter. No goon can be allowed to say that he can burn the Bible, regardless of whether it is a Malay, Arabic, or English bible and get away with such ‘irreverent language, without even a basic reprimand’.
Even if it was not a threat; one has to view the burning any religious books as sacrilegious; premised upon our Rukunegara. Instead, we get a skewed-eyed AG who cannot distinguish between lies and truth.
Let me make my point in even more strident terms so that the goons can understand. If ‘Allah’ is the one and only true word for God; and the Arabs have been using this word for God since the times before Islam, and the Prophet; how can 21st Century Melayus suddenly claim this pre-Arabic and pre-Islamic word for God and reduce it now into a Malay word, and to be used only by Malays in Melayusia.
It is when this is done that I argue that we are not living in Melayusia but Malaysia. Those who want to live in Melayusia should maybe move to any geography wherein the Malay-Muslim version of all interpretation about life and living become a worldview of life and for life. Then, even the guillotine can be freely used because then we become ‘katak dibawah tempurung’.
The roof of that worldview is only the top of the coconut shell and nothing else really matters; including all other objective truths. But then we forget that even our God is reduced to the coconut shell’s greatness with its sky. One can really understand all this through a movie; please go and watch ‘The God’s must be crazy!’
Negaraku; tanah tumpahnya darahku?
We are Royal Military College (RMC) Old Puteras! Next year, my intake from 1965 celebrates our golden anniversary of 50 years of friendship. We are a multi-ethnic group of Old Puteras (OPs) who were about 100 in our year of intake. Three of us were even Singaporeans; the only three from Singapore ever, because in that year, too, Singapore left to become a nation-state. They too celebrate 50 next year!
RMC
trained us to salute the flag of the Federation; and we did this every
weekend at parade. We were taught to live, fight, and die for the flag.
In our time, we had free choice as to what we wanted to do after we left
the F/RMC, whether after two or four years.Not many of us actually joined the Armed Forces of Malaysia and fought for this nation-state? To my count, not more than 10. Does that mean, the others were not “shedding blood” for our nation-state, as implied within our song; our national anthem? Not really.
It was a metaphorical way of saying that we must always find ways to put the national interest over and above one’s personal, or private, or communal interest. Then we are trained to become an officer and a gentleman as we were; never otherwise. If we cannot do this objectively and truthfully; we are still only kampung boys and must simply admit that.
Negara-Ku; the movement of Rakyat Malaysia
When Sarawak did not permit entry of Ambiga Sreenevasan into their state, it was an insult to the meaning of Malaysian-ness. If the peninsular Malayans cannot sing and mean the same words as did the Sabahans and Sarawakians; then we are not yet one country.
That is why we are arguing for a movement of people groups to sing and understand our song all over again; but, without a narrower worldviews being propagated by the weaker ethnicities of Malaysians; defined by their emotional view of what is this nation-state we call Malaysia.
Negara-Ku is a peoples’ movement to reclaim this land from our politicians and narrow minded bigots who think that only their worldview defines all truths that matter. They even redefine the federal constitution and the Rukunegara as the starting foundations of who we are and can become. Let us become a Negara-Ku; a jointly shared community of personal visions of/for what our land of promise can become, if we all can reclaim it; each in our small way.
KJ JOHN was in public service for 29 years. The views expressed here are his personal views and not those of any institution he is involved with. Write to him at kjjohn@ohmsi.net with any feedback or views.
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True confessions of a wannabe sex slave!
New recruit for sex slavery was taught during religious class at a local university to hate infidels (non-Muslims), liberal Muslims and Muslims of different sects.
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KUALA LUMPUR: A young Kelantanese woman, 23, was determined to go to Syria on jihad to fulfill the sexual needs of Islamic state (IS) militants there when she had a dream in which she was gang-raped.
That put paid to her plans to wage sexual jihad in Syria, reports a Malay daily, citing a video interview of the woman posted in YouTube by a local portal.
According to the interview, the woman identified only as Umairah, was set on going to Syria despite strong opposition from her parents.
Explaining why she decided to go to Syria, the second daughter of an engineer disclosed that she was convinced by promises of “paradise” painted during a religious class at a local university.
Among preparations she made for the trip were going through a guide on taking care of the sexual needs of five Muslim militants at a time, and taking care of their eating, and dressing.
“Up until that point (of the dream), I still agreed because I wanted heaven. I told my parents and of course they were very angry. But I had already promised to jihad, so I didn’t care about their opposition. All I knew was that I wanted to go to Syria,” she said.
“But on the last night in Malaysia, I dreamt of being gang-raped. Very torturous. Only God knows.”
After she was raped (in the dream), she continued, her mother appeared and wrapped her in white cloth and put a black veil on her.
Umairah, recalling her religious class, said a man in the class had preached to her that sexual jihad was a new method to wipe out past sins to enter heaven.
During the class, she was also taught to hate infidels (non-Muslims), liberal Muslims and Muslims of different sects.
She was also given jihad literature, also available online, from Syria and Indonesia.
The White Paper on the IS threat, presented by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in Parliament last week, disclosed that 39 Malaysians are in Syria, 17 of them signing up with IS while another 22 are with Ajnad al-Sham, another militant group.
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KUALA LUMPUR: A young Kelantanese woman, 23, was determined to go to Syria on jihad to fulfill the sexual needs of Islamic state (IS) militants there when she had a dream in which she was gang-raped.
That put paid to her plans to wage sexual jihad in Syria, reports a Malay daily, citing a video interview of the woman posted in YouTube by a local portal.
According to the interview, the woman identified only as Umairah, was set on going to Syria despite strong opposition from her parents.
Explaining why she decided to go to Syria, the second daughter of an engineer disclosed that she was convinced by promises of “paradise” painted during a religious class at a local university.
Among preparations she made for the trip were going through a guide on taking care of the sexual needs of five Muslim militants at a time, and taking care of their eating, and dressing.
“Up until that point (of the dream), I still agreed because I wanted heaven. I told my parents and of course they were very angry. But I had already promised to jihad, so I didn’t care about their opposition. All I knew was that I wanted to go to Syria,” she said.
“But on the last night in Malaysia, I dreamt of being gang-raped. Very torturous. Only God knows.”
After she was raped (in the dream), she continued, her mother appeared and wrapped her in white cloth and put a black veil on her.
Umairah, recalling her religious class, said a man in the class had preached to her that sexual jihad was a new method to wipe out past sins to enter heaven.
During the class, she was also taught to hate infidels (non-Muslims), liberal Muslims and Muslims of different sects.
She was also given jihad literature, also available online, from Syria and Indonesia.
The White Paper on the IS threat, presented by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in Parliament last week, disclosed that 39 Malaysians are in Syria, 17 of them signing up with IS while another 22 are with Ajnad al-Sham, another militant group.
Sabah RCI report: Act on it pronto
Kit Siang tells Putrajaya to show the political will to resolve the illegal immigrants issue.
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Kit Siang tells Putrajaya to show the political will to resolve the illegal immigrants issue.
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KUALA LUMPUR: DAP is pushing for speedy action on the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah (RCIIIS), which will be released to the public tomorrow.
In a press statement today, party strongman Lim Kit Siang urged the Cabinet and Barisan Nasional MPs to demand that the Joseph Pairin Review Committee on the RCIIIS recommendations complete its work and publicise its report before the year’s end “so that the new year of 2015 can begin with the serious resolution of the 40-year problem”.
He also urged the Prime Minister to call for an emergency meeting of Parliament in the closing days of 2014 to discuss the issue. He said this would demonstrate the government’s “seriousness and political will” to resolve the problem.
“I do not think I am the only one to have the queasy and sickening feeling that despite the release of the report of the RCIIIS tomorrow, it will be the latest in a merry-go-round passing-the-buck game,” he said.
Lim also told the Chief Secretary to the Government, Ali Hamsa, to ensure that all MPs would be given full sets of the RCIIIS report.
“I have been trying to contact the Chief Secretary or someone in the Prime Minister’s Department to arrange for a set of the RCIIIS Report tomorrow, but to no avail,” he said.
“My staff was pushed from pillar to post from one department to another, as nobody seems to know who is in charge, until finally to be informed that all the three officials involved in the RCIIIS had gone to Kota Kinabalu for the public launch of the report tomorrow.
“This is not a very impressive display of efficiency and competence of the Prime Minister’s Department in Putrajaya, which probably holds the world record as the prime minister’s office in any country with the largest annual budget.”
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FMTKUALA LUMPUR: DAP is pushing for speedy action on the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah (RCIIIS), which will be released to the public tomorrow.
In a press statement today, party strongman Lim Kit Siang urged the Cabinet and Barisan Nasional MPs to demand that the Joseph Pairin Review Committee on the RCIIIS recommendations complete its work and publicise its report before the year’s end “so that the new year of 2015 can begin with the serious resolution of the 40-year problem”.
He also urged the Prime Minister to call for an emergency meeting of Parliament in the closing days of 2014 to discuss the issue. He said this would demonstrate the government’s “seriousness and political will” to resolve the problem.
“I do not think I am the only one to have the queasy and sickening feeling that despite the release of the report of the RCIIIS tomorrow, it will be the latest in a merry-go-round passing-the-buck game,” he said.
Lim also told the Chief Secretary to the Government, Ali Hamsa, to ensure that all MPs would be given full sets of the RCIIIS report.
“I have been trying to contact the Chief Secretary or someone in the Prime Minister’s Department to arrange for a set of the RCIIIS Report tomorrow, but to no avail,” he said.
“My staff was pushed from pillar to post from one department to another, as nobody seems to know who is in charge, until finally to be informed that all the three officials involved in the RCIIIS had gone to Kota Kinabalu for the public launch of the report tomorrow.
“This is not a very impressive display of efficiency and competence of the Prime Minister’s Department in Putrajaya, which probably holds the world record as the prime minister’s office in any country with the largest annual budget.”
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MP slams police raid on Indonesian Church
The church, a branch of another church in Malacca, holds services in Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia for its 200 worshippers from Indonesia.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Serdang MP Ong Kian Ming has pointed out that the police should not have interrupted a service at a church in Kajang, no matter what the complaints, but left the matter to the local council to look into the issues, if any.
It’s said that the police were acting on complaints that the Sunday service at the Bethany Church, a member of the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF), was noisy and moreover was being conducted in a shophouse.
“From what I know, the church is located in a shoplot and there were complaints that it should not be used as a church,” said Ong.
“The police should not have gotten involved as this is a matter for the local council. The police should definitely not interrupt any worship service of any religious group.”
Nelson Sembiling, the church’s Indonesian pastor, disclosed that he was 10 minutes into the sermon on Sunday when he was alerted that two police officers wanted to see him outside the premises.
He advised the police to discuss any complaints with the NECF but they apparently insisted that the church stop the service immediately, failing which they threatened to call their “Inspector”.
The policemen did carry out their threat and contacted their Inspector but, after the call, allowed the church to continue its service “just for today”.
“They said they would be back with letters of complaints that they had received,” said the pastor. “I am not sure what they meant. They said the church had no licence to operate.”
It was learnt that the NECF, the umbrella body for evangelical churches in Malaysia, has advised its member church to lodge a police report on the incident.
The church, a branch of another church in Malacca, holds services in Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia for its 200 worshippers from Indonesia.
Both churches are members of the Gereja Bethel Indonesia and are generally attended by Indonesian Christians in Malaysia.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Serdang MP Ong Kian Ming has pointed out that the police should not have interrupted a service at a church in Kajang, no matter what the complaints, but left the matter to the local council to look into the issues, if any.
It’s said that the police were acting on complaints that the Sunday service at the Bethany Church, a member of the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF), was noisy and moreover was being conducted in a shophouse.
“From what I know, the church is located in a shoplot and there were complaints that it should not be used as a church,” said Ong.
“The police should not have gotten involved as this is a matter for the local council. The police should definitely not interrupt any worship service of any religious group.”
Nelson Sembiling, the church’s Indonesian pastor, disclosed that he was 10 minutes into the sermon on Sunday when he was alerted that two police officers wanted to see him outside the premises.
He advised the police to discuss any complaints with the NECF but they apparently insisted that the church stop the service immediately, failing which they threatened to call their “Inspector”.
The policemen did carry out their threat and contacted their Inspector but, after the call, allowed the church to continue its service “just for today”.
“They said they would be back with letters of complaints that they had received,” said the pastor. “I am not sure what they meant. They said the church had no licence to operate.”
It was learnt that the NECF, the umbrella body for evangelical churches in Malaysia, has advised its member church to lodge a police report on the incident.
The church, a branch of another church in Malacca, holds services in Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia for its 200 worshippers from Indonesia.
Both churches are members of the Gereja Bethel Indonesia and are generally attended by Indonesian Christians in Malaysia.
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Najib must withdraw and apologise for repeating RM100 million false allegations
2 December 2014
At the UMNO general assembly, PM Datuk Seri Najib Razak made a scurrilous and slanderous attack upon Pakatan Rakyat and myself that RM100 million had…
2 December 2014
At the UMNO general assembly, PM Datuk Seri Najib Razak made a scurrilous and slanderous attack upon Pakatan Rakyat and myself that RM100 million had been offered to Anifah Aman in order for him to come over to PR.
This false allegation is the subject matter of a defamation suit brought by me against Anifah Aman. Despite the fact that the trial is ongoing, Najib chose to repeat Anifah’s latest baseless allegation that one Ishak Ismail had approached him on my behalf and made such an offer.
In reaction to this blatant falsehood Ishak has publicly stated on 1 December 2014 that he had never made any such offer to Anifah. On the contrary Ishak had confirmed that it was an intermediary acting for Anifah who had approached him instead.
Ishak has now rightly and boldly challenged Anifah to repeat this allegation outside of court where he will be not protected by legal immunity.
I now call upon Najib to retract this false statement made at the UMNO assembly and to apologise to myself and Pakatan Rakyat.
Money politics and corrupt methods has always been the hallmark of UMNO and BN; Pakatan Rakyat has never practised and will never tolerate money politics or corruption. We will save this country by reasoned arguments and by the example of good governance in the States administered by us.
Issued by,
Anwar Ibrahim
Leader of the Opposition
Call on Najib to give assurance that there will be no further “merry-go-round” procrastination manoeuvre to the 40-year problem and that the implementation of the Report of the RCIIIS will begin on 1.1.2015
By Lim Kit Siang BlogThe long-delayed Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal Immigrants in Sabah (RCIIIS) to deal with the 40-year problem of illegal immigrants…
By Lim Kit Siang BlogThe long-delayed Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal Immigrants in Sabah (RCIIIS) to deal with the 40-year problem of illegal immigrants in Sabah which has changed the political demography and caused unprecedented socio-economic crisis to the state is to be made public in Kota Kinabalu later today.
The RCIIIS has been the longest in gestation, as there had been calls for the establishment of the Royal Commission of Inquiry as far back as the past few decades but the problem was allowed to mushroom from some 100,000 some 40 years ago into a humongous and runaway figure ranging from 1.5 million to 1.9 million out of 3.3 million state population today.
As a result of persistent and growing pressures, the Cabinet took a policy decision to set up the RCIIIS on February 8, 2012, but it took another six months to finalise its terms of reference and its membership, another month before the RCIIIS started work, a year for public hearings and preparation of its Report and recommendations, and although the Report of the RCIIIS was officially handed over to the Federal Government on May 14, 2014, it was cold-storaged for six months until its publication later today.
The question uppermost in everyone’s mind apart from the contents and recommendations of the RCIIIS Report is whether we have come to the end-game of the 40-year problem of illegal immigrant problems in Sabah, or whether we are only seeing the latest “merry-go-round” procrastination manoeuvre which will kick the problem for the next few years with no real solution in sight until 2020, when the problem would have snowballed to some three million illegal immigrants in Sabah, reducing native Sabahans into a minority in their own land!
Najib’s announcement in Sabah for the opening of the PBS Congress on Nov 17 that PBS President and Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan will be heading a special committee to look into the findings of the RCIIIS and compile recommendations on implementation does not give cause for optimism that there would be swift and immediate action to act on the recommendations and report of the RCIIIS to bring a final end to the 40-year problem in Sabah.
The Pairin RCIIIS Report Review Committee cannot even meet and start work today as it has not been fully constituted. Or is the Pairin Review Committee of the RCIIIS Report a one-man committee?
How long will the Pairin Review Committee take, one month, three months, six months or one year to complete its work of compiling recommendations on implementation of the RCIIIS Report?
Nobody believes that Joseph Pairin will be vested with real powers to implement the recommendations of the RCIIIS, as only the Federal Government will have the powers to implement the Report and recommendations of the RCIIIS.
For this reason, I call on Najib to announce which Federal Minister would be tasked to work with Joseph Pairin on the implementation of the RCIIIS Report and recommendations, and to immediately give an assurance that there will be no further “merry-go-round” procrastination manoeuvre to the 40-year problem and that the implementation of the Report of the RCIIIS will begin on 1.1.2015.
Najib should explain how the Federal government proposes to deal with RCIIIS recommendations it finds unacceptable or inappropriate.
Muhyiddin Wants Clear Roadmap For Creative Value Chain
From Jamaluddin MuhammadBEIJING, Dec 2 (Bernama) -- Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin wanted all Malaysian public and private higher education institutions to set out a clear roadmap and commit rigorous…
From Jamaluddin MuhammadBEIJING, Dec 2 (Bernama) -- Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin wanted all Malaysian public and private higher education institutions to set out a clear roadmap and commit rigorous effort towards ensuring the existence and management of a creative value chain.
In this regard, the deputy prime minister, who is also the education minister, said strong collaboration between higher education institutions and the industry must exist to address various challenges in creating a conducive environment.
"The knowledge-exchange will help students to see the practical application of what they learn from the textbook in university. Without this, college education remains incomplete," he said when opening the 'Seeds for the Future' Programme by Huawei, at the Huawei R&D Centre, in Beijing, Tuesday.
Muhyiddin said the aspiration to achieve high-income status as a developed country was very much dependent on an innovation-based economy founded on high-level knowledge and creativity.
Greater efforts in enabling Research and Development (R&D) activities towards outcome-based innovation and commercialization had been steadily encouraged by the Malaysian government, he said.
Muhyiddin said the government had also emphasized on the development of educational infrastructure, student character, curriculum, and development.
Huawei, he said, had truly taken the lead in industry-academia interaction in Malaysia especially in the telecommunication sector and the programme was another milestone achieved.
"I hope more corporations follow in Huawei's footsteps in enabling technology transfer and partnering with Malaysia for a better, brighter future of our young leaders," he said.
Huawei is one of the leading global information and communication technology solutions provider founded in 1987, serving more than one-third of the world's population in more than 170 countries.
It has over 70,000 products and solutions R&D employees, comprising more than 45 per cent of its total workforce worldwide.
Huawei sponsored 16 Malaysian university students for a two-week hands-on work experience training at its R&D centre under the initiative starting Tuesday.
The Fortune 500 Global company with a revenue close to US$40 billion (RM134 billion) last year, trains 20,000 engineers annually at its global training centres in Cyberjaya.
--BERNAMA
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