Negara India Yang Tidak Menjaga Masyarakat Islamnya

Saya sekarang ini berada di New Delhi. Baru sahaja sampai dari Mumbai. Saya mula sampai di India pada 26 hb Jun yang lalu. Masa itu suhu Delhi mencecah 46 % celsius. Rasa seperti dalam 'oven' bahangnya. Di Mumbai musim hujan dan sejuk. Bila balik ke Delhi hari ini cuaca Delhi telah menurun ke 35 % celcius. Lebih kurang macam Malaysia.

Hari ini baru dapat buka internet. Banyak lihat dan baca cerita menarik di Malaysia. Keadaan selsema babi yang telah banyak memakan nyawa. 'Boss' lama saya semasa di Bank Bumi, Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar telah mula menulis blognya sendiri Syed Hamid Albar dotnet. Selamat datang boss, ke dunia cyber.

Yang menarik ialah Anwar Ibrahim yang telah dilabel oleh Tan Sri Muhyiddin sebagai pengkhianat bangsa Melayu. Anwar saman Muhyiddin RM100 juta. Umno Johor Baru laungkan label yang sama dan minta Anwar saman mereka. Umum telah telah mengetahui hakikat ini. Cuma beliau licik. Tapi sepandai-pandai tumpai melompat satu hari ia akan terjatuh juga. Hari tersebut akan tiba tidak lama lagi.


Juga turut menarik adalah makin kurang ajar dan celuparnya DAP sekarang ini. Sudah berani mencarutkan Agama Islam. Tidak kah mereka ini tahu bahwa Agama Islam adalah Agama Resmi Malaysia. Kerajaan mesti mengambil tindakan tegas sebelum kemarahan orang Islam makin memuncak. DAP dan orang Cina yang chauvanis ini harus di ambil tindakan tegas supaya mereka tidak berlumba-lumba cuba menjadi 'hero' kampung kepada masyarakat Cina. Masyarakat Cina harus diberi tahu orang Melayu tidak suka tindak tanduk pemimpin cina yang chauvanis ini.

Cuba kita bandingkan keadaan di India. Sebelum ia merdeka dahulu orang Islam merupakan pekerja kakitangan awam sebanyak kira-kira 33%. Sekarang selepas India merdeka selama 62 tahun kakitangan kerajaan yang beragama Islam hanya tinggal 3%.

India mengamalkan demokrasi. Malaysia juga demokrasi. Cuma Kerajaan Malaysia terlampau toleran. Kerajaan India tidak kisah pun. Apa dia mahu dia jalankan. Sampai bila kita mesti toleran. Mula-mulanya kita haru perlemahkan mereka yang dilabel Muhyiddin sebagai pengkhianat.

Itu langkah pertama.

The Modern Middle Kingdom

By

Dr. Mahathir Mohamad

on June 15, 2009 3:10 PM |

1. Ancient China considered itself the centre of the world and called itself the Middle Kingdom. And well it should. It was far more advanced in every way than Europe of the Dark Ages. Maybe China is thinking of making a comeback.

2. But we already have a new Middle Kingdom now. During Lee Kuan Yew's triumphant visit to Malaysia he made it known to the Malaysian supplicants that Singapore regards the lands within 6000 miles radius of Singapore as its hinterland. This includes Beijing and Tokyo and of course Malaysia.

3. Of course this self-deluding perception places Singapore at the centre of a vast region. It is therefore the latter day Middle Kingdom. The rest are peripheral and are there to serve the interest of this somewhat tiny Middle Kingdom.

4. Kuan Yew also explained that the fear Singapore Chinese would control Iskandar whatever is not justified. Malays can also work there. It is good to know that Malays can also work in their own country. I wonder as what? Maybe someone should make a study of the Malays of Singapore just to know what it is like to be a Malay minority in their own country.

5. As for the 3 sen per 1000 gallons of raw water supplied to Singapore Lee says it was absurd for the former Prime Minister of hinterland Malaysia to ask to increase it to RM8 per 1000 gallons. I don't know where he got this. Some Malaysian officers did suggest this figure but we were ready to bargain and maybe settle for RM3. And why not? Johore sells raw water to Melaka for 30 sen, 1000% higher than to Singapore. And Melaka is, I believe, a part of Malaysia! Some Malaysians may see the irony of this.

6. The great 5th Prime Minister has decided that since the people of Johore did not want to sell sand to Singapore, Malaysia would not build any bridge, straight or crooked, or negotiate and settle the other issues like the Central Provident Fund, the Railway land. Maybe the 5th Prime Minister thinks he is punishing Singapore. Actually he is giving Singapore what its wants including the 3 sen per 1000 gallons water until 2061. Think of how many grains of nasi lemak we can buy with 3 sen in 2061. Imagine what 1000 gallons will earn for Singapore at that time. Can't think of a more astute PM for Malaysia.

7. All those who met the great man from the little country were lectured on how Malaysia should be run. We should not have anymore problems now. We have been told the direction to take. MCA must help UMNO to win because Singapore does not want an Islamic Party like PAS to win. We must ensure this. Sorry PAS. Working with the DAP, the offspring of PAP has not endeared you to Mr Lee.

8. I have a lot more to say about this little Emperor but I will reserve it for later.

Memperlekehkan perjuangan UMNO

Oleh Dr. Mahathir Mohamad

on June 4, 2009 12:25 PM |

1. Terdapat usaha berterusan untuk memperlekeh perjuangan UMNO dan orang Melayu untuk kemerdekaan.

2. Kononnya orang yang pertama memperjuangkan kemerdekaan ialah Chin Peng, pemimpin Parti Komunis Malaya. Chin Peng lah yang cuba membebaskan Malaya daripada penjajah British sebelum mana-mana orang Melayu mencuba melakukannya.

3. Perjuangan UMNO adalah kemudian dari itu.

4. Chin Peng bukanlah orang yang pertama yang memberontak melawan British. Sebelum Parti Komunis Malaya (PKM atau MCP - Malayan Communist Party), sudah ada Kesatuan Melayu Muda (KMM) yang bergerak sebelum Perang Dunia II. Mereka tidak mendapat sokongan penuh daripada orang Melayu Semenanjung kerana mereka cenderung ke kiri. Dengan itu perjuangan mereka tidak begitu berhasil. Namun terdapat beberapa pertubuhan yang secara tidak langsung mewarisi perjuangan mereka. Malay Nationalist Party atau Party Kebangsaan Melayu, Angkatan Belia Insaf dan Putera adalah di antara pertubuhan yang meneruskan perjuangan KMM. Mereka juga tidak mendapat sokongan daripada majoriti orang Melayu kerana disyaki dipengaruhi oleh Komunis.

5. Selepas KMM barulah datang Chin Peng dan PKM. Chin Peng berjuang untuk mendirikan sebuah Communist Dictatorship di mana dia akan menjadi diktator. Bagi orang yang bukan Komunis, terutama bagi orang Malayu kejayaan Chin Peng bukan akan membawa kemerdekaan tetapi mengganti penjajahan British dengan penjajahan Komunis pimpinan Chin Peng dengan majoriti daripada pemerintahan terdiri daripada kaum Cina. Melayu yang akan ada dalam pemerintahan Komunis ini hanyalah hiasan, seperti juga kita lihat keadaan di Singapura sekarang.

6. Bangsa Melayu dan Bahasa Melayu lambat laun akan terhapus.

7. Sebab itu Melayu yang sedikit yang mirip ke kiri pun tidak ingin menyertai MCP. Keadaan dalam MCP sepanjang ia mencuba rebut kuasa, mulanya daripada British dan kemudian daripada Kerajaan Campuran Perikatan dan Barisan Nasional, memberi gambaran akan pemerintahan Chin Peng jika ia berjaya. Orang Cina Komunis akan menjadi pemerintah tetapi Komunis Melayu dengan orang Melayu dan India akan diberi peranan yang kecil dan tidak bermakna sama sekali.

8. Inilah sebabnya yang orang Melayu tidak menyertai pemberontakan MCP melawan British, dan tidak anggapnya sebagai perjuangan untuk kemerdekaan Malaya.

9. Dengan kesedaran dan kepercayaan ini maka orang Melayu telah tubuh badan yang tersendiri untuk betul-betul memperjuangkan kemerdekaan daripada penjajahan British. Badan yang ditubuh ialah UMNO.

10. Orang Melayu tidak percaya yang pemberontakan bersenjata akan berkesan. Ini adalah kerana negara yang akan di warisi jika menang sekalipun sudah tentu akan rosak teruk kerana peperangan.

11. Pendekatan orang Melayu dan UMNO mengambilkira kemampuan mereka. Mungkin perjuangan UMNO tidak gah seperti perjuangan kemerdekaan bersenjata di negara-negara lain, tetapi kemerdekaan yang dicapai oleh UMNO lebih bermakna kerana Malaysia dapat menegak pendirian sendiri dan mengecam kuasa besar di dunia apabila mereka membuat kesalahan.

12. Sesungguhnya UMNO lah yang perjuangkan kemerdekaan sehingga berjaya mencapai kemerdekaan yang bermakna. Chin Peng berjuang untuk mendirikan pemerintahan diktator Komunis yang akan menjajah orang Melayu dan kaum-kaum lain juga.

Integrity, Trustworthiness and the Islamic Vision for Malaysia

In Islam there are a few basic principles which are often forgotten by the Muslims. An example is the concept of amanah or trustworthiness.

Trustworthiness is a very important concept in Islam. Trustworthiness, as prescribed in the Quran and Sunnah denotes performing all obligations and responsibilities. Allah said in the Quran in Surah An Nisa , verse 58 which means:

“Verily Allah commands that you should render back the trusts to those , to whom they are due, and that when you judge between men, you judge them with justice. Verily how excellent is the teaching which Allah gives you. Trully Allah is Ever All-Hearer, All-Seer.”

And the Prophet, peace be upon him , said in a hadith by Ahmad: “And there is no faith in him (somebody) who is not trustworthy.”

This means that somebody who are not amanah is not a faithful Muslim.Why is trustworthiness so important in Islam ? This because if there is no trustworthiness how can there be any justice in the society.

A model ruler that really held to justice and trustworthiness is not utopian in Islamic civilization. We have a role model in the Caliphate Umar Abdul Aziz.

During his rule integrity and trustworthiness reigned supreme. Thus the level of poverty among the Muslims was greatly reduced to the point of there being no poor people in the land . The Baitul Mal (common wealth of the society) was bountiful.

The fundamental principles of the administration under Omar Abdul Aziz emphasized that the government were just and trustworthy from the top to the lowest bottom in the administrative hierarchy of his Caliphate.

The Caliph himself was very trustworthy. The Wazir was trustworthy. The teachers were trustworthy. The military Generals were trustworthy.

The writers were trustworthy. There were no such thing as mercenary writers. These mercenary writers like their counterparts the mercenary soldiers were writers/soldiers paid to write/fight for any parties that hired them and to kill off whoever the enemies of those who hire them.

These writers would then write venomous and malicious stories on their paymasters’s opponents even though these were lies while singing praises on their paymasters even though what they wrote were not the truth.

As true Muslims these writers must be honourable and write with integrity. If they do not have integrity, they do not deserve to be respected and being given the honour to be called writers.

Writers deal with qalam or the pen or knowledge and if they write lies they would be responsible for their writtings in this and the after world.

Talking of a writers’s integity reminded me of the life of Sir Thomas Moore who was at one time the Prime Minister to King Henry VIII of England.

This was the King who created the Church of Enland after severing any relationship with the Roman Catholic Church at Rome because the Vatican prohibited him from divorcing his first and Spanish borned and Catholic Queen in order to marry Anne Boleyn which subsequently became his second wife. He fathered Queen Mary of Scots from his first wife and Queen Elizabeth I from his second wife respectively.

In the course of his career Sir Thomas Moore on one occasion antagonized the King when he refused to follow the King’s instructions as they were against his principles. He was subsequently charged with treason and sent to the London Tower to be beheaded.

His wife and children appealed to King to spare Sir Thomas Moore’s life to which the King agreed on condition that he seeked for the King’s foregiveness.

The family beseach him to seek the King’s forgiveness to which Sir Thomas Moore adamently refused. He told his family especially his children that how can he sacrificed his principles in order to live and what kind of life it would be for him without his principles . He would rather die than give up his principles.

Thus he refused to seek forgiveness from Henry VII and was subsequently executed. Later Sir Thomas Moore was immortalised and became one of England’s best known Prime Minister.

Likewise justice and trustworthiness were the cornerstones of Caliph Omar Abdul Aziz’s rule. Whether this idealist administration is possible in contemporary Malaysia remains to be seen. But it is worthwhile to quote here Martin Luther King Jr’s most famous phrase “ We have a dream”.

Both UMNO and PAS are Islam-based parties. The Muslims formed the majority religious group making up 60 % of Malaysia's population. The competition between both of them should be healthy and constructive.

Its end results should be positive for the Muslim’s future whether for this world and the after world as both are in symbiosis .

A moderate Muslim Malaysia that is in tune with the times and on the march towards modernization in our own mold should be our Vision . As the English proverb goes “ Strike when the iron is hot". May Allah bless and protect our beloved Malaysia.

Can Pakatan Rakyat be a credible alternative?

Malays and Muslims makeup around 60% of Malaysia's population and is the majority community in Malaysia. Chinese is 32%, Indians 7% and the rest are other races.

So in order for the country to be stable, the Malay community must be of priority feels itself stable first. If there is feeling of instability among the Malays then it will naturally affect the nation as a whole.

For comparision Indonesia's population consisted of Javanese 70% and the other 30% Non Javanese like Sumatrans, Bugis, Molluccan and others.

Indonesian politics and civil services since its independence in 1945 have been dominated by the Javanese.

In Malaysia, likewise the Malays have been the base in the politics and civil services of the country.

Generally the Malays are comfortable with Barisan Nasional which has ruled the country since 1957 (the Alliance, its predecessor until 1970) which is dominated by Umno until the last general elections which saw BN losing a lot of seats. This occured in Umno but especially for MCA, MIC and Gerakan which saw their leaders generally wiped out of Parliament.

The question to be asked is can the Pakatan Rakyat be an alternative to BN?

An indication of this can be seen from the stand of Pas when Anwar Ibrahim tried his 16th September 2008 grand scheme. This is when he tried to win over 31 BN MPs to cross over to PR.

Pas made it clear in the event that Anwar is successful it would not join the new PR Federal government if there are more Non Malay/Non Muslim MPs than the Malay/Muslim MPs.

The message sent by Pas is that the PR Government should be Malay based. This message is shared by the majority of Malays. Being the majority community it would be unacceptable to them to have a government dominated by the Non Malays. Malaysia have not reached the sort of political maturity as yet. The insecurities of the Malays are still in existence. Even though they are the majority community , economically they are very weak compared to the Chinese. We need time to solve their socio-economic problems. These needed to be handled with care.

Thus the question is can PR turns itself into a Malay-based coalition like BN in order to offer itself as an alternative? Will the majority of Malays be able to accept and be comfortable with a PR government at the Federal level? The recent Penanti bye elections which is a Malay majority area showed the lowest voter turnout rate in the Malaysian electoral history. Is it because BN did not put a candidate in the bye elections. Maybe.

In the final analysis these are among the main hurdles for PR to overcome if it wants to be a credible alternative to BN.

Divided we fall. United we stand. Hidup Melayu!!

Dari http://politica-net.blogspot.com

Siap sedialah kita semua (orang Melayu macam saya khususnya). Kita balik kampung, kita tanam kacang. Saya jadi pesimis gila sebab hari ini saya melihat tanda-tanda yang negara kita mungkin akan runtuh dan kacau bilau tak lama lagi. Sebabnya kerana hari ini sudah muncul generasi muda kita yang terlalu sangat merindui Chin Peng. Sebabnya kerana hari ini juga sesetengah etnik bukan Melayu memang amat melampau dan keterlaluan. Rasa tamak, haloba, hasad dan dengki mereka terhadap Melayu has gone beyond reasons, terus membara dan tidak pernah padam.

Saya hendak balik kampung dan tanam kacang kerana di sanalah saya diajar sejarah mengenai Chin Peng secara praktikal dan secara real. Di kampung mundur di zaman penjajah itu saya selalu didendangkan oleh Nenek, Atuk, Emak, Bapak, Pakcik, Makcik, Guru Quran, Cikgu Sekolah, Ketua Kampung dan Pak Iman bahawa Chin Peng adalah kepala pengganas komunis yang paling zalim dan amat kejam.

Saya siap-siap hendak balik kampung kerana bimbang kalau terus duduk dalam bandar saya mungkin jadi mangsa keganasan yang putik dan kuntumnya kelihatan sedang kembang dan mekar. Saya siap-siap hendak balik kampung kerana saya hendak menuntut ilmu kebal untuk pertahankan diri, keluarga dan kampung saya daripada serangan gelora PKM di era merdeka. Saya hendak balik kampung kerana di sana aman damai, tidak ada dilema etnik dan tidak akan ada pertembungan etnik.

Tapi sebelum saya balik kampung dan tanam kacang, saya hendak ingatkan kalangan anak bangsa saya yang segelintir daripadanya hari ini dijangkiti sindrom lupa sejarah, sindrom liberalisme songsang dan sindrom internasionalisme ala-starbucks bahawa masalah etnik di Malaysia hari ini adalah amat kronik tahapnya.

Kroniknya begini: orang keturunan pendatang mengasak kita dan berkata, apa guna ada Perkara 153 dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan untuk lindungi Melayu dan Bumiputera, Melayu liberalis-internasionalis ala-starbucks pun ikut bertanya, ya lah buat apa ya? Keturunan emigran mendesak kita buang kuota 30 peratus untuk Bumiputera, puak Melayu liberalis-internasionalis ala-starbucks pun ikut menjerit, ya lah buat apa kita nak ada kuota untuk Bumiputera? Dan seterusnya dan seterusnya dan seterusnya kelompok Melayu liberalis-internasionalis ala-starbucks pun turut setuju dengan jeritan suara cucu-cicit emigran itu.

Fahamilah. Masalah etnik berdarah yang pernah meletus di tanah air ini pada 13 Mei 1969 adalah akibat Agama Islam, Raja-Raja Melayu, hak-hak Melayu dan Bahasa Melayu diinjak-injak oleh segolongan etnik bukan Melayu. Saya lihat sendiri betapa lupa daratannya orang-orang keturunan emigran ini sewaktu melalui Jalan Othman di Old PJ waktu tu. Mereka menjerit-jerit, Melayu balik kampung, Melayu babi, Melayu lancau (pardon me!), Melayu tidak ada kuasa!!! Waktu itu saya student. Saya lihat gelagat itu dari celah-celah pagar kolej. Waktu itu cufew. Kami cuma makan kulit roti. Kami kehabisan stok roti kerana waktu tu semua orang tidak berani keluar pagar atau keluar dari rumah. Etnik bukan Melayu sedang berkinja-kinja menghina Melayu.

Kalau lusa atau tulat ada lagi masalah etnik di Malaysia, puncanya pun sama. Tapi kali ni lebih hebat kerana ada Melayu yang akan turut mendukung perjuangan etnik bukan Melayu ini. Saya cabar Melayu liberalis-internasionalis ala-starbucks kalau ramalan saya salah. Saya tak akan guna teori-teori keselamatan kontemporari untuk membuat ramalan ini. Tapi saya gunakan ketajaman pemikiran Melayu lama untuk memprediksikan perkara ini.

Saya tidak akan mendesak pemerintah untuk mensecuritisedkan soal-soal dilema etnik ni menjadi ancaman keselamatan. Itu terserahlah kepada pemerintah untuk memikirkannya. Tapi, satu perkara ini adalah hakikat. Desakan etnik bukan Melayu ini lazimnya menjadi-jadi dan keterlaluan bila Melayu yang jadi tunggak kuasa itu lemah dan terlalu berkompromi sebab takut kehilangan kuasa.

Fikirkan dan fahamilah apa maksud saya ini. Sejak lima tahun yang lalu bukankah Melayu yang berkuasa terlalu berkompromi sehingga orang Melayu sendiri rasa terpinggir dan dianaktirikan? Melayu demo di Kuala Terengganu untuk tuntut pilihanraya adil, ditembak dengan peluru hidup. Untuk halalkan insiden tu tuduh kononnya Melayu yang ditembak (syukur Alhamdulillah tak terkorban) adalah antara Melayu yang bakar bendera Jalur Gemilang.

Lepas itu ada demo India dekat Pejabat PM di Putrajaya, tidak pun dia orang itu kena tembak. Lepas itu ada Cina demo di ladang babi mereka di Melaka, mereka pijak Jalur Gemilang, mereka baling bom molotov pada polis, tidak pun kena tembak (ini versi suratkhabar arus perdana).

Lepas itu ada India demo di KL. Dia orang pukul dan cederakan polis. Dia orang ditangkap dan masuk court. Tapi lepas itu PM suruh bebaskan (ini ada berita hitam putihnya juga dalam media arus perdana).

Jadi, mendidihlah darah Melayu. Sudahlah demo haram dan pertubuhan pun haram. Sudahlah dia orang mintak Perlembagaan Persekutuan dimansuhkan (ini namanya treason). Tuntutan dan desakan mereka anehnya dilayan. Ini menyebabkan Melayu mendidih marahnya.

Hari ini, sejarah Melayu dan asal usul Melayu dipersoalkan. Orang yang mempersoalkan tidak diapa-apakan. Orang yang menegakkan kebenaran dikenakan tindakan. Hari ini Raja-Raja Melayu diperlekehkan orang bukan Melayu. Tapi ada Melayu turut serta dan menyokong. Inilah dilema Melayu.

Sebenarnya, datuk nenek kita sentiasa berpesan. Lepas betis jangan berikan peha. Dagang lalu jangan ditanakkan. Itik di air jangan dibiarkan kehausan. Anak di rumah jangan mati kelaparan.

Cerdik pandai keselamatan pula ada berpesan, kuasa mesti dipertahankan secara tegas dan tanpa kompromi kerana jika kehilangan kuasa, sesebuah negara berdaulat dan merdeka akan jadi kacau-bilau dan huru-hara.

Jadi siapa yang sedang berkompromi hari ini. Siapa yang sedang kena tolak dan siapa pula yang sentiasa beransur-ansur menolak Melayu ke tembuk dan ke penghujung sejarah?

Cetusan saya kali ini bukan hasutan. Tetapi hanya ingatan kepada anak bangsa dan pemimpin bangsa saya sendiri supaya mereka bertegas dan jangan berkompromi demi kuasa Melayu. Cetusan ini juga buat etnik bukan Melayu yang mencabar kesabaran Melayu pada ketika ini supaya mereka juga insaf dan hentikan gelagat mereka sebelum Melayu betul-betul hilang perhitungan.

Tetapi, kerana saya bimbang saya akan jadi penghasut, sebab itu saya hendak balik ke kampung untuk menyejukkan diri. Untuk elak diri saya dijerangkap dilema dan jadi marah, sebab itu saya hendak balik kampung dan tanam kacang. Sambil-sambil itu saya akan didik seluruh anak Melayu di kampung supaya bila sudah jadi pandai dan bijak nanti jangan lupakan kacang dan jangan lupakan kulit kacang. Tidak kiralah kacang panjang, kacang tanah, kacang parang atau kacang kuda, asalkan kacang. Tanpa kulit, kacang ini akan cepat reput dan musnah. Sama macam kita orang Melayu, tanpa jatidiri Melayu dan rasa cintakan Melayu, kita akan musnahkan bangsa Melayu.

Saya juga akan tanamkan ke dalam jiwa anak-anak Melayu di kampung saya, bila terjumpa anak Melayu yang lupakan kulit kacang, balun mereka puas-puas. Bukan secara fizikal. Secara intelektuil. Sedarkan mereka kalau anak Melayu yang sudah cerdik pandai sudah tidak boleh diharapkan untuk jaga bangsa Melayu dan Tanah Melayu, lebih baik anak Melayu Kampung menghurai silat dan mengamuk di sepanjang jalan. Bukan untuk membunuh bukan Melayu sebagai balas dendam kepada pengganas komunis yang membunuh Melayu. Tetapi untuk membelasah mana-mana anak Melayu yang dayus dan lupakan diri bahawa mereka adalah Melayu.

On the more serious note: The ethnic problem in our contemporary Malaysia is at the most chronic stage. Come what may, please watch out and please be forewarned! Only the Malays can stop this from happening. United we stand. Divided we fall. The choice is not yours or mine. The choice is for us all. MELAYU! –

The New Straits Times Online: Malaysia's first quarter GDP shrinks 6.2%: Bank Negara

The New Straits Times Online: Malaysia's first quarter GDP shrinks 6.2%: Bank Negara

Shared via AddThis

Cebisan suara orang Melayu

Melayu Raya said...

Tolong bagi tau dekat PM atau org besaq UMNO, kepentingan Melayu kena jaga dulu baru yg lain, kalu majoriti rakyat Melayu tak sokong UMNO, bangsa lain janganlah harap nak sokong, jika UMNO kuat yg lain TERPAKSA ikut! Ketua penerangan UMNO atau apa2 aje jawatan dalam UMNO yg nak terang ni kenalah buat kerja betui2, jangan cuma nak bercakap dlm TV, Radio, Surat Khabar atau bila ada majlis2 besar perjumpaan dgn org ramai atau org kampong saja baru nak buat penerangan.

Pi la buat ceramah disurau2 ka, masjid ka dan perjumpaan dgn ketua2 kampung setiap minggu ka, bulan ka kalu pun bukan setiap hari. Ni la yg depa puak PR dok buat tanpa jemu2, hari2 kutuk kerajaan, UMNO dan pemimpin dlm cermah2, kalu tiap2 hari2 didakyah dgn kontrovesi2 dan kesalahan UMNO tanpa dibela balik, lama lama org kampung dan rakyat Melayu khas nya termakan juga la, kalu tak balas balik!
UMNO MULAI SEKARANG KENA LAWAN BALIK IKUT RENTAK PR, JANGAN BERTAHAN SAJA, JANGAN DEFENSIF SAJA, SEKARANG BUKAN MASANYA KITA DOK BERTAHAN.

1Sekolah Untuk Semua

Monday, May 18, 2009

1 Sekolah Untuk Semua

1 School for All. A group of pro-unity bloggers have started a campaign for Satu Sekolah Untuk Semua.

Satu Sekolah untuk Satu Bahasa, Satu Bangsa, Satu Negara.

I am going to make myself part of this group of bloggers, whether they like it or not. Because I like what they are trying to do. Mine's the 494th signature on the petition here.

I'm the product of a 1 Sekolah system. I started schooling in Singapore in 1968, a year before the May 13 racial clashes and three years after the island achieved its Independence. The government of Lee Kuan Yew went about to "integrate' all primary schools. My school on West Coast Road had a flag of blue and yellow, and for many years it was known as Jubilee Malay Primary School. By the time I went to Primary 1B, it was called Jubilee Primary (Integrated) School. They abolished the Sekolah Melayu Jubilee. Other vernacular schools around the island were systematically replaced by "integrated" schools. Singapore went for its 1 School for All and I thought that they were doing quite alright.

In Malaysia, we have let ourselves fall behind in this regards, but that gives us the benefit of hindsight. Today Malaysians regardless of race or religion (including political ideologies) want a Bangsa Malaysia. 1 Bangsa. Civil society has never demanded harder for One Race as it has been doing in the last couple of years. The government tried to lay the foundations for a Bangsa Malaysia under Wawasan 2020 and there were attempts earlier, including the Bangsa Malaya concept dreamed up by Usman Awang and his Asas 50 friends after the War and just before Merdeka.

Time to join all past and present efforts towards that. Time to walk your talk.

Start with the kids. Integrate. Lets' have 1 School.

Read and Sign the petition again h e r e.

Please also paste the logo at the top of your blogroll so that the Education Minister won't miss it! Attached here is the open letter to the Education Minister "to implore the government to seriously look at the current multi-stream educational anomaly with an eye towards forging a singular Sekolah Kebangsaan for all Malaysians".

p.s. Thank you, KijangMas for initiating the campaign. But I believe we'll need to bring this initiative out of cyberspace into the real world, too.

Must Read:
Satu Sekolah Untuk Semua: Is there a reason to say NO?

UMNO has a low key 63rd birthday celebration

By Zuraidah Abu Bakar(NST)

UMNO is a year older today. Yet its 63rd anniversary does not come with the usual pomp of the nation's grandest political party. Colourful and joyous events could well be history under the leadership of Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who prefers that Umno's over three million members instead observe the reality of the party's declining popularity and renew their commitment to its struggles.

Gone are the days when Umno spent millions of ringgit to celebrate its anniversary that lasted a whole month.

A party official said it once spent RM4 million on an extended birthday bash. "The party is more realistic now," he said.

Behind the low-key flag-raising, special prayers and a speech by the party president at the Putra World Trade Centre, Umno members have to acknowledge their duties in seeing that the party bounces back from the losses in the last general election.

They need to bolster unity so that Umno will remain the bedrock of Malay politics. It is also their responsibility to revive the selfless spirit of Umno's founding in 1946 -- a first step in charting a path to the future and remaking its image for the masses.

Umno is an old party. It cannot work the same way any more. New approaches are needed, especially in reaching out to young Malays now seeking comfort in the arms of Pas and Parti Keadilan Rakyat, both of which offer more alluring political ideals.

Where Malay support is concerned, however, all is not lost as Umno can still outrun Pas and PKR, whose ranks have been boosted by disgruntled Umno members, if it develops the strategies to counter and match its opponents.

In terms of parliamentary seats won in the last election, the two parties are far behind Umno's 79, a testimony to its continuing favour among the Malays.

Najib repeated loudly and clearly in Pekan yesterday that Umno could no longer rely on past achievement to woo young people, who will comprise the bulk of registered voters in the 13th general election.

The party president has cautioned, not once but many times, that changes were inevitable or "the people will change us".

The clobbering that Umno-Barisan Nasional received in the last general election made it realise, for the first time in more than 50 years in office, that it could lose power to the opposition.

For the first time, the prospect of defeat beckons in 2013, by which time the next general election will have to be called.

It cannot be politics as usual for Umno, and not even its most sanguine members can say that there is nothing wrong with the party.

Like all dominant political parties, Umno displayed an arrogance and apathy so glaring that voters rejected it in droves in the 2008 elections.

More than a year later, the demoralised and dispirited in Umno should have learned their lessons and thought of ways to rehabilitate, reform and reinvent the party. But few tangibles have been forthcoming.

New policies have been introduced by the government but the government is not Umno. As the mothership of Barisan Nasional, it has to steer the rest of the fleet on the right course before the next general election.

Preparations to amend the party constitution to revamp the internal election process, including doing away with minimum nominations to contest senior party posts and expanding the vote base, should be timed for completion before the Umno general assembly from Oct 13-16.

The proposed amendments should be discussed from the ground up, at the branch meetings from May 15 to June 30 and divisional meetings scheduled for a month from July 16.

Umno's imperative to "change or be changed", however, will not be accomplished if the party is fractured, especially in the states now under Pakatan Rakyat rule.

As long as the opposing factions remain at loggerheads, backstabbing and sabotaging each other, Umno will fall short of what it set out to do for the Malays.