Sifat Kasih Sayang Dan Saling Menghormati Sesama Insan

Didalam kehidupan kita sehari-hari kita harus mempunyai sifat sayang menyayangi dan hormat menghormati sesama kita.

Sifat kasih sayang ini termasuklah menghormati sesama insan. Kita hormati orang-orang yang lebih tua dari kita. Kita muliakan orang yang berilmu dan kita hendaklah menyayangi kanak-kanak.

Segala keperluan sahabat dan rakan, kita cuba penuhi yang termampu oleh kita. Apa-apa pertolongan yang mereka minta yang munasabah dan terdaya kita cubalah beri bantuan.

Kalau ada saudara-mara atau rakan taulan yang sakit kita hendaklah cepat-cepat menziarahi mereka. Bawalah hadiah atau buah tangan untuk diberikan supaya mereka merasa terhibur denganan kedatangan kita menziarahi mereka yang tidak sihat itu.

Adalah dikatakan bahawa rahmat Allah akan turun kepada orang-orang yang menziarahi orang sakit.

Begitu juga jika kita bersama-sama menjaga orang yang sakit itu, rahmat Allah akan menyelubungi kehidupan kita. Alangkah bertuahnya orang yang bersifat kasih sayang yang diselubongi oleh rahmat Allah seperti ini.

Jiwa kita akan tenang. Tidak ada kerisauan. Kerisauan inilah punca 'stress' dan tekanan kehidupan dunia moden ini.

Stress adalah punca banyak penyakit seperti penyakit jantung, angin akmar dan barah.

Bila seseorang itu mengasihi dan senantiasa memaafkan kesilapan saudara mara dan rakan taulannya tentulah hidupnya akan jadi tenang dan tiada apa-apa yang menggangu fikirannya.

Ia bersangka baik kepada semua orang. Ia merasa dia yang bersalah bukan orang lain. Ia merasa dialah yang penuh kekurangan bukan orang lain. Orang lain semuanya baik-baik dan sempurna. Dia yang perlu memperbaiki akhlaknya yang masih serba kekurangan.

Dia banyak diam dari bercakap. Dia senantiasa cuba mengislah dirinya. Memperbetulkan dirinya.

The dilemmas of PAS and DAP and the problems in PKR

The dilemma of PAS is that there are two factions in the party. Kelantan PAS leaders want Anwar Ibrahim to be Prime Minister if Pakatan were to win the next General Elections schedule for year 2013.

Whereas PAS leaders from outside Kelantan want their own President, Hadi Awang ,and not Anwar, to be the PM of the Pakatan Rakyat government.

So the talks on unity government between PAS and UMNO was not really the issue. The real issue is whether Anwar Ibrahim or Hadi Awang should be the PM if Pakatan wins majority in Parliament.

In the case DAP it is more than willing, for obvious reasons, to accept Anwar as PM. But Anwar is facing charges of homosexuality in the courts and the case is coming up. If Anwar is convicted there will be serious political implications to Pakatan. There is no other leader as charismatic in PKR like Anwar. Wan Azizah is known to be a weak leader. Azmin is still considered too young unless tomorrow suddenly Anwar makes him the MB of Selangor. Then he will have some track record to speak of.

The big question facing DAP is that will they accept Hadi Awang as PM? Logically they should because any goverment in Malaysia should be Malay based in order to be legitimate and stable. This is because Malays make up 60% of the population.

Meanwhile in PKR there are many problems facing the party. A lot of peoples who have contributed one way or another since during the Reformasi days were sidelined. People Ezam, Nallakarupan, Zainab in Penang , Christina Liew in Sabah were pushed aside in favour of certain Anwar's blue-eyed boys.

During reformasi days Ezam and Nallakaruppan had been arrested under ISA and had to suffer a lot both physically and pychologically due to their association and loyalty to Anwar. But once Anwar was released they felt the indignity of being pushed away from centre positions. Only certain people are being taken care of by Anwar and remain in his inner circles.

The latest bombshells were the resignation of Jeffrey Kitingan as Vice President of PKR and Christina Liew as PKR Supreme Council member. Christina was quoted as saying that her past contributions to PKR were not appreciated by current leaders in PKR. This was also the contention of Ezam, Nallakaruppan and Zainab from Penang.

This says much about the Machiavellian nature of the top leadership in PKR.

Then Badrul Hisham left PKR and becomes a BN friendly State Assemblyman of Pelabuhan Kelang in the Selangor State Assembly. What more is to come? Wait and see. The drama is not over yet.

Should the Malays be given more scholarships under 1Malaysia?

I would be writing more details on this later but at this stage I want to state this. My understanding of Article 153 of The Federal Constitution is that when a Malay student gets admitted to a university he is automatically entitle to a scholarship.

The Constitution clearly enshrine this under its Article 153.

My humble opinion is that under the 1Malaysia this is the best time for the Government to reintroduce back to the Malays the educational facilities that are provided to them under the Federal Constitution.

Malaysia's chameleon

The Economist in its issue dated 30 July 2009 described Anwar as a chameleon. There are many implications facing him and his party with the upcoming homosexual court charges that he faced.


BANYAN

Malaysia's chameleon

The rise, fall and rise of Anwar Ibrahim, South-East Asia’s most extraordinary politician

ONE evening in mid-July Anwar Ibrahim was deep in the rubber-tapping state of Kelantan in northern Malaysia, urging a crowd of rural folk to vote for a devout fishmonger. The candidate was from the conservative Islamic Party (PAS). A tiny by-election for the state assembly PAS already dominates is ordinarily small beer (or would be, if PAS allowed such a beverage, which it does not). But Mr Anwar needs PAS. For the paradox is that without the Islamists, the alliance he leads of Malay modernisers, Indians and secular Chinese has little chance of driving the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) from power. The coalition that UMNO dominates has ruled Malaysia since independence in 1957. Mr Anwar longs for UMNO’s destruction. The feeling is mutual.

That morning, Mr Anwar had been in Perth where he had met Australia’s foreign minister. What had he been doing with Stephen Smith? “Plotting,” replies Mr Anwar, with a conspiratorial wink. Mr Anwar spends a lot of time abroad with national and religious leaders whose names he drops slightly too easily into an engaging conversational style. He moves like quicksilver from one intriguing subject to the next, but you get the uncanny sense that he is speaking to what interests you.

Mr Anwar thinks he will soon need international support. Two days after stumping in Kelantan, pre-trial hearings began in a case in which Mr Anwar stands accused of sodomising a political aide “against the order of nature”. Mr Anwar vigorously denies the charges. He says he is the victim of a political stitch-up. International outrage might help him. Much is fishy about the case. Photographs of the former aide who brought the accusations show him with UMNO members, including people close to the current prime minister, Najib Razak. The charge has been changed from sexual assault to “consensual sex”, yet his accuser has not been charged. (All homosexuality is illegal in Malaysia.)

Mr Anwar has been here before. In 1998 he was charged with corruption and homosexual acts. In custody, he was beaten up by the chief of police. He spent six years in jail, mostly in solitary confinement, until his conviction was overturned. Upon release, his political career seemed over.

It is easy to forget now but for many years Mr Anwar led a charmed life. He made his name as an Islamist student leader in the 1970s and was even jailed under the draconian Internal Security Act. Then he shocked his former colleagues by joining UMNO, where his rise was spectacular. By 1993 he was deputy prime minister and heir to Mahathir Mohamad, the country’s long-serving leader. Malaysia seemed about to fall into his lap. “Ah,” says Mr Anwar, “the good old days.”

But during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, Mr Anwar moved too soon against his mentor, who after 16 years in power was not ready to bow out. Mr Anwar railed against the UMNO cronyism from which he had benefited. Livid, Dr Mahathir threw him out of the cabinet and launched Mr Anwar’s persecution. Mr Anwar’s reformasi movement sputtered out with his jailing.

Yet the hopes which that movement represented surged again after the general election of March 2008, and especially after August 2008 when Mr Anwar won a seat in Penang. In the election the ruling coalition lost its precious two-thirds majority which gave it power to change the constitution. It has since lost five out of six by-elections to Mr Anwar’s forces, which also control four of 13 states. In getting out its message, the opposition has been helped by an explosion of internet opinion that has undermined the influence of the UMNO-controlled mainstream media.

UMNO’s back is against the wall. Even its own officials admit to its arrogance, with corruption bound into the fabric of its power. The New Economic Policy (NEP, introduced in 1971) instituted racial preferences for majority Malays, when ethnic Chinese and Indians owned much of business. But instead of helping the poor, the NEP has enriched rent-seekers around the ruling party, while dragging down economic growth. Resentment has spread from Chinese and Indians to poor or pious Malays.

This has made possible Mr Anwar’s strange alliance. In calling for the end to the NEP, he says poor Chinese and Indians need help as much as Malays—but because there are more poor Malays than other races, they will still get the lion’s share of government help. It is a possible way out from the baneful influence of race on Malaysian politics. But the real strength of this alliance is that Mr Anwar’s charisma and political nous holds it together. Alas, that it is potential weakness, too.

Trials and tribulations

The challenges for Mr Anwar and his alliance will now multiply. For a start, Mr Najib, prime minister since April, has said the NEP must adapt, stealing some of his opponent’s thunder.

Then there is the time-consuming trial. Mr Anwar says he will win whatever the verdict. If he is acquitted, the government which brought the case will be discredited. If found guilty, tens of thousands of supporters will take to the streets. Mr Anwar hints tantalisingly at new information in a murder case that has gripped the country partly because of its links to Mr Najib. This, he suggests, gives him ammunition to fight back.

Intriguing, but it is unlikely to be enough. If Mr Anwar does go to jail, the alliance may not survive the loss of its leader. If he calls out his supporters—for something of the martyr lurks in him—he may be blamed for the ensuing chaos. And if he appeals to international opinion, his local supporters may question that.

This points to a trap waiting to catch the silver-tongued Mr Anwar, who deftly tells different audiences—religious or secular—what they like to hear. The same blogosphere that helped his meteoric rise may one day pay more attention to his chameleon qualities. Malaysians would then come to ask more closely: who and what exactly does Anwar stand for?

DATO HASSAN ALI DAN POLITIK PAS DAN DAP

AGAK mengherankan dalam Dato Hassan Ali diserang bertubi-tubi oleh pemimpin-pemimpin DAP, pemimpin-pemimpin PAS menyepi seribu bahasa.

Hassan Ali memperjuangkan isu utama penjualan arak di kawasan Melayu. Bukankah ini yang dilakukan di Kelantan dan Trengganu?

Kebisuan PAS adalah membingungkan.

Adakah Hassan mahu dibakar macam sate demi politik. Ini tidak betul dan politik yang tidak berprinsip. Akhirnya PAS yang rugi bila satu-satu pemimpinnya dijadikan kambing hitam oleh DAP yang ternyata lebih licik dan teratur kepimpinanya.

The Press And Politics in Japan (Lihat Komen Saya Diakhir Atikel Ini)

Let the rising sunlight in

Sep 24th 2009 | TOKYO ,The Economist

A change of government threatens the cosy ties between media and mandarins

Illustration by David Simonds

EVERY night the Yomiuri Shimbun building in Tokyo begins to shake. From The Economist’s office on the eighth floor it feels, for a moment, like an earthquake. But it is just the world’s biggest-selling newspaper cranking up the printing presses in the bowels of the building for tomorrow morning’s edition. A different sort of tremor has rattled the Yomiuri in the past week. The government of Yukio Hatoyama came into office on September 16th, vowing that it wanted to shake up some of the power structures in Japan that had helped its defeated rival, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), hold sway for half a century.

The main target is the bureaucracy, which has wielded extraordinary power from its bunker-like compound in Tokyo. But one of the bureaucracy’s levers of control has been the press, which critics say has too often enjoyed a relationship of mutual back-scratching with the mandarins.

So when Mr Hatoyama took office, threatening to ban regular press conferences by bureaucrats in a bid to lessen their sway, the battle lines were drawn. It took just a day for the Yomiuri to hit back. In an editorial, it acknowledged that Mr Hatoyama had a right to wrestle power back from civil servants—but not, it said, at the cost of the media’s access to information. “We want the Hatoyama administration to reconsider its decision to muzzle bureaucrats,” the newspaper said.

The skirmish may appear small, but it has important ramifications. As Takashi Uesugi, a campaigning freelance journalist puts it, Japan’s equivalent of America’s military-industrial complex is the “bureaucracy-media complex”. But taking on both the bureaucracy and the media at the same time could expose the new government to a war on two fronts.

The power of the bureaucracy dates back centuries, when it comprised members of the samurai elite who were encouraged to administer, rather than fight. In the past 50 years, bureaucrats helped develop the industrial policies that turned Japan from post-war collapse to the second-biggest economy in the world.

The mandarins’ reputation has faded during the economic hardship of the past 20 years. But Takashi Inoguchi, a political scientist, believes the samurai strain has persisted. He likens the bureaucracy to a Roman legion that will protect itself in tortoise-like formation. “Its spirit and mental framework remains that of the warrior,” he says. “It is very determined, very patient and organisationally very strong.”

The media, meanwhile, give the civil servants an unusually direct line of communication with the outside world. Newspapers have a circulation of 68m copies a day, the highest in the rich world, and in each ministry they are part of a system known as the “kisha club”, or press club, which dates back to the 19th century and encourages intimate contact between the mainstream media and the bureaucracy.

In the past the clubs, whose members are self-selecting, have been criticised for closing ministerial press conferences to foreign correspondents, internet reporters and freelancers (whom they often disparage as “gossip-mongers”). The system breeds information-sharing and discourages scoops. Critics say it stifles the sort of investigative reporting badly needed after Japan’s incestuous politics under the LDP.

Even some leading lights of the mass media acknowledge that change may be overdue. Yoichi Funabashi, editor-in-chief of the Asahi Shimbun, and one of Japan’s most respected journalists, welcomed Mr Hatoyama’s unprecedented decision to allow a handful of magazine and internet journalists to his inaugural news conference: “Now the dam has broken.”

Less understanding members of the media, however, may turn against Mr Hatoyama. Papers such as the Yomiuri, with a circulation of 10m, have longstanding ties to the LDP; its boss, Tsuneo Watanabe, was considered one of the party’s kingmakers. The press also has its eye on a scandal in which Mr Hatoyama admitted that his fund-raising organisation listed fictitious individual donations, including from dead people. This may return to trouble him.

Yet he would surely be foolish to leave the kisha club alone. His party won the election in August by a landslide partly because it promised more open government. The Japanese are keen to see an end to the murky back-room compromises in which elected officials took office, but bureaucrats were in power. If the press remains complicit with that system, Mr Hatoyama’s promise to end the status quo in Japan will be all the harder to achieve.

PENDAPAT SAYA:

Memang berat tanggungjawab seorang pemimpin. Kadang-kadang berhadapan dengan situasi ditelan mati emak, diluah mati bapak. Seorang pemimpin perlu adil dan tegas dalam menangani sesuatu masalah. Apa yang perlu dibuat jalankanlah dengan bijaksana. Rakyat masih mahu parti yang memerintah sekarang meneruskan khidmatnya. Rakyat tidak mahu seorang pemimpin alternatif yang bersikap petualang yang mahu jadi PM dengan apa cara pun dan berkiblatkan kepada suatu kuasa asing yang dikuasai oleh kaum Yahudi berjaya dalam agenda jahatnya berjaya mendapat kuasa. Cuma ia yang mencapai cita-cita jahatnya, rakyat tidak semestinya mendapat apa-apa munafaat dan kebaikan.

Singapore's Armed Forces Buildup - The Need to Avoid Confrontation Within ASEAN

IKIM VIEWS

By Suzalie Mohamad, Fellow, Centre of Syariah, Law and Political Science, IKIM -The Star

Singapore’s armed forces buildup suggests it could be an outpost in the security chain the US is building around China, and this is contrary to the spirit of Asean, of which it is a member.

A LEADING US international intelligence agency recently published a significant report defining US-Singapore military cooperation and highlighting Singapore as one of the US’ prime regional strategic alliances and recipients of military assistance.

It also highlighted the objective of this cooperation.

Singapore owns the most modern armed forces in this region. With US military cooperation, support and guarantee, Singapore is equipped with the most advanced military equipment in the world.

According to military experts, Singapore’s military buildup is the best in terms of tactical-technological advancement in South East Asia.

The article Singapore’s Military Buildup: US Assists City-State to Improve Defences to Deter China specifically mentions that the continuous modernisation of Singapore’s armed forces is meant to become the key link in the security chain that the US is building around China.

The cooperation is viewed as a move to deter China.

Mark Helprin, an analyst from the Claremont Institute asserts that China is more dangerous than the Soviet Union(Russia?).

The weakening of the US economically and militarily is giving rise to a new centre of power.

The US economy, mismanaged and drained by its global wars on terrorism, is increasingly dependent on Chinese trade imports and on Chinese holdings of US treasury securities.

China is the biggest preserver of the US dollar with US$825bil (RM3tril) worth.

Princeton University Professor Chris Hedges said if Beijing decided to abandon the US bond market, even in part, it would have a serious effect on the value of the US currency.

Consequently, it would lead to the collapse of the US$7tril (RM25tril) US real estate market, and there would be a wave of US bank failures and huge unemployment.

This psychological threat creates fear in the White House. Thus the buildup of security chains around China is deemed necessary. Japan, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia have already taken their place in the anti-China security chain.

Singapore being an advanced and developed country within South East Asian is deemed important in the US deterrence policy towards China.

Singapore’s military spending doubled to US$8bil (RM28bil) in 2008. With such an allocation, its armed force is well positioned to acquire the sophisticated weapons and technologies it needs.

Many strategic analysts believe that with such an arsenal, Singapore is able to destroy enemies on the ground, pre-emptively seize strategic territory and intervene quickly and effectively in Indonesia, Malaysia and other likely trouble spots in the contested South China Sea.

Like Israel, which lacks strategic depth and is outnumbered by potentially hostile neighbours, Singapore’s defence strategy is two-fold: build an offensive-minded security force that can strike at potential enemies before they harm it, and seek the support and protection of the US.

Besides Singapore, the US is also continuously seeking other potential strategic allies in the region like Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.

It is also raising the prospect of a return to Subic Bay in the Philippines.

At present, Singapore allows the US Pacific Naval Command to use its port for repair, replacing the role of Subic Bay which was closed in the 1990s.

Australia and Japan have already entered strong agreement with the US in the anti-China security chain.

US involvement in Singapore’s armed forces has led Singapore to become a big power partner of the US anti-China security policy in the Asia Pacific.

Undeniably, this kind of relationship sidesteps the Asean spirit to remain neutral and free from geo-political intimidation and interference.

Singapore’s effort to modernise its fighting forces, working to better integrate its force with that of the US and Australia and other regional militaries, and being located at one of the world’s most strategic checkpoints – both economically and militarily – will likely see it emerge later as a front-line outpost in the escalating military confrontation between the US and China.

It is time now, for peace loving countries in this region to reject this kind of engagement.

Any process towards war must be blocked by any means. Malaysia should take the lead to mobilise member states of Asean to realise the spirit of non-confrontation and mutual cooperation.

The military policy and strategy that encourage arms race and suspicion must be avoided at all means.

My personal view on the Singapore Armed Forces buildup is that it is targeted at Muslim countries in ASEAN, namely, Indonesia and Malaysia for obvious reasons. Singapore needs more land for its bursting population. The China factor given by the US intelligence agencies are red hearing to divert our attention from the truth.

Bangladesh -Negara Yang Kuat Islamnya Tapi Mempunyai Ekonomi Yang Dhaif - UPDATED 20.09.2009

Saya sekarang ini berada di Chittagong , bandar pelabuhan Bangladesh yang terbesar dan bandar kedua besar selepas Dhaka.

Penduduk Bangladesh berjumlah 140 juta orang. Dhaka, ibu negerinya mempunyai 15 juta orang penghuni sementara Chittagong pula 10 juta.

Pada tanggapan saya negara ini amat kuat berpegang kepada agama Islam tapi keadaan ekonomi agak dhaif. Dari nama-nama orang yang kita jumpa kekuatan Islam nyata kedapatan. Umpanya pada nama-nama mereka. Banyak yang mempunyai nama yang baik-baik seperti Abu Bakar Siddique, Umar Al Khatab, Haqqul Islam, Hidayyatul Islam Nur Yakin, Nur Islam, Suhail, dan nama sahabat seperti Bilal, Abu Hurairah, Annas ibn Malik dan sebagainya.

Pegangan kepada agama Islam yang kuat kuat dan kental dikalangan masyarakat di sini teryata begitu sekali. Boleh dikatakan semua peringkat umur samada remaja, umur pertengahan(middle age) dan orang tua-tua beriktikaf di mesjid-mesjid dengan bersungguh sepanjang bulan Ramadan lebih-lebih lagi pada sepuluh hari Ramadan yang terakhirakhir. Malam tadi misalnya merupakan malam ke duapuluh tujuh Ramadan mesjid adalah penuh dengan maknusia yang tidak tidur semalaman sampai pagi untuk mendapatkan Lailatul Qadar (Malam Seribu Bulan). Mereka yang dapat malam tersebut amalan 1,000 bulan atau amalan 83 tahun. Bayangkanlah mereka disini telah melakukan amalan ini tiap-tiap Ramadan sepanjang hayat mereka. Betapa bertuahnya kehidupan mereka. Walaupun miskin tapi iman mereka kuat.

Amat menakjubkan amalan dan ibadat mereka ini. Perkara ini mungkin ada berlaku di setengah mesjid dan surau di Malaysia. Tetapi tidak meluas seperti disini.

Ini adalah pengalaman baru kepada saya. Ia amat meninggalkan kesan yang mendalam kepada hati sanubari saya yang tidak akan dapat saya lupakan sehingga ke akhir hayat saya.

Walaubagimanapun Bangladesh adalah negara yang dhaif. Pendapatannya adalah dari pengeluaran pakaian yang di jahit dan diekspot ke Amerika dan Eropah. Kedua adalah pendapatan dari tenaga maknusianya yang bekerja di negara seperti Malaysia dan Singapura. Mereka ini akan menghantar duit balik ke negara mereka. Tentera Bangladesh juga kerap bertugas dengan Pasukan Pengaman Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu. Ini turut membiayai perbelanjaan negara.

Pada umumnya jumlah penduduk yang menjadikan kota-kotanya sesak dengan maknusia. Perbandingan yang boleh saya berikan ialah kawasan Chow Kit Road yang penuh sesak dengan maknusia. Cuba gambarkan seluruh Kuala Lumpur penuh sesak seperti keadaan Chow Kit Road. Penuh sesak dengan dengan maknusia. Dhaka ada 15 juta orang sementara Chittagong pula 10 juta.

Sebaliknya Kuala Lumpur penduduknya baru sebanyak 3 juta maknusia. Itu pun banyak aduan mengenai infrastrukturnya seperti jalan yang sesak dan banjir kilat. Kita kena bersyukur dengan keadaan negara yang kaya dengan sumber alam dan jumlah penduduk yang kecil.

Sebagai bandingan Indonesia ada 250 juta penduduk, Filipina lebih kurang 80 juta, India 1.2 billion dan Bangladesh 140 juta. Di negara-negara ini kalau diambil 10% dari penduduknya yang teratas memang elit, mewah dan kaya raya. Anak-anak mereka belajar di Amerika dan Eropah. Bersekolah di Sekolah Antarabangsa(International Schools) . Kemudiannya pergi ke universiti luar negeri dengan perbelanjaan sendiri. Boelh bertutur berbagai bahasa.

Jumlah kelas menengah dalam masyarakat negara-negara ini adalah kecil. Mungkin kelas menengah adalah antara 10 hingga 20%. Kelas menengah terdiri dari para profesional seperti doktor, jurutera arkitek, pegawai tinggi kerajaan dan general tentera dan ketua polis.

Yang lainnya sebanyak antara 50 hingga 60% adalah golongan miskin yang kais pagi makan pagi dan kais petang makan petang petang. Mereka terpaksa membuat dua atau tiga kerja untuk menampung kehidupan mereka.

Diperingkat bawah sekali ialah miskin tegar yang mungkin anak-anak mereka tidak cukup makan yang secukupnya dan tidak pula bersekolah. Jadi mereka tidak akan dapat keluar dalam kepompong kemiskinan mereka (forever caught in the vicious circle of their poverty). Mereka ini adalah sumber kepada masalah sosial seperti kemurtadan, gangterisme, penagihan dadah dan sebagainya.

Kebelakangan ini makin bertambah banyak unsur-unsur dan masalah sosial. Banyak orang Islam yang telah menjadi murtad oleh sebab kemiskian. Saya mendapat tahu gerakan mengkristiankan orang Islam telah pun mula menular di negara ini. Gereja memang diketahui mempunyai banyak dana dan ada perancangan yang rapi dalam gerakan mereka. Mereka sedang memberi fokus kepada negara-negara Islam terutama yang banyak penduduknya miskin.

Apakah tindakan kita mengatasi masalah ini? Ia satu masalah yang besar kepada umat Islam sedunia. Alim ulama, pakar ekonomi dan ahli bijak pandai yang sayangkan sesama Muslim perlu duduk berbincang. Ada banyak negara Islam yang kaya raya. Mereka mempunyai tanggungjawab dan amanah keatas kekayaan negara mereka. Pemimpin-pemimpin ini perlu merancang untuk memberi bantuan sistematik kepada saudara seagama dengan mereka. Kekayaan yang diberikan oleh Allah adalah amanah kepada mereka. Adalah kehendak dan tuntutan Allah supaya mereka membantu saudara mereka yang miskin dan dhaif.

Kegagalan berbuat begitu akan mengakibat ramai lagi umat Islam yang akan murtad.

Mereka ini(pemimpin-pemimpin negara Islam yang kaya) akan ditanya dan berhadapan dengan Allah di Padang Mahsar mengenai apa yang mereka lakukan keatas amanah dan kekayaan yang diberikan kepada mereka didunia ini.

Akhir sekali saya sekeluarga mengambil kesempatan untuk mengucapkan SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDIL FITRI DAN MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATHIN kepada semua para pembaca setia yang beragama Islam yang mengikuti blog ini. Salam hormat dari saya hamba Allah yang kerdil.

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.