Lantik Pegawai Khas kaum Cina bukan kerana pilihan raya - Salahuddin

“SELEPAS Muktamar Agung PAS ke-53, pelbagai pendekatan 'baru' sudah mula digerakkan PAS dan sayap-sayap dewannya bagi mendedakatkan diri dengan masyarakat tidak mengira latar belakang warna kulit, agama mahupun fahaman politik………"

Jika dahulu PAS hanya dikenali sebagai parti orang Melayu Islam sahaja, namun kini PAS mula diterima oleh pelbagai lapisan masyarakat dan keturunan.

PAS telah menubuhkan Kelab Penyokongnya yang tersendiri yang terdiri daripada masyarakat kaum Cina dan India semasa Pilihan Raya Umum 2004”.

Excerpts from Harakahdaily.

PAS SHOULD……SHOULD PAS ?

My friends in PAS will not be happy. I apologize but I’ll say it anyway. Non Muslims will not support them. Never have, never will. Everybody knows that, PAS members and leaders included.

Yes the party are making effort to cut across racial and religious barriers in reaching people of different of faith but fact of the matter is – PAS cannot get the all round support needed to win elections at national level. Simply because PAS by its own admission is an “Islamic party” , wanting to wrest control of the nation via the ballot boxes and rule in an “Islamic way’. Lets not go into details or be judgmental but despite all the “assurances of fairness and justice” to be meted out to non Muslims, they remain “skeptical” and“scared” of a PAS ruled nation.

Appointing a Chinese “special officer ‘ and the setting up of “ Chinese and Indians supporters clubs” , laudable no doubt but are not bringing in the desired results. PAS knows this.

Even the idea of opening up the party to non Muslims have resulted in many questions being asked rather than more answers being provided. And we all know what happened to the“electoral pact” between Pas and the other opposition parties.

The trouble is , PAS wants to have the cake and the icing as well. The reality is they can’t.

PAS must choose one. If I’m running the party ( which I am not ) PAS should be bold enough to say“ we want to rule the nation the Islamic way” .Even if that mean no non Muslims support and losing the general elections. In fact PAS President Tuan guru Haji Hadi Awang did say sometime ago that his party would rather lose the elections than compromised its “principles”. Sadly along the way things waver, although no fault of Haji Hadi but rather due to “ political necessities” .

Having said that I say this.—although PAS claim to be an “Islamic party” ,it is now very much a Muslim/Malay party with a very small number of non Malay Muslims members.

Hence the party should recruit Muslims of Chinese, Indian and other origins as party members.

Only then can PAS declare themselves a an all Muslim party. They might not rule the nation but they can be a strong force in Muslim majority areas. That’s what I believe .But then what do I know….









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Dr. Kua's Book

I’m not about to discuss the content except to turn your attention to a paragraph in page 6 which read as follows;

'' .........,UMNO Youth organized a rally at the SULTAN SULAIMAN STADIUM in Kuala Lumpur atwhich racist and seditious slogans were carried in banners ..........''.

What I want to highlight is the venue of the rally.

There’s no SULTAN SULAIMAN STADIUM in Kuala Lumpur as mentioned by Dr.Kua Kia Soong in his book.

In Kampung Baru Kuala Lumpur , there’s a Sultan Sulaiman CLUB ( Kelab Sultan Sulaiman ).Yes the club have a padang which is definitely not a stadium.

I’m very well aware of the rally Dr Kua was referring to and it was held at RAJA MUDA STADIUM. In Kampung Baru Kuala Lumpur.
It was originally known as TPCA stadium TPCA being acronym for Tamilian Physical and Cultural Association.

Petty ? But for a book which claimed to be “ the first credible account of the May 13 1969 racial riots in Malaysia using documents recently declassified at ther Public Records Office London”, such simple factual error is , disappointing , to say the least. To me lah..

I like the way the NST article ended...Sort of a poser...
And posers are open to interpretation.

At a glance, it could very well mean Parti Keadilan Raykat will close shop, bungkus,gulung tikar – the final blow being Ezam Mohamad Noor's departure ...
Ezam afterall was a party strongman.

But looking back at the road Parti Melayu Semangat 46 took , there were several interesting events prior to the folding of the party.

One was the departure of Semangat 46 strongman Datuk Paduka Ibrahim Ali.
He then rejoined UMNO and was credited as the man responsible for paving the way for Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and all of his men back into the UMNO fold – enbloc albeit . formalities like application forms etc.Only then was Semangat 46 declared defunct.

So is that the road PKR will follow? Or is this just another example of “sama tetapi tak serupa”, similar but not the same ? .

DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM ? ( 2 )

Heard this sometime ago. As usual took it upon myself to “readjust’.

A young executive, on his first day of work in a big corporation picked up the phone in his new posh office and shouted on top of his voice “ HOI, BRING ME SOME COFFEE”, thinking he was talking to the canteen operator.

But at the other end was not the canteen operator but the CEO himself .

“ Idiot. DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM ?”, the CEO shot back.” I’m, your CEO”.
Stunned the young exec asked sofly, “ Do you know who I am” ?

“NO”, replied the angry CEO.

“Good”, said the young executive and hung up.

YES NO ALRIGHT....

This was sent to me via email. But I took the liberty to somehow "rearrange" it just to drive home a point.

So here goes;

Siti wanted to break off with her MAT SALLEH boy friend but cant bring herself to meet the guy face to face.

So she wrote him a letter , in Bahasa at first , translated afterwards. The translated version was sent to her MAT SALLEH boy friend.

The letter goes like this.

Hai, tujuan aku menulis surat ini ialah untuk memberitahu kau sesuatu.
HAI MY MOTIVE WRITE THIS LETTER IS TO GIVE KNOW YOU SOMETHING.

Aku mahu putuskan hubungan kita.Aku sudah fikirkan masak masak
I WANT TO CUT CONNECTION US. I HAVE THINK ABOUT THIS VERY COOK COOK.

Aku tahu aku hanya bertepuk sebelah tangan.Benar aku ada nampak kau dengan si dia berdua di pekan dengan mata ku sendiri.
I KNOW I CLAP ONE HAND ONLY. .CORRECTLY I HAVE SEEN YOU AND SHE TOGETHER AT TOWN WITH EYES MYSELF.

Kau selalu meminta maaf kembali. Aku tidak percaya kau lagi.Kau benar benar buaya darat.
YOU ALWAYS ASK FOR APOLOGY BACK BACK .I DON'T TRUST YOU AGAIN.YOU ARE REALLY CROCODILE LAND.

Kawan ku kata kau main kayu tiga.Sekarang aku tahu kau benar benar main kau tiga..
MY FRIEND SPEAK YOU PLAY WOOD THREE. NOW I KNOW YOU CORRECT CORRECT PLAY WOOD THREE.

Oleh itu aku putuskan hubungan dan tarik diri daripada cinta tiga segi ini.
SO I BREAK CONNECTION TO PULL MY BODY FROM THIS LOVE TRIANGLE.

Aku tahu keputusan yang ku pilih ini betul kerana kau mencintainya lebih daripada ku.
I KNOW THIS RESULT I PICK IS VERY CORRECT BECAUSE YOU LOVE SHE VERY HIGH FROM ME.

Oleh itu aku putuskan untuk pergi jauh dari sini.
SO I BREAK OFF TO GO FAR FROM HERE.

Aku tidak mau mahu kau bermain dengan hati ku.
I DONT WANT YOU TO PLAY WITH MY LIVER.

Aku menangis sehingga tidak ada lagi air mata mengenangkan kau .
I HAVE BEEN CRYING UNTIL NO MORE EYE WATER THINKING OF YOU.

Aku tidak mau pisang berbuah dua kali.
I DONT WANT BANANA TO FRUIT TWO TIMES.

Selamat jalan.
SAFE WALK.

Far fetched ? Perhaps. But morale of the story …. the standard of English among our young, especially the Malays. The important question is -- whose fault is it ? And more importantly - what should be done ?