Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat, John Kerry, mengecam Donald Trump kerana mengancam untuk mengharamkan orang Islam daripada memasuki negara itu.
Encik Kerry melemparkan kecaman tersebut di satu majlis iftar yang disertai para penganut berbilang agama di Virginia.
Tanpa menyebut nama calon presiden Amerika dari parti Republican itu, Encik Kerry berkata “retorik taksub dan berbaur kebencian terhadap orang-orang Islam hanya memanfaatkan golongan perekrut pengganas.”
Encik Kerry memberitahu para hadirin bahawa tindakan seperti itu memanfaatkan “individu-individu yang menyebarkan pembohongan bahawa Amerika berperang dengan Islam.”
Majlis iftar itu secara kebetulan diadakan pada hari yang sama dengan Hari Pelarian Sedunia, dan turut hadir di majlis tersebut ialah Duta Khas agensi pelarian Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB), UNHCR, yang juga pelakon terkenal, Angelina Jolie.
Jolie berkata “mencemuh sesiapa sahaja kerana agama, kerakyatan, orientasi seksual, jantina atau atas sebarang ciri-ciri atau perbezaan mereka, sama ada benar atau hanya bayangan, tidak membuat seseorang itu lebih kuat.”
Kekuatan itu, katanya, ialah mengenal pasti cara mengatasi cabaran “kumpulan minoriti amat kecil yang memilih laluan ekstremisme yang ganas, atau menyalahgunakan sesebuah agama, tanpa melakukan stigma dan memencilkan jutaan orang yang menganuti agama indah itu.”
Encik Kerry berkata “tiada bukti sama sekali” bahawa para pelarian yang melalui pemeriksaan ketat untuk memasuki Amerika Syarikat menjadi ancaman kepada masyarakat, seperti juga anggota kumpulan lain.
Do you know the best way to defeat the Malays? No need to fight them. Just sit back and watch them kill one another. So what DAP’s ‘Superman’ said during the Sarawak by-election was actually very true. All the Chinese need to do is to support one group of Malays to fight another group of Malays and the Malays will wipe themselves out.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
I was already 18 going on 19 in 1969 when the race riot (and not the first race riot, mind you) erupted on 13th May, three days after the Saturday, 10th May, general election.
Much has been said and written about one of these dark periods in Malaysian history (oh yes, we have had many dark periods in Malaysian history). Nevertheless I was there, so I can tell you what happened (or partly about what happened) from an eyewitness’s account.
It is true that on the 11th and the 12th of May the non-Malays were parading (at least from what I witnessed in Bangsar and Brickfields where I lived) and were shouting insults at the Malays and telling the Malays to leave Kuala Lumpur and balek kampung because the Chinese now own the town(s), etc. However, that was not why ‘May 13’ started. That was the excuse they used to start ‘May 13’.
In fact, I was not only a witness to the events in early 1969, I was also at the anti-government demonstration in front of Pudu Jail earlier (where we got shot with tear gas) and I attended all the opposition ceramahs in Brickfields, which were very inflammatory and racial in tone.
So, yes, there was a build-up to the 13th May 1969 race riot and it was built up over a period of time. But then this was intentionally allowed to happen. And as much as Tunku Abdul Rahman tried to curtail all this and he issued instructions to the police to clamp down on the racial rhetoric, there were others in Umno and in the government who countermanded the Tunku’s orders and undermined Tunku so that the racial heat can build up even higher.
And this was why the Tunku stepped down one year later in 1970. The Tunku did not step down because of May 13 or because he failed to stop May 13. He stepped down because of a broken heart. His heart was broken by the fact that so many Malaysians had to die unnecessarily (some estimates put it at 600 and others at thousands, although ‘officially’ it is less than 200) just because some people in Umno were trying to oust him from power.
Even decades later the Tunku would still break down and cry whenever he talked about this. You can see he was still upset until the day he went to his grave and one of the people he blamed for ‘May 13’ was Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The Tunku even went so far as to say that Malaysia would be cursed if Mahathir ever took over as Prime Minister.
Over the last ten years since 2006 (when Mahathir first launched his campaign to oust Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi) Mahathir has travelled the length and breadth of Malaysia to talk about how Malays lost power. Yes, that is the gist of Mahathir’s lectures — about how Malays lost political power and now have to share power with the non-Malays.
Mahathir starts with the story of Melaka and about how some Malays collaborated with the Portuguese, which resulted in the collapse of the Sultanate in 1511 and which resulted in Melaka and eventually the rest of Malaya getting colonised for hundreds of years (and for Penang and Singapore becoming Chinese-owned).
Anwar Ibrahim, however, has a slightly different version of that same story. Anwar says it was because of the treachery of the Mamak that Melaka fell. And that is why ‘Mamak Bendahara’ (meaning Mahathir, the then Prime Minister) must be ousted. It is actually quite hilarious considering that Anwar himself is Mamak so it was actually a battle of the Mamaks but using the Malays to fight this battle.
Anyway, the point that Mahathir was making (at least in his lectures over the last ten years since 2006) is that the Malays perpetually fight amongst themselves and in the end the foreigners take over the country. And Mahathir is also telling us that unless the Malays unite then Malaysia will always be in danger of getting colonised or the non-Malays would be able to grab political power.
This was what Mahathir told the Malays in 2006-2008 when he wanted to oust Abdullah and this is what Mahathir is telling us now when he wants to oust Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak. The Malays fight with the Malays and the non-Malays or foreigners end up taking over the country.
In 1969, Mahathir told the Tunku that the reason the Malays were very angry (and did not vote Umno) was because he (the Tunku) gave too much face to the Chinese. In 2013, Mahathir told Najib the same thing: that he (Najib) was giving too much face to the Chinese (who do not support the government anyway) and was neglecting the Malay voters (who are actually Umno’s support base).
As Mahathir is so fond of telling us, the Malays love to self-destruct. The Malays love fighting each other. Malays suffer from a syndrome called PHD (perangai hasad dengki). They can’t stand seeing someone have more than them so if you spend RM1,000,000 on your daughter’s wedding then I must spend RM1,500,000 and if you invite Mahathir as your VIP guest then I must invite Mahathir and Muhyiddin Yassin.
Yes, the Malays first became divided in 1951 when PAS was created (by Umno people themselves). Then, in 1987, the Malays further became divided due to a power struggle within Umno (that involved Mahathir and Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah) and which resulted in the creation of Semangat 46. In 1998, the Malays became divided, yet again, due to, yet again, another power struggle in Umno and Parti Keadilan Nasional was created followed by an opposition coalition.
So the history of the Malays is that every few years they will fight and they will get divided and they will become a little bit weaker because of it. And the non-Malays will take advantage of this (as they should) and unite while the Malays divide.
Over the last two years the Malays have become divided even more, the worst ever in history. Umno is divided with the Mahathir faction leading the ANC (Anti-Najib Campaign). PAS is divided with the creation of PAN a.k.a. Amanah as the breakaway party. PKR, a Malay-based multi-racial party, is also divided with the Anwar and family faction on one side and the Azmin Ali faction on the other.
Yes, and while the Malays are divided into six, or maybe even seven or eight, the Chinese are united under Pakatan Harapan. And because the Malays now see how weak they have become and now that they realise they no longer have bargaining power like they used to (and that even MCA, MIC, Gerakan, etc., now dare challenge Umno when in the past they would not dare squeak) the Malays need to find someone to blame. And the most convenient scapegoat would be to blame the Chinese for this.
This is a typical Malay attitude. When they are lazy and they fail, they will say this is God’s will (so they blame God for their failure). When they fight amongst themselves and become weak, they will blame the Chinese for uniting and for splitting the Malays. When they are bankrupt of ideas, they will use Islam as the political weapon or political platform and then will blame the non-Muslims for insulting Islam or for not respecting Islam.
Do you know the best way to defeat the Malays? No need to fight them. Just sit back and watch them kill one another. So what DAP’s ‘Superman’ said during the Sarawak by-election was actually very true. All the Chinese need to do is to support one group of Malays to fight another group of Malays and the Malays will wipe themselves out.
We learn from the Quran that when the Prophet Lūt was preaching to his people, eventually his people threatened him: “Expel the people of Lūt from our town! They are a group that seek to purify us” [al-Naml; 56].
Alas! History always repeats itself, and the way matters are heading now, I fear it is only a matter of time before mobs begin to gather, and legislation is passed, to ban people who believe in the standard morality of sexuality.
This vicious onslaught after the Orlando massacre against people who wish to affirm what used to be the mainstream Abrahamic understanding of morality exemplifies the intolerance and bigotry of the very folks who would accuse others of intolerance and bigotry.
Where is the freedom to believe and practice what I choose? We have agreed to abide by the conditions of American liberalism: to live and let live. We have agreed that anyone who preaches hatred and violence should be marginalized and stopped if possible.
I agree that I have no right to force my positions and opinions on you.
Will you, who used to champion for your personal freedoms and ask us to simply let you be, allow me that same privilege?
PETALING JAYA: Pelakon Singapura Elfaeza Ulhaq mengakui sejak berimej muslimah pada Januari lalu beliau berhadapan dengan ujian apabila sering ditawarkan pelbagai watak yang memerlukannya membuka hijab.
Menurut mStar Online, Elfaeza yang berusia 31 tahun sering ditawarkan pelbagai watak yang memerlukan beliau membuka hijab tetapi beliau reda dan menolak dengan baik walaupun pendapatan beliau dalam bidang lakonan semakin berkurangan.
“Saya akui saya kurang muncul di televisyen sejak bertudung kerana tawaran semakin berkurangan. Ada yang buat tawaran tetapi kebanyakan untuk drama berbahasa Inggeris yang memerlukan saya membuka hijab.
“Ia satu dugaan dan ujian buat saya di saat saya tiada pekerjaan. Saya terpaksa tolak tawaran yang perlukan saya buka tudung. Saya reda dan anggapnya satu ujian Allah kepada saya,” ujar beliau kepada mStar Online.
mStar Online juga melaporkan Elfaezah kini sibuk sepanjang Ramadan melakukan kerja amal seperti mencuci permaidani surau-surau di sekitar Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor.
Beliau melakukan kerja amal itu bersama beberapa rakan bagi menjaga kebersihan dan keselesaan surau untuk beribadah.
“Apabila surau bersih, orang akan selesa untuk sembahyang dan buat kegiatan di surau, namun kami juga memerlukan dana untuk melakukan aktiviti tersebut bagi yang bermurah hati untuk menderma,” kata beliau lagi.
A man who was previously convicted of terrorism and pledged allegiance to ISISkilled a French police commander and his partner at their home in Magnanville in an horrific attack France’s president says was “incontestably” a “terrorist act.”
The officer was named as Jean-Baptiste Salvaing. His partner has not yet been identified, but she was also a police employee.
Abballa, who was born in France and called himself Mohamed Ali on Facebook, was killed in a SWAT raid that saved the slain couple’s 3-year-old son, who was being held hostage inside the home, authorities said.
The attack came as France hosts the 2016 UEFA European Championship soccer tournament and is in a heightened state of security as a result. The country has been under a state of emergency since the November 2015 attacks in Paris by ISIS terrorists.
Magnaville is west of Paris.
Here’s what you need to know:
1. Abballa Livestreamed the Killings on Facebook & Told His Followers ‘I Don’t Know What I’m Going to Do With the Boy’
French special forces RAID vehicle leaves after an assault on June 14, 2016 in Magnanville, 45 kms west of Paris. (Getty)
In the 12-minute video he expressed his allegiance to ISIS and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. At one point in the video, Abballa referenced the police officer’s 3-year-old son, who he was holding hostage.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do with the boy,” Abballa said. Police later raided the home, killing Abballa and saving the boy.
Larossi Abballa, the ISIS sympathizer who murdered two French police officers in the Paris suburb of Magnanville yesterday, filmed a 12-minute video while he was barricaded inside their home. Watch it here.
2. A List of Targets, Including Other Police Officers, Politicians & Journalists, Was Found at Abballa’s Home
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Police found a list of targets, including other police officers, politicians and journalists, at Larossi Abballa’s home in Mantes-la-Jolie, a suburb of Paris, Prosecutor Francois Molins said at a press conference.
Three knives used in the attack were found at the police officer’s home.
In his video, he urged more attacks by French Muslism, according to SITE. He said, “”kill them even if their name is Mohammad or Aisha,” SITE says.
3. He Was Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for the Prior Terrorism Conviction & Was on a Watch List
Larossi Abballa.
Abballa was sentenced to three years in prison for “criminal association in view to preparing terrorist attacks,” for recruiting jihadis to Pakistan and Afghanistan, The Guardian reports.
He was 20 at the time of that 2011 conviction and was released from prison in September 2013.
Abballa was more recently investigated by French authorities and was on a watch list, according to officials. He was being monitored for being part of the entourage of a French man who had recently traveled to Syria.
4. An Official ISIS News Agency Called Abballa an ‘Islamic State Fighter’
In a statement, the ISIS Amaq news agency said “Islamic State fighter kills deputy chief of the police station in the city of Les Mureaux and his wife.”
The phrasing of the statement is similar to one posted after the terrorist attack in Orlando, Florida. In both messages the killer was referred to as an “Islamic State fighter.”
In Orlando, the FBI is investigating whether gunman Omar Mateen had any official ties to ISIS. Like Abballa, Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS during his attack at Pulse, a gay nightclub. Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 others before he was shot dead during a police raid.
5. Salvaing Was a Commander & His Partner Worked as a Secretary at a Police Headquarters
French policemen stand guard on June 14, 2016 near the house in Magnanville where a man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group killed a French policeman and his partner on the night of June 13. (Getty)
Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, was a police commander in the city of Les Mureaux, according to officials. His 36-year-old partner, who has not been named, worked as a secretary at a police headquarters.
He was not in uniform when he was ambushed at about 8:30 p.m. Monday, Fox News reports.
“The toll is a heavy one,” ” Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told reporters.
