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  • Plainclothes NEA Officer Allegedly Hurt Uncle When Trying To Issue Saman To Him

    Plainclothes NEA Officer Allegedly Hurt Uncle When Trying To Issue Saman To Him

    This malay guy and Indian gal are from NEA wanted to summon this uncle for throwing cigarette butt on the ground suddenly this

    FUCKING malay guy pushed uncle against the lorry and hurting the uncle right hand. Uncle has no weapon on him or resisting arrest.

    Please beware of this two FUCKING BASTARD, the car they are driving is white Honda SLF 3272M.

    Do they have the right to laid hand on we public. Even when police spot check on us they won’t even touch on our finger when handling ic over.

     

    Source: Joe Heah

  • Alfian Sa’at: Donald Trump Wants To Keep America Safe, But Who Would Protect The World From Them?

    Alfian Sa’at: Donald Trump Wants To Keep America Safe, But Who Would Protect The World From Them?

    I remember making a joke when I was visiting New York last October: “It’s my last chance to visit the US before Trump becomes president and decides to ban Muslims.”

    That offhand joke is now a real nightmare, and laughter has turned to bile in the throat.

    I don’t intend to set foot on American soil again. The problem is that it’s easy to overlook the kinds of darkness that reside there because for a long time at least in a bipolar world, the US, compared to the Soviet Union, looked like the lesser of two evils. In addition there’s also something about soft power that throws a veil of gauze over sharp edges, that puts the horror into soft focus. America is in our earphones, in our cinemas, on our computer screens and smartphones, and all these help to domesticate its otherness. But alas that soft power is just a pretty collar on a dangerous animal and is not a leash.

    There is an America, ostensibly, of Disney and jazz and Instagram. But there is also that other America of unending gun violence, mass incarcerations, a militarised police, a broken healthcare system, white nationalism, a history of Native American genocide and African slavery; an America that exports weapons, that installs puppets and brutal dictators, that undermines popular sovereignty and stages coups, that lies to the world about Weapons of Mass Destruction and steals oil and turns entire neighbourhoods into rubble. How much hatred there must be towards this factory whose main manufacturing products are widows and orphans. And how convenient that those who are anti-American are seen as people who are ‘radicalised’ instead of people who refuse to accept the narrative churned out by the American propaganda machine.

    Trump has unmasked this other face of America, or at least made it more public than it ever was before. As a man voted in for being able ‘to say it like it is’, there is no better man for the job.

    On the other hand there is an Iran, of unsmiling black robed mullahs and Hezbollah and Ahmadinejad. But there is also another Iran, of rose gardens and fountains and nightingales, of the poets Hafez and Ferdowsi, of some of the greatest films ever made by the likes of Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Jafar Panahi and Asghar Farhadi. I remember once wanting to visit Iran but wondering whether it would in any way jeopardise any future entry into the US. What foolishness that was. It is both a gift and a curse to be reading and writing in this language. One has access to so much knowledge, but at the same time how susceptible one becomes to American imperialism, one of whose effects is to think of America’s enemies as our own. America fears what it cannot bend to its will. By sharing this fear we are also bending to America’s will.

    America wants to be safe. But who will keep the world safe from America?

     

    Source: Alfian Sa’at

  • Walid J. Abdullah: Racism Should Be Eliminated Regardless Of How Poorly Other Countries Are Doing

    Walid J. Abdullah: Racism Should Be Eliminated Regardless Of How Poorly Other Countries Are Doing

    Amongst the most common statements made when one recounts instances of racism in Singapore, or even discusses ethnicity in the first place is, ‘At least minorities here have it better than anywhere else in the world. Can you name me anywhere in the world where racism is less rampant?’

    Aside from the condescension in the statement, and the fact that many who make such statements have actually never lived in other countries – lived, not visited for a week and then speak as though one knows everything about a place -, there are more serious questions to be asked about the statement and question.

    Firstly, I do not get a vote in Malaysia, or India, or the USA. Nor do I live in those countries. I do get a vote, however, in Singapore. I do live here, as does my family. So i should be bothered about what happens here.

    Secondly, how on earth does pointing out worse situations absolve oneself of blame or self-introspection? These people are essentially saying that ‘others have it worse, so do not complain.’ Why does that even make sense?

    ‘Oh don’t complain or do anything about your stage 1 cancer. Others have stage 4 cancer.’

    And most importantly, when a person makes that statement and/or asks that question, he/she is basically devaluing my citizenship. Why should i compare myself to a Rohingya in Myanmar, or a Palestinian, or an Egyptian Copt? I should be comparing myself to other Singaporeans!!!!

    Whether people realize it or not, when they make such statements or ask such questions, they are, in actuality, saying that minorities SHOULD NOT expect equal rights in this country. And that is an assumption we should all reject.

    For us minorities, when someone asks ‘where else in the world are minorities treated better?’, we should not even legitimize the question by thinking of countries where minorities have it good. We should just point out how bigoted that question is in the first place.

     

    Source: Walid J. Abdullah

  • Osman Sulaiman: I Would Tolerate Donald Trump’s Bigotry Then Put Up With LKY’s Hypocrisy

    Osman Sulaiman: I Would Tolerate Donald Trump’s Bigotry Then Put Up With LKY’s Hypocrisy

    I dont like Trump. But voters know what they are getting. No deception. No hypocrisy.

    Against LKY who wooed my community by subterfuge, wears the ‘songkok’ and visited the mosques and championing meritocracy but acted against it.

    Cozened a whole generation into believing equality for everyone. So in this aspect, Trump anytime. Better the devil we know than the devil we dont.

     

    Source: Khan Osman Sulaiman

  • Terrorist Attack On Mosque – Canadian Prime Minister Courageous, Should Be Emulated By Other Leaders

    Terrorist Attack On Mosque – Canadian Prime Minister Courageous, Should Be Emulated By Other Leaders

    Canadian PM, Justin Trudeau, called the shootings on the Quebec mosque as a terrorist attack on Muslims. There have been many attacks on innocent and defenceless Muslims around the world but this is the first time that a PM of a country has actually publicly condemned the acts as acts of terror.

    It takes a lot of courage for a leader to do this because of the potential political backlash from the majority of their countries.

    But the Canadian PM was brave. What he has done is show that Muslims also suffer from terrorist attacks.

    Unlike Donald Trump who has chosen the easiest and misguided ways to combat crime and terrorism simply by isolating the US and marginalising minority and migrant communities, Justin Trudeau has taken the enlightened, inclusive route.

    The rest of the world should learn this lesson from Trudeau.

     

    Amirul

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