COMMENT | Since as academic Manjit Bhatia correctly points in one of his replies to me - that there is really no such thing as a "Malaysian" - we will have to make do with the various diverse voting blocks that make up this country. A visiting journalist (who I have known for some time) from a Southeast Asian country, here to cover the May 9 general election, posed this question to me - do Malaysians want religious freedom in this country?

We did many jungle operations during the Indonesian Confrontation,  in the jungles of Kota Tinggi,  jungles killing and capturing  fifty-seven Indonesian soldiers. Our Battalion lost eight rifle men including the Platoon Sergeant to the Indonesian Enemy action. Later I was discharged from the Singapore Army, opted to serve in the Malaysian Army

What on earth were Rotherham Council officials thinking? What good could they possibly have thought would come from their ignoring criminal activity because it was committed by Muslims, and persecuting those who called attention to it?

Did they think their Muslim constituents would be gratified by their solicitude, and stop the criminal activity committed by members of their community as a result? Or were the Council members simply resigned to the idea that soon Britain would be under Sharia rule, such that it would be a good career move for them to have built up a record of appeasement and accommodation?

“Rotherham Council Ordered to Apologise to Whistleblower Who Exposed Grooming Scandal,” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, April 20, 2018:

If they think that something should have be done, then they should have done it long ago. Why should they (promise) do it only after winning the next general election? If you believe them, your are a fool, not them.

So if you think that Malaysia is good now and you are very satisfied with everything, then you should vote for them. If you feel bad and you are not satisfied, then you want to change it.

Nawabi, a 31-year-old candidate for San Diego City Council, supports almost everything that Trump opposes: He is pro-affordable housing, pro-environment, pro-immigrant and pro-refugee. That makes him part of the blue wave of new liberal candidates spurred to run by Trump’s election and policies. But Nawabi is also part of a notable subset: the blue Muslim wave.

More than 90 American Muslims, nearly all of them Democrats, are running for public office across the country this year. Many are young and politically inexperienced, and most are long shots.
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Although their number seems small, the candidacies mark an unprecedented rise for the nation’s diverse Muslim community that typically has been underrepresented in American politics. There are more than 3.3 million Muslims living in the United States, but Muslim Americans hold just two of the 535 seats in Congress. And the Muslim community’s voter participation pales in comparison to the general public’s.

This is why there was only one issue in the 2016 presidential election and there remains only one issue today: immigration. Without a dramatic shift, a halt to Muslim immigration, and a return of tens of thousands of so-called Muslim refugees – the demographics in America will be forever changed. They will never be reversed and it will only be a matter of time until what has happened in dozens of countries in the world will happen here. The long game does not bode well for non-Muslims.

She said: “I thought I had married a rapper. It was only when we arrived in Turkey for a week-long ‘holiday’ that I discovered my husband was a jihadist… “I’m a victim. My husband beat me and locked me up in a cave with my children when I refused to follow him [to Syria].”

In 2016 the women was applying for French citizenship refused to shake hands with a senior official presiding over the citizenship ceremony as well as with a local politician. That act saw her bid to become French (and all the rights and benefits that come with it) thrown out of the window.

She appealed calling it an “abuse of power” and that appeal has also been thrown out of the window. The government said that her behaviour showed she was “not assimilated into the French community”, one of the reasons it could invoke under the civil code to deny citizenship for the spouse of a French national.

I’m all for people being different and having different ways, but when it impacts on the very fabric of society promoting and leading to religion taking precedent over the laws of the land which afford Liberté, égalité, fraternité to all then, I cannot understand why so many people who subscribe to a polarised religious way of life would want to become French in the first place.

And the Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:

So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him….

Maybe Shahid Ali was just angry, but the way he reacted to his anger may have been influenced by a frame of reference that already included the use of a car as a weapon.

“Driver jailed for 12 years for running over pedestrian’s head in road rage attack because he thought he was holding up traffic had terror conviction,” by Ed Riley, Mailonline, April 19, 2018:

‘I’m allowed to marry four women,’ he told her. ‘You have to change your Western mentality.’

A parallel system of Islamic Sharia law operating in Australia is trapping wives in abusive relationships, for years, as male religious leaders refuse to recognise a women’s right to end a marriage.

This is why Western nations should never under any circumstances allow sharia or any portion of it: it is abusive to women, who are regarded as inferiors. It is in contravention to the democratic principles of free societies, which protect the human rights and equality under the law of all citizens. The UK has over 85 sharia courts. In one, approval of a sentence of honour killing was handed down; in others, women are being sent back to abusive husbands, sometimes under life-threatening circumstances.

The West is moving backward, as it is being flooded with unvetted Muslim migrants. “‘Change your Western mentality or I’ll get another wife’: Australian Muslim women are being trapped in abusive relationships as Sharia imams refuse to divorce them from their husbands”, by Stephen Johnson, Daily Mail Australia, April 17, 2018:

“Migrants bully and beat up German boy for eating pork – an ambulance was needed,” Voice of Europe, April 19, 2018: After German daily newspaper “The Tagesspiegel” asked their readers to tell about incidents of school violence and bullying, they received a lot of replies.

Remember Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, the journalists who were kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam — even though their conversions were obviously coerced, their captors made them say that they were converting freely, and the captors probably believed that themselves. After all, the journos could have chosen to be killed instead.

“Yazidis who suffered under Isis face forced conversion to Islam amid fresh persecution in Afrin,” by Patrick Cockburn, Independent, April 18, 2018: The Yazidis, who were recently the target of massacre, rape and sex slavery by Isis, are now facing forcible conversion to Islam under the threat of death from Turkish-backed forces which captured the Kurdish enclave of Afrin on 18 March. Islamist rebel fighters, who are allied to Turkey and have occupied Yazidi villages in the area, have destroyed the temples and places of worship the Kurdish-speaking non-Islamic sect according to local people.

23rd May 1952. The High Commissioner General Sir Gerald Templar gave his formal blessing to one of the boldest experiments of the Emergency, the formation of the all Chinese Kinta valley Home Guard. Their duty was to protect the people in the tin mining areas from the Communists. General Sir Gerald Templer's arrival in Malaya in 1951 transformed the strategic and political situation in Malaya.

COMMENT | Caretaker prime minister Najib Abdul Razak’s failure to address the open letter by Rafidah Aziz regarding the privatisation of over 40,000 hectares of military land across the country to a three-person company, does not bode well for the self-described Bugis warrior. Rafidah was not only an Umno insider, she was also a former high-ranking official of the establishment. While she may have picked a side in this conflict within Umno, this should not diminish the allegations she made against Najib personally in her open letter.

Instead of the minions of the state, including a relative of Najib, taking pot shots at Rafidah, the caretaker prime minister should address her allegations in an open and transparent manner. Of course, since he can't seem to find the resolve to address the 1MDB issue in an open debate with Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the prime minister-designate of Pakatan Harapan, there is very little evidence that he would find some to face off against the former minister of international trade.

Risking Life and  Limb to save Malaysia at that age!!

COMMENT | The Council of Churches issued various messages – coded – urging the flock to vote, with the diocese of Melaka and Johor bishop Bernard Paul going so far as to say, “This GE14 is that moment to move for a better Malaysia and a better future to create a nation that we can be proud of and die for .”Really? What nation is not worth dying for now? So all those state security personnel, they are what, just living on ‘dedak’? With all these mainstream Christian leaders urging the flock to vote and opposition politicians wearing their religious beliefs on their sleeves, is it any wonder that someone like Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor reminds civil servants to beware of the purported evangelical wing of the DAP?

A Syrian Talks about the Chemical weapon attack that took place in Duma Damascus, Syria The west and the media managed to immediately blame the Syrian government without having any evidence or doing an investigation !

Jihad Watch : If Christians had opened fire on Muslims leaving a mosque, which they would, of course, never do, there would be insistent and ongoing international coverage. But no one will take any particular note of this. It’s just another day in Pakistan.

“At least 2 dead, 5 injured in attack on Christian community near church in Quetta,” by Syed Ali Shah, Dawn, April 15, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): At least two members of the Christian community were killed and five others injured in a firing incident near a church in Quetta, DawnNewsTV reported.

DIG Quetta Abdur Razzaq Cheema said the incident occurred when worshippers were leaving after attending the Sunday service at a church in Essa Nagri area of the provincial capital. Unidentified attackers riding a motorbike opened fire on the members of the Christian community and managed to flee the scene soon after the incident, the DIG said. The injured were rushed to Bolan Medical Complex, Quetta, where two injured worshippers succumbed to their, the hospital officials said.