In the Land of The Pakis

During this month of Ramzan [Ramadan] abounding in miracles, the Emperor as the promoter of justice and overthrower of mischief, as a knower of truth and destroyer of oppression, as the zephyr of the garden of victory and the reviver of the faith of the Prophet, issued orders for the demolition of the temple situated in Mathura, famous as the Dehra of Kesho Rai. In a short time, by the great exertions of his officers, the destruction of this strong foundation of infidelity was accomplished, and on its site a lofty mosque was built at the expenditure of a large sum. Praised be the august God of the faith of Islam, that in the auspicious reign of this destroyer of infidelity and turbulence, such a wonderful and seemingly impossible work was successfully accomplished. On seeing this instance of the strength of the Emperor’s faith and the grandeur of his devotion to God, the proud Rajas were stifled and in amazement they stood like images facing the wall. The idols, large and small, set with costly jewels which had been set up in the temple were brought to Agra, and buried under the steps of the mosque of the Begam Sahib, in order to be continually trodden upon. The name of Mathura was changed to Islamabad.

“Pakistan: Online Petition to change the name of ‘Islamabad’ to ‘Islamagood’ goes viral,” OpIndia, February 22, 2021:

Recently, an online petition to rename Pakistan’s National Capital Islamabad has begun doing the rounds of the internet.

The said petition was created by one Canada-based Bangladeshi national named Ayham Abrar and was directed to the Pakistani PM Imran Khan. The campaign sought to change the name of ‘Islama-bad’ to ‘Islama-good.’ Although the petition was started about 7 months ago, it got traction on social media in the last few days.

In his petition, Ayham claimed, “Islam is good. Pakistan love Islam. Why IslamaBAD? Love from Bangladesh.” After the campaign went viral on social media, it drew about 384 signatures by Monday morning. It must be mentioned that the petitioner had set a target of 500 signatures….

The Obama podcasting game includes talking about how racist the country is to fellow working-class millionaire hero Bruce Springsteen, and this Muslim podcast.

Barack and Michelle Obama have their Ramadan plans ready.

The couple, who have spent the years since Barack’s US presidency came to an end focusing on developing multi-platform media projects, announced a new season of their Higher Ground podcast called Tell Them, I Am, which will feature a collection of narratives from Muslim voices.

No, Obama’s not actually in it.

Produced by the Obamas, the pod will be hosted by Misha Euceph, a first-gen Pakistan-American and exclusively available on the platform, launching on the first day of Ramadan.

Euceph also appears to have hosted a Koran book club on Instagram. Here’s the description of one episode.

God is still throwing shade at the Jews and Christians this episode of #quranbookclub

Meanwhile, social media is purging conservatives. But this sort of thing can help you get a podcast produced by Barry.

Politically Correct Useful Idiot

COMMENT | Former deputy education minister Teo Nie Ching is one of the few Pakatan Harapan political operatives to rightly reflect if the coalition has done enough to prove that it deserves a second chance at the Putrajaya hot seat. 

As it is, nobody but the hardcore base of Harapan thinks that it deserves a second chance in Putrajaya.

The Bitch of ISIS

Their transformation of her into a victim. Specifically the moral failure, or at least moral unwillingness, of significant sections of the media and cultural elites to recognise the gravity of Ms Begum’s crime. She is, to put it plainly, a traitor. She stabbed her country of birth in the back.

She betrayed her family, her community and her society, and that is even before we get to the more complex question of how she assisted ISIS in its vile supremacist project, from its genocidal assault on the Yazidi people to its sectarian slaughter of kaffirs and dissenters.

That some Labour politicians, broadsheet commentators and members of the Twitterati appear to have expressed more sympathy for Shamima Begum than they ever did for the Yazidi women brutalised by ISIS speaks to a deep moral discombobulation right here in 21st-century Britain.

To quote Brezhnev : We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten.

Once again they scrammed. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, "Save me!" He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."

Now's the time Pakistan and Turkey should step in and save her! Horrible , she is so young and already has a kid, almighty please make another planet for these baby production houses to live, earth is too small to accomodate them!!

The Javanese leader of UMNO

COMMENT | So the Perikatan Nasional (PN) state is going after DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng for his joint statement with other Pakatan Harapan leaders about the emergency. Apparently, what he said was so damaging that the state security apparatus has to investigate him.

This is extremely funny because if Parliament was in session, as everyone but PN seems to want, then these MPs would be saying the same thing in the Dewan Rakyat with all the privileges that come with it.

Jihad Watch : “They murdered and plundered abundantly, and killed or drove away all Hindus who would not apostatize. Somewhere about a lakh of people were driven from their homes with nothing but the clothes they had on, stripped of everything. Malabar has taught us what Islamic rule still means, and we do not want to see another specimen of the Khilafat Raj in India.” These statements were written by Annie Besant in her book The Future of Indian Politics.

In his book Pakistan or the Partition of India, the father of the Indian constitution, Babasaheb Ambedkar, recounts: “The blood-curdling atrocities committed by the Moplas in Malabar against the Hindus were indescribable. All over Southern India, a wave of horrified feeling had spread among the Hindus of every shade of opinion…”

The Hindu genocide of 1921, also known as the Moplah Massacre, was orchestrated by jihadis of Malabar, Kerala and marks its 100th anniversary in 2021. The well-planned ethnic cleansing claimed about 10,000 Hindu lives and led to the rapes of numerous women and children. It is speculated that no less than a hundred Hindu temples were taken down by jihadis baying for Hindu blood during this genocide. After putting them through unspeakable tortures, the jihadis forced countless Hindus to convert to Islam.

Man of the Hour

COMMENT | To Ayah Punya kata, GrayDeer0609, Legit, Semua Boleh – Bodoh pun Boleh and of course, the aptly named Victim, your comments are apparently worth half a million ringgit. Of course, for half a million ringgit I would have expected rhetorical Molotov cocktails instead of the usual Malaysiakini drive-bys which is what these comments were.

I guess the "Malaysiakini 5 learnt his or her lesson", someone texted me. Really? Five anonymous subscribers wrote something that the political elites have said and the news portal gets fined but Malaysiakini managed to raise more than was needed through public appeals in record time, what exactly is the lesson here?

Our "Great Leader"

Eurasia Review

This is real power, where greed and self-interests reign, over national interests. It is a milieu that has hobbled the country for more than a year with at least four factions struggling for power and a weak prime minister attempting to hold off his opponents through political patronage and other subterfuges to keep them at bay.

There is a good deal of truth in the theory that a deep culture of secrecy and non-accountability exists in Malaysia’s government and administration that gets in the way of honest government. It is more complicated than that, with a vast web of relationships between a powerful civil service, a political class more involved in ruling than governing, a web of laws that discourage reform groups and journalists, and a permissive culture that looks away in exchange for perks at election time rather than ending the careers of blemished politicians.

Those within the political or civil administration discovered committing corrupt acts are most often shifted quietly to other departments, or even promoted. There is no Freedom of information (FOI) framework, leaving administrative decisions to never reach public knowledge. Many contracts are awarded without transparent due process through tender processes, with major contracts with massive public interest considerations like toll way concession agreements hidden under the cover of the Official Secrets Act (OSA).

Corruption starts at the bottom, from distorted stationary, cleaning, and vehicle maintenance contracts in government departments, making its way up through land deals undertaken by state agencies like State Economic Development Corporations, to the misallocation of public funds to bogus and white-elephant projects where politicians and their associates benefit. Some reach public knowledge like the National Feedlot Scandal, known colloquially as Cowgate, in which a powerful political leader, Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, United Malays National Organization minister for women, family and community was accused of diverting a portion of RM250 million from a halal cattle feeding project to pay for condominiums, vacations and a Mercedes. She survived the crisis and Rafizi Ramli, the opposition figure who exposed it, was sentenced to 18 months in jail – suspended – for violating the Bank Secrecy Act.

As with Cowgate, most such scandals remain hidden behind the façade of power and government. While 1Malaysia Development Bhd melted down in the biggest financial scandal in Malaysian history, with US$4.5 billion lost to mismanagement and corruption, the meltdown was largely detected by international press and the US justice department. Most will never be discovered, investigated, or prosecuted. Any activists or journalists who may be curious will be warned away via the Official Secrets Act. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission is not an independent body, relying on the Public Prosecutor to give permission for any court proceedings against alleged wrongdoers.

Official health pages and emergency warnings were also scrubbed, three days before the launch of a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination program. Facebook faced an angry backlash on Thursday after blocking news feeds in Australia in a surprise escalation of a dispute with the government which could be a test for the future of online publishing worldwide.

The move was denounced by media groups, politicians and human rights groups in Australia and beyond, as it became clear that official health pages and emergency warnings had been scrubbed along with news sites, just three days before the launch of a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination program. “Facebook’s actions to unfriend Australia today, cutting off essential information services on health and emergency services, were as arrogant as they were disappointing,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison wrote on his own Facebook page.

Australians are also deleting their accounts and asking their friends to share phone numbers before deleting their platforms permanently. Hashtags #DeleteFacebook and #BoycottZuckerberg have also been trending on Twitter as users protest against the social media platform’s decision to delete their news feed.

Hitler kind of saved the face of British Empire by becoming a common evil, or else we all NOT know who deserved to be called evil..Every time I listen to him trust me, it brings tears in my eyes thinking what foreigners particularly British did to our country and Asia, Africa respectively. Museums in London: "One thieves market after another..."

PM

COMMENT | Of course, politicians are going to jump the queue and get vaccinated while the rest of us schmucks are going to have to be at the mercy of a bureaucracy which is attempting to navigate this pandemic without any transparency and accountability.

Of course, politicians who engineered a coup think their lives are more important than everyone else's, especially since the system is predicated on privileging their lives, be it in the way they flaunt SOPs or the way how their crimes are handled by the justice system.

The South China Sea is reaching boiling point. Beijing has told its Coast Guard to shoot at any vessel inside its arbitrarily declared ‘nine-dash line’ borders. Now the Philippines says its navy will shoot back. Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr this week vowed any response would bring serious consequences.

The Real Hero of Sauk Serge... by dswami

The Star

And it’s happening as we mourn the loss of one of Malaysia’s favourite sons who spent his entire life fighting for the country he loved and called home. Distinguished ex-police officer Tan Sri Yuen Yuet Leng must have found it extremely painful seeing what he and his colleagues had built disintegrating before his very eyes, and that those who shed their blood and helped make Malaysia a great country are now referred to quite freely as pendatang and even told that they should go back to their countries of origin if they are not happy here.

One deputy minister was so caught up with the Petaling Street incident, where the Chinese ambassador visited Petaling Street, he even threatened to “slap” Chinese Malaysians if they took their grouses outside the country to what he called their godfather from China. The threat was such that even without the actual act taking place, the crack and echo of the word lempang (slap) has reached the far corners of this country, causing much ire among the Chinese population.

Our politicians need to be reminded that to be good leaders, they must be well disciplined, do not get easily ruffled and not make racially charged and hurtful statements that can break race relations. I still remember Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak a few year ago during his visit to Chennai, India saying it was important to recognise all those who contributed to nation-building irrespective of their ethnic background.

For the majority of non-Malays who have long been citizens, especially those born after Merdeka, Malaysia is the only country they know. They are not citizens of China or India and cannot pergi balik India or pergi balik China.

The Chinese have proven that they are loyal and responsible citizens. During the Emergency, our police force had one of the best Special Branch units in the world manned by officers 90% of whom were Chinese. It was the SB that helped break the back of the communist terrorists and contributed in no small way to make this country a safe and secure place where all, irrespective of race and religion, can work, raise their families and share the bounties fairly and proportionally. More can be done in the equal distribution of wealth, though.

I would like to commend the Malay Rulers who have intervened to remind politicians and NGOs not to stoke racial and religious tension to garner support. The Bersih 4 rally and the counter rally by the red shirts added fuel to the fire, as racial slurs were hurled openly. Perhaps we need to rethink if these rallies serve any useful purpose.

Meanwhile, will all the “warring” parties take a step back from the brink to mull over the advice of the rulers? Please remember that this country does not belong to politicians; it belongs to the rakyat.

Our "Great Leader"

COMMENT | Amanah strategic director Dzulkefly Ahmad’s public statement that Harapan was willing to offer former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad a mentor minister or senior minister role in the next government if the old maverick wanted to collaborate with Pakatan Harapan in the next polls is the kind of strategy which has landed Harapan in the mess it is in. 

First off, the idea of any kind of mentor or senior minister role is the kind of “Asian values” bunkum propagated by aged paternalistic political operatives around Asia who are intellectually and morally bankrupt, who would rather rely on personality politics than substantive policies to further their political agendas.

It is right up there with “guided” democracies which is a shorthand for fascist-leaning racialists and religionists who would rather attempt a pantomime of democracy instead of the hard work of building independent democratic institutions and credible elections.

In 2020, Mahathir, when presented with this option, made his stance clear on the issue. “No, I will not accept it,” he said in an interview with Sin Chew Daily. 

Mahathir said that based on his experience, no one would listen to his advice. “Whenever I advise a prime minister (Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Najib Abdul Razak or Muhyiddin Yassin), they never take my advice,” he had said.

COMMENT | People have asked me what I think of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s review of former attorney-general Tommy Thomas’ book My Story: Justice in the Wilderness. Well, the answer is simple. I think it is an interesting review. 

Moreover, the best part of the review is when Anwar disputes Thomas’ racial narratives in the book by offering up his own take on systemic racism, something that Anwar acknowledges exists.

There is a whole passage where Anwar decries the former attorney-general for laying “the preponderance of the blame being levelled on Malay leaders, giving the impression that racism is a malady afflicting only the Malay community”.

In 1974, I was Intelligence Officer 7th Rangers. While operating in Sg Siput area, about 10km from where Chandran clashed with SCM Chong in 1971, 7 Platoon C Company came across some markings made of bamboo along a mountain ridge streching on the slopes of Gunong Korbu. These findings were on 20th April. A day earlier on 19th Apr, A Company clashed with a group of CTs (we suffered 2 wounded) who withdrew northwards towards the findings. The platoon under Sgt Harris, was instructed to lay an ambush along the ridge close to the bamboo markings.

On 22nd April at 10.55am, BANG!! - the ambush was sprung. Two terrorists were killed in the initial burst and during the follow up 30 mins later another 3. In this clash, 5 bodies were recovered, one of which was SCM Chong and another his wife. After this not much was heard of 5th AU. It was replaced by 6th AU. We recovered quite a bit of $$$ from this clash- obviously, he was their high ranking leader. A sixth member of the group bumped into 2 Rangers (Mortar Pl I believe) and was eliminated.

What pleased me is, without realising it, we avenged Chandran's misfortune. At that time I did not know Chandran's exit was a result of the clash with SCM Chong's group. I have not shared this with anyone till now after going through the viral clip circulating about Chandran's contact.

Also maybe in the 70s we were just too busy to sit back and rejoice on our success. Now, on reading and listening to the script, I realised what we had scored - we avenged our brother officer's death. Its 50 years ago!!!! May God bless Chandran's soul and let him know the score. I will raise this with 4th Rangers' guys so that some closing can be done at unit level." - Lt Col Baldev SingH (Retired)

What the intelligence failed to notice was that the enemy had moved into the area 2 months ago. The position the enemy was entrenched in was fortified with trenches. The enemy camp had even an underground kitchen.

So to destroy this enemy a sub - unit of the Unit Combat Intelligence Platoon (4th Rangers) , comprising of ten men led by Captain V.Mohan Chandran of the 4th Battalion Royal Rangers, Special Government Agents (Surrendered Enemy Personnel from the 1st Emergency- SEP), Special Branch and members of the 3rd Reconnaissance Regiment.

They were tasked to reconnoiter the movement of the enemy in the Ulu Kinta forest, Perak. This group was sent, as there were signs and information concerning the movement of the Communist Terrorists in the whole of that area. They were moving with impunity in that area, they dominated the ground there, it was time to show the Enemy that their days of terror were over.

This combined group was inserted into the operational area on the 3rd June 1971. This combined unit was commanded by Captain Mohana Chandran al Velayuthan (200402) and assisted by 2LT Donald Patrick John (2000913), both who, were from the 4th Rangers.

Malaysiakini : “Everything I did was painted in racial tones and hues. And they succeeded. The brainwashing achieved its objectives.” - Tommy Thomas

Reading excerpts from Tommy Thomas’ memoir about, amongst other things, his brief stint as attorney-general (AG) for this country, it is amazing that a non-Malay could do anything without being vilified by the state because of their ethnicity.

His message about a dithering Harapan when it came to reforms - imagine that, the prison board, perhaps the most relevant authority when it comes to the death penalty; welcoming abolishing the death penalty but Harapan political operatives dithering and pandering – is of no surprise, the reality of the racial dynamics and a festering 'Don’t spook the Malays agenda' is perhaps the greatest impediment to reform in this country.

Stop sending Little Napoleons from Malaya to lord it over the Dayaks

The NewSarawak

DAP Serian Chairman Brolin Nicholsion said there are about 1,835,900 Dayaks in Sarawak, but they are always being treated as second class citizens in the state. “The Dayak voters are “very attractive” to every political party during elections… They were promised various projects and funds. However, they would be abandoned after (these politicians) win with the Dayak votes,” he said in a statement.

He said the last time Sarawak had a Dayak Chief Minister was in 1966, when the then Governor, Abang Haji Openg appointed Datuk Tawi Sli as the Chief Minsiter during the Sarawak Constitutional Crisis. Besides, 73,800 out of 820,000 of Sarawak families were living below the poverty income line where the family received below RM3,000 a month.

“Out of 73,800 families, the majority are Dayaks as most of them are still living in rural areas, which lacks basic amenities and infrastructures,” he said. Brolin said the Dayaks will be the kingmakers in the next Sarawak state election and could contribute to the winds of change in Sarawak.

“The Dayaks must prove themselves that they are not easily bought by money and projects that are supposedly being done within the five-year-term for them. This is the time that the Dayaks will have the chance to have a Dayak Chief Minister since 1970 and will have the chance to have a Dayak Governer as per the gentlemen’s agreement made by the founding members of Sarawak,” he said.

“Sarawak DAP will make sure the rights of the Dayaks are well taken care. DAP is not a party that only takes care of the Chinese community as alleged by some politicians. DAP is a party for all ‘Anak Malaysia’ and will fight and be the voice of the voiceless and the strength for the weak,” he stressed.

COMMENT | Lee Hwok Aun of the Iseas–Yusof Ishak Institute asks, “Will bumiputeras ever relinquish the privileges they enjoy?”, believing, like a majority of non-Malays and 'liberal'-minded Malays, that this question, although provocative, is one that needs to be asked.

Mind you, this piece is not directed specifically at Lee, because this question and certain themes involving this question have been around for some time now.

In a charitable reading of the question, it is a red herring, but more often, it is a deflection from the mainstream politics of this country that enables the bumiputera system and which forms the basis of political compromises which over the years has had diminishing returns.

First of all, non-Malays and the politicians they vote for enable the system of privileges – as defined by the former deputy governor of the central bank that is the starting point of Lee’s piece – and other Malay uber alles policies that everyone seems to think are detrimental to this country.

Second, non-Malay politicians not only actively seek to promote such policies but do so in either overtly or sub rosa methods to cling on to the meagre influence the Malay uber alles establishment allows them to have.

Third, non-Malay political operatives savage each other. Normally this happens to operatives from opposing coalitions but it also happens fairly frequently within coalitions as a means to whittle away opposition from threats to the political stability of the coalition when it comes to bumiputera sensitivities.

After calling for resistance to the Islamist threat in November 2020, Didier Lemaire, professor of philosophy at Trappes, is placed under police protection. Didier Lemaire has been professor of philosophy at Trappes for nearly 20 years. Two decades during which he taught with passion despite the difficulty of this terrain classified as a priority area. Two decades during which he saw this city of the Parisian suburbs lock itself a little more into religious communitarianism.

In 2018, he wrote a letter with Jean-Pierre Obin (author of the book Comment we let Islamism penetrate the school) to the President of the Republic to urge the government to act to protect the youth from the influence of fundamentalists, and in November 2020 he published an open letter after the beheading of Samuel Paty to denounce the state’s lack of strategy in the face of political Islam.

Today, after twenty years of unfailing commitment, Didier Lemaire is throwing in the towel. Forced to go to work under armed police escort, the teacher expects nothing more than his exfiltration from this establishment and from this city where he is no longer safe.

“ I have been under escort since November ,” says Didier Lemaire. Every time I get in the car, I check that my doors are properly closed, that I am not being followed. I don’t want to live in fear. I’m just waiting for one thing: my exfiltration. “ More than by the feeling of fear, Didier Lemaire is overcome by anger. He refuses to be silent and denounces the attempts to intimidate certain inhabitants of the city, but also the intervention of the mayor himself, Ali Rabeh , whose election has just been annulled by justice and who has been condemned to one year of ineligibility.

“The mayor is peddling false and hateful accusations in the city which designate me as a potential target ,” protests the professor. He called me an Islamophobe and a racist. He has the right to think so. But this thought is a weapon of ideological warfare and it is calumny. It is above all a disgusting process, after what happened to Samuel Paty. He throws me into the pasture and puts me in danger. It is absolutely irresponsible on the part of an elected representative of the Republic. I ask the parties, Communist, Génération.s, La République en Marche and Europe Écologie-Les Verts, to disown his remarks. ” Contacted, the mayor has so far not responded to our requests.

For Didier Lemaire, this long-term fight ends in Trappes, in 2021, after years of a struggle that began in the first days of his appointment to this post. “Twenty years ago, it all started for me with the burning of the synagogue in October 2000. After that, there were no more Jews in Trappes. And finally, no more anti-Semitic inscriptions on the city walls. Now atheists and moderate Muslims are leaving. Fundamentalists are in the process of successfully completing their purification process. It’s frightening ! Everything is accelerating, in two years, I have seen more transformation in young people and in the public space than in the last eighteen years. Today, attacks on secularism are collective and very well organized. ”

Didier Lemaire does not want to leave his classroom in Trappes without once again sounding the alarm. If he says the city has fallen into the hands of the Islamists and recognizes the defeat of his Republican fight, he refuses to lower his arms . “I remain a philosophy teacher , he asserts (…) But I consider that Trappes is a city definitely lost. » Tireless defender of secularism and freedom confronted with the harsh reality of the territories of the Republic which are said to be lost. Didier Lemaire defends the idea of ​​a strong but above all urgent political response.

“We don’t have much time before it gets out of hand ,” he is alarmed. Many of these children are raised in hatred of France. We are not far from an Algerian scenario and we are no longer in a state of peace.

The Malacca Sultanate was a diverse and prosperous merchant empire with extensive trade networks throughout the Indian Ocean, but in 1512CE its capital city was captured by a small Portuguese invasion force. The event sent the Malacca Sultanate into a tailspin from which it never recovered. Despite how important the event is to Southeast Asian and Indian history, few know the details.

Not since Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s The Malay Dilemma has a book stirred so much controversy. Regardless of whether one agrees with Thomas’ take on events or his presentation of the facts as he saw it, the book has generated widespread debate and discussion about key events in our nation. This has not happened before, and is long overdue.

As a nation, we tend to avoid a frank discussion on issues, for fear of stoking tensions. The result is that people in power who act egregiously, even illegally, have been able to avoid accountability. It may be argued that we are where we are today because we failed to hold these kinds of discussions in the past. In this sense, Thomas’ book should be welcomed by all Malaysians interested in transparency and accountability.

Thomas is also not the first senior official to write a memoir. The late Tun Mohamed Salleh Abas, for example, was just as forthright in his own memoir (May Day for Justice). Dr Mahathir, too, wrote a memoir (A Doctor in the House). What these memoirs do is peel away the layers of official whitewash, and allow ordinary citizens an opportunity to make their own assessment of the people and politics that have shaped our nation.

In this sense, Thomas, like Salleh before him, has done the nation a great service, and I, for one, laud him for his courage in sharing his thoughts and perspectives of key events that continue to inform our politics. I thought it instructive, as well, that while Dr Mahathir was clearly peeved by some of Thomas’ comments, he has not faulted the man’s professional conduct or the way he studiously sought to uphold the rule of law.

Can there be any doubt that some of the high-profile cases of corruption and malfeasance now before our courts would not have happened without Thomas’ commitment to justice on behalf of the people of Malaysia? That, in itself, speaks volumes of the man. It is also worth noting that much of what he has revealed in his book is not entirely new, though his insider perspective lends greater credibility to earlier reports. The view that May 13 was a coup against Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, for example, was extensively covered in Kua Kia Soong’s 2007 book, May 13: Declassified Documents on the Malaysian Riots of 1969.

The events surrounding the surprise resignation of Dr Mahathir were also widely covered and dissected in the media for almost a whole year before Thomas’ book. Furthermore, Thomas’ remark that “seldom in our nation’s history have so many million voters been let down by the actions of one man” is a view that is still widely held and shared. Thomas simply gave expression to what many of us already know or have long suspected. No doubt, many will thank him for it.

Of course, some of the people mentioned in his book have not come out smelling like roses. It is up to them to defend themselves and their actions. What they should not be allowed to do, however, is silence him or the conversation that has been started as a result of the publication of his book.

They "protected democracy" against the voters. So why are we not calling this out for what it is: Massive election interference? Do all American's vote count or just a few? It's almost like the woman who wrote this, is actually trying to expose this to the world -- but wants it to sound like she's meaning it to compliment those involved, so she doesn't get canceled.

The MILITARY should arrest them and hold a trial !!! The only president in history to win an election from his basement. We have a government that doesn't represent it's own people so they won't do crap, but at least we all really know how fake this was. My favorite bit from Time article is “they stopped Trump’s plot”, Trump’s plot?

What was his plot? Winning on Election Day? Communism is a heart beat away. They’re not even trying to hide it. And yet our military who is supposed to defend the constitution, remains silent. They are admitting to their crimes because they know nobody can touch them now. They are gloating about it. They are laughing in our faces.

Inspired by Donald Trumpet

Malaysiakini

In a letter addressed to members of the Attorney-General’s Chambers, he sought to give encouragement to his colleagues following the publication of the book last Saturday. “The book’s contents have given a negative impact especially in the eyes of outsiders, and this has a direct effect on the morale and spirits of legal officers.

Remember to delete your account and not just to delete the app. Guys stop telling that we need more people like him. Be like him and inform people around you even if it's not 200k people.

I really like these videos. They are a real eye opener. How the modern day war is being faught using social media is so clear and evident. The more we see - the more we learn. "Modi is the Prime Minister of India not the BJP. Don't let anyone defame India." String doesn't only say but gives you the proof of every single statement now go ahead and prove them wrong, they give open challenge to all the so called liberals. Go ahead we stand with you and India stands against propaganda

Like they say, a picture paints a thousand words

Malaysiakini

Tiger in the jungle : Nazir, your father set up the NEP to destroy Malaysia. He set the corruption trains rolling and gave space and oxygen to racist like Dato Harun and narcissist Mahathir and we are paying the price. Your father was the one who started the BN MP allocations back in 1972 and none for opposition MPs. Your father operated in the background. And quite rightly TT exposed it.

You and your dad are pendatangs (from Indonesia) like the rest of us. Where will you be, if not for your father? Singapore, a tiny dot, have left us behind in the dust.

Whilst you chew on the above, please explain how did your father afford to send all his 5 children (including you and your corrupt brother Najib) to private boarding schools in UK. You guys got English education, we here got 3rd rate Malay education. You can regret all you want about your father and we regret about Malaysia.

I haven't yet purchased a copy of Tommy Thomas' book, "My Story: Justice in the Wilderness", but now, like most other people, I will buy a copy before it is banned or is out of circulation.

The comments by the felon, Najib Abdul Razak, his brother, Nazir, former director-general of the Judicial and Legal Training Institute (Ilkap) Mohamad Hanafiah Zakaria, former attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali, and current AG Idrus Harun about Thomas’ book, have aroused my curiosity.

They are upset with Thomas' personal opinions and have either filed lawsuits or lodged police reports. Nazir needs to read Britain's declassified reports on May 13, and civil servants should grow up and stop surrounding themselves with sycophants. The Malays have lost their competitive edge. They collect praise, like former police chief Khalid Abu Bakar used to collect tweets and social media likes.

For many Malays, especially those serving in the government and the civil service, ego comes first. His race and religion share equal second place. His wife may be at number 10. His mother, probably number 7. The ranking is probably different for Malay women. Vanity about their husband's pay-packet ranks highly, especially among the Mak Datins (Malay tai-tais). The pressure to look youthful is probably number 3 on their list.

The New York Times had reported on the effort in January, referring to the “Democracy Defense Coalition.” The Daily Beast hinted at it in the fall. But the Time article is the most in-depth report at what others suggested was going on behind the scenes.

The article by Molly Ball, titled “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election,” presents the effort as a heroic effort to preserve a free and fair election, and to fend off President Donald Trump’s anticipated claims of fraud.

Ball’s description, however, also matches what she calls a “paranoid” view of an effort to make it difficult for Trump to win:

The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors.

Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result.

That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.

Ball describes the participants in this plan as “democracy campaigners.” It was led by Mike Podhorzer, a “senior adviser to the president of the AFL-CIO,” one of the nation’s most powerful labor unions, aligned with the Democratic Party.

Ball notes:

In his apartment in the D.C. suburbs, Podhorzer began working from his laptop at his kitchen table, holding back-to-back Zoom meetings for hours a day with his network of contacts across the progressive universe: the labor movement; the institutional left, like Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace; resistance groups like Indivisible and MoveOn; progressive data geeks and strategists, representatives of donors and foundations, state-level grassroots organizers, racial-justice activists and others.

By April, she notes, Podhorzer was hosting two-and-a-half-hour Zoom meetings with other participants in the project. They pushed Congress to fund vote by mail, and persuaded Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to “election administration funding.” (As Breitbart News warned, Zuckerberg’s donations looked more like a Democrat get-out-the-vote effort, and was aimed primarily at Democrat-heavy counties in key battleground states.)

The campaign also used legal efforts to change voting procedures during the COVID pandemic, leading to a “revolution” in mail-in voting: ” Only a quarter of voters cast their ballots the traditional way: in person on Election Day,” Ball notes.

The group also used a “nameless, secret project” to fight “disinformation.” Their method was “to pressure platforms to enforce their rules, both by removing content or accounts that spread disinformation.” Ball does not mention the New York Post‘s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, but tech companies, mainstream media outlets, and former intelligence officials leapt in October to call the laptop potential Russian “disinformation,” and to suppress it. Twitter blocked links to the story, and also locked the Post out of its account for more than two weeks. The story was later shown to be true, with Hunter Biden announcing — after the election — that he was under FBI investigation.

But why should the Muslim world care about this? Powerful extremists in the Muslim world are becoming increasingly enamored with a flawed understanding of sharia law, calling for strict punishments for alcoholism, adultery, or sometimes even for exercising basic freedoms. But if Muslim nations really want to find moral high ground, they should first fight the corruption that put most of them as the bottom of the corruption index.

Read it all here. That is why most Muslim Countries are corrupt to the core, if NOT all............

KUALA LUMPUR: Takrif rasuah perlu dikaji dari sudut pandangan Islam yang sebenar, kata Presiden PAS, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang. KUALA LUMPUR: Takrif rasuah perlu dikaji dari sudut pandangan Islam yang sebenar, kata Presiden PAS, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang. Beliau berkata, sumbangan kepada pihak yang memerlukan dan bukan atas tujuan peribadi sama ada individu atau masyarakat umum, tidak harus dimasukkan dalam makna rasuah.

Mutual consent between corrupt individuals is not covered by Hudud laws

"Maka, tiada orang akan menjadi mangsa akibat kesalahan daripada tindakan undang-undang yang dizalimi, bukan kerana kesalahannya mengikut hukum Allah SWT.

"Pada masa sama, ia perlu diambil kira dari segi ekonomi pendapatan atau gaji yang cukup bagi keperluan diri dan keluarga," katanya dalam kenyataan Minda Presiden PAS melalui akaun Facebook rasmi beliau, hari ini.

Read it all here.........................

The Congress Party Should Never Rule India Again For All Their Lies,

The Archaeological Survey Board of India's hands were shackled even on the Taj Mahal!! Which was built on the wasted Hindu Temple, laid waste actually. After many 'donkey' years they finally came to the conclusion that the Babri Mosque was built on a Ram Mandir, finally!! Watch from 33.03.  The first Education Minister of India was a Muslim born in Mecca, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, he was instrumental in white washing Muslim atrocities inflicted on Hindus. Lies and deceit are allowed!!!  The first Prime Minister of India was a Muslim, surprise Nehru!! You did not know that did you?

Remember when Trump got sued for blocking someone on Twitter. Why hasn't anyone sued Biden for turning off comments on youtube? Trump doesn't care. That's what "real" people love about him. He doesn't pander to the incredibly weak idiots. MSM misses The Don. Now that the boogeyman is gone they are useless, ratings are tanking faster than Bidens brain functions.