This young man will be a boon for the future face of the Republican Party. He doesn't hold back and should be the only candidate offered a spot on the Trump train!

My family and I have literally never done anything except work hard, contribute to society, pay our taxes, and scrimp and save for everything we've got....and they all fucking hate us for it. Something needs to change because good people being hated simply for being good is insanely fucked up. No you right Mr Regan .. I was the only long-haired white boy living in all black ghetto I was also the only idiot getting up at 7:00 in the morning to go to work..

“The United States is unequivocal; international humanitarian law must be respected. Too many innocent Palestinians have been killed,” declared putative Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday. “Frankly, the scale of civilian suffering and the images and videos coming from Gaza are devastating.”

Then on Monday, the Associated Press, with a fine regard for journalistic objectivity, reported that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Soviet Union) and what it called “a robust group of Democratic senators” were “done ‘asking nicely’ for Israel to do more to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza.” These fearless solons “warned President Joe Biden’s national security team that planned U.S. aid to Israel must be met with assurances of concrete steps from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right government.” Sanders thundered, “The truth is that if asking nicely worked, we wouldn’t be in the position we are today.” AP added, “It was time for the United States to use its ‘substantial leverage’ with its ally, the Vermont senator said.”

To buttress their indignation and increasingly shrill demands, Harris and Sanders and the rest can look to no less an authority than the United Nations. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Sunday published a chart of “Reported Casualties” in Gaza, and the numbers look grim indeed: over 15,523 deaths, with 4,257 women and 6,387 children making up fully 70% of that figure.

The far-left establishment media is putting out substantially the same figures; the UK’s Guardian wrote Tuesday that “in the last three days, bombing has been heavy, and the total death toll since 7 October has risen to 15,899.”

Holy SHIT This is MURDER …https://t.co/IhPqoDwAs5

— 𝕰𝖒𝕲 (@Emilio2763) December 7, 2023

Typical Bodoh Sombong, Nasution is an Indonesian sounding name that's why he screwed the East Timorese

Bahasa Melayu ini bahasa kebangsaan.

Rakyat Malaysia kena faham perkara asas ini. Tak perlu sampai baca semua hikayat untuk kita berinteraksi dalam Bahasa Melayu.

YAB PMX pun mewajibkan penggunaan Bahasa Melayu dalam surat menyurat yang melibatkan Kerajaan.

Tiada kompromi. https://t.co/uE5uNUCKJA

— Saifuddin Nasution Ismail (@saifnasution) December 6, 2023

In a brief exchange on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), he told lawyer Michelle Yesudas that he never said that all Malaysians needed to master hikayat (Malay folklore)

"Bahasa Malaysia is the national language. No compromise.

“Malaysians have to understand this basic thing. No need to read out hikayat to us for interaction, ” said Saifuddin.  He also pointed out that Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim had mandated the use of Bahasa Malaysia in correspondence involving the government.

BaiJeBo : SAIFUDDIN NASUTION, HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE? Don't divert from the relevant issue. Just answer: is knowing BM a condition for renewing passport? It's that simple, just answer. Or, do you need a secondary school student to translate this to BM for you?

Yes, I reckon you this pathetic. I won't even employ you to be my clerk. The foolishness of some ministers knows no bounds. But we should not expect too much looking at the quality of the PM Anwar Ibrahim.

apa pun boleh : Any guesses why Anwar's ratings are declining? He does not need enemies. His sidekick is doing it very well. In the civil service they call it 'little Napoleons' or 'bodoh sombong'.

Jaycee : It is not that we do not want to master the language or speak it. For so long because non-Muslims are treated like second class citizens, it makes us resent the language.

For example, all quota system, raced-based policies, Bumiputra discounts, Bumiputra Welfare and on and on.... all favor the majority race. Never before have we seen affirmative actions that choose to protect the majority race and not the minority. And yet, you expect us to show patriotism to the country by mastering BM?

And yet, you want us non-muslims who live here all our lives and contributed significantly to income taxes and the economy to embrace the language with all our heart? Think not, Bahasa Malaysia may be the official language, but we will speak what ever we can.

Be firm : The minister is missing the point no one argues that BM is not official language but BM is not a requirement for renewing your passport . Know the difference Mr Minister. Be a man and admit you were wrong

YellowCondor6925 : Anwar, what do you have to say?? You put a backdoor person as a Home Minister and look at the incompetence he is showing to the world. You are mainly responsible for such a blunder.

Where is the courtesy of your Minister and your so-called "Napoleans" who are blindly showing their power to the rakyat? Not being able to converse properly in BM does not mean not showing loyalty to our country.

This Home Minister of yours is time to move out, the rakyat is getting fed up with this sort of ruling. Tourism is going to be impacted as news has spread out.

MBoleh : He has no mental capacity to recognise poor service standard of civil servants. He should be ashamed that rskyat has been bully by poorly trained front desk civil servants who always think that they are superior than their customers.

PurpleCat9452 : It’s time for the Borneo Bloc MP to take over Home Ministry, Education Ministry, Health Ministry or even PMO. Teach the Pen Msian how to live harmoniously like Sarawak or Sabah. After all, without Sarawak and Sabah there is no Malaysia, there is no Bahasa Malaysia. Put an end to the politicisation of Bahasa Malaysia.

An aide to Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek revealed the transfer while trying to dismiss allegations that the ministry did not take action over the incident. Instead, Fadhlina’s special officer Thiyagaraj Sankaranarayanan said stern action was taken. 

"The officer responsible has been transferred to another department," he said on Facebook yesterday. "Allegations that the ministry did not take action on other officers who had ordered the matter are also baseless. "We have to be aware that any statements on this matter will affect further investigations by the ministry," he added.

Last month, there was an uproar after two Tamil songs were banned from the Tamil language carnival in Penang, which was organised by the Education Ministry. The two songs were 'Kadavul Valthu', a worship song, and 'Tamil Valthu’, which is a song about the Tamil language.

Also banned were banners featuring Tamil literary and philosophical figure Thiruvalluvar. Fadhlina later said the incident should not have happened and apologised to the Indian community over the matter.

Newday : For years and years, this modus operandi of transfer and all of a sudden problems are fixed! Plainly the problem is still with the person. In this case a religious zealot. A transfer will never fix their indoctrination.

A153 : Transfer is "stern action" Hahaha! What a joke. Fadhlina you are an Embarrassment.

OrangeKucing5562 : Transfer is NOT the right disciplinary action. The officer must be given warning letter or better to terminate him or her for committing racial bias and sedition as a matter of fact.

OrangePanther1466 : Minister Fahdlina, this person should have been demoted first and sent to INTAN or a suitable faculty for a re-education course. He should not have been transferred as that would tantamount to shifting the problem to another division. He should stay in the same school and face the humiliation of an official reprimand.

Fair Play : Because they caused interracial tension instead of promoting racial harmony as civil servants - and especially when they are in the Education Ministry. These little napoleons have no place in the civil service where they are constant contact with all communities.

AyuhMy : This shows that whatever the gov does is only a whitewash. Why transfer and not termination or act upon based on 3R laws?

According to its chairperson Ng Yap Hwa, this was after their attempts to get an appointment to meet Anwar Ibrahim since the latter took office a year ago came to nought. "In the past year, the association and Teoh's family have written to the prime minister and Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

"We engaged cabinet ministers, deputy ministers, MPs, and political secretaries about our demand to set up a new investigation team, but the unity government did not give a concrete response," Ng said in a statement today. 

Last July, DAP national publicity secretary Teo Nie Ching said efforts were still being made to ensure that a meeting between the association and Anwar happens and to get justice.

However, five months after the pledge, the meeting was yet to materialise, Ng lamented. "Since the prime minister has no political will to meet Teoh’s family, the association and the family will visit the PMO in Putrajaya at 3pm on Dec 13.

"We urge members of the public who care about justice for Teoh to join us in this visit. We hope the door of the Prime Minister's Office is opened for Teoh’s family," Ng said.

Teoh’s demise

Teoh was found dead on July 16, 2009, on the fifth-floor service corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after being questioned overnight on the 14th floor of the Selangor MACC headquarters.

At the time of his death, Teoh was a political aide to Selangor state executive councillor and incumbent DAP Seri Kembangan assemblyperson Ean Yong Hian Wah.

In 2011, a Royal Commission of Inquiry determined that Teoh was driven to commit suicide following aggressive questioning by the MACC. In 2014, the Court of Appeal unanimously ruled that Teoh's death was caused by the act of “a person or persons unknown”, including the MACC officers who questioned him overnight before he was found dead.

KABIR DAS SLAVE OF SLAVES : Easier to meet him overseas

AT-SIXX : Deepest sympathies to the family for their loss and endless roadblocks in their search not just for justice, but simple answers. I regret that I feel that this Gomen will not do anything.

PMX is too busy being more conservative than ever before and DAP is, well, morphing into the animal it once heavily critisized (MCA). Malaysia to me is a symbol of missed opportunities on so many fronts.

If it weren't for our abundant natural resources previously (squandered also), we'd have been like Zimbabwe already by now.

As the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been fighting their way through badly bomb-damaged urban areas in northern and southern Gaza, Hamas has increasingly relied on improvised bombs to inflict casualties and slow down the assault.

Gaza’s hospitals have reported a flood of civilian dead and injured, many of them women and children, as medical supplies dwindle, while the spread of ground combat to the south has stopped any delivery of humanitarian aid much further than the Rafah crossing point with Egypt.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said 1,207 Palestinians had been killed since the collapse of a temporary ceasefire at the beginning of the month, and that 70% of the dead were women and children. The ministry said more than 100 bodies were currently awaiting burial inside the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, which it said was without fuel and was coming under fire.

“The entire north of the Gaza Strip is left without health services,” Munir al-Bursh, the director, said. The focal points of the fighting over the past two days have been the Jabaliya refugee camp and the Shujai’iya district in northern Gaza, and Khan Younis and Bani Suheila in the south. The IDF has taken control of most of the Salah al-Din Road, the main north-south highway running down the middle of the coastal strip.

Not long ago, the Israeli Air Force delivered yet another crushing blow to these terrorist groups in the Middle East. Since the tragic day of October 7th, when the storm of assaults initially started, the Israeli Air Force has relentlessly pursued justice. As time goes on, their resolve intensifies, and they continue to wreak havoc...

Bukit Aman’s CID director Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain said the man is suspected of making the statement during an online interview with an Israeli social media influencer named Hananya Naftali, which was uploaded on a local media portal's TikTok. According to him, the man has been placed under remand for three days starting today until Friday.

"The investigation into this case is being carried out by the CID's Classified Criminal Investigation Unit, Law/Prosecution Division (D5) under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948, Section 505(b) of the Penal Code, and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998," he said in a statement tonight.   Shuhaily added that as the case is still under investigation, he advised the public not to make any comments or speculations about it.

"The police remind the public to be wise users of social media and not to misuse these applications for purposes that violate the law," he said. Recently, a video went viral showing a man believed to be a Malaysian citizen engaging in an online interview with Naftali. 

He was alleged to have said that Malaysia should have diplomatic relations with Israel and requested the opening of the Israeli embassy in the country.

- Bernama

Falcon : 1. Those who robbed our coffers with faulty ventilators? Have they been arrested? Detained? Bank accounts frozen?

2. A mother seeking the return of her child despite a Federal Court decision, still waits?

3. What is the lastest on the pastor and others victims of forced disappearance? Are they alive, or murdered and buried? And if so, where, by whose instructions?

4. A young UUM student found dead in her room still unaddressed. Where comes such barbaric and mean silence for grieving parents and others?

5. Have we forgotten raped and murdered Norietta and others? But - Wow, a man allegedly supporting establishment of M'sia-Israel ties in 2021 is arrested under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948, Section 505(b) of the Penal Code, and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998!

Friends - are WE missing something here? One thing certain, the attention of governments and international media has us on their radar! Enjoy! In the meantime, several prestigious US university's leadership are facing grand jury probes and calls for their resignations for aiding, abetting directly, indirectly or by elegant silence antisemitism!

We already have Hungary, Poland and the Netherlands moving to shut migration doors and mass deport certain migrants who according to their statistics have contributed to antisemitism and crime. The US and UK seem moving in the same direction with homeland security pressures.

The recently concluded UN based conference of hostages raped, tortured and crimes against women and children has put previous noise makers and mass demonstration organisers, on the defensive since Oct 7th, in view new evidence and recorded images on the medieval barbarism of Hamas and others. The last thing Malaysia needs is to be tagged an antisemitism nation.

- Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim

COMMENT | The recent incident where a woman was allegedly scolded by an immigration officer for not speaking Bahasa Malaysia and the home minister’s subsequent defence of such conduct, although toxic, could be easily ameliorated if we had the political will to do so.

Keep in mind that everyday engagements between the civil service and normal citizens are fairly mundane and the reason why these incidents crop up is because the unprofessional behaviour of certain officials from the civil service (at any level) is condoned by their political overseers because they fear losing the support of the civil service, which is an influential voting bloc. 

If certain low-ranking factotums from the civil service engage in such behaviour, it is because they take their cues from the political class.

Keep in mind everyday interactions between the ordinary rakyat are relatively civil and convivial.

While on social media, you get agitators questioning everything from the patriotism and fluency of the national language of the non-Malays, this is all part of the greater political narrative of the political class which uses language and any other issues to demonise the non-Malays.

Stop being a victim of our current government. Listen to Major Meor Rosli in this latest video.

The Israelis also developed/invented drip irrigation due to the fresh water shortage in Israel for their crops, orchards etc/farming, agriculture. The use of the method of drip irrigation spread rapidly throughout the world especially used in drier climates to grow trees, crops etc.

From historical events to genetic research, we uncover the complexity of the Middle East and how it influences conflicts between Israel and the extremist group Hamas. A perfect narrative of the facts in complete accordance with the Holy Bible. It’s a complex problem that started thousands of years and made much more complicated with religious divisions. Brave hearts on both sides are required to come together and agree on a 2-state solution which will benefit millions of people living in perpetual fear and poor economic conditions.

"Since biblical times, Jews and Arabs, who are two among several Semitic peoples, have occupied parts of the territory of the Middle East. After 1933, with the rise of Nazism in Germany and the increase in persecution against Jews in Europe, migration Jewish access to the region grew dramatically.

The Palestinians, in turn, resisted this occupation and the conflicts worsened. After the Second World War and the end of the Holocaust, which led to the extermination of 6 million Jews, a growing international demand for creation of Jews in an Israeli state meant that the United Nations (UN) approved, in 1947, a plan to divide Palestine into two states: one Jewish, occupying 57% of the area, and the other Palestinian (Arab), with the remaining land.

"This sharing, unequal in relation to historical occupation, displeased Arab countries in general", says Alexandre Hecker. In 1948, the British finally vacated the region and the Jews founded, on May 14, the State of Israel. A day later, the Arabs, dissatisfied with the partition, declared war on the new nation, but were defeated.

“The conflict allowed to Israel increased its territory to 75% of the former Palestinian lands: the rest was annexed by Transjordan (the part called the West Bank) and Egypt (the Gaza strip)”, explains the professor. As a result, many Palestinians took refuge in neighboring Arab states, while many arrived under Israeli authority.

“Other wars followed over borders, with advantages for Israel and always without a solution to the refugee problem.” Despite some attempts at agreements and peace plans, the current situation is still very impasse, mainly due to the fact that the Palestinians, led by the radical Islamic movement Hamas, do not consider Israel's right to exist.

In Alexandre's opinion, "the war between Palestinians and Jews will only come to an end when a Palestinian state is created that occupies, equally with Israel, the entire territory as it appeared in 1917." After 1933, with the rise of Nazism in Germany and the increase in persecution against Jews in Europe, Jewish migration to the region grew dramatically.

The Palestinians, in turn, resisted this occupation and the conflicts worsened. After the Second World War and the end of the Holocaust, which led to the extermination of 6 million Jews, the growing international demand for the creation of an Israeli state led the United Nations (UN) to approve, in 1947, a plan for division of Palestine into two states: one Jewish, occupying 57% of the area, and the other Palestinian (Arab), with the rest of the land.

"This sharing, unequal in relation to the historical occupation, displeased Arab countries in general", says Alexandre Hecker. In 1948, the British finally vacated the region and the Jews founded, on May 14, the State of Israel. A day later, the Arabs, dissatisfied with the partition, declared war on the new nation, but ended up defeated.

"The conflict allowed Israel to increase its territory to 75% of the former Palestinian lands: the rest was annexed by Transjordan (the part called the West Bank) and Egypt (the Gaza strip)", explains the professor. As a result, many Palestinians took refuge in neighboring Arab states, while many remained under Israeli authority. "Other wars followed over borders, with advantages for Israel and always without a solution to the refugee problem."

Matthew Miller

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller revealed in a press conference that Hamas won’t free the remaining women because they don’t want them to talk about possible sex crimes in captivity.

With increasing reports about the frequency and severity of sexual crimes, including rape and genital mutilation, perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th, Matthew Miller has posited the hesitancy of releasing female hostages, the main issue that led to the end of the ceasefire and the resumption of fighting, is to prevent them from revealing similar crimes during their confinement.

In a press conference, Miller said, “The fact that they continue to hold women, hostages, the fact that they continue to hold children, hostages, just the fact that it seems one of the reasons they don’t want to turn women over they’ve been holding hostage, and the reason this pause fell apart, is they don’t want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody.”

State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller suggests “one of the reasons [Hamas doesn’t] want to turn women over that they’ve been holding hostage — and the reason this pause fell apart — is they don’t want those women to talk about what happened to them.” pic.twitter.com/GOlM3PHgVR

— The Recount (@therecount) December 4, 2023

“There is very little that I would put beyond Hamas when it comes to its treatment of civilians, and particularly its treatment of women,” he adds.

Last week, 110 elderly women, mothers and their children, and foreign nationals were released by Hamas.

CAIR, The enemy within

The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has for many years viewed the Democrats as friends who kowtow to them, as well as to other Muslim lobbies. Biden has given Muslim Brotherhood-linked lobbies abundant reason to believe this. Now these groups expect more from Biden: that he facilitate the Muslim Brotherhood’s desire to see Israel destroyed, because that is what will happen if Israel halts its war on Hamas — which is a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot. In fact, the Muslim Brotherhood seeks a global caliphate.

Since 2014, the United Arab Emirates’ ministerial cabinet has listed CAIR as a terrorist group; but as one would expect, CAIR protested the label and called it “bizarre.” 

“CAIR Calls on Biden Admin to Demand Ceasefire Extension After Israeli Bombing Kills 100+ Civilians”, CAIR, December 4, 2023: (WASHINGTON, DC – 12/1/2023) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today condemned the Biden administration for giving the Israeli government the “green light” to resume bombing Gaza and called on the United States to join other governments in demanding the resumption of the ceasefire and negotiations to secure a just, lasting peace.

Erdogan views the Taliban as having the same views as Turkey, which is enough to demonstrate exactly where he stands. Erdogan considers the Gaza war to be a holy war, so it should come as no surprise that he calls Netanyahu as a “war criminal.” It is also noteworthy that Turkey has shut it doors to Palestinian refugees, as their plight is likely to contribute to the propaganda war: as the war goes on, Palestinian death and displacement increases, and so do anti-Israel, anti-Jewish global sentiments.

Israel is surrounded by skillfully manipulative jihadist movements and countries which support the Palestinian “resistance.” “Turkey’s Erdogan says Netanyahu will face ‘war criminal’ trial after Israel-Hamas war,” by Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, December 4, 2023:

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan claimed on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be tried as a “war criminal” after Israel’s war against Hamas has concluded.

Erdogan does not recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization and has been deeply critical of Israel’s campaign in Gaza. He compared Netanyahu to genocidal dictators of the past during a speech during a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul.

“Beyond being a war criminal, Netanyahu, who is the butcher of Gaza right now, will be tried as the butcher of Gaza, just as Milosevic was tried,”

Erdogan said, referencing a former Yugoslav president. “Those who try to skip over the deaths of all those innocent people by using the excuse of Hamas have nothing left to say to humanity.”…

urkish extremists rejoice: the Cologne monument to the Armenian genocide, which Turkey does not recognise, has been repeatedly erected and dismantled over the years. Sometimes the city had the statue removed on the grounds that a cycle path was to be built and sometimes for fear of “social upheaval”. After a march by Turkish nationalists, including supporters of the far-right Grey Wolves and DITIB associations, at the end of October, the city finally decided that the memorial should be removed.

The memorial was erected in Cologne in 2018 to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide between 1915 and 1918. At that time, between 300,000 and more than 1.5 million people were murdered in massacres and death marches under the responsibility of the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire, which was formed by the Committee for Unity and Progress. For international historians, the genocide is indisputable, but Turkey does not recognise the crime.
Since its inauguration next to the Kaiser Wilhelm equestrian statue, the memorial of the “Remember Genocide” initiative has repeatedly caused disputes with Turkish nationalists, who have successfully put pressure on the city. Following protests, the memorial was repeatedly removed by the city and rebuilt by activists from the initiative – although the city’s reasons for not granting the memorial permission and removing it often varied from time to time. Sometimes it was said that a cycle path was to be built and sometimes they were a little more frank – speaking of fear of “social upheaval”.

For example, Cologne’s mayor Reker recently justified herself with the “diverse interests of our pluralistic urban society”, which had to be taken into account. However, this did not stop the “Remember Genocide” initiative from putting the sculpture back up in the city centre on April 24 this year, Remembrance Day. The city then issued a special use permit until May 24. However, this was not sufficient for the campaign and they filed a legal complaint.

In addition to denying the genocide against the Armenians, the participants in the demonstration did not distance themselves from the atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel and even denied them. The chairman of the youth organisation “Fatherland Party” spoke to public broadcaster WDR about the right of Palestinians to defend themselves, explicitly including Hamas terror.

Just weeks later, the city council decided to finally abolish the “This pain affects us all” memorial at the end of 2023. Instead, a new memorial is to be erected to “commemorate the victims of oppression, racism, violence and human rights violations”. At its meeting on December 7, the city council will decide on the funding for a dialogue process in which a new memorial is to be developed. This process is expected to take two years and cost up to 350,000 euros, according to the Kölner Stadtanzeiger.

For the Turkish right-wing extremists, who have been fighting against the memorial for years, the Cologne city government’s caving in is a complete success. On Facebook, nationalists euphorically wrote: “The defamation monument will now be removed. We congratulate the Cologne city council on their decision in favour of justice!”

This is not the first time that political pressure from Turkish nationalists or diplomats in Germany has led to success: in 2005, Brandenburg removed the topic of the Armenian genocide from the curriculum due to the intervention of Turkish diplomats. In 2011, the University of Stuttgart refused to allow a lecture on the genocide due to Turkish “protests from Berlin” – the university stated that it wanted to “remain neutral”.

According to Parti Bangsa Malaysia’s (PBM) Agnes Padan, all four of Lina’s children were granted MyKads last month. “No words can be expressed when finally all four children of the late cancer patient Lina have received their MyKads.

“Special thanks to (Home Minister) Saifuddin Nasution Ismail for his attention and effort in solving their citizenship issue, (as well as) the Sarawak National Registration Department and the media that covered the issue,” she posted on Facebook on Nov 24. 

The Borneo Post previously reported that all four of Lina’s children received their birth certificates in June, affirming that they were Malaysian citizens.

Lina, who passed away in April, had alleged that her identity card was seized by a National Registration Department (NRD) officer in November 2022, when she visited the department to change her address in the lead-up to the 15th general election.

However, Saifuddin had said Lina’s MyKad was impounded by the NRD on Oct 8, 2019, because it was found that she is not a citizen as her children's birth certificates showed that her nationality is Indonesian.

Lina was from the Lun Bawang group.

After a meeting with officers from Kuching NRD, she was issued a temporary MyKad, which would allow her to travel by air or land from Lawas to Miri where she was being treated for colon cancer.

Israel: "Take in your cousins." Kuwait: "But they sided with Saddam Hussein."

Jordan: "They tried to overthrow the government."

Lebanon: "They grabbed some of our land for a mini-state."

Syria: "We're busy with a civil war right now."

Saudi Arabia: "But they're poor."

Egypt: "They're troublemakers."

Iran: "They aren't our cousins."

The aftermath of the hostilities and violence that are taking place between Israel and Hamas continues to have a far-reaching impact within the complex and ever-changing domain of geopolitics. This conflict has triggered intense, passionate debates, reactions, and responses around the world, including in India.

A large section of the sizeable Muslim community in the country has become increasingly radicalized against Jews due to decades of extremist indoctrination that is carried on primarily in Islamic madrassas and mosques. Therefore, the social and cultural implications transcend far beyond the region’s boundaries and have some profound consequences.

The Middle East conflict has brought forth into public discussion the deep underlying divisions and tensions that exist between two of the largest religious groups in the country, the native Hindus and the Muslims.

After the Hamas terror attacks, there have been frequent instances where several Muslim social media influencers, clerics, and religious leaders in India have added fuel to the fire by polarizing their followers against Jews and also taking the jihad to another order of magnitude by inciting genocide against the Hindus in India.

Muslims in India specifically have been very vocal about the issue, and religious fundamentalism amongst the Muslims has led to a zealous support for the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas cause. Various Muslim political parties, NGOs/Activist Groups, and student organizations have also used this as a golden opportunity to engage in inflammatory rhetoric against their old enemies, the Hindus. Post the attacks on Israel, several rallies, marches, and demonstrations across the country in support of Hamas were organized by Indian Muslims.

India has a very long and violent history with Islamic invasions for centuries and Muslim riots even in modern times, post its independence in 1947. In September-October 1969, riots occurred between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat, India. It was a major riot that involved death, arson, looting, and rapes committed by Muslims.

A dispute in Ahmedabad involving a Muslim shrine led to widespread riots not just in other districts of the state but also across several states of India. Although the official death tally stood at 660, unverified estimates went as high as 2,000.

More recently, in 1984, Bhiwandi, a town in Maharashtra, witnessed another chapter of rioting started by Muslims. The official number of casualties stood at 278, while unofficial reports estimated it at over 700, most of them being Hindus.

“I don’t think it’s morally evil to own somebody,” Jonathan Brown explained to attendees at his lecture. “Slavery cannot just be treated as a moral evil in and of itself.” To a man who argued that slavery was wrong, Brown retorted, “How can you say, if you’re Muslim, the Prophet of God had slaves. He had slaves. There’s no denying that. Was he—are you more morally mature than the Prophet of God? No you’re not.”

When Brown had been asked in the past about the women and girls sold and raped by ISIS based on Islamic law, he defended the Islamic practice of sex slavery, “There is no doubt that the Quran and Sunna permit this.”  “You cannot say from a Sharia perspective that what the prophet did was wrong because the prophet can’t commit sins.”

“A male owner of a female slave has the right to sexual access to her… her ‘consent’ would be meaningless since she is his slave,” Brown had also explained in the past. “Slave women do not have agency over their sexual access, so their owner can have sex with them,” he appears to have written on Facebook.

Had anyone tried to justify southern slavery, they would have been canceled until the end of their days, but defending Islamic slavery is okay and so Brown remains a respected scholar.