In an email response to Malaysiakini, MCMC claimed that this was due to the repeated publication of harmful content touching on racial and religious sensitivities, which has the potential to affect societal harmony and public order.

“The action taken by MCMC is based on the presence of harmful elements in the content published and not due to the individual’s status as an activist,” it said.

On the Other Hand : It is non-Muslim religions that are under threat from extremist Islamists operating in the government, on their behalf, and also those holding senior political positions. 

It appears that they have been given a free pass to oppress, to call temples 'haram', ban pig farming, prevent non-Muslim houses of worship from being built, and forcing 'halal' upon non-believers. Where is the divinity in this? I certainly don't see it.

Monkey politicians : Very selective action MCMC. The converts had posted more harmful contents, some politicians included. What about the newbie in Jkom?

Knucklehead2 : Sesat JKom and MCMC in full swing — PMX is marshalling his troops to choke dissent before the mother of all GE16. Blocking Arun’s page under the guise of “public harmony” is nothing more than political censorship dressed up in legalese. 

Najib tried the same playbook — silencing critics, weaponising institutions — and look where he ended up. The rakyat decided then, and they will decide again. 

Your vote will determine whether Malaysia moves forward or sinks deeper into authoritarian rot. No more UMNO. No more PKR. Both are a cancer eating away at this nation! Bersama, we await you!

Geram : MCMC claimed that this was due to the repeated publication of harmful content touching on racial and religious sensitivities, which has the potential to affect societal harmony and public order. What about Akmal Salleh, Billy the Zakir Naik, Reduian Tee, Fudias Wong and Vinos?

Sealthedeal : Exactly. The bias here is unbelievable. The MCMC is a blatant racist arm of government and they must be castigated for it. Outrageous bias yet again. When are they going to block Akmals Facebook. The first job of the new government should be to fire the board of the MCMC.

Regardless of one's political views or differences of opinion, such racial labelling is wholly inappropriate, irresponsible, and unbecoming of a senior government official entrusted with leading a federal communications agency.

RZee : Racists abound in west Malaysia. It’s the norm. Nobody stops them.

Just Common Sense : Does this JKOM refer to other races as Melayu sesat, or India sesat or Kadazan sesat or is this reserved only for those of Chinese race? Anwar again scores own goal with his appointment.

Jarchin : Why wait for him to resign. The person who appointed him should sack him without further delay. PM Anwar at his favourite line of action - pretend don't know!!

World Citizen : Every ministry and their ministers have their own communication departments to promote and advocate their policies to the public. Then there is RTM and various other stations to disseminate government policies and propaganda to the public. 

We also have a whole Ministry of Communication doing the same job. So then, what exactly is the need for a Community Communication Department? The Prime Minister always talks about avoiding and reducing waste and this J-Com should be first on his list to be eliminated.

Meerkat : PMX has shown his cards where he stands in this matter and in the broader subject of racial harmony. By backing this person, he is turning his back on Chinese voters.

Krabian : Should shut down this ex UMNO and Melayu propaganda outfit. It has caused more harm and damages to unity and harmony.

However much the pleb-fearing thoughtpolice of Keir Starmer’s government might disapprove of such fury, it’s the emotion that swelled in all decent British and Irish people as they saw a brute rain stab after stab upon his sprawled, struggling victim. Good luck trying to curb the people’s rage over this act of wanton savagery.   

It was truly obscene. On a dimly lit nighttime street in north Belfast, a kind of medieval butchery unfolded. A local man in his 40s was mercilessly pinned down by the knifeman. Each plunge of the knife was coldly, cruelly executed. The monster went for the man’s face, his neck, his back. The police announced this morning that the victim suffered ‘significant injuries to his eyes’. Was this an attempted eye-gouging? In the United Kingdom in 2026? Some are calling it an attempted beheading. Whichever it was, we now know the early media reports about a ‘knife incident’ were shamefully euphemistic, dolling up a monstrous atrocity in the garb of everyday crime.

Then came the most salient revelation, the one that imbued this feral exhibition of violence with political urgency – the suspect is Sudanese. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) tried to get the details out quickly, clearly having learned how much it riles the public when the truth about barbaric violence is withheld from us on the grounds that we’re too dumb and racist to handle it. The suspect is in his 30s, he seems to be from Sudan, and he got to Northern Ireland via Dublin. Oh, and he was granted leave to remain.

By late May 1249, Louis and his army, which consisted of some twenty-five thousand Crusaders, were setting sail from Cyprus. Their destination was the Egyptian port of Damietta, on the basis of the by now standard Crusader logic that Egypt must be neutralized before Jerusalem could be secured.

Considering that Damietta had also been the focus of the Fifth Crusade (1217-1221), none of this came as a surprise to Egyptian sultan al-Salih Ayyub. He sent men under Emir Fahreddin to refortify Damietta’s garrison and hold the coast against any Crusader landing. He also sent a message warning Louis to desist: “No one has ever attacked us without feeling our superiority,” the sultan boasted. “Recollect the conquests we have made from the Christians; we have driven them from the lands they possessed; their strongest towns have fallen under our blows.”

By June 4, the Christian fleet had anchored on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Damietta. Legions of Muslims lined the shore and riverbank, where they “made a loud and terrible noise with horns and cymbals.” A council was held in the king’s ship. Although some said to wait for the other Crusader vessels that had been delayed by a storm, Louis was set on taking the shore now. “Our men,” wrote Gui, one of the knights present, “seeing the lord King’s steadfastness and unwavering resolve, at his bidding made ready…to occupy the shore by force and go on land.” When his counsellors urged him not to join in the initial landing, due to the danger it posed to his person, Louis responded, “I am only one individual whose life, when God wills it, will be snuffed out like any other man’s.”

And so, on today’s date, June 6, 777 years ago, the Crusaders, to a loud battle cry, furiously paddled to shore and “in accordance with the lord King’s strict and most urgent command, hastily leaped into the sea up to their loins.” Clad in heavy iron and slowly plodding toward the coast, they were met by a forbidding hail of arrows. Nevertheless, “of all the ships, the lord King’s put in first,” continues Gui.

“Louis leapt into the water up to his armpits and waded ashore, shield round neck, helm on head, and sword in hand.” Jean de Joinville (1224–1317), a close friend of Louis who participated in the Crusade, continues: “So soon as they [Muslims] saw us land, they came toward us, hotly spurring. We, when we saw them coming, fixed the points of our shields into the sand and the handles of our lances in the sand with the points set towards them.” Confronted by this massive spike-studded shield wall and seeing “the lances about to enter into their bellies,” the Muslims “turned about and fled”—all except one, who, thinking his comrades were charging behind him, was instantly “cut down.”

Thereafter, the Crusaders “fell manfully upon the enemies of the Cross like strong athletes of the Lord,” writes Gui: “The armed Saracens, stationed mounted on the shore, disputed the land with us…maintaining a dense fire of javelins and arrows against our men. And yet our men… pushed on and set foot on the land despite the Saracens.” The more the Muslims gave way, the more the Christians advanced onto dry ground. Before long, horses had been ferried over and mounted, leading to heavy, splashy cavalry charges, all under the cover of missile fire from the Christian fleet.

Last August, after Tony Abbott appealed to a cross-section of Australian Muslims to meet him to discuss a range of counter-terrorism proposals — mainly changes to passport and welfare regulations that would inhibit Australians from joining Middle Eastern jihadi — a number declined the invitation, including the Islamic Council of Victoria, representing 150,000 Muslims.

Instead, a petition was sent to the media from Muslim organisations and individuals deriding the Prime Minister’s overture and his patriotic appeal to join “Team Australia” in this conflict. The petitioners argued that, rather than being on their side, Australia was part of their problem: “We are not fooled by those who speak against violence and terrorism but are its proponents at an institutional level through military and foreign policies.”

While acknowledging the Perak institution’s clarification that the poster was not approved before being circulated, he said the matter must still be probed, citing public concern. A copy of the poster allegedly published yesterday, which has circulated online, lists “benefits” for Upsi students who register as converts to Islam.

The poster, which carries the logos of Upsi, the university’s Islamic centre, its student affairs and alumni departments, as well as the Malaysia Madani emblem, states that students who convert may be entitled to free education. It also claims that students who embraced Islam would be offered financial aid and could join “experience-sharing sessions” with other converts.

RedTuna1696 : Quote: "In a notice yesterday, Upsi’s corporate communications division said the poster was never submitted for the university’s management review or approval, adding that it had been circulated outside official channels and that “follow-up action” was being taken to prevent a recurrence. 

" UPSI's official statement on the issue only expressed the institution's unhappiness with the way the programme was publicized through unofficial channels by members of their staff, i.e. that it did not go through due process of approval from the university's management or leadership. 

UPSI's statement of "denial" only emphasized on the poster, BUT DID NOT clarify on whether such a programme DID or DID NOT EXIST in their institution, administered by their 'Pusat Islam'. 

If such a programme really did not exist, and the poster was fake news, why didn't UPSI just issue a public statement that explicitly denied the existence of such a programme? 

Why did they try to cunningly circumvent the real issue by centering their denial on the approval for the poster, instead of directly and honestly addressing actual public concerns about such a programme in a publicly funded university?

Dr Suresh Kumar : It has been always quantity over quality, isn't it? Such a dishonorable and disgraceful act. Many poor non-Malay students may fall for this trap. Especially Indian students. 

Who is sponsoring it? Where does the money come from? I won't be surprised if the tentacles of a certain 'VICTORIOUS' man are all over there. Shameful and sinful!

BluePanther4725 : This is disgusting, contaminating education with religion and preying on vulnerable young people. Why is the Police not investigating? If is it a poster urging students to become Christians, the Police will jump on it immediately. Double standards and low-down. Shame on UPSI!

Just Common Sense : Nothing surprising at all. This is what our tax money has been freely used for past 60 years even though Constitution prohibits. 

Collect taxes from non-muslims and then use said funds to convert their children. This religion has zero respect for non-believers. And after that can talk about rukun negara. Can we say UPSI not fit to be Malaysian?

We can unpack the recent events, but it's more difficult to understand the underlying reasons and determine which of the moves are significant and which parties will benefit the most.

One of the major winners from unfolding events may again be PAS, while Umno may do well in the Johor state election and perhaps Negeri Sembilan but not so great elsewhere.

Casualties will be Anwar’s fortunes, along with PKR and Bersatu, while the fate of dark horse newcomer Parti Bersama Malaysia may be mixed and even encouraging.

Knucklehead2 : ABA – Anyone But Anwar. Anwar and PKR have taken Malaysians for a ride long enough. Promises of reform turned into excuses, alliances with UMNO turned into betrayal, and the rakyat are left with nothing but disappointment. 

That’s why I am rooting for Bersama. As young as they are, they bring hope, energy, and a fresh agenda for Malaysians. They speak up where PKR stays silent, they act where PMX stalls. All the other parties have shown us their true colours—self‑interest, corruption, and endless drama. 

The rakyat deserve better. GE16 must be the reckoning: ABA, and let Bersama rise as the real alternative.

Sanaa manuscript

The mostly Arabic speaking crowd who listened to them became extremely agitated and angry, as this material goes against everything they have been taught. Because of the volatility of Speaker's Corner, and because the material Jay and Hatun were introducing was quite technical and difficult to communicate, especially to an angry crowd, they announced from the ladder that they would be posting a follow-up video that would not only explain what they were saying at Speakers' Corner, but also show the actual changes which we can find in the written Arabic between two of the 26 Arabic Qur'ans on display (the Hafs and the Warsh versions). 

In this video, Jay and Hatun discuss some of the differences found in two of the 26 different Arabic Qur'ans. We hope that with this video you can better understand what Jay and Hatun are trying to communicate, and that it will begin a debate about the preservation of the Qur'an and about why Muslim leaders lie to their followers about their most cherished book. "However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing." - George Orwell.

The Numbers Behind the Concern

The 2026 Budget, tabled in late 2025, targeted a fiscal deficit of 3.5% of GDP, equivalent to approximately RM74.6 billion. This represented a modest improvement from the 2025 revised estimate of around 3.8% (roughly RM76.7 billion).

However, early 2026 developments, particularly surges in global energy prices linked to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East have pushed subsidy expenditures higher than anticipated. Reports indicate the cumulative deficit has approached or exceeded RM85 billion in the first half of the year, outpacing the full-year target well before mid-year.

This group is facing financial pressure in 2025 due to a combination of economic reforms. While Malaysians are being told they are better off financially, their feelings are contrary. Rising costs, policies and structural challenges are diminishing middleclass spending ability and turning them into financial slaves of society, locked into this by their work and lifestyles they have grown accustomed to after so many decades of growing national prosperity.

Targeted Subsidy Reforms have put many within the middleclass out of range of subsidies their livelihoods were based upon. The government has shifted from blanket subsidies to targeted ones, particularly for fuel (e.g., RON95 petrol subsidies phased out for the T15 group, earning above RM13,000/month) and electricity. Middle-class households, especially those in urban areas like Kuala Lumpur, often fall just outside subsidy eligibility, facing higher costs for essentials. For instance, the removal of petrol subsidies could add RM1,000–RM2,000 monthly to household expenses for some families.

I certainly do not intend to defend Salleh’ former judgements, nor do I consider him a “hero” in my approximation. Nevertheless, we owe it to Salleh and our younger generations to put the record straight and confront the historical facts surrounding the sacking of the former lord president by then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad as laid out in Salleh’s account of the case in “May Day for Justice”. 

Otherwise, we will not be able to fathom the damage that was done to the Malaysian judiciary by Mahathir. Umno’s power struggle in the 1980s The underlying factor, which determined the uncertainty in Malaysian politics ever since 1986, was the power struggle within Umno. This relentless power struggle was inevitable considering the size of the spoils of the New Economic Policy at stake.  

The irreconcilable differences between Team A led by Mahathir and Team B led by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah was the destabilising factor which dominated the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition. This in turn set in train other destructive forces within the coalition’s member parties. 

Storm clouds over Malaysian politics began to gather from the time of the Umno general assembly in April 1987 when the split down the middle in Umno caught the imagination of everyone. Mahathir had been re-elected by the skin of his teeth! What followed through the subsequent months was to add to the clouds hanging over Umno – the sacking of the Team B ministers from the Cabinet; 

Team B members going to court to seek rulings that the outcome of the April 1987 party elections be declared null and void; Umno being subsequently declared “illegal” by the court. This court challenge by Team B of Umno was the biggest threat faced by Mahathir. As the Tunku put it: “Umno was facing a break-up. 

Prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s hold on the party appeared critical when election rigging was alleged to have given him a very narrow victory over Tengku Razaleigh. The case alleging irregularities brought by Umno members was pending in court. “If the judgement went against him, he would have no choice but to step down. 

So, he had to find a way out of his predicament. A national crisis had to be created to bring Umno together as a united force to fight a common enemy – and the imaginary enemy in this case was the Chinese community… “It’s not a question of Chinese against the government but his own party, Umno who are against him”. (K.Das/ Suara: ‘The White paper on the October Affair and the Why? Papers’, Suaram Petaling Jaya 1989: 10) 

World jurists condemn Mahathir for his assault on the Judiciary Mahathir has tried in vain to wriggle out of the responsibility for Operation Lalang saying it was the inspector-general of police who ordered the arrests. Likewise, he has attempted to put the blame for the sacking of the lord president and three other Supreme Court judges on the Agung. 

As I have pointed out often enough, these two outrages against Malaysian democracy in 1987 and 1988 respectively are inextricably linked. Young lawyers today might like to know the views of top jurists from around the world who reacted to this atrocious attack on the Malaysian judiciary: In the Foreword to “May Day for Justice”, written by Tun Salleh & K Das after the sacking of the lord president, the Tunku further wrote: “I do not know how any honourable government can stay in office after this book has been published. 

It constitutes a denunciation which cannot be answered without confessing to the most dishonourable conduct in public life … it struck a terrible blow, not only to the independence of the Malaysian judiciary – and ruined the careers of at least three honourable men – but to national pride itself.” In another foreword, the Hon Justice Michael Kirby CMG Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) had this to say: 

“Singled out for particular mention was the concern of the ICJ about the campaign of attacks on the judiciary by the prime minister of Malaysia, the inducements made to the lord president to resign his office quietly, the apparently biased constitution of the tribunal set up to enquire into his removal, the inclusion in the tribunal, as its chairman, of a judge who succeeded to the lord president’s office, the unprecedented action of that judge in securing the removal and suspension of Supreme Court judges who provided a stay to allow the constitutionality of the tribunal to be tested in the Malaysian Supreme Court, and the ‘unpersuasive’ report of the tribunal following which the lord president was removed.” 

The highly respected former Lord President Tun Mohamed Suffian Hashim had this to say on the sordid affair and he pointed his finger squarely at Mahathir: “The disgrace brought to Malaysia by the prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad in dismissing the lord president, Tun Salleh Abas, and two senior Supreme Court judges will long hang round his neck like an albatross. 

What the PM did astounded the nation and the appalling news was swiftly spread to all four corners of the globe… “Tun Salleh has since revealed all the facts leading to, and regarding the so-called inquiry into his alleged misbehaviour. Facts which because of the prime minister’s total control of the mass media, he was able at the time to keep from public knowledge and which were also kept out of the knowledge of the two foreign members of the tribunal who came from Sri Lanka and Singapore.” (K Das, “Questionable Conduct over that May Day Caper”, 1990) 

The Malaysian Bar Council at the time also did not mince its words in a statement: “From the prime minister’s attacks on the judiciary, it appears that he seriously misconceives the doctrine of the separation of powers… It is not for the Executive to tell the judges how to construe the laws.” In 1990, when Lim Kit Siang was opposing Mahathir, he alleged: 

“The prime minister and the attorney-general had refused to throw light on this shocking discrepancy, which raised doubts as to whether the prime minister ever had an audience with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on May 1, 1988…Grave doubts and mystery surround the judicial crisis of 1988…” (K Das, “Questionable Conduct over that May Day Caper”, 1990) There were many other eminent jurists from around the world who were aghast at this flagrant assault on one of the vital institutions of any democracy: 

Geoffrey Robertson QC; Hugo Young; PN Bhagwati, former chief justice of India; Prof Andrew Harding writing for the Commonwealth Judicial Journal; Bernard Levin of The Times, London; Professor FA Trinidade of The Law Quarterly Review; Nihal Jayawickkarama of the University of Hong Kong. All of them were quite clear in pointing their fingers at the prime minister of the day for the sacking of Salleh. The cover of the book, ‘May Day for Justice’. 

In his book “May Day for Justice”, Salleh’s denunciation of Mahathir begins on the first page itself: “When all else is forgotten, this question alone may remain to haunt us: Did I lie when I said the prime minister of Malaysia accused me of being biased in cases involving the political party, Umno? 

“Did I invent this story that the prime minister raised the matter when he gave me the reasons why I was found unsuitable to remain lord president of the Supreme Court of Malaysia and should therefore step down? That because of my speeches about Umno, I was biased as a judge? “I have no doubt – and few would now disagree – that it was the Umno saga that led to my destruction as a judge.” 

I urge those who have forgotten or were too young to know the truth about Mahathir’s assault on the Malaysian judiciary to read the two books by Salleh and K Das. Alas, Mahathir’s legacy in tarnishing the Malaysian judiciary by sacking the lord president will never be obliterated while there are still good men and women ready to defend the truth, justice, democracy and human rights. Rest in peace now, Tun Salleh Abas.

- BN chairperson Ahmad Zahid Hamidi

COMMENT | Everyone from PKR’s William Leong to former MCA grand poobah, Chua Soi Lek are saying the non-Malays (specifically the Chinese community) can stop the Green Wave.

But beyond rambling about syariah law and a theocratic state, nobody wants to acknowledge that the Islamisation process that has radically altered this country post-1969 has happened during the watch of the so-called centrist coalitions of BN or Pakatan Harapan.

When Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim decided that the Islamic Development Department (Jakim) needed to play a bigger role in policy-making, for instance, non-Malay political operatives in the Madani government were silent as church mice.

BlueCougar1744 : It is simple logic for all Malaysians. The Highest Law of our nation is The Federal Constitution and very clearly it states Malaysia is a secular nation and not an Islamic Nation.  

We recognize Islam as our official religion and that all MPs who swore to uphold and protect The Federal Constitution continue to betray the trust of the nation. PMX, with his zeal for Islamic practices and rules is the very first that we should question and follow by those non Muslim MPs and what they have been doing in parliament. 

Every day , day in , day out, we seem to have nothing else better to do except playing the race and religious cards. For Malaysia sake, all Malaysians must reject such leaders and politicians. How is PMX going to unite this nation of ours? He failed pathetically! 

Religion divides and it is every individual's journey with the Creator and must not be allowed to play out in politics. The country will be ruined by these politicians.

So that is not the crime this video is about, and it is the wrong century entirely. The real crime happened in daylight. On paper. Signed, dated, minuted, and filed, by the very government that committed it. In the 1820s and 1830s, the British surveyed India's education system before they dismantled it. 

Thomas Munro ordered a survey in Madras Presidency in 1822, carried out by collector A. D. Campbell between 1823 and 1825. A parallel survey ran in the Bombay Presidency in the mid-1820s. And in Bengal and Bihar, a former missionary named William Adam produced three increasingly detailed reports between 1835 and 1838 on the orders of Governor-General Lord William Bentinck. 

What they counted did not fit the colonial story. Adam's reports estimated roughly 100,000 functioning village schools across Bengal and Bihar alone, close to a school per village. These were pathshalas, gurukulas, and madrassas: community-funded, decentralised, and embedded in village life. 

The Madras caste data was even more inconvenient, showing that so-called lower castes and Shudras formed a large share, and in many districts a majority, of students. The men sent to confirm Indian educational poverty accidentally disproved it, in writing. Then it was buried. 

Thomas Babington Macaulay's Minute on Education, dated 2 February 1835, declared a single shelf of a European library worth the whole literature of India and Arabia, a judgement he made while admitting he could not read a word of Sanskrit or Arabic. His stated goal was to form a class of interpreters, Indian in blood but English in taste and intellect. 

Five weeks later, on 7 March 1835, Bentinck signed the English Education Act, redirecting government funding toward English and European instruction. The village schools were not mostly state-funded, so the Minute did not defund them directly. They starved instead. 

The Permanent Settlement of 1793 and later land-revenue systems hollowed out the local patrons, temple endowments, and gentry who paid the schoolmasters, while every job that mattered now required English. Demand collapsed from below as funding shifted above. Nobody had to order the schools closed. 

They simply stopped making sense to attend. The receipts sat in colonial archives for over a century until the Gandhian researcher Dharampal pulled them back out and published The Beautiful Tree in 1983. The title comes from Gandhi's speech at Chatham House in London on 20 October 1931, where he argued that the British had uprooted the beautiful tree of Indian education and left it to perish. 

This is the forensic story of how a distributed knowledge network was erased on paper, and why the same fight over who controls access to learning is unfolding again in the age of AI and digital education.

When Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, both Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Minister of Defense, seized power in July 2013, he did so with the public support of Coptic Pope Tawadros II. Unfortunately, el-Sisi has betrayed the estimated 15 million Copts in Egypt, the largest Christian population in the Middle East. 

Although Cairo is a nominal American ally, it oppresses religious minorities as well as political dissidents. These practices contribute to the instability and violence which continue to bedevil the Mideast and entangle the United States. Throughout thousands of extraordinary years of life, Egyptians have never enjoyed the blessings of liberty or democracy. 

The overthrow of Hosni Mubarak during the celebrated Arab Spring in 2013 briefly offered hope of change, but newly elected Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, proved to be a maladroit Islamist, sabotaging his own presidency. El-Sisi, though appointed to his positions by Morsi, became an enthusiastic frontman for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which helped finance his coup. 

El-Sisi proved to be a more effective authoritarian than Mubarak, creating a brutal dragnet for opponents, critics, and most anyone exhibiting even minimal antagonism toward the regime. Indeed, el-Sisi learned from the Chinese government, staging a repeat of Tiananmen Square, only in Cairo. The military violently dispersed demonstrators from Rab’a Square, killing more than 800 people there alone. 

As many as 65,000 Egyptians were arrested and imprisoned. Torture is widespread, and the regime also shut down NGOs that had monitored the Mubarak government. I visited one of them, the Al-Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture, which had survived Mubarak’s dictatorship but was closed after publicizing al-Sisi’s abuses.

Because the jihad is as old as Islam, it has been championed by diverse peoples throughout the centuries (Arabs in the Middle East, Moors (Berbers and Africans) in Spain and Western Europe, etc.). 

Islam’s successful entry into Eastern Europe was spearheaded by the Turks, specifically that tribe centered in westernmost Anatolia (or Asia Minor) and thus nearest to Europe, the Ottoman Turks, so-named after their founder Osman Bey. As he lay dying in 1323, his parting words to his son and successor,

Orhan, were for him “to propagate Islam by yours arms.” This his son certainly did; the traveler Ibn Batutua, who once met Orhan in Bursa, observed that, although the jihadist warlord had captured some one hundred Byzantine fortresses, “he had never stayed for a whole month in any one town,” because he “fights with the infidels continually and keeps them under siege.” 

Christian cities fell like dominos: Smyrna in 1329, Nicaea in 1331, and Nicomedia in 1337. By 1340, the whole of northwest Anatolia was under Turkic control. By now and to quote a European contemporary, “the foes of the cross, and the killers of the Christian people, that is, the Turks, [were] separated from Constantinople by a channel of three or four miles.” 

By 1354, the Ottoman Turks, under Orhan’s son, Suleiman, managed to cross over the Dardanelles and into the abandoned fortress town of Gallipoli, thereby establishing their first foothold in Europe: “Where there were churches he destroyed them or converted them to mosques,” writes an Ottoman chronicler: 

“Where there were [church] bells, Suleiman broke them up and cast them into fires. Thus, in place of bells there were now muezzins.” Cleansed of all Christian “filth,” Gallipoli became, as a later Ottoman bey boasted, “the Muslim throat that gulps down every Christian nation—that chokes and destroys the Christians.” 

From this dilapidated but strategically situated fortress town, the Ottomans launched a campaign of terror throughout the countryside, always convinced they were doing God’s work. 

“They live by the bow, the sword, and debauchery, finding pleasure in taking slaves, devoting themselves to murder, pillage, spoil,” explained Gregory Palamas, an Orthodox metropolitan who was taken captive in Gallipoli, adding, “and not only do they commit these crimes, but even—what an aberration—they believe that God approves them!” 

Battle of Kosovo by Adam Stefanović (1870) After Orhan’s death in 1360 and under his son Murad I—the first of his line to adopt the title “Sultan”—the westward jihad into the Balkans began in earnest and was unstoppable. By 1371 he had annexed portions of Bulgaria and Macedonia to his sultanate, which now so engulfed Constantinople that “a citizen could leave the empire simply by walking outside the city gates.” 

Unsurprisingly, then, when Prince Lazar of Serbia (b. 1330) defeated Murad’s invading forces in 1387, “there was wild rejoicing among the Slavs of the Balkans. Serbians, Bosnians, Albanians, Bulgarians, Wallachians, and Hungarians from the frontier provinces all rallied around Lazar as never before, in a determination to drive the Turks out of Europe.” 

The Bosnian Muslim who were fighting the Serbs, they actually wear the skull and swastika emblem of the Nazis on their caps and uniforms. When the Serbs were winning, they (Bosnia Muslim) appealed to NATO for help, crying genocide, but if they had won, they would have slaughtered every Serb, men, women and children!

Public sector salaries rise through government directives and political announcements, but the broader workforce, particularly in private enterprise, sees little trickle-down. The national minimum wage now sits at levels comparable to Thailand, a country with different structural dynamics. 

This decoupling of growth from wage gains signals that the benefits of expansion are accruing primarily to corporations, GLCs (government-linked companies), and civil servants, while ordinary workers are excluded from rising national productivity. This is not a temporary glitch but a deep structural malaise. It fuels widening inequality, entrenches a “middle-class trap,” and risks social and political instability. Technology under Industry 4.0 and AI exacerbates the problem by displacing routine jobs without creating enough high-value opportunities for locals. 

A pool of approximately two million foreign workers further suppresses wage pressures in low- and semi-skilled segments. Trade unions, historically weak and often viewed with suspicion, offer little countervailing power. The result is a society where the top echelons prosper, while the rest face eroding living standards.

They explore Islam’s conflict with Israel, Turkish supremacism, the Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens phenomenon, and why Eastern Europe understands the threat while Western Europe sleepwalks toward disaster. 

"Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us."-- Israeli PM Golda Meir, 1957. 

"Accusing non-Muslims of Islamophobia is as ridiculous as accusing lambs of Wolfophobia!" 

"Resisting an Evil ideology like Islamism is called RIGHTEOUSNESS, not Bigotry!" 

There is no way to save the UK and Western Europe without ✝️

There is a certain mercy in the building code. It asks no awkward questions about the soul. It concerns itself with setbacks and sewers, with parking bays and the angle of a fire escape, and it applies its arithmetic with magnificent indifference to whether the building in question is a noodle shop, a clinic, or a house of God.

This is, on the whole, a good thing. A society that lets its planners keep to drains tends to sleep more soundly than one that lets them adjudicate the hereafter.

Which brings us, by a short walk, to Selangor.

Late last year the state government approved a set of planning guidelines for community facilities. Among the dry tables of land ratios and access roads sat a section on non-Muslim houses of worship — temples, churches, gurdwaras and the like. The document arrived without fanfare. It surfaced in May, when a legislator read out some of its clauses and found them less than soothing.

The state has since pressed pause, convened a committee, and announced that it is “open to reviewing” the standards. One generally is, once the neighbours have noticed.

So: what does the document actually say, and why should a citizen who has never built so much as a garden shed spare it a thought?

Kami amat prihatin terhadap garis panduan kerajaan negeri Selangor pimpinan PH yang cuba melarang rumah ibadat bukan Islam beroperasi di kawasan komersial/kedai rumah. 

Selama ini, premis ini menjadi satu-satunya pilihan kerana tanah khas untuk ibadat bukan Islam sangat terhad dan sukar diperoleh. Peraturan ini tidak adil, diskriminatif dan bertentangan dengan hak beragama yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan. 

Kami mendesak pemimpin politik dari PH mahupun Pembangkang, serta kerajaan negeri Selangor supaya bersatu membatalkan klausa ini sepenuhnya, mengadakan perbincangan telus dan penuh pertimbangan dengan semua pihak, sentiasa mengamalkan tata kelola yang inklusif dan saksama bagi semua agama. Selangor mesti kekal sebagai negeri yang inklusif dan menghormati kebebasan beribadat setiap warganya.

​ These are symptoms.As usual, the deeper if not ultimate cause is spiritual, metaphysical, theological. The West is suffering from a diluted and corrupted form of Christianity — a selectively edited faith that amplifies mercy while amputating justice, that preaches love while suppressing moral judgment, that celebrates humility while condemning resistance.

I’ve long called it Doormat Christianity.

Even Western atheists who altogether reject Christianity cannot escape its effects. After all, Western notions of human rights, equality, compassion, and tolerance, which secularist embrace, did not spontaneously generate themselves. They arose within a uniquely Christian moral framework.

In this sense, secular liberalism is not a rival civilization; it is Christianity’s moral vocabulary detached from its theological spine. And when detached, virtues mutate. 

A Super Bowl 2024 commercial titled “Foot Washing” perfectly captures the nature of Doormat Christianity. It consists of a series of images of Americans — largely white and traditional looking — kneeling down and washing the feet of non-whites and non-Christians, as well as homosexuals, illegal migrants, and a woman who aborted her baby.

After the final image, the following—supposedly profound—words appear. Jesus Didn’t Teach Hate. He Washed Feet. The implication is clear: true Christianity means permanent accommodation; true Christians must be permanent doormats. Now, to be sure, Christ washed feet. He also warned of judgment, rebuked sinners, demanded repentance, and physically drove money changers from the Temple.

The same Christ who knelt also overturned tables. Why the imbalance? Why are modern Christians incessantly reminded only of the kneeling — never of the overturning? Because a Christianity reduced to permanent servility is politically harmless. And a harmless Christianity is universally approved.

In John 13:34-35, Christ calls on humanity to love one another. But what is love? Paul defines it in Romans 12:9: “Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.” The two clauses are inseparable. To love what is good and right necessarily entails abhorring what is bad and wrong.

Scripture consistently affirms this pattern. In Matthew 18:15-17, believers are instructed to confront sin directly and even separate from the unrepentant. In I Corinthians 5, Paul orders the removal of a morally defiant member of the church. Discipline is not cruelty; it is restorative.

In Ephesians 5:11, Christians are commanded not merely to avoid wrongdoing, but to boldly “expose” it. In Revelation 3:19, Christ declares: “Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline.” Rebuke is not the opposite of love. It is an expression of it. 

Modern reinterpretations sever this connection. Love becomes “affirmation.” Tolerance extends not merely to sinners — which Christianity has always done — but to sin itself. Boundaries dissolve. Discernment is rebranded as hate. What remains is not Christianity, but a cheap caricature of it.

Although the prime minister, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, prefers completing his government’s full term, many pundits believe UMNO is manipulating the political environment to force an early election. The last general election in November 2022 led to a hung parliament, where no single party or coalition could form a government.

The YDPA at the time played a major role in trying to facilitate the formation of a government that could lead to political stability and focus on running the nation. Pakatan Harapan and Barisan Nasional, led by UMNO, became partners, even after the hot election campaign which saw them as fierce adversaries.

The coming general election is also expected to lead to party fragmentation, due to a divided Malay vote, where no single party or coalition can form a government on their own. Consequently, the coming election will not lead to the formation of any government with a ‘Rakyat’s mandate’. There will be another formation of some type of ‘unity government’ once again.

Except for PAS, all parties in the coming general election face challenges they didn’t face in the previous election. This time around, most of the parties will be running either solo or in a very loose coalition as compared to 2022.

UMNO only won 26 seats in 2022, which was considered a dismal performance, the worst in modern history. The challenge for UMNO is to find some electoral popularity once again.

This is perhaps why UMNO pushed for the Johor and Melaka state elections, to gain strong results which can carry over to the general election. For UMNO to play a major role in the next federal government, it needs around 45-50 to make it the largest Malay party.

To achieve this, UMNO requires other parties to have floundering performances, where it can take away seats. Bersatu will be UMNO’s primary target. Bersatu is in a very weak position due to its split and members defecting to Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin’s Reset movement.

PAS is playing a game of shrouds with Bersatu and Hamzah’s group. Whichever party wins a critical mass of seats will become a serious partner of Perikatan Nasional (PN).

There are rumours that Bersatu is looking for lifelines in other directions. If UMNO deserts Pakatan Harapan, Bersatu might try to fill the gap, although such overtures have been rejected by Anwar.

All these angles and potential moves can only be speculative at this stage. Hamzah’s reset movement, yet to have a party platform, could potentially take away many of Bersatu’s seats in the coming general election.

This would create a massive split, which makes for a totally unpredictable scenario. Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli’s Parti Bersama will potentially challenge PKR and the DAP. There is a belief that seven or eight PKR MPs will resign and cross over, but this hasn’t happened, probably to Rafizi’s frustration. The DAP is not safe from Bersama, as voters dissatisfied now have a better option than not coming out to vote.

Disaffected PH voters now have an alternative. However, how well Bersama will actually perform in a general election is a big question. We only need to look back to 2022 when former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed formed Pejuang, where all candidates lost their deposits, including Dr Mahathir himself.

Many influencers are now talking up the chances of UMNO in the coming state elections. However, how UMNO will actually perform is still a large unknown. There is a lot of conjecture around at the moment, rather than any real factual information.

There are now lots of new choices for voters who, as a group, haven’t had the time to absorb yet. While all the talk is going on about new parties to contest GE16, PAS is there as an unknown quantity. There are possibilities that PAS will now be in a position to pick up many Bersatu seats.

All the current disarray possibly runs in PAS’s favour. There are 166 parliamentary seats in the peninsula, and many more of these seats will be in play in GE16 than were in the last election. The coming election will be much more competitive, with up to 60 seats that will be competitive.

There will also be four to five candidates running in each seat, and this doesn’t include potential independents standing. This will add to the complexity of the vote. The results will most probably be more fragmented than GE15.

The key to GE16 on the peninsula is to become the largest Malay party to make any substantive claim for the prime minister’s post. To become prime minister, the candidate must show the YDPA that he has solid support.

This means that Sabah and Sarawak will potentially play a major role in deciding who will become the next prime minister in GE16. Consequently, the field is open as to who can become Malaysia’s next prime minister.

There are as many as five candidates. The actual composition of the coalition that will make up the government is unknown. Anyone who tells you that they know at present is just guessing. – June 13, 2026