Courtesy of FREE MALAYSIA TODAY
In recent times, issues concerning Christianity often made news – the row over the term Allah, which led to the firebombing of several churches, the consfication of Malay-language bibles and now, a plot to convert the nation.
The situation was causing concern among right-minded Malaysians of all faiths, who fear that if left unchecked, it might lead to undesirable consequences.
Speaking to FMT, Father Lawrence Andrew, the editor of the Catholic weekly Herald, acknowleged the worrying trend.
He said there were certain extremist elements which considered Christianity as a threat to the nation and were growing more brazen in putting their views across.
“The lack of action emboldens them,” he said, adding that if someone of a different creed were to insult or slander Islam, then justice was often swift.
“It’s a different world today, and we are not isolated from the big picture – from what is happening in the Muslim world, the death of Osama bin Laden, the Jasmine revolution (in Tunisia) and others… there seems to be a growing sense of insecurity. In Egypt, there is a conflict between Christians and Muslims.
“So it is easy for people to feel insecure. Christians are seen as agents of the Western world. Generally, Christianity and the Western world are synonymous; many cannot make the distinction and so Christians are often misunderstood,” he added.
Asked if it was becoming difficult to be a Christian in Malaysia, Andrew said that others had become too sensitive to the presence of Christianity in this country.
“The (Malay-language) bible issue, use of the term Allah, putting up of crosses and schoolchildren wearing crosses – all these have become threats to the nation. There is definitely a problem,” he said.
On whether the situation could be considered alarming, Andrew said: “Malaysians have a sense of resilience to a lot of things, but these issues should be handled without dire consequences.”
Utusan’s Christian plot
Commenting on the furore surrounding the Utusan Malaysia report about an alleged Christian plot to undermine Islam, Andrew made it clear that the government’s response was disappointing.
He said the daily, owned by Umno – the backbone of the ruling Barisan Nasional government – made a serious charge against the Church, which could be interpreted as an accusation of treason.
“It was a seditious statement. Why isn’t there any action? If they (the government) are not acting against them, does it mean they are condoning it (what the newspaper) has done?” he asked.
“These things were provocations; we pray for the government, the country and we pray for the nation to be free of corruption.
“Islam doesn’t say corruption or stealing is good. We are working with the government on these issues, but instead of thanking us for praying for the nation, we are attacked and accused of christianising it. It is strange,” he said.
Apart from making Christianity the official religion of Malaysia, the Utusan report also accused DAP and Christian leaders of conspiring towards realising the goal of having a Christian prime minister.
The report, which had some Malay hardline groups up in arms and Christian groups crying fabrication, was based on the unsubstantiated claims of pro-Umno bloggers regarding what transpired during a meeting between DAP and Christian priests in the opposition-run state of Penang.
In a recent interview with Radio Vatican, Andrew had said that the government had stirred up a controversy to shore up Muslim support since its popularity was on the decline.
Commenting on this, the Herald editor clarified that it would be more appropriate to state that certain quarters sympathetic with the government were behind the latest episode.
However, he reiterated his criticism against Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein for not being prudent in stating that the allegation was serious, and the government would take action.
“Instead of supporting the report, he should have verified it before making a statement,” he said
BREAKING NEWS
Nazri Aziz - "It is a norm to declare Jihad on Christians."
By Admin
A senior Cabinet Minister from Malaysia's ruling BN/Umno Regime has came out with a statement that it is alright to call for 'Jihad' (Muslim Holy War) or violence to be carried out on Malaysia's Christian minority.
This shocking statement was made by de facto law minister Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz. Nazri made this statement in reference to the highly seditious call for the majority Malay Muslims to declare Jihad on Christians in Malaysia. Nazri went on record to say that it was a norm for people to make such a call. The call for Jihad was made by Malay Muslim Supremacist Group PERKASA whose leader Ibrahim Ali made the call after a so-called conspiracy was published by the BN/Umno owned racist newspaper UTUSAN MALAYSIA which front paged a claim that Christian leaders in Malaysia were secretly planning to turn Muslim Malaysia into a Christian State with a Christian Prime Minister.
Many believe that the ruling BN/Umno Regime has been behind this lie to make Christians the bogeyman so that the majority rural Muslims will see them as the defenders of Islam. Also read http://malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/letterssurat/35967-an-ugly-reality-the-persecution-of-christians-in-malaysia
Courtesy of Asian Sentinel
The US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur closely followed the murder trial of Mongolian interpreter Altantuya Shaariibuu and frequently discussed whether now-Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak was involved in the killing, according to diplomatic cables supplied to Asia Sentinel by the WikiLeaks website, and theorized that the trial of her killers was being deliberately delayed.
Altantuya was murdered in October of 2006 by two of Najib's bodyguards, Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri, 30 and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, 35. who stood trial and were pronounced guilty in April 2009. Abdul Razak Baginda, one of Najib's best friends and Altantuya's lover, was accused of participating in the murder but was allowed to be freed without having to put on a defense.
The murder has been tied closely to the US$1 billion acquisition of French submarines by the Malaysian ministry of defense, which Najib headed as defense minister during the acquisitions. Altantuya reportedly acted as a translator on the transaction, which netted Razak Baginda's company a €114 million "commission" on the purchase. Reportedly she had been offered US$500,000 for her part in translating. After she was jilted, she vainly demanded payment. A letter she had written was made public after her death saying she regretted she was attempting to "blackmail" Razak Baginda.
French lawyers are investigating whether some of the €114 million was kicked back to French or Malaysian politicians. Despite the scandal, the US government has not publicly backed away from Najib. In April 2010, Najib in fact visited the White House and was praised by US President Barack Obama for the parliament's passage of an act allowing Malaysian authorities to take action against individuals and entities engaged in proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
The cables are replete with accounts of a long series of meetings with Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, in which Anwar repeatedly told the Americans that Najib was connected to corrupt practices in the acquisition of the submarines as well as the purchase of Sukhoi Su-MCM-30 Flanker fighter jets from Russia. Anwar also repeatedly called attention to Najib's connection to the Altantuya murder case.
A Jan. 24, 2007 cable, marked secret, wrote that "Perceived irregularities on the part of prosecutors and the court, and the alleged destruction of some evidence, suggested to many that the case was subject to strong political pressure intended to protect Najib."
In a Feb. 1, 2008 cable, the embassy's Political Section Chief, Mark D. Clark, wrote that a deputy prosecutor had told him "there was almost no chance of winning guilty verdicts in the on-going trial of defendants Razak Baginda, a close advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, and two police officers. She described the trial as interminably long." (That, of course, turned out to be wrong. Sirul and Azilah were ultimately convicted and have appealed their sentence)
"Nearly seven months after the trial began (but with only 83 days of actual hearings), the prosecution now is presenting its 63rd witness out of an anticipated 80 and the defense has yet to make its case." The deputy prosecutor "anticipated the trial would continue for several more months and said that she actively sought excuses to escape from the courtroom monotony."
Clark called the trial a "a prosecutorial embarrassment from its inception, leading many to speculate that the ineptitude was by design. On the eve of the trial Malaysia's Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail dropped his lead prosecutors and replaced them with less experienced attorneys. Similarly, a lead counsel for one of the defendants abruptly resigned before the trial "because of (political) attempts to interfere with a defense he had proposed, in particular to protect an unnamed third party."
The protracted nature of the case, Clark continued, "has led at least one regional newspaper to speculate that "the case is being deliberately delayed to drive it from public view.
Malaysia's daily newspapers rarely mention the case's latest developments, and it is unprecedented in Malaysian judicial history that a murder trial could drag on for seven months and still not give the defense an opportunity to present its case. Such an environment has led many to conclude that the case was too politically sensitive to yield a verdict before
the anticipated general elections."
A January 2007 cable called attention to Abdul Razak Baginda's affidavit confirming that he sought the help of Musa Safri, later identified by reporters as Najib's aide-de-camp, in ridding him of the jilted woman, and in other cables pointed out that Musa had never been called for questioning.
In another cable, dated May 16, 2007, Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh, a deputy home affairs minister in Prime Minister Ahmad Abdullah Badawi's cabinet told US embassy officials that he was "certain that government prosecutors would limit their trial activities to the murder itself and the three defendants; prosecutors would not follow up on allegations of related corruption or other suspects."
In the Jan. 27 2007 cable, marked "Secret," embassy officials wrote that "In December we heard from one of (Anwar's) lawyers that Razak Baginda's wife was in contact with Anwar and Wan Azizah, suggesting one possible source for Anwar's information."
Razak Baginda's wife, during one of his first appearances in court, screamed that Razak "doesn't want to be prime minister." That was taken by observers as a reference to the fact that Najib reportedly had been having an affair with Altantuya but passed her on to Razak Baginda because it would be unseemly to have a mistress when as expected he succeeded Abdullah Badawi as premier. Najib has offered to swear on the Koran that he had never met the woman.
However, in July 2008, P Balasubramaniam, a former policeman and private detective who had been hired by Razak Baginda to protect him from Altantuya, filed a sworn statement saying he had been told by the accused man that Najib not only knew the murdered woman but had an affair with her and introduced her to him, passing her on because he did not want the onus of having a mistress in the event that he would become prime minister.
In a telephone interview on May 9, Anwar, however, told Asia Sentinel that Razak Baginda's wife was not the source of his knowledge of Najib's connection and that instead he had been told of the connection by Setev Shaariibuu, Altantuya's father, who said he had wished to present evidence of the then-vice premier's involvement, but was not allowed to do so. Multiple attempts to contact Setev by Asia Sentinel have been unsuccessful.
Almost immediately after he made the statement, Balasubramaniam was picked up and driven to a police station, where he was forced to withdraw the statement and write a new one saying Razak Baginda had told him nothing of the sort. Balasubramaniam fled Malaysia for India. He later said Najib's brother, Nizam, and wife, Rosmah Mansor, had met with him and that he was offered RM5 million (US$1.48 million) to forget his statement connecting Najib to Altantuya. Balasubramaniam displayed a flock of checks drawn on the account of an associate of Najib's wife. The former private detective has continued to make a series of statements from outside the country about Najib's involvement and the Malaysian mainstream press has done its best to ignore.
A February 2008 cable from Political Section Chief Clark gives a hint that then Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi may have been trying to get rid of Najib by forcing Razak Baginda to implicate him in the murder.
"In the latest turn of the ongoing Altantuya murder trial (reftels), accused political insider Abdul Razak Baginda, who has remained calm and composed through most of the proceedings, unleashed an emotional tirade shortly after the February 20 noon recess on the trial's 90th day," Clark wrote. "Referring to the Prime Minister by his nick-name "Pak Lah," Razak reportedly exclaimed: "You can die, Pak Lah! (in Malaysian - "Matilah kau, Pak Lah!") I'm innocent!" according to unpublished journalist accounts.
"Local newspapers and the government news service Bernama reported the fact of the outburst, but did not print Razak's statements. The short-lived exception was the English language newspaper The Sun, which included the quotations from Razak in its early morning February 21 edition. Sources at newspaper confirmed to us in confidence that the Ministry of Internal Security compelled The Sun to withdraw and recall thousands of copies of their first run paper in which the original quote was included. Prime Minister Abdullah serves concurrently as Minister of Internal Security."
During the trial, Clark wrote, Razak Baginda, "appeared uneasy throughout the morning session of court on February 20. Razak's father, Abdullah Malim Baginda had whispered something to him shortly before the trial had begun for the morning and apparently upset the accused. Razak had remained quiet throughout the morning hearings, but just after the noon recess was called and as he was leaving the courtroom he kicked and banged the door and yelled "You can die, Pak Lah! Die, Pak Lah! I am innocent. I am innocent." He was later seen crying before his lawyer while his mother attempted to comfort him."
"Speculation is rife in Malaysia's on-line community concerning what it was that set off Razak Baginda outburst, including conspiracy theories alleging the Prime Minister's office had urged Razak to implicate Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak …in return for sparing Razak a guilty verdict and its mandatory death sentence.
Regardless, the Internal Security Ministry would want to limit any possibly inflammatory reference to the Prime Minister at the trial, and particularly at this juncture due to the proximity of Malaysia's general election to be held on March 8. Any connection between the Prime
Minister and the murder trial would be scandalous. The GOM (government of Malaysia) reportedly has worked hard to "drive (the case) from public view" … and is not about to allow the case to influence the coming elections."
Pariah Kamal kissing Malay First DPM Muhydeen Yassin's hand. Just how low can one go?By Admin
The voters of Hulu Selangor must now realize that they have really elected a ball polishing pariah coolie in the form of Pariah Kamalanathan as their MP. During the Al Jazeera 101 East program, Pariah Kamala kept on singing praises about PM Najib Razak when defending the RM700 million rare earth plant in Kuantan by Australian miner Lynas Corp..
Pariah Kamala, who is the Putera MIC national coordinator, claimed that an independent review has only been ordered into the plant being constructed in the Gebeng industrial zone at this late juncture as Malaysia had to show it was investor-friendly. However, The ruling BN/Umno Regime did not say when the review would begin and no further announcement on the matter has been made since then.
Pariah Kamal also made a ridiculous claim that the controversial plant would create “hundreds and thousands” of jobs and bring billions into Gebeng, which is a major petrochemicals hub in the home state of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. However, Fuziah, who first brought the issue up in Parliament soon after the project was announced in 2008, pointed out that Lynas itself has stated that it will only be hiring 350 workers. With Malaysia’s ability to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) appearing to be on the wane, the plant, which Lynas says will have a multiplier effect of RM4 billion per year, will be a major boost to the Najib administration with a General Election round the corner.
Pariah Kamal, who during the Hulu Selangor by election kissed the hand of DPM Muhydeen Yassin but denied it, appeared in a segment called “Toxic Profits” on the Doha-based channel where he spent 10 minutes debating with Kuantan MP and Fuziah Salleh. PKR vice president Fuziah has been leading protests by her constituents against the plant.
Pariah Kamal also defended his political masters Umno which leads the BN Regime where Pariah Kamal's own party MIC is considered as a mosquito. The BN/Umno Regime has decided to go ahead with the project despite the plant being scheduled to begin operations just four months from now. Pariah Kamal called the decision “fair” and “better late than never.”
Pariah Nathan's own stupidity and arrogance just as that of his colleagues from BN/Umno can be best summed up by this statement he made: "The government could not await approval from the various regulatory bodies — six, in the case of the Lynas plant — as it would delay projects."
This makes complete nonsense of PM Najib Razak's PEOPLE FIRST PERFORMANCE NOW slogan / propaganda. Going by Pariah Kamal's rationale, Najib should just change his slogan /propaganda to MONEY FIRST PEOPLE LATER!
Watch Pariah Kamal making a fool of himself here http://youtu.be/3O0rSqYjQ_M
By Admin
Ok, no matter how much you hate Utusan Malaysia and want want to kick their journalists to Kamunting, you can only blame one DAP man here. And those who have called bloggers Big Dog and Shamsul Yunos liars please shut up and do consider apologizing when the time comes ... (Akhiruddin Atan aka Rocky Bru, pic above)
The Scribe says "You Rocky Bru, Big Dog, Shamsul Yunos, Utusan Malaysia, Hisammuddin Hussein, Ibrahim Ali and all those who are spinning the so-called Christian Conspiracy Theory are gonna face heavy metal music from Naqir and Mungkar (the Angel's of Death in the realm of Barzakh as stated in the Holy Quran).
By the way Rocky, have the Police shown you Razali's report because your deduction here gives The Scribe the impression that you are privy to Razali's Police Report. Read the rest of Rocky Bru's take here http://www.rockybru.com.my/2011/05/daps-pastors-meeting-dap-man-confesses.html
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you.” John 15:18-20 NIV
By Admin
It appears that Satan and his legions of demons have been attracted to the Evil emanating from Malaysia as a result of the rule of the Satanic BN/Umno Regime of Najib Razak. Since Umno, Hishamuddin, Rais Yatim, Perkasa, Pembela, Utusan Malaysia, Harussani Zakaria believe that Malaysia will one day be 'Baptized' into a Christian State, then, it is only right that The Scribe dedicate the Worship Song 'Alabare' to all of them.
Alabare, alabare, alabare a mi Senor[2]
[I'll praise my Lord, for ever more!]
John saw the number, of all those who redeemed,
And all were singing praises to the Lord,
Thousands were praying,
Ten thousands rejoicing
And all were singing praises to the Lord
There is no God as great as You, O Lord,
There is none, there is none!
And even Malaysia can be saved!
And even Malaysia can be saved!
Not with an army, nor with their weapons,
But by the Holy Spirit's power!
[repeat]
CHRISTIANS CANNOT BE PROVOKED TO RETALIATE IF THEY ARE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT JUST AS ALLAH IS SLOW TO ANGER. HOWEVER, EVIL BN/UMNO WOULD BE PUSHING THEIR LUCK IF THEY CONTINUE WITH THEIR PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN MALAYSIA. ALREADY THE POWER OF ALLAH CAN BE SEEN WITH THE UNPRECEDENTED UNITY OF ROMAN CATHOLICS, PROTESTANTS, ORTHODOX AND EVANGELICALS AS ONE BODY UNITED IN CHRIST JESUS IN THE WAKE OF THIS ONSLAUGHT BY THE AGENTS OF SATAN, BN/UMNO AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS IN MALAYSIA. BE WARNED BN/UMNO, THAT THE DAY IS AT HAND WHEN YOU WILL CURSE THE DAY YOU WERE BORN.
Pictures contributed courtesy of Joe Fernandez
By Admin
Now, The Scribe knows why Utusan Malaysia and Big Dog are convinced that Christianity will replace Islam as the Official Religion of Malaysia as seen in the photographs taken at Westminster Cathedral during the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton where the Malaysian King, Sultan Mizan and his Queen are seen here in Church. After all, as the Malaysian King is supposed to be the Head of Islam in Malaysia, maybe Utusan Malaysia and Big Dog thought that the King and Queen had 'Murtad' (become apostates) by being present in Church.
Well, Jakim, IKIM, Pembela, Perkasa, Umno, Harussani Zakaria, Mohamed Aziz (Sri Gading), Tajuddin (Pasir Salak), Ridhuan Tee Abdullah what are you all waiting for?
By Ex-PFS Student (Class of Form 5, 2010)
I'm an ex-student recently...just graduated from form 5 at 2010... I have nothing much to say about the caning of this form 6 girls but i certainly have something to say about what's happening inside the school from my 5 years experience with our 'dearest' principal... i agree with a post stating that actually the cluster school title isn't ramli's work as from what i observed in the year 2006, he had done particularly nothing to improve the school as he was still new to that school....The cluster school title was awarded to pfs the following year and he was proud of it as if he alone had achieved the title without the help of the teachers and students(dated before 2006).
After that, i think what most human will commit this error if they aren't that careful; taking things for granted... Yes, i can confirm that the school's standard is indeed decreasing but nothing is in fact done to correct it. The project carried out by our 'lovely' principal including chopping down at least three of 10 years and above trees at the pond area and the teachers' parking area...goverment of Penang, mark my words.
I'm understood that every cluster school receive RM 1,000,000 or more if i'm not mistaken( please correct me if i'm wrong), but he rather use those funds to buy instruments for the school band costing RM 100,000 over when he had the option of accepting the sponsor from a Datuk living nearby to PFS. Instead he refused the offer...after spending on this stuff and beautifying project, what's left??? I can say almost nothing...NOTHING!!! Not a word is said about improving the school's academic and co-curriculum.. For example, he only focus on the student bodies or clubs which can bring honour to the school, or in other word, so that he got face when his so-called puppets win. aren't PFS-borned student supposed to be an all rounder when it comes to sports? For example, the basketball court. In the past, the school used quite a large amount of fund to build the court so that PFS students can excel in basketball. But the condition of the court now is an eyesore.
The members had apply for funds from the school to repair the court but instead getting a reply from ramli, saying that you win a msspp national level for me, i repair for you...WTF is this wei??? Regarding the teachers, when i visit the school recently, most of the teachers aren't in the class even although the PNP is going on... ramli, i want to tell you this, stop living in your fantasies and come back to reality. If you feel that you're The Alexander the Great, than i can tell you, you're just a lousy scum who thinks highly of himself, as what people would say, SYOK SENDIRI. Please, if you wanna build you're so-called great empire here, find somewhere else.
Don't make PFS as your breeding ground and manifesto place for UMNO. And where have you been during school hours? i'm finding for you for at least 4 hours during friday but you seems to be MIA every friday. You ask discipline teachers to catch those playing truants but you yourself MIA. Should i call the police to escort you from your home to the school??? Lead by example man, you don't demand respect, you EARN it... Please, LEAD BY EXAMPLE!!! Regarding your english speaking, I-CAN-SAY-THAT-YOU-BETTER-GO-BACK-TO-PRIMARY-SCHOOL-TO-LEARN-IT-ALL-OVER-AGAIN... even primary school students speaks better english than you do...shame on you!!! PFS loyalist
From Susan Loone's Blog
So vote with your heart, your soul, your passion, and most of all, vote wisely!
It’s really no fun to put a man down so lowly and then challenge him to a fight. What joy is there if you win such a fight? Is your victory worth anything?
It’s like going to the boxing ring with a handicapped, or a visually challenged person. If you win this battle, can you say you are the better person?
I’d go to the battle field if I have a matching opponent. If I win, my victory would be sweet. If my opponent is weaker than me, I’d just shake his/her hand, and say: let’s not fight, let’s agree to disagree.
What would you do?
Stopping Ambiga, Wong Chin Huat from Bersih ‘Fair and Free’ Election, and Haris Ibrahim from MCLM, shows how frantic Taib Mahmud is of losing his kingdom.
Attacking Malaysiakini, and other similar websites, is a clear indication that the side afraid of losing the battle, is getting more and more desperate by the day.
Stifling the press and not giving ample space to both sides of the political divide directly points at the powers to be that they would go out all the way to secure this victory, eventhough the after taste is as bitter as poison.
Using the police to prevent ceramahs when a bloody state election is going on, this being the last nigth, will show Sarawakians that change is indeed necessary, whichever way you vote.
Please change for the sake of changing. All changes are good. The only thin that is constant is change. The only things that would never change, is change itself!AGI IDUP AGI NGLABAN!
