Utusan will do what UMNO tells it to do, which is to tell the faithful that non-Muslims are banding together to topple UMNO. The PM will use this line, if he has to, to get off. Here is the deal: Resign PM, and UMNO can install another Malay Muslim leader from the pack. (It is not like there is a dearth of UMNO folk who cannot do a bang-up job, like Najib.)
FAM is a joke. It has become like Putrajaya, with its head in the sand, unable to make good decisions for the country. The decision-makers maxim is that what is good for UMNO is good for the country. That does not hold true anymore, not in this globalized, hyper-competitive environment.
Account frozen is not the same as account closed? Perumal, even the not-tertiary educated PI Bala had had ethics. I will give you a nickel to buy some in the 1Markets.
What were the Malaysian authorities so worried about when the HK protests were a colossal failure? That supposed forum is a manual on how not to do a protest, or at least the value of holding such protests.
Let them go. Better now than in 2018, presumably after a PR win. Anwar actually "lucked out." He, too, would not have been able to bridge this chasm as the Opposition Leader despite oft being characterized as a charismatic leader.
None of the revelations of the financial shenanigans of 1MDB would have surfaced by itself, or internally-driven, especially, the fake securitization documents sitting in Singapore. So, asking for time until an audit is complete only means giving 1MDB more time to hide its paper trails and protect those who have siphoned money from its dealings.
Someone said that the Rafizi Ramli, the Pandan MP, is acting like a clown, in reference to the 1MDB revelations. Clown or not, the joke is on the citizens, courtesy of the PM and his crony friends.
Does that mean when government officials say the Bumiputeras make up 67% of the population to underscore a metric such as wealth equity gap between various ethnicity, they are only "using" the folks in Sabah, Sarawak and Orang Asli as a prop to increase the Bumiputera percentage population count, when in actuality they are interested only in increasing the wealth equity of the already wealthy Malays, specifically the elite class in Peninsula Malaysia? I guess you cannot really take care of everyone on a special basis, when you keep increasing the number of 'special folks' eligible for some sort of government intervention. Invariably, some will get left behind, and in this case, it happens to be the real Bumiputeras. Oh, the irony of it all.
I think it is a little bit more nuanced than the editorial suggests as the CM of Penang was recounting how his family has been treated so far compared to how other elected officials families, especially in the ruling coalition, have been treated by the so-called mainstream media. I don't think he was suggesting that criticism is off-limits, but rather that there appears to be a concerted effort on the part of the main opposition to DAP, namely BN-UMNO, to target members of his family purely for political reasons even if there was nothing substantive -- or even trivial -- there to begin with. It would not be entirely unfounded for the members of opposition parties in Malaysia to feel this way after the manner in which Anwar has been treated, or rather, mistreated, and how more recently, even his wife was disparaged during the Selangor MB saga. (Or, for that matter how Datuk Ambiga was ridiculed by the likes of the Perkasa leader, and everything she went through in recent years, which even made international news.)
Why are folks traveling to some other parts of the world to help establish an Islamic State? The only plausible answer is that Malaysia already is one, at least in their mind's eye. I used to think that only backwater states such as Pakistan do things such as exporting terror to India, for instance, from those madrassahs; now, it is occurring in Malaysia, as well.
A weak central government is responsible for the sorry state of affairs in Pakistan, as it is incapable of reining in the extremists in places such as the Northwest Frontier. There is also the co-opting of those extremists by the military and the state to foster jihad alive as an existential threat towards India.
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