~penarik beca

Naib Presiden PAS, Haji Husam Musa mengucapkan tahniah kepada Umno kerana pendirian yang tidak pernah berubah dan konsisten menolak hukum hudud.

"Saya ingin mengucapkan tahniah kepada Umno kerana pendirian mereka yang tidak pernah berubah itu, dan sekarang ini saya lebih risaukan Umno berbanding DAP kerana Umno mendakwa mereka Islam.

"Macam mana orang Islam boleh menolak hukum hudud dan sekali lagi, tahniah kepada Umno kerana konsisten menolak hudud dari dahulu," katanya.

Beliau mengulangi penegasan bahawa pendiriannya terhadap pelaksanaan hukum hudud tidak pernah berubah.

Beliau berkata, Pas dan Umno dari dahulu lagi tetap dengan pendirian masing-masing di mana Pas akan tetap melaksanakan hukum hudud manakala Umno tetap menolaknya.

"Sebagai umat Islam kita kena menerima hukum hudud ini kerana hukum hudud adalah yang terbaik dan paling berkesan dalam mencegah jenayah," katanya kepada Sinar Harian ketika ditemui pada majlis menyampaikan sumbangan bantuan persekolahan di Kota Bharu semalam.

Katanya, dari segi pelaksanaan, Islam membenarkan hudud dilakukan mengikut kedudukan dan kemampuan pihak terbabit.

Husam memberi contoh seperti solat Zuhur, di mana solat tersebut tidak boleh ditunaikan selagi belum masuk waktunya.

Menurutnya, sekarang ini yang memerintah adalah Barisan Nasional (BN) dan Umno menolak hukum hudud walaupun mereka beragama Islam.

Sementara itu, menantu Perdana Menteri yang juga Naib Ketua Pemuda Umno , Khairy Jamaluddin menafikan beliau menyokonmg hudud dalam surat yang dihantar oleh pejabat Ahli Parlimen Rembau kepada Malaysiakini. (Imej di atas ihsan Malaysiakini)

Saudi Arabia - Egypt ally with Israel to attack Gaza

Roads to Iraq (27/12/08): Not only Egypt participated in the attack on Gaza by pre-informed on attack date, just reported on Al-Quds Al-Arabi that Livni informed the head if the Egyptian intelligence Amro Suleiman who in his turn informed other Arab countries, but told Hamas that Israel is ready for the peace negotiatioSauns.

Saudi Arabia deployed its media to legitimize the attack. One hour after the Al-Arabiya TV broadcast an interview with the terrorist Olmert, Saudi propaganda newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published an interview with another Israeli terrorist Simon Perez who said the following: The region ready for peace and we will not enter Gaza.

Genocide in Gaza just started, blessed by Arab countries

Roads to Iraq (27/12/08): Nothing new in Aljazeera report today that Palestinian armed factions accused Arab countries with participating in the attack on Gaza. Israeli newspapers already reported the Green Light given by Arab countries to eliminate Hamas leaders.

Do you think that Egyptian reinforcement on Rafah-Crossing was coincidence or already tipped off? But Hamas also tipped off by an Arab official who also revealed that the Israeli plan is to target the institutions of Gaza authority, and to invade the region, not to mention the assasination of Hamas leaders.

By the way: According to the Israeli military, the military operation will take 15 days.

In Response to Gaza Offensive, Syrian and Hamas Media Lambast Egypt, Saudi Arabia

The Memri Blog (28/12/08): The Syrian and Hamas media have responded to the Gaza attack with harsh criticism against Egypt and Saudi Arabia. An editorial in the Syrian website www.champress.net accused the Syrian and Saudi leaders of collaborating with Israel in the spilling of Palestinian blood. The Syrian government daily Teshreen stated in an editorial that "certain Arab leaders" regarded Israel as a strategic ally and were helping it to annihilate the resistance movements in Palestine and Lebanon. Associates of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar accused Egypt of collaborating with Israel in deceiving the Hamas in Gaza.

Sources: www.champress.net, December 27, 2008; Teshreen (Syria), December 28, 2008; Teshreen (Syria), December 28, 2008; Al-Quds Al-Arabi (London), December 27, 2008.

Egyptian official lying through his teeth

Roads to Iraq (28/12/08): Reported on Aljazeera that Egypt keeps blocking Rafah-Crossing, not allowing the humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, Aljazeera anchor asked an Egyptian official why? He answered: For logistic reasons.

A Lebanese military expert said that the Egyptian official is lying, Egypt knows that an Israeli ground campaign on its way, this is the reason behind the blockade.

The lebanese expects that Hamas will use Hizbollah’s 2006 war tactics against the Israeli military.

Israeli military preparing to assassinate Gaza leaders

Ma'an (18/12/08): Assassinating Hamas leaders is one option being explored as Israeli troops prepare for the end of the ceasefire, according to a Thursday report in the Israeli daily paper Maariv.

The paper quoted military sources as saying Arab countries advised Israel to assassinate major Hamas leaders if they reject the truce.

The story appeared on page two of the Hebrew paper and claims un-named Arab states have given Israel the 'green-light' to use extra-judicial means to ensure the disappearance of Hamas leaders in case the party refuses to extend the truce.

The article, by Israeli journalists Ben Kesbit and Amir Raybot, claimed that Arab heads of state sent secret letters to the Israeli government. They hinted that the assassination planning was a major factor regarding why no major military action has been undertaken so far.

Those listed as candidates for assassination are:

De facto Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh
De facto Minister of the Interior Sai'd Siyam
De facto Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahmoud Az-Zahhar
Head of the military wing of Hamas in the Gaza Strip (The Al-Qassam Brigades) Ahmad Aj-Ja’bary
Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and leader of the Popular Committee against the Siege in Gaza Dr Jamal Al-Khudari
Secondary leaders in the Al-Qassam Brigades Ibrahim Ghandur and Muhammad Deif, who have both survived several assassination attempts, were also on the list.

The Egyptian-brokered ceasefire is set to end on Friday.

Undang-undang juga boleh dibuat "moratorium" (a period of time in which there is a suspension of a specific activity until future events warrant a removal of the suspension or issues regarding the activity have been resolved).

Menurut sejarah Islam, Khalifah 'Umar pernah menangguhkan perlaksanaan hukum hudud (kerana kemelut ekonomi waktu itu). Pada zaman ini, kerajaan Iran pernah melaksanakan moratorium dalam perlaksanaan hukum rejam (stoning).

Pemuda PAS mengajak umat Islam bantah serangan kejam Israel ke atas rakyat Palestin! Ayuh ke demonstrasi di kedutaan Amerika Syarikat pada Selasa, 30 Disember 2008, 11 pagi. Sebarkan!

Al-Manar TV (27/12/08): Hamas politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal called Saturday on Palestinians to wage a new intifada against Israeli occupation, including a return to martyrdom operations.

In an interview on Al-Jazeera television, Mashaal said: "We called for a military intifada against the enemy. Resistance will continue through martyrdom operations." "I call upon you (Palestinians) to carry out a third intifada," Mashaal said.

Mashaal pledged Hamas would respond to Israel's operation in Gaza that killed over 225 Palestinians and injured over 700 others. "The time when you were the ones to control the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over," he said, and vowed that "Gaza will soon be liberated" despite Israel's military superiority.

He also warned Israel that it would not achieve by fighting what it had not been able to achieve through diplomacy.

Mashaal defended the resistance group's actions and continued rocket attacks on the occupied territories, saying Israel - and not Hamas - was responsible for the renewed bloodshed.

Moreover, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh declared that Gaza would never cave to Israeli pressure, no matter how great. "We will not leave our land, we will not raise white flags and we kneel only before Allah," he said.

"There is blood everywhere, there are wounded and martyrs in every house and in every street. Gaza today was decorated by blood ... There can be more martyrs and there can be more wounded but Gaza will never be broken and will never surrender," Haniyeh said.

In a statement broadcast by the Hamas-owned Gaza-based television channel, Al-Aqsa, Haniyeh said: "Palestine has never witnessed an uglier massacre."

Palestinians carry the body of a victim of an Israeli air strike
in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 27 December 2008.
(Hatem Omar/MaanImages)

The Electronic Intifada (27/12/08): "I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing." Those were the words, spoken on Al Jazeera today by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defense official in the Sderot area adjacent to Gaza, as images of Israel's latest massacres were broadcast around the world.

A short time earlier, US-supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes and Apache helicopters dropped over 100 bombs on dozens of locations in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip killing at least 195 persons and injuring hundreds more. Many of these locations were police stations located, like police stations the world over, in the middle of civilian areas. The US government was one of the first to offer its support for Israel's attacks, and others will follow.

Reports said that many of the dead were Palestinian police officers. Among those Israel labels "terrorists" were more than a dozen traffic police officers undergoing training. An as yet unknown number of civilians were killed and injured; Al Jazeera showed images of several dead children, and the Israeli attacks came at the time thousands of Palestinian children were in the streets on their way home from school.

Shmerling's joy has been echoed by Israelis and their supporters around the world; their violence is righteous violence. It is "self-defense" against "terrorists" and therefore justified. Israeli bombing -- like American and NATO bombing in Iraq and Afghanistan -- is bombing for freedom, peace and democracy.

The rationalization for Israel's massacres, already being faithfully transmitted by the English-language media, is that Israel is acting in "retaliation" for Palestinian rockets fired with increasing intensity ever since the six-month truce expired on 19 December (until today, no Israeli had been killed or injured by these recent rocket attacks).

But today's horrific attacks mark only a change in Israel's method of killing Palestinians recently. In recent months they died mostly silent deaths, the elderly and sick especially, deprived of food and necessary medicine by the two year-old Israeli blockade calculated and intended to cause suffering and deprivation to 1.5 million Palestinians, the vast majority refugees and children, caged into the Gaza Strip. In Gaza, Palestinians died silently, for want of basic medications: insulin, cancer treatment, products for dialysis prohibited from reaching them by Israel.

What the media never question is Israel's idea of a truce. It is very simple. Under an Israeli-style truce, Palestinians have the right to remain silent while Israel starves them, kills them and continues to violently colonize their land. Israel has not only banned food and medicine to sustain Palestinian bodies in Gaza but it is also intent on starving minds: due to the blockade, there is not even ink, paper and glue to print textbooks for schoolchildren.

As John Ging, the head of operations of the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), told The Electronic Intifada in November: "there was five months of a ceasefire in the last couple of months, where the people of Gaza did not benefit; they did not have any restoration of a dignified existence. We in fact at the UN, our supplies were also restricted during the period of the ceasefire, to the point where we were left in a very vulnerable and precarious position and with a few days of closure we ran out of food."

That is an Israeli truce. Any response to Israeli attacks -- whether peaceful protests against the apartheid wall in Bilin and Nilin in the West Bank is met with bullets and bombs. There are no rockets launched at Israel from the West Bank, and yet Israel's attacks, killings, land theft, settler pogroms and kidnappings never ceased for one single day during the truce. The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah has acceded to all of Israel's demands, even assembling "security forces" to fight the resistance on Israel's behalf. None of that has spared a single Palestinian or her property or livelihood from Israel's relentless violent colonization. It did not save, for instance, the al-Kurd family from seeing their home of 50 years in occupied East Jerusalem demolished on 9 November, so the land it sits on could be taken by settlers.

Once again we are watching massacres in Gaza, as we did last March when 110 Palestinians, including dozens of children, were killed by Israel in just a few days. Once again people everywhere feel rage, anger and despair that this outlaw state carries out such crimes with impunity.

But all over the Arab media and internet today the rage being expressed is not directed solely at Israel. Notably, it is directed more sharply than ever at Arab states. The images that stick are of Israel's foreign minister Tzipi Livni in Cairo on Christmas day. There she sat smiling with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Then there are the pictures of Livni and Egypt's foreign minister smiling and slapping their palms together.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported today that last wednesday the Israeli "cabinet authorized the prime minister, the defense minister, and the foreign minister to determine the timing and the method" of Israel's attacks on Gaza. Everywhere people ask, what did Livni tell the Egyptians and more importantly what did they tell her? Did Israel get a green light to turn Gaza's streets red once again? Few are ready to give Egypt the benefit of the doubt after it has helped Israel besiege Gaza by keeping the Rafah border crossing closed for more than a year.

On top of the intense anger and sadness so many people feel at Israel's renewed mass killings in Gaza is a sense of frustration that there seem to be so few ways to channel it into a political response that can change the course of events, end the suffering, and bring justice.

But there are ways, and this is a moment to focus on them. Already I have received notices of demonstrations and solidarity actions being planned in cities all over the world. That is important. But what will happen after the demonstrations disperse and the anger dies down? Will we continue to let Palestinians in Gaza die in silence?

Palestinians everywhere are asking for solidarity, real solidarity, in the form of sustained, determined political action. The Gaza-based One Democratic State Group reaffirmed this today as it "called upon all civil society organizations and freedom loving people to act immediately in any possible way to put pressure on their governments to end diplomatic ties with Apartheid Israel and institute sanctions against it."

Haaretz, Israel (28/12/08): Long-term preparation, careful gathering of information, secret discussions, operational deception and the misleading of the public - all these stood behind the Israel Defense Forces "Cast Lead" operation against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, which began Saturday morning.

The disinformation effort, according to defense officials, took Hamas by surprise and served to significantly increase the number of its casualties in the strike.

Sources in the defense establishment said Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the Israel Defense Forces to prepare for the operation over six months ago, even as Israel was beginning to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. According to the sources, Barak maintained that although the lull would allow Hamas to prepare for a showdown with Israel, the Israeli army needed time to prepare, as well.

Barak gave orders to carry out a comprehensive intelligence-gathering drive which sought to map out Hamas' security infrastructure, along with that of other militant organizations operating in the Strip.

This intelligence-gathering effort brought back information about permanent bases, weapon silos, training camps, the homes of senior officials and coordinates for other facilities.

The plan of action that was implemented in Operation Cast Lead remained only a blueprint until a month ago, when tensions soared after the IDF carried out an incursion into Gaza during the ceasefire to take out a tunnel which the army said was intended to facilitate an attack by Palestinian militants on IDF troops.

On November 19, following dozens of Qassam rockets and mortar rounds which exploded on Israeli soil, the plan was brought for Barak's final approval. Last Thursday, on December 18, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the defense minister met at IDF headquarters in central Tel Aviv to approve the operation.

However, they decided to put the mission on hold to see whether Hamas would hold its fire after the expiration of the ceasefire. They therefore put off bringing the plan for the cabinet's approval, but they did inform Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni of the developments.

That night, in speaking to the media, sources in the Prime Minister's Bureau said that "if the shooting from Gaza continues, the showdown with Hamas would be inevitable." On the weekend, several ministers in Olmert's cabinet inveighed against him and against Barak for not retaliating for Hamas' Qassam launches.

"This chatter would have made Entebe or the Six Day War impossible," Barak said in responding to the accusations. The cabinet was eventually convened on Wednesday, but the Prime Minister's Bureau misinformed the media in stating the discussion would revolve around global jihad. The ministers learned only that morning that the discussion would actually pertain to the operation in Gaza.

In its summary announcement for the discussion, the Prime Minister's Bureau devoted one line to the situation in Gaza, compared to one whole page that concerned the outlawing of 35 Islamic organizations.

What actually went on at the cabinet meeting was a five-hour discussion about the operation in which ministers were briefed about the various blueprints and plans of action. "It was a very detailed review," one minister said.

The minister added: "Everyone fully understood what sort of period we were heading into and what sort of scenarios this could lead to. No one could say that he or she did not know what they were voting on." The minister also said that the discussion showed that the lessons of the Winograd Committee about the performance of decision-makers during the 2006 Second Lebanon War were "fully internalized."

At the end of the discussion, the ministers unanimously voted in favor of the strike, leaving it for the prime minister, the defense minister and the foreign minister to work out the exact time.

While Barak was working out the final details with the officers responsible for the operation, Livni went to Cairo to inform Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, that Israel had decided to strike at Hamas.

In parallel, Israel continued to send out disinformation in announcing it would open the crossings to the Gaza Strip and that Olmert would decide whether to launch the strike following three more deliberations on Sunday - one day after the actual order to launch the operation was issued.

"Hamas evacuated all its headquarter personnel after the cabinet meeting on Wednesday," one defense official said, "but the organization sent its people back in when they heard that everything was put on hold until Sunday."

The final decision was made on Friday morning, when Barak met with Chief of Staff General Gabi Ashkenazi, the head of the Shin Bet Security Service Yuval Diskin and the head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, Amos Yadlin. Barak sat down with Olmert and Livni several hours later for a final meeting, in which the trio gave the air force its orders.

On Friday night and on Saturday morning, opposition leaders and prominent political figures were informed about the impending strike, including Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, Yisrael Beuiteinu's Avigdor Liebermen, Haim Oron from Meretz and President Shimon Peres, along with Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik.

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Dasar BI: Pelajar saman Kementerian Pelajaran

Malaysiakini (20/1/06): Empat pelajar sekolah menengah di Perak menyaman Kementerian Pelajaran kerana membantah penggunaan Bahasa Inggeris sebagai pengantar mata pelajaran Matematik dan Sains di sekolah rendah dan menengah.

Mohammad Shawwaal Mohd Nizar,14; Mohammad Fadzir Rosni, 15; Nor Najiha Muhaimin dan Syazaira Arham Yahya Ariff – kedua-duanya berusia 16 tahun – mengemukakan saman itu di Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur pagi tadi.

Mohammad Syawwaal mengemukakan saman melalui bapanya Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin; Mohammad Fadzil melalui bapanya Mohamed Rosni Abu Bakar; Nur Najihah Muhaiminmelalui bapanya Muhaimin Sulam dan pelajar tingkatan empat, Syazaira Arham Yahya Ariff, melalui bapanya Yahya Ariff Kamaruzzaman.

Mereka mengemukakan saman pemula itu di Pejabat Pendaftar Mahkamah Tinggi Rayuan dan Kuasa-Kuasa Khas di sini melalui Tetuan Mohamed Hanipa dan Associates

Saman itu yang turut disertakan dengan afidavit daripada Mohammad Nizar, yang mewakili bapa semua pelajar berkenaan, juga memohon deklarasi bahawa responden tidak mempunyai kuasa dan budibicara untuk memperkenalkan, menguatkuasakan dan melaksanakan dasar pengajaran mata pelajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris seperti yang terkandung dalam Surat Pekeliling Ikhtisas bertarikh 27 November 2002.

Bahasa pengantar

Mohammad Syawwaal ialah pelajar Sekolah Kebangsaan Batu Tiga, Temoh, Perak; Fadzil Nor, pelajar Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tok Muda Abdul Aziz, Sungai Siput, Perak; Mohamed Rosni, pelajar Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Seri Perak, Perak dan Syazaira Arham, pelajar di Madrasah Idrissiah, Bukit Chandan, Kuala Kangsar, Perak.

Keempat-empat pelajar itu, yang tidak hadir di mahkamah, juga memohon kos dan relif lain yang difikirkan wajar oleh mahkamah. Hanya dua orang bapa iaitu Mohammad Nizar dan Yahya Ariff yang hadir hari ini mewakili empat pelajar itu.

Bercakap kepada wartawan, Peguam Mohamad Hanipa Maidin berkata, saman itu dibuat kerana penggunaan Bahasa Inggeris sebagai pengantar mata pelajaran Matematik dan Sains di sekolah rendah bertentang dengan Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

“Mengikut Seksyen 17 Akta Pendidikan Tahun 1956, Bahasa Melayu hendaklah menjadi bahasa pengantar dalam semua mata pelajaran di sekolah rendah dan menengah di negara ini,” katanya.

Afidavit yang dikemukakan, menyebut, pada 27 November 2002 Kementerian Pelajaran dalam pekelilingnya mengatakan Bahasa Inggeris akan menjadi bahasa pengantar bagi mata pelajaran Matematik dan Sains mula sesi persekolahan tahun 2003.

Tambahnya, pekeliling itu dibahagikan kepada dua iaitu untuk sekolah rendah, menengah kebangsaan dan Sekolah Rendah Jenis kebangsaan Tamil (SRJKT) dan satu lagi khusus untuk Sekolah Rendah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina (SRJKC).

Pilihan terakhir

Menurutnya, wujud diskriminasi dalam arahan ini kerana murid sekolah rendah, menengah kebangsaan dan SRJKT diajar mata pelajaran Matematik dan Sains hanya dalam Bahasa Inggeris sedangkan untuk SRJKC, ia diajar dalam dua bahasa – Bahasa Inggeris dan Mandarin.

Sementara itu, Naib Ketua Pemuda PAS, Pusat Idris Ahmad yang hadir sama di majlis berkenaan berkata, proses undang-undang merupakan pilihan terakhir yang dilakukan oleh pihaknya.

“Setelah tiga tahun dasar itu dijalankan, ia semakin menimbulkan kecelaruan dalam dasar pendidikan negara terutama kepada murid di kawasan luar bandar.

“Pada mulanya, kami mengharapkan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Abdullah mengubah semula dasar pengajaran kepada asal tetapi beliau juga tidak melakukannya,” katanya.

Idris berkata, kajian Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) mendapati kira-kira 50 peratus murid tidak boleh bercakap dalam Bahasa Inggeris.

Tujuan saman

Katanya, selain itu Kongres Kepentingan Bangsa dan badan pendidikan Cina, Dong Jiong Zong (DJZ) turut membantah penggunaan Bahasa Inggeris sebagai pengantar untuk mata pelajaran Matematik dan Sains di sekolah rendah.

Sementara itu, bapa Mohd Syawal iaitu Mohd Nizal Jamaluddin berkata, anaknya mengambil tindakan tersebut untuk kepentingan murid Melayu pada masa depan.

“Kesan yang paling besar ialah kepada murid dari kawasan luar bandar kerana mereka tidak mempunyai peluang untuk mempelajari Bahasa Inggeris yang mencukupi seperti rakan mereka di bandar,” katanya.

Beliau berkata, mungkin pada masa ini kesannya belum dapat dilihat tetapi dalam masa beberapa tahun lagi ia dapat dirasai dengan begitu ketara.

Adakah pihak Katolik yang beria-ria mahu gunakan "ALLAH" dalam penulisan Katolik dalam B.Melayu cukup berani untuk menggunakan "ALLAH" dalam penulisan Katolik dalam Bahasa Inggeris?

Former MCA vice-president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has upped the ante in his media war with party presidential candidate, vice-president Datuk Ong Tee Keat, with a dare to Ong to repeat to Umno what he told the Chinese press lately -- that MCA may pull out of Barisan Nasional if Umno does not shed its "Ketuanan Melayu" policies.

Writing in his blog on Tuesday, Chua, without mentioning names, chided the only man (so far) who has offered to run for MCA presidency for pretending to speak out for the Chinese community.

"One would think that when the only man running for the post of MCA president says the party may have to pull out of the Barisan Nasional if Umno continues to champion the concept of 'Ketuanan Melayu', it should make the front page of all newspapers," he said.

"Instead, it was only reported in Sunday's Nanyang Siang Pau.

To some Muslims, wishing the non-Muslims with Merry Christmas or any of their religious festivals is haram (forbidden).

On Christmas day, Imam Khomeini gave a message to all the Christians of the world that the news agents broadcast. As well as this message, he told us to distribute gifts to the residents of Neauphel-le Chateau. These were usually Gaz (a type of confectionary), Aajeel (dried nuts or seeds or fruits) and Shireeni (sweet items) that some brothers had brought from Iran. We carried this out and next to each package, we placed a flower stem.

In the places we went to, we sensed that many in the West were not familiar with this kindness and love, even between fathers and their children, They felt it very strange that the night of the birth of the Prophet of the Christians, a non-Christian Iranian leader was so close to them and felt love for them. For example there was a woman who, when she took the Imam's gift, was so overcome that tears rolled down her face.

Reuters (24/12/08): The world's troubles are rooted in a rejection of God and if Jesus Christ lived today he would stand up against bullying powers, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will tell Britons on Christmas Day.

The message will be broadcast on Channel 4 Thursday evening as an alternative to the traditional Christmas television and radio address from Queen Elizabeth.

"The crises in society, the family, morality, politics, security and the economy ... have come about because the prophets have been forgotten, the Almighty has been forgotten and some leaders are estranged from God," Ahmadinejad said, according to a translation of his message.

"If Christ were on earth today, undoubtedly he would stand with the people in opposition to bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers."

Tehran has accused both Britain and the United States of trying to destabilise the Islamic Republic. Tensions have grown in recent years because of the U.S.-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and Western worries over Iran's nuclear ambitions.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has said he plans a new approach to Iran, including direct talks if needed, over what Washington says are the world's fourth biggest oil producer's plans to build atomic weapons -- a charge Iran denies.

"Today, the general will of nations is calling for fundamental change," Ahmadinejad said.

"The prerequisite to this change is a change in goals, intentions and directions. If tyrannical goals are repackaged in an attractive and deceptive package and imposed on nations again, the people, awakened, will stand up against them."

Dalam ceramahnya beliau bertanya kepada yang hadir, "kalau kita berkuasa dan kita tangkap para pemimpin Umno di bawah ISA, adakah Tuan-Tuan setujuu?!!"

"Setujuuu!!!" jawab yang hadir.

"Saya tak setuju!!" sanggah Mat Sabu. "Kalau kita tak setuju depa guna ISA tangkap kita, kita juga tak nak guna ISA tangkap depa. Siang malam kita lawan ISA, adakah tiba-tiba bila kita berkuasa, kita pula yang nak gunakan ISA?!! Haaa!!? Kita akan hapuskan ISA kalau kita berkuasa!!"

In an unprecedented move, Federal Territory MCA Youth stepped into the PAS headquarters in Kuala Lumpur to submit a memorandum protesting a plan to bring in hudud law.

The Islamic party had on Dec 20 claimed that the opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition would implement hudud law if it forms the federal government. This has since been attacked even by political ally DAP.

Nine MCA representatives led by FT Youth head Chiew Lian Keng handed the one-page memorandum to PAS Youth secretary Ahmad Sabki Yusuf, who received it on behalf of president Abdul Hadi Awang.

They first shook hands with Ahmad Sabki, explaining their presence and the contents of the memorandum.

"We are not satisfied with a statement made by PAS vice president Husam Musa on the implementation of hudud laws in a multi-racial and multi-religious society. It is unacceptable," said Chiew, reading from the memorandum.

"FT MCA youth will thwart any move or effort that could threaten the federal constitution."

Tiba-tiba, Ahli Jawatankuasa PAS Pusat Dr Dzulkifly Ahmad menjadi bogeyman baru. Apa dosa beliau? Besar. Besar sungguh dosanya. Sila baca laporan The Star di sini.

Sang security guard atau pengawal keselamatan sekularisme di negara ini duduk tak duduk sudah melantik diri sendiri sebagai polis baru yang menjerkah orang-orang PAS setiap kali mereka bersuara mengenai negara Islam. Apa sahaja kenyataan mengenai hasrat PAS untuk mewujudkan negara Islam kini menjadi suara terlarang.

"Forbidden, ada tau ka?"

Semakin kukuhlah kedudukan Malaysia sebagai negara polis. Selain PDRM, ada lagi rupanya polis-polis tiruan yang kerja mereka ialah menjerkah dan menghamun PAS setiap kali hasrat mewujudkan negara Islam diucapkan.

Tidak peduli walaupun Ahli Parlimen Kuala Selangor itu menyatakan "we are allowing more time for the electorate to understand us better" yang dengan sendirinya bermakna PAS akan menawarkan pilihan tersebut melalui pilihan raya dan bukan melalui paksaan. Apa mereka peduli itu semua asalkan mereka boleh bersedap-sedap menjerkah dan menghamun apa sahaja pernyataan PAS mengenai negara Islam.

Mereka juga tidak peduli kebebasan bersuara dan kebebasan menyatakan pandangan yang dijamin oleh Perlembagaan Malaysia. Mereka juga tidak peduli kalau kita bersuara mengenai hak untuk menganuti dan mengamalkan Islam yang dijamin oleh perkara 11 perlembagaan tersebut.

Depa siapa nak nafikan kebebasan bersuara setiap kali kita bercakap mengenai Islam dan negara Islam? Nak suruh pulak orang gugur negara Islam. Kamu siapa? Hey, we dont take order from you!

Awat? Depa nak kata bercakap mengenai negara Islam adalah amalan Islam yang disekat perkara 11(5)? Berlawanan dengan undang-undang am mengenai ketenteraman awam, kesihatan awam atau akhlak? Kalau benar demikian, adakah perkara 3 menjadikan agama yang mempunyai amalan yang yang berlawanan dengan undang-undang am mengenai ketenteraman awam, kesihatan awam atau akhlak sebagai agama rasmi?

Kalau ketagih sangat nak jadi polis tiruan pun, janganlah sampai nak sekat kebebasan bersuara dan penawaran pilihan secara demokratik. Bukannya nak paksa. Macamlah kita tak tau bahawa paksaan tidak boleh menjamin sokongan dan kesetiaan.

Bagi yang tidak mahu menjadi polis tiruan, mereka sedap-sedap pula menyatakan negara Islam tidak ada dalam ajaran Islam. Saya dah nyatakan pendirian saya dalam posting bertajuk "Bathsul Masail: Alahai Pak Pandir..."

Peduli apa depa setuju tak setuju. Aku bukan tertakluk kepada persetujuan hampa.

Dalam al-Quran, terdapat banyak sistem dan undang-undang. Kalau tak ada negara, di mana nak laksanakan sistem dan undang-undang? Nak laksanakan di mana apa sahaja amalan yang disyaratkan kepada kita untuk menganuti Islam?

Sebab itulah, kepada yang mahu merealisasikan Fasal 5 Perlembagaan PAS, kita mesti bersuara dengan lebih kuat dan kerap untuk menawarkan pilihan tersebut secara demokratik. Peduli apa undertakings apa pun. Kalau tak nak, itu hak masing-masing. Hak untuk menolak tidak dinafikan. Tetapi, jangan cuba nak jahit mulut orang.

Awat? Over your dead body? Who wants to step on your stinking dead body? It will dirty our shoes, or my sandal for that matter.

Apa yang terkandung dalam Fasal 5 Perlembagaan PAS itu diluluskan oleh Pendaftar Pertubuhan. Bila telah diluluskan mengikut undang-undang negara, saya juga berhak dari segi demokrasi untuk menyokong tujuan dan matlamat perjuangan PAS itu. It is my absolute democratic right. Suka hati aku la nak guna hak demokratik aku.

Bila masing-masing menggunakan democratic right masing-masing, apa fasal awak banyak sakit?!


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Husam refused to comment on the subject (hudud).

"I have nothing else to say. Everything has been reported. There is no need for further comment.

"If anyone wants to further discuss this issue, I am open to having a debate." (NST 24/12/08)

PAS akan terus meyakinkan DAP dan Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) dengan memberikan kefahaman mendalam mengenai undang-undang hudud dan qisas dalam usaha parti itu mempertahankan matlamat perjuangan mereka.

Malah, parti itu mungkin akan menggunakan mekanisme pungutan suara sebagai satu cara untuk meneruskan dasar itu.

Ketua Dewan Pemuda PAS, Salahuddin Ayub berkata, hukum hudud serta qisas yang menjadi asas dalam undang-undang Islam adalah matlamat perjuangan PAS dan tidak akan diketepikan hanya kerana menghormati pendirian DAP dan PKR.

Banyak yang menggelejat bila Malaysiakini semalam melaporkan "A firm DAP 'No' to theocratic state". Apa yang nak dihairankan kalau DAP menolak negara yang berteraskan sistem Islam? Yang hairan bin ajaibnya kalau dia terima. Boleh terkejut babun aku. Siap melengung lagi macam kucing basah terkena hujan.

Apa yang nak merah menyala muka bertempik sakan kalau DAP bersuara begitu? Itu hak demokratik dia. Suka hati dia la nak guna hak demokratik dia.

Saya menyokong sepenuhnya tujuan atau matlamat perjuangan PAS memperjuangkan wujudnya di dalam negara ini sebuah masyarakat dan pemerintahan yang terlaksana di dalamnya nilai-nilai hidup lslam dan hukum-hukumnya menuju keredhaan Allah serta mempertahankan kesucian lslam, juga kemerdekaan dan kedaulatan negara serta Islam menjadi dasar yang diperjuangkan dengan Allahu Akbar menjadi seruannya.

Apa yang terkandung dalam Fasal 5 Perlembagaan PAS itu diluluskan oleh Pendaftar Pertubuhan. Bila telah diluluskan mengikut undang-undang negara, saya juga berhak dari segi demokrasi untuk menyokong tujuan dan matlamat perjuangan PAS itu. It is my absolute democratic right. Suka hati aku la nak guna hak demokratik aku.

Bila masing-masing menggunakan democratic right masing-masing, apa fasal awak banyak sakit?!

PAS mengakui pelaksanaan undang-undang hudud dan qisas yang menjadi asas perjuangan terpaksa ditangguhkan walaupun jika Pakatan Rakyat menguasai Malaysia kerana ia memerlukan persetujuan PKR dan DAP.

Naib presidennya Datuk Husam Musa berkata parti-parti dalam gabungan pembangkang telah menandatangani perjanjian pada Ogos lalu bahawa sebarang perubahan dasar perlu dibuat dengan persetujuan ketiga-tiga parti tersebut, lapor Bernama.

"PAS tidak akan mengambil langkah unilateral. Semua perkara akan diambil secara multilateral," katanya di Kota Bharu hari ini.

Hudud tiada dalam perjanjian tiga parti

Sinar Harian - Isu hudud tidak berbangkit sama sekali kerana ia tidak pernah dibincang oleh ketiga-tiga parti dalam Pakatan Rakyat (PR) sebelum ini.

Ketua Menteri, Lim Guan Eng, berkata DAP, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) dan Pas tidak pernah bersetuju atau menandatangani sebarang perjanjian untuk melaksanakan hukum hudud di negara ini.

Beliau yang juga Setiausaha Agung DAP mengulangi pendirian partinya menolak cadangan itu kerana ia tidak pernah dimasukkan dalam manifesto PR dalam pilihan raya umum lalu.

“Husam (Musa) kata nak laksana hukum hudud dan kemudian kata nak tangguh. Laporannya berubah-ubah setiap hari. Apa yang diucapkan beliau lagi mengelirukan kerana ia tiada dalam manifesto PR. Kena tanya dia sebab kita tak sebut apa-apa.

“Apa yang sebenarnya dia kata bukan dalam ‘wilayah’ saya. Itu kena tanya dia,” katanya pada sidang media di pejabatnya petang semalam.

Menurutnya, semua pihak mengakui isu ini tidak pernah dibangkitkan langsung sebelum ini.

“Perkara ini tidak pernah dipertikaikan oleh semua pihak. Tiada langsung dalam manifesto atau persetujuan bersama antara tiga parti komponen dalam PR,” katanya.

Mursyidul Am PAS Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat berkata, tiada masalah untuk PAS melaksanakan undang-undang Hudud dan Qisas kerana halangannya hanya terletak pada pemikiran mereka yang kurang memahami undang-undang itu.

Jika hukuman gantung boleh dilaksanakan kepada pengedar dadah maka tidak jadi masalah untuk rakyat menerima hudud yang antara lain menguatkuasakan hukuman bunuh kepada pembunuh dan hukuman potong tangan kepada pencuri, katanya.

"Hudud ini bukan dibawa PAS tetapi dibawa oleh Islam sejak dari zaman Nabi Muhammad lagi, jadi bagi orang Islam yang mentadbir negara adalah wajib bagi mereka melaksanakan hudud," katanya kepada pemberita.

Nik Abdul Aziz yang juga Menteri Besar Kelantan berkata pemimpin PAS seperti beliau hanya mampu menggubal undang-undang Hudud dan Qisas itu tetapi pelaksanaannya akan diadili oleh mahkamah dan hakim berdasarkan bukti dan fakta.

"Jika tidak cukup bukti, hakim tidak akan jatuhkan hukum hudud ke atas pesalah itu. Sama seperti undang-undang yang ada sekarang," katanya.

Ditanya mengenai penerimaan parti komponen Pakatan Rakyat seperti DAP dan PKR, Nik Abdul Aziz berkata PAS sedia berbincang dengan mereka mengenai hukum hudud.

"Jika mereka tidak mahu menerima, mereka perlu ada alasan kenapa tidak boleh menerimanya...Islam memberikan peluang kepada semua untuk berbincang," katanya.

Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) dan DAP terpaksa akur dan menerima pelaksanaan hukum hudud sekiranya Pas berjaya menguasai majoriti kerusi di peringkat Parlimen dan Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) pada pilihan raya umum akan datang.

Ahli Parlimen Shah Alam, Khalid Abdul Samad berkata, kedua-dua parti itu seharusnya berbuat demikian sebagai menghormati pelaksanaan proses demokrasi negara ini.

Katanya, jika Pas berjaya memerintah negara ini, maka sudah tentu ia keputusan rakyat yang jelas menerima dan menyokong dasar perjuangan Pas yang mahukan pelaksanaan hukum tersebut.

“Secara prinsipnya, Pas berpegang kepada usaha untuk menegakkan pemerintahan Islam di negara ini. Salah satunya ialah melaksanakan hukum hudud.

Speaking to The Malaysian Insider earlier, Khairy denied he had backed the implementation of hudud during his debate with Husam.

Khairy, who has in recent weeks been campaigning on a more inclusive agenda in the race for the top job in his party’s Youth wing, was quoted by The Star as saying he supported the implementation of hudud, in what would have certainly damaged his reputation among more moderate Muslims and non-Muslims.

The Star later retracted the report.

PAS candidate: Mat Sabu out

Although endorsed by PAS spiritual leader and Kelantan Menteri Besar, Nik Abdul Nik Mat, it appears party vice-president Mohamad Sabu had been ruled out as candidate to contest in the Kuala Terengganu by-election.

PAS has yesterday finalised its candidate for the crucial by-election next month at its central committee meeting chaired by party president Hadi Awang.

Although Hadi said an announcement would be made on Jan 1 - five days before nomination day - the likelihood of an outsider who is not from Kuala Terengganu being picked to contest the parliamentary seat looked very slim.

According to party's mouthpiece Harakahdaily, the doors seemed to be "almost closed" on Mohamad (right) - a party leader from Penang who was PAS candidate for Kuala Terengganu in the March general elections - following claims he as an “outsider” would not be generally accepted by the voters.

This is despite that the veteran politician is best known for his witty oratory skills and has the blessings from influential party leader, Nik Aziz.

Generally, the PAS candidate for Kuala Terengganu had always been a local and this trend is expected to continue despite Mohamad's choice in the March 8 general elections.

Hadi has yesterday strongly hinted that the likely candidate is a ‘professional who is close to the people’.

It is learnt two lists of names - one from Terengganu PAS and the other from PAS headquarters - were discussed at yesterday’s meeting and the candidate was picked after much deliberation in what party insiders say was very long meeting.

It’s now down to four

With Mohamad out of the equation, the PAS frontrunner is Batu Burok assemblyperson Dr Syed Azman Syed Ahmad Nawawi (right), who was Kuala Terengganu MP in 1999 before losing the seat to Umno four years later.

Another name being bandied around is entrepreneur Dr Mohd Khazani Abdullah, a former Universiti Putra Malaysia lecturer.

Dr Syed Azman who had just returned from Haj declined to comment on the party’s candidate when contacted by Malaysiakini.

"I have just returned in the last couple of days from pilgrimage. I cannot comment (on the matter). Let the party leaders make the announcement first," he said.

Also named as possible candidates is Terengganu PAS commissioner Mustafa Ali or his deputy, Wan Mutalib Embong - both veteran politicians and professionals.

Syed Azman and Mohd Khazani are young professionals with the latter said to be quite active in PAS Youth but was handicapped by being a virtual unknown despite being a local.

Syed Azman is seen as the popular choice. He is widely regarded as a leader in the next echelon of party leadership. Moreover, he had won the Kuala Terengganu seat in 1999 only to lose it later in 2004.

Many see the announcement of Deputy Home Minister Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh (above) as Umno candidate has forced PAS to run a heavyweight, perhaps Mustafa or Wan Mutalib.

PAS to stick to Jan 1 date

On a different note, questions are being raised over the delay in the naming of the PAS candidate although it was widely reported that the party would make the announcement a day after Umno made its candidate known.

Even veterans such as Wan Mutalib, who is heading the Terengganu PAS election machinery, had proposed to the party to announce its candidate early.

kuala terengganu parliamnetary seat 291108"This would help the election machinery with its planning and strategy to attract more to vote for PAS," he was quoted to have said.

Party sources insisted the naming of the candidate on Jan 1 was decided much earlier, way before BN announced Wan Ahmad Farid as their choice.

"PAS wanted to announce the name of the candidate during the launch of the PAS election machinery. It is surprising BN announce their choice much earlier as nomination is on Jan 6," the source said.

"The name of the candidate has been decided and it is only fitting that the name be announced by Hadi at the launch of party's election machinery."

The Kuala Terengganu seat fell vacant following the sudden death of Deputy Education Minister Razali Ismail on Nov 28.

Razali had on the March 8 general election defeated Mohamad and independent candidate Maimun Yusuf by a slim majority of 628 votes.