Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email I have been surveying to purchase a house for about 1.5 years. I’ve seen a few houses, some new, some old. For the old ones, I asked for advice on what to look out when checking out the place. My contractor friends mentioned that houses that are old (30 years or so) need to be checked for electrical wiring, water piping, roof tiles, structures and so on. Things decay, wear out, spoilt as time goes on. We need to change them we the need arises. Nothing last forever.
Even for the new houses, we still have to look out for cracks on the walls and beams, water leakage from ceilings an toilets etc. Nothing is perfect.
Change is inevitable.
Even when religious books are being scrutinized to see if they can stand the challenge of time, what more of laws made by mere mortals. Its not as if or constitution had not been modified before. Google around or compare the original one with the latest one. I remember reading that more than dozens of changes have been made.
Thus I can only politely say that its ridiculous at the very least to even mention that an entity that has a lump of matter called brain between the ears cannot question things that are made by other mortals, way back 50 years ago. Imagine talking to a youth in his late 20s now about life without TV, computers, handphone, telephone, toll booths, KFC, Proton cars and ATM machines. He would be aghast at how people lived long time ago. These are the people who we want to convince that something written 50 years ago is beyond questioning, akin to word of God, ultimate truth? Well, good luck!
There’s also a threat in the message below – “Don’t try to meddle around on these issues as they can cause untoward incidents in our country”. Well, that’s what ISA is for right? Don’t just use against those that ask questions, use it against those that threaten, bully and refuse to provide answers to questions.
Worse is yet to follow, the speech also tries to bring religion into politics. Using religion is dangerous as it give a false identity and impression that those with same religion must have same political belief. Of course it has been a popular and recurring theme to use religion and race to suit political needs as and when required.
Don’t question or politicise what is enshrined in Constitution, says Najib
Muin Abdul Majid, BERNAMA
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CAIRO, Mon.:
The Government will continue to defend and explain issues on the special status of the Malay Rulers, Malays, Islam and Bahasa Malaysia as enshrined in the Federal Constitution, says Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Likening the constitution as the “joints” and “pillar” of the nation, the deputy prime minister said such provisions should not be questioned and politicised.
He said of late there has been a tendency among certain quarters to raise questions on matters that cannot and should not be disputed by anyone.”Don’t try to meddle around on these issues as they can cause untoward incidents in our country.
“The government of today will defend the provisions enshrined in the federal constitution,” he said when speaking to Malaysian students in Egypt. Najib is attending the World Economic Froum on the Middle East at the Red Sea Resort of Sharm El Sheikh.
Najib said: “We can have political differences, we can point out policy difference, but we should not question or weaken what has been already stipulated in the constitution,” he said.
The deputy prime minister said it was very important that the Muslims were not seen as a weak race in all aspects including in politics. “If, for instance, we are seen as weak in uniting politically, if there are among us who have differing views after being taken in by certain arguments to the extent of abandoning the true path, the consequence is our position as Muslims will become weaker in our own country,” he said.
Emphasising that this should not be allowed to happen, Najib stressed that it was crucial for Muslims to be strong in their own land. “When the Muslims are strong, it does not mean they will be unfair to non-Muslims,” he said. “We are strong because we want to defend what is our right while we help the non-Muslims in our country. This is the political consensus that has been practised all this while,” he added.
Present were his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor and Malaysian ambassador to Egypt Datuk Zainal Abidin Abdul Kadir. Najib and his delegation were taken straight to the function held at a leading hotel here upon arrival in Cairo from Sharm El Sheikh and flew back to the popular Red Sea resort city after the dialogue with the students ended.
