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Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Just received a rather funny SMS that goes something like this:
Vote PAS, vote Dog, Vote PIG, vote anything but BN!
Quite an insult, I’ll say.
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Anything but BN?
January 27th, 2008 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email
Hands off the Indian community says Samy
January 27th, 2008 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email The other parties should concentrate on helping their own communities,” he said, declining to name the parties.
The only parties in Peninsular who play racial politics is UMNO and MCA. So, Samy is telling off these parties? Gerakan and PPP are multiracial (at least on paper), so they have every right to help Bangsa Malaysia. Is MIC worried that they will become irrelevant? That others can do a better job than them?
More problems in BN?
SAMY: Let MIC worry about Indian community
By : Rizalman Hammim
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SEREMBAN, SUN:
The MIC has reminded other Barisan Nasional component parties not to meddle in the Indian community’s affairs without the party’s knowledge.
Its president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said there were some BN component party leaders who had been meeting the Indian community and trying to get the community to voice their problems.
“They are trying to stir the pot by doing that. Let MIC worry about the Indian community. The other parties should concentrate on helping their own communities,” he said, declining to name the parties.
temple and mosque side by side
January 25th, 2008 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email A mosque and temple stand side by side in harmony
By : K.Harinderan
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KUALA LUMPUR: Religious harmony is more than a catchy phrase at Lorong Raja Muda Abdul Aziz here.
Amidst the hustle and bustle of the city, Muslims and Hindu’s have been worshiping just metres from each other over the past 40 years in Kampung Baru.
An air of calm prevailes at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital Mosque and Sri Maha Kaliamman Temple with members of both religious communities respecting their right to religious expression. While the mosque began as a surau in the 1950’s, the temple started off as a shrine in a simple wooden structure in 1968.
It was built by Kannan alias Veerapan in gratitude to Goddess Kaliamman for healing his then 16-year-old daughter.
Rajeswary’s husband, V. Narayanasamy, 68, who runs the temple, told the New Straits Times that the temple and mosque had shared the same grounds without major problems that could not be resolved.
“Cooperation, freedom and mutual respect has been shown by Hindu’s and Muslims alike and we have lived in harmony and even helped each other during festivals.’
A senior Kuala Lumpur Hospital Mosque official, who declined to be identified, said only zinc sheets separated the two structures.
“What began as a surau in the late 1950s has flourished together with the temple over the years. “Prayers at the temple do not bother us when we conduct our prayers. We have made certain adjustments to accommodate the temples’ wishes,” he said, adding that there had been no problems between the two parties.
The past four decades had seen “one or two” difficult moments such as during the May 13, 1969, riots when an Alliance flag was set on fire and thrown toward the main altar of the temple. The wooden structure was razed but the shrine survived the fire.
In 1979, floods which hit the city destroyed both structures.
P.Vasudevan, 53, who was born in Kampung Baru and frequents the temple, said the religious institutions were a unique testament to unity in diversity. “People of both faiths perform prayers side by side without problems.”
senile paralytic mumble causes conversion
January 25th, 2008 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Hmmm…now I’m worried that if I mumble in my sleep or meditating anywhere, i’ll be converted! 🙂 Oh oh…wWhat about those guys talking on their handphones via bluetooth? From far they may look like mumbling some conversion mantra. The Mat Skodeng (snooping pervert) body snatchers may just mark them for collection later.
Anyway, a few more votes for BN down the drain. Now if the family has 20 family close relatives, and each has another 2 adults…hmmm…how many votes gone ah?
Man buried as Muslim amid conversion row
Jan 25, 08 4:53pm
An elderly ethnic Chinese man has been buried as a Muslim after his Buddhist family lost a battle with the Islamic authorities who said he had converted, his son said today.
Police seized the body of Gan Eng For, who died on Sunday aged 74, after his oldest son – himself a Muslim convert – said he had switched to the religion last year.
Other family members said Gan could not have converted because he was senile and paralysed after suffering two strokes. “He could not even move his arms or talk,” his other son 42-year-old Gan Hock Sin told AFP.
“It is shocking that Islamic authorities say he recited some Islamic words when he was being converted last year,” he said.
The dispute, the latest in a series of conversion rows in Malaysia, came shortly after a court ordered a Christian woman’s body be returned to her family after Islamic authorities admitted she had not converted. The cases have fed accusations over the growing “Islamisation” of Malaysia, where the population is dominated by Muslim Malays living alongside ethnic Chinese and Indian communities.
Gan criticised the conduct of the state Islamic authorities who buried his father in a Muslim cemetery yesterday on the orders of a religious court. “They have been cruel to my mother and my family. We could not see his body before he was buried. This government is not fair,” he said. “Before my father died, he had told my mother that he wished to be buried according to Chinese rituals.”
Muslim burial for elderly convert after court ruling
SEREMBAN: Amir Gan Abdullah, 74, who died last Sunday, and whose Muslim and non-Muslim children laid claim to his body, was buried yesterday as a Muslim after the Syariah High Court ruled yesterday that he was a Muslim convert.
His eldest son, Abdul Rahman Gan, 47, claimed the body from the Tuanku Jaafar Hospital. Amir Gan was buried at the Tuan Haji Said Muslim cemetery about 6.30pm.
Syariah judge Mohd Nadzri Abdul Rahman gave his decision after hearing an ex parte application seeking to declare Amir Gan a Muslim. The application was filed by the Negri Sembilan Islamic Affairs Council, the Negri Sembilan Islamic Affairs Department, the Registrar of Converts and the plaintiff, Abdul Rahman.
The non-Muslim members of Amir Gan’s family did not turn up in court although a notice had been sent to them on Tuesday.
The non-Muslim members of Amir Gan’s family had failed in their attempt to obtain an injunction to defer hearing of the application in the Syariah Court. — Bernama
Unemployed graduates urged to be NS trainers
January 23rd, 2008 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email I wonder if this is a good move. Are the unemployed graduates qualified to be trainers or should they be first be retrained to ensure marketability? I dread thinking what kind of graduates who are unemployed who will be taken in as trainers? Hope no major disaster happens due to trainer mistake in the future. » Read more: Unemployed graduates urged to be NS trainers
