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NEP not doing anybody any harm, says Tun M

July 24th, 2007
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Tell that to those wage earners who had to buy property without discount while the privileged ones buy better houses at 7% discount at least!
 
Tell that to those who want to open fast food or petrol stations.
 
Tell that to those who want to bid for govt contract above certain amount.
 
Tell that to those who can't a get a scholarship even though their results are top of the class.
 
Tell that to all those who can't get job because those jobs are only for certain privileged people.
 

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The affirmative action plan to help Bumiputras under New Economic Policy has not deterred Malaysia from emerging as the world’s fastest growing developing nation, former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said today.

“In any case, the policy to help Bumiputras is not doing anybody any harm,” he told reporters after delivering a keynote address at the international conference on “Gold Dinar Economy 2007.”

“Other developing countries without an affirmative policy cannot do as well as Malaysia, so why are we people questioning the policy,” he said in response to calls to review the policy.

“We have reconsidered the policy, made amendments, reduced the affirmative action but in certain areas we still need affirmation action.

In any case it is not doing anybody any harm,” he said.
 

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Two reasons why Umno gave Tapah to MIC

July 22nd, 2007
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TAPAH: The concept of power sharing and social contract are the reasons why Barisan Nasional gave up the Malay-majority Tapah parliamentary seat to the MIC. 

Responding to a resolution by Tapah Umno division for the constituency to be returned to Umno, Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Tajol Rosli Ghazali said he had expected the topic to be hotly debated by delegates of the division. 

“Personally, I can understand the feelings of the division members especially when there are far more Malay voters in the constituency,” he said when opening the Tapah Umno division meeting here yesterday. 

“But it is inappropriate for me to put aside the concept of power sharing and the social contract agreed to by the various races.” 

He said it was not wrong for the division to raise the matter but it was up to Barisan chairman Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to make a decision. 

Tajol Rosli noted that although the MIC did not have an Indian majority seat, there were constituencies that Barisan could lose if it did not obtain the support of the MIC. 

MIC vice-president Datuk S. Veerasingam is currently the MP for Tapah.  

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Convert to know fate next month

July 21st, 2007
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well, looks like a clear cut case. converted due to marriage, not out of love of religion. Never followed Islam, instead practised Buddhism all the time. Now wants to repent. How complicated will the involved parties make this? Another 100 day detention (aka counselling) for Tan? Forcing her to eat beef may not work this time.
 

Siti Fatimah claimed she followed Buddhist teachings
Siti Fatimah claimed she followed Buddhist teachings

GEORGE TOWN: A Chinese woman, who said she embraced Islam to marry an Iranian, will know next month if she can renounce the religion.

Siti Fatimah Tan Abdullah’s application for an order to declare herself a non-Muslim will be decided by the Syariah High Court here on Aug 17.

The 38-year-old from Nibong Tebal filed the application in May last year.

A decision was to have been made today but the case was postponed as the presiding judge was on medical leave.

In her affidavit to renounce the religion, Siti Fatimah, whose given name is Tan Ean Huang, said she had never practised any of the Islamic teachings despite having converted in July 1998.
She said her lifestyle never changed and she continued following the Buddhist teachings and prayed to various deities like the Tua Pek Kong, Kuan Yin and Thi Kong.

She claimed her conversion was done for the sake of marrying an Iranian named Ferdoun Ashanian.

The couple got married in 2004 but the man has since left her and Siti Fatimah said she had no knowledge of his whereabouts.

Siti Fatimah now wants the Penang Islamic Religious Council to declare that she is no longer a Muslim under Section 61 (3) of the Penang Islamic Administration Enactment.

She also wants the court to change the religious status on her identity card from Muslim to Buddhist.

Siti Fatimah was represented by Ahmad Jailani Abdul Ghani while the council was represented by Ahmad Munawir Abdul Aziz.

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Selayang councillor helps eight poor families

July 20th, 2007
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Story and photos STUART MICCHAEL

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Eight families with no steady income have a shelter over their heads now. 

Free accommodation was offered to them when Selayang municipal councillor M.B. Raja and Selayang MIC deputy chairman P. Palaniappan highlighted their plight to Rawang assemblyman Datuk Tang See Hang and MPS president Zainal Abidin Azim. 

Raja said that Tang and Zainal, who were supportive of the cause, provided apartment units for the families at the Desa Sri Bayu apartments in Batu16, Rawang. 

“Of eight families, two families Chinese, three Indian and three Malay. Some of them are disabled and a few are senior citizens,” he said.  

Greeting the public: Raja shaking hands with a member of one of the eight families.

“These families will stay in medium-cost apartments estimated about RM60,000 and they don’t need to pay the rent,'' Raja said at the MIC service centre in Rawang recently.  

A few weeks ago, Raja also helped around a dozen single mothers to obtain the green light from MPS to set up their own business at council stalls to sustain themselves and their children. 

Raja opened his service centre at 1/1A Taman Sri Hijau, Rawang three years ago and meets the public every Saturday from 8.30am to 2pm. 

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Stop making statements on secular state, Hishammuddin tells MCA

July 20th, 2007
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but NST still managed to print this article, since it does not go against Najib's comments.
 
BERNAMA
 

RANAU, Fri:

Umno Youth chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein today asked MCA to stop making statements on Malaysia being a secular state..

He said though it was nothing new, such claims would not benefit anyone.

“I’m not naive enough to allow this issue to go on,” he told reporters when asked to comment on the issue after opening the Ranau Umno delegates conference.

MCA secretary-general Datuk Ong Ka Chuan had said the party had ample evidence to show that Malaysia was a secular state, including several important events leading to the country’s independence and formation of Malaysia.

He had cited notes prepared by the Colonial Office dated May 23, 1957 at the London Conference Talks.
Various groups have also disagreed with Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s remarks that Malaysia was never a secular state, saying that the deputy Prime Minister had ignored the country’s constitutional history and social contract.

Bar Council Malaysia president Ambiga Sreenevasan had said one only need to look at the Articles in the Federal Constitution, the system of government and administration of justice to show that Malaysia was not an Islamic state.

Najib had said Malaysia is an Islamic state that adheres to the fundamentals of Islam and having a Constitution which states Islam as the official religion.

He said that being an Islamic state did not mean that the rights of non-Muslims were not respected. — BERNAMA

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