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Put knowledge first, Indians told – SV New Year wishes

April 14th, 2007
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Put knowledge first, Indians told
PETALING JAYA: MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu extended his wishes to the Indian and Sikh communities in conjunction with the Tamil New Year and Vaisakhi today and urged them to be equipped with knowledge.
He said this was necessary due to increasing economic competition.
Samy Vellu, who is the Works Minister, said the Indian community should be proud for having contributed to the country’s peace, prosperity and unity.
“I would like to wish a Happy New Year to Tamil Indians and Happy Vaisakhi to the Sikh community. Since Malaysia’s independence, we have achieved a lot,” he said.
On the MIC’s part, he said the party would help in efforts to uplift the Indian community in the field of education.
Malkit Singh, secretary of Malaysian Gurdwaras Council, urged the Sikh community to help in building a truly united and cohesive nation. – Bernama

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Nod for Samy’s choice

April 13th, 2007
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one name submitted and one approved! and it is not the one among 23 who applied! wow…an ace up the sleeve or melodrama?
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Nod for Samy’s choice http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/13/nation/17428973&sec=nation
By A. LETCHUMANAN
SEREMBAN: The Barisan Nasional candidate for the Ijok by-election has already been approved by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said. He said Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, who is state Barisan chairman, would announce the name of the candidate at an appropriate time. “I called the Prime Minister and submitted one name at 4pm. He has approved it,” he told reporters before opening the Negri Sembilan MIC state convention here yesterday. On whether the candidate was a local, Samy Vellu said: “I cannot say anything and there are no further details. “You will all have to wait for the announcement by the Selangor mentri besar.” Asked whether the chosen candidate was a young or veteran politician, Samy Vellu said: “We don’t give to veterans anymore”. He said the person named was not among the 23 candidates who had applied to be considered. “Although 23 had applied, I submitted only one name to the Prime Minister after discussions with Dr Khir Toyo on Tuesday,” he said. Speculations are rife that Selangor MIC Youth chief S. Murugesan, a lawyer, is the likely candidate. Murugesan, 40, contested on his own accord and won one of the two Youth seats in the MIC’s Central Working Committee last year after a fallout with MIC Youth chief S.A. Vigneswaran. The Ijok by-election is being held following the death of state assemblyman Datuk K. Sivalingam in Chennai on April 4. Nominations have been fixed for April 19 with polling scheduled on April 28 if there is a contest.

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NEWS:’Panel to have final say’

April 13th, 2007
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then the courts do what? is this some sort of trick to hoodwink nearly 50% of the malaysian population?
 
 

‘Panel to have final say’

KUALA LUMPUR: The special commission for religious-sensitive matters will have the final say, if the Cabinet approves its establishment. 

Minister in the Prime MinisterÂ’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz said the proposed commission would focus more on moral obligations in discussing these matters. 

“Such issues should be handled in an extra-legal manner as they are very personal and close to the heart for those involved,” he told reporters at the Parliament lobby yesterday. 

He added that the Government would like to see leaders of the different religions in the commission to ensure deliberations were conducted in a fair manner.  

Nazri said the Attorney GeneralÂ’s Chambers was fine-tuning the details on the setting up of the commission, after which the proposal would be submitted to Cabinet for consideration. 

On Wednesday, The Star front-paged a report that the A-GÂ’s Chambers was mulling over the setting up of a special commission to study religious-sensitive cases.  

The latest controversy involves 28-year-old R. Subashini, a Hindu, who is in a legal tussle with her husband who converted to Islam.  

However, the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHST) said an interfaith commission should not usurp the role of the civil courts. 

“Civil courts established under the Federal Constitution must have the last word on religious-sensitive cases,” said president Datuk Chee Peck Kiat.  

At a conference in 2005, he said civil society had proposed the setting up of a Interfaith Commission by statute that was envisaged to be a non-binding, consensus creating body intended to act only through “conciliation, mediation and negotiation” to help parties in dispute to resolve their differences amicably.

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Nazri’s statements shocking, says Lim

April 12th, 2007
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let this be a wake-up call for all malaysians. when nearly 40% of the population can be brushed aside and ministers can says whatever they like, as if they represent all malaysian, this is the outcome.
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Nazri’s statements shocking, says Lim
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B.Suresh Ram KUALA LUMPUR (April 11, 2007): Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang described as “astounding” the statements by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz on the proposed Inter-Faith Commission (IFC). “What was he saying? You mean to tell me if the Malays do not want to participate, the Federal Constitution cannot be upheld?” Lim asked.
Nazri had said in Parliament yesterday the IFC can only be formed with participation from all communities of different faiths and amendments to Article 121(A) of the Constitution.
“He said my arguments were valid but there is no way the Barisan Nasional (BN) government would agree because there is no way to convince and persuade Malays, who constitute the majority of the electorate, to support such a constitutional amendment,” Lim told reporters in Parliament lobby today.
“His arguments are unacceptable … it’s setting a dangerous precedent for the erosion of the constitutional guarantees in the Merdeka Social Contract of Malaysia as a democratic, tolerant, multi-religious and secular nation with Islam as the official religion but not an Islamic state.”
Lim said he had stressed that the amendments of Article 121(1A) of the Constitution in 1988 was to provide to Muslims the constitutional protection for their rights to be adjudicated in Syariah courts without detracting the rights of non-Muslims.
“In the past few years, particularly after the Ô929 Declaration’ of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad that Malaysia is an Islamic state, non-Muslims here have seen their religious and constitutional sensitivities and rights adjudicated in civil courts and Syariah courts eroded.
“The time has come for an amendment to the Constitution to make it clear that Article 121(1A) does not derogate the rights of non-Muslim Malaysians which they had enjoyed without challenge before the 1988 Constitutional amendments,” he said.
On corruption, Lim said the time has come for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to summon a special meeting of the Cabinet to exclusively address the worst corruption crisis in the country’s history.
This, he said, was to demonstrate the political will to arrest, prosecute and jail top political government leaders for corruption.
Updated: 08:42PM Wed, 11 Apr 2007

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NEWS:WhatÂ’s Lina JoyÂ’s status? and more cases revealed

April 11th, 2007
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wonder how many more people have suffered or lost out due the inconsistencies. and how many more people and their families will suffer before we malaysian get to see some justice?
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What’s Lina Joy’s status?
KUALA LUMPUR: DAP national chairman Karpal Singh has called for the Chief Justice to look seriously into the case of Lina Joy, who converted from Islam to Christianity and is seeking to restate her religious status in her identity card.
“The Federal Court should explain why the case of Lina Joy is taking so long,” he told a press conference at the Parliament lobby here yesterday.
Earlier, Bukit Mertajam MP Chong Eng and Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang highlighted two cases similar to Lina Joy’s at the press conference.
Chong said she and 11 other DAP MPs would send a letter to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to look into the case of Siti Fatimah, 29, who had been separated from her 15-month-old baby.
She said Siti Fatimah was an Indian Muslim who was brought up as a Hindu by her grandmother and had never practised the teachings of Islam.
After she married a Hindu man and gave birth to a baby girl, the Malacca Islamic Department ordered Siti to surrender her baby to the department.
Chong said the baby was with the department while Siti had been sent to the Religious Rehabilitation Centre in Ulu Yam, Selangor, by the Syariah Court for 100 days until April 18.
Lim highlighted the case of 81-year-old Tang Siew Ying in Johor. Tang died on Monday but her family was not allowed to take her body from the Segamat Hospital in Johor.
He said the hospital had claimed that Tang’s identity card showed that she had a Muslim name, which was Tang Siew Ying@Azizah Abdullah.

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