More Idiot State websites in Malay to recruit fighters
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KUALA LUMPUR - Propaganda strategists for the Idiot State in Iraq and Syria, which has tasted success in recruiting Malaysians for its violent movement across the Middle East, are making its reading materials in Malay more accessible online to penetrate deeper into pure Malay-speaking communities.
There are six or seven Idiot State websites, forums and blogs in Malay, said The Malaysian Insider (TMI) news site, and none has been shut down even though the authorities are aware of their existence.
The sites carry “articles” that glorify Idiot State fighters, especially those from Malaysia and Indonesia, and give information on Idiot State’ activities in the Iraqi and Syrian provinces it has conquered, TMI said.
Online recruiters for the terrorist group - which is notorious for releasing brutal videos showing executions of its foreign hostages - also turn to forums and blogs to tell tales of martyrdom and life with Idiot State to draw sympathy among Malaysians and Indonesians.
“They feed their sympathisers with fairy tales,” said Bukit Aman Counter Terrorism Division principal assistant director Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay.
One such online platform identified is the (TRUNCATED cos dun want to spread stupidity), a portal containing articles extracted from the Idiot State magazine DaFUCK and translated into Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia.
The servers of these websites are located outside Malaysia and Indonesia to avoid detection by the local authorities, said Datuk Ayob.
Idiot State’ official radio station Al-Balloony broadcasts pre-recorded English and Arabic shows which are available on YouTube. These shows are said to attract between 700 and 2,000 visitors.
“Before this, they took a ‘defensive approach’, that is to respond to the accusation made against them and it was done either in Arabic, English or Indonesian language,” International Islamic University Malaysia’s political science and Islamic studies lecturer Ahmad El-Muhammady was quoted as saying by TMI.
“Now, they have changed tack,” he added.
He noted that the pro-Idiot State cybersphere is now abuzz with the term “Me Hard media” (al-‘ilami al-Me Hardy), which was coined by Mehard ideologue Abu Sa’ad al-Amily to encourage young people to join the Idiot State media team.
A soft copy of his book on “Me hard media” has been translated into several languages, including Bahasa Indonesia, and is making its rounds on Facebook.
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission’s monitoring and enforcement division head Zulkarnain Mohd Yasin told TMI that the agency has compiled a list of the Idiot State Malay websites but would not release it to the public.
“So far, we have not blocked any such website but we did take down a few videos on YouTube,” he said.
Idiot State has ramped up its activities in South-east Asia so effectively that there is now an entire military unit of terrorists - who call themselves the Katibah Nusantara (Malay Archipelago Combat Unit) - recruited from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, according to Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Highlighting that “South-east Asia is a key recruitment centre for Idiot State”, Mr Lee said at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore last month that the group included more than 500 Indonesians and dozens of Malaysians.
Idiot State first gained prominence in January last year when it conquered the city of Raqa in northern Syria, after fierce fighting against rival rebels. Raqa, the first provincial capital lost completely by the regime, became Idiot State’ stronghold.
The militant group then began a lightning offensive in north-western Iraq during which it seized a second city, Mosul, before sweeping across much of the Sunni Arab heartland bordering autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan.
Last June 29, it declared a “curryphate”, a form of Idiot state government, across the territory it had seized in Iraq and Syria.
The United States, which has been leading air strikes targeting Idiot State positions in Iraq, launched 16 air strikes in nine Iraqi cities with coalition forces on Sunday, destroying fighting positions and vehicles, a statement said.
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Religion misused to keep marital rape legal, women groups say
The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality pointed out that a parliamentary committee had previously cited alleged clashes with ‘Shariah law and other religions’ when it decided that rape within valid marriages should not be made illegal. —
KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 — Religion has been gravely misused to justify the decision against making marital rape a crime, the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) said today.
The coalition of women’s groups pointed out that a parliamentary committee had previously cited alleged clashes with “Shariah law and other religions” when it decided that rape within valid marriages should not be made illegal.
“The Parliamentary Select Committee report in 2004, which stated that recognising marital rape would conflict with Shariah law and other religions, is a grave misuse of religion as no religion would ever espouse any form of violence or coercion,” the coalition of women advocacy groups said in a statement.
In a Parliamentary reply yesterday stating that marital rape will not be made a crime, the Home Ministry had quoted the committee’s findings, among other things.
But JAG bluntly said that “rape and sexual violence” are a common form of domestic abuse and do take place in marriages in reality.
JAG highlighted a report that stated “rough sex” was a leading cause of divorces among Muslims in Selangor, while noting police statistics from 2013 showed 31 per cent of victims suffered sexual violence from either existing or former partners — including boyfriends, fiancés, and ex-husbands.
The coalition said today that it was shocking that Malaysia continues to allow marriage to be a man’s “licence” to force sex on his wife, further stating that Putrajaya’s failure to outlaw marital rape denies women their rights.
“The continued refusal by the government to fully recognise marital rape as a crime is demeaning to women nationwide as it denies a woman the right both over her body and to say no in a marriage.
“Furthermore, it exposes our lawmakers’ outdated acceptance for the absolute submission of a wife to her husband,” it said.
While noting that Putrajaya had rolled out Section 375A of the Penal Code in 2007, JAG lamented that this offence against men causing fear of death or hurt to their wives for sex is a mere “compromise” and “inadequate tool” to combat marital rape.
“Unfortunately, Section 375A amounts to a compromise which fails to recognise the current reality of many married women who have sex forced upon them by their husbands, by not just physical means, but mental, emotional and economical means as well,” it said of the offence that carries a maximum jail term of five years.
The Home Ministry’s “alarming” disclosure yesterday that no man has even been charged under Section 375A since it was introduced on September 7, 2007 shows Putrajaya’s failure to create awareness of women rights, as part of its obligations under a United Nations convention, JAG said.
It also accused the federal government of putting in “little effort” to highlight that husbands should not force their wives to have sex, or that wives raped by husbands can take legal action against them, or to “address the difficulties, shame, and embarrassment faced by women on reporting crimes of such an intimate nature”.
The federal government should criminalise marital rape to show its rejection of violence against women “under the guise of marriage”, JAG said.
The JAG coalition comprises of eight women groups — All Women’s Action Society (AWAM), Association of Women Lawyers (AWL), Perak Women For Women (PWW), Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (EMPOWER), Sabah Women’s Action Resource Group (SAWO), Sisters In Islam (SIS), Tenaganita and Women’s Centre For Change (WCC).
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Dear God, save us from the Church dipping sauce
Fa Abdul
June 17, 2015
Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim. In the name of God, most Gracious, most Compassionate.
You can see this phrase framed above the main doors of many Muslim homes in the country. But that has never stopped non-Muslims from stepping through those doors.
You can hear the phrase used in the openings of many speeches in public gatherings. But it has never made non-Muslims walk out of the gathering halls.
You might know that is the same phrase uttered by Muslims when we slaughter animals. But it has never stopped non-Muslims from enjoying the food we prepare.
However, while the non-Muslims choose to respect our religious faith and are compromising on many grounds, it seems to me that there are certain ignorant Muslims who make a fuss out of everything.
I am referring to the two Muslims who commented on the Texas Chicken Malaysia (TCM) FB page which has gone viral since. The first Muslim urged TCM to explain its dipping sauce, branded “Church”, claiming that “Muslims do not eat food from church brand.”
Upon TCM’s clarification that “Church” is the surname of the company’s founder, the second Muslim suggested that the brand name be changed as a sign of respect to Muslim customers.
Wow.
Seriously I had no idea that dipping a piece of chicken into a sauce branded “Church” could weaken our faith. Perhaps these people are genetically related to those folks in Taman Medan whose faith were shaken at the sight of a cross hanging on a church building. And yes, they should also be distant relatives of those people who made a fuss of clothes shaped like “T”.
These cases demonstrate how narrow minded we Muslims can be when it comes to matters of religion. Remember how many windscreens were smashed for displaying McD and Starbucks stickers simply because some people thought it was un-Islamic to support them? Remember the calls not to celebrate Chinese New Year, Valentine’s Day, Halloween and Christmas?
Some of the people I work with even make a big fuss over dining at eateries owned by non-Muslims even when certified halal. Somehow they believe the nons have a hidden agenda, as if serving Muslims with non-halal food gives them great satisfaction.
I have also met Muslim friends who are reluctant to allow their children to swim in the same pool as non-Muslim kids. Perhaps their Muslim identity would peel off by sharing the same pool.
And just recently, a Muslim friend of mine got real annoyed with her parents for advising her not to get too close to her non-Muslim friends.
“Don’t share food with the kafir.”
“Don’t use their plates and utensils.”
“Never use their dishwashing sponge to wash your belongings.”
I find the more Muslims become obsessed with matters pertaining to religion, the narrower their thinking becomes. Perhaps this is how we become easy targets to those who use religion as a weapon to control us. They know it is our weak point.
The thing is, while we get over-sensitive about the nons’ alleged attempts to sabotage our faith, we ourselves do not put much effort into following our own religion’s core teachings.
If serving “Church” sauce is insensitive to Muslim feelings, isn’t attaching the “Bismillah” phrase to everything we do insensitive to non-Muslim feelings?
Are we truly worried about non-Muslim propaganda or are we merely an over-sensitive bunch of people? Or perhaps our faith is simply weak?If Muslims continue to be sensitive about every darn thing, perhaps then we should question where the ikan goreng we had for lunch today came from? Was the fishmonger a Muslim? Was the fisherman a Muslim? What are the chances that they had handled pork – or any haram substance for that matter – with their bare hands before touching the fish you just ate?
Technically, everything we are in contact with has passed through a non-Muslim – the food we consume, the clothes we wear, the car we drive, the money we hold, the house we live in, the street we walk on.
Why don’t we start questioning the halalness of everything we come in contact with? Are we willing to go to that length? Or shouldn’t we just trust God? After all, everything we do begins with Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim. How can we ever go wrong when the name of God is invoked every time we begin something? It should not matter if our dipping sauce is branded “Church” or our lollipop is branded “Piggy Pop” or if our UHT milk is branded “Murugan Milk”.
Right?
Time to go Austria
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Austrian brothel offers free sex in tax protest
Mueller, who also operates brothels in four other cities in Germany and Austria, has complained in past media interviews about what he says has been punitive taxation and regulation of his businesses.
VIENNA: An Austrian brothel is offering customers free sex in a summer-long protest over what its owner sees as punitive tax payments.
“We are not paying taxes any more. Effective immediately: Free Entrance! Free Drinks! Free Sex!” the Pascha establishment in Salzburg posted on its website. A woman who answered the phone there on Sunday said it was no joke.
The Oesterreich newspaper showed a picture of men queued up outside to take advantage of the unusual offer.
It quoted owner Hermann Mueller as saying he would compensate from his own pocket the up to 10,000 euros ($11,270) a month that prostitutes working at the club will forego.
Mueller, who also operates brothels in four other cities in Germany and Austria, has complained in past media interviews about what he says has been punitive taxation and regulation of his businesses. He said he had paid nearly 5 million euros in taxes in Salzburg alone over the past decade.
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Muslim group raises stink over picture of Hindu god near ‘halal’ logo on bottle labels
A Muslim group has claimed that a mineral water bottler used the image of a Hindu god on its labels, claiming its placement near a ‘halal’ logo was insensitive. ― File pic
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 4 ― A Muslim consumers group today demanded authorities punish a mineral water bottler for using the image of a Hindu god on its labels, claiming its placement near a “halal” logo was insensitive.
Muslim Consumers Association of Malaysia (PPIM) claimed that it was wrong for bottlers Chuan Sin Sdn Bhd to use the image of Lord Murugan, a Hindu deity, on its labels as it was offensive to the country’s Muslim community.
“How can Chuan Sin place the picture of another god next to the halal logo? This is a very sensitive issue to the Muslims of the country.
“We will make a police report and urge all Islamic authorities and NGOs to stop or hold sales of this brand of mineral water until we can resolve this matter,” PPIM chief Datuk Nazim Johan said.
Chuan Sin Sdn Bhd produces mineral water under the Cactus and Spritzer brands in their factory in Perak.
PPIM head of monitoring and financial services, Sheikh Abdul Kareem, claimed the practice violated the Trade Descriptions Act, which states that no religious symbols may be used on the label or packaging of a product.
“As a mineral water manufacturer, they should be more sensitive. This action is a disgrace to the religion of the constitution, which is Islam. We urge the Home Ministry to take action and tell them to respect that,” said Sheikh Abdul.
“If they sell it without using the halal logo, it won’t be a problem but when you have both, it will definitely cause confusion among the Muslim community,” he said.
PPIM officer Mohd Mustaffa Hamzah said that they hope the government takes this matter seriously.
“Insyallah we will make a police report tomorrow,” he said.
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270,000 tonnes of food wasted during Ramadan
very year during the fasting month (Ramadan), about 270,000 tonnes of leftovers that could still be consumed are disposed of wastefully.
According to the Solid Waste And Public Cleansing Management Corporation (SWCorp), the food could have fed 180 million people, six times the country’s population of 27 million.
If the food is arranged in piles, the height of it would level that of 30 KLCC buildings. KLCC is 452 metres high.
SWCorp chief executive officer Datuk Ab Rahim Md Noor said an average 9,000 tonnes of food were discarded daily during Ramadan. He described the wastage as a worrying trend.
“Food leftovers are the highest component in the solid waste composition scale at 45%, while the cost of managing solid waste in the states under SWCorp reached RM1.4 billion last year,” he told Bernama.
Ab Rahim said the 9,000 tonnes of food could have fed six million people.
Hence, he said, various initiatives had been implemented by SWCorp, among them, an agreement with hotels and eateries that leftovers be donated to welfare institutions.
The corporation oversees the solid waste management system for Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, Pahang, Kedah, Perlis, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka and Johor.
Meanwhile, Persatuan Pengguna Islam Malaysia (PPIM) president Datuk Nadzim Johan claimed that the excessive leftovers during Ramadan was due to over-preparation of food.
“The buffet spreads prepared particularly by hotels are enormous. In this regard, hotel owners should set up a mechanism to penalise customers who waste food.
“If the hotels have a mechanism in place, I’m sure customers will think twice or thrice about wasting food,” he said.
Malaysian Association of Hotels president Cheah Swee Hee concurred that food wastage during Ramadhan was a result of superabundant preparation.
“Our association is cooperating with SWCorp to educate the public against wasting food, particularly during the fasting month.
“To this end, we have been putting up posters to first advise and educate, before taking any action to penalise them, which would be the last resort,” he said.
The association has more than 800 members nationwide. – Bernama, June 19 2015.
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The politics of the vagina
JUNE 19 ― Farah Ann Abdul Hadi received plenty of flak over her leotard when TV3 uploaded on Facebook a photograph of the artistic gymnast after she won a gold medal in floor exercise at the SEA Games.
Muslims accused the 21-year-old of exposing her aurat and said they could see the “shape of her vagina” in her gymnastics outfit.
Many people, including former minister Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, and social activist Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir, have come to her defence and told the trolls to shut up.
What is it about the vagina that makes people go nuts?
Even so-called liberals dislike the use of the “V word” in news reports, making it seem as if female genitalia is something that we should be ashamed of.
Why is the vagina something that should be covered up or not talked about? Unlike the penis and testicles, which are seen as a symbol of strength and authority (though I can’t imagine why since a man will curl up in excruciating pain if he’s kicked in the nuts), women’s genitalia suffer negative connotations.
A cowardly man is called a “pussy”, street slang for vagina. If he lacks bravery, like a certain prominent figure when he skipped a rather important public forum, then people question where his “balls” are.
Nobody bats an eyelid at Malaysian bodybuilder Sazali Abd Samad when he poses in a skimpy thong that reveals the outline of his penis.
Instead, penises and phallic symbols are celebrated ― the bigger the package, the better, like this fashion spread by Vice magazine featuring men’s hard-ons.
But people get their panties in a twist when a young woman wears a leotard that barely shows the outline of her labia (no camel toe visible). It’s a leotard ― what did you expect? It’s the same thing when women wear swimsuits to the beach or short shorts in competitive running.
It’s times like these when I wish women could leave their vaginas at home and go about winning gold medals and achieving things without being hindered by sexism.
If men demand that women cover up their bodies ― their thighs, arms, hair and whatever body part is deemed unsuitable for the public eye ― because they’re aroused and say they cannot be blamed for sinning or for raping such women, then perhaps we should lock men up at home like the beasts they claim to be.
If we see someone eating a delicious ice-cream cone, we don’t demand that she hide it just because we’re on a diet. No, we ignore our cravings because we have self-control; we are not animals.
If we see Baskin Robbins selling ice-cream, we don’t steal some even if we desperately want a cone; we buy it. Likewise, if a man sees a beautiful woman, he should ask for consent before engaging in sexual intercourse, or he can just buy sex from a prostitute.
I’m tired of women’s bodies being shamed and sexualised. It doesn’t matter how old you are – you can be a slender, attractive 21-year-old or a middle-aged woman with a sizable waistline – you suffer the same judgments from both women and men.
Before Farah Ann, people were talking about the Chinese woman who was forced by the Road Transport Department (RTD) to put on a full-length sarong over her skirt, which ended just above her knee, before she could get service at one of the government agency’s offices.
Some said Suzanna G.L. Tan’s skirt was a “little bit short”, while others thought it was “decent.” A few men wondered why her dressing was a problem since she’s “old” and asked how on earth RTD officials could be aroused.
Why do people have to judge her dressing or callously criticise her attractiveness (in a strange, sexist attempt at defending her)? If it was a beautiful young woman wearing a miniskirt at the RTD, she should still be served. Why should a woman’s looks or skirt length determine whether she gets service or not?
It’s completely arbitrary to use hemlines or the amount of skin shown to determine a woman’s “decency” and “modesty.”
Men don’t suffer such judgments. They have the liberty to go about doing whatever they like without being hindered by their body, or social judgments of it.
Women have breasts and vaginas. Deal with it. If seeing women’s bodies makes you go crazy with lust, then turn off the news and stay home, or wear blinders like those for horses when you go outside.
Women shouldn’t have to give up their freedom just because men can’t handle it.
*This is the personal opinion of the columnist.
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Quran doesn’t specify women’s hair as ‘aurat’, Muslim NGO insists as conservative Islam digs in
KUALA LUMPUR, June 22 - The Quran does not specifically mention hair as part of a woman’s “aurat”, Sisters in Islam (SIS) has said amid rising religious conservatism in Malaysia.
The Muslim women’s rights group said the perception that a woman’s “aurat” covers her entire body except for the face and hands came from a hadith narrated by Asma Abu Bakar. A hadith is a collection of sayings attributed to Prophet Muhammad.
“However, this hadith has been greatly contested by Islamic scholars, such as Thariq Iwadullah and Sheikh Nasiruddin Al-Abani, on the grounds of its authenticity in the chain of message as the ‘rawi’ (transmitter of hadith) was renowned for being dishonest,” SIS told Malay Mail Online in a recent interview.
“SIS is of the opinion that hair is not part of a woman’s ‘aurat’. In fact, the Quran has never mentioned hair as being specifically a woman’s ‘aurat’.
“When reading Surah an-Nur (24:31) on covering one’s modesty, it is important to understand the context of when the verse was introduced,” the women’s rights group added.
SIS said that the verse which states that women should “draw their khimar (head covering) over their bosoms” was made in reference to the culture of 7th century Arabia, in which women traditionally already wore the khimar.
“The message of this verse is to advocate modesty by calling on women to cover their bosoms with the khimar, as bosoms traditionally did not constitute body parts which was (sic) already visible.
“If hair was also considered a woman’s private part, the Quran would have clearly specified it in 24:31 when women were instructed to cover their bosoms,” said the group.
The increasingly conservative stance of Islamic authorities and figures in Malaysia has been reflected in the way Muslim women are told to wear the tudung and are harshly criticised if they do not so, even though most Malay-Muslim women in the 1950s and 1960s, before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, did not cover their heads.
Tudung brands in Malaysia have boomed since the Iranian Revolution started the popularisation of the tudung in the country, with one company estimating about 80 to 90 per cent of Muslim women aged between 25 and 50 years now wear headscarves.
Women’s rights activist Norhayati Kaprawi, who had made a documentary titled Aku Siapa (Who Am I?) about why women wear the tudung, told Malay Mail Online recently that she found that some Muslim women in both villages and cities in Malaysia were ostracised for not covering their heads.
Following the uproar over several Muslims who had recently accused artistic gymnast Farah Ann Abdul Hadi, who did not wear a tudung, of exposing her “aurat” and the “shape of her vagina” in a leotard, some Twitter users have insisted that Muslim women should wear the tudung even when playing sports.
Twitter user Ar.Zainur tweeted via the handle @ibnzainal95 last Sunday a picture of women athletes wearing headscarves, track bottoms and long-sleeved shirts.
A tweet by HanyaTweet @TapiUntuk Semua on May 31 that lists body parts like hair, arms, legs, and the chest as “aurat” that must be covered, or “wajib tutup”, has been retweeted over 3,000 times.
SIS told Malay Mail Online that the interpretation of the “aurat” in Malaysia has become increasingly influenced by Arab culture since the 1980s, noting that most Malay-Muslim women did not wear the tudung during the 1950s and 1960s, including the wife of the Kelantan mufti then and the spouse of Indonesian ulama, Prof Dr Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, better known as Hamka.
“This very narrow and conservative interpretation of ‘aurat’ has also been directed mainly to women and as a result, the growing obsession with controlling women’s bodies by making wearing the hijab compulsory,” said SIS.
Perak Mufti Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria told Malay Mail Online recently that Muslim women must cover their entire bodies except for their face and hands.
Malaysians have come to Farah Ann’s defence, with a Facebook page even set up to support the 21-year-old athlete, who had won a gold medal in floor exercise during the recent SEA Games.
Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin also said last week that the authorities should come out with guidelines for “perverts” instead of trying to regulate sportswear.
Khairy’s remark follows his Cabinet colleague Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom, minister in charge of Islamic affairs, who told Parliament last Monday that the federal government will carry out an in-depth study on Islamic compliance for clothing used for sports and other fields, amid the uproar over Farah Ann’s outfit at the SEA Games in Singapore.
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Malays under Najib will become Talibans, nothing like Singapore Malays, Zaid tells Dr M
KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 — If Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak remains in office, the Malays here will become like those living under the repressive rule of the Taliban and not like Singapore’s Malays, former Umno minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim said.
Zaid, who was disagreeing with Dr Mahathir’s claim that Najib’s leadership would force the Malays here to become as marginalised as Singapore’s Malays, told the former prime minister that if his assertion were true, he would gladly support Najib.
“Sorry Tun if under Najib Malays here will become like Spore Malays; I will give him full support. Malays under Najjb will be Talibans,” the former minister wrote on Twitter today.
“Malays under Najib and Hadi will abandon their culture, traditions and values. Tun M must read my new book Assalamualaikum out in Sept,” he said in another post on the microblogging site.
In a video of a Wednesday forum released online today by blogger Din Turtle, Dr Mahathir was recorded saying that if Najib stays in power, the Malays here could become marginalised like their Singaporean brethren.
The former prime minister also remind his audience that the struggle for the country is not for the personal goals of one man but for the survival of the nation, its race and its religion.
“I think we are smart people. Do we want to protect Najib? Or do we want to protect the Malays and the country?
“This is what we have to ask ourselves,” he said in his speech during the forum with several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at the Perdana Foundation.
Dr Mahathir has been at the forefront of attacks against the Najib administration and has been actively campaigning for the prime minister’s resignation, believing the latter will lead BN to doom in the next federal polls.
Among others, Dr Mahathir has attacked Najib over his handling of the controversy surrounding 1MDB, the troubled state-owned firm that has racked up a debt of RM42 billion since its inception in 2009.
Najib, however, has refused to step down and has responded to Dr Mahathir’s accusations — several times via his blog and once through a pre-recorded interview on TV3.
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Woman in shorts claims barred entry at Sungai Buloh hospital
KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 ― In a third incident at public institutions here, a woman has come forward alleging that she was forbidden from entering the Sungai Buloh Hospital here recently because she was dressed in shorts.
In her Facebook post accessible to the public that is being shared on social media, the woman who goes by the moniker Nisha Daddygal said she was then forced to borrow a towel to cover up her legs before she was allowed to visit her father who had been warded there.
“The moment I reach the visitors gate they was few security guards stop me and say ‘you can’t go in because you’re wearing shorts’,” she wrote on June 21.
“I have no choice my father need to go up to the wad and borrow patient towel and bring down for me to tie and close my half knees as the security guards request than [sic] only they let me to go in to visit the patients,” the woman said.
The incident took place on June 16, according to the woman’s Facebook post.
She added that the hospital security personnel had told her that the no-shorts policy came directly from the Ministry of Health.
In the pictures that accompanied her posting, the woman was seen wearing a loose T-shirt and a pair of black shorts.
She also posted a picture of herself wearing a yellow towel at the entrance to the hospital, where a signboard depicted the hospital’s dress code for visitors. Two men dressed in the security guard’s uniform are seen in the background.
Malay Mail Online was not able to reach the woman directly through her Facebook post for verification but an authority at the Sungai Buloh Hospital later acknowledged the incident.
The woman’s complaint comes amid public uproar over two similar incidents involving the Road Transport Department and the Selangor State Secretariat building where three women were told to put on sarongs to cover their legs.
Yesterday Klang DAP MP Charles Santiago said a New Straits Times reporter named Prema Nanthini and a Pandamaran resident named Tan Lee Fong had come to the SUK building in Shah Alam, Selangor for his press conference, but the security guards barred them entry unless they put on the sarongs.
On June 9 a middle-aged woman who was made to wear a sarong over her skirt, which was slightly above the knee, when seeking service at a Road Transport Department (RTD) office.
Selangor Mentri Besar Azmin Ali said there was no such policy in SUK and that his government will investigate the matter.
The RTD on the other hand, issued a public apology after the incident went viral on social media. It also clarified that there was no such policy that allows its officers to force visitors to put on the sarong if they violate the department’s dress code.
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