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YB Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim & YAB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim Di Sarawak Pada 4 September 2011

Program YB Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim

1) 12.00 – 2.00 ptg – 133, Jln Bunga Tanjung, Kg Pinang Jawa, Petra Jaya, Kucing

2) 2.30 – 4.30 ptg – RPR Batu Kawa, Lorong 20, Phase 2, Kucing

3) 5.00 – 6.00 ptg – Perjumpaan Bersama Majlis Pimpinan Negeri Sarawak

4) 7.00 – 9.00 mlm – No 11, Kramau, Kg Besira Rayang, Jln Liuk, Padawan,

Program YAB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, Menteri Besar Selangor

1) 12.00 – 2.00 ptg – 133, Jln Bunga Tanjung, Kg Pinang Jawa, Petra Jaya, Kucing

2) 2.30 – 4.30 ptg – RPR Batu Kawa, Lorong 20, Phase 2, Kucing

3) 4.00 – 7.00 ptg – Lot 12, Kampong Tunku Abd Rahman, Lambir, Miri

4) 8.00 – 11.00 mlm – Beverly Café, Taman Tunku, Miri

Dari Blog Anwar Ibrahim

Allahuakbar! Allahuakbar! Allahuakbar! Walillahilhamd!… Syukur ke hadrat Allah s.w.t dengan nikmat dan keizinanNYA dapat kita semua menyambut ketibaan 1 Syawal dengan penuh kesyukuran dan kesederhanaan. Hari ini, kita diberikan lagi suatu nikmat untuk bergembira bersama keluarga , sanak saudara dan teman-teman. Namun kita juga berasa sedih dengan meninggalkan Ramadhan yang penuh dengan rahmat dan kesedaran rohani.

Ramadhan adalah bulan dan masa yang amat sesuai untuk kita semua meningkatkan ilmu, keimanan dan ketaqwaan kepada Allah S.W.T. Kita sedar bahawa bulan ramadhan ini juga adalah tempat para pejuang yang mahu menegakkan keadilan dalam menghadapi pelbagai ujian, cabaran dan fitnah dunia yang mencengkam kebebasan dan kemerdekaan rakyat.

Dalam kita bergembira dalam menyambut kehadiran Syawal, harus kita teladani apa yang sedang melanda dunia dan Malaysia khususnya. Kekangan dan bebanan sara hidup yang semakin meninggi akibat tatakelola dan perancangan yang tidak dilandasi semangat kerakyatan dan kesederhanaan. Rakyat terus dibebani dengan kenaikkan harga barang yang tidak terkawal terutamanya barang keperluan raya yang semakin hampir. Seharusnya satu mekanisma kawalselia harga ini diperketatkan
dan dipantau agar keperluan rakyat dapat dipenuhi tanpa mengenepikan hak peniaga.

Kemenangan Ramadhan pastinya terhasil daripada pentarbiyahan sepanjang Ramadhan yang kemuncaknya disambut dengan sinar Syawal yang jugamerupakan hari pendamain. Justeru, kehadiran Syawal ini mengembalikan kita ke asas dan fikrah manusia yang bersih selepas menjalani latihan dan disiplin sepanjang Ramadhan. Maka dengan berkat dan fitrah kemenangan inilah yang bakal menjadi bekalan kita agar Insya Allah kita akan bertemu kembali di Ramadhan yang akan datang.Semoga peningkatan iman ini berterusan hingga ke Ramadahan yang akan datang.

Rasulullah SAW menegaskan agar kita mengelakkan diri daripada terjerumus ke dalam fitnah, seperti sabda Baginda yang bermaksud;-

“Bersegeralah kamu mengerjakan amalan-amalan bagi menolak fitnah yang datang seperti kegelapan malam yang gelap gelita. Pada sebelah pagi seseorang itu beriman dan pada sebelah petangnya ia menjadi kafir dan pada sebelah petangnya ia beriman dan pada sebelah paginya ia menjadi kafir. Dia menjual agamanya dengan harta benda dunia”

Justeru KEADILAN menyeru agar kita tidak terus berpeluk tubuh dan membiarkan kemarakan fitnah ini membinasakan kebenaran,keadilan dan perpaduan ummah. Marilah kita terus bersama menghindarkan diri daripada bersubahat dengan fitnah.

Oleh itu kita perlu begandingan dalam membina keyakinan untuk terus meneladani kebabasan dan keadilan sejati.

Semoga selamat dalam perjalanan kembali ke kampung halaman dan berhati-hati selalu. Maaf zahir dan batin. Eid Mubarak!

- Wan Azizah Wan Ismail ia lah Presiden Parti Keadilan Rakyat

The Muslim celebration of Aidilfitri will begin tomorrow, according to an announcement made by the Keeper of the Rulers’ Seal Datuk Syed Danial Syed Ahmad this evening.

“In adherence to the command of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the consent of the rulers, I hereby declare that the date for Hari Raya Puasa (Aidilfitri) has been set for Tuesday, August 30 2011,” he said during the announcement broadcast on Radio Television Malaysia (RTM).

Aidilfitri marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which began this year on August 1, and the start of Syawal in the Islamic calendar.

Umat Islam tidak harus menghalang kaum lain daripada menghulurkan bantuan kepada Muslim yang miskin kerana menjadi kewajiban kepada semua bagi membantu mereka yang memerlukan bantuan, kata Ketua Umum Pakatan Rakyat Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

“Kita tidak harus menghalang mereka… sesiapa sahaja, mana-mana kaum, mana-mana agama daripada menjalankan atau mengambil inisiatif untuk membantu sesiapa,” kata beliau kepada pemberita di ibu pejabat PKR di sini hari ini.

Gereja minta agar mereka diberi kebebasan untuk membantu golongan miskin tanpa mengira kaum, di sebalik dakwaan bahawa masyarakat Kristian berusaha untuk menukar agama umat Islam menerusi kerja-kerja kebajikan.

Awal bulan ini, Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor menyerbu satu majlis makan malam muhibah yang diadakan di Gereja Methodist Damansara Utama ekoran aduan bahawa ada usaha untuk memurtadkan Muslim.

Semalam, Exco kerajaan negeri Selangor Datuk Dr Hasan Ali mengumumkan penubuhan Unit Selamat Akidah yang akan bertindak sebagai platform menerima aduan dan permohonan bantuan daripada umat Islam di negeri itu.

Hasan, Exco Hal Ehwal Islam, Adat Melayu, Infrastruktur dan Kemudahan Awam Selangor berkata, penubuhan unit itu diwujudkan berikutan masalah umat Islam terutamanya berhubung “dengan persoalan kristianisasi yang kini telah menarik perhatian umum.”

“Orang-orang Islam yang dihimpit oleh kesusahan dan kesempitan hidup didapati terdedah kepada risiko meggadaikan akidah mereka demi menyambung kehidupan yang lebih baik bersama ahli keluarga.

“Pejabat ini memandang berat segala bentuk pandangan negatif terhadap apa yang sedia dilakukan oleh agensi-agensi kerajaan negeri, badan-badan dan pertubuhan sukarela yang dianggap tidak banyak membantu menyelesaikan masalah golongan ini,” katanya.

Bagaimanapun Anwar (gambar), yang juga Ketua Pembangkang berkata, usaha untuk memudahkan penggunaan wang zakat tidak seharusnya dilihat sebagai reaksi kepada usaha pihak Kristian yang banyak diperkatakan.

“Kita ada saluran, kita ada sumber. Lakukan sahaja,” katanya lagi.

Beliau juga berkata, zakat negeri seharusnya diurus dengan telus bagi memastikan bantuan bagi golongan miskin sampai di tangan mereka yang memerlukan berbanding kerugian berbilion ringgit ekoran rasuah dalam sistem pentadbiran.

The Malaysian Insider

Muslims should not discourage others from giving aid to poor Muslims as it is incumbent upon all to help those in need, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said today.

“We should not stop… anyone, any race, any religious denominations, from undertaking or taking any initiative to assist anyone,” the opposition leader told reporters at the PKR headquarters here.

Churches have asked that they be given the freedom to help the poor regardless of race and creed, amid allegations that Christians were trying to convert Muslims through welfare work.

The issue arose after Selangor religious authorities raided a thanksgiving dinner earlier this month at the Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC) after receiving a tip-off that Muslims there were being proselytised.

Selangor religious councillor Datuk Hasan Ali announced yesterday that the state government has set up a “faith rescue unit”, or Unit Selamat Aqidah, to look into problems faced by poor Muslims that may lead them to forsake their religion.

The unit will work with the Selangor Zakat Board and voluntary organisations concerned about the issue, adding that the board will name officials who will process applications for aid.

Muslims who take aid from churches and Christian organisations have complained of the difficulty in getting disbursements from zakat (Islamic alms) offices.

But Anwar cautioned today that efforts to ease the doling out of zakat payments to the needy should not only be pursued as a reaction to Christian efforts.

“It should not be a reaction to the initiative of others… We have the means, we have the resources. Just do it,” he said.

He added that state zakat funds must be managed transparently to ensure that aid meant for the poor reaches them instead of billions being lost to alleged corruption within the system. – Malaysian Insider

Siapakah yang mentadbir negara? Bukankah ianya Najib? Sesiapa terdapat apa-apa idea? Kita tahu ada cakap-cakap bahawa masa Najib hampir tamat. Jumlah kontroversi di sekelilingnya seolah-olah telah memuncak ke tahap sehingga Mufti Negeri telah menyertai dan mengutuk kerajaan Najib sebagai lemah, tidak amanah dan penuh dengan rasuah.

Ketua komunikasi PKR, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad juga mendakwa bahawa Timbalan Perdana Menteri Muhyiddin Yassin telah mengambil alih pentadbiran Malaysia dari bosnya Najib Razak, dan apabila isu Jawatankuasa Pilihan Parlimen semakin panas. Najib telah berjanji pentadbiran beliau akan menunggu hasil dari PSC sebelum menjadualkan pilihan raya yang baru. Tetapi hanya beberapa hari selepas diumumkan, dia kembali pada kata-katanya dan kenyataan terkini berhubung perkara itu adalah bahawa pilihanraya boleh diadakan pada bila-bila masa dari sekarang.

“Orang pernah berjenaka bahawa Rosmah yang mentadbir negara. Sekarang Muhyiddin yang mentadbir negara, “Nik Nazmi berkata kepada pemberita.

Skandal yang terlalu banyak
Tetapi bagaimana Muhyiddin boleh mentadbir negara ? Bolehkah dia sebenarnya berbuat demikian? Bukankah Najib yang tidak berkuasa? Bukankah beliau sepatutnya menjadi Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (CEO) Malaysia, dan dianggap orang yang paling berkuasa di negara ini? Dengan semua sumber-sumber yang boleh digunakan, ia merupakan satu keajaiban bahawa Najib tidak menggunakannya untuk mengukuhkan kuasanya. Sekarang orangnya meloncat ke atasnya, dan berita pengunduran beliau pada masa terdekat sentiasa dimainkan di media hampir setiap hari.

Walaupun tiada siapa yang fikir Najib bersih, memandangkan kerjayanya yang panjang dan dicemari skandal selama 33 tahun dalam perkhidmatan awam, beliau masih mampu untuk mencapai yahap Perdana Menteri dan memegang jawatan tertinggi di negara ini. Jika dia tidak boleh memimpin, siapakah di negara ini yang layak untuk mengambil tempatnya? Adakah tuduhan-tuduhan yang benar-benar bahawa dia dan Muhyiddin hanyalah ‘ pemanas tempat duduk’ sehingga lelaki botak itu sendiri mengambil takhta ‘sah’ itu? Apa yang akan berlaku kemudian kepada Hishammuddin? Apakah bahagian yang dia mainkan dalam persamaan ini atau adakah dia akan menjadi TPM selama-lamanya?

Ia adalah tanpa sebarang keraguan bahawa reformasi tidak akan dilaksanakan untuk rol Pilihan Raya sebelum pilihan raya umum, yang kemungkinan besar akan diadakan tidak lama lagi. Barisan Nasional (BN) dijangka menang dengan majoriti sedikit juga, jika tidak majoriti dua pertiga! Tetapi Najib masih mungkin tidak akan tinggal apabila pilihan raya parti UMNO diadakan tahun depan. Beberapa berfikir dia boleh ditekan untuk mengumumkan pelan peralihan pada bulan Disember, apabila perhimpunan agung parti itu diadakan.

Mengapa Najib tidak membuat rombakan Kabinet apabila beliau mempunyai peluang untuknya awal-awal lagi? Orang di jalanan hairan pada kelakuan dalaman UMNO. Tiada siapa yang mempunyai jawapan yang betul atau mengetahui tujuan sebenar di sebalik perjuangan kuasa. Tetapi langkah untuk mendapatkan Najib untuk berundur seolah-olah akan beralih ke gear teratas sejak akhir-akhir ini dengan kedua-dua belah jurang politik meningkatkan kritikan terhadap pentadbiran beliau.

Hulubalang UMNO perlu disalahkan, bukan sahaja Najib
Selain daripada Mufti Perak, seorang bekas duta AS telah mengemukakan bukti yang memberatkan mengenai plot yang lalu untuk mengekalkan Anwar Ibrahim kekal tiada apabila ia kelihatan seperti beliau akan mencabar ketuanya, Mahathir Mohamad untuk kerja. Anwar ketika itu Timbalan Perdana Menteri dan mengetuai kumpulan dalam UMNO yang menggelarkan diri mereka pasukan Wawasan 2020. Mereka sangat popular dengan akar umbi UMNO dan masyarakat Melayu. Najib telah bersetuju untuk menjadi TPM Anwar jika mereka berjaya menang terhadap Mahathir dalam pemilihan parti.

Tetapi untuk berlaku adil, masalah Najib adalah masalah yang dicari sendiri. Apa yang semua musuh-musuhnya telah lakukan adalah menyerlahkan skandal beliau yang beliau dan isterinya Rosmah Mansor yang dibawa kepada diri mereka sendiri. Tuduhan tawaran kapal selam dan pembunuhan masih sentiasa muncul dalam akhbar, dengan semakin kurang orang ramai yang membelanya . Kes berterusan liwat, kontroversi video seks dan cara beliau menangani perarakan Bersih 2,0 telah melemahkannya dari segi politik, dan mungkin juga parah sebagai pemimpin kebangsaan.

Walaupun sebelum kenaikannya ke jawatan Perdana Menteri Najib, dia dibelenggu skandal dan terdapat cubaan serius untuk menghentikan dia daripada mengambil alih sebagai Perdana Menteri yang baru. Rayuan telah dibuat kepada putera Kelantan Tengku Razaleigh untuk menawarkan diri sebagai alternatif tetapi hulubalang UMNO tidak mahu semua itu.

Jadi jika UMNO telah lemah lagi kerana pentadbiran Najib atau pemerintahan yang buruk, sebahagian besar pemimpin-pemimpin Majlis Tertinggi sendiri juga perlu menanggung kesalahan. Perbicaraan Altantuya dan skandal Scorpenes sudah terlalu besar tetapi untuk menenangkan Mahathir, mereka membenarkan Najib untuk mengambil alih daripada Badawi.

Tidak membawa Malaysia ke mana mana
Sejak itu, Najib telah melakukan cuma sedikit untuk menyelamatkan jawatan Perdana Menterinya kerana beliau memberi ruang untuk membolehkan NGO jembel seperti Perkasa untuk pergi ke jalanan dan menjejaskan ketenangan bangsa dan agama di negara ini.

Rakyat Malaysia melihat hari ini dengan tidak berdaya terhadap ekstremisme yang menunjukkan kehodohannya dengan pelbagai NGO berkaitan UMNO menawarkan ‘jihad’ atau pensucian terhadap kumpulan-kumpulan Kristian ke atas kitab, “Allah”, ‘pengubahan agama’ dan lain lain lagi .

Pada masa kini, tidak ramai rakyat Malaysia akan sedih untuk melihat dia dan Rosmah pergi. Keluaran awalnya akan meninggalkan gunung kerja yang belum selesai, yang penggantinya pasti akan menyapu ke dalam tong sampah dengan seberapa segera sebaik sahaja dia keluar. Sungguh membazirkan wang dan jika anda membil apa yang hilang kepada negara 3 tahun yang lalu, jumlahnya dengan mudah boleh mencapai sehingga ratusan billion.

Bagaimana jika Najib enggan melepaskan jawatan itu? satu cadangan yang agak tidak masuk akal apabila terdapat pemangsa begitu banyak dan lembu yang mengintai takhta berharga. Sesungguhnya, ia akan sukar untuk menangkis mereka. Sikap teragak-agaknya, jawapan lambat terhadap kontroversi dan sikap ragu-ragunya tidak membuatkan dia disayangi oleh ramai rakyat Malaysia.

Jadi antara beliau, Muhyiddin dan Pakatan Rakyat, ia adalah sungguh jelas yang mana satu akan menjadi pilihan rakyat. – Malaysia Chronicle

The Malaysia United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is accused of betraying refugees by conspiring with Putrajaya Immigration Office to take their fingerprints and send them back to their own countries, it has been claimed.

Do they have to register under the 6P programme with agents appointed by Home Ministry? This agents are usually aligned to UMNO or registered in the names of proxys. We know of one company base in Puchong, Wilayah Persekutuan who according to our sources is registered under the proxy of the MP for Kinabatangan, Bung Mokhtar.

According to our source, if UNCHR Card Holders were to register through them, they do not have to go back to the country of origin, but instead hands over all documents to them to process as they have working relationship with the Burmese Authorities.

Must read: Biometrics – The cash cow for Umno elections

On Tuesday, several UNHCR-affiliated organizations in Malaysia instructed refugees to provide fingerprints at Putrajaya Immigration Office, claims Shwe Zin, a Burmese refugee living in Malaysia.

“I arrived at the immigration office in the morning and was made to queue up. Then when my turn came, I had my fingerprints and a photo taken. And then I was given a printed document written in Malay that said to go back to our own country,” said Shwe Zin.

Many registered refugees came to the immigration office to give their fingerprints but did not know the details of what was going on, she added.

Many refugees received a document entitled “Pulang Ke Negara Asal” which translates as “Returning Home,” “Leaving” or “Going back to native country.” However, others were registered and given an alternative document which allows them to stay in Malaysia.

“I think I made a mistake by giving my fingerprints. It is impossible for me to go back [to Burma],” said Shwe Zin, adding that UNHCR staff were present in the immigration office.

“The UNHCR is tricking us because they want to settle corruption dealings with refugee processes. I don’t know why some refugee receive different documents,” said Kyaw Htoo Aung from Malaysia, who works for worker affairs.

An official from Putrajaya Immigration Office in Malaysia refused to give further details when contacted byThe Irrawaddy, but just said that it was an “enforcement event.”

Malaysia is currently running the 6P Program to tackle illegal migrant numbers in a bid to settle social problems and crime related to illegal foreigners. Although the Malaysia UNHCR was officially against the scheme, after Aug. 23 the organization is legally obliged to assist with the 6P registration.

UNHCR refugee card holder Myat Ko Ko sent a letter to UNHCR officials asking why the organization was not upfront about its involvement in the fingerprint campaign, and questioning its commitment to protecting international human rights and refugees affairs.

“As a result of the UNHCR and Malaysia [government] fingerprint program addressed to all the ethnic Burmese refugees in Malaysia, all of them are in trouble and the UNHCR should surely have given an announcement about it,” he wrote.

The Irrawaddy repeatedly tried to contact the UNHCR office in Malaysia but there was no reply.

Yan Naing Tun, the editor of weekly Kuala Lumpur journal Thuriya, said the action is taking place because of UNHCR corruption when dealing with processing refugee claims.

The Malaysia UNHCR has been accused of discriminating between refugees and corruptly selling resettlement registrations for profit, according to refugees in Malaysia.

“While I met with the Malaysian authorities, my friend told me not to give a thumbprint on the document when the [UNHCR] called us. It is an act of cheating. They made the plan in secret but the problem is now widely known,” said Yan Naing Tun.

Australia and Malaysia’s recent agreement to swap 800 asylum seekers who came to Australia for 4,000 refugees living in Malaysia was widely criticized by human rights groups, as Malaysia is not a signatory of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.

The Malaysian government has cooperated with the UNHCR on humanitarian grounds since 1975 even though Malaysia has not signed the UN Convention Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. Burmese refugees have since been sent to third countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, France, New Zealand, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway.

According to the Malaysia UNHCR website, at the end of May 2011 there are some 94,400 refugees and asylum-seekers registered with their office. Of these, around 86,500, or 90 percent, are from Burma. That figure is split up into 35,600 Chins, 21,400 Rohingyas, 10,100 Burmese Muslims, 3,800 Mon and 3,400 Kachins or from other smaller ethnic minorities.

Malaysia Today

A grioup of around 40 men held a mini but noisy protest against Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim near the front entrance to the Jalan Duta court complex on Thursday.

The protesters held banners in support of sodomy complainant Saiful Bukhari Azlan, with the words ‘Selamat Hari Raya Peliwat 2.0′ and’Justice for Saiful’. Dressed mostly in yellow T-shirts, the group also shouted anti-Anwar slogans.

Guess from whom?

It wasn’t difficult to surmise that this was another UMNO-linked group out to attack Anwar, whom the some of party’s top leadership fears because of his past influence over the Malay electorate and the high chances that he will again find favour with the community. Saiful was a PKR party worker when he alleged the sexual assault, but before that he was an UMNO student leader and his dad an UMNO stalwart.

Malaysians have made up their minds on the case

Nonetheless, the distraction from the yellow-clad group hardly caused a stir, with most Malaysians having already made up their minds on the case that has gripped the nation since mid 2008.

“I don’t want to comment on the case but sodomy or homosexuality is an individual preference. As a parent, I don’t want my children to be gay but if they grow up to be, how can I shut the door on them. This is something that we should all think about although it is not easy,” a man who only wished to be called Chong told Malaysia Chronicle. Chong was in the court complex to transact some personal matters and had stopped to look at the group’s commotion.

“I think it is like 1998. All over again, so we all know was behind that and now people say it is the current prime minister. I think there is too much political rivalry. We should political competition not war. It is like in the market, all the stalls compete for business, but we don’t burn or throw faeces at another stallholder,” Azizi Kamaruddin, who sells plastic bags at a wet market in Selangor, told Malaysia Chronicle.

Losing credibility as a government and as a political party
Simple words of wisdom and perhaps commonplace but according to pundits, this was why Prime Minister Najid Razak and his UMNO party should confront the reality that the masses – even in the rural areas – are no longer so gullible. Or lose complete credibility as a government and political engine.

In the end, Najib’s biggest downfall will be own failure to chalk progress for the nation especially in things economic, they said. They also believe he has been badly advised and that jailing Anwar would surely boomerang.

Anwar himself has said he does not expect a fair trial and that the entire issue was due to his political enemies trying to keep him down. Now 64, the Opposition Leader has also accused Saiful of “lying through his teeth”.

“He has also been a key UMNO student operative, having undergone the rigorous training conducted by the Biro Tats Negara of the Prime Minister’s Department. And here I was a 60-year-old man with a history of back injury who had undergone a major back surgery holding no position of power. If indeed I could have exercised any kind of undue influence or mental pressure on him, this could have been easily neutralized by a quick phone call to his connections. As regards the fear of physical harm, it would take a great stretch of the imagination to suggest that I could pose any physical harm to him,” said Anwar.

“This entire process is nothing but a conspiracy by Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Najib Razak to send me into political oblivion by attempting once again to put me behind bars. Najib Razak is doing the same thing as his mentor did, which is to employ all means within his power through the media, the police, the Attorney General and the judiciary in order to subvert the course of justice and to take me out of the political equation.”

Letter to Suhakam
However, Saiful and his dad are stcking to their story. Earlier this month, Azlan Mohd Lazim wrote to the Malaysian Human Rights Commission or Suhakam to investigate the circumstances that caused delay in the sodomy trial.

In his letter, Azlan said he believed Saiful had a right to trial within a reasonable period. Coincidentally, the letter sparked a rash of UMNO-linked groups to ‘speak up’ for Saiful.

“GAPS is of the opinion that Suhakam, as a free and independent national human rights institution, is the best platform to advise Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail to speed up the case,” NST had reported Selangor Anti-Irregularities Federation (GAPS) chairman Hamidzun Khairuddin as saying.

Anwar was accused of sodomising Saiful in June 2008 at a plush condo in Kuala Lumpur. He has denied the charges. – Malaysia Chronicle

Mat Sabu

More Malays joining DAP is good news for Malaysia, especially Pakatan Rakyat, as such a development will spell an end to UMNO’s racial politics, said PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu .

“If there are a big number of Malays in DAP, racial issues cannot be used anymore by UMNO. We have no problem if there are Malays who want to join DAP instead of PAS or PKR, as long as the goal is to bring down tyrannical rulers,” he was quoted as saying by DAP’s Bahasa Malaysia news portal, Roketkini.

Mat Sabu however said that in a democracy, it was entirely up to one’s instinct to choose which party to join.

Saying ties between DAP and PAS had strengthened due to a common fight for justice, Mat Sabu praised DAP’s transparency and said this was shown by its secretary general Lim Guan Eng in his administration of Penang.

“This is very different from the states under the control of UMNO and Barisan Nasional,” Mat Sabu told a fundraising dinner event in Petaling Jaya last night.

“In DAP and PAS, there are good people, there are not so good people. There are more good people than no so good people. In PAS, we have great leaders like Tuan Guru Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat. He is someone who puts the people first, develop the society and not concerned with personal wealth.

“Someday, we want more leaders like Nik Aziz and Guan Eng,” he said. – Harakahdaily