Super 'PAS' Terrorist Born and Bred in Malaysia

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This is taken from Merdeka Online here

Ditulis oleh administrator     July 3, 2014

Most politicians make promises to end corruption or to impose a lower tax. But PAS goes further;they promise heaven to anyone who supports them. The words trip off their tongues so easily;vote for PAS, and we will reach the gates of paradise.

This kind of con artistry is all pretty harmless, if people vote PAS because they really believe that mere men can grant them paradise then that’s their prerogative. However, it becomes dangerous when PAS uses it’s access card to heaven as a way to recruit members who in turn becomes a terrorist.

PAS makes lavish promises not because they believe their own promises, but because they crave a loyal and hardcore group of followers. PAS irresponsibly deceives their supporters by promising Heaven to those that unfailingly support them.

They create a new class of citizens, a class of citizens, that does not play well with other citizens of Malaysia, they create animosity and dissention between people who normally get along. PAS makes its edicts on a lofty perch where they are the only ones who are correct, they are the perfect Muslims, they are only second to God. So that even if PAS commits a wrong, there is always a valid justification.

After all God is never wrong and apparently Nik Aziz is only second to Him. This encouragement of blind hero worship created a group of political supporters that are in a class of their own. The Unit Amal PAS is an example of PAS’ strong following, members of this unit act as police to the PAS members.

They are so sure that they are correct that they see themselves as the law. The laws that apply to you or me are beneath them. They will do anything and everything to protect the party and the leadership in the name of Islam and Jihad.

(edited**) The leaders of PAS must know that what they are doing is wrong, but political greed soothes their conscience. Unfortunately, their followers blindly follow without a second thought that the men that they follow may be leading them to a gruesome end.

These young men come to a stage where they realize that the fighting at home is too bland for their tastes. Street demonstrations and political rallies are not enough to get them into paradise, surely they must have a more dramatic entrance when they reach paradise.

That’s when they turn to the more dangerous battlefields of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, where war is rife and proving their self worth is easier to attain.  This is where trouble begins.

Whilst in Malaysia, these men are brainwashed into thinking that it is their Muslim responsibility to make Malaysia an Islamic state, failure to do so means failure as a Muslim. As long as they stay in Malaysia their efforts are largely political, getting enough people to support PAS so that it legally becomes government one day.

However, the restless youth, with the encouragement from PAS leaders, decide to take their Islamic duties a step further and venture off to foreign lands where military life is the norm. In places like Syria and Iraq our once harmless youth are taught militancy strategy and terrorist tactics using military grade weapons.

So the combination of PAS brainwashing and foreign military strategy has created a new breed of super terrorists. These super terrorists are born and bred in Malaysia by people who are supposed to be responsible leaders of our nation.

They encourage the Malaysian youth to leave the safety of their country and family and take up arms in the Middle East. Failure to survive, equals to an abundance of wealth in the after life.

Those same people who harmlessly believed that they can enter Paradise with the stroke of a pen come voting time or who believed that they could attain paradise by encouraging other Malaysians to support PAS have become dangerous militants who are out for blood instead of votes.

And what does PAS do when they see what their words have wrought? They turn their backs and pretend ignorance of the existence of these people. Ustaz Mohd Lotfi Ariffin, a member of PAS, is an example of a PAS promise gone wrong.

A member of PAS until recently, Lotfi was promised paradise by PAS if he became a militant. When he inadvertently followed the teachings of PAS, he ended up in Syria, leaving behind his six children to fight for a cause that even he himself is not sure of.  Reaching Syria, Lotfi like many people today decided to post his little adventure on Facebook, and it blew up in PAS’ face.

Malaysians were horrified to find out that one of their own was fighting in Syria. It’s a well-known fact that those who commit violence against a mass of people are called terrorists, not jihadists. We were appalled and humiliated that a terrorist was calling himself a Malaysian.

While most Malaysians were worrying over the existence of terrorists and the possibility that they will come back to Malaysia and continue terrorism at home, PAS was frantically trying to come up with a plan of action. And the best that they could come up with? Deny, Deny, Deny.

They encouraged a man to put his life at risk, took a chance that his six children will grow up without a father and without a stable source of income, emboldened normally peaceful folks to become terrorists, but worst of all they have put all our lives in Malaysia at risk. 

When these PAS terrorists finish with whatever they’re doing in Syria, they will inevitably come home.
 
And do you think they are going to go back and play happy family? Do you think they will be satisfied attending the annual party AGM? No. Their bloodlust will not be satisfied by playing politics. They will pick up where they left off in Syria. They will continue “God’s Work” here in Malaysia and suddenly we are the enemies.
 
Those of us who do not fit their bill of the good Muslim becomes the enemy. Our death is their key to paradise, this is what was promised them by PAS. Where is PAS in all this? Frantically terminating memberships, distancing themselves from the  havoc that they have created.

Insisting that they are a peaceful party, that they have nothing to do with the actions of their members. Pretending offence when people accuse them of creating these terrorists.  Is revoking a membership enough? How can you call yourselves responsible leaders when you cannot take responsibility for the actions of your followers? How can you stand there playing the innocent while your country faces a daunting future that resembles the fate of those in Syria and Iraq?

source: http://ushainfo.blogspot.com/2014/07/super-terrorist-born-and-bred-in.html?m=1

My comments : First I want to thank my friends who sent me this. I also have a short comment written by Norman Fernandez, former Deputy Chairman of DAP Johor. 

 

PAS AND MILITANCY.

When Najib Tun Razak in his speech at the Cheras UMNO anniversary dinner called on UMNO to emulate the bravery of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant militants who were able to defeat the Iraqi arm, it immediately became yet another fodder for the opposition. So, virtually every opposition politician seething in disgust lined up to attack Najib for his political faux-paus. Najib Tun Razak was roundly and rightly condemned.

So, when an online news portal exposed the son-in-law of the PAS President who in his Facebook expressed his open admiration for the ISIL militants, one would have imagined the same politicians would froth and foam with the same condemnation they did to Najib Tun Razak. Sadly, there is a complete elegant silence by their bedfellows. Anyway, it does not come as a surprise.

After yesterday's expose', today PAS President's son-in-law openly confirmed his support for the militants. Granted, that the son-in-law of the PAS President is not of the stature of the Prime Minister, but he is a member of the Dewan Syura of PAS and Dewan Syura is not like your ordinary PIBG association. It is an extremely powerful and influential wing of PAS. While we all know how conservative this wing is and we also have known of its support to hardline groups like Hamas and Islamic Brotherhood, it is now a first to know that a member of the Dewan Syura is also a supporter of militants and terrorists. No one knows how many others in the Dewan Syura are supporters and sympathizers of militants be it ISIL or any other terror organizations. Maybe it could be a militant's lair.

So, why are those who were quick on the draw against Najib Tun Razak, gutless to do the same against the son-in-law of the PAS President ? Even the politician well known for his incessant twitting all day long has chosen to look the other way.

It only fortifies my conviction that many a politician of this kind are able to see the speck in the eye of another but can never feel the log in their own eye. How strange, these politicians get riled up and go into a hissy fit each time I say PAS is an extremist militant party and yet when it is proven they are, these bootlickers and a***kissers all look the other way.

Norman Fernandez

Thank you Norman. I edited the first article from Merdeka Online and deleted the words where it said the Pas dunggus are expert at something. I beg to differ. The first rule of psywar is never concede any due regard to the enemy. Unless it is an intentional red flag. And assess the audience carefully.  

The PAS are village idiots who do not know jack sh*t about jihad or Islam. Sabun is still preoccupied thinking about women. That Spenda fellow is still figuring out how to do the figure eight on that woman without roller blades. I heard the No. 1 guy now has THREE wives.  Thats all they have in their otak - woman, woman, woman, sex, sex and sex. Dont forget these are religious people. Thats all they have inside their puny minds.

But I hope the Chinese folks take cognisance with this. This is a free country ok. This is a democracy. In a democracy you can vote who you want. You can dislike who you want. This is a free country. That is the meaning of democracy. My friends and I will fight to make sure that you folks (and we too) will always have these rights and freedoms available to us. This is about freedom.

On the other hand Nik Aziz is on record, black and white as saying, anyone can be Prime Minister as long as he is Muslim. This means non Muslims cannot become the PM or even Cabinet Ministers. You have been warned. Dont play with fire.

If you dont like UMNO right now I dont blame you. That is your democratic right.  If you dont like the BN, right now I dont blame you either. That is also your democratic right. This right is enshrined in the Federal Constitution. This is a free country. We must keep it that way.

But if you support PAS out of anger for UMNO/BN then think very carefully. It is  a cancer that does not stop just with your vote for PAS.

For example why am I highlighting the implementation of Syariah Law in Brunei? Brunei is a different country. Why should I care? Why should it bother you, the Malaysian Chinese? Or the Malays? Or Indians? Or OutSyed The Box?

Because the Sultan of Brunei is a Malay. The people in Brunei are Malay. The day after the Sultan of Brunei declared Syariah Law for Brunei, the shouts of Allahu Akbar in Facebook and among the pro jihadi, pro PAS dunggus just went up like 50 notches. 

And because the Sultan of Brunei declared Brunei a Syariah state, it is easier for the jihadis here in Malaysia to recruit more kampong kids in the suraus and the madrasas now. 

"Tengoklah, Allah swt telah beri hidayah kepada Sultan. Kita harus sokong Daulah Islamiyah di Brunei". 

That alone can recruit at least some suicide bombers.  So we have to be careful what happens in our neighbour's house. The fire can spread. Our house can get burnt also.

The same with PAS. They dont really give a sh*t between ISIL or ISIS.  The PAS president's son in law may have praised ISIL but that Pas ostard wal retard in Syria was NOT fighting for SIL. The Star reported that he belonged to another psycho jihadi group. Here are some other jihadi groups in those areas. These are all Sunni groups.

1. Suquor al-Sham
2. Umma Brigade
3. Ahrar al-Sham
4. Jabhat Nusra
5. Abdullah Azzam Brigade
6. Fatah al-Islam 
7. Jordanian Salafi
8. Qaidat Al Jihad

All these groups are also fighting and killing each other. Do you think PAS really cares? Not at all.

Does it really matter to PAS who kills who in Syria or Iraq ? Not at all. They dont care. They will just say 'Jihad fi sabilillah Syria  an Iraq' on their Tin Milo and collect donations from the kampong people. Thats all. Dapat duit boleh kahwin lagi. They have probably set up a tabung for that fellow in Syria or Iraq.

How else do you think their No 1 kahwin tiga? Or Spenda paid for that woman's services?

I have a more simplistic and terribly realistic view of the religious folks. Woman, woman, woman, sex, sex, sex. And they dont care if they burn down the country in the process. Never give a monkey flowers. Never ever give a monkey matches.


And when these retard jihadis come back to Malaysia they are going to continue their jihad activities here. They will attack the Muslims. But let me assure you the easier targets will be the non Muslims. So dear Chinese folks, dont say you have not been warned.

Anwar: Cina BN semua bodoh / What you all think? (Updated)

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Reader comment @ http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/263967 (Teluk Intan by-election story)

Cina DAP menghina kaum sendiri

Mengiyakan dakwaan Anwar bahawa Cina yang menyokong BN bodoh belaka.

Dapster mencemuh Cina yang mengundi BN sebagai “pengkhianat bangsa”.

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/264023

BN Chinese stupid AND “shameless”

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/264023

“Seriously stooopid”? “Donkey?”

Now we’re all Alifah Ting — the 10 percent Chinese who voted BN are being roundly abused.

Why Malays are really a very tolerant people

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In half of the world’s Muslim-majority countries (24 countries out of 48), the non-Muslim population is under 5 percent — see table below .

Most of these 24 Muslim countries have 98 to 99 percent followers of Islam. There are only one to two percent religious minorities in the top dozen Muslim countries, including Turkey which had applied to be a member of the European Union.

BELOW: Muslim-majority countries as at end-2010

More Southeast Asian Muslims than Arab Muslims

Contrary to popular belief, it is not the Middle Eastern countries that have the highest Muslim populations percentage-wise.

In absolute numbers as well, there are three times more Muslims living in the Asia-Pacific than there are Arab Muslims (see bar chart below).

Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim country, has 209 million followers of Islam.

Indian Muslims are most numerous in Islam

The United Arab Emirates, for example, has a 76.9 percent Muslim population (5.8 million) while Kuwait’s is 74.1 percent /2.0 million, Bahrain’s 70.3 percent /890,000 and Qatar’s 67.7 percent /1.2 million.

These small Arab countries only have between two-thirds and three-quarters adherents of Islam as a total of their resident population.

In the wake of the oil boom, the rich Arab countries have been importing foreign labour most extensively. The Filipinos, Nepalese and other Christian and Hindu expats working in the Middle East have diluted the Arab Muslim populations.

Even Saudi Arabia has “only” 93.0 percent Muslims in its population compared to the Indian sub-continent countries Afghanistan (more than 99.0%) and Pakistan (96.4%).

India, although a Hindu-majority country, has 176 million Muslims.

Map source, here

Mixed fortunes of the ‘stan’ states

Altogether 30 countries have a population of 90 percent and above Muslims.

The “stan” countries are all Islam — Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan … and don’t forget Kelantanistan too.

The most Islam-saturated countries are those in the northern belt of the African continent — Tunisia (>99.0%), Morocco (>99.0%), Niger (98.4%), Algeria (97.9%), Libya (96.6%).

It is not at all reassuring that Somalia, dubbed “the most failed state in the world” according to the annual ranking by Foreign Policy and the Global Fund for Peace, is more than 99 percent Muslim and an Islamic state that practices hudud.

Other Muslim countries in the Failed States Index 2013 are:

• No.1 — Somalia (>99.0% Muslim)
• No.3 — Sudan (90.7% Muslim)
• No.5 — Chad (55.3% Muslim)
• No.6 — Yemen (>99.0% Muslim)
• No.7 — Afghanistan (>99.0% Muslim)

Half of the Top Ten failed states of the world are Muslim majority countries, and three of them are above 99.0 percent Muslim.
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PIE CHART: Global Religion Share (2010)

Source: http://globalreligiousfutures.org

Bishop Paul Tan heaps praise on PAS’s Mujahid

From Malaysiakini article today, ‘Bishop: Mujahid’s like St Francis of Assisi‘ by Terrence Netto.

“He’s like St Francis of Assisi, truly a channel of peace, bringing consolation where there is loss, understanding where there is injury, a much needed figure indeed in our fractious times,” opined Bishop Paul Tan.

“St Francis is a 12th century figure in Catholic folklore, revered for his respectfor the environment, his practice of evangelical poverty, and his outreach to Muslims during the time of the Crusades.”

(Bold emphasis this blogger’s)

The above two paragraphs are excerpted from Netto’s Malaysiakini article.

What Netto omitted to mention, however, when talking about “his outreach to Muslims during the time of the Crusades” is that St Francis of Assisi had tried to convert Malik-al-Kamil, the sultan of Egypt to Christianity.

The evangelistas are ALWAYS! doing that — out to convert everybody.

“Ratcheting tensions” between Muslims and Christians

Netto also described Mujahid Yusof Rawa, the PAS National Unity bureau chief, as a “leading light in … forging dialogue between Muslims and Christian groups at a time of ratcheting tensions between the two communities”.

Inter-religious violence is merely something what happens elsewhere around the world’s conflict zones.

The Muslim dead in Bangui, Central African Republic — Amnesty International photo

Rivalry between Islam and Christianity intense

The evangelistas like to say that Islam and Christianity belong to the same family. In the very first book of the bible, Genesis, it is told that Cain attacked and killed his brother Abel.

They – the “brothers” in Abrahamic faith – are fighting each other even in our neighbouring countries, the Philippines and Indonesia.

See Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe for stories about Indonesian churches set ablaze (picture below).

See also, ‘Muslims will soon be given a bloodbath in Central African Republic‘, ‘Campaign of violence by Christian militia drives out 99,000 Muslims’, ‘Christians flee the Muslim world‘ and ‘Minority Christians in other countries‘

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Threats-against-Christian-churches:-return-of-strategy-of-tension-even-in-Sulawesi-22695.html

Lack of religious pluralism in Muslim countries

From the Islam demography, we can see that religious diversity in Muslim countries is uncommon.

The religiously “mixed” countries with between 50 and 70 percent Muslim majority are Qatar, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Lebanon and Chad. Only five countries, and Chad is a failed state while Qatar is host to a variety of expats.

As we had examined earlier on this page, the majority of Muslim countries – i.e. 30 out of 48 countries or 62.5 percent of the Islamic world – are mono religious, that is to say with over 90 percent of their population being Muslim.

Or to put it another way, in most Muslim countries, every 9 out of 10 of its people are Muslim.

In 77 percent of the Muslim majority countries, every 8 out of 10 persons are Muslim. Where Muslims are the majority, it’s rare to find non-Muslims and if there are, these non-Muslims are few.

http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/18119

ABOVE: The Saeh Library in Lebanon under the care of Father Ibrahim Sarrouj was torched and the Christian priest assaulted in January this year

Lessons from Lebanon

There are less than two percent non-Muslims in Turkey, which lies in part geographically in the European continent. It is estimated that one and a half million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1923 in the genocide that was perpetratedby the Turks on the Christians — see FAQ here.

If you’ll look at the table of 48 Muslim majority countries at the top of this page, you find that the closest to us in religious make-up is Lebanon. Malaysia has a Muslim population of 63.7 percent, and Lebanon, 61.3 percent.

As you may be aware, Lebanon is unstable and has suffered civil wars between its Muslims and its Christians throughout the last few decades. In any war, you may be assured that many people are killed and even more are internally displaced.

The vicious fighting between the Lebanese religious rivals in the 1980s resulted in a mass exodus of Christian communities from the affected regions to areas controlled by the Christian militia. In Lebanon, all the religious factions have had to take up arms.

Hikayat Abdullah Munshi, 1845

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This is a comment from a reader. Saya berterima kasih. Saya juga terharu ada orang terpelajar dan begitu 'astute' atau peka akan isu-isu yang sebenarnya menjadi pembaca Blog saya. Thanks again.

“Setelah Sultan Mahmud mangkat, entah dari mana datangnya, dalam dua tiga hari singgahlah dua tiga orang anak raja di Padang. Setelah sampai di pantai, disuruhnya orang membawa tombaknya ke darat untuk meminta beras, ayam, dan barang-barang lain yang dikehendakinya.

Kasihan orang Padang kerana kebodohannya. Apabila mereka nama raja atau anak raja, dihormatinya seperti Allah.



“Dengan gementar tulangnya, mereka serahkan sebarang kehendaknya tanpa bayaran. Sepuluh lima belas hari kemudian, datang pula empat lima anak-anak raja. Mereka pun meminta juga. Ada yang naik sendiri ke darat. Barang yang ditemuinya diambil seperti barang sendiri.

Mereka seperti penyamun.

"Tuan punya harta hanya terkelip-kelip matanya, bodoh sebab takut pada nama anak raja. Diam sahaja. Anak raja yang tidak tahu malu dan takut kepada Allah dan makhluk kerana makan barang haram, berbuat sesuka hatinya.
 
“Ada pula kelakuan seperti binatang, mengejar dan memperkosa anak-anak perempuan. Setelah itu mereka belayar. Kemudian datang pula yang lain. Kehendak mereka tidak boleh dilawan. Jika dilawan, akan dibunuh dan rumah dibakar. Pokok-pokok kelapa mereka habis ditebang untuk umbutnya.

Demikianlah mereka membinasakan hamba Allah dengan zalim dan aniaya.
 
“Mereka meninggalkan kampung halaman dan sawah ladang yang porak-parik, membawa diri ke tempat lain. Ada yang menjadi hamba orang, beribu-ribu orang, bertaburan sepanjang tempat. Kampung-kampung itu tinggal menjadi hutan rimba tempat gajah dan harimau sekarang ini. Tidakkah mereka sedar segala kezaliman dan aniaya mereka itu akan dibalas oleh Allah?



“Ada satu lagi perkara pelik kedengaran. Ada raja yang membuat satu adat, bukannya adat orang Islam atau adat bangsa-bangsa lain di dunia, melainkan adat Iblis ataupun adat hawa nafsu yang jahat. Raja-raja itu mengambil anak-anak dara orang kebanyakan untuk dijadikan gundik dengan paksa, tiada reda perempuan itu, apalagi ibu bapanya.
 
“Dengan paksa perempuan itu dibawa ke rumahnya.

Dipanggilnya khatib atau lebai-lebai yang bebal dalam hukum agama Islam dan tamakkan upah. Disuruh oleh raja nikahkan perempuan itu dengan keris raja. Adakah nikah itu sah?

"Oleh sebab itu, banyaklah lahir anak haram. Kelakuan raja-raja itu seperti iblis yang tidak takutkan Allah dan rasul, dan tiada malu kepada makhluk. Tidakkan patut perbuatan zalim dan aniaya itu dibalas oleh Allah dengan bala-Nya?

~ Hikayat Abdullah Munshi , 1845

“…Sekalian orang yang duduk dalam negeri itu sentiasa dengan ketakutan akan aniaya dan loba raja-raja dan orang besar-besar.

Maka adalah fikiran mereka (rakyat) itu, ‘Apa guna rajin kita itu? Jikalau kita mendapat sedikit wang atau makanan, nescaya diloba dan dirampas oleh orang besar itu.’

Maka sebab itulah tinggal mereka itu dalam miskin dan malas dalam sepanjang umurnya.

Maka tetaplah fikiran saya, inilah sebabnya negeri itu tiada boleh orang mendapat kesentosaan dalamnya, kerana kurang baik pemerintahnya.

Maka sekalian perkara yang tersebut ini telah datang dari sebab kejahatan dan kebebalan raja-rajanya sahaja.”

Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah Munshi ,

“…saya pohon kepada Tuhan, janganlah kiranya dihidupkan saya dalam negeri Melayu .

Dan lagi , saya harap dijauhkan Tuhan untuk berdekat dengan raja-raja kerana orang yang hampir kepada raja-raja itu seperti bersahabat dengan ular yang berbisa, maka salah sedikit dipagutnya biji mata.”

Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah Munshi ke Kelantan,

 

WE USED TO BE GREAT, KU LI LAMENTS IN UITM SPEECH

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(Malay Mail Online)

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah today delivered a blunt message to graduates of University Teknologi Mara (UiTM) to press upon them the need for English skills and to decry the country’s fall from its halcyon days.

In his speech delivered during a graduation ceremony at the university’s Shah Alam campus this morning, the Umno veteran said it had been the mastery of English that once set the alumni of the institution apart and made them the choice of employers.

Stressing that English was the international medium of communication in business, technology, medicine, and diplomacy, the former minister popularly known as Ku Li said a proficiency in it was necessary in order to open up opportunities.

“If we do not master it (English), we are left behind. We need to realise that our competition is not just among ourselves, but also from all the countries that use English as their lingua franca.

“Let us not bicker over the issue of language. We do not lose our identity, culture or tradition simply because we know more languages,” he said in his speech.

The former finance minister then aimed his criticism at the country’s education system, which he said both failed to produce effective thinkers and high achievers capable of excelling in testing climes, and for failing to bring together the various communities.

“I remember when once the world held us in high regard. In international forums, we were often given the honour of being moderators or readying the communique,” Ku Li said.

“Sadly, the situation is now different.”

In reading out the laundry list of weaknesses with the education system, Ku Li condemned it as a collapse that requires a drastic and radical change to reverse the slide in international rankings and disunity among the races.

Using South Korea as a yardstick of how far Malaysia has fallen behind its former peers, Ku Li pointed out that the East Asian country once had a per capita income of US$2,322 (RM7,662) in 1980, behind Malaysia’s US$2,351.

Today, Korea’s per capita income was US$24,328 while Malaysia’s was less than half that, at US$10,547.

“The reality is that our education system is ineffective.”

Malaysia scored poorly in two recent international benchmark studies on education: the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

In the 2012 edition of PISA, Malaysia was 52nd overall out of the 65 countries, and firmly entrenched in the bottom third of the survey.

Aside from the stagnant PISA performance, Malaysia has also face a continued decline in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) benchmark in which the country once performed well.

While Malaysian students were once above the international average between 1999 and 2003, theirscores in TIMSS began to decline sharply in 2007 and further in 2011.

Critics have accused the government of allowing political interests to creep into decisions oneducation policy, most notably the decision to abandon of the Policy of Teaching Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) in 2010 that is alleged to have been a nod to Malay nationalists.

Parents and education lobbyists said the inconsistencies in education and a refusal to put greater emphasis on English was to blame for the country’s prolonged drop in standards.

Here is recap of some of Ku Li's points: 

• the need for English skills and to decry the country’s fall from its halcyon days.
• If we do not master it (English), we are left behind.
• country’s education system failed to produce effective thinkers
• collapse that requires a drastic and radical change 
• to reverse the slide in international rankings and disunity among the races.
• Korea per capita income US$2,322 in 1980, behind Malaysia’s US$2,351. 
• Today, Korea  US$24,328 while Malaysia less than half that US$10,547.
• education system is ineffective
• Malaysia scored poorly in two recent international benchmark studies on education: the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
• Malaysia was 52nd overall out of the 65 countries
• scores in TIMSS began to decline sharply in 2007 and further in 2011.
• decision to abandon of the Policy of Teaching Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) in 2010 that is alleged to have been a nod to Malay nationalists 
• Parents and education lobbyists said the inconsistencies in education and a refusal to put greater emphasis on English was to blame for the country’s prolonged drop in standards.

It is not just the mastery of the English language. Even if you do not master the English language its ok. But you must read, study and learn many subjects - intensively and extensively - in the English language. You need good working knowledge of English.

Because English is the most widely spoken language of business, trade, science, technology, art and just about any other branch of knowledge in the world. And it is growing. Soon China will have the largest number of English speakers in the world.

And here is the reality - until now and going into the foreseeable future and even the distant future languages like Malay, Sinhalese, Myanmar, Swahili, Hindi, Tamil, Benggali, Punjabi, Tagalog, Thai etc will not become "languages of knowledge" anywhere close to English.

They do not have enough vocabulary and 'language infrastructure' to convey complex modern ideas that are constantly evolving, especially technical and scientific ideas.

Take this statement :  "Quantum gravity takes singularity out of black holes".

I suppose you can do a literal translation of this statement n any language but almost every word here is a summary of a huge concept behind it. I agree any language can achieve this level of complexity, even the Orang Asli languages but it may take a long, long time. English has already done it. And we are not unfamiliar with English. So why waste time and opportunities?

In the 70s at a time when the Malay and non Malay population was about the same, the Malays naturally felt threatened that they would be swamped by the non Malays. It became a ketuanan issue.

This is where the greatest mistake was made. Some politicians and language nationalists came up with the silly idea that if we switched the entire education system to Malay, it will safeguard the Malays against being swamped by the non Malays.

Looking back in hindsight this policy has become a terrible poison pill  that should be attributed to anti national elements (aka pengkhianat bangsa) who should have known that this policy would destroy any chances the Malays would have had of catching up with the non Malays. And that is exactly what has happened.

Then later the UMNOputra  crony book publishers also got into the act. They have become a powerful lobby. School text book publishing contracts are worth hundreds of millions of Ringgit every year. They wanted everything in Malay so that they had the edge in grabbing text book publishing and printing contracts. This further sealed the coffin shut on our education system.

Sacrificing the English language has resulted in many bad things. Tengku Razaleigh's speech at the UITM captures many of the bad effects in a nutshell. The Malay people are now more disadvantaged than ever before.

The non Malays, particularly the Chinese and Indians, have clung better to English.  Especially the middle class Indian and Chinese parents who were forced to invest money to make sure their kids had English language proficiency to a high degree. 

When my boys were young we met dozens of people who sent their kids to tuition, music class, drama class, private sports activities that were all taught in English. My boys grew up among a very English speaking circle of friends. And this was not just in KL but in most middle class neighborhoods throughout the country. The children of my friends in Penang, Ipoh etc have grown up speaking English more than we did when I was young. 

But throughout all this time many Malays, including middle class Malays went in the opposite direction - refusing to speak English. Malay langauge skills have not really assisted the Malays improve their income earning ability (this does NOT include UMNOputras sapu kontrak, GLC receptionists earning RM3000 a month, GLC CEOs earning RM100,000  a month, ostat jin dan hantu, bomoh jual kismis ajaib, jus tok guru or bomoh dua biji nyior terbang ok.  Folks please be sensible, those are unsustainable aberrations.)

The net result is that what the Malays feared in the 1970s ie that the non Malays would overshadow them especially in the economy has come true. The Malays are still behind the non Malays. And according to French trained economist Dr Muhammad Khalid the disparity is widening even more. The Gini Coefficient shows a larger divide (income disparity) between the Malays and non Malays now than decades ago. 

Yes we have more doctors, engineers, architects among the Malays but so do the non Malays. But the non Malays still seem to outperform the Malays.

Among a few other things this income disparity is happening because the education system abandoned English, thinking that Malay alone would help them catch up with the non Malays.

What were they thinking?

And now an even bigger mistake is being made. Realising perhaps that a Malay centric education system is not helping much, now there is an attempt to infuse an Arab culture centric, religion based all encompassing system.

The education system is being infused with desert Arab cultural habits that are of no practical value to humans, animals and insects.  

Malay parents are wasting (yes wasting) money and their childrens' precious time aggressively learning the Arab language - a task that is infinitely more difficult than learning English. Plus it is of little or no use to the child.  

The financial system is being infused with strange sounding, never before heard Arab sounding financial products that burden the Muslims more than help them. 

There is still not much of a bumiputra commercial and industrial community. It is still incubating. But whatever little chance the Malays had of becoming a business and commercial community on par with the rest of the world is now being hijacked by strange religion centric ideas like wakaf economy, "Islamic networking", too complicated halal certifications and other such religion based ideas which only increase the cost of doing business, increase the cost of the products to the Muslims and create even more religious cocoons which shield the Malays from real world competition. 

I think after say another 20 years the Malays will realise that even the religious approach towards economy and business does not work. They will still lag behind the non Malays - by another 20 years.

It just keeps going on and on. The mistakes just keep piling up.

1. Malay language centric education at the expense of English

2. Arab culture centric at the expense of a Malay or modern culture or both

3. religion centric business practises instead of real world based business

It is really quite simple. Why cant people see?

Di Terengganu bermasalah tetapi tidak sebesar masalah di Persekutuan

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"Krisis melanda UMNO dan kerajaan negeri Terengganu, berikutan dengan perletakkan jawatan Ahmad Said sebagai Menteri Besar semalam dan terus keluar dari UMNO dan menjadi ADUN bebas dalam Dewan Undangan Negeri Terengganu.

Tindakan Ahmad Said keluar dari UMNO itu telah membuatkan dua orang lagi Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri mengikut jejak langkah Ahmad Said keluar parti dan meletakkan kerajaan BN/UMNO Terengganu kini adalah kerajaan minoriti yang hanya mempunyai 14 kerusi sahaja dalam DUN Terengganu. Nampaknya tidak mustahil jika PAS akan mengambil alih kerajaan Terengganu kerana jumlah bilangan kerusi bagi UMNO dalam Dewan Undangan Negeri Terengganu sudah tidak melayakkan UMNO menerajui negeri itu lagi.

Tetapi saya tidak ingin menyebut apakah yang terbaik bagi PAS lakukan dalam krisis yang amat besar menghadapi UMNO Terengganu ini. Saya lebih cenderung untuk memberikan ulasan tentang UMNO secara keseluruhannya.

Tindakan Ahmad Said keluar UMNO sejurus meletakkan jawatan Menteri Besar itu membawa makna dan 'significance' yang besar terhadap UMNO itu sendiri. Ia bermakna pucuk pimpinan UMNO sudah tidak mendapat penghormatan yang sepatutnya dari pimpinan bawahannya. Tidak ada sebab Ahmad Said keluar dari parti hanya kerana beliau diminta meletakkan jawatan. Walaupun beliau memberikan alasan kerana Najib tidak mahu memberikan peluang untuk beliau meletakkan jawatan selepas 17 Mei nanti, sejurus beliau melangsungkanperkahwinan anaknya.

Tindakan Ahmad Said dan dua orang lagi ADUN Terengganu meninggalkan parti itu membayangkan yang pimpinan Najib sudah tidak dihormati lagi oleh pimpinan peringkat bawahan. Tindakan tidak akur Ahmad Said dan dua lagi ADUN itu bukan sahaja tidak menghormati Najib, tetapi ia juga melambangkan sikap tidak percaya terhadap barisan kepimpinan parti kerana keputusan UMNO meminta seorang Menteri Besar itu adalah tindakan bersama semua Majlis Tertinggi (collective responsibility) parti.

Kegagalan menguasai UMNO Terengganu itu menunjukkan kelemahan Majlis Tertinggi UMNO dan ia merupakan undi tidak percaya terhadap Majlis Tertinggi UMNO bukan setakat tentangan terhadap Najib seorang. Ahmad Said sememangnya seorang yang bermasalah tetapi pucuk pimpinan masih memilihnya untuk menerajui kerajaan Terengganu kerana kepentingan jangka pendek semata-mata. Akibatnya kita sedang sama-sama menyaksikannya.

Itu sebabnya blog ini telah banyak tahun menyatakan yang UMNO yang kini sangat lemah tidak lagi mampu membuat keputusan dengan tepat. Keputusan yang hendak dilakukan itu adalah keputusan yang melibatkan pemimpin yang semuanya adalah dikalangan mereka yang mengambil budaya politik ‘kuning’ yang akan membunuh UMNO itu sendiri akhirnya.

Kalau tidak masakan Ahmad Said merupakan seorang yang sangat ‘controversial’ yang mendapat tempat dan kedudukan melalui perpecahan dalam UMNO khususnya di Terengganu itu sendiri. Ahmad menjadi Menteri Besar dalam kontroversi besar dan perletakkan jawatan beliau sendiri pun menghasilkan kontroversi yang besar sehingga menjerumuskan UMNO negeri ketahap yang sangat merbahaya kedudukannya. Apa yang berlaku di Terengganu sekarang ini merupakan kejadian yang ‘predictable’ dari dahulu lagi dan hanya menunggu masa untuk terjadi.

UMNO pusat tidak lagi mempunyai kekuatan untuk menguruskan negara. Itulah sebabnya selalu di peringatkan yang jika UMNO masih ingin menjadi relevan seluruh kepimpinan di Pusat itu wajar berhenti dan bersara dan serahkan kepada orang yang lebih berpengalaman dan mempunyai ciri-ciri ‘magnanimity’ yang tinggi untuk melakukan pembaharuan.

Saya yakin yang keadaan ini bukan sahaja berlaku di negeri Terengganu, tetapi ia juga berlaku di negeri-negeri lain dan akan hanya menunggu masa sahaja untuk terjadi perkara seperti ini. Keretakan berlaku di setiap negeri dan kawasan dan UMNO sudah kehilangan segala-galanya ciri parti yang memerintah.

‘Intra problems’ dalam UMNO begitu serius dan bagaimana pula UMNO hendak menyelesaikan masalah-masalah besar yang lain seperti rungutan dan tidak puas hati ahli ‘equal partners’ dalam Persekutuan ini. Isu dan rungutan rakyat Malaysia di Sabah dan Sarawak ini bukannya isu yang kecil kerana ia melibatkan negara di masa hadapan. Ia memerlukan kepimpinan Persekutuan yang benar-benar mempunyai ciri kepimpinan negara yang berjiwa besar bukan setakat pemimpin yang hanya menyelesaikan isu-isu secara ‘ad hoc’ tanpa bertindak untuk memperkuatkan negara dan rakyat dalam jangka masa yang panjang.

Masalah ‘inter-party’ dalam BN semakin serius dan tanpa penyelesaian yang segera ia tidak akan mengembalikan negara kepada keadaan yang pernah kita alami dahulu. Yang menyelamatkan UMNO sedikit pada hari ini, ialah perpecahan yang juga sedang berlaku dalam pihak pembangkang dan keadaan ini juga tidak memberikan keyakinan kepada rakyat yang ramai untuk mendapatkan sebuah negara yang kuat dalam mana rakyatnya hidup dalam aman dan damai.

Sesungguhnya masalah yang dihadapi oleh pimpinan di Terengganu walaupun masalah besar tetapi ia tidak sebesar masalah yang mereka hadapi dengan dua buah negeri, Sabah dan Sarawak. Ia melibatkan kestabilan sebuah negara yang besar dan isu yang mereka di Malaysia Timur hadapi bukanlah isu yang kecil.

Bagi mereka perjanjian Persekutuan Malaysia yang mereka tanda tangani dahulu adalah perjanjian diantara empat buah negara, Singapura, Sabah dan Sarawak bersama dengan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu. Mereka berhak untuk menuntut apa yang telah dipersetujui dan ditanda tangani kerana jika tidak diselesaikan isu ini maka mereka juga berhak untuk bertindak mengikut kehendak dan kemahuan mereka seperti yang dijanjikan dan di tanda tangani itu.

Penyelesaiannya hanya akan tercapai jika ada dikalangan pemimpin yang berwibawa membawa kembali ke meja perundingan untuk menyelesaikan apa-apa ketidak puasan hati rakyat di sana. Tanpa ada pemimpin yang mampu untuk menyelesaikan dan mencari formula terbaik bagi isu ini, keadaan ini tidak mustahil akan memecahkan negara bukan setakat perpecahan parti-parti politik tanahair semata-mata.

Jika kita hendak mengharapkan pimpinan di Persekutuan yang ada pada hari ini dari kedua-dua belah pihak BN dan Pakatan Rakyat ia tidak akan sampai kemana-mana dan akhirnya akan berlaku apa yang kita tidak ingini pada suatu ketika nanti."