Hadi has shown his true colours with his fake news and hate speech about DAP and Sarawak politics providing second proof  within 48 hours  that the National  Co-operation Charter signed at PAS-UMNO Himpunan Penyatuan Ummah on Saturday was really a Charter for Fake News and Hate Speech

Hadi telah menunjukkan belang sebenarnya dengan berita palsu dan ucapan kebencian beliau mengenai DAP dan politik Sarawak, memberikan kita bukti kedua dalam tempoh 48 jam yang Piagam Muafakat Nasional yang baru ditandatangani di Perhimpunan Perpaduan Ummah Sabtu lepas adalah satu Piagam Berita Palsu dan Ucapan Kebencian

Presiden PAS Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang telah menunjukkan belang beliau dengan menyebarkan berita palsu dan ucapan kebencian berkenaan DAP dan politik di Sarawak, memberikan kita semua bukti kedua bahawa Piagam yang ditandatangani Sabtu lepas hanyalah satu Piagam Berita Palsu dan Ucapan Kebencian.

Sebelum ini saya fikirkan kejadian Naib Presiden UMNO Datuk Ismail Sabri yang menyebarkan berita palsu dan ucapan kebencian apabila beliau menyatakan yang proses persijilan halal telah dipindahkan daripada Jakim kepada Kementerian Kewangan dalam acara Himpunan Perpaduan Ummah PAS-UMNO adalah satu kesilapan yang besar yang terpencil.

Jakim telah menafikan tuduhan Ismail Sabri dalam satu kenyataan daripada Unit Komunikasi Korporatnya yang berbunyi: “Jakim menafikan kenyataan ini dan mengesahkan sehingga hari ini, Jakim dan jabatan agama Islam negeri masih bertanggungjawab dalam proses persijilan halal.

Akhbar The Star telah memetik ucapan Ismail Sabri di HPU yang mengatakan “Walaupun kerajaan baru ini kelihatan seperti dipimpin oleh orang Melayu, ia dipimpin secara tidak langsung oleh DAP”, seterusnya mendakwa proses persijilan halal yang dikelola oleh Jakim kini terletak di bawah Kementerian Kewangan.

“Dan kita semua tahu siapa yang pegang Kementerian Kewangan,” tambahan lagi beliau di perhimpunan tersebut.

Seperti yang dinyatakan oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Kepong Lim Lip Eng semalam, sebagai seorang ahli politik yang berpengalaman dan bekas menteri kabinet, Ismail Sabri mestilah dipertanggungjawabkan dan Lip Eng telah memberikan beliau 24 jam untuk memohon maaf di atas penyebaran berita palsu tersebut sebelum beliau membuat laporan kepada pihak Polis, Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia, dan Jabatan Agama Islam mengenai perkara itu.

Awal hari ini, di program Muafakat Rakyat di Kampung Melayu Baru di Gelang Patah, saya telah menggesa supaya penyokong Himpunan Perpaduan Ummah menuntut permohonan maaf daripada Ismail Sabri kerana tindakan beliau yang mencemarkan Piagam Muafakat Nasional menjadi Piagam Berita Palsu dan Ucapan Kebencian.

Ternyatalah saya tersilap, rupanya Ismail Sabri bukanlah tersilap dalam melakukan tindakannya itu, rupa-rupanya Piagam yang ditandatangan itu memang pun Piagam Berita Palsu dan Ucapan Kebencian.

Tidak sampai 48 jam selepas pengumuman piagam, Hadi sendiri telah memberikan bukti kedua tujuan sebenar Piagam ini iaitu untuk menyebarkan berita palsu dan ucapan kebencian.

Semasa memberikan ucapan beliau pada satu Majlis Sambutan Hari Malaysia di Bintulu hari ini, Hadi telah mendakwa yang DAP ingin memberikan kawalan dan kekayaan negara ini kepada orang Cina.

Beliau berkata: “Pada pilihanraya ke-14, BN telah ditewaskan dan Pakatan Harapan, di mana DAP merupakan pemimpin terbesarnya telah merampas tampuk pemerintahan.”

“Malangnya, DAP hanya mahu berikan kekayaan ini kepada orang Cina sahaja, bukan untuk semua, orang lain hanya akan ditinggalkan,”

Beliau mengatakan orang Melayu dan Orang Asal telah dipinggirkan dan situasi ini sama seperti di Semenanjung Malaysia.

Ini semua merupakan satu berita palsu dan ucapan kebencian, tanpa secebis kebenaran atau asas langsung.

Saya cabar Hadi untuk mengemukakan bukti bagi tuduhan tidak masuk akal ini.

Amatlah mengejutkan untuk melihat Hadi menyebarkan berita palsu ini di Sarawak, sedangkan apabila PAS meletakkan 11 calon di Sarawak semasa Pilihanraya Negeri Sarawak 2016, kesemua 11 calon PAS telah kalah teruk. Bolehkah Hadi beritahu kita semua, berapa ramai daripada 11 calon PAS ini telah kehilangan deposit mereka?

Hadi pernah dahulu mengakui di khalayak awam, hanya DAP yang mempertahankan PAS apabila kerajaan negeri Kelantan jatuh ke tangan Barisan Nasional pada tahun 1977, menyebabkan keadaan huru-hara di negeri itu. Adakah beliau menipu?

Saya ucapkan tahniah kepada Hadi kerana menjadi pemimpin Islamis pertama di dunia yang membentuk satu pakatan klepto-teokrasi, yang mahu membangunkan zaman kegemilangan Islam melalui Piagam Permuafakatan Nasional Himpunan Perpaduan Ummah.

Sejarah telah menyaksikan zaman kegemilangan Islam, satu zaman di mana budaya, ekonomi, dan sains berkembang, tetapi bolehkah beliau memberikan contoh zaman kegemilangan Islam yang berteraskan kleptokrasi, berita palsu, dan ucapan kebencian?

(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen kawasan Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang, di Gelang Patah pada hari Isnin 16 September 2019)

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PAS President Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang has shown his true colours with his fake news and hate speech about DAP and Sarawak politics, providing the second proof within 48 hours that the National Co-operation Charter signed at the PAS-UMNO Himpunan Penyatuan Ummah (HPU)  on Saturday was really a Charter for Fake News and Hate Speech.

I had earlier thought that UMNO Vice President and former Najib Minister, Datuk Ismail Sabri had committed a grave but isolated  lapse  of judgment when he uttered fake news and hate speech at the PAS-UMNO HPU on Saturday when in his speech he said  that the halal certification process had been  transferred from Jakim to the Finance Ministry.

Jakim had countered Ismail Sabri’s claims, saying in a statement by its Corporate Communications Unit: “Jakim denies this statement and confirms that up to now, Jakim and the Islamic religious authorities in the relative states are still responsible for halal certification.”

The Star had quoted Ismail Sabri as saying at the HPU that “
although the new government was seen to be led by the Malays, it is indirectly run by DAP
”, before going on to claim that the halal logo certification, which had come under Jakim, was  now under the Finance Ministry.

“
And we all know who runs the Finance Ministry,
” he was reported as claiming at the gathering on Saturday.

As DAP Kepong MP, Lim Lip Eng, said yesterday, as a senior politician and former cabinet minister, Ismail Sabri must be held accountable and Lip Eng gave Ismail 24 hours to apologise for the fake news and hate speech before he lodges reports with the police, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and Islamic authorities over the matter.

Earlier today, at the Program Muafakat Rakyat at Kampong Melayu Baru, Gelang Patah, I had asked the  PAS-UMNO promoters of Himpunan Penyatuan Ummah to demand an unqualified apology from Ismail Sabri as his fake news and hate speech at HPU had contaminated the National Co-operation Charter into a Charter for Fake News and Hate Speech!

I was clearly wrong, as Ismail did not appear to have committed  any lapse of judgment, as the  National Co-operation Charter signed at the PAS-UMNO Himpunan Penyatuan Ummah (HPU) on Saturday was really a Charter for Fake News and Hate Speech.

Within 48 hours of the HPU National Co-operation Charter, Hadi himself has provided the second proof that the Charter was really one to spread fake news and hate speech.

Speaking at a Malaysia Day event in Bintulu today, Hadi claimed that the DAP wanted to give control of the state and its wealth to the Chinese.

He said: “
In the 14th general election, the BN was defeated and Pakatan Harapan, in which the DAP is the biggest leader, came to power.

“Unfortunately, the DAP wants the wealth for Chinese only, not for all people; other people are left behind,”

He said Malays and Orang Asal were sidelined and this situation is similar in Peninsular Malaysia.

These are all fake news and hate speeches, completely without any truth or basis.

I challenge Hadi to furnish evidence to substantiate his outrageous allegations.

It is most shocking that Hadi is dishing out these fake news and hate speeches in Sarawak, when PAS fielded 11 candidates in the 11th Sarawak State General Elections in 2016, and all 11 PAS candidates were badly defeated. Can Hadi state how many of the 11 PAS candidates lost their deposits?

Hadi had once admitted publicly, that it was DAP which had defended PAS when the Kelantan government fell to Barisan Nasional in 1977, causing chaos within the state. Did he lie?

I congratulate Hadi for being the first Islamist leader in the world who is forming an alliance of klepto-theocracy, and who wants to revive the Islamic Golden Age through the HPU National Co-operation Charter.

History bear witness to the Islamic Golden Age, a period of cultural, economic and scientific flourishing but can he give an example where an Islamic Golden Age had been founded on kleptocracy, fake news and hate speeches?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Monday, 16th Sept. 2019)

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Malaysians should dedicate the 15 days between Hari Merdeka on  August 31st and Malaysia Day on September 16 every year as Malaysian Unity Season to emphasise and promote unity of diverse races, languages, regions, cultures and civilizations in Malaysia and avoid  division and disunity

Malaysians of diverse races, religions and cultures are here tonight to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This year’s Mid-Autumn or Mooncake Festival is special, as for the first time, the Yang di Pertuan Agong, Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong, Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah have conveyed Mid-Autumn Festival greetings to the Chinese community in the country.

This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival fell on last Friday on Sept. 13, and I was at Wisma Sambanthan in Kuala Lumpur to launch a  Tamil book of short stories by my old friend and comrade, K. Siladass.

I do not understand Tamil, but before the function, I was privileged to be given a copy of Thirukkural with translation in Malay and English by Dr. Singaravelu Sachithananthan, former head and professor of Indian Studies, University of Malaya – which must the first book of its kind in the world.

The very fact that on  the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, I was launching a Tamil book was highly symbolic  that Malaysia is a confluence of four great civilisations in the world – Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western – and Malaysia must strive to become an example to the world of the success of the Alliance of Civilisations instead of being a failure because of the Clash of Civilisations.

The  Thirukkural couplets, which is some 2,300 years old,  like Confucianism of some 2,500 year ago, have become treasures of humanity.

Let the best in Thirukkural and Confucianism on personal and government morality, in particular on how to be a good human being, be part of the Malaysian heritage for Malaysia to be example to the world of the success of the Alliance of Civilisations.

Let Malaysians  benefit from the best values and teachings of  all these great civilisations which meet in confluence in Malaysia to build a great Malaysian civilisation which is inclusive and all-encompassing, instead of being narrow-minded, regressive and exclusive!

Tomorrow, Sept. 16, is Malaysia Day. I have spoken to residents of Taman Taratai and together with them, I want to make a  Teratai Proposal – that Malaysians should dedicate the 15 days between Hari Merdeka on  August 31st and Malaysia Day on September 16 every year as Malaysian Unity Season to emphasise and promote unity of diverse races, languages, regions, cultures and civilizations in Malaysia and to avoid division and disunity.

It was unfortunate that this Malaysian Unity Season this year was spoiled by a function yesterday  which launched a Charter which did not celebrate the great Malaysian spirit which is all-encompassing, inclusive and open-minded but is more akin to a Clash of Civilisations in Malaysia rather than an Alliance of Civilisations.

May be, next year, we can launch a Charter for all Malaysians, regardless of race or religion,  to promote the Alliance of Civilisations rather than for any particular race, religion or culture.

It has been said that those who launched the Charter yesterday wanted to establish an  Islamic Golden Age to wrest power from the Pakatan Harapan Government in the next general election.

I think such thinking is the result of the misreading of history. There had  indeed been “Golden Ages” in each of the great civilisations of the world, but l am not aware that there was any Golden Age which was founded on kleptocracy or greed.

The Islamic Golden Age, for instance, was a period of cultural, economic and scientific flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 14th century.

This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, where scholars from various parts of the world with different cultural backgrounds were mandated to gather and translate all of the world’s classical knowledge into the Arabic language.

This period is traditionally said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258 AD.

Some scholars however place the  end of the Islamic Golden Age as late as the end of 15th to 16th centuries, with the end of Al-Andalus.

A leader of yesterday’s Charter had  famously said in the past:
Lebih baik menjadi gembala unta daripada gembala babi
.

This is not the spirit of those who want to seek a Golden Age, but the spirit of those in an era of despair and moral degradation and devastation.

I am prepared to stand corrected. As far as I know, there has not been a single Golden Age in human history which was founded on narrow-mindedness, kleptocracy and moral degradation.

Malaysia seems to be trapped in an extraordinary situation which, if not addressed, will only lead to greater division and disunity, stagnation and failure to leverage on the best values and qualities of the Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western civilisations which meet in confluence in Malaysia to build a great Malaysian nation.

This extraordinary situation is one where the Malays feel threatened, the Chinese feel threatened, the Indians feel threatened, the Kadazans feel threatened and the Ibans feel threatened.

Every community is made to believe that its culture and ethnicity is facing an existential threat.

But who is creating all these threats to all racial groups in the country?

Not only the various races feel threatened, Islam feels threatened and the non-Islamic religions feel threatened.

Malaysians must develop a new self-confidence of “reaching for the stars”, a new “Malaysia Boleh” spirit, to exorcise the various  fears and demons – contrived,  imaginary or otherwise –  for Malaysia to excel itself in various fields of human endeavour so as to achieve a golden age for Malaysia.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the Mid-Autumn Festival gathering at Taman Teratai, Iskandar Puteri on Sunday 15th September 2019 at 9 pm)

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PAS-UMNO promoters of Himpunan Peyatuan Ummah  should demand an unqualified  apology from Ismail Sabri for his fake news and hate speech at HPU had contaminated the National Co-operation Charter into a Charter for Fake News and Hate Speech

DAP MP for Kepong, Lim Lip Eng, has given UMNO Vice President and former Najib Minister, Datuk Ismail Sabri 24 hours to retract and apologise for the latter’s fake news and hate speech that the halal certification process was transferred from Jakim to the Finance Ministry.

Should Ismail fail to do so within 24 hours, Lim intends to lodge reports with the police, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and Islamic authorities over the matter.

Ismail Sabri  made the statement during the Himpunan Penyatuan Ummah 2019 gathering in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.

Jakim had countered Ismail Sabri’s claims, saying in a statement by its Corporate Communications Unit: “Jakim denies this statement and confirms that up to now, Jakim and the Islamic religious authorities in the relative states are still responsible for halal certification.”

As Lip Eng rightly said, as a senior politician and former cabinet minister, Ismail Sabri must be held accountable.

Lim said:
“He made a false accusation that the halal certification process is under DAP. Now that Jakim has made a statement denying it, it’s very clear that he has misled the public.”

The Star has quoted Ismail Sabri as saying at the HPU on Friday that  “although the new government is seen to be led by the Malays, it is indirectly run by DAP”, before going on to claim that the halal logo certification, which had come under Jakim, is now under the Finance Ministry.

“And we all know who runs the Finance Ministry,”
he was reported as claiming at the gathering on Friday.

The PAS-UMNO promoters of Himpunan Penyatuan Ummah  should demand an unqualified  apology from Ismail Sabri as his fake news and hate speech at HPU had contaminated the National Co-operation Charter into a Charter for Fake News and Hate Speech!

)Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the Program Muafakat Rakyat 2019 at Kampong Melayu  Baru, Gelang Patah on Monday, 16th September 2019 at 9 am)

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Third proof that HPU National Co-operation Charter is Charter for Fake News and Hate Speech – upsurge of fake news and hate speech on social media exploiting 3Rs to depict a  false picture of DAP as anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Royalty within 48 hours of the Charter

The third proof that the so-called National Co-operation Charter signed by PAS and UMNO at the Himpunan Penyatuan Ummah (HPU) at the UMNO headquarters at PWTC on Saturday  was actually a Charter for Fake New and Hate Speech was the upsurge of fake news and hate speech on the social media exploiting the 3Rs to depict a false picture of DAP as anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Royalty within 48 hours of the signing of the Charter.

The first proof was the  speech by the UMNO Vice President Datuk Ismail Sabri at the HPU on Saturday perpetrating the fake news that Jakim and the halal certification process had been transferred to the Finance Ministry, and the hate speech to create alarm, fear  and hate among Muslims that non-Muslims are now responsible for the halal certification process.

The second proof was the speech by the PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang in Bintulu at a Malaysia Day event where he perpetrated the fake news that DAP wanted to give control of the state and its wealth to the Chinese and the hate speech to create alarm, fear and hate among Malays and Muslims that the DAP was “the biggest leader” in the Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya to ensure that “the wealth for Chinese only, not for all people; other people are left behind”!

The third proof was that within 48 hours of the signing of the so-called National Co-operation Charter by PAS and UMNO leaders, there was an upsurge of fake news and hate speech on the social media exploiting the 3Rs to depict a false picture of DAP as anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Royalty.

I saw yesterday viralling on the social media, among others,  a post portraying me as attacking the Malay Rulers – which is completely false and untrue.

I am confident that finally, truth will triumph over fake news and goodwill, understanding and harmony will win over hate speech.

 Not that this has not happened before – and the historic and miraculous decision of May 9, 2018 is a triumph over fake news and hate speech perpetrated by the pedlar-in-chief of fake news and hate speech who was none other than the  global kleptocrat and Prime Minister, who with the now international fugitive from justice, presided over a campaign  and expended billions of ringgit on an army of cybertroopers to spread fake news and hate speech.

Who will forget the three colossal fake news and hate speech which was the core of Najib’s UMNO Presidential Speech at the December 2016 UMNO General Assembly,  where he said that :

1. The 14th General Elections will be a contest between UMNO and DAP;

2. The DAP is anti-Malay or anti-Islam.

3. The “nightmares” Malay will suffer if UMNO loses power in the next general election.

Who will forget the  height of criminal and anti-national irresponsibility to use public funds to produce the film, Tanda Putera, depicting the spurious and fictitious incident of  a young Chinese man urinating in front of the Selangor Mentri Besar’s official residence provoking the May 13, 1969 riots, and trying to link the young Chinese man to me, when I was never in Kuala Lumpur during the May 13, 1969 racial riots?

But all  these and many other colossal fake news and hate speech to create fear and feed hatred for the DAP as anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Malay Sultans have failed, for the historic and miraculous decision of May 9, 2018 would not have occurred.

Now, with the PAS-UMNO HPU and the National Co-operation Charter, these fake news and hate speech have been revived with a vengeance, with Hadi and not Najib spearheading the campaign of lies and falsehood. I do not know whether Hadi’s participation has sanitised these fake news and hate speech, to make them shariah-compliant.

But it is clear that the new round of fake news and hate speech is different from the previous attacks – it will be focussed on the DAP as the Big Brother in Pakatan Harapan and the Puppet-Master in the Government pulling all the strings on the Ministers, including Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.

But  this new campaign of fake news and hate speech is built on monumental lies – for DAP is not the “Big Brother” or “Puppet-Master” of the Pakatan Harapan Government.

I had anticipated this gambit and this is one of the reasons why I decided not to be in the Cabinet.

Mahathir is not my puppet and I am not Mahathir’s stooge – despite two contradictory demonization campaigns, one painting me as the Puppet Master of the Pakatan Harapan Government (UMNO and PAS) and the other depicting me as a puppet on the strings pulled by  Mahathir (MCA, Gerakan).

We have beaten the perpetrators of fake news and hate speech once, in the May 9, 2018, and there is no reason why we cannot beat them again, even with Hadi replacing Najib in calling the shots, in the next 15th General Election.

But we are faced with a new medium, the omnipresent social media which  conveys information with the speed of light,  enabling fake news and hate speech to be viralled instantly unless there is widespread social media literacy in the country, where every Malaysian develops the critical thinking to verify on the veracity of what they read on social media.

This is probably one of the greatest challenges of Malaysians today – to be among the top countries in the world in social media literacy where Malaysians do not become victims to fake news and hate speech!

This is something which the Pakatan Harapan Government must give both serious thought and priority.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Tuesday, September 17, 2019)

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Is Hadi taking his revenge and falsely accuse  DAP as anti-Malay and anti-Islam because DAP did not  support his ambition to become Prime Minister-designate  under Pakatan Rakyat in 2013?

Adakah Hadi sedang cuba membalas dendam dan menfitnah DAP sebagai anti-Islam dan anti-Melayu kerana DAP tidak menyokong cita-citanya untuk menjadi calon perdana menteri Pakatan Rakyat pada tahun 2013?

Penyertaan Presiden PAS Datuk Seri Hadi Awang ke dalam arena politik Sarawak dimotivasikan oleh kebencian dan kegagalan beliau untuk menerima hakikat kehidupan.

Apakah perkara yang berjaya mengubah seorang individu yang pernah menyatakan kesyukurannya kepada DAP kerana bersolidariti dengan PAS semasa kejatuhan kerajaan negeri Kelantan pada tahun 1977 kepada seorang individu yang penuh kebencian yang gemar mengeluarkan berita palsu dan ucapan kebencian seperti yang dikatakan beliau di Bintulu pada Hari Malaysia?

Di Bintulu, Hadi telah membuat berita palsu dengan mengatakan DAP berhasrat untuk memberikan kuasa dan kekayaan negeri kepada orang Cina dan ucapan kebencian ini bertujuan untuk menyebarkan ketakutan, kerisauan, dan kebencian di kalangan orang Melayu dan Islam terhadap DAP, kononnya DAP merupakan pemimpin terbesar dalam Pakatan Harapan untuk memastikan “kekayaan hanya untuk orang Cina, bukan untuk semua; orang lain ditinggalkan di belakang” apabila tuduhan ini hanyalah penipuan semata-mata.

Adakah Hadi sedang cuba membalas dendam dan menfitnah DAP sebagai anti-Melayu dan anti-Islam kerana DAP tidak menyokong cita-citanya untuk menjadi calon perdana menteri Pakatan Rakyat dalam tahun 2013?

Seperti yang saya dedahkan pada bulan Januari tahun ini, cubaan menjadikan Hadi sebagai calon perdana menteri Pakatan Rakyat adalah satu operasi yang sangat licik tanpa menyebut mana-mana nama langsung.

Sebelum Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13, Hadi melalui pimpinan PAS telah mendekati saya untuk berbincang mengenai isu calon perdana menteri, mengatakan yang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim bukanlah seorang calon yang sesuai.

Tindakan pimpinan PAS yang tidak mencalonkan Hadi, sebaliknya mencalonkan ahli politik veteran UMNO Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah agak bijak.

Apabila DAP membantah and berpegang kepada pandangan kami yang Anwar patut terus menjadi calon perdana menteri Pakatan Rakyat dan kami tidak mencadangkan langsung supaya Hadi dipertimbangkan untuk menggantikan Anwar, pimpinan PAS dapat mengetahui yang DAP tidak akan menyokong Hadi sebagai calon perdana menteri dan tidak cuba lagi untuk menjayakan rancangan ini.

Apakah yang terjadi jika Pakatan Rakyat menang dalam PRU13 dengan majoriti tipis, dengan PAS, jumlah ahli parlimen yang diperlukan untuk memilih di antara Anwar ataupun Datuk Seri Najib Razak boleh diteka oleh semua.

Saya telah katakan pada bulan Januari yang lepas yang Hadi tidak boleh dipercayai kerana mempunyai kekurangan sifat peribadi yang serius sebagai seorang pemimpin politik Malaysia, tidak seperti para pemimpin PAS yang lain seperti Fadzil Noor dan Nik Aziz.

Kerana inilah DAP boleh menerima Fadzil Noor dan Nik Aziz sebagai calon perdana menteri untuk Malaysia tetapi bukan Hadi Awang.

Perkara ini dapat dilihat dalam ucapan Hadi yang penuh kebencian di Bintulu, yang bertujuan untuk membolehkan PAS memasuki Sarawak, di mana seorang individu yang pernah bersyukur kepada DAP kini boleh berubah sepenuhnya sehingga sanggup menyebarkan berita palsu dan ucapan kebencian terhadap DAP.

Saya pasti arwah Fadzil Noor ataupun arwah Nik Aziz tidak akan melakukan perkara seperti itu.

PAS telah meletakkan 11 calon di Pilihan Raya Negeri Sarawak yang ke-11 pada tahun 2016 dan kesemua calon mereka telah kalah teruk dengan hampir 60 peratus calon mereka kehilangan deposit.

Saya puji Ketua Pemuda DAP Serian, Brolin Nicholsion, seorang Bidayuh, yang telah menegur tindakan Hadi di Bintulu yang boleh memecah belahkan negara dan tidak diterima di Sarawak.

Semalam, Hadi telah berjumpa dengan Ketua Menteri Sarawak sebagai sebahagian daripada usaha beliau untuk menceburi politik negeri Sarawak.

Adakah fitnah beliau ini akan menjadi pembuka jalan untuk PAS berkerjasama dengan GPS di Sarawak, selepas bermuafakat dengan UMNO?

Hadi telah mengambil kesempatan kemenangan Barisan Nasional di Sarawak pada bulan Mei 2016 untuk mendapatkan persetujuan Perdana Menteri ketika itu untuk memberikan keutamaan kepada RUU Hudud beliau di Parlimen. Apakah taktik yang beliau cuba gunakan kali ini?

Brolin telah mengatakan yang Pakatan Harapan Sarawak telah bersetuju untuk memberikan jawatan Ketua Menteri Sarawak kepada seorang Dayak jika PH membentuk kerajaan negeri Sarawak. Adakah Hadi bersetuju dengan pelantikan seorang Dayak sebagai Ketua Menteri Sarawak?

Mari saya ingatkan Hadi apa yang telah saya katakan selepas kekalahan DAP dalam PRN Sarawak 2016:

“DAP tidak boleh takut untuk kalah dalam pilihan raya kerana kita mesti belajar daripada kekalahan kita di pilihan raya negeri Sarawak semalam supaya kita boleh menjadi lebih kuat untuk berjuang demi keadilan, kebebasan, dan pemerkasaan manusia untuk semua rakyat Sarawak dan Malaysia.

“Ujian untuk satu pergerakan politik yang berteraskan idea keadilan, kebebasan, dan pemerkasaan manusia terletak kepada kebolehannya untuk tidak dileraikan oleh satu kekalahan, tetapi untuk bangkit semula dengan lebih kuat dan komited untuk memperjuangkan idea kita.

Saya tambah lagi:

“Masalah dalam perjuangan hidup bukanlah kejatuhan, tetapi kebolehan untuk bangkit semula selepas jatuh, tidak kiralah teruk mana pun kejatuhan itu, dan untuk terus berjuang demi keadilan, kebebasan, dan pemerkasaan manusia.

“Walaupun menghadapi kesukaran dan kekecewaan, DAP tidak akan terpesong daripada matlamatnya untuk memastikan semua calonnya daripada pelbagai latar belakang, Cina, Dayak, dan Melayu berjaya menjadi Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak.

“DAP telah berusaha selama 18 tahun untuk dipilih ke Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak dan DAP Sarawak bersedia untuk perjalanan yang berliku bersama dengan rakyat Sarawak untuk mencapai matlamat seterusnya, untuk membentuk Kerajaan Negeri yang baharu di Sarawak yang akan memberikan keutamaan kepada keperluan dan hak rakyat Sarawak, bukan kroni kepada pihak yang berkuasa selama ini. “

(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Rabu 18 September 2019)

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PAS President Datuk Seri Hadi Awang’s foray into Sarawak politics is motivated by hate and deeply-entrenched resentment.

What turned a person who once expressed gratitude to DAP for standing by PAS’ side when the Kelantan government fell in 1977 into a spiteful personality who indulges in fake news and hate speech like what he said in Bintulu on Malaysia Day?

In Bintulu, Hadi  perpetrated the fake news that DAP wanted to give control of the state and its wealth to the Chinese and the hate speech to create alarm, fear and hate among Malays and Muslims that the DAP was “the biggest leader” in the Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya to ensure that “the wealth for Chinese only, not for all people; other people are left behind” when such allegations were downright lies and pure hate speech.

Is Hadi taking his revenge and falsely accuse  DAP as anti-Malay and anti-Islam because DAP did not  support his ambition to become Prime Minister-designate  under Pakatan Rakyat in 2013?

As I revealed  in January this year, the move for Hadi to be the Prime Minister candidate for Pakatan Rakyat for the 13th General Election was a very smooth and slick operation, without any name being mentioned.

Before the 13th General Election, Hadi through the PAS leadership had approached me to broach the subject of a Prime Ministerial-designate, on the ground the Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was not a suitable candidate.

PAS leaders was quite astute as not to suggest themselves that Hadi should be the Prime Ministerial candidate for Pakatan Rakyat, and diplomatically suggested that their proposal for a suitable Prime Ministerial candidate was veteran UMNO politician Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.

When DAP leaders dissented and held to our view that Anwar should continue to be the Prime Ministerial candidate for Pakatan Rakyat, and we made no suggestion that Hadi should instead be considered as the Prime Ministerial candidate, the PAS leaders knew that the DAP would not support Hadi as the Prime Minister-designate and the proposal replace Anwar as the Prime Ministerial candidate was not further pursued.

What would have happened if Pakatan Rakyat had won with a slim majority in the 13th General Election, with PAS the parliamentary numbers to decide whether Anwar or the then incumbent Datuk Seri Najib Razak should be Prime Minister is anybody’s guess.

I said in January that Hadi had a  very serious character flaw revolving around the question of trust as a Malaysian political leader, unlike other  PAS leaders like Fadzil Noor or Nik Aziz.

This was  why DAP could accept Fadzil Noor and Nik Aziz as Prime Minister-designate for Malaysia, but not Hadi Awang.

This has  been illustrated by Hadi’s spiteful speech at Bintulu just to pave the way for PAS foray into Sarawak where a person who could once expressed his gratitude to DAP for defending PAS when it was down and out could turned  around to tell fake news and express hate speech about the DAP.

I am sure neither Fadzil Noor nor Nik Aziz would have done such a despicable thing.

PAS fielded 11 candidates in the 11th Sarawak state general elections in 2016 and all 11 PAS candidates lost badly in the state general elections. Over 60 per cent of PAS candidates lost their deposits.

I commend the Serian DAP Youth chief, Brolin Nicholsion, a Bidayuh,  who chastised Hadi  for his  hate speech in Bintulu which are not welcome in Sarawak and could only divide Malaysians further.

Yesterday, Hadi met the Sarawak Chief Minister as part of the PAS foray into Sarawak.

Is his hate speech in Bintulu making baseless allegations against the DAP meant to pave the way for PAS to team up with GPS in Sarawak, after his alliance with UMNO?

Hadi took advantage of Barisan Nasional’s victory in the Sarawak state general election in May 2016 to secure the agreement of the then Prime Minister to prioritise his hudud private member’s bill motion in Parliament. What tactics  is Hadi up to this time?

Brolin said Sarawak Pakatan Harapan had agreed that the post of Sarawak chief minister would be given to a Dayak if Harapan formed the government in Sarawak. Would Hadi agree to the appointment of a Dayak as Sarawak Chief Minister?

Let me remind Hadi of what I said after the DAP’s electoral setback in the 2016 Sarawak state general election:

“DAP must not be afraid to lose in elections as we must learn from the crushing defeat in the Sarawak state elections yesterday so that we can become stronger to fight for justice, freedom and human empowerment for all Sarawakians and Malaysians another day.

“The test of a political movement dedicated to the higher ideals of justice, freedom and human empowerment is the ability not to be crushed by a ‘crushing defeat’, but the ability to rise from a ‘crushing defeat’ to be stronger and more committed to our cause to fight another day.”

I further added:

“The problem in life’s struggle is not falling down but the ability to stand up after a fall, however big the fall, and to continue the battle for justice, freedom and human empowerment.

“Despite our disappointment and setbacks, DAP will not be deflected from our objective to elect a full slate of Chinese, Dayak and Malay state assembly representatives in the Sarawak State Assembly.

“It has taken DAP Sarawak 18 long years to be elected into the Sarawak State Assembly and DAP Sarawak is prepared for the long haul together with like-minded Sarawakians to achieve the next target, to elect a new State Government in Sarawak which will give top priority to the needs and rights of the people of Sarawak instead of just to the cronies of the powers-that-be.”

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Wednesday, 18th September 2019)

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The 42 DAP MPs  will vote in support of a constitutional amendment to provide for equal rights for Malaysian women to confer citizenship on  children born overseas

Kesemua 42 orang Ahli Parlimen DAP akan menyokong RUU Pindaan Perlembagaan bagi memberikan hak sama rata kepada wanita berbangsa Malaysia untuk menurunkan kerakyatan mereka kepada anak yang lahir di luar negara

Kesemua 42 orang Ahli Parlimen DAP akan menyokong satu Rang Undang-undang Pindaan Perlembagaan untuk memberikan hak sama rata kepada wanita yang berbangsa Malaysia untuk menurunkan kerakyatannya kepada anak kelahiran mereka yang lahir di luar negara.

Perkara 14 Perlembagaan Persekutuan membenarkan bapa berkerakyatan Malaysia untuk menurunkan kerakyatan mereka kepada anak mereka yang lahir di luar negara dengan kelulusan diberikan dalam tempoh beberapa bulan selepas permohonan.

Tetapi wanita berbangsa Malaysia yang mengahwini suami berbangsa asing perlu memohon kerakyatan bagi anak mereka di bawah peruntukan berbeza — Perkara 15(2) Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

Sesetengah wanita ini telah menunggu lebih daripada dua tahun untuk mendapatkan kerakyatan bagi anak mereka, malah sesetengah permohonan mereka telah ditolak tanpa sebab.

Mereka yang memohon semula setelah ditolak buat kali pertama kebiasaannya ditolak sekali lagi tanpa diberikan sebarang sebab.

Ahli Parlimen DAP menyokong pindaan Perkara 14 Perlembagaan Persekutuan bagi menggantikan perkataan “bapa” kepada “sekurang-kurangnya seorang ibu atau bapa”, bagi memberikan hak yang sama kepada wanita Malaysia.

Anak kepada wanita berbangsa Malaysia yang lahir di luar negara sepatutnya mempunyai hak kerakyatan yang sama melalui kuatkuasa undang-undang seperti anak kepada individu lelaki yang berbangsa Malaysia.

Malaysia tergolong di kalangan 25 negara yang menafikan wanita hak sama rata untuk menurunkan kerakyatan kepada anak mereka.

Cabaran birokrasi yang dihadapi oleh wanita dalam memohon kerakyatan untuk anak mereka ini adalah salah satu punca kehilangan bakat dalam negara.

Ramai rakyat Malaysia yang menetap di luar negara berkahwin di luar negara. Mereka bertemu jodoh di luar negara semasa bekerja dan kini berhasrat untuk pulang ke tanah air. Memandangkan Malaysia secara terus menerus kehilangan bakat berharga disebabkan oleh proses birokrasi ini, kita haruslah mengubah sistem ini.

(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada Hari Jumaat 20 September 2019)

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The 42 DAP MPs will vote in support of a constitutional amendment to provide for equal rights for Malaysian women to confer citizenship on children born overseas.

Article 14 of the Federal Constitution allows Malaysian men to pass on citizenship to their children born overseas, with approval being obtained within a month of applying for citizenship.

But Malaysian women with foreign spouses have to apply for their children’s citizenship under a different provision – Article 15 (2) of the Federal Constitution.

Some women had waited more than two years to obtain citizenship for their children, while others had their application rejected without a reason.

Those who reapplied for Malaysian citizenship for their children after being unsuccessful the first time around were often rejected yet again without a reason being given.

DAP MPs support the amendment of Article 14 of the Constitution to replace the word “father” with “at least one parent”, in order to grant Malaysian women the same rights as Malaysian men.

Children of Malaysian women who are born overseas should have the right to citizenship by the operation of law on an equal basis with the children of Malaysian men.

Malaysia is among 25 countries which denied women equal rights to pass on citizenship to their children.

The bureaucratic challenges faced by women in applying for citizenship for their children were among the reasons for Malaysia’s brain drain.

Many Malaysians living overseas were married overseas. They met their spouses while working and they wanted to return home.  As Malaysia continues to lose its precious talent due to this bureaucratic process, it needs to be changed.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday 19th September 2019)

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The PAS-UMNO HPU and its  Charter last Saturday have resulted in escalation of fake news and hate speech in the manipulation of issues of race and religion to polarise inter-racial and inter-religious relations in the country

The PAS-UMNO Himpunan Penyatuan Ummah (HPU) and its  Charter last Saturday have resulted in the escalation of fake news and hate speech in the manipulation of issues of race and religion in the past five days  to polarise  inter-racial and inter-religious relations in the country.

First, UMNO Vice President and former Minister, Datuk Ismail Sabri perpetrated the fake news that Jakim and the halal certification process had been transferred to the Finance Ministry, and disseminated the hate speech to create alarm, fear  and hate among Muslims that non-Muslims are now responsible for the halal certification process.

Next, on Malaysia Day on Monday, PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang perpetrated the vile and divisive fake news at a Malaysia Day function in Bintulu that DAP wanted to give control of the state and its wealth to the Chinese and  disseminated the equally vile and divisive  hate speech to create alarm, fear and hate among Malays and Muslims that the DAP was “the biggest leader” in the Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya to ensure  “the wealth for Chinese only, not for all people; other people are left behind”!

Third, since the PAS-UMNO HPU and its Charter, there had been an upsurge of vile and divisive fake news and hate speech on the social media exploiting the 3Rs to depict a false picture of DAP as anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Royalty.

Fourth, the PAS Deputy President, Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man yesterday ramped up the attack on DAP alleging that it was pursuing a “Christianisation agenda”, citing as example the speech by the Deputy Youth and Sports Minister and DAP MP for Bukit Mertajam, Steven Sim, at a  “New Malaysia Narrative” forum on “Anak Malaysia?   Our Story of Past, Present and Future Malaysia” at Mega Chinese Methodist Church in Kota Damansara.

I was shocked by Tuan Ibrahim’s allegation when I first read it in the media, but Steven Sim has since explained that he was speaking to Christians in a church and had discussed their responsibilities as Malaysians.

He said he highlighted In his speech values  from the Bible as a guide to become good Malaysians, for example, justice; transparency; helping the meek and poor; (and) rejecting corruption, oppression and racism.

He did not criticise or touch on other religions, and in fact urged Malaysian Christians to be good citizens who practiced such values.

Can Tuan Ibrahim explain what was wrong with Steven Sim speaking at a church forum advising Christians to be good citizens?

Is Tuan Ibrahim going to suggest that all politicians should be banned from speaking at houses of worship, whether mosques, churches or temples starting with PAS leaders?

I agree with Sim that Tuan Ibrahim should respect freedom of religion as enshrined in the Federal Constitution and to stop spreading hate and division among Malaysians of various races and religions.

Tuan Ibrahim should heed the statement by the Herman Shastri, the General Secretary of the Council of Churches in Malaysia (CCM) who said that the PAS Deputy President should not imply that the forum was used for political propaganda, and to  stop insinuating that the church was promoting it.

I commend the Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman for his defence of his deputy minister from Tuan Ibrahim’s fake news and hate speech, urging for a stop of the politics of hate and “let us build more abridges together as a united Malaysia”.

For Tuan Ibrahim’s information and other like-minded PAS and UMNO leaders, DAP has no Christianisation agenda and they should stop making such vile and baseless accusation against the DAP. I am a Buddjhist and not a Christian.

But I expect an avalanche of fake news and hate speech in the coming days, weeks and months  to create alarm, fear and hate so as to polarise race and religious relations to envelop the social media after the PAS-UMNO HPU, which is why the National Co-operation Charter signed by the leaders of two parties was actually a Charter for Fake News and Hate Speech.

PAS leaders make the most feeble attempt to deny that the alliance they formed with UMNO was an alliance of klepto-theocracy, as  singularly absent is any PAS condemnation of the the global kleptocrat, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the monstrous 1MDB scandal. In fact, Najib occupied a place of honour at the PAS-UMNO HPU.

DAP had previously formed an alliance with PAS to form  Pakatan Rakyat together with PKR, but the coalition was clearly based on a set of principles which was spelt out in a Joint Statement of the leaders of DAP, PKR and PAS on 12th April 2008 which declared, viz:

“The policies of Pakatan Rakyat are centred on objectives that have been agreed upon and accepted by the leaders of the three parties that are keADILan, DAP and PAS. Among these are to develop this country on the basis of justice, create opportunities for all citizens to enjoy national prosperity and to accord priority to those who are poor and marginalized.”

But when Hadi as the PAS President decided on implementing Hudud without agreement from DAP, it sounded the death knell for Pakatan Rakyat.

DAP will never endorse the PAS-UMNO HPU like MCA and MIC as it had been violated even before the ink of the Charter was dry –  in violating the Federal Constitution as the PAS leadership does not accept a non-Malay Malaysian as the Prime Minister of Malaysia, as provided by Article 43 of the Malaysian Constitution.

I have said that I do not foresee a non-Malay becoming Prime Minister of Malaysia in my life-time, but the PAS leadership rejects any possibility of an “Obama moment” for a non-Malay Prime Minister, even if it takes 100 years!

But PAS leaders can accept a kleptocrat as a Prime Minister, proving that the PAS-UMNO alliance is really one of klepto-theocracy and the National Co-operation Charter is nothing more than a Charter by PAS and UMNO leaders to peddle fake news and hate speech to polarise race and religious relations in Malaysia.

It is most ironic that PAS leaders are talking about revival of Islamic “Golden Age” through the PAS-UMNO HPU and its Charter, when there is no instance in human history of a civilisation able to establish a “Golden Age” based on kleptocracy, fake news and hate speech!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Thursday,19th September 2019)

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PAS-UMNO Himpunan Penyatuan Ummah (HPU) is not about Malays or Muslims but about saving UMNO from oblivion and keeping UMNO leaders out of jail and giving PAS the opportunity to be Big Brother in a PAS-UMNO alliance and for PAS President to have a shot to be Prime Minister of Malaysia

Himpunan Penyatuan Ummah (HPU) PAS-UMNO bukan tentang orang Melayu atau Islam, sebaliknya tentang menyelamatkan UMNO daripada dilupakan dan untuk mengelakkan pemimpin UMNO daripada meringkuk di dalam penjara dan memberikan PAS peluang untuk merasa menjadi Abang Besar dalam gabungan PAS-UMNO dan untuk Presiden PAS mencuba nasib untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia

Himpunan Penyatuan Ummah (HPU) PAS-UMNO di Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra UMNO Sabtu lalu, bukanlah tentang Melayu, Islam atau Raja-raja Melayu tetapi untuk menyelamatkan UMNO daripada dilupakan, malah untuk mengelakkan pemimpin UMNO daripada meringkuk di dalam penjara sepanjang hayat mereka dek kerana amalan rasuah dan salah guna kuasa semasa mereka berada di dalam kerajaan, dan memberikan peluang untuk PAS merasa jadi “Abang Besar” dalam gabungan PAS-UMNO dan menjadi penyelamat kepada UMNO yang kleptokratik — inilah sebab mengapa ia digelar sebagai klepto-teokrasi — dan untuk memberikan peluang yang julung-julung kalinya buat Presiden PAS untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia setelah dinafikan peluang berkenaan semasa berada di dalam gabungan Pakatan Rakyat.

Untuk mencapai objektif-objektif berkenaan, gabungan PAS-UMNO perlu mencipta suasana yang dipenuhi rasa ketakutan, cemas dan kebencian yang tidak berasas dan diada-adakan di kalangan orang Melayu dan Islam, yang merupakan majoriti pengundi di Semenanjung Malaysia, dan untuk pertama kalinya setelah merdeka, kaum Melayu dan agama Islam kononnya berdepan krisis eksistensial, menepikan tiga fakta asas berikut:

Pertama, siapa yang berada di dalam kerajaan sejak enam dekad yang lalu dan bagaimana mungkin untuk kerajaan Pakatan Harapan memperbetulkan masalah yang diciptakan UMNO dalam tempoh masa satu, dua atau lima tahun sedangkan hegemoni UMNO dalam kerajaan telah bersarang selama enam dekad lamanya, yang agenda sebenarnya bukan untuk mengangkat taraf kehidupan bumiputera tetapi sebaliknya untuk mewujudkan UMNO-putra yang hari ini telah menciptakan kleptokrat global Malaysia pertama yang menjadi watak penting dalam skandal rasuah membabitkan 1MDB. Pakatan Harapan tidak akan menghapuskan apa yang baik untuk negara, tetapi akan melaksanakan pembaharuan terhadap apa yang buruk dan menjejaskan negara;

Kedua, fitnah terbesar bahawa DAP kononnya anti-Melayu, anti-Islam dan anti- Raja-raja Melayu, sedangkan DAP telah berulang kali menegaskan, di dalam Parlimen dan di dalam dokumen dasar sejak lima dekad lalu, dan di dalam pengumuman dasar asas gabungan politik DAP, sama ada Gagasan Rakyat, Barisan Alternatif, Pakatan Rakyat dan terbaharu Pakatan Harapan, menegaskan dan menegaskan semula sokongan dan komitmen DAP terhadap perkara asas dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan, terutamanya berhubung bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa rasmi, Islam sebagai agama rasmi dan sistem raja berpelembagaan di Malaysia.

Ketiga, realiti demografi di Malaysia yang memberi jaminan bahawa orang Melayu tidak akan kehilangan kuasa politik, tak kira apa jua yang akan berlaku terhadap UMNO atau PAS dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.

Pada tahun 1957, semasa kemerdekaan Tanah Melayu, jumlah penduduk mengikut peratusan adalah 53% Melayu, 35% Cina, 11% India dan 1% Lain-lain.

Pada tahun 1970, jumlah peratusan penduduk adalah seperti berikut; 44.32% Melayu, 34.34% Cina, 8.99% India, 11.89% Bumiputera bukan Melayu, dan 0.67% Lain-lain.

Pada tahun 2010, peratusan penduduk Melayu di Malaysia bertambah kepada 55.07%, Cina berkurangan kepada 24.34%, India berkurangan kepada 7.35%, Bumiputera bukan Melayu kekal 11.94% dan 1.3% Lain-lain.

Pada tahun 2040, dijangkakan peratusan penduduk Bumiputera akan meningkat kepada 72.1%, jumlah peratusan penduduk Cina akan turun kepada 20% dan India turun 6.4% sementara Lain-lain 1.5%.

Tidak terhalang oleh usaha pemomokkan berterusan terhadap DAP dengan tuduhan anti-Melayu dan anti-Islam, kami tetap tabah dan meneruskan perjuangan politik kami untuk berkhidmat demi rakyat Malaysia tanpa mengira kaum, agama atau wilayah, malah kami hari ini mempunyai mempunyai wakil daripada setiap kaum; Melayu, Cina, India, Kadazan dan Dayak sama ada di dalam kerajaan Persekutuan atau negeri, tidak seperti parti-parti politik yang lain.

Ada yang mengatakan bahawa dalam politik, kombinasi 1+1 tidak akan menjadikan ia 2, ia mungkin akan menghasilkan pertambahan kepada 3 atau pengurangan kepada 1.

Pemimpin PAS-UMNO berharap bahawa gabungan mereka yang dimeterai Sabtu lalu akan menghasilkan nilai 3, tetapi ia mungkin akan hanya menghasilkan nilai 1 jika Pakatan Harapan berjaya membersihkan segala kekotoran hasil peninggalan selama enam dekad dan mula menunaikan janji Buku Harapan dalam tiga tahun terakhir menjelang Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 (PRU15).

Baru-baru ini, bekas pemimpin dan menteri UMNO, Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar berkata Datuk Seri Najib Razak hanya menunaikan 21 daripada 60 janji manifesto Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 – atau kadar peratusan pencapaian berjumlah 35%.

Saya yakin Pakatan Harapan mampu mencipta kadar peratusan pencapaian yang lebih tinggi dalam manifesto Malaysia Baharu semasa PRU15 diadakan pada tahun 2023, namun kerajaan Pakatan Harapan harus komited untuk memenuhi janji pilihan raya yang lain meskipun ia mengambil masa lebih daripada satu kitaran pilihan raya.

Semboyan perang persepsi telah ditiup dan gabungan PAS-UMNO melancarkan kempen berita palsu dan ucapan kebencian secara berterusan semata-mata untuk mewujudkan suasana cemas, ketakutan dan kebencian di kalangan orang Melayu dan Islam bahawa kononnya hak dan kepentingan mereka sedang diserang oleh kerajaan Pakatan Harapan yang dikuasai DAP di Putrajaya dan kononnya Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad telah menjadi boneka kepada DAP.

Teramatlah ironi dan tidak munasabah, ketika DAP diserang oleh gabungan PAS-UMNO dengan tuduhan mahu menghapuskan hak orang Melayu dan Islam, DAP dalam masa sama diserang oleh MCA, Gerakan, MIC dan SUPP kononnya menjual hak dan kepentingan orang bukan Melayu, khususnya Cina, kepada “tuan Melayu” dan tunduk kepada kehendak Mahathir.

Tidak ada seorang pun pemimpin pembangkang berhenti sejenak untuk memikirkan semula betapa kontradik dan mengarutnya kedua-dua serangan berkenaan.

Ini terjadi kerana tidak seorang pun daripada mereka sebenar-benarnya mempunyai niat yang murni terhadap masa depan orang Melayu, Cina, India, Kadazan dan Iban atau prihatin terhadap budaya dan agama di negara ini, sebaliknya mereka hanya memikirkan tentang kelangsungan hidup mereka, ingin meredakan kebimbangan mereka terhadap kemungkinan akan dikenakan hukuman penjara seumur hidup dan bercita-cita mahu kembali berkuasa dengan menunggang dan memanipulasi isu-isu 3R!

Ahli strategi gabungan PAS-UMNO akan berjaya sekiranya mereka boleh menanamkan dalam minda orang Melayu dan Islam bahawa DAP anti-Melayu, anti-Islam, anti-Raja-raja Melayu dan mahu menghapuskan mereka dari muka bumi ini.

Semua ini adalah fitnah dan dongeng besar belaka yang diciptakan PAS-UMNO, kerana sudah terbukti bahawa DAP adalah lebih berwajah Malaysia daripada pemimpin UMNO dan PAS.

Kita tidak harus membenarkan politik ketakutan terus merebak, di mana menerusi penipuan, pembohongan, berita palsu dan ucapan kebencian, mereka menyebabkan setiap masyarakat menjadi tidak rasional dan takut malah benci terhadap masyarakat lain – yang mana akan memusnahkan Malaysia dan menyebabkan Malaysia berpecah belah, gagal, malah menjadi negara penyangak dan kleptokratik sekaligus semakin menjauh daripada matlamat untuk menjadi negara bertaraf dunia berteraskan perpaduan, kebebasan, keadilan, kecemerlangan dan integriti.

Semoga Malaysia menjadi sebuah contoh di mata dunia dengan kejayaan Perikatan Ketamadunan dan bukannya menjadi gagal menerusi Konflik Peradaban.

Justeru itu penting untuk setiap rakyat Malaysia mempersiapkan diri dengan ilmu sosial media dengan menerapkan elemen pemikiran kritis bagi membolehkan mereka mengenal pasti berita palsu dan ucapan kebencian, dan membezakan antara kaca dan permata, salah dan benar.

Atas dasar ini, DAP akan menubuhkan jawatankuasa khas untuk mempromosikan literasi sosial media dan melawan berita palsu serta ucapan kebencian, yang mana akan diketuai oleh Ahli Majlis Petaling Jaya dan Ketua DAPSY Subang, Farhan Haziq Mohamad.

(Kenyataan Media oleh MP DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada Jumaat, 20 September 2019)

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The PAS-UMNO Himpunan Penyatuan Ummah (HPU) at the UMNO Putra World Trade Centre last Saturday was not  about the Malays, Islam or the Malay Rulers but everything about saving UMNO from oblivion, keeping UMNO leaders from spending the rest of their lives in prison for their corruption and abuses of power when they were in government, and the opportunity to give PAS the role as the “Big Brother” in a PAS-UMNO alliance and saviour of a kleptocratic UMNO – hence the alliance of klepto-theocracy – and to give  the PAS President the first opportunity to become Prime Minister of Malaysia denied him in Pakatan Rakyat.

To achieve their respective objectives, the PAS-UMNO alliance have to create baseless and unfounded fear, alarm and  hate  among the Malays and Muslims, who comprise  the overwhelming majority of  the voters in Peninsular Malaysia, that for the first time in independent nationhood,  the Malay race and Islamic religion are facing an existential threat, ignoring three basic facts:

Firstly, who was in government in the past six decades and how was it possible for the Pakatan Harapan government to undo in one, two or five years the six decades of UMNO hegemony in government, which was primarily used not to uplift the bumiputeras but to create UMNO-putras to be extent of creating Malaysia’s first global kleptocrat in a string of corruption cases, most infamously the 1MDB scandal. Pakatan Harapan will not do away what is good for the country but reform what is bad and detrimental to the nation;

Secondly, the monstrous  lies that the DAP is anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Malay Royalty; when the DAP had repeatedly, in Parliament and in policy documents in the past five decades, and in the fundamental policy pronouncements  forming the basis of DAP political alliances, whether Gagasan Rakyat, Barisan Alternative, Pakatan Harapan and latest Pakatan Harapan, affirmed and reaffirmed DAP’s support and commitment to the fundamental features of the Malaysian Constitution, especially with regard to Malay as the official language, Islam as the official religion and the system of constitutional monarchy in Malaysia.

Thirdly, the  demographic reality in Malaysia which is the surest guarantee that the Malays will not lose political power whatever happens to to UMNO or PAS in the next general elections.

In 1957, during Malaya’s independence, the population comprised 53% Malays, 35% Chinese, 11% Indians and 1% Others.

In 1970 Malaysia’s population comprised 44.32% Malays, 34.34% Chinese, 8.99% Indians, 11.89% non-Malay Bumiputeras, 0.67% others.

In 2010, the percentage of Malays in the Malaysian population increased to 55.07%, Chinese reduced to 24.34%, Indians dropped to 7.35%, non-Malay Bumiputeras maintained at 11.94% and 1.3% others.

In 2040, the bumiputra percentage will increase to 72.1%, the Chinese population will fall to 20 per cent, the Indian population drop to 6.4% with Others at 1.5%.

Undeterred by continuous demonization efforts to cast the DAP as anti-Malay and anti-Islam, we have soldiered on and persevered in our political struggle to serve all Malaysians regardless of race, religion or region, so that we are today more Malaysian representative than  any opposition party, having Malay, Chinese, Indian, Kadazan and  Dayak representation whether in federal or state governments or legislatures.

It has been said that in politics, a combination of 1 + 1 may not lead to 2, as it may be upped to 3 or go down to 1.

PAS-UMNO leaders are hoping that their alliance consummated last Saturday could result in 3; but it could be 1 if Pakatan Harapan cleans up the dirt of six decades and start keeping to the pledges of the Buku Harapan in the last three years before the 15th General Election.

Recently, former UMNO Minister and leader, Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar, said that Datuk Seri Najib Razak only fulfilled 21 out of 60 election pledges in the Barisan Nasional manifesto in the 13th General Election – or an achievement rate of 35%.

I believe Pakatan Harapan would be able to register a higher percentage rate of achievement in  the New Malaysia manifesto when the 15th General Election is held in 2023, but the Pakatan Harapan government must be committed to fulfill all the other election pledges even if it take a longer time-span than one electoral cycle.

A war of perception is being waged, and the PAS-UMNO alliance has launched an intense campaign of fake news and hate speech to create alarm, fear and hate among the Malays  and Muslims that their rights and interests were under attack  by a DAP-dominated Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya and that Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad has become a  puppet of DAP.

It is ironic and most  ludicrous that at the same time the DAP is being attacked by the PAS-UMNO alliance for posing an existential threat to  the Malays and Muslims of their rights, the DAP is being attacked by the MCA, Gerakan, MIC and SUPP  of having sold out the rights and interests of the non-Malays, in particular the Chinese, to the “Malay masters” and for being subservient to Mahathir.

None of the Opposition leaders have paused to consider the impossibility of such contradictory positions.

This is because none of them is interested about the fate of the Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans and Ibans or  the various religions and cultures in the country,  but only in their own survival, from having to spend the rest of their lives in jail or to ride back  to power on an  unconscionable and reckless exploitation and manipulation of the 3R issues!

The strategists of the PAS-UMNO alliance will succeed if they are able to drum  into the minds of Malay and Muslims that the DAP is anti-Malay, anti-Islam, anti-Royalty and out to wipe them from the face of the earth.

This is the stuff of fiction and  great lies, for DAP has proven that they are more Malaysian than either UMNO or PAS leaders.

We must never allow politics and public fear to reach a level, where through lies, falsehoods, fake news and  hate speech, every community becomes irrational and  fear and hate other communities – which will tear Malaysia apart and result in Malaysia  becoming a divided, failed, rogue and kleptocratic state instead of being a top world-class nation of unity, freedom, justice, excellence and  integrity.

Let Malaysia become an example to the world of the  success from the Alliance of Civilizations instead of  a failure from the Clash of Civilisations.

It is therefore important that Malaysians develop social media literacy with the critical thinking skill to identity fake news and hate speech, to differentiate between true and false, right and wrong, moral and immoral.

For this reason, the DAP will set up a special committee to promote social media literacy and combat fake news and hate speech, which will be headed by the Petaling Jaya Councillor and Subang DAPSY Chief Farhan Haziq Mohamad.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, 20th September 2019)

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Call for a ten-year moratorium on fake news and hate speech to create racial and religious polarisation for Malaysians to concentrate on making the country a top world-class nation

The latest news is about Vietnam climbing in the ranking of best countries in which to invest this year, surpassing other Southeast Asian nations such as Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

A recent report by the US News and World Report ranked Vietnam eighth out of 29 economies, up from 23 last year.

Neighbouring nations of Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, meanwhile stood in thirteenth, fourteenth and eighteenth positions respectively.

According to the report, Doi Moi (renewal) economic policy reforms beginning in 1986 have helped Vietnam’s transition to becoming a more modern, competitive nation.

Vietnam’s continued efforts to lessen international isolation are shown by joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2007 and participation in free trade negotiations with the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2010.

It is also a member of the United Nations, the Asean Regional Forum and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, among other international organisations, stated the report.

The ranking of the best countries to invest in by the American media company draws from the results of a global perception-based survey and ranks countries based on the highest scores among nearly 7,000 business decision-makers on a compilation of eight equally weighted country attributes, including corruption, dynamics, economic stability, entrepreneurial, favourable tax environment, innovation, skilled labour force and technological expertise.

Neighboring nations of Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, meanwhile stood in thirteenth, fourteenth and eighteenth positions respectively.

According to the report, Doi Moi (renewal) economic policy reforms beginning in 1986 have helped Vietnam’s transition to becoming a more modern, competitive nation.

Vietnam’s continued efforts to lessen international isolation are shown by joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2007 and participation in free trade negotiations with the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2010.

It is also a member of the United Nations, the Asean Regional Forum and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, among other international organisations, stated the report.

The ranking of the best countries to invest in by the American media company draws from the results of a global perception-based survey and ranks countries based on the highest scores among nearly 7,000 business decision-makers on a compilation of eight equally weighted country attributes, including corruption, dynamics, economic stability, entrepreneurial, favourable tax environment, innovation, skilled labour force and technological expertise.

This news should be a wake-up call for Malaysia, and all Malaysians should be asking why it is not Malaysia, instead of ‘Vietnam, which is topping this ranking, especially after the historic change of government in the 14th General Election on May 9 last year

Unfortunately, Malaysians have been too engrossed with race and religious issues recently, with fake news and hate speech aimed to incite racial and religious polarisation dominating the social media in recent months.

I would call for a ten-year moratorium on fake news and hate speech to create racial and religious polarisation for Malaysians to concentrate on making the country a top world-class nation in the next decade.

Instead of fighting and competing with each other, Malaysians should be competing with the rest of the world to become a top world-class nation in as many fields of human endeavour as possible.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a Dialogue in Kapit on Friday, 20th  September 2019 at 5 pm)

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Challenge to all political parties, whether in government or opposition,  whether at the national or state level, to take an united and  firm stand against fake news and hate speech calculated to incite inter-racial and inter-religious polarisation in Malaysia

I want to issue a challenge to all political parties, whether in government or opposition, whether at the national or the state level – to take an united and firm stand against fake news and hate speech  calculated to incite inter-racial and inter-religious polarisation in Malaysia.

Fake news and hate speech calculated to incite inter-racial and inter-religious polarisation is the greatest threat to Malaysia becoming a united, successful and top world-class nation where Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region, can feel proud as a Malaysian.

When DAP was in the Opposition –  and we were in Opposition in the federal level for 52 years  – DAP would have immediately responded positively to any such  proposal by any government party to take an united and firm stand against fake news and hate speech calculated to incite inter-racial and inter-religious polarisation in the country – without any hesitation whatsoever.

Let us see whether the Opposition today, whether at national or state levels, would be equally forthcoming and patriotic to take an united and firm stand against fake news and hate speech calculated to incite inter-racial and inter-religious polarisation in the country.

Are the Opposition parties, whether at national or state level, prepared to attend a roundtable conference to combat fake news and hate speech calculated to incite inter-racial and inter-religious polarisation, and if so, the DAP is prepared to host such a roundtable conference.

Recently, the country was  flooded with fake news and hate speech calculated to incite inter-racial and inter-religious polarisation in the country – especially on the social media.

Even on Malaysia Day, when we should be exhorting all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region, to unite as one people, there are political parties and political leaders who used the occasion to disseminate fake news and hate speech to  incite greater division and disunity among Malaysians.

A good example was the Malaysia Day speech of the PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang, whose first task after celebrating the PAS-UMNO alliance of klepto-theocracy last Saturday, was to disseminate fake news and hate speech in Bintulu – that DAP is anti-Malay and anti-Islam and that DAP wanted the  Chinese to dominate Sarawak and Malaysia.

These are all lies, which had  been spread by DAP’s enemies in the past, but which had failed to check the DAP’s progress and success in the past five decades.

In fact, there is not a single party in the Opposition, whether at the national or state level, which has registered greater success as a multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-religious political movement as the DAP.

If the Opposition parties do not agree, I challenge them to name names and prove me wrong.

DAP MP for Kepong, Lim Lip Eng in his speech just now has made reference to some of the fake news and hate speech which had battered the country recently, for example the fake news and hate speech that the DAP was involved in a major operation to provide fake citizenship and identity cards to Chinese nationals  to create fear and hate among the Malays against the Chinese in Malaysia – when there is completely no basis for such fake news and hate speech.

Last month, when there was a three-day system breakdown at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), there was the vile and pernicious fake news and hate speech to create fear and hatred among the Malays against the Chinese on the ground that three million Chinese nationals had entered the country through KLIA.

If three million Chinese nationals had entered in the three days of the KLIA system breakdown, it would mean an average of one million Chinese national passengers landing in KLIA a day – making the KLIA the busiest airport in the world!

This is an impossibility! This would mean over 10,000 aircrafts landing in one day – a fact which could not be hidden from the public.

In actual fact, although there was a systems breakdown in KLIA for three days, the process of inspecting the entry of foreigners was conducted by the Immigration Department manually, and all visitors had to follow terms according to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).

Fake news and hate speech is no respector of truth or fact and this is why Malaysians should develop greater social media literacy so that they can differentiate between facts and untruths, truth and lies, right and wrong, moral and immoral. Malaysians should be among the top countries in the world with high social media literacy where they do not easily succumb to lies and falsehoods of the pedlars of fake news and hate speech.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a Sibu DAP Dinner on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019 at 9 pm)

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DAP will fight  12th Sarawak state general election for the first time to be part new  Pakatan Harapan Sarawak state government and  not to be Opposition in Sarawak

The DAP will fight the 12th Sarawak state general election, whether next year or latest by 2021, for the first time not to be an Opposition in Sarawak but part of a new Pakatan Harapan Sarawak state government.

Sarawak is a rich state but the wealth of the country had not  been distributed fairly,  benefitting only a clique of people instead of all Sarawakians, regardless of race, religion of region.

Sarawak state government has the largest annual state budget for any state in Malaysia, reaching a high of RM11.9 billion for 2019, which is more than four times that of Selangor which was RM2.56 billion; about eight times that of Johor which had a state budget of RM1.55 billion for 2019; about 10 times more than Penang which had an annual budget  RM1.2 billion and about 12 times that of Perak which had a budget of RM1.06 billion.

But Sarawak ranks as one of the three poorest states in Malaysia, in the company of Sabah and Kelantan.

In the latest report compiled by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Issues, Philip Alston, the percentage of low-income earners in Sarawak is higher than the national-level figure.

According to Alston, at the national-level, 8.8% of households in Malaysia have a monthly income of less than RM2,000.  But in Sarawak, 15.5 per cent of the households have a total family monthly income of less than RM2,000.

This I think is the most powerful argument why there must be a change of state government in the 12th Sarawak state general election, to ensure that the wealth of Sarawak is distributed to the people of Sarawak, regardless of race, religion or region not to be  hijacked by the clique of people who are close to those in power.

Kapit has lost its importance which it enjoyed before the formation of Malaysia.

On Feb. 15, 1962, an important meeting of the 51 elected Iban chiefs had a meeting in Kapit to discuss the terms and proposals of the formation of Federation of Malaysia.

At that time, the personality of the Paramount Chief Tun Temenggong Jugah towered over other Sarawak politicians.

Tun Temengong Jugah has a famous saying:
“Anang aja Malaysia tu baka Tebu, Manis di pun, tabar Di ujung”
(Let’s hope that Malaysia will not end up as a sugarcane, sweet in the beginning, but turned less sweet in the end).

It is in the spirit of Tun Temenggong Jugah famous quote that one of  the five pillar-promises of the  Pakatan Harapan Manifesto for a New Malaysia calls for

“Return Sabah and Sarawak to the status accorded in Malaysia Agreement 1963”.

The best way for the most satisfactory fulfillment of this pledge is for the election of a Sarawak Pakatan Harapan Government in the 12th Sarawak State General Election.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the DAP Impian Malaysia dinner in Kapit on Friday, 20th September 2019 at 9 pm)

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Farid’s death – A promising political future cut short by heart attack

The sad and shocking news of the death of the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and the MP for Tanjong Piai, Mohamed Farid Md Rafik, came to me while DAP MP for Kepong Lim Lip Eng and I were visiting a long-house in Kapit, away from any telephonic access.

Mohamad’s sudden death is a promising political future cut short by heart attack, and I convey the deepest condolences to his bereaved family.  The passing of Farid is a great loss to his family, Johor state and the nation.

Pondering on the unkind twist of fate, the poem by H.W. Longfellow which I had learnt in school in the fifties came back to me:

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

   Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

   And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

   And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

   Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

   Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

   Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

   And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

   Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world’s broad field of battle,

   In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

   Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

   Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act, act in the living Present!

   Heart within and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us

   We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

   Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,

   Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

   Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,

   With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

   Learn to labor and to wait.

RIP Farid.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Sibu on Sunday, 22nd September 2019)

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Special message to  youths of Sarawak on their three-fold challenge – be pioneers of Malaysian youth movement  of change to save the country from (i)  racial and religious intolerance and extremism, (ii) corruption and (iii)to  show the world that Malaysia is show-case of success of Alliance of Civilizations instead of a failure from Clash of Civilisations

Pesanan khas buat anak muda Sarawak berhubung tiga cabaran yang perlu ditempuhi mereka – menjadi perintis gerakan perubahan anak muda Malaysia bagi menyelamatkan Malaysia daripada (1) sikap tidak toleransi kaum dan agama serta ekstremisme (2) rasuah (3) untuk menunjukkan kepada dunia bahawa Malaysia adalah wadah kejayaan Perikatan Peradaban dan bukannya gagal dek kerana Konflik Peradaban

Saya ada pesanan khas buat anak muda Sarawak, khususnya buat anak muda yang berusia antara 16 hingga 25 tahun, berhubung tiga cabaran yang akan ditempuhi mereka, pada penghujung kunjungan saya ke Kapit dan Sibu.

Pilihan Raya Negeri (PRN) Sarawak ke-12 dijangka akan dilaksanakan tahun depan atau pada tahun 2021, dan PRN ini akan menjadi pilihan raya pertama yang akan terkesan dengan pindaan perlembagaan menurunkan umur mengundi dari 21 ke 18 tahun.

Presiden Indonesia, Sukarno pernah berkata: “Berikan aku 10 pemuda, maka akan kugoncang dunia”. Bolehkah anak muda Sarawak “menggoncang” Malaysia?

Benar, anak muda Sarawak, khususnya yang berusia 16 hingga 25 tahun yang layak untuk mengundi pada PRN Sarawak ke-12 nanti harus “mengoncang” Malaysia dengan menunjukkan jalan kepada seluruh anak muda di Malaysia — sebelum Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 (PRU15) — sebuah daya positif yang mampu menyelamatkan Malaysia daripada terjerumus menjadi sebuah negara penyangak, kleptokratik dan gagal.

Mungkin akan timbul persoalan, bukankah Malaysia sudah diselamatkan daripada nasib sedemikian dalam PRU-14 yang penuh bersejarah dan menakjubkan pada 9 Mei tahun lalu? Mengapa perlu diselamatkan sebuah negara yang bernama Malaysia ini sekali lagi?

Benar, Malaysia sudah diselamatkan daripada menjadi negara penyangak, gagal, berpecah belah dan kleptokratik pada 9 Mei 2018, namun misi Malaysia Baharu untuk menjadi negara bertaraf dunia yang berteraskan perpaduan, kebebasan, keadilan, kecemerlangan dan integriti, tidak akan tercapai dalam satu kitaran pilihan raya, sebaliknya merupakan satu perjuangan jangka panjang yang memerlukan tempoh sedekad atau lebih, lebih-lebih lagi setelah Malaysia diberikan gelaran sebagai sebuah kleptokrasi global.

Ada dari kalangan mereka yang mahu memadamkan keputusan bersejarah dan menakjubkan pada 9 Mei 2018 ini dan mengembalikan semula negara ke tangan mereka yang membentuk gabungan klepto-teokrasi, menerusi penyebaran berita palsu dan ucapan kebencian yang mengapi-apikan sentimen perkauman, keagamaan, perpecahan dan konflik, dan dengan berani mengatakan secara terbuka yang mereka “rindu 13 Mei”!

Malaysia tidak mampu diselamatkan oleh usaha individu berusia 95 tahun, 78 tahun dan 72 tahun. Jika Malaysia mahu diselamatkan, kita memerlukan tenaga dan idealisme anak muda Malaysia, dengan anak muda di Sarawak menjadi perintis, menjadi daya pemacu untuk merealisasikan impian murni buat Malaysia.

Ini sebabnya mengapa saya memberikan pesanan khas kepada anak muda Sarawak untuk menjadi perintis gerakan anak muda Malaysia — khususnya mereka yang berusia antara 16 hingga 25 tahun — yang mempersiapkan diri untuk menghadapi tiga cabaran iaitu menjadi agen dan penggerak perubahan untuk menyelamatkan negara daripada (1) sikap tidak toleransi kaum dan agama serta ekstremisme, (2) rasuah dan (3) untuk menunjukkan kepada dunia bahawa Malaysia adalah wadah kejayaan Perikatan Peradaban dan bukannya menjadi gagal dek kerana Konflik Peradaban.

1. Daya untuk melawan sikap tidak toleransi kaum dan agama serta ekstremisme

Malaysia kini berada di dalam suasana di mana setiap etnik, masyarakat, tak kira Melayu, Cina atau India, disuap dengan perasaan ketakutan, sangsi dan kebencian, malah percaya yang mereka kini berdepan ancaman eksistensial berhubung hak, kedudukan dan masa depan mereka di negara ini. Ini berlaku akibat daripada penyebaran berita palsu dan ucapan kebencian di sosial media — sebuah platform yang menyebarkan maklumat sepantas kilat — bagi mengapi-apikan sentimen perkauman, keagamaan, perpecahan dan konflik.

Bom jangka terhadap pembinaan negara ini harus dinyahaktifkan dengan setiap rakyat Malaysia menimba pengetahuan tentang sosial media dan menerapkan elemen pemikiran kritis dalam kehidupan seharian bagi membolehkan kita membezakan antara kaca dan permata, salah dan benar.

Saya mencabar anak muda Sarawak untuk memikul tugas ini bagi merintis gerakan anak muda Malaysia dalam memacu dan mengangkat kempen Selamatkan Malaysia daripada berita palsu dan ucapan kebencian yang menimbulkan perpecahan antara kaum dan agama serta konflik.

Sarawak adalah model masyarakat plural yang harmoni dan bertoleransi yang lebih berbanding Semenanjung Malaysia. Ini adalah pengajaran yang Sarawak harus sebarkan dan sampaikan dalam PRN Sarawak bagi mewujudkan perpaduan, persefahaman, keharmonian dan inklusiviti dalam masyarakat yang dilihat semakin berpecah belah.

2. Menjadi negara pendahulu dalam soal integriti

Kedua, anak muda Sarawak harus merintis gerakan anak muda yang memacu dan mengangkat kempen tadbir urus yang baik dan untuk Malaysia menjadikan negara pendahulu dalam soal integriti.

Hakikat bahawa bekas Perdana Menteri, Najib Razak masih membuat lawak bodoh tentang kleptokrasi global 1MDB dan berkata bahawa semua rakyat Malaysia adalah “kroninya” yang harus dipenjarakan seperti dirinya adalah amat menjijikkan dan tidak masuk akal sama sekali.

Bagaimanapun, beliau secara tidak sedar sebenarnya telah membuat pengakuan bahawa apa yang dilakukannya itu adalah salah dan tempat selayaknya untuk beliau adalah di penjara. Secara bergurau, Najib mendakwa skandal 1MDB kononnya berita palsu, tetapi beliau tidak melakukan apa-apa sewaktu Jabatan Kehakiman Amerika Syarikat (DOJ) memfailkan litigasi rampasan aset berkaitan 1MDB pada Julai 2016 yang menamakan beliau sebagai “MO1” – “Malaysian Official 1”.

Jika Najib masih menjadi perdana menteri selepas 9 Mei 2018, sebarang perbincangan berkaitan skandal 1MDB akan dianggap sebagai tindakan menyebarkan “berita palsu” dan boleh dikenakan tuduhan jenayah mengikut Akta Antiberita Tidak Benar yang diluluskan kerajaan Najib sejurus sebelum pembubaran Parlimen.

Rakyat Malaysia yang patriotik sudah tentu mahu melihat Najib meringkuk di balik tirai besi secepat yang mungkin, namun kerajaan Pakatan Harapan tetap komited terhadap usaha mengembalikan kedaulatan undang-undang dan harus menerima bahawa sesuatu perbicaraan jenayah itu mengambil masa yang panjang dan prosesnya berjalan perlahan.

Najib dan juak-juaknya sudah tentu akan menganggap kedudukan Malaysia yang rendah dalam Indeks Persepsi Rasuah oleh Transparency International (TI) sebagai “berita palsu”.

Misi untuk malaysia menjadi negara pendahulu dalam soal integriti baharu sahaja bermula, dan anak muda Sarawak harus merintis gerakan anak muda Malaysia dalam kempen jangka panjang bagi memastikan tadbir urus baik dan integriti.

3. Wadah kepada dunia sebagai Perikatan Perdaban yang berjaya dan bukannya menjadi gagal dek kerana Konflik Peradaban

Malaysia adalah tempat pertemuan empat tamadun hebat di dunia — Melayu/Islam, Cina, India dan Barat,

Marilah sama-sama kita memanfaatkan nilai terbaik dan pengajaran daripada tamadun-tamadun hebat ini untuk membina tamadun Malaysia yang inklusif dan menyeluruh, daripada terus berfikiran sempit, regresif dan eksklusif!

Anak muda di Sarawak dan Malaysia harus berusaha menjadikan negara ini berjaya atas dasar Perikatan Peradaban dan tidak membiarkan negara ini gagal dek kerana Konflik Peradaban.

Semoga anak muda Sarawak dapat merintis gerakan anak muda Malaysia yang mampu memacu dan mengangkat kempen ini untuk memastikan Malaysia mampu menjadi wadah kepada dunia atas kejayaan Perikatan Peradaban dan bukannya gagal dek kerana Konflik Peradaban.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri di Sibu pada hari Isnin, 23 September 2019)

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I have a special message to youths of Sarawak, especially those in the 16 – 25 age group,  on their three-fold challenge at the end of my visit to Kapit and Sibu.

The 12th Sarawak general election is expected next year or latest in  2021, and Sarawak’s  state general election will be the first to be  affected by the recent constitutional amendment to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 years.

Sukarno of Indonesia once said:
“Give me 10 young men, I’ll shake the world”
. Can the youths of Sarawak “shake” Malaysia?

Yes, the youths of Sarawak, especially those in the 16 – 25 age group today who may be eligible to vote in the 12th Sarawak general election in the next 12 to 20 months must “shake” Malaysia by showing the way for all  Malaysian  youths before the 15th National General Election in 2023 of the positive energy they are capable of transmitting to save Malaysia from the trajectory of  a divided, failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

It may be asked whether Malaysia had not been saved from such a trajectory in the historic and miraculous 14th General Election on May 9, 2018? Why is it necessary to save Malaysia from such a disastrous fate once again?

Yes, Malaysia had been saved from the trajectory towards a divided, failed, rogue and kleptocratic state on May 9, 2018, but the mission of a New Malaysia where the country becomes a top world-class nation of unity, freedom, justice, excellence and integrity cannot be accomplished within one general election cycle but is a long-term struggle lasting  a decade or more, especially after the devastation and depredations of the last government which won for Malaysia the infamous and ignominious appellation of a global kleptocracy.

There are people who wants to stamp out the historic and miraculous decision of May 9, 2018 and restore the country into the hands of those who preach an alliance of klepto-theocracy, through the untrammeled spread of fake news and hate speech to incite inter-racial and inter-religious polarisation and conflict, and who do not mind a big racial and religious conflagration in Malaysia which prompted some to  openly talk about  “rindu May 13”!

Malaysia cannot be saved merely by the efforts of a 94-year-old, a 78-year-old and a 72-year-old.  If Malaysia is to be saved, we need the energies and idealism of the youths of Malaysia, with the youths in Sarawak playing a pioneering role,  to be the driving and sustaining force to realise great dreams for Malaysia.

This is why my special message to the youths of Sarawak is to pioneer a Malaysian youth movement especially in the age group of 16 – 25 years with the three-fold challenge –  to  be the  agents and drivers of change to save the country from (i)  racial and religious intolerance and extremism, (ii) corruption and (iii) to  show the world that Malaysia is show-case of the success of Alliance of Civilizations instead of a failure from the  Clash of Civilisations.

1. Force to combat racial and religious intolerance and extremism.

Malaysia is now in a ludicrous scenario where every ethnic community, whether  Malay, Chinese or Indian,  is consumed with fear, distrust and hatred believing that it is facing an existential threat to its rights, position and future in Malaysia. This is the result of the untrammelled spread of fake news and hate speech especially on the social media where information travels at the speed of light to incite inter-racial and inter-religious polarisation and conflict. These time bombs of nation-building must be de-activated with plural Malaysians developing a social media literacy which is among the highest in the world to acquire  the critical thinking  to differentiate fake from genuine, know what is right and wrong, true and false, moral and immoral.

I challenge the youths of Sarawak to  take on this task to pioneer a Malaysian youth movement  to drive and sustain a  Save Malaysia campaign from fake news and hate speech which  incite inter-racial and inter-religious polarisation and conflict.

Sarawak has always been a  better model of a harmonious and tolerant plural society than Peninsular Malaysia. This is a lesson which Sarawak must deliver in the 12th Sarawak State General Election to ensure that there is greater unity, understanding, harmony and inclusiveness in a diverse Malaysian society.

2. Becomng a leading nation of integrity in world

Secondly, Sarawak youths should pioneer a  Malaysian youth movement to drive and sustain a campaign for good governance and for Malaysia to become a leading nation of integrity in the world.

The very fact that former Prime Minister, Najib Razak could still make a sick joke about his 1MDB global kleptocracy and said  that all Malaysians are his “cronies” who should  be jailed like him is most revolting and absurd.

However, it is a sub-conscious acknowledgement by him that what he did was wrong and his proper place is in jail.  Tongue-in-cheek, Najib is virtually claiming  that the 1MDB scandal is all fake news, yet he did nothing when the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed its largest kleptocratic forfeiture litigation of 1MDB-linked assets  in July 2016 naming him as “MO1” – “Malaysian Official 1” described as “a high-ranking official in the Malaysian government who also hold a position of authority with 1MDB” and “During all times relevant to the Complaint, MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1 was a ‘public official’ as that term is used in 18USC ~ 1956©(7)(B)(iv) and a ‘public servant’ as that term is used in Section 21 of the Malaysian Penal Code”.

If Najib had continued as Prime Minister after May 9, 2018, any mention of the 1MDB scandal would be regarded as perpetrating “fake news” and would be liable for criminal sanctions under the Anti-Fake News Act passed by the Najib government just before dissolution of Parliament.

All patriotic Malaysians would want to see Najib in jail now, but   the Pakatan Harapan government is committed to the restoration of the rule of law and must accept that a criminal trial is a long and slow-moving process.

Najib and those of his ilk will regard the lowly position of Malaysia in the latest Transparency International Corruption Perception Index as “fake news”.

The mission for Malaysia to be a leading nation of integrity has only just started, and the youths of Sarawak must pioneer the youths of Malaysia in a long-term campaign to ensure good governance and integrity in public life.

3. Show-case to the world as success of Alliance of Civilisatilons and not a failure as a result of the Clash of Civilizations

Malaysia is the confluence of four great civilisations in the world – Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western.

Let us benefit from the best values and teachings of these great civilisations which meet in confluence in Malaysia to build a great Malaysian civilisation which is inclusive and all-encompassing, instead of being narrow-minded, regressive and exclusive!

Youths in Sarawak and Malaysia must choose for the country to become a success because of the Alliance of Civilisations and not  to become a failure because of the Clash of Civilisations.

Let Sarawak youths pioneer the youths of Malaysia to drive and sustain a campaign to ensure that Malaysia is a show-case to the world of the success of the Alliance of Civilisations instead of being a failure because of the Clash of Civilisations.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri in Sibu on  Monday,  23rd September 2019)

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Mahathir would have been the first Malaysian to be  charged under the Anti-Fake News Act 2018 if there had been no  peaceful and democratic change of government on May 9, 2018

Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s antics of the fake news issue has made me think as to why the Anti-Fake News Act was rushed to become law before the 14th General Election, as it was bulldozed through the Dewan Rakyat on April 2, 2018, adopted by the Dewan Negara the next day on April 3, 2018, given the Royal Assent on April 9, and gazetted on April 11 – the four process of legislation completed  in a matter of nine days, which must have made the Anti-Fake News Act 2018 one of the fastest legislation in the nation’s history.

The Anti-Fake News Act became law after the 13th Parliament was dissolved on April 7, 2018.

The Act provides a punishment of up to six years’ jail, a maximum RM500,000 fine, or both, for the publication of ‘fake news’.

The law also allows the government to seek an ex-parte order for articles to be removed, and if done on the grounds of national security, cannot be challenged in court.

Why did Najib rush through the Anti-Fake News Act as one of the last items of parliamentary business before the 14th General Election?

During the 14th General Election campaign, the Pakatan Harapan Chairman Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad was probed by the police under the Anti-Fake News Act  for saying that the jet he chartered to fly to Langkawi had been sabotaged.

After the 14th General Election, the police investigations against Mahathir were dropped.

In retrospect, it was clear that if there had been no peaceful and democratic transition of power in the 14th General Election, Mahathir would have been the first Malaysian to be  charged under the Anti-Fake News Act 2018.

And he would not be alone. He would be accompanied by all the other Pakatan Harapan leaders, whether DAP, PKR, Bersatu or Amanah, who  would be marching in and out of courts  in orange garbs to face mountainous charges under the Anti-Fake News Act, for it would be a Malaysia where  any mention of the 1MDB scandal would have been guilty of criminal offence under the Anti-Fake News Act 2018 attracting six years jail or RM500,000 fine, or both.

This was made very clear by the former Deputy Minister for Communications and Multimedia, Jailani Johari, who had once  defined what would fall under the Act: Any information about 1MDB that had not been verified by the government, he said, “is deemed as fake news.”

I  had said that the Anti-Fake News Act was, in fact, a
“Save Najib from 1MDB Scandal”
legislation which criminalised all news about 1MDB scandal in Malaysia.

If Barisan Nasional had won the 14th General Election, Malaysians would be turned into a “Alice-in-Wonderland” country where any reference to the 1MDB scandal would be a criminal offence under the Anti-Fake News Act 2018 liable to be jailed for six years or fined RM500,000, or both, although outside the borders of Malaysia, the whole world would know about the 1MDB scandal and Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy.

Malaysia would have made world history in discovering a  new weapon to cover-up corruption, in particular, the 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal and to entrench Malaysia’s 3Is – ignominy, infamy and iniquity – as a global kleptocracy!

As UMNO, PAS, MCA, MIC and Gerakan  Senators have sabotaged the repeal of the Anti-Fake News Act 2018, should Najib as well the Barisan Nasional and PAS leaders be the first to be charged under the Anti-Fake News Act 2018 until the legislation could be repealed?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Tuesday, 24th September 2019)

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