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Kebelakangan ini media arus Perdana amat mengelirukan, samada tujuan mereka untuk mengelirukan rakyat ataupun mereka sendiri sudah keliru tidak dapat dipastikan.Apa yang pasti terdapat seolah-olah dua halatuju yang amat berbeza dari dua orang pimpinan utama UMNO iaitu DS Najib Razak dan juga TS Muhyiddin Yassin. DS Najib begitu bersungguh dengan slogan 1Malaysia beliau yang seolah-olah memberi layanan yang samarata kepada seluruh masyarakat berbilang kaum di negara ini.Dengan lawatan ramah mesra beliau ke Batu Caves dsb, nampak macam beliau serius dalam inisiatif tersebut. Walaupun begitu, timbalan beliau TS Muhyiddin Yassin menyanyikan lagu yang berbeza, dengan melemparkan tuduhan liar terhadap DS Anwar Ibrahim sebagai pengkhianat bangsa Melayu dan juga tulisan-tulisan yang berbaur perkauman oleh Utusan Malaysia, jelas UMNO masih tetap pekat dengan perkauman Melayunya. Persoalannya : Percanggahan ini dirancang antara Najib dan Muhyiddin ATAUPUN memang mereka bercanggah pendapat?

AUG 10 — With Ramadan soon upon us, Muslims everywhere are caught up in a heightened sense of spirituality. That is the good news. Take last Thursday evening, for example. The San Jose, California, masjid was inundated with believers staying late into the night. It was the 15th of Shaaban, an especially blessed time in the Muslim calendar. Shaaban is the month before Ramadan, and serves as a “warm up” to it. As my imam Ilyas noted wryly in his Friday khutba , what struck him was that many that evening had never before set foot on the premises. That is the bad news. Malays too are struck by this wave of religious fervour with the impending arrival of Ramadan. Thus the recent local authority raid on a 7-Eleven store in Selangor, stripping the store of its beer inventory. Never mind that the store had been selling that beverage for decades without any harassment from the authorities. Then there was Umno Youth leader Khairy Jamaluddin calling on his PAS counterpart to “unite” against...

The move by PAS to implement a blanket ban on the sale of alcohol in all Muslim-majority areas has now given us an opportunity to draw up guidelines on the sale of alcohol. While their call on ban might seem drastic but this view must not be seen from a high moral ground and only from an Islamic perspective but an opportunity to recognize the problems associated with alcohol abuse which is recognized by all major religions of the world. Currently there are already other forms of restrictions on alcohol such as one cannot drink and drive, alcohol can only be sold in licensed shops, alcohol cannot be sold to under-aged individuals, there are restricted hours for places which sell and serve alcohol. There are laws to curtail the production and sale of illegal and unlicensed products. The problem has often been associated with weak enforcement by local authority enforcement. There must be some public outcry on this matter as there are negative aspects of alcohol abuse which society has not...

Agak terkesan dengan beberapa isu yang berlaku di negeri di bawah pentadbiran Pakatan Rakyat(PR). 1. Kenyataan dari YB Jeff Ooi mengenai seorang ahli majlis dari KeADILan yang dikatakan extremis agama aga keterlaluan dan mengguris hati orang Islam.Sepatutnya sebelum beliau mengeluarkan kenyataan tersebut beliau seharusnya merujuk kepada pimpinan PR (ataupun KeADILan) mengenai keahlian individu tersebut di dalam Jemaah Islah Malaysia (JIM) di mana JIM merupakan NGO sama seperti SIS, SUARAM dll.Untuk menyamakan JIM seolah-olah seperti Jemaah Islamiah (JI) adalah tidak benar sama sekali.YB Jeff memang sepatutnya memohon maaf dan menarik balik kenyataan beliau sekiranya beliau seorang yang berhati besar. 2. Tindakan YB Hassan Ali menyokong rampasan minuman beralkohol dari outlet 7-Eleven di Shah Alam juga mendapat reaksi yang agak melampau dari YB Ronnie Liu, dimana beliau telah mengarahkan supaya rampasan tersebut dipulangkan.Memang tidak termasuk di dalam bidang kuasa Penguatkuasa Tempat...