File photo of an ethnic Rohingya refugee who was among a boatload of asylum seekers standing by the window of an immigration quarantine centre in Langsa district in Aceh province. — AFP picKUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad raised the plight of the Rohingyas in Myanmar as a cautionary tale for Muslims in Malaysia yesterday, at a time when Umno is again reaching out to PAS ostensibly for the sake of Islamic unity.
In a posting titled “The Rohingyas” on his blog, the former prime minister said the troubles of the ethnic minority were not unique but representative of the predicament facing Islamic nations the world over.
“Almost all Muslim countries and people are in trouble today. The latest are the Rohingyas of Myanmar,” he wrote in his latest blog entry.
“They are being forced to leave their own homes and country, to flee in leaky boats, overloaded and prone to being wrecked and they would be drowned (sic). All countries refuse to help these unfortunate creatures and they and their leaky boats get pushed back into the sea.”
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar over sectarian violence with Buddhists. Malaysia alone is host to some 80,000 such refugees from the country.
But Dr Mahathir said this was in part their own doing, claiming that Muslims across the world were being “bullied” from a failure to stand up together and for themselves.
“The weak of today are the Muslims. And the Muslims are weak because they choose to be weak,” Malaysia’s longest-serving prime minister wrote in his latest entry.
According to Dr Mahathir, this weakness was born from the complacency that Muslims have allowed themselves to be lulled into with wealth and resources.
“Since the Muslims care not for each other or for Islam anybody can beat any Muslim to death in full view of the other Muslims.
“We Muslims in Malaysia think this will not happen to us. So why should we care about what happens to the Rohingyas. It is their problem, not ours,” he added.
Although the former prime minister makes no mention of it in his entry, the message bore hallmarks of the call for Muslim unity that has formed the basis of attempts to get Umno and PAS to co-operate supposedly for the sake of the Malay community at large.
Muslim unity is a common rallying cry from the Malay nationalist party, which appears to view the elusive goal as a panacea of sorts to the various problems facing the country’s largest religion.
It is often used interchangeably with Malay unity, given the constitutional requirement that Malays must also be Muslims.
On Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin resurrected calls for unity talks between the two rivals, coincidentally following a fresh agitation from the Islamist party’s ulama (clergy) class for it to reassess its partnership within the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) opposition pact.
“It is important for the country’s Muslims to be united because the Muslims still face many challenges. There is a need to work together or otherwise we would have problems.
“That is why (when it comes to) talks about Umno and PAS, we have no problem with that,” the Umno deputy president said at a forum at the International Islamic University here on Tuesday.
This came after members of PAS’s ulama approved a resolution at its Multaqa Ulama Se-Malaysia convention on Sunday that the party should reconsider the “harm” of its continued links to partners PKR and the PR pact.
Party sources later told The Malay Mail Online that the call was likely alluding to the ongoing legal tussle over “Allah” between Muslims and Christians here stemming from a 2009 court decision upholding the latter’s constitutional right to use the Arabic word.
Unity talks between PAS and Umno have continually surfaced after Election 2008, when Barisan Nasional (BN) lost its parliamentary supermajority to the then-fledgling PR pact.
It came to a head in December 2010, when top leaders from both parties met quietly in a Christmas Eve dinner hosted by the Terengganu Palace to discuss the issue of Malay-Muslim unity.
The engagement collapsed when PAS ― chiefly spiritual advisor Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat ― adamantly expressed support for non-Muslims’ right to use the word “Allah”.
But the “Allah” issue does not split just the two rivals; the ulama class in PAS also share Umno’s stance that the term was exclusive to Muslims, leading to schism within the party.
And with the recent losses suffered by the Islamist party’s progressive leaders during the May 5 general election, the previously dormant issue may resurface as the conservatives push their way back into the limelight ahead of the PAS elections.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Seorang jurutera sebuah syarikat perunding pembinaan didenda RM40,000 oleh Mahkamah Sesyen di sini hari ini selepas mengaku bersalah atas pertuduhan memalsukan tandatangan pada sebuah dokumen berhubung cadangan pembinaan sebuah banglo.
Hakim Azura Alwi menjatuhkan hukuman itu ke atas Toh Hwee Sheng, 46, dan memerintahkannya dipenjara enam bulan jika gagal membayar denda itu.
Toh didakwa dengan curangnya menggunakan suatu dokumen sebagai tulen iaitu sebuah buku ‘Structure Design Calculation’ bertarikh 2 Ogos 2014 berhubung kiraan dan pelan struktur bagi cadangan membina sebuah banglo dua setengah tingkat di atas Lot PT 1, No 1, Jalan 5, Selayang Baru, Mukim Batu, Gombak, Selangor daripada Lieng Consult kepada Datuk Yip Kum Fook iaitu pemilik tanah yang mempunyai sebab untuk mempercayai dokumen itu adalah palsu.
Tertuduh didakwa melakukan kesalahan itu antara 2 hingga 12 Ogos 2014, di No 2A & B, Jalan 53, Desa Jaya Kepong di sini, mengikut Seksyen 471 Kanun Keseksaan yang boleh dihukum di bawah Seksyen 465 kanun sama yang memperuntukkan hukuman penjara maksimum dua tahun atau denda atau kedua-duanya.
Pegawai Pendakwa Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) Mohd Aliff Shaharuzaman memohon hukuman setimpal bagi memberi pengajaran kepada tertuduh kerana amalan pemalsuan dan meniru tandatangan pemilik syarikat adalah kesalahan serius dan menjadi barah dalam masyarakat jika tidak ditangani.
Tertuduh yang tidak diwakili peguam merayu hukuman denda dikenakan ke atasnya dengan jumlah yang minimum kerana dia mempunyai tanggungan termasuk ibu yang berumur 76 tahun.
“Ini adalah kesalahan pertama dan saya tiada rekod jenayah. Saya amat kesal dan insaf atas kesalahan ini dan berjanji tidak akan mengulanginya lagi, jadi saya mohon hukuman denda minimum tanpa hukuman penjara,” katanya.
Mengikut fakta kes, pada 2013, Yip Kum Fook iaitu bekas Ahli Majlis Perbandaran Selayang mengarahkan syarikat tertuduh bekerja iaitu Lieng Consult menyediakan Borang A, Kiraan Struktur dan Pelan Struktur bagi cadangan membina sebuah banglo dua setengah tingkat di atas lot tersebut, namun penyediaan dokumen itu tanpa pengetahuan Lieng Wei Ming selaku pemilik syarikat.
Lieng memaklumkan semua dokumen itu tidak dikeluarkan oleh syarikatnya dan mengesahkan tandatangan pada dokumen itu juga bukan miliknya.
Selain itu, tertuduh juga menerima wang RM10,000 daripada Yip atas pembayaran kerja yang dilakukan iaitu menyediakan semua dokumen itu dan hasil semakan Bahagian Forensik SPRM mengesahkan tandatangan pada dokumen ‘Structure Design Calculation’ adalah berbeza dengan spesimen tandatangan diambil daripada Lieng. -Bernama
Kerajaan Malaysia akan memeriksa Yip Kum Fook (peguam dan presiden Samnak Sambodhi atau persatuan Buddha, Taman Desa Jaya, kepong) kerana peguam ini menipu orang di mana-mana......Yip Kum Fook & Associates, Kuala Lumpur... No. 2A & B, Jalan 53, Desa Jaya, Kepong, 52100, Kuala Lumpur, WP Kuala Lumpur