- Lebih 10,000 hadir sambutan pra-Ijtimak
SETIU - Parti Tindakan Demokratik (DAP) menegaskan parti itu akan mempertahankan agama Islam sebagai agama rasmi persekutuan sebagaimana yang telah termaktub dalam perlembagaan.
Ketua Pemuda DAP, Anthony Loke Siew Fook berkata demikian dihadapan lebih 10,000 orang yang menghadiri ceramah perdana yang menjadi acara kemuncak sambutan pra Ijtimak Kepimpinan PAS ke-8 disini semalam, 22 Oktober.
"pentadbiran (negeri) pakatan rakyat termasuk daripada DAP (Pulau Pinang) tidak sama sekali tidak menghormati Islam dan tidak sama sekali anti Islam, dan kita menghormati agama masing-masing,
The DAP’s Lim Kit Siang said today that Budget 2011 clearly showed the Najib administration had no appetite for reform and was using public funds to keep the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) in power.
“The Budget for 2011 has all of the attributes of a blunt tool for distributing public funds to UMNOputras, BN cronies, and vested groups that constitute the vote bank of the Barisan,” the influential opposition party’s adviser said in a media statement.
The Ipoh-Timur MP pointed out that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had failed to incorporate the economic reform measures recommended by its hired think tank.
KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition stalwart Lim Kit Siang left the Dewan Rakyat in “disgust” this morning when Deputy Speaker Ronald Kiandee refused to entertain his attempt to pose a supplementary question on the New Economic Model.
The original question regarding the effectiveness of the NEM in achieving its objectives was raised by Ismail Abdul Muttalib (BN-Maran) and Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department K Devamany responded.
In a statement issued later, Lim said he wanted to raise several points, including the absence of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and the many ministers in his department to answer the question.
“This shows that the Barisan Nasional government is neither really seriously nor fully committed whether to Najib’s 1Malaysia concept, NEM or Parliament,” he added.
Apart from this, the DAP leader also wanted to know “why for more than six months not a single minister dared to state that the NEM was not against Article 153 of the Federal Constitution to check the rise of racism because of the rhetoric of communal extremists, although the prime minister has gone to the United Nations general assembly and Asia-Europe dialogue to call for a global movement of moderates against extremists.”
Lim also wanted to know if Najib's administration had taken full ownership of the proposals in the NEM for Malaysia to escape the two-decade long middle-income trap to achieve sustainable and inclusive high-income developed nation status by 2020 and not regard the NEM proposals as mere “trial balloons” of a group of experts from the global market perspective as said by Najib in June.
The veteran politician also wanted to quiz the government's stand in particular on the NEM Strategic Reform Initiative (SRI) 5 for “transparent and market-friendly affirmative action” which would “consider all ethnic groups fairly and equally as long as they are in the low income 40% of households… taking into consideration the needs and merits of the applicants.”
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 11, 2010): The Dewan Rakyat has rejected a motion from Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur) for the House to discuss the issue of two school heads alleged to have made racist remarks against non-Malays in August.
Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia said although the matter was of public interest and specific, it was not urgent as it has been addressed by the government.
"I was informed that the government, through the Education Ministry and Public Services Department, has initiated disciplinary action against both of them. So, this matter is not urgent and I reject the motion,” he said.
In his motion, Lim said the display of such racist attitude by school heads from Kulai, Johor and Bukit Selayang, Kedah shows lack of credibility .
He said the government’s failure to act against them proves that there was no political will or correct administration philosophy in the country to curb racial bigotry.
"All these are direct insinuations towards the theme of the National Day celebration this year which is '1Malaysia Generates Transformation' and is in conflict with the prime minister’s declaration for zero-tolerance against racism,” he added.
Lim urged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to repeat his call in the country for all religions to be moderate which he made during the United Nations General Assembly in New York recently.
KUALA TERENGGANU - former Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Nizar Jamaluddin said PAS did not rule out the possibility that its candidate for the Galas by-election might be from the Orang Asli community.
Mohamad Nizar, who is also a member of the PAS Executive Committee, said this at a dialogue session here last night which was also attended by PAS central committee member Mohamad Sabu and DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang.
Meanwhile, Lim regretted the allegation that the DAP was anti-Islam which was made at a ceramah organised by an Umno division recently.
Describing the allegation as slanderous, Lim said Islam was the country's official religion and if the DAP was anti-Islam, the party leaders would have been imprisoned a long time ago.-Bernama
KUALA TERENGGANU - Sekiranya Parti Tindakan Demokratik (DAP) itu anti Islam, tentulah semua ahli dan pimpinan DAP telah dimasukkan ke dalam penjara kerana Islam adalah agama rasmi yang termaktub dalam perlembagaan.
Penasihat DAP, Lim Kit Siang berkata sekiranya DAP anti Islam, Dato' Seri Hishamudin Hussein selaku Menteri Dalam Negeri mestilah mengambil tindakan.
"Kalau DAP anti Islam, kita semua sudah masuk dalam penjara, oleh kerana Islam agama rasmi (dalam perlembagaan), (Dato' Seri) Hishamuddin sebagai Menteri Dalam Negeri perlu mengambil tindakan, tetapi kita tahu ia (DAP anti Islam) tidak benar,
"tetapi dia (Hishamuddin) benarkan Umno Besut mengadakan ceramah yang begitu tidak bertanggungjawab,"jelasnya.
Lim berkata demikian dalam sidang media selepas menghadiri Majlis Makan Malam dan Dailog Bersama Pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat yang diadakan disebuah hotel disini semalam 8 Oktober.
Menurutnya sikap Hishamuddin membenarkan ceramah itu diadakan menunjukkan beliau bukan seorang yang mempunyai prinsip
Beliau yang juga Ahli Parlimen Ipoh Timur berkata Umno begitu terdesak sehingga sanggup menggunakan isu perkauaman dan isu sensitif.
Katanya, politik perkauaman dan sensitif yang diamalkan oleh Umno adalah satu politik merbahaya yang boleh mnganggu gugat keharmornian hidup rakyat berbilang bangsa dan agama di negara ini.
"Dan, ini adalah cara politik yang berbahaya, satu politik terdesak (desperado), Umno begitu terdesak sehingga rela untuk merosakkan keharmonian negara kita,
"ini (DAP anti Islam) tidak benar, ini satu fitnah dan dusta,"tegasnya.
The DAP said today that it will take legal action against Umno over the Malay ruling party’s plan to hold a ceramah tomorrow in Terengganu on the DAP being anti-Islam.
Petaling Jaya Utara DAP MP Tony Pua said the ceramah was part of Umno’s strategy to frighten the Malay community into voting for Barisan Nasional.
“There will be a ceramah headlined ‘DAP anti-Islam’ by Umno Besut. Umno wants to use this to frightened Malays in supporting Barisan Nasional. It is malicious and we will get our legal bureau to take all the necessary actions against Umno for holding this event with such a defamatory headline,” he said.
Pua (picture) called on Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Razak to cancel the ceramah after the prime minister’s recent call for a need to marginalise extremists at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Kelantan opposition leader Datuk Md Alwi Che Ahmad is slated as one of the speakers at the ceramah in Besut.
The DAP has already lodged a police report in Kuala Terengganu and will lodged another report in Besut this evening. - MalaysianInsider
KUALA TERENGGANU - DAP Kuala Terengganu telah membantah tindakan Umno bahagian Besut menganjurkan ceramah isu semasa bertajuk 'DAP Anti Islam', yang disifatkan sebagai mengembang kebencian masyarakat Melayu dan Islam terhadap DAP.
Justeru, satu laporan polis telah dibuat di balai polis Kuala Terengganu, semalam, Khamis, 30 September.
Dalam laporannnya, Pengerusi DAP Kuala Terengganu, Ng Chai Hing turut menyatakan penganjuran ceramah tersebut merupakan satu fitnah dan pembohongan yang berniat jahat untuk memburuk dan mencemar
kredibiliti DAP yang semakin mendapat kepercayaan dan sokongan terutama daripada kalangan orang Melayu dan Islam.
Menurutnya lagi, tindakan Umno itu boleh mencetus kemarahan kaum dan mengundang suasana huru hara dan perasaan kurang senang antara kaum.terhadap Umno Besut kerana penganjuran ceramah itu bukan
bertujuan untuk memberikan maklumat bahkan lebih menjurus kepada provokasi perpecahan dan suasana tegang antara kaum.
Oleh itu, dengan membuat laporan tersebut, beliau berharap pihak polis bertindak telus dan tulus menghentikan ceramah itu, bagi mengelak sebarang keadaan yang tidak diingini daripada berlaku.
"Ekoran dengan ceramah ini, poster dan 2 kain rentang besar telah dipasang di Bangunan Umno Besut dan di depan Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Chung Hwa Besut, telah menyebabkan kaum Cina berada didalam suasana kemurungan dan rasa kurang selesa,"tegasnya.
Sehubungan itu, Setiausaha DAP Cawangan Sungai Tong Setiu menyatakan, penganjuran ceramah tersebut bertentangan dengan aspirasi Perdana Menteri ketika bertemu Presiden Amerika baru-baru ini.
Menurut Nasser Zainal, Dato' Seri Najib Razak bertemu Barrack Obama bagi mengurangkan 'Islamofobia' sebaliknya Umno Besut menyemarkkannya.
"Sekarang ni banyak sangat cakap pasal perkauman, keagamaan. Baru-baru ni semasa najib berjumpa dengan obama, dia pun ada beritahu pasal islamophobia. Jadi sekarang di peringkat negeri kita bercakap pasal
islamophobia. Jadi tidak ada seragam antara peingkat negeri kuasaan Umno dan peringkat pusat di bawah Najib,
"Jadi saya ingat tajuknya sendiri memang bertentangan dengan aspirasi perdana menteri kita sebagaimana yang diuar-uarkan di washingon baru-baru ini,"jelasnya ketika ditemui selepas membuat laporan polis
berkenaan.
Katanya, sepatutnya ceramah seperti itu tidak kerana tidak merapatkan hubungan di antara kaum di antara Melayu, Cina dan India, malah ia bertentangan dengan konsep 1 Malaysia.
Oleh itu, beliau mahu pihak polis melakukan satu siasatan terhadap ceramah tersebut.
"Satu siasatan (mesti) dibuat terhadap ceramah yang dikatakan DAP anti islam, sedangkan DAP sebuah parti 'multiracial', walaupun sebahagian besar penyokongnya orang Cina, tapi ianya berbentuk pelbagai kaum, tajuk ini sebenarnya telah lari,"kata Nasser.
Ceramah anjuran Umno Bahagian Besut tersebut akan diadakan pada 1 Oktober di Padang Bola Sekolah Kebangsaan Padang Luas, Jertih Terengganu. yang disampaikan oleh Ketua Bahagian Umno Besut, Dato' Seri Idris Jusoh, Ketua Pembangkang DUN Kelantan Datuk Mohd Alwi Che Ahmad dan Abdullah Saamah.
Laporan polis telah dibuat oleh Pengerusi DAP Kuala Terengganu, Ng Chai Hing pada jam 10.15 pagi ditemani oleh Timbalannya, Tan Poh Kok, serta Setiausaha dan Timbalan Pengerusi DAP Cawangan Sungai Tong Setiu, Nasser Zainal dan Othman Salleh.
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The DAP said today that it will take legal action against Umno over the Malay ruling party’s plan to hold a ceramah tomorrow in Terengganu on the DAP being anti-Islam.
Sehubungan itu, Setiausaha DAP Cawangan Sungai Tong Setiu menyatakan, penganjuran ceramah tersebut bertentangan dengan aspirasi Perdana Menteri ketika bertemu Presiden Amerika baru-baru ini.