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Oleh G. Manimaran

KUALA LUMPUR, 7 Mac — Majlis Perundingan Melayu (MPM) yang ditubuhkan minggu lalu menegaskan ia akan menolak model ekonomi baru, bakal dilancarkan hujung bulan ini, jika tidak memasukkan asas agenda orang Melayu dan Bumiputera.

Salah satu asas yang diputuskan MPM dalam persidangan meja bulatnya ialah mendesak kerajaan agar model ekonomi baru merujuk kepada Artikel 153 Perlembagaan Persekutuan sebagai sumber induk dalam menggubal dasar itu.

Jurucakap MPM, Datuk Ibrahim Ali(gambar) berkata dasar-dasar yang tidak melahirkan program berpendekatan afirmatif akan memudaratkan orang Melayu dan Bumiputera yang merupakan kaum majoriti rakyat Malaysia, yang masih mundur dan ketinggalan.

“Dalam sistem demokrasi kaum majoriti adalah merupakan agenda nasional,” kata beliau pada sidang media di akhir persidangan yang diadakan di bangunan Matrade, di sini petang ini.

Selain itu kata beliau, kerajaan mestilah menjadikan agenda pembangunan ekonomi orang Melayu dan Bumiputera sebagai Bidang Keberhasilan Utama Nasional (NKRA).

MPM juga mahu kuota Melayu dan Bumiputera pada sektor strategik tidak dihapuskan.

Malah, kata Ibrahim, MPM juga mahu kerajaan mengambil pendekatan campur tangan dalam pasaran nagi menjayakan agenda Melayu dan Bumiputera.

“Pasaran ekonomi tidak diliberalisasikan sehingga pengusaha Bumiputera terpaksa menghadapi persaingan 'brutal',” kata beliau yang Presiden Perkasa.

Selain itu menurut beliau, MPM juga mahu model ekonomi baru yang akan diumumkan oleh Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak hujung bulan ini mengekal dan menambah agensi amanah yang membangunkan agenda ekonomi Malayu dan Bumiputera manakala syarikat-syarikat berkaitan kerajaan (GLC) aktif dalam membantu kaum Melayu menguasai rangkaian nilai dalam sektor-sektor strategik dan berupayaan.

“MPM menentang sekeras-kerasnya sebarang percubaan daripada mana-mana pihak untuk menidakkan hak-hak Melayu dan Bumiputera dalam model ekonomi baru atas apa jua alasan sebagaimana jaminan di dalam asas Artikel 152 dan 153 Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

“Dasar kesungguhan atau tindakan afirmatif untuk menjaga kepentingan kaum majoriti rakyat Malaysia mesti diteruskan dalam model ekonomi baru agar pembahagian kekayaan negara diagihkan dengan adil untuk semua kaum di Malaysia, paling tidak berdasarkan matlamat nisbah yang ditetapkan dalam DEB iaitu 30:40:30,” kata Ibrahim.

Katanya, Perlembagaan Persekutuan mempunyai satu peruntukan khas di bawah Artikel 153 bertujuan memelihara orang Melayu dan Bumiputera Sabah dan Sarawak.

“Kedudukan istimewa orang Melayu dan Bumiputera termaktub di bawah klausa (2) Perkara 153.

“Ia menggariskan bahawa Yang di-Pertuan Agong atas nasihat Perdana Menteri atau Kabinet, berkuasa menyelamatkan atau menjamin kedudukan istimewa orang Melayu dan Bumiputera Sabah dan Sarawak dengan menentukan kedudukan mereka dalam perkhidmatan awam, agihan biasiswa atau pendidikan atau latihan atau lain-lain kemudahan yang diberikan kerajaan termasuk permit atau lesen perniagaan.”

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Zul Noordin warns party against ‘act of betrayal’

By Clara Chooi

KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 — Maverick PKR MP Zulkifli Noordin (picture) said today that he would consider any disciplinary action against him an act of betrayal, even as he continued to maintain he does not intend to leave the party.

Zulkifli told The Malaysian Insider today he was going through a very tough time but the idea of defecting had not crossed his mind. “But even in the face of all this turmoil, with the others defecting, I have stayed on. And I have said nothing to indicate that I want to leave. I have been the most loyal, the most consistent of them all. I have stood my ground and said that I want to fight this out, that I will not leave,” he said.

Zulkifli is facing disciplinary action for infringing a party gag order and lodging a police report against Shah Alam PAS MP Khalid Samad over the recent “Allah” controversy.

His request for an all-Muslim panel was rejected by the disciplinary committee, and he walked out of a hearing this week because there were non-Muslims on the panel.

The party has said that the reason for the hearing was over his act of ignoring a party order and not for his stand in the “Allah” issue. Party officials say the religious composition of the disciplinary board was irrelevant to the charges faced by Zulkifli.

Zulkifli told The Malaysian Insider today that that his breaking point would be if the party’s supreme council endorses any recommendations to punish him from the disciplinary board

“That would be my breaking point. I have been very patient. I have been very consistent. I have stood by (party de facto leader Datuk Seri) Anwar Ibrahim and have been his loyalist from the start. I stood my ground, I went to prison under the Internal Security Act with him. But if they proceed with this, then they have betrayed me and they have betrayed the Muslims,” he said.

Zulkifli said that despite this, he had no plans to appeal for help from Anwar. “Why should I? I do not want it to be seen as though I sought for guidance and then people will say that Anwar had interfered in the party’s disciplinary process. I do not want to put him in a difficult spot so no, I will fight this on my own,” he said.

Zulkifli also questioned the reason given by party president Datin Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail on why his request for an all-Muslim panel was rejected. Wan Azizah had explained yesterday that the rejection was because Zulkifli’s case was a disciplinary matter and not about his stand on the “Allah” controversy.

“I find it surprising that they are blinded by their own charge. The show cause letter states that I had breached a party policy for lodging a report against Khalid over the issue of kalimah Allah.

“I do not doubt this is a disciplinary process but the disciplinary proceeding must be held over an issue and the issue here is lodging a report over the issue of kalimah Allah. You cannot separate the two,” he explained. He added that to defend himself and explain his actions, he would have to bring up the reason why he had breached the party’s gag order in the first place.

“This means that I have to explain my stand in the kalimah Allah issue. I have to justify my actions and they have to punish me based on whether they feel my actions are justifiable. “However, if the panellists are non-Muslims, then how would they be able to understand my reasons,” he said.

When he appeared before the panel on Monday, Zulkifli had said he was shocked to see that it comprised two Christian activists, one Hindu and only one Muslim. “I am not questioning their credibility or insulting their religious beliefs. I am only saying that it would only be appropriate for a Muslim to be passing judgement in this case.

“Similarly, even if I were asked to, I would refuse to pass judgment in a case that involves an understanding of Christianity or Hinduism,” he said.

Zulkifli compared his case to that of Anwar’s Sodomy II trial when the latter applied to the High Court to compel Judge Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah to recuse himself on grounds that he had been biased in his rulings regarding newspaper reports and a photograph published in a Malay daily on the case. “It is the same here. I just want a fair trial. Anwar has been going around all over the world, crying for justice but yet here he is, not even giving justice to a fellow party member. I want them to walk the talk,” he said.

Despite his disappointment with the party however, Zulkifli insisted that he still had faith in his leaders.

As such, he would not commit for now whether or not he would leave the party. “I will give them the benefit of the doubt. I do not know what recommendations the board is making to the supreme council. I do not want to jump the gun and assume that they are recommending my punishment. “You never know, maybe they are recommending to recuse themselves from hearing the case so that they can be replaced with an all-Muslim panel,” he said.

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Isu kalimah Allah, 2 aktivis Kristian dengar kes disiplin saya - Zul Nordin

By aidc editor on March 4, 2010 5:24 PM| 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Salam 2 all.

Saya baru sahaja mengambil keputusan kuar daripada sidang Lembaga Disiplin yang akan membicarakan saya dalam isu kalimah ALLAH. Walaupun saya telah ebrsedia untuk menjawab semua pertuduhan dan membela diri saya, tetapi saya tidak boleh tunduk dan mengiktiraf panel bukan Islam untuk membicarakan saya dalam hal agama saya. Oleh itu saya membuat walk out.

Pada hari Isnin 15 Rabi'ul Awal / 01 Mac lepas, saya terkejut apabila mendapati ahli panel Lembaga Disipilin yang akan membicarakan saya dalam isu kalimah ALLAH terdiri daripada bukan Islam, iaitu 2 Kristian iaitu Mr. Goh Keat Peng dan Ms. Chew Swee Yoke, dan Mr. T. Kumar, seorang penganut Hindu. Hanya seorang sahaja yang beragama Islam. Walaupun saya telah meminta melalui 3 surat bertarikh 16, 25 dan 27 Feb supaya saya dibicarakan dihadapan Lembaga Disiplin yang ahli panelnya beragama Islam kerana isunya membabitkan isu aqidah dan syariat Islam, iaitu isu kalimah ALLAH, namun mereka menolaknya dan berkeras mahu panel bukan Islam yang membicarakan saya.

Saya percaya ini adalah rancangan jahat Firaun-Firaun Kecil didalam PKR yang sengaja mahu memalukan dan mengaibkan saya dan agama Islam dengan mengadapkan saya kehadapan Lembaga Disiplin yang bukan Islam.

Hari ini saya mengadap Lembaga Disiplin tersebut untuk mendapatkan keputusan mereka tentang tuntutan saya supaya mereka menarik diri daripada menjadi anggota panel Lembaga Disiplin yang akan membicarakan saya.

Saya menuntut supaya saya diberikan keadilan. Sebab itu saya menyokong perjuangan Dato' Seri Anwar untuk mendapat keadilan dalam kes liwat beliau. Perjuangan beliau ingin mendapat keadilan sehingga sampai keperingkat mendapat sokongan luar. Kalau Dato' Seri Anwar menuntut keadilan, saya juga menuntut keadilan yang sama.

Antara prinsip keadilan ialah kita hanya boleh dibicarakan oleh mereka yang setaraf dan sekufu dengan kita. "Justice requires one to be tried by one own peers".

Pertuduhan terhadap saya ialah berkaitan isu kalimah ALLAH. Ini adalah isu berkaitan aqidah, syariat dan umat Islam, agama saya. Tindakan saya adalah sekadar membela dan mempertahankan maruah dan kedudukan agama Islam saya serta insititusinya yang dilabel sebagai ketinggalan zaman dan umat Islam yang dilabel sebagai terlalu lemah kefahamannya sehingga perlu dilindungi. Ini adalah isu aqidah, syariat dan umat Islam.

Saya telah menuntut agar dibicarakan dihadapan panel Lembaga yang beragama Islam. Saya memberi 3 notis bertarikh 16, 25 dan 27 Feb menuntut antara lain dibicarakan dihadapan ahli panel Islam. Pada 01 Mac, sekali lagi dihadapan panel Lembaga saya menuntut antara lain dibicarakan dihadapan ahli panel yang beragama Islam.

Saya memberikan mereka masa untuk menimbangkan tuntutan saya dan mereka meminta masa hingga hari ini. Sementara itu sekali lagi saya meminta pejabat Setiausaha Agong supaya mengkaji semula panel yang membicarakan saya supaya dilantik dikalangan ahli panel yang beragama Islam.

Tetapi saya percaya Firaun-Firaun Kecil yang menguasai PKR mempunyai agenda jahat mereka untuk terus memalukan dan mengaibkan saya dan agama Islam.

Sebab itu saya tidak terkejut petang ini mereka membuat keputusan menolak permohonan saya. Mereka mahu meneruskan perbicaraan terhadap saya dihadapan panel bukan Islam yang ada. Panel ini bukan sahaja terdiri daripada bukan Islam, malahan dua ahli panelnya adalah aktivitis Kristian; iaitu En. Goh Keat Peng dan Ms. Chew Swee Yoke. Seorang lagi ahli panel, En. T. Kumar adalah beragama Hindu. Hanya seorang yang beragama Islam, Tuan Syed Kamarulzaman.

Bagaimana mungkin panel Lembaga Disiplin yang majoritinya bukan Islam dibenarkan membicarakan saya seorang Muslim dalam isu membabitkan aqidah dan agama Islam. Bagaimana saya boleh mendapat keadilan kalau ahli panel Lembaga Disiplin pun bukan beragama Islam. Keadilan bukan sahaja mesti dilaksanakan, tetapi mesti dilihat dilaksanakan.

Didalam kes saya, apakah keadilan boleh dicapai jika panelnya pun bukan sahaja bukan Islam, ianya terdiri dari orang Kristian yang menjadi subjek dalam isu kalimah ALLAH.

Saya tidak mempertikaikan kredibiliti dan integriti ahli panel Lembaga Disiplin ini. Mereka adalah terdiri dari kalangan yang dihormati.

Saya juga faham mereka tidak mempunyai sebarang kuasa kerana yang berkuasa didalam PKR adalah Majlis Pimpinan Parti. Dan MPP PKR kini dikuasai oleh Firaun-Firaun Kecil yang mempunyai agenda jahat dan sempit terhadap Islam dan umat Islam. Dan Firaun-Firaun Kecil ini memang tidak sabar-sabar untuk melakukan apa sahaja untuk memastikan saya dipecat. They'll do anything at all cost to achieve their evil goal.

Saya tidak rela dibicarakan dihadapan panel yang bukan Islam dalam hal membabitkan aqidah, syariat dan umat Islam.

Pada saya ini adalah satu penghinaan yang besar terhadap Islam dan umat Islam. Saya khuatir ini akan memberi persepsi kepada rakyat khususnya umat Islam bahawa PKR adalah parti yang langsung tidak memperdulikan sensitiviti dan maruah agama Islam, sehingga tergamak membariskan panel Kristian untuk membicarakan seorang Muslim atas isu berkaitan Islam iaitu kalimah ALLAH.

Firaun-Firaun Kecil ini mendakwa kononnya PKR kini mempunyai ahli hampir setengah juta. Takkanlah daripada 500 ribu tiada ahli yang beragama Islam yang berintegriti dan berwibawa yang boleh menjadi ahli panel Lembaga Disiplin untuk membicarakan saya. Kalau tiada pun PKR boleh meminjam atau mengambil para ulama dan agamawan daripada luar.

Atas alasan itu, saya memilih untuk tidak mengiktiraf panel Lembaga Disipilin kristian ini untuk membicarakan saya dalam isu kalimah ALLAH. Maka saya membuat keputusan untuk walk out.

Jika mereka meneruskan juga perbicaraan terhadap saya dalam isu kalimah ALLAH ini, bermakna panel Lembaga Disiplin ini dan PKR jelas tidak menghormati Islam dan umat Islam.

Oleh itu saya desak kepimpinan PKR supaya membubarkan Lembaga Disipilin ini dan menubuhkan sebuah Lembaga Disiplin baru yang terdiri dari ahli panel yang beragama Islam. Let us walk our talk. Sekurang-kurangnya kalau nak pecat saya pun, biarlah keadilan itu bukan sahaja dilaksanakan, tetapi dilihat dilaksanakan. Dan keadilan menuntut saya dibicarakan oleh mereka yang sekufu dengan saya, iaitu mestilah beragama Islam kerana ini membabitkan isu kalimah ALLAH, isu umat Islam. Dan saya bersedia pada bila-bila masa yang bersesuaian dan menasabah untuk berdepan mana-mana Lembaga Disiplin yang panelnya beragama Islam untuk mempertahankan pendirian dan pegangan saya.

Wassalam.


Zulkifli Bin Noordin
Khamis
18 Rabi'ul Awal 1431
04 Mac 2010

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PKR says no to all-Muslim panel for Zul Noordin

commentary: YB Zul is one of the guy who bent over backwards to set up KEADILAN when AI was in jail...is it too much for you to grant the request of the man that almost went bankrupt to get where you are now AI ? this show how much you care about the people who was there initially when no other ie DAP or PAS to support you.. come on laa...  YB Zul sold his properties just to support your reformasi movement and brought PKR where it is now... and this is how you repay his loyalty ?  CIFUT AI !


No worries YB Zul... we got a warm seat for you on the other side of the bench in the Parliament...


-aizley-

By Clara Chooi

KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 — PKR’s disciplinary board will not bend to the will of Kulim-Bandar Bharu MP Zulkifli Noordin’s demand for an all-Muslim panel and is expected to deliberate on his hearing despite today’s walkout, party secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution said today.

Saifuddin told The Malaysian Insider this evening that there was nothing wrong or disrespectful with the decision to maintain the present panel members instead of replacing them with only Muslim members.

Zulkifli had made the request for an all-Muslim panel in view of the fact that he was to answer to disciplinary charges involving his actions in the “Allah” row.

“He has to understand. He is not being tried for his stand on the word “Allah”. He is being tried for his act of lodging a police report against a fellow Pakatan Rakyat MP despite the party’s gag order on the matter,” Saifuddin said.

He added that the decision to reject Zulkifli’s request which was made by the party’s disciplinary committee would remain the same.

“We are trying him on his action of defying a party order, not about his stand. It is very different. That is why there is no need for there to be an all-Muslim panel,” said Saifuddin.

He added that Zulkifli was welcome to his beliefs on the “Allah” matter, whether or not it was in conflict with the party’s view. “But when you disregard a party order and lodge a report against a fellow MP, disciplinary action will have to be taken,” he said.

Zulkifli had lodged a report against Shah Alam PAS MP Khalid Samad over his disagreement in the issue. Saifuddin acknowledged that he had received a fourth letter from Zulkifli today, containing the same eight demands that the latter had made in view of his disciplinary hearing. He noted however that the decision would remain the same.

“The board will make their recommendations (of disciplinary actions) to the party’s supreme council for endorsement. This means that Zulkifli will have to make up his mind whether to concede to the board’s decisions, even though it was made by non-Muslim members, or leave the party.”

The maverick politician today staged a walkout when he was informed that his demands had not been met and the same panel who sat on Monday would be handling his case. Zulkifli had expressed disappointment that the panel comprised of only one Muslim member while the others were two Christian activists and one Hindu.

“I mean no disrespect to the members of the board but I refuse to recognise them for it is inappropriate for them to be passing judgement on a religion that they themselves do not understand.

“On this issue, I will not compromise. Who better to judge me then another fellow Muslim? I were to be punished by another Muslim for my involvement in this matter, I can accept it.

“Justice requires for one to be tried by one’s own peers. Justice must not only be done, it must also be seen to be done,” he said in a press conference after the hearing.

Zulkifli is also facing the board for his open criticism of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng. He is expected to leave PKR and join former colleagues Datuk Seri Zahrain Hashim, Tan Tee Beng and Mohsin Fadzli Samsuri, who defected recently citing loss in the party’s leadership.

Zulkifli had told pressmen today that “as of now” he had no plans to quit and wanted to stay on to defend himself.

He noted that the board had a deadline to make a decisiob by next Tuesday on the matter. “Then I will decide,” he said, adding that if his demands were not met, it meant that the party had no respect for the Islamic religion.

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Bagan Serai MP joins PKR exodus

UPDATED

By Adib Zalkapli

KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 — Bagan Serai MP Mohsin Fadzli Samsuri (pic) became the latest MP to quit PKR and turn independent today, even as party leaders moved to quell fears of an exodus of lawmakers.

He made the announcement at a press conference together with former PKR secretary-general Datuk Salehuddin Hashim.

Mohsin said he was quitting the party today because of concerns about Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) politics, especially over the “Allah” row.

He claimed that he had raised some of his concerns through the party’s internal channels but no action had been taken.

“In the name of Allah, I would like to announce my resignation from PKR,” said Mohsin.

He said that he contested in Election 2008 after a request made by Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

“The trust and confidence that I have placed in PKR’s and Pakatan Rakyat’s struggle especially in restoring the special position of Islam has faded with the latest development in the party,” he added.

Mohsin also revealed that he has not been able to perform his duties due to sabotage and internal problems in the party.

“I have raised these issues and questions through internal party channels, but no action or positive step was taken,” he added.

Mohsin is the third PKR MP to quit the party since last month.

With his resignation PKR now has 27 MPs, DAP, 28, PAS, 23, PSM, 1 and SAPP, 2. There are four independents.

Barisan Nasional (BN) controls 137 seats in the 222-member Parliament.

While Salehuddin has denied behind the spate of resignations, his appearance at press conferences of MPs announcing their decisions to quit has fuelled speculation about his involvement.

Following the resignations of Bayan Baru MP Datuk Seri Zahrain Hashim and Nibong Tebal MP TanTee Beng, Salehuddin had predicted more than ten other MPs could leave the party.

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and other PKR leaders have accused Salehuddin and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak of being instrumental in enticing PKR MPs.

PKR deputy president Senator Syed Husin Ali responded yesterday to Salehuddin’s prediction of future resignations by revealing that the former secretary-general was paid RM9,000 a month and had quit in a huff at not being named head of Selangor investment arm Perangsang

Syed Husin’s riposte appeared to be part of a campaign to discredit party rebels as he had also disclosed that former Penang deputy chief minister Mohd Fairus Khairuddin was paid RM4,000 a month despite quitting his state post and Penanti seat.

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