4 posts tagged “pkr”
Referring to The Nut Graph article "PKR's Campaign Homophobia", I just wish to set the record straight. I'm not.
Now I'm just wondering how many people can actually read through that one.
It takes a specific topic to get me riled up. And one of those topics is of course homophobia in Malaysia. I will not tolerate it and if any politician or leader of a political party decides to make a quip about it, they'll be hearing from me.
Similar as how Ahmad Puad Zarkashi got an e-mail for branding our football players as "pondans" for their bad performance.
Similar as to how Zahid Hamidi got an e-mail for branding chickens injected with hormones turning our population into "pondans".
So when I hear that the Penang PKR chief decided to brand Barisan Nasional as "Barisan Pondan" for not contesting in Penanti, does he actually know what he's saying, coming from a party with an alleged sodomiser leading it?
And if you don't believe that he's a sodomiser, then that's good. However, please believe that he's a supporter of gay rights, which he mentions in an article in The Daily Express in 2008 ,which was one of the reasons Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has my respect.
Even former Menteri Besar of Perak, Datuk Nizar, knows better than to joke about such things. It's one of the best things about some PAS MPs, they're extremely polite.
So I honestly hope that PKR, which is supposed to stand for equality for everyone, will know better than to let a homophobic idiot represent them at ceramahs, especially when I'm reading about it, before I start dislodging your youth wing piecemeal.
Dr. Nalla now states that Indians should leave the People's Justice Party (PKR) here in Malaysia because there is no future for them there.
But the main question is, is there a future for PKR?
Can anyone venture a guess that if elections were to take place soon, just how many seats can be promised as a PKR guaranteed seat?
Absolutely none.
What's the reason for this? Well, it's simply because Anwar's out of jail. Period. The release of Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim from jail has the same effect of lifting the lid of a pressure cooker. His release has symbolized that the party's hard earned, street protesting fight is now over.
So once Anwar was free, we now see PKR in a state of disintegration. Leaders are leaving and basically bad-mouthing the party, causing even more people to leave the party, and the media isn't helping either.
What can PKR now argue in their favor? They continually bring up the topic of Altantuya's murder, holding Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak personally responsible for her death and linking it to the purchase of submarines from France. If we were to continually browse Anwar Ibrahim's blog, we would see that he is now outspoken more on local issues in the country. However, is this message getting across to whomever it's supposed to?
Who exactly is he trying to attract into PKR?
The students, especially the Malays are scared for their scholarships to be withdrawn.
The Chinese would prefer a vote for DAP if there was a candidate, and the Indians are now hateful for their leader being told to back off from the Vice Presidency of the party.
The party continually preaches on social justice, but can he actually stand up for sensitive issues of a more social kind. After basically being jailed for allegedly being a homosexual, can he voice out that gays have equal rights?
Considering his religious ABIM background, I cannot foresee him supporting such.
What about the call for the abolishment of the NEP?
He states that it's a crutch that Malays have to discard. However, he never states his full intentions to either abolish it or maintain it.
What about his agenda on schools?
Are we to go back to the era of "Bahasa Baku", which he so strongly promoted?
Can the party still survive with it's leadership, especially among the youth and the Indians now in disarray?
As I can tell now, it's going to be hard to encourage youths from joining, especially when you're asking the pro-Malays to give up their privileges as a Bumiputera and at the same time asking the Islamic conservatives to be more liberal.
As much as I love our Alternative Front, bringing up personal issues from the opponent's leaders which have no connection whatsoever in the administration of the country, or even the district, is uncalled for.
In this case, the PKR's insistence of bringing up the case of bringing up the case of Altantuya Sharibuu.
Altantuya Sharibuu was a Mongolian model who was murdered in Malaysia. The reason her case is considered a conspiracy is based on the way she was killed, in which she was murdered, a C4 explosive pack was shoved into her, and she was blown up to bits in the middle of an oil palm plantation.
What's even more interesting is the fact that 2 policemen were charged with her murder, and a close friend of our Deputy Prime Minister, Razak Baginda, was also charged for the murder.
During the court room drama that ensued, Razak Baginda testified that Altantuya was blackmailing him. Furthermore, during a court session, Razak Baginda's wife went hysterical and shouted that "her husband is a good man, and has no intentions of becoming Prime Minister".
Now, this put a lot of heat on our DPM, Najib Tun Razak.
Then came a conspiracy theory that Altantuya was the translator for our DPM to negotiate the purchase of submarines in France, and that she was blackmailing to release the information of the transaction. This is an alleged conspiracy, in which nothing has been proven.
And yet, the exiled leader of the PKR, finds this as his main agenda in the by election of Ijok, which made no sense to me.
There were so many other issues to bring up:
- The government has yet to discuss the calculation of the Bumiputera equity percentage, which they said they would reveal to the public and have yet to do so.
- The amount of money going into the compensation of the companies involved in the Customs complex in Johor. Who's paying it?
- Look into health, education, social ills in Ijok. These are all issues to be dealt with.
- Samy Vellu signing the toll concessionaire agreements which allowed for increases in toll rates.
- The stabilization of the current oil and diesel prices which have not been brought down, even after the price of petrol has gone down since then.
- The amount of money saved from the petrol subsidy was supposedly used for the improvement of public transportation. Has Ijok seen such improvements?
- Of the education and welfare amount dedicated from the government, has Ijok been given it's fair share of such?
I'm not sure what is happening, but as usual, I've probably been banned on commenting on Anwar Ibrahim's blog. Since I'm not going to let this stop me from commenting on any of the issues I find reprehensible on any one blog, I'm going to post my comment here instead. Besides, I was never one to shut up just because I had my mouth sewn up.
I am currently pissed off with this issue, and I condemn any PKR member who does not speak out on this.
The Mufti of Perak, the religious leader in question here, is basically a bigot. For a couple of responses on several issues:
- HIV+ people should be gathered and placed in a quarantined community
I wouldn't mind putting this guy along with John Howard in a padded cell, just for suggesting such ridiculous and uneducated idiocy.
- Deepavali and Chinese New Year
You heard right. Muslims are discouraged to even wish their brethren in the same country well for their holidays. Heck, even Muhammad greeted and stopped to witness other religion's celebrations.
- SMS message
Last year, there was a case where a rogue instant message was sent out that stated that hundreds of Muslims were about to be baptised by a national hero at a local church in the state. He was one of those who sent out this idiotic message, after it was forwarded to him from some lady wearing her headscarf too tight, I guess.
How else does one reason such gossipmongering nutcases?
What is even more interesting is that he was not even held accountable for the mob which later attacked the church.
Personally, I can't see why Anwar Ibrahim, who insists he's trying to attain social justice, would actually criticize the parties which are demanding for this guys resignation as a religious leader.
