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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
BIAR BETUL Rafizi: IPP projek khas untuk kroni Dr Mahathir ATAU Anwar Ibrahim.
PENJELASAN DARI KERAJAAN BN-UMNO TENTANG ULASAN DARIPADA RAFIZI RAMLI AGAR RAKYAT LEBIH FAHAM TENTANG IPP
Monday, May 30, 2011
Harga tarif elektrik baru bermula 1 Jun ini,

Tidak dapat dinafikan kenaikan tarif elektrik bermula 1 Jun ini, menurut kerajaan :
Kerajaan persekutuan menaikkan tarif elektrik dengan purata 7.12 peratus bermula 1 Jun ini sebagai sebahagian daripada pengurangan subsidi.
Menteri Tenaga, Teknologi Hijau dan Air Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui berkata, seramai 44.4 juta atau 75 peratus dariapada keseluruhan 5.94 juta isi rumah tidak akan terjejas dengan tarif baru ini.
Bagi yang menggunakan 301kW hingga 1000kW, tarif dinaikkan daripada 0.1 peratus hingga 10 peratus, atau RM0.07 kepada RM30.30.
Pelepasan bil elektrik untuk pengguna yang menggunakan kurang daripada RM20 sebulan akan tamat pada Disember 2011.
Kesan- kesan dari kenaikan tarif elektrik :
1. 7% kenaikan tariff letrik - berapa pula % kehilangan undi BN di sebabkan letrik naik?
Dalam situasi begini kerajaan BN harus bersedia penolakan rakyat semasa PRU13. Justeru itu, kerajaan mesti menjelaskan secara tersusun dan penuh strategi agar rakyat boleh menerima kenaikan tarif elektrik.
2. Akan memberi kesan negatif kepada sektor perindustrian sekali gus menjejaskan daya saing negara.
kenaikan itu akan memberi kesan kepada industri pembuatan di negeri ini yang bergantung kepada penjanaan tenaga eletrik yang tinggi untuk menghasilkan produk masing-masing.kenaikan mendadak tujuh peratus bil elektrik bermakna kos menghasilkan barangan seperti peralatan elektrik akan meningkat di Malaysia berbanding negara lain. Kenaikan tarif elektrik akan menjadikan industri pembuatan yang banyak menggunakan tenaga elektrik ini menjadi kurang kompetitif atau hilang daya saing berbanding negara lain.
3. Harga barangan pasti naik atas alasan kenaikan kos.
Harga makanan dijangka meningkat seiring pengumuman kerajaan menaikkan tarif elektrik. Industri pengeluaran makanan juga menggunakan sebahagian besar tenaga elektrik.Sebanyak 75 peratus isi rumah terlepas daripada kesan langsung kenaikan tarif elektrik, tetapi mereka akan menghadapi bebannya apabila pengeluar memindakah kos yang lebih tinggi kepada pengguna.
4. Tekanan hidup bagi rakyat berpendapatan rendah.
Kenaikan Tarif elektrik memberikan tekanan kepada kumpulan berpendapatan rendah walaupun jumlahnya mungkin kecil.Ia mungkin tidak signifikan namun ia menjadi perbelanjaan tambahan untuk golongan miskin dan perlu ditelan. Jika sekiranya mereka yang menggunakan bawah RM20.00 , akan percuma. Jika tarif elektrik naik maka akan naiklah penggunaan elektrik dan pembayaran bil elektrik.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
'Pemimpin Umno-BN resah jadi pembangkang' ATAU 'Pembangkang Takut Dengan Kebangkitan Rakyat Menyokong Umno-BN'
Pemimpin Umno dan BN yang mendominasi kepimpinan negara lebih 50 tahun dikatakan kini dalam keadaan resah, gelisah dan risau jika mereka menjadi pembangkang selepas pilihan raya umum ke-13, akan datang, kata Ketua Penerangan PAS Perak, Khalil Idham Lim.
Menurut beliau, perkembangan itu semakin terserlah melalui tindakan dan ucapan yang dilakukan pemimpin BN sejak akhir-akhir ini.
“Keadaan tersebut berlaku dalam keadaan gelombang penolakkan rakyat terhadap BN sedang berlangsung dalam keadaan BN terus menerus mengharapkan simpati untuk terus kekal berkuasa.
“Kerana itu populariti BN cuba dipulihkan kononnya kerajaan prihatin dengan cuma menangguhkan kenaikan harga minyak namun nampaknya masih tidak berhasil mengembalikan sokongan rakyat.
“Kebangkitan rakyat pada masa sekarang boleh disifat sebagai air yang mengalir yang tidak mampu dibendung dan disekat lagi. Kerana itu kebangkitan rakyat kearah perubahan tidak akan terhenti setelah mereka menghukum BN dalam PRU akan datang,” kata Khalil dalam satu kenyataan media di Parit Buntar, hari ini.
Beliau mengulas laporan Bernama semalam bahawa Umno BN akan simulasi pilihan raya 'olok-olok' yang mana ia berkait rapat dengan persediaan parti itu bagi menghadapi pilihan raya umum ke-13.
Bagi Khalil yang juga ADUN Titi Serong, pilihan raya 'olok-olok' itu hanya membuang masa dan membuktikan kegusaran pemimpin Umno dan BN mengenai kemungkinan kehilangan kuasa.
“Saya juga mempersoalkan punca kewangan yang akan digunakan untuk mengadakan pilihan raya umum olok-olok yang boleh dikatakan membuang buang masa . Ia tidak lebih kepada bukti jelas tentang kebimbangan pemimpin Umno dan BN kehilangan kuasa.
“Kerana itu saya membantah sekeras-kerasnya jika pilihan raya olok-olok itu menggunakan sumber kewangan yang ada pada jabatan dan agensi tertentu kerana ia merupakan satu penyelewengan wang rakyat termasuk wang kami dari Penyokong Pakatan Rakyat,” katanya.
Menurut Khalil adalah lebih baik dana awam itu “disalurkan untuk kepentingan membantu rakyat bawahan yang masih memerlukan bantuan”.
“Keadaan tersebut berlaku dalam keadaan gelombang penolakkan rakyat terhadap BN sedang berlangsung dalam keadaan BN terus menerus mengharapkan simpati untuk terus kekal berkuasa.
“Kerana itu populariti BN cuba dipulihkan kononnya kerajaan prihatin dengan cuma menangguhkan kenaikan harga minyak namun nampaknya masih tidak berhasil mengembalikan sokongan rakyat.
“Kebangkitan rakyat pada masa sekarang boleh disifat sebagai air yang mengalir yang tidak mampu dibendung dan disekat lagi. Kerana itu kebangkitan rakyat kearah perubahan tidak akan terhenti setelah mereka menghukum BN dalam PRU akan datang,” kata Khalil dalam satu kenyataan media di Parit Buntar, hari ini.
Bagi Khalil yang juga ADUN Titi Serong, pilihan raya 'olok-olok' itu hanya membuang masa dan membuktikan kegusaran pemimpin Umno dan BN mengenai kemungkinan kehilangan kuasa.
“Saya juga mempersoalkan punca kewangan yang akan digunakan untuk mengadakan pilihan raya umum olok-olok yang boleh dikatakan membuang buang masa . Ia tidak lebih kepada bukti jelas tentang kebimbangan pemimpin Umno dan BN kehilangan kuasa.
Menurut Khalil adalah lebih baik dana awam itu “disalurkan untuk kepentingan membantu rakyat bawahan yang masih memerlukan bantuan”.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
BENARKAH ANWAR IBRAHIM Melarikan Wang Kertas RM500 dan RM1000 Berjumlah Lebih 13 bilion Ke Luar Negara
AHLI Parlimen Padang Serai yang juga bekas pemimpin setia PKR serta penyokong tegar Anwar Ibrahim, Gobalakrishnan telah mendedahkan pelbagai rahsia dan penyelewengan Ketua Umum PKR dalam satu ceramah di Port Kelang pada Sabtu malam, minggu lalu.
Ceramah yang disampaikannya dalam majlis ‘siri ceramah SSDE’ itu menambahkan lagi kefahaman rakyat mengenai siapa sebenarnya pemimpin ‘gila talak’ bernama Anwar Ibrahim yang jadi sasau kerana mengimpikan kedudukan di Putrajaya selepas PRU-13 nanti.
Rakaman video ucapan Gobala seperti yang termuat di blog Darul Ehsan Today itu menimbulkan dua isu yang agak menarik untuk dikongsi bersama oleh seluruh rakyat Malaysia.
Dua isu yang maksudkan ialah mengenai dakwaan bahawa Anwar telah melarikan wang kertas RM500 dan 1000 ke luar negara serta kisah perut buncit Anwar yang dilindungi bengkung.
Pada ceramah itu Gobala mencabar Anwar Ibrahim supaya menyaman beliau di mahkamah kerana menuduh Ketua Pembangkang itu melarikan wang kertas RM500 dan 1000 berjumlah lebih 13 bilion ke luar negara ketika Anwar Ibrahim menjadi Timbalan Perdana Menteri dan juga Menteri Kewangan Malaysia dahulu.
Jelas Gobala, selepas Tun Dr. Mahathir memecat Anwar daripada kabinet, Dr. Mahathir juga telah menarik-balik penggunaan wang kertas Malaysia bernilai RM500 dan RM1000.
“Cuba tuan-tuan dan puan-puan ingat balik peristiwa pada tahun 1998 itu. Kenapa Dr. Mahathir batalkan penggunaan wang 500 dan 1000? Saya katakan bahawa sebelum itu Anwar Ibrahim telah melarikan wang berkenaan ke luar negara, mungkin ke Indonesia dengan menggunakan kapal terbang persendirian dengan jumlah tidak kurang daripada 13 bilion.
“Saya cabar Anwar saman saya kerana kenyataan ini,” katanya sambil disambut tepukan gemuruh para hadirin di majlis berkenaan.
Tak tahulah sama ada dakwaan bekas pemimpin PKR ini benar atau tidak, tetapi dia sanggup disaman oleh Anwar sekiranya dakwaannya itu tidak benar.
Kalau begitu, patutlah Anwar jadi sasau dan gila meroyan kerana nak sangat jadi Perdana Menteri. Rupanya apabila Anwar berjaya jadi PM sudah tentu kebenaran menggunakan wang kertas RM500 dan RM1000 akan dibenarkan semula.
Maka terselamatlah wang yang dilarikan itu untuk digunapakai! Begitu kisahnya! -AIDC
Kalau benar perkara ini berlaku maka kita selama ini telah tertipu oleh keperibadian , ketokohan Anwar Ibrahim. Patutlah semua pemimpin gabungan Pakatan Rakyat bagai lembu dicucuk hidung oleh Anwar Ibrahim. Apa yang Anwar mahu mereka lakukan, mereka sanggup lakukan hinggakan sanggup mempermainkan Agama Islam , pelbagai fatwa dikeluarkan sewenang2nya dn sanggup merusuh mencaci , menghina org lain semata2 sudah terbayangkan wang RM13 Bilion boleh dibahagi sama bila Anwar Ibrahim menjadi Perdana Menteri . Kalau benar apa yang dikatakan diharap pihak berwajib dan polis menyiasat dakwaan ini. Kita sebagai rakyat tidak rela duit rakyat dirompak untuk kepentingan peribadi.
Rujuk : http://darulehsantoday.blogspot.com
Kalau benar perkara ini berlaku maka kita selama ini telah tertipu oleh keperibadian , ketokohan Anwar Ibrahim. Patutlah semua pemimpin gabungan Pakatan Rakyat bagai lembu dicucuk hidung oleh Anwar Ibrahim. Apa yang Anwar mahu mereka lakukan, mereka sanggup lakukan hinggakan sanggup mempermainkan Agama Islam , pelbagai fatwa dikeluarkan sewenang2nya dn sanggup merusuh mencaci , menghina org lain semata2 sudah terbayangkan wang RM13 Bilion boleh dibahagi sama bila Anwar Ibrahim menjadi Perdana Menteri . Kalau benar apa yang dikatakan diharap pihak berwajib dan polis menyiasat dakwaan ini. Kita sebagai rakyat tidak rela duit rakyat dirompak untuk kepentingan peribadi.
Rujuk : http://darulehsantoday.blogspot.com
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
PANAS ADAKAH BENAR :Pendedahan Wikileaks : Islam permainan UMNO!!
slam As A Tool of UMNO' Political Game
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 KUALA LUMPUR 000108
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/19/2020
TAGS: KTIP, KCRM, KWMN, PGOV, PHUM, PREL, SMIG, MY
SUBJECT: CANING OF THREE WOMEN REFLECTS UMNO'S POLITICAL TACTICS
REF: A. KL 20 WHAT IS GOING ON IN MALAYSIA?
B. KL 14 UPDATE ON THE ALLAH ISSUE
C. KL 11 OVERNIGHT ATTACKS ON 3 CHURCHES
D. KL 03 GOM APPEALS KL HIGH COURT RULING ON USE OF THE WORD ALLAH
E. 09 KL 716 CANING PUNISHMENT POSTPONED
Classified By: Political Counselor Brian McFeeters for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
--- SUMMARY AND COMMENT ---
1. (SBU) Summary: On February 17, Home Minister Hishammuddin announced that three women and four men who had been found guilty of illicit sex under Syariah law had been caned on February 9. The three became the first women to be caned in Malaysia.
Caning of women in Malaysia had recently become the subject of international scrutiny, and Malaysian legal scholars are wondering what the decision means for the legal system, since caning of women is against federal law.
On July 20, 2009, Malaysian Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a Muslim woman, was sentenced by a state-level Syariah court to six lashes with a cane and a fine for consuming alcohol in public. To date, Kartika has not yet been caned. Viewing the caning as a political maneuver, the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) was critical of the GOM's actions contending they were not consistent with Islam. NGOs too were critical of the caning contending that it does not comport with federal law. End Summary.
2. (C) Comment: Kartika's case put Prime Minister Najib's new administration in the difficult position of balancing the competing forces fighting for Malaysia's Muslim identity. While concerned about preserving Malaysia's image as a moderate Muslim State, Najib has been unwilling to date to criticize Syariah law or otherwise downplay the seriousness of Kartika's offense for fear that it could damage United Malays National Organization's (UMNO) Islamic bona fides.
That the GOM chose to cane three anonymous women, rather than the internationally renowned Kartika, seems to be a tactical maneuver by UMNO to retain or lure back conservative Malay voters as well as perhaps a testing of the waters presaging Kartika's caning. That Najib feels the need to placate the most conservative Malays suggests that his stated intent to change to a more inclusive, less Malay-centric economic and political model is facing considerable, resistance within his own coalition. End Comment.
--- FIRST WOMEN CANED IN MALAYSIA ---
3. (SBU) Home Minister Hishammuddin announced on February 17 that GOM officials caned four Muslim men and three Muslim women found guilty of illicit sex under Syariah law. Sex out of wedlock is unlawful under Syariah law. The canings took place on February 9, and the three women are believed to be the first women to be caned under the law in Malaysia.
Two of the women received six strokes of the cane and the other received four. The women were caned in a female prison.
According to the Home Minister, one was released on February 14, one will be released in the coming days, and the third will be released in June.
--- MALAYSIA'S DUAL LEGAL SYSTEM ---
4. (SBU) Article 3 of the Malaysian Constitution states that "Islam is the religion of the Federation; but other religions may be practiced in peace and harmony in any part of the Federation." Article 3 further provides that issues of Islamic law are state, rather than federal, matters. Thus, states, and the Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory, have individual Syariah law codes and have established Syariah courts, with jurisdiction over Muslims, to deal with family law and certain infractions under Islamic law.
The constitution makes clear that federal law has precedence over state law (articles 4 and 75, "if any State law is inconsistent with a federal law, the federal law shall prevail andthe State law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void"). Hence, because Syariah law is a state matter, any inconsistencies between these two legal systems should, according to the language of the Federal Constitution, be resolved in favor of the federal system.
However, Article 121(1A) of the Constitution, added under former Prime Minister Mahathir in 1988 says, "the courts referred to in Clause (1) (the High Courts) shall have no jurisdiction in respect of any matter within the jurisdiction of the Syariah courts." This amendment introduced ambiguity about Syariah versus civil law that has yet to be resolved clearly.
--- CANING IN MALAYSIA ---
5. (SBU) Under federal law, Malaysian judges routinely include caning in sentences of individuals convicted of kidnapping, rape, and robbery. The law also prescribes caning for illegal immigrants and their employers and as an additional punishment for those convicted of some nonviolent crimes such as narcotics possession, criminal breach of trust, and alien smuggling.
The caning is carried out with a half-inch wooden cane that can cause welts and scarring. Federal law exempts men over 50 and all women from caning. Conversely, some states prescribe caning under Syariah law, for which there are no exceptions for women.
In Syariah caning, a smaller cane is used and the caning official cannot raise the cane above his shoulder. Additionally, the subject is fully clothed so that the cane will not touch the flesh.
Local Islamic officials claim that the intent is not to injure but to make the offenders ashamed of their sins and repent.
--- THE CURIOUS ROLE OF THE GOM IN CANING THREE WOMEN ---
6. (C) In the February 9 case, the three women were sentenced to caning for committing adultery in violation of Section 23(2) of the Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory Syariah Criminal Offenses Act of 1997. The sentencing of women to such corporal punishment under Syariah law contradicts the federal law outlined in Section 289 of the Criminal Procedure Code that states that women are not to be subject to caning.
In the current case, the three women, previously unknown to the public, were caned and the public was not informed for over a week. The canings were administered by federal prison officials in a federal women's prison. This gives rise to a possible violation of federal law that the GOM has yet to explain or address.
7. (SBU) The federal government has highlighted its role in meting out these sentences, indicating that the decision had Najib's support. Home Minister Hishamuddin (Prime Minister Najib Razak's cousin) placed himself at the forefront of this issue, announcing on February 17 that the women had been caned, commenting that "the punishment is to teach and give a chance to those who have fallen off the path to return and build a better life for the future," sounding much like an Islamic cleric.
In a February 19 interview, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin did not address the legal issue, focusing instead on the need to explain that Syariah caning is ritualistic rather than severe. The government-influenced daily, Bernama, on February 19, quoted Minister for Religious Affairs in the Prime Minister's Department Seri Jamil Khir Baharom as saying that the women were remorseful and "welcomed their sentence."
In a separate article, Bernama reported that Minister of Women, Family, and Community Development Shahrizat, said that herMinistry will monitor future caning of women noting that "as the minister in charge of women affairs in this country, I really hope that the whipping sentence on Muslim women will be carried out fairly and judiciously."
--- REACTION FROM PAS ---
8. (SBU) When the canings were announced, some observers wondered whether the punishments could be seen as an effort to divide the opposition coalition People's Assembly, expecting PAS to support the punishments, while the secular Democratic Action Party (DAP) would likely oppose the canings. However, PAS Central Working Committee Member and Member of Parliament Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad of Selangor urged his party not to fall into the trap of allowing UMNO to portray itself as the defender of the Islamic agenda.
He asserted that there is a political motive behind the caning of the three women. If UMNO were sincere about upholding the principles of Islam, it would address the source of problem rather than just implementing the sentence and would be combating corruption, abuse of power, cruelty, and embezzlement of the wealth of the country by political cronies.
9. (SBU) PAS Women's Movement Chief Nuridah Salleh asserted that the GOM's caning of the seven individuals did not conform to Islamic principles because it was done in private and not in the open as required by Islam. She explained that canings are to be public in order to educate and instill awareness among the people and to ensure the violators do not commit the crime again. She called on the Home Minister to remember this intent prior to carrying out future caning sentences.
--- REACTION FROM CIVIL SOCIETY ---
10. (SBU) Civil society groups have condemned the GOM caning of the women. The Malaysian Bar Council, on February 18, issued a press release expressing its "shock and disappointment" and elaborating, "given that the Kartika issue remains unresolved and the public outcry on issues of constitutionality in regards to the fact that corporal punishment is forbidden for women under Section 289 of the Criminal Procedure Code, it is indeed shocking that the Government has made the announcement only after the punishment has been carried out."
Similarly, Sisters in Islam questioned the GOM's motive behind caning the Muslim women while the issue of Kartika's case remains unresolved. All Women's Action Society president Sophia Lim asserted that "the Home Minister needs to explain why the government allowed the punishment to be carried out in secret on an issue that is of high public interest with very far ranging and damaging consequences."/MalaysiaToday
Addin:
Inilah topeng UMNO sebenarnya.. agama di permainankan untuk 'political milelage' mereka dan tidak lebih daripada itu.. UMNO adalah perosak agama,bangsa dan negara.. dan kerana UMNOlah agama Islam kita dipermainkan sampai ke hari ini..
Dicatat oleh paeh di 4:06 AM http://demokrasi93.blogspot.com/2011/05/pendedahan-wikileaks-islam-permainan.html
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Kenapa begitu cepat melatah dan menuduh orang lain berdasarkan kefahaman sendiri. Kenapa tidak cuba selami keikhlasan yang dilakukan. Apa yang perlu kita lakukan adalah mendidik diri kita agar berakhlak mulia dan ikhlas barulah keagungan Islam dimartabatkan. Jangan menuduh dan menunding jari kepada puak lain akan perosak agama. Yang pasti yang merosakan agama itu adalah individu yang tidak berakhlak mulia dan tidak ikhlas kepada Allah SWT. Bercerita atau menuduh orang lain perosak agama sedangkan kita sendiri tidak berakhlak mulia dan ikhlas. Islam itu bukan terletak pada pakaian dan kata2 tapi keikhlasan dan akhlak mulia itulah islam yang sebenarnya.
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 KUALA LUMPUR 000108
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/19/2020
TAGS: KTIP, KCRM, KWMN, PGOV, PHUM, PREL, SMIG, MY
SUBJECT: CANING OF THREE WOMEN REFLECTS UMNO'S POLITICAL TACTICS
REF: A. KL 20 WHAT IS GOING ON IN MALAYSIA?
B. KL 14 UPDATE ON THE ALLAH ISSUE
C. KL 11 OVERNIGHT ATTACKS ON 3 CHURCHES
D. KL 03 GOM APPEALS KL HIGH COURT RULING ON USE OF THE WORD ALLAH
E. 09 KL 716 CANING PUNISHMENT POSTPONED
Classified By: Political Counselor Brian McFeeters for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
--- SUMMARY AND COMMENT ---
1. (SBU) Summary: On February 17, Home Minister Hishammuddin announced that three women and four men who had been found guilty of illicit sex under Syariah law had been caned on February 9. The three became the first women to be caned in Malaysia.
Caning of women in Malaysia had recently become the subject of international scrutiny, and Malaysian legal scholars are wondering what the decision means for the legal system, since caning of women is against federal law.
On July 20, 2009, Malaysian Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a Muslim woman, was sentenced by a state-level Syariah court to six lashes with a cane and a fine for consuming alcohol in public. To date, Kartika has not yet been caned. Viewing the caning as a political maneuver, the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) was critical of the GOM's actions contending they were not consistent with Islam. NGOs too were critical of the caning contending that it does not comport with federal law. End Summary.
2. (C) Comment: Kartika's case put Prime Minister Najib's new administration in the difficult position of balancing the competing forces fighting for Malaysia's Muslim identity. While concerned about preserving Malaysia's image as a moderate Muslim State, Najib has been unwilling to date to criticize Syariah law or otherwise downplay the seriousness of Kartika's offense for fear that it could damage United Malays National Organization's (UMNO) Islamic bona fides.
That the GOM chose to cane three anonymous women, rather than the internationally renowned Kartika, seems to be a tactical maneuver by UMNO to retain or lure back conservative Malay voters as well as perhaps a testing of the waters presaging Kartika's caning. That Najib feels the need to placate the most conservative Malays suggests that his stated intent to change to a more inclusive, less Malay-centric economic and political model is facing considerable, resistance within his own coalition. End Comment.
--- FIRST WOMEN CANED IN MALAYSIA ---
3. (SBU) Home Minister Hishammuddin announced on February 17 that GOM officials caned four Muslim men and three Muslim women found guilty of illicit sex under Syariah law. Sex out of wedlock is unlawful under Syariah law. The canings took place on February 9, and the three women are believed to be the first women to be caned under the law in Malaysia.
Two of the women received six strokes of the cane and the other received four. The women were caned in a female prison.
According to the Home Minister, one was released on February 14, one will be released in the coming days, and the third will be released in June.
--- MALAYSIA'S DUAL LEGAL SYSTEM ---
4. (SBU) Article 3 of the Malaysian Constitution states that "Islam is the religion of the Federation; but other religions may be practiced in peace and harmony in any part of the Federation." Article 3 further provides that issues of Islamic law are state, rather than federal, matters. Thus, states, and the Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory, have individual Syariah law codes and have established Syariah courts, with jurisdiction over Muslims, to deal with family law and certain infractions under Islamic law.
The constitution makes clear that federal law has precedence over state law (articles 4 and 75, "if any State law is inconsistent with a federal law, the federal law shall prevail and
However, Article 121(1A) of the Constitution, added under former Prime Minister Mahathir in 1988 says, "the courts referred to in Clause (1) (the High Courts) shall have no jurisdiction in respect of any matter within the jurisdiction of the Syariah courts." This amendment introduced ambiguity about Syariah versus civil law that has yet to be resolved clearly.
--- CANING IN MALAYSIA ---
5. (SBU) Under federal law, Malaysian judges routinely include caning in sentences of individuals convicted of kidnapping, rape, and robbery. The law also prescribes caning for illegal immigrants and their employers and as an additional punishment for those convicted of some nonviolent crimes such as narcotics possession, criminal breach of trust, and alien smuggling.
The caning is carried out with a half-inch wooden cane that can cause welts and scarring. Federal law exempts men over 50 and all women from caning. Conversely, some states prescribe caning under Syariah law, for which there are no exceptions for women.
In Syariah caning, a smaller cane is used and the caning official cannot raise the cane above his shoulder. Additionally, the subject is fully clothed so that the cane will not touch the flesh.
Local Islamic officials claim that the intent is not to injure but to make the offenders ashamed of their sins and repent.
--- THE CURIOUS ROLE OF THE GOM IN CANING THREE WOMEN ---
6. (C) In the February 9 case, the three women were sentenced to caning for committing adultery in violation of Section 23(2) of the Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory Syariah Criminal Offenses Act of 1997. The sentencing of women to such corporal punishment under Syariah law contradicts the federal law outlined in Section 289 of the Criminal Procedure Code that states that women are not to be subject to caning.
In the current case, the three women, previously unknown to the public, were caned and the public was not informed for over a week. The canings were administered by federal prison officials in a federal women's prison. This gives rise to a possible violation of federal law that the GOM has yet to explain or address.
7. (SBU) The federal government has highlighted its role in meting out these sentences, indicating that the decision had Najib's support. Home Minister Hishamuddin (Prime Minister Najib Razak's cousin) placed himself at the forefront of this issue, announcing on February 17 that the women had been caned, commenting that "the punishment is to teach and give a chance to those who have fallen off the path to return and build a better life for the future," sounding much like an Islamic cleric.
In a February 19 interview, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin did not address the legal issue, focusing instead on the need to explain that Syariah caning is ritualistic rather than severe. The government-influenced daily, Bernama, on February 19, quoted Minister for Religious Affairs in the Prime Minister's Department Seri Jamil Khir Baharom as saying that the women were remorseful and "welcomed their sentence."
In a separate article, Bernama reported that Minister of Women, Family, and Community Development Shahrizat, said that her
--- REACTION FROM PAS ---
8. (SBU) When the canings were announced, some observers wondered whether the punishments could be seen as an effort to divide the opposition coalition People's Assembly, expecting PAS to support the punishments, while the secular Democratic Action Party (DAP) would likely oppose the canings. However, PAS Central Working Committee Member and Member of Parliament Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad of Selangor urged his party not to fall into the trap of allowing UMNO to portray itself as the defender of the Islamic agenda.
He asserted that there is a political motive behind the caning of the three women. If UMNO were sincere about upholding the principles of Islam, it would address the source of problem rather than just implementing the sentence and would be combating corruption, abuse of power, cruelty, and embezzlement of the wealth of the country by political cronies.
9. (SBU) PAS Women's Movement Chief Nuridah Salleh asserted that the GOM's caning of the seven individuals did not conform to Islamic principles because it was done in private and not in the open as required by Islam. She explained that canings are to be public in order to educate and instill awareness among the people and to ensure the violators do not commit the crime again. She called on the Home Minister to remember this intent prior to carrying out future caning sentences.
--- REACTION FROM CIVIL SOCIETY ---
10. (SBU) Civil society groups have condemned the GOM caning of the women. The Malaysian Bar Council, on February 18, issued a press release expressing its "shock and disappointment" and elaborating, "given that the Kartika issue remains unresolved and the public outcry on issues of constitutionality in regards to the fact that corporal punishment is forbidden for women under Section 289 of the Criminal Procedure Code, it is indeed shocking that the Government has made the announcement only after the punishment has been carried out."
Similarly, Sisters in Islam questioned the GOM's motive behind caning the Muslim women while the issue of Kartika's case remains unresolved. All Women's Action Society president Sophia Lim asserted that "the Home Minister needs to explain why the government allowed the punishment to be carried out in secret on an issue that is of high public interest with very far ranging and damaging consequences."/MalaysiaToday
Addin:
Inilah topeng UMNO sebenarnya.. agama di permainankan untuk 'political milelage' mereka dan tidak lebih daripada itu.. UMNO adalah perosak agama,bangsa dan negara.. dan kerana UMNOlah agama Islam kita dipermainkan sampai ke hari ini..
Dicatat oleh paeh di 4:06 AM http://demokrasi93.blogspot.com/2011/05/pendedahan-wikileaks-islam-permainan.html
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Kenapa begitu cepat melatah dan menuduh orang lain berdasarkan kefahaman sendiri. Kenapa tidak cuba selami keikhlasan yang dilakukan. Apa yang perlu kita lakukan adalah mendidik diri kita agar berakhlak mulia dan ikhlas barulah keagungan Islam dimartabatkan. Jangan menuduh dan menunding jari kepada puak lain akan perosak agama. Yang pasti yang merosakan agama itu adalah individu yang tidak berakhlak mulia dan tidak ikhlas kepada Allah SWT. Bercerita atau menuduh orang lain perosak agama sedangkan kita sendiri tidak berakhlak mulia dan ikhlas. Islam itu bukan terletak pada pakaian dan kata2 tapi keikhlasan dan akhlak mulia itulah islam yang sebenarnya.
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