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Tuan Ibrahim tanding timbalan presiden PAS

Posted: 23 May 2011 10:44 PM PDT

Perebutan bagi jawatan timbalan presiden PAS semakin panas apabila Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man mengumumkan menerima pencalonan untuk bertanding jawatan tersebut.

Setakat ini, bekas naib presiden Mohamad Sabu mengumumkan bertanding jawatan tersebut manakala penyandangnya Nasharuddin Mat Isa akan mempertahan jawatannya dalam muktamar parti awal bulan depan.

pas muktamar 130610 tuan ibrahim tuan man Dalam satu kenyataan, Tuan Ibrahim berkata, beliau telah dicalonkan
untuk bertanding jawatan timbalan presiden dan naib presiden, dengan jumlah pencalonan yang agak memberangsangkan.

Katanya, beliau sebelum ini telah berkali-kali menyatakan hasratnya yang lebih berminat mempertahankan jawatan naib presiden sekiranya menerima pencalonan mencukupi.

"Namun kawasan-kawasan terus juga mencalonkan saya untuk bertanding jawatan timbalan presiden dengan jumlah pencalonan yang agak besar.

Tuan Ibrahim bagaimanapun berkata, beliau tidak bercadang untuk menyatakan jumlah pencalonan yang diterimanya bagi jawatan timbalan presiden.

Namun, katanya, ianya suatu jumlah yang "memerlukan saya memikirkannya semula hasrat saya sebelum ini secara mendalam sebelum membuat sesuatu keputusan."

"Sebagai seorang pekerja parti, saya melihat keadaan ini sebagai kehendak sebahagian ahli parti di peringkat akar umbi yang perlu dipertimbangkan, dihormati dan tidak boleh diketepikan begitu sahaja," tambahnya.

"Setelah memikirkan secara mendalam, saya akur dan menerima pencalonan untuk jawatan Timbalan Presiden dengan hati yang terbuka, pada masa yang sama saya menyerahkannya kepada perwakilan untuk membuat keputusan," tambahnya.

Beliau juga mengucapkan terima kasih kepada semua kawasan yang telah mencalonkan beliau.

"Dengan rendah diri, saya sedar saya bukanlah calon terbaik berbanding calon-calon lain, yang jauh lebih layak dari saya dengan pengalaman perjuangan yang panjang serta pengorbanan yang hebat untuk parti sekian lama.

"Sebagai sebuah parti besar dengan kekuatan tarbiyah dan kefahaman mendalam terhadap tanggungjawab yang diamanahkan, saya penuh keyakinan dan berdoa bahawa pemilihan ini akan berjalan dengan nilai ukhuwah yang sangat tinggi selaras dengan kedudukan PAS sebagai sebuah gerakan Islam," tegas Tuan Ibrahim.

Sebelum ini, Malaysiakini difahamkan Tuan Ibrahim memperolehi 39 pencalonan di belakang Mohamad Sabu (47) dan Nasharudddin (43).

Juga difahamkan kira-kira 15 kawasan lagi yang berhasrat untuk mencalonkan Tuan Ibrahim bagi jawatan timbalan tetapi tidak dapat berbuat demikian atas sebab-sebab teknikal berkaitan dengan tarikh tutup.

Sekiranya, mereka sempat membuat pencalonan, maka Tuan Ibrahim akan memperolehi pencalonan tertinggi untuk bertanding jawatan nombor dua itu.

Besok merupakan tarikh tutup penerimaan pencalonan bagi calon-calon yang layak bertanding jawatan utama parti itu bulan depan.

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Empat anggota Syiah ditahan JAIS

Posted: 23 May 2011 10:36 PM PDT

Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (JAIS) akhirnya menangkap empat anggota ajaran Syiah di Gombak, termasuk ketuanya Mohd Kamil Zuhairi dalam sambutan ulangtahun kelahiran puteri Nabi Muhammad di Gombak sebentar tadi.

Jurucakap majlis Radin Ahmad Faizul berkata, selain Mohd Kamil, beliau sendiri ditahan dan dibawa ke ibu pejabat polis daerah (IPD) Gombak.

NONE Dua lagi, menurutnya hanya dikenali sebagai Syed Syafiq dan Ashraf. Nama penuh mereka belum diperoleh setakat ini.

Sebelum itu, jurucakap majlis Radin Ahmad Faizul berkata, lebih 20 anggota JAIS kelihatan hadir di majlis itu selepas berlangsung 20 minit bermula jam 12 tengah hari.

Ketika itu, JAIS cuma mengambil kad pengenalan beberapa tokoh penting penganjur, termasuk Mohd Kamil.

"Lagi pun majlis itu cuma majlis makan-makan sahaja," kata Radin sambil mendakwa mereka mendapat permit polis untuk menganjurkan acara itu.

Kira-kira 500 orang hadir dalam program yang diadakan di perkarangan hauzah atau markaz mereka di Gombak.

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Death row: Mercy should be part of judgement

Posted: 23 May 2011 12:33 AM PDT

I want to thank Malaysiakini for publishing the letters from Malaysian Yong Vui Kong who is on death row in a Singapore jail.

Yong Vui Kong deserves a second chance and society cannot make the double mistake of making him a victim again by his execution. There is no benefit in taking away the life of one whose story of abuse, poverty and deception is typical of those whom life dealt a cruel hand.

No one denies he is guilty of the crime. No one criticizes the Singapore government of doing anything wrong if it executes Vui Kong. The law against drugs trafficking is clear – you deal in drugs you get caught you face the mandatory death sentence.

There are those who believe mandatory death sentencing for drugs has not worked and is also unjust. There are those who oppose capital punishment for any crime even murder. But for Vui Kong it is a futile debate because time is running out for him.

The Singapore government takes a strict approach to law and order and will not tolerate drugs trafficking. Like Malaysia it will not stop hanging those who are found guilty of the crime. Despite the appeals of their governments Singapore and Malaysia have hung foreigners found caught drug trafficking.

But mercy is greater than the law. There are mitigating circumstances to consider because justice cannot be justice if it is not exercised with mercy when all is considered.

Vui Kong grew up in extremely difficult circumstances and he was no big time drug peddler. He was at best at the lowest rung of the dirty drugs trade – a courier.

The problem with mandatory death sentencing of drug offenders is it is done without mercy. If human society exists without mercy and punishment is meted out to criminals without mercy than the human race is no longer human. It is no better than the animals who know nothing of mercy and live by the law of might.

Yet compassion is what makes us human.

The cases of several young Australian men and women convicted for drug smuggling into Bali is well publicised. Three men were convicted and sentenced to death. But recently one named Scott had his sentence reduced to life imprisonment by the Indonesian judge. A death sentence commuted to life has happened before in Singapore and many other places.

What relief it gave to Scott's father who had faithfully visited his son in prison and did all he could to save his son's life. A death sentence does not take away only one life but the lives of many around the one punished. Life in an Indonesia prison is no picnic and a life sentence is still a long stay in jail. But where there is life there is hope.

The recent polls results in Singapore must send a message to the Singapore government that the big stick approach to governance may not always work. The Singapore Prime Minister has himself apologised to Singaporeans for his government's mistakes. It is worthy of a leader to apologise. And it will be a mistake to hang Vui Kong.

It has always been said that Singapore is all body but without soul. I am not sure if this is entirely true because I know that Singapore society can be caring and the Singapore government does more than many other governments for its people. But to those who make the observation perception is everything. Hanging Vui Kong will only affirm that perception.

But what the critics mean is probably that there is an aspect of its administration that lacks the human touch. There is only cold and calculated adherence to the rules without any provision for discretion and in the case of mandatory death sentencing there is only a stony wall of rejection of any hint of mercy.

Now is the time for Singapore to show mercy to one like Vui Kong whose death will achieve nothing except harden the hearts of those who think the country has lost touch with its humanity, who believe there is a place for compassion and that more will be achieved by sparing Vui Kong who has shown he is no hardened criminal but one who is remorseful and regretful of his crime.

He knows there is no one to blame but himself. He is resolved to his fate. Should he not be given another chance, after all he was relatively young and naïve when he was arrested? It can happen to anyone. The son of the Western Australian police chief was recently convicted for a drug offence.

If youth had known better I am sure he would never have touched the stuff or be duped into being a mule. The crime of youth is their naiveté and the law must make a provision for their rehabilitation because we are after all human and fallible.

Who has not been foolish and done something regrettable in their youth?

Mandatory death sentencing laws have proven not to stop any crime and the data on the number of people executed for death trafficking that those who research such matters provide may prove the point. But my purpose in writing is not to debate something that may not be relevant to Vui Kong now.

I write because I believe that the Singapore government can show it has a human heart and that sparing Vui Kong's life will not open a floodgate of drug-pushers into the island state but open our hearts to a government that believes in compassion.

Ultimately we all die but it would such a shame to not spare one life that will prove to be more useful and beneficial to society alive than dead.

I think of his grieving mother whose story is one of jagged tragedy from painful poverty and adversity who least deserves to have another dagger pierce her heart if Vui Kong goes to the gallows.

I appeal to the Singapore government and the Malaysian government to do all they can to spare the life of this young man. To err is human but to forgive is divine. And mercy must triumph over judgement.

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Landslide tragedy: Time for gov't to own up

Posted: 22 May 2011 11:29 PM PDT

Once again innocent lives have been lost in the name of hill side development as seen in the Hulu Langat landslide tragedy. When will we ever learn. Do we still need to allow any further hill side developments? Isn't it time for us to review our development policies once and for all to withdraw all development orders given by the authorities for such development.

There have been too many accidents and lives lost due to such development and yet the authorities issue more and more such development orders. Even the courts have taken a poor stand in allowing the authorities to continue such practice.

As so many people have said, demonstrated, provided ample proof to substantiate that hill slope development is unstable and unsafe, why is it the authorities refuse to learn and stop issuing such orders?

Are they going to be there to do the body count when something untoward happens? Is this judge going to be there to console the families who have lost their loved ones? And is the government going to compensate the lives lost?

The sheer number of such landslides throughout Malaysia is staggering. How many more lives do we need to lose before we learn?

We call for an end to all hill slope development throughout Malaysia. All projects must be put to a stop. If projects are already ongoing, strict control measures must be put in place to protect and ensure slope stability.

We urge the government to impose a blanket withdrawal of development orders issued nationwide immediately.

Buyers for such properties must also take responsibility for they themselves are putting their lives at risk. The common excuse that there is a demand for such hill slope development, therefore there would be such development, must end.

To the authorities and government, you are toying with people's lives by issuing such development orders.

Please take a responsible stand and do not partake to kill innocent people out of your actions. Do not let the death of these children be just another statistic.

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Isnin, 23 Mei 2011