Showing posts with label Malaysia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malaysia. Show all posts

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Malaysia jadi buah catur Amerika vs China

Kemaraan China perlu diberhentikan.  Yang terbaik ialah melalui pilihanraya.

Maka bermulalah era Amerikanisasi di negara ini pasca PRU14

Untuk melihat  sejauh mana penglibatan Amerika menentukan faktor kemenangan party lawan PH rujuk link ini land destroyer

The Washington Post has now repeatedly used its platform to systematically cover up extensive US political interference across Southeast Asia.

Last month, the Washington Post attempted to deny US interference in Cambodia. Its article - however - did more to reveal US meddling in the process - exclusively citing opposition organizations and individuals either funded by Washington or literally living in Washington.


The Washington Post in its more recent article titled, "In Malaysia, a victory for democracy — and an opportunity for the U.S.," would likewise attempt to paper-over US meddling in Malaysia's recent general elections which placed US-backed opposition into power after decades of Washington investment.

The article begins by claiming (emphasis added):
While Washington wasn’t looking, democracy won a major battle over authoritarianism in Malaysia, a Muslim-majority nation that just voted out its crooked, illiberal leader and has embarked on a peaceful transition to a new era of hope. The unexpected change has given the Trump administration a chance to reverse a policy of benign neglect toward the region, support democracy — and gain a rare win over China. 

The United States had little to do with last month’s overwhelming election victory by a multiracial, multiparty opposition coalition in Malaysia.
Of course - this is categorically untrue. Virtually every aspect of Malaysia's opposition, from pro-opposition media organizations like Malaysiakini, to street fronts like Bersih, to legal organizations like "Lawyers for Liberty," and even the defacto opposition party leader himself - Anwar Ibrahim (PDF) - are recipients of extensive US government support spanning well over a decade via the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its many subsidiaries and affiliates.

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Era pengintipan global- kenapa DS Najib perlu turun dari jawatan Presiden UMNO

 
Malaysia Insider, sebuah agensi berita mesra Amerika Syarikat telah mendedahkan bahawa pertemuan antara DS Najib dan Anwar Ibrahim telah diaturkan di Jakarta minggu ini . Baca di SINI.
 
Pertemuan itu diaturkan oleh DS Zahid Hamidi , Menteri KDN yang rapat dengan kedua dua pemimpin tersebut. Berkenaan Jakarta sebagai  tempat pertemuan tidak memeranjatkan kerana hubungan baik Presiden SBY yang didokong Jaringan Islam Liberal Indonesia yang organisasinya di biayai dengan dana oleh  George Soros dan agensi pusat Amerika Syarikat .Baca di SINI dan SINI
 
Dokumen dari Pusat Keselamatan Amerika (NSA) yang didedahkan The Guardian memeranjatkan kerana berlakunya pengintipan melalui internet secara komprehensif antara kolaborasi  Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft dan beberapa gergasi teknologi lain. Buktinya Rekod Mahkamah di New Zealand mendapati bahawa  NSA prism system telah mendapat  maklumat yang disalurkan oleh 5 Negara  perisikan (intelligence) iaitu UK, Canada, Australia , New Zealand selain Amerika Syarikat. Terjemahan penulis ke atas sebahagian  dari artikel asal "Pentagon Bracing For Public Dissent Over Climate and Energy Shock"  di SINI
 
Sejak  kehancuran ekonomi 2008, dunia Barat telah membuat pelbagai kemajuan dalam aktiviti pengintipan ke atas rakyatnya  untuk tujuan politik demi kepentingan syarikat korporat. Baca pula setelah  gagal menjajah Negara semasa PRU13 ,  dunia Barat cuba menjajah melalui ekonomi dengan TPPH -Baca artikel di FMT kenapa rakyat Malaysia perlu menolak Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) di SINI , SINI dan SINI
 

 

 YouTube -Tun Mahathir memberi amaran pasal Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). Atas sebab itu juga Tun Mahathir senantiasa dimusuhi Barat!

 


Anwar menyokong Israel kerana  dana dan menumpang kekuatan politik Israel dan Amerika - Washington Post -Rujuk SINI. . Kepada umat Islam dalam PAS , berhati hatilah menjalankan agenda penjajahan Barat -saya menyeru semua umat Islam menolak PAS dan PKR yang jelas mendokong agenda penjajahan Barat dari segi Ugama (Akidah), Ekonomi dan Politik

 
 
Tujuan pengintipan ini mengingatkan kita kepada akhir zaman di mana Yakjud Makjud  telah mengetahui segala rahsia kita dan menjajah minda serta menjadikan manusia sebagai ghoyyim (hamba dajjal  yang boleh dilupuskan)
 
"Dan mustahil kepada penduduk sesebuah negeri yang Kami binasakan, bahawa mereka tidak akan kembali hingga apabila terbuka tembok yang menyekat Ya’juj & Ma’juj, serta mereka meluru turun dari tiap-tiap tempat yang tinggi…”-  Surah al-Anbiyaa Ayat 95-96
 
Dari ayat Quran di atas, "Penduduk” dimaksudkan ialah orang Yahudi, “negeri” adalah Bait al-Maqdis, “Ya’juj & Ma’juj” adalah Yahudi (Bangsa Khazar), dan “meluru turun dari tiap-tiap tempat yang tinggi” bermaksud Ya’juj & Ma’juj menguasai dan menjajah keseluruhan aspek kuasa-kuasa pemerintahan dunia.
 
Yahudi telah kembali ke Bait al-Maqdis namun adakah anda melihat mana-mana raksasa Ya’juj Ma’juj berkeliaran dengan banyak? Sudah tentu tidak kerana Ya’juj & Ma’juj adalah manusia. Allah memberikan petunjuk mengenali Ya’juj & Ma’juj. Ini dijelaskan di dalam Surah al-Kahfi:

“…kemudian ia berpatah balik menurut jalan yang lain. Sehingga apabila ia sampai di antara dua gunung, ia dapati di sisinya satu kaum yang hampir-hampir mereka tidak dapat memahami perkataan. Mereka berkata: “wahai Zulkarnain, sesungguhnya kaum Yakjuj dan Makjuj sentiasa melakukan kerosakan di bumi; oleh itu, setujukah kiranya kami menentukan sejumlah bayaran kepadamu dengan syarat engkau membina sebuah tembok di antara kami dengan mereka?” Dia menjawab: “(kekuasaan dan kekayaan) yang Tuhanku jadikan daku menguasainya, lebih baik (dari bayaran kamu); oleh itu bantulah daku dengan tenaga aku akan bina antara kamu dengan mereka sebuah tembok penutup yang kukuh. Bawalah kepadaku ketul-ketul besi”; sehingga apabila ia terkumpul separas tingginya menutup lapangan antara dua gunung itu, dia pun perintahkan mereka membakarnya dengan berkata: “Tiuplah dengan alat-alat kamu” sehingga apabila ia menjadikannya merah menyala seperti api, berkatalah dia: “Bawalah tembaga cair supaya aku tuangkan atasnya”. Maka mereka tidak dapat memanjat tembok itu, dan mereka juga tidak dapat menebuknya. (Setelah itu) berkatalah Zulkarnain: “Ini ialah suatu rahmat dari Tuhanku; dalam pada itu, apabila sampai janji Tuhanku, Dia akan menjadikan tembok itu hancur lebur, dan adalah janji Tuhanku itu benar”…”;  Surah Al-Kahfi Ayat 92-98
 
Soalnya sekarang kenapa DS Najib terlalu tunduk kepada Anwar Ibrahim dan Pakatan terutama DAP  yang jelas menjalankan agenda Barat? Apakah kerana maklumat pengintipan membuat DS Najib cenderung tunduk kepada desakan Anwar yang dibiayai dana dan logistic Barat serta Yahudi?

Saya sentiasa berdoa agar rakyat Malaysia, Umat Islam dan anggota UMNO dapat melihat bahaya jika pemimpin tunduk kepada desakan Anwar Ibrahim dan Pakatan terutama  DAP yang menjalankan agenda Barat. Jelas jika DS Najib terus tunduk kepada desakan Pakatan maka pintu "star gate"  Barat menjajah semula negara ini akan dibuka - Nauzubillah Hi Min Zalik .

Saya juga berharap jika  DS Najib mempunyai "baggage peribadi" langkah terbaik bagi DS Najib  ialah turun dari kepimpinan UMNO supaya Malaysia dan umat Islam  dilindungi dari  penjajahan Yakjud Makjud/Barat/Yahudi ini.   
 
 
Rujukan 
HERE , HERE ,   SINI dan SINI

Sunday, March 17, 2013

kenapa Tawaran Pengambil Alihan Air oleh Selangor tak wajar

Ulasan dan penjelasan terperinci dari The Truth Squad dibuat bagi menjelaskan kenapa Tawaran tersebut tidak wajar.
 
Dalam tender, selalunya penilaian teknikal dan komersil yang dibuat.
 
Jelas di sini bahawa Tawaran oleh Selangor melanggar Perlembagaan Persekutuan  (undang undang Induk Malaysia) selain akta lainnya.
 
Selain itu Financial Modelling yg ditunjukkan dalam video menjelaskan kenapa tawaran Selangor pada RM9 billion adalah sangat rendah berbanding CAPEX dan COPEX yang sedang dijalankan oelh SYABAS sebagai syarikat yang dipertanggungjawabkan untuk memberikan perkhidmatan air.
 
Selangor sepatutnya menjalankan tugas maintenance untuk segala aset air dan bukannya Syabas. Tapi inilah yang berlaku sehingga menyebabkan ganguan kepada bekalan air terawat di Lembah Kelang. Rakyat wajar mengetahui perkara sebenarnya bagi membuat keptusan untuk mengakhiri  " drama " air ...yang sepatutnya tak berlaku jika Pakatan Selangor ikhlas  berjuang untuk kebajikan rakyat Selangor, KL dan Putrajaya.
 

 
 
 

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Rakyat Malaysia membantah Kiram

Rakyat Malaysia menyatakan kekecewaan atas perbuatan barbaric tentera Penceroboh Kiram di Sabah, Berikut adalah transkrip perbualan dengan Princess Meriam Kiram yang "menawarkan diri" untuk "pendamaian" dengan Malaysia
 

 siapa Meriam Kiram...isteri kepada Sultan terdahulu..artikel ini dari perspektif orang luar..dan membawa kepada komen Princess Meriam Kiram dan jawapan balas beberapa rakyat Malaysia
 
 
 
Sambungan chat
 
 

Friday, March 1, 2013

Intel source from Philippines blames The Malaysian Opposition in Lahad Datu Stand Off

Malaysians grieved in silence as 2 brave policemen were killed at the Lahad Datu Stand off with the Sulu soldiers. Al Fatehah to the fallen heroes. Apparently, the Sulu heirs do not act on their own. Intelligence sources in The Phillipines said that these rebel Moro  were instigated to destroy the recently signed Peace Accord between Moslems in Mindanao and Malacanang Palace. Apparently they are being helped by an opposition politician in Malaysia.

This is an excerp from the Inquirer News .  Read on here:

Whether the heirs of the sultanate of Sulu acted on their own to reclaim Sabah or were instigated by an external force to do so, one thing is certain, according to government intelligence sources: It was a business that proved too big for the heirs to handle on their own.
The sources said that the Philippine government’s policy on Sabah is to keep it in the back burner.
But apparently “some people” want to push it forward now. And why now, at this time, is one of the questions government intelligence is looking into.

The sources consistently mentioned three groups that appear to have taken advantage of the decision of the Kirams to pursue their Sabah claim.
“These are groups that wanted to ride on the Kirams’ pursuit with their own interests in mind,” one of the sources said.
Another source added: “There are a lot who can gain from this, not just in the Philippines but in Malaysia as well.”
These “external factors,” as an Inquirer source described the groups, are one small faction that is in it for the money, an anti-Aquino administration group, and the Malaysian political opposition.
“The Kirams planned to pursue their claim as early as last year. But they went to Lahad Datu also on the instigation of these groups,” the intelligence officer said.

1- The small group supposedly goaded the Kirams to ask Malaysia for a higher rent on Sabah. If Malaysia gives in, this small group would allegedly have a share of the increase.
2- The anti-administration group simply wants to discredit President Aquino and is using the peace process as a cause of disenchantment for the Kirams.
“All those who do not like P-Noy (the President’s nickname) have joined forces. This is one way to really test how this administration will react (to such an issue). Whatever happens in Malaysia, there will be a backlash on us,” one source said.

“In a way, whoever wants to disrupt the peace process or the gains of President Aquino has already won,” the source added.
3- The third group is allegedly the Malaysian political opposition, which is gearing up for general elections that may be called before June.
The intelligence officer said that one member of the Malaysian political opposition allied with Anwar Ibrahim was running for a post in Sabah.
“Apparently, this politician was one of those who spoke with the Kirams. He supposedly gave the opposition’s support to the Kirams’ claim to Sabah,” the source said.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Chinese "gangnam" on DAP MP and DAP controled Local Council

Overflowing rubbish, rat infested shop lots/residence, blocked monsoon drain which results in   flash floods, irrigularities in tender awards contrary to CAT policy are the main woes for Chinese electorates as shown in the video below
 
 

Monday, February 25, 2013

IC Palsu di Sabah untuk kaum Cina-terima kaseh Kit Siang sebab mendedahkannya

Yong Teck Lee (YTL) YTL berpendapat Sabah adalah untuk orang Sabah. Ramai berpendapat bahawa PBS kalah kerana pengundi hantu. Namun fakta sebenarnya PBS dalam pilihanraya peringkat negeri  kalah akibat virus lompat party yang diketuai oleh Anwar Ibrahim !.
 
Sesuatu yang ANEH berlaku. Setelah penubuhan Suruhanjaya Siasatan DiRaja  (RCI) dan siasatan dilakukan, kenapa Lim Kit Siang dan Yong Teck Lee SENYAP?
 
Mereka senyap kerana hasil siasatan Suruhanjaya Siasatan DiRaja (RCI) mendapati bahawa penambahan mendadak penduduk adalah dari etnik Cina. Sangkaan ramai ialah mereka dari etnik Cina yang berasal dari Filipina atau pemastautin haram di Malaysia yang tiada dokumen pengenalan.
 
Dapatan Suruhanjaya Siasatan DiRaja (RCI) yang menggemparkan seperi berikut:

1-Kebanyakan IC diberikan ke atas pemastautin Malaysia (dari Malaysia Barat?) yang sudah lama bermastautin selama beberapa generasi   tanpa mempunyai IC ...sebanyak  38,214 orang.

Nota Penulis-Untuk bacaan lanjut sila rujuk dan  google berita tentang  kehilangan pelancung Cina pada kadar yang sangat tinggi setiap setahun di Malaysia.
 
2-Jumlah tertinggi pemberian IC dari tahun 1963-2012 ialah kepada warga yang berasal dari luar pula ialah etnik Cina yang dari Tanah Besar China sebanyak 13,556 orang!.

3- Selain itu IC juga diberikan kepada warga etnik Cina  yang berasal dari Hong Kong berjumlah  1,981 orang!

Nota penulis-ini bermakna sejumlah 53,731 warga asing/pendatang tanpa izin dari etnik Cina sudah dapat taraf warganegara instant di Sabah!

Suruhanjaya Siasatan DiRaja (RCI) akan bersambung selepas 27 February 2013. Apakah Yong Teck Lee akan berhenti menyalak seperti berhenti menyalaknya Lim Kit Siang setelah mengetahui banyaknya warga Cina yang menjadi warga instant di Sabah? Dan kenapa media Sabah memounyai gag order berkenaan perkara ini? Siapakah yang MENGAWAL Media di Sabah???
 
Saksikan pendedahan Another Brick On The Wall dalam Bahasa Inggeris seterusnya:

Lim Kit Siang was making a big fuzz over the initial revelation that quite a sizeable number of Filipino residing in Sabah was given blue IC. Many parties was trying to blame it on Tun Dr Mahathir.

Tun Dr Mahathir rebutted to say that if he was bad for issuing IC to Filipinos, then Tunku Abdul Rahman is worse for issuing one million IC. It did not permanently silenced the opposition but after their lame rebuttals, it was sufficient to stop further attack on Dr Mahathir.

In Sabah, Dato Yong Teck Lee's SAPP are going on a "Sabah for Sabahan" mode like Dr Jeffrey Kitingan's STAR are making a big issue of the RCI finsings despite revealed information to dispell allegations of BN rigging the electoral roll with new citizens to win over Sabah from PBS in 1994
.

The crux of the allegations should be directed at corrupt National Registration Department officials that was held under Internal Security Act (ISA). PBS did not lost from the alleged electoral roll change but PBS state assemblymen frogging over to Barisan Nasional as orchestrated by master frogger, Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

RCI is due to be reconvene on Wednesday, February 27th. Will Teck Lee still be playing the RCI issue after this posting?

This blogger received an e-mail from his Sabah source that was closely following the RCI in Sabah. It contains some revealing information that was presented to the RCI. Surprisingly, it was not played up by the mainstream media in Sabah.

It only strengthen the suspicion [read past posting here] that Sabah media are not being professional in their reporting of the RCI and are trying to hold back information. One wonder who owns and work for the newspapers and radios in Sabah.

The information was a submission from the Ministry of Domestic Affair contains statistics of issued ICs for Sabah and number of according to country of origin and ethnicity from 1963-2012.

The first Table 1 below is the number of issued ICs, those still living and those died
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The figure for 1964 to 2012 shows the total issued blue ICs are 66,682 in which 59,726 are still living and not reported to have died.

This differs vastly to previous claims of 73,000 to 200,000 of blue ICs issued in the tumultous years prior to and after 1994, the year PBS was ousted. Not to mention is the claim by a University Professor that Sabah population increased drastically at a certain years.

So does the mytical numbers been bandied around for real?

The second table provides information on the number of issued ICs in accordance to place of origin:





In this figure, it shows that the highest number of ICs are issue to immigrants who are based from Malaysia at 38,214. This are likely those immigrants already residing in Malaysia and most likely are stateless but was not issued ICs.
One could assume that the majority are Filipinos from Southern Phillipines. There is probably Chinese and other ethnics.


The highest other country of origin other than from within Malaysia are China at 13,556. This excludes those from Hong Kong at 1,981. Read more anotherbrickinwall-project-ic-for-chinese.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Priest gets Ticked Off for Political Sermon

 

sermon
Rev Father Jean-Claude


For the first time in Malaysian church history, a member of the congregation stood up and told the preacher to stop his sermon.
This happened during the 11.30 am mass last Sunday at the Assumption Catholic Church in Petaling Jaya.

There was the usual silence when assistant Parish Priest, Rev. Father Jean-Claude took his place at the pulpit and started his usual Sunday sermon. As in previous Sundays, the sermon was punctured with anti-establishment political messages. Seven minutes into his address, one member of the congregation stood up. Clearly agitated, the 65-year-old man waved his hands and shouted: “Enough. Please, no more political sermons on Church grounds“.
 
Taken aback, Father Jean-Claude paused, and then continued with his sermon, minus any more reference to politics.

After the service, there was a mixed reaction from the regular worshipers to the sermon interruption.
Said a 59-year-old housewife who declined to be named: “Politics should not enter the Church. This is a place to worship God“.
 
Some felt that if politics was to be discussed, it should not be done during mass, but at a non-religious function. Some others felt it was the duty of Christians to be active in politics, but to be fair, the congregation must be allowed to hear the views of both sides.
 
A one-sided sermon does injustice just as Jesus refused to take sides,” said another.
Traditionally, the Church frowns on attempts to interrupt a pastor’s sermon. But the priests do face criticism, after the service.

Said a regular church-goer:”I have never heard of another case where a priest was told off in mid-sermon. Let this be a reminder to other priests who are also politically motivated“.


Courtesy of
Stop The Lies

Monday, February 18, 2013

Syeikh Ali Jumaah- Mufti Mesir dalam fatwa Hudud (Update)

Lewat ini fatwa hudud di politikkan. Ingin dimaklumkan bahawa Syeikh Ali Jumaah Mufti Al Azhar dan Mesir tidak menyertai mana mana parti politik. Fatwa beliau  sesuai dengan keahliannya yang mantap ilmu dan kewarakannya.  Islam sangat ADIL. Permasalahan Hudud dan kemasyalatan ummah Islam serta saksi yang tidak pernah menipu , fasik dan munafik menjadi sebab kenapa beliau mengeluarkan  Fatwa Hukum Hudud  ditangguhkan di zaman ini.

Satu  daripada Fatwa Syaikhuna Ali Goma'ah HafizohuLLOH ialah Bab Hukum Hudud yang menjadi lelongan orang JUHALAK dek kerana semangat sahaja malas nak belajar dan mengkaji, Bodoh tapi sombong tetapi belagak lebih islam daripada orang lain sampai mudah sangat menuduh orang Kafir dan tolak hukum ALLOH ....

Ini antara Fatwa Sayyidi Syaikh Ali Goma'ah Bab Hudud Teks Arabnya :

عقوبات الحدود.. بين التعليق والتطبيق
حقائق.. حول تطبيق الشريعة والحدود

الأربعاء, 03 أغسطس 2011 00:00


فضيلة الدكتور علي جمعة
د. علي جمعة
قضية تطبيق الشريعة لا بد أن تفهم بصورة أوسع من قَصرها على تطبيق الحدود العقابية بإزاء الجرائم، كما هو شائع في الأدبيات المعاصرة، سواء عند المسلمين أو عند غيرهم، حيث إن تطبيق الشريعة له جوانب مختلفة، وله درجات متباينة، وليس من العدل أن نَصف واقعاً ما بأنه لا يطبق الشريعة لمجرد مخالفته لبعض أحكامها في الواقع المعيش، حيث إن هذه المخالفات قد تمت على مدى التاريخ الإٍسلامي وفي كل بلدان المسلمين ودولهم بدرجات مختلفة ومتنوعة، ولم يقل أحد من علماء المسلمين إن هذه البلاد قد خرجت عن ربقة الإٍسلام أو إنها لا تطبق الشريعة، بل لا نبعد في القول إذا ادعينا أن كلمة تطبيق الشريعة كلمة حادثة.
وهناك حقائق يجب معرفتها:
1 - أن الشريعة تعني ما يتعلق بالعقائد والرؤية الكلية من أن هذا الكون مخلوق لخالق، وأن الإنسان مكلف بأحكام شرعية تصف أفعاله، وأن هذا التكليف قد نشأ من قبيل الوحي، وأن الله أرسل به الرسل وأنزل الكتب، ويوم آخر للحساب وللثواب والعقاب، كما أنها تشتمل على الفقه الذي يضبط حركة السلوك الفردي والجماعي والاجتماعي، وتشتمل أيضا على منظومة من الأخلاق وطرق التربية ومناهج التفكير والتعامل مع الوحي قرآناً وسنة، ومع الواقع مهما تغير أو تبدل أو تعقد.
2 - قضية الحدود تشتمل على جانبين: الجانب الأول هو الاعتقاد بأحقية هذا النظام العقابي في ردع الإجرام، وفي تأكيد إثم تلك الذنوب ومدى فظاعتها وتأثيرها السيئ على الاجتماع البشري ورفضها بجميع صورها نفسيا لدى البشر، وأن هذا النظام العقابي لا يشتمل على ظلم في نفسه ولا على عنف في ذاته، والجانب الآخر هو أن الشرع قد وضع شروطاً لتطبيق هذه الحدود، كما أنه قد وضع أوصافاً وأحوالاً لتعليقها أو إيقافها، وعند عدم توفر تلك الشروط أو هذه الأوصاف والأحوال فإن تطبيق الحدود مع ذلك الفقد يعد خروجاً عن الشريعة.
3 - المتأمل في النصوص الشرعية يجد أن الشرع لم يجعل الحدود لغرض الانتقام، بل لردع الجريمة قبل وقوعها، ويرى أيضاً أن الشرع لا يتشوف لإقامتها بقدر ما يتشوف للعفو والصفح والستر عليها. والنصوص في هذا كثيرة لا تتناهى.
4 - لمدة نحو ألف سنة لم تقم الحدود في بلد مثل مصر، وذلك لعدم توفر الشروط الشرعية التي رسمت طرقا معينة للإثبات، والتي نصت على إمكانية العودة في الإقرار، والتي شملت ذلك كله بقوله صلى الله عليه وسلم: "ادرؤوا الحدود بالشبهات" .. وقول عمر بن عبد العزيز: "لأن أخطئ في العفو ألف مرة خير من أن أخطئ في العقوبة".
5 - قد يوصف العصر بصفات تجعل الاستثناء مطبقاً بصورة عامة، في حين أن الاستثناء بطبيعته يجب أن يطبق بصورة قاصرة عليه، من ذلك وصف العصر بأنه عصر ضرورة، ومن ذلك وصف العصر بأنه عصر شبهة، ومن ذلك وصف العصر بأنه عصر فتنة، ومن ذلك وصف العصر بأنه عصر جهالة، وهذه الأوصاف تؤثر في الحكم الشرعي، فالضرورة تبيح المحظور، حتى لو عمت واستمرت، ولذلك أجازوا الدفن في الفساقي المصرية مع مخالفتها الشريعة، والشبهة تجيز إيقاف الحد كما صنع عمر بن الخطاب في عام الرمادة حيث عمت الشبهة بحيث فٌقد الشرط الشرعي لإقامة الحد، والإمام جعفر الصادق والكرخي وغيرهما أسقطوا حرمة النظر إلى النساء العاريات في بلاد ما وراء النهر لإطباقهن على عدم الحجاب حتى صار غض البصر متعذراً إن لم يكن مستحيلاً، ونص الإمام الجويني في كتابه الغياثي على أحوال عصر الجهالة وفصل الأمر تفصيلاً عند فقد المجتهد ثم العالم الشرعي ثم المصادر الشرعية، فماذا يفعل الناس؟
ويتصل بهذا ما أسماه الأصوليون في كتبهم -كالرازي في المحصول- بالنسخ العقلي، وهو أثر ذهاب المحل في الحكم، وهو تعبير أدق؛ لأن العقل لا ينسخ الأحكام المستقرة، وذلك بإجماع الأمة، ولكن الحكم لا يطبق إذا ذهب محله، فالأمر بالوضوء جعل غسل اليد إلى المرفقين من أركانه فإذا قطعت اليد تعذر التطبيق أو استحال، وكذلك الأحكام المترتبة على وجود الرقيق، والأحكام المترتبة على وجود الخلافة الكبرى، والأحكام المترتبة على وجود النقدين بمفهومهما الشرعي من ذهب أو فضة ومثل ذلك كثير.
6 - من أجل الوصول إلى تنفيذ حكم الشرع ومراد الله سبحانه منه والوصول إلى طاعة الله ورسوله، يجب علينا أن ندرك الواقع، وفي حديث ابن حبان في صحيحه في موعظة آل داود أن يكون المؤمن مدركا لشأنه، عالماً بزمانه.
ومن هنا فإن الفقهاء نصوا على أن الأحكام تتغير بتغير الزمان إذا كانت مبنية على العرف (نص المادة 90 من مجلة الأحكام العدلية)، وأجاز المذهب الحنفي في جانب المعاملات العقود الفاسدة في ديار غير المسلمين، فتغيرت الأحكام بتغير المكان، وقاعدة الضرورات تبيح المحظورات والمأخوذة من قوله تعالى: (فمن اضطر غير باغ ...) تجعل الشأن يتغير بتغير الأحوال، وكذلك تتغير هذه الأحكام بتغير الأشخاص، فأحكام الشخص الطبيعي الذي له نفس ناطقة تختلف عن الشخص الاعتباري حيث لا نفس له ناطقة.
وهذه الجهات الأربع وهي الزمان والمكان والأشخاص والأحوال هي التي نص عليها القرافي كجهات للتغير يجب مراعاتها عند إيقاع الأحكام على الواقع.
ومعلوم أن عصرنا لم يعد أمسه يعاش في يومنا، ولا يومنا يعاش في غدنا، وسبب ذلك أمور: منها: كم الاتصالات والمواصلات والتقنيات الحديثة التي جعلت البشر يعيشون وكأنهم في قرية واحدة، ومنها زيادة عدد البشر زيادة مضطردة لا تنقص أبدا منذ 1830 ميلادية وإلى يومنا هذا. ومنها كم العلوم التي نشأت لإدراك واقع الإنسان في نفسه أو باعتباره جزءاً من الاجتماع البشري، أو باعتباره قائما في وسط هذه الحالة التي ذكرناها.
وسمات العصر هذه ونحوها غيرت كثيراً من المفاهيم، كمفهوم العقد، والضمان، والتسليم، والعقوبة، ومفهوم المنفعة، ومفهوم السياسة الشرعية، فلا بد من إدراك ذلك كله حتى لا تتفلت منا مقاصد الشريعة العليا.
تجارب تطبيق الحدود
7 - يمكن عرض تجارب الدول الإسلامية المعاصرة مع قضية تطبيق الحدود:
أ - فنجد أن السعودية تطبق الحدود عن طريق القضاء الشرعي مباشرة من غير نصوص قانونية مصوغة في صورة قانون للعقوبات الجنائية، والتطبيق السعودي للحدود مستقر وليس هناك أي دعوة أو توجه مؤثر لإلغائها أو إيقافها أو تعليقها. وإن كانت هناك بعض النداءات من معارضي النظام السياسي تدعو إلى ضبط الإجراءات وتصف النظام الحالي بعدم العدالة وباعتدائه على حقوق الإنسان.
ب - حالة باكستان والسودان وإحدى ولايات نيجيريا وإحدى ولايات ماليزيا وإيران والتي نصت قوانينها على الحدود الشرعية وتم الإيقاف الفعلي لها من ناحية الواقع في الباكستان، وتم تعليقها بعد عهد النميري في السودان، وتم تعليقها أيضاً في إيران وماليزيا، وطبقت في ولاية نيجيريا بصورة غاية في الجزئية، ويشيع في كل هذه البلدان العمل بالتعزير بدلاً من تطبيق الحد، فيما عدا الجرائم التي تستوجب الإعدام.
جـ- بقية الدول الإسلامية والتي يبلغ عددها 56 دولة من مجموع 196 دولة في العالم سكتت في قوانينها عن قضية الحدود، وكانت وجهة النظر في هذا الشأن أن عصرنا عصر شبهة عامة، والنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول: "ادرؤوا الحدود بالشبهات"، كما أن الشهود المعتبرين شرعاً لإثبات الجرائم التي تستلزم الحد قد فقدوا من زمن بعيد، فيورد التنوخي في كتابه "نشوار المحاضرة": أن القاضي كان يدخل المحلة أو القرية فيجد فيها أربعين شاهدا ممن نرضى من الشهداء عدالة وضبطاً، وأنه الآن - أي في عصره - يدخل القاضي البلدة فلا يجد فيها إلا الشاهد أو الشاهدين. وأن عصرنا بصفة عامة يمكن أن يوصف بفقد الشهادة أيضاً.
وأن التفتيش للوصول إلى الحقيقة التي تؤدي إلى إقامة الحد ليس من منهاج الشريعة، فإن ماعزاً أتى يقر على نفسه فأشاح النبي بوجهه أربع مرات، ثم أحاله على أهله لعلهم يشهدون بقلة عقله أو جنونه، ثم أوجد له المخارج، ولما رجع في إقراره أثناء إقامة الحد قال رسول الله لعمر: هلا تركتموه؟. وأخذ العلماء من هذا جواز الرجوع عن الإقرار ما دام في حق من حقوق الله وليس بشأن حق من حقوق البشر، كما أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم لم يسأله عن الطرف الآخر للجريمة، وهي المرأة، ولم يفتش عنها حتى كنوع من أعمال استكمال التحقيق. وأخرج ابن أبي شيبة عن أبي بكر وعمر وعثمان: أن السارق كان يؤتى به إليهم، فيقول له الإمام: أسرقت؟ قال: لا!.
فالنص على الحدود -كما ذكرنا- يفيد أٍساساً: تعظيم الإثم الذي جُعل الحد بإزائه، وأنه من الكبائر والقبائح التي تستوجب هذا العقاب العظيم، ويؤدي ذلك إلى ردع الناس عن هذه الجرائم على حد قوله تعالى: (ذلك يخوف الله به عباده يا عبادي فاتقون)، ويكمل الحد في هذا الشأن: الضبط الاجتماعي الذي يتولد من الثقافة السائدة لدى الكافة باستعظام هذه الآثام ونبذ من اشتهر بها أو أعلنها أو تفاخر بفعلها. كما أن الشرع فتح باب التوبة، وأمر بالستر في نصوص عديدة من الكتاب السنة.
8 - ولقد ذكرنا ما ذكرناه إجابة على المبادرة، نرى أن هذه القضية بهذه الصورة ليست ملحة أصلاً، ولا هي في ترتيب أولوياتنا بالمسألة الأَََََولى، بل إن إثارتها الآن يضر ولا ينفع.
والله أعلم.



Terjemahannya :
Dalam memperkatakan tentang perlaksanaan hudud, satu perkara asas mesti dimaklumi semua pihak, iaitu Syariat Islam telah meletakkan beberapa syarat yang perlu ada sebelum sesebuah negara melaksanakan hudud. Justeru, apabila dikatakan ‘suasana semasa tidak kondusif bagi perlaksanaan hudud’, ia bermakna syarat-syarat perlaksanaan hudud itu belum mengcukupi.
Kenyataan ini sama sekali tidak bermaksud hukum hudud itu sendiri ada kelemahan atau kecacatan, sehingga ia tidak boleh dilaksanakan dalam suasana semasa. Hukum hudud adalah sempurna dan lengkap. Cuma suasana semasa tidak memiliki syarat yang ditetapkan yang membolehkan ia dilaksanakan.

Ringkasnya, kenyataan ‘suasana semasa tidak kondusif bagi perlaksanaan hudud’, bukan mempertikaikan kesempurnaannya dan kewajipan melaksanakannya. Ia sebaliknya berkenaan ‘ketidaksempurnaan’ suasana semasa. Iaitu tidak memiliki syarat yang ditetapkan bagi membolehkan hukum itu dilaksanakan.

Antara syarat tersebut ialah kewujudan saksi-saksi yang berwibawa.
Bagi mensabitkan jenayah hudud (zina, qazaf, minum arak, mencuri, hirabah dan kesalahan murtad), saksi yang bersifat adil (‘adalah) diperlukan. Saksi yang adil didefinisikan sebagai, antaranya ‘seorang Islam yang menjauhi dosa-dosa besar, tidak berterusan melakukan dosa-dosa kecil, bersikap baik dan bersopan santun (chivalry), dan boleh dipercayai ketika marah. Dengan makna tidak melampau batas dalam tindak tanduknya ketika marah (Rujuk Feqh al-Manhaji, jld. 3, ms.569)
Ketiadaan saksi yang memenuhi piawaian yang dinyatakan, akan mengakibatkan hukuman hudud tidak boleh dilaksanakan.

Zaman ketiadaan saksi

Persoalannya di sini, wujudkah saksi-saksi seperti yang dinyatakan pada masa sekarang? Jika diambil kira kenyataan sesetengah ulama dahulu kala, boleh dikatakan kita mempunyai jawapan yang hampir pasti bagi persoalan ini.

Dalam karyanya, Nisywarul Muhadharah, Al-Qadhi Al-Tanukhi (356-446 Hijrah) ada memperkatakan tentang realiti manusia di zaman beliau dan zaman sebelumnya. Beliau mencatatkan dalam karyanya itu, “sesungguhnya hakim [pada zaman sebelum ini], ketika memasuki sesuatu tempat atau kampung, dia [boleh] menemui 40 orang saksi yang kita perakui [kewibawaan mereka] dari segi ‘adalah (sifat adil) dan ketepatan (accuracy). [Tapi] sekarang, [iaitu pada zaman beliau] seseorang hakim, apabila memasuki sesebuah negeri, dia tidak [dapat] menemui melainkan seorang atau dua orang [yang layak menjadi] saksi”.

Demikian realiti manusia pada zaman Al-Tanukhi, iaitu sekitar 980 tahun yang lampau. Jika pada zaman beliau tidak boleh ditemui melainkan 1 atau 2 orang yang layak menjadi saksi bagi mensabitkan kes-kes hudud, maka apakah pada zaman kini-yang disifatkan sebagai akhir zaman yang penuh dengan kerosakan-saksi yang memenuhi piawaian yang ditetapkan syarak itu, mudah didapati?
Jawapannya ada pada Mufti Mesir yang diperakui kemantapan ilmu dan kewarakannya, Al-Allamah Syaikh Ali Jum’ah (juga ditulis sebagai Ali Gomaa).

Setelah menukilkan kata-kata Al-Tanukhi diatas, Syaikh Ali Jum’ah dengan jelas menyatakan bahawa, “zaman kita secara umumnya, boleh disifatkan sebagai [zaman] yang kehilangan kesaksian [saksi-saksi yang berwibawa]”.

(Rujuk : http://www.onislam.net/arabic/madarik/culture-ideas/90481-alsharea.html )

Dalam erti kata lain, zaman ini ialah zaman dimana kita sudah kehilangan saksi-saksi yang berwibawa pada nilaian syarak, yang boleh diterima kesaksian mereka dalam perbicaraan membabitkan kes-kes hudud. Dalam realiti Negara Mesir, fenomena ketiadaan syarat yang mencukupi bagi melaksanakan hudud, sebenarnya telah lama berlaku, iaitu sejak sekitar 1000 (seribu) tahun yang lampau. Ini dinyatakan sendiri oleh Syaikh Ali Jum’ah.
Oleh sebab itu, jelas beliau, Negara Mesir, sejak lebih kurang 1000 (seribu) tahun yang lampau, tidak pernah melaksanakan hudud disebabkan fenomena yang dinyatakan.

Hudud bukan keutamaan

Oleh kerana zaman kini tidak memiliki ‘kelayakan’ untuk melaksanakan hudud, antaranya kerana tidak memiliki saksi-saksi yang berwibawa, maka menurut Mufti Mesir ini lagi, persoalan hudud bukan sesuatu yang mendesak dan bukan suatu keutamaan.
Lebih dari itu, menurut beliau, membangkitkan isu hudud pada masa sekarang (iaitu tahun 2006, tahun beliau menyatakan pandangan) mendatangkan mudarat dan tidak memberi manfaat
.
(Rujuk : http://www.onislam.net/arabic/madarik/culture-ideas/90481-alsharea.html)

Sebagai penutup, perlu dinyatakan di sini, Syaikh Ali Jum’ah tidak menyatakan secara jelas bahawa zaman kini tidak kondusif bagi perlaksanaan hudud, seperti yang terpapar pada tajuk tulisan ini.

Tajuk itu sebaliknya adalah rumusan dan kesimpulan penulis daripada dua kenyataan beliau.

Pertama, beliau menegaskan bahawa zaman kini boleh disifatkan sebagai zaman yang ketiadaan saksi yang boleh diterima bagi mensabitkan hukum hudud (seperti yang telah dinyatakan); dan kedua, beliau menyifatkan zaman ini sebagai zaman syubhah (penuh keraguan). Manakala prinsip yang terpakai dalam hukum hudud ialah ‘hukuman hudud diabaikan disebabkan kewujudan syubhah’.
 

Prinsip ini diambil daripada sabda Nabi s.a.w yang bermaksud, ‘abaikanlah [hukuman] hudud dengan sebab [adanya] syubhah’.
 
Jika demikianlah keadaan zaman kini menurut kaca mataSyaikh Ali Jum’ah, maka bolehlah disimpulkan, perlaksanaan hukum hudud pada zaman kini tidak kondusif disebabkan dua sebab yang dinyatakan.

Pandangan beliau ini secara tindak langsung memberi ‘signal’ amaran kepada semua pihak, agar tidak tergesa-gesa menjatuhkan hukuman ke atas mana-mana pihak yang tidak sependapat dengan mereka dalam soal perlaksanaan hudud.



Dan, inilah objektif tulisan ini. Ia tidak bertujuan mengikat mana-mana pihak dengan pandangan al-Allamah Mufti Mesir ini!
والله أعلم

Moga-moga dengan perletakan Jawatan sebagai Mufti, Sayyidi Syaikhona Syaikh Ali Goma'ah dapat menyebarkan sepenuh masa ilmu nya yang ibarat Mas permata untuk kita pelajar Al-Azhar.. dan kita juga dapat sepenuhnya menghadiri setiap pengajian dengan Beliau HafizohuLLOH dan bertambah ilmu agama dan siyasah yang sebenar untuk kita. Ramai yang rasa alim politik islam tetapi yang sebenarnya mereka BODOH dan SOMBONG , tidak dapat membezakan antara Siyasah Islamiyyah dan Islam Siyasi Hizbiyyah

Sebab itu juga Sayyidi Syaikhona HafizohuLLOH tidak mahu menyertai mana-mana parti politik seperti kata beliau di dalam video ini :


 
Dipetik dari sumber
 
yang menyatakan kebenaran
Ustaz Syed Faiz Al-Idrus As-Sayyid Faez Al 'Aydrus السيد احمد فائزالعيدروس
الله موجود بلا مكان ولا تحيز في أي جهة
Aqidah di dahulukan,
Syari'ah menjadi amalan
Membangun mengikut Islam





Sunday, December 16, 2012

isu menasehati Sultan sesebuah negeri

Saya sudah pergi ke banyak seminar dari Muafakat sehingga HIKMAH dan meneliti banyak posting di dalam blog berkenaan 2 isu utama iaitu isu party dominan  menasehati Sultan dan peri pentingnya Sultan turun padang bagi meneliti masalah rakyat.
 
Namun penerangan saya pada sejumlah kecil tidak dapat membetulkan misconception berkenaan Sultan yang sebenarnya sudah ada barisan penasehat dan Sultan serta ahli waris negeri bagi Institusi diRaja tersebut sangat perihatin dan sentiasa mengikuti  pergolakan politik di Malaysia. Mereka sudah ada solusi tapi sebagai sebuah institusi yang berada "di atas politik" (above politic)  mereka lebih suka bersikap memerhati dan menyalurkan maklumat secara formal dan informal melalui saluran yang betul.
 
Sultan adalah payung negeri. Keberkahan sesebuah negeri terletak kepada dua faktor iaitu kebijaksanaan Sultan sebagai payung yang memerintah negeri dan ketaatan rakyat kepada pemerintah. Teliti balik posting terdahulu di SINI

Blog Sembangkuala mengupas isu ini dengan lebih terperinci -saya "copy and paste" Majlis Penasehat Negara bagi negeri Perak yang ditubuhkan untuk menasehati Sultan dan penubuhannya adalah diperuntukkan di bawah Undang Undang Tubuh Negeri Perak:-

Di negeri Perak Darul Ridzuan, wujudnya sebuah badan yang dikenali sebagai ”Dewan Negara” yang ditubuhkan di bawah Undang-Undang Tubuh Kerajaan Negeri Perak. Dewan Negara ini tiada perkaitan dengan dewan perwakilan rakyat yang merupakan salah satu daripada dua dewan dalam Parlimen bagi negara Malaysia.
Dewan Negarav1
 
Dewan Negara Negeri Perak dianggotai oleh bakal-bakal Sultan, seseorang wakil Raja-raja Bergelar, Menteri Besar, Orang Besar Empat, Orang Besar Delapan dan Mufti sebagai ahli-ahli rasmi dan sebelas ‘orang tua’ dan seorang yang bukan Melayu sebagai ahli-ahli bukan rasmi
 
Objektif utama penubuhan Dewan Negara ini bagi membantu dan menasihatkan Raja Pemerintah dalam menjalankan tugas-tugas Baginda. Di antara tugas-tugas lain Dewan Negara ialah menasihatkan Raja Pemerintah di dalam perlantikan Bakal-bakal Sultan dan Raja-raja Bergelar.
 
Persidangan Dewan Negara hanya boleh bersidang apabila dititah oleh Raja Pemerintah. Sekiranya Baginda tidak berangkat hadir, maka Bakal Sultan yang kanan akan mempengerusikan persidangan itu atau Orang Besar Negeri yang terlebih kanan sekiranya tidak ada sesiapa Bakal Sultan yang hadir.
 
 
Tetapi sekiranya persidangan Dewan Negara itu akan membincang pemilihan dan perlantikan seseorang Raja Pemerintah atau pemerintahan seorang Raja Pemerintah, atau lantikan Jemaah Pemangku Raja atau apa-apa perkara lain yang bersangkut paut dengan tubuh badan Raja Pemerintah atau persidangan itu menganggap adalah berfaedah Baginda tidak bersama, maka tidaklah boleh Baginda berangkat hadir dan mempengerusikan persidangan itu. Begitulah juga dengan Bakal-bakal Sultan atau Raja-raja Bergelar.
 
 
Sumber: Pejabat DYMM Sultan Perak Darul Ridzuan (http://sultan.perak.gov.my/)
 

Monday, December 3, 2012

Dunia Islam akan kehilangan suara lantang Malaysia jika Pakatan menang

Kita terkejut bila Bosnia negara Islam yang pernah ditolong Malaysia BERKECUALI semasa pengundian Palestine kepada status negara pemerhati di PBB. Perkara ini sebenarnya akan jadi di Malaysia jika Pakatan berkuasa. Ipoh Malay membahaskan dengan terperinci Persamaan Bosnia Dan Malaysia Dibawah Pakatan Rakyat


Berikut adalah pecahan agama di Bosnia dan Herzegovina. Negara tersebut merupakan negara yang mempunyai 3 presiden iaitu Nebojša Radmanović yang mewakili Serb Bosnia yang sebahagian besarnya menganut Kristian Ortodoks Serbia, Željko Komšić yang mewakili Croat Bosnia yang sebahagian besarnya menganut Kristian Katolik dan Bakir Izetbegović yang mewakili Bosniak yang sebahagian besarnya menganut agama Islam.

Dari angka tersebut, pecahan kaum di Bosnia dan Herzegovina ialah, 49.4% Bosniak, 39.1% Serbs, 12.6% Croats dan 1.9% Lain-lain.

Hukum politik jenis bertiga ini cuba ditiru oleh Pakatan Rakyat di negara ini dengan mentiadakan ketua Pakatan Rakyat itu sendiri. Dengan kata lain, tiada Presiden Pakatan Rakyat sepertimana terdapatnya Presiden Barisan Nasional.

Sebab itulah mereka hanya meletakkan Anwar Ibrahim sebagai pemimpin de-facto. Ini kerana, jika mereka menang, hanya satu kerusi Perdana Menteri yang tersedia.

Oleh sebab itu, keterujaan mereka untuk merepublikkan negara ini sangat tinggi kerana dengan cara itulah sahaja, mereka dapat meletakkan ketua de-facto sebagai Presiden negara dengan dibantu oleh tiga Perdana Menteri dari ketiga-tiga aliran komponen parti yang berbeza, DAP, PAS dan PKR.

Cuba kita lihat pecahan terkini dari akumulasi kerusi-kerusi yang dimenangi Pakatan Rakyat di parlimen dalam PRU12 2008.

Bukankah jelas bagi mereka yang mempunyai otak yang waras bahawa tanpa perlu bersuluh lagi, kuasa politik berada di tangan siapa. Sama ada di pihak sekular bukan Islam yang anti Islam, pihak sekular Islam politik dan pihak fundamentalis Islam politik.

Politik inilah yang dipakai di Bosnia dan Herzegovina yang menghasilkan satu ketetapan yang mengejutkan kita. Bosnia dan Herzegovina mengambil sikap berkecuali dalam undian di PBB bagi menyokong Palestin sebagai negara pemerhati bukan ahli - dibaca berkecuali dalam mengiktiraf Palestin sebagai sebuah negara.

Ini sangat mengejutkan kita kerana negara Serbia sendiri, mengundi YA untuk menyokong Palestin dalam usul tersebut.

Bosnia dan Herzegovina tidak dapat mengundi kerana Presiden dari kalangan Serb Bosnia tidak bersetuju. Kata putus tidak dapat dicapai kerana sebarang keputusan memerlukan persetujuan ketiga-tiga Presiden.

Kita dapat lihat dengan jelas, bagaimanakah dasar negara ini sekiranya Pakatan Rakyat memerintah. Lebih buruk lagi, DAP dengan anti Islamisasi, PKR dengan pluralisme agama dan PAS dengan Islam politik akan menghasilkan sebuah negara yang lebih buruk dari Bosnia Herzegovina hari ini tanpa mengira demografi.

Walau seluruh umat Islam mengundi PAS, corak pentadbiran bertiga ini hanya akan menghentikan terus proses Islamisasi dan dasar sosialis yang anti Islam akan membunuh pula bibit-bibit Islam yang sedang subur bercambah.

Malaysia dibawah Pakatan Rakyat akan menjadi bahan jenaka dunia Islam kerana kebodohan umat Islam negara ini membuat pilihan akibat buta politik dan memilih berdasarkan hasad yang disemai bukan Islam, yang akhirnya meletakkan Malaysia sebagai bukan negara Islam walaupun majoritinya adalah Muslim.

Jika ini yang anda mahukan, undilah Pakatan Rakyat.



Saturday, September 15, 2012

Anwar-The man who would have become king by Jonathan Smith

Had not greed and graft overtook his concience, he would made a  perfect masquerade to fool  (Tun) Dr  Mahathir, the then PM. Anwar was the blue- eyed boy of Dr Mahathir- he even made Anwar de facto PM for two weeks during his surprise holiday tour overseas . What was the intention  Dr Mahathir had in mind then? Was it God intervention? Read more from Jonathan Smith, author of the    I Files

Anwar Ibrahim was a man for whom fortune did not merely smile, it offered to carry his briefcase. But his incredible run of luck, his numerous talents, and what appeared to be a void in his soul that allowed him to be anything and everything to anyone and everyone else would have been wasted but for Mahathir’s patronage – a patronage that would very soon prove very dangerous and mistaken in the end.

Explaining how Mahathir missed all of this for so long requires understanding some things about the man lost on the young – when I first told my sons this story, what should have been a quick five minutes instead turned into an hour-long history lesson on Malaysia, the details of which seem lost to the mists of time today. For this, no secret files are needed, merely the accounts of eyewitnesses who lived there.

Well, perhaps a few semi-secret files.
As I’ve mentioned before, Mahathir had fought his way out of the political wilderness all the way to Prime Minister by his own force of will and by his predecessor’s almost accidental decisions. Once there, he’d spent almost the entire 1980s cementing his control of his own party and ruthlessly driving PAS into permanent minority status. In the process, his tendency to Malay chauvinism and his response to the Umno Team A/Team B split had opened fissures in Barisan Nasional that he would spend the next decade unsuccessfully repairing as he drove Malaysia toward the 21st Century.

Mahathir, you see, really was preparing to hand over the reins to Anwar – but he wanted his legacy, and Malaysia’s future, secure first. The old man clearly believed Anwar his natural heir as the outsider who’d come in determined to conquer the world. It was yet another case of Anwar being Anwar, being everything to everyone. A master manipulator. He even fooled Dr M.

And so Mahathir was obsessed with Vision 2020, and Putrajaya, and Cyberjaya, and bringing Malaysia into the foremost of the ranks of nations. Formula One teams, infrastructure development, all of that talk of ‘green spaces’, all of the things that other nations take for granted, Mahathir wanted for his beloved country.

The first thing was to eliminate the power of Malaysia’s royalty to stymie his programmes, a feat he accomplished in 1994 by constitutional amendment and publicising the alleged extent of the corruption, viciousness, and venality present in some of their households – and all because one hockey coach was beaten. With that remaining threat eliminated, that meant Mahathir’s only real opponents would be inside his own team.
This ruthless consolidation of power would earn Mahathir several well-deserved titles, ‘autocrat’ among them. He was a man who tended to see politics not as the give and take of opinion, but as a war that must be won at all costs. Political opponents should not merely be defeated, they should be crushed and if necessary imprisoned.

And it must be remembered, he still faced war in his own party.
This was no small thing, much as it is no small thing for Najib now. Then as now, an old guard who believed in personal advancement before public service – and were therefore a drain on and impediment to large-scale infrastructure projects – was riddled throughout Barisan Nasional. Mahathir had only a few years before he succeeded in reunifying his party, and did not have enough internal political capital to toss aside those old warlords, even as they worked to undermine him again and again.
What this in turn meant was that Mahathir had to tolerate a certain level of corruption even while working behind the scenes to stem it. He had a macro-plan for Malaysia, and he was thinking big. He therefore tolerated corruption in his mega-projects – Anwar’s corruption, quite often – in the Peninsular and in Borneo, believing the cost was worthwhile. Anything that stood in his way needed to be eliminated or suborned.

Mahathir fought these pitched battles even as he guided his country into its position as one of the ‘Asian Tigers,’ the economies taking off so rapidly and, in theory, showing the old West how to beat the world.

It was in this environment, with his trusting patron occupied, that Anwar would expand, and finally become too comfortable, and too secure. It is here that his certainty that he would always win would finally trigger the chain of events that led to his downfall.
It is important to remember that while Anwar is a bit of a bumbler these days, perhaps a bit too busy to keep his own coalition unified, back in the 1990s he was on top of his game. So many aligned with him on the strength of his force of will, his charisma, his intelligence, his canniness …… and of course, his graft and scheming.
It was a good time to have business concerns in Malaysia.
I had gone, since coming here, from being a salaried field agent to being the deep cover MD of a small multinational, to opening a specialised consultancy that brought the best of both worlds together. I had never cheated on my taxes or in business, I had worked hard, and I had been blessed with a brilliant local wife who somehow managed to raise our children and provide me the sort of shrewd outsider’s view that is so vital to anyone running a complex set of activities and surrounded by chaps who all see the world the same way.
But being in Malaysia in the 1990s made everyone involved with making money look good.
I nevertheless insisted on getting my hands dirty. My father instilled in me lessons learned from his time in the Air Force: Stay in, stay engaged, support your wing, and you’ll both come home.
So it was that one beautiful morning I discovered that the Prime Minister was taking an extended holiday in Italy, and making his Deputy Prime Minister his temporary replacement.
Looking through the file notes my assistant had worked up, I asked, “Why does the name Paul Wolfowitz sound familiar?” The other names were immediately apparent – William Cohen, Richard Holbrooke, Madeleine Albright, all members of the American Cabinet or its foreign policy apparatus – but the name was tickling me for some reason.

“Former Reagan Administration official, and old friend of Anwar’s,” Philip responded. He’d left our old shop shortly after I had, and I’d gladly taken him on as my associate. “He’s in touch with the Republican opposition, sort of an intermediary between his old friends at State and Defense.”
I nodded. “Why on Earth are these names arranged here as if they’re somehow important?”
“Anwar has been preparing the ground for a sudden takeover. He’s trying to get it pre-cleared with the Brits and the Americans. Those are the Americans he’s contacted who we can confirm are Anwar-friendly, and they’ve all given him the thumbs-up.”
To say there was no love lost between Mahathir Mohamad and the Americans is to understate the matter. Reagan had respected him for what he’d done to the Communists, and the elder Bush had found Mahathir’s positioning on the Israelis unhelpful, but Bill Clinton saw in Mahathir everything he hated: Protectionist, chauvinist, stern, proud, authoritarian, and prone to bucking the President of the United States in all but the direst of situations.
In Anwar, finally, here was a Malaysian politician that the Democrats could appreciate. The perfect chameleon. The man who seemed to share the values of the American establishment. Anwar did not drink, but even by the mid-1990s the tales of his alleged infidelity were thick on the ground, and he had meanwhile decided at some point that in economics, he would be a neoliberal.
Neo-liberalism clashed with Mahathir’s more guarded approach of sheltering – one might say favouring – certain industries and companies until they were strong enough to compete on the global stage, but the friction this caused between the two men was minimal: Anwar yielded where Mahathir was most insistent, and with the raging economic boom in the region, everything everyone did seemed to turn to gold.

But to the Americans, neo-liberalism was the only acceptable form of economic policy, and Anwar played them well. Mahathir’s open anti-Semitism was a particular affront to Western leaders, who treat that behaviour as a sickness – a view Anwar nurtured. According to first-hand reports, Anwar actually won over Wolfowitz by seeming to be pro-Jewish and by condemning Mahathir behind his back. Coupled with his bold and eloquent proclamations at various international fora – Shakespeare and TS Eliot quotes at the ready – here at last was the Malaysian for whom the world had been looking: a Malaysian who could prove charming in Washington, D.C. and right-minded in Whitehall, a Malaysian who could mutter to Wolfowitz that it was a shame Mahathir was such a Jew-hater.
When Anwar came to them and let them know that he hoped for change in his country and that Mahathir would soon be gone, they were overjoyed. Anwar made himself into a hero of the State Department and the East Coast Jewish establishment, both Democrats and Republicans.

But it was not just abroad that Anwar began to work in earnest for the takeover, with a special emphasis on his portfolio in Finance. As I mentioned before, he understood the importance of media control. The business editors and reporters of the New Straits Times and Utusan Malaysia were threatened and where appropriate replaced or supplemented with ‘deputy editors’ who would see to it that coverage of Anwar was not merely favourable, but glowing. The editors of those papers and at TV3 exercised final control, and worked diligently to reinforce the message.
It was here that Anwar began to overplay his hand. Mahathir, for all of his many flaws, is not a man who believes in luxurious holidays. Anwar’s unrelenting caginess had finally slipped, and when given the chance to exercise power as Acting Prime Minister, his pride overwhelmed him.
We were all a bit surprised by Mahathir’s decision to go on holiday, and decided that the old man was either testing Anwar’s fitness to be Prime Minister; preparing to step down himself; or – and this is something I frankly did not believe at the time – testing Anwar’s loyalty. To this day, none of us quite know why Mahathir did what he did. He’s been cagey about it all these years, and I personally suspect he is still hurt by Anwar’s betrayal. Regardless, off he went. Anwar stepped hungrily into the gap.

One of his first major acts was the Anti-Corruption Act, a facially commendable move designed to replace the 1961 Act and to root-out the perennial corruption in Malaysia’s political system. Of course, we all noticed that he waited until the probe of his political secretary Azmin Ali had been shelved and then appointed cronies to fill every slot created or reformed by the ACA. Rumours were that he almost appointed Azmin to head the agency, but common sense finally got the better of him.

Eliminating corruption is one of those noble things politicians like to talk about, and that a handful actually want to do. Anwar was not one of those. He directed his appointments to begin investigating every enemy he had in Umno, fairly transparently to develop files on each for later use. He even sent his best men tunneling into Mahathir and his family, hoping to prepare the trump cards needed to win out in the leadership battle he saw coming.

This was all obvious to any intelligent observer at the time. My only question – answered in the negative both by my associates and by later events – was whether Anwar realised that Mahathir already had a box of files deep on him.

By this point, we were largely resigned to Anwar becoming the Prime Minister. I was in a meeting in July when one of my juniors raced into the conference room to tell me that there was a panicked call coming in from our subsidiary in Bangkok: The government there was set to float the baht. What had up until that point been concern about Thailand’s finances was now dangerously close to becoming a financial contagion.
The chain of events this set in motion completely rewrote Malaysia’s political landscape.
The Asian Financial Crisis had struck. We all lost a great deal of money.
Anwar would lose far more.
One by one, the Asian Tigers started to falter and collapse. Real estate prices cratered. Centuries-old trading houses were crammed down in vicious takeovers. Governments faltered and in a handful of cases fell. Malaysia, stronger in its own way than many, was pushed to the brink: shares fell by over two-thirds, the ringgit nearly collapsed, foreign direct investment plunged, and riots began.
The West stood with its mouth agape. When it finally realised the extent and the depth of the crisis, it reached for the only policy tool it had at hand: The International Monetary Fund.
The IMF is a curious institution, and certainly a polarising one. Its opponents accuse it of neoliberalism and neo-colonialism; its supporters describe it as one of the bulwarks of the international system.

It’s really just a group of clods.
The IMF’s policy prescriptions are almost invariably associated with loans and conditionality; its loans, with its policy prescriptions; and its policy prescriptions, with demands for austerity and some sort of governmental reform. This tends not to work, because financial crises tend to be immune to easy resolution by any system.
It is here that most observers believe they know the story: Anwar sided with the IMF. He blamed ‘cronyism and corruption’ for the crisis, never explaining how his own cronyism and corruption and the system he created and maintained as DPM was not a key factor. He implemented austerity programmes, including cutting government expenditures and ministerial and government salaries by upward of 20 per cent, and stripping funding from the enormous infrastructure projects into which the country had poured so much effort for so long.
He also let every press outlet with a Singapore or KL office know that he was a sudden and devout convert to the cause of free market capitalism. Mahathir, by contrast, blamed the entire crisis on foreign currency speculation, was not about to be dictated to by the IMF, and was not about to see Anwar and his friend the international financier George Soros win the day.
Mahathir claims to have been vindicated by history, a claim greater in the telling than in the proof. Those Asian Tigers who adopted austerity and free market reforms recovered as quickly as those that did not; and at any rate, Mahathir’s almost paranoid insistence on blaming the crisis on the Jews seemed deranged and also alienated Western nations at a critical time.
As the story goes, so began the rift between Anwar and Mahathir in earnest. And it is true, so far as it goes.
But the real story is deeper. In Hong Kong in September of 1997, the major economies of the world were working desperately to avoid an international financial collapse, and to get the Asian Tigers running again. While there, Mahathir and Soros began taking potshots at each other in the assembled international press, with everything from attacks on preferred policy (Mahathir called for an end to currency exchanges, Soros called for a variation on the IMF prescriptions) to personal attacks.
Into this free-fire zone Anwar leaped. He began immediately explaining away Mahathir’s comments, taking Soros’s arguments as his own, and even occasionally directly undercutting Mahathir with hundreds of reporters about. He portrayed this to the gullible reporters covering the event as his heroic attempt to save Malaysia from Mahathir’s ill-considered rhetoric.
This was not mere insubordination. Malaysian civil society was on the brink. Anwar was damaging Malaysia. Seeing where Indonesia was headed, he was inciting anti-Mahathir sentiment. It worked because some foreign investors were frightened of Mahathir’s rhetoric,; and Mahathir was frightened of the enormous damage those same investors had just done in the region. The question of how to stabilise the ringgit and to keep Malaysia from devolving into chaos was not a trivial one, nor an easily-resolved one.

Indeed, Anwar began working in secret and in earnest with the American delegation to pave his way to the top, pointing up Mahathir’s ‘dangerous’ talk. Members of the Clinton Administration – from Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin (in Hong Kong) to Defense Secretary William Cohen – told Anwar that Washington was behind him. Wolfowitz and his allies in the Republican Congress also sent their encouragement. Wolfowitz was enthusiastic, according to one of his aides, and determined to see Anwar become Prime Minister.

Anwar’s Saudi backers, delighted at seeing their Islamist protégé finally reach his goal, pledged billions of ringgit to aid Malaysia after his ascent. Their funds would be credited to Anwar’s leadership, and would sweep him – and his radical real agenda – into a lock on power greater than Mahathir’s ever was.
Word was sent back to Anwar’s cronies to prepare for the sudden change, to be executed in 1998.
On Anwar’s return to Malaysia, he doubled down on his austerity programme. He felt emboldened; after all, Mahathir had done nothing more than dress him down in private. Anwar had truly begun to believe the image he had crafted for himself.
Mahathir was incensed, but more importantly, if he had harboured any doubts about Anwar to that point, they were finally vanquished. On his return to Malaysia, he summoned his closest advisors – those who he could be sure were not Anwar’s – into a private meeting at an advisor’s home. Seri Perdana had not yet been completed, and everyone assumed there was no safe place in any government building for this meeting.

While Mahathir was designing the currency controls and reforms that would ultimately stablise and save Malaysia, he appointed his most loyal followers to another cause: Determine whether Anwar could be saved, or whether he was past redemption. He was not ready to let Anwar go yet, but he was still loathe to destroy the man he’d once thought of as like a son.

It was some time later that Mahathir finally began to use the weapons at his disposal to destroy his deputy once and for all. He opened his files to his allies, not just on Anwar, but on Anwar’s friends, allies, cronies, and family.

In the end, it was his corruption, and not his dalliances, that would bring Anwar down.

But that is a story for next time.