(Tajuk catatan blog ini telah dikemaskinikan dengan tambahan perkataan “di Selangor”. Terima kasih kepada komen Jason Loh atas pembetulan ini.)
09/09/09 ialah hari yang penuh bersejarah dengan pembentukan cawangan DAP kami yang terbaru di Kg Lembaga Kinrara, yang merupakan cawangan Melayu pertama di Selangor, dengan 50 ahli yang berdaftar dan kian meningkat.
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(The title of this blog post has been updated with the additional words “in Selangor”. Thanks to Jason Loh’s comments for this correction.)
09/09/09 was a momentous day with the formation of our latest DAP branch in Kg Lembah Kinrara, which is DAP’s first Malay-led and Malay-majority branch in Selangor with 50 members registered and counting.
To mark the occasion, the leader of the branch symbolically handed over the stack of 50 completed DAP membership forms to me. Continue Reading »
I am a Malay Singaporean and I am proud of it though the label “Malay Singaporean” often seems to make little sense to people outside of South-east Asia.
In my travels to other countries and in my current place of residence in the United States, I am often quizzed as to the meaning of this label.
“You mean, you are Malaysian?” I am asked. Or: “I thought Malays are Malaysians?”
My answer, each time, is “no”. Regardless of how often I have to repeat myself, I try, each time, to explain the differences between Malay Singaporeans and Malay Malaysians.
I say that history had united us and then separated us. Political leaderships and national policies have made us very distinct from one another.
This was not always the case. For many years after Separation, the racial and religious identities of Malay Muslims in Malaysia and Singapore took precedence over their national identities.
However, things have changed drastically over the past few decades and much of that has to do with how politics shaped the two communities. Continue Reading »
First, I paid a courtesy call to Abdul Rahman Nasir, the nazir (chairman) of Masjid Al-Ehsan, Bandar Kinrara (seated far right) at the time when I was detained under ISA last Ramadan. he was the gentleman who spoke up in my defence to deny false allegations that I had had anything to do with a petition to lower the azan volume at that time.
Next, I went for Majlis Berbuka Puasa organised by my Kinrara constituency office.
Press Statement by Teresa Kok, Member of Parliament for Seputeh and State Exco for Selangor on 7th September 2009 at Kuala Lumpur
Source: Malaysiakini.com
Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein and Polis DiRaja Malaysia’s blatant double standards in the handling of the Shah Alam Cow-Gate protestors make a mockery of Prime Minister Najib’s 1Malaysia.
On 2 September, Hishammuddin defended the protestors who had marched from the Selangor State Mosque to Selangor State Assembly building. The protestors did so as they couldn’t stand the possibility of having a Hindu temple relocated near their area of residence in Shah Alam, claiming that it would offend their Malay-Muslim lives.
As the event was unfolding, police officers merely stood by and watched as the protestors spouted hate speech, threatened violence, disturbed the peace, and brandished a bloody cow-head which they then kicked and spat upon in utter disdain.
The police neither arrested nor penalised anyone at that point in time. Over one week has passed, and despite video evidence, none of the protestors have been arrested for any offence. Is this the government’s way of putting “People First” by permitting protestors who had threatened bloodshed to continue to walk freely among us? Is this the government’s idea of “Performance Now” by allowing police to take their own sweet time to put a stop to sectarian behaviour?
As for Hishammuddin, he showed such sympathy to these protestors’ cause. He claimed that the protestors could not be blamed as “they had no intention at all” to invoke racial sentiments or cause tension. He even defended their illegal assembly, excusing the fact that they had had not obtained a police permit, saying that they had kept the number of protestors to a small number and that they had not disrespected the Sultan. Continue Reading »
Press Statement by Teresa Kok, Member of Parliament for Seputeh and State Exco for Selangor on 5th September 2009 at Kuala Lumpur
Musa Hassan’s Contract Extension is a Great Betrayal to All Malaysians
IGP Musa Hassan
The people of Malaysia felt greatly aghast and betrayed by the second extension of IGP Musa Hassan’s contract in spite of his atrocious track record in maintaining law and order, selective persecution, corruption, incompetency and below par performance.
To add salt to the wound, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s even had the audacity to claim that this extension was due to Musa’s excellent record which is a blatant lie.
I wonder what great ‘service’ Musa Hassan has performed for Malaysians to warrant such praise from Muhyiddin. With Musa Hassan as IGP over the last three years, we have seen: Continue Reading »
