Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Malaysiakelak.com.my News (used with permission, copyright not protected)
By Juslo Satire
(KUANTAN,
Friday) – The Syariah Court today has today declared that the late Tan
Sri Lim Goh Tong was a Muslim when he passed away more than 10 years
ago in 2007. The Syariah Court also ruled that since no non-Muslim is
allowed to inherit any part of a Muslim’s assets or wealth, the
inheritance of Lim’s property by his non-Muslim children are invalid
and unlawful.
“Therefore, the assets should be
immediately returned to Tan Sri Lim’s name, and then redistributed to
his Muslim heirs (if any) according to Syariah law. If he has no Muslim
heir, then the assets shall be given to the Islamic authorities and
they can do whatever they wish. The non-Muslim children are
disinherited.” The Syariah Court ruled.
Dato’
Zakaria Lim Abdullah, 35, the late Tan Sri Lim’s only Muslim child and
the 20th of his 20 offsprings, is now poised to become the Chairman of
Genting Group, 1 of Southeast Asia’s richest companies worth RM2
trillion as at press time. (He would have inherited only 1/20 of Tan
Sri Lim’s assets if Tan Sri Lim was not declared a Muslim.) However, he
refused to confirm whether he would stop the gambling business of
Genting even though it is haram under Islamic law.
“Are
you saying that our Hadhari government should refuse to collect taxes
from gambling, alcohol, pork and other haram businesses?” Dato’ Zakaria
replied, perhaps rhetorically.
Dato’
Zakaria has also said that his shall honor his pledge to donate 1/10 of
his newly inherited fortune to Jabatan Agama Islam Pahang and UMNO in
equal share if he won the case, made 3 days before the Syariah Court
decision.
“Business Reasons”
“My
late father wanted to keep his conversion secret because he was a
gambling tycoon, and he did not want to jeopardize his gambling empire
or make his shareholders lose confidence in Genting,” said Dato’ Zakaria during the hearing in Syariah Court. The Syariah Court felt that “this
is most likely true because of the huge business implications. It is
very normal for Chinese to do this. We can accept that.”
As
to the testimonies of Tan Sri Lim’s 19 other offsprings in the Syariah
Court, who unanimously disputed the alleged conversion, the Syariah
Court said,
“Even though it is 19 to 1,
but because the non-Muslim witnesses refused to swear on the Qur’an
before they testified in court, we could not consider their
testimonies. In any event, even if they did swear on the Qur’an, the
dhimmis… sorry, the non-Muslims would still carry less weight when
compared to the testimony of 2 Muslim men. It is not about the number,
it is about quality of the witnesses.”
The
other witness supporting Dato’ Zakaria’s claim to have witnessed Tan
Sri Lim’s conversion is Ustaz Abdul Rahman Ganinah Abdullah, 23 year
old. The Ustaz would have been only 13 year old at that time of the
conversion, but the Syariah Court said that,
“Being
a righteous, God-fearing Muslim, we have no reason to suspect that the
Ustaz told any lie. In any event, he has reached the age of puberty at
the time (of the conversion) so he was qualified to witness the
conversion.”
“Answer To God” – It Depends
The Syariah Court has also ruled that the overwhelming evidence of Tan Sri Lim drinking alcohol, praying to pagan idols, celebrating pagan religious festivals, eating pork and gambling in his own Genting Casino and generally behaving like a non-Muslim all his life until his death was “…irrelevant. Once you have converted, you are a Muslim till you die, no matter what you did before your death. You will answer to God for all your sins.”
However, on the same kind of “answer to God” argument made by the non-Muslim children that:
“By
the same logic, the Deceased himself should answer to God for
concealing his alleged 'conversion' from his family and resulting in
him not being buried as a Muslim and his assets distributed among his
non-Muslim children; it's not up to the Islamic Authority to insist on
his assets being inherited under Islamic law if he, KNOWING THAT HIS ASSETS WOULD BE DISTRIBUTED LIKE AN INFIDEL (AND HE MIGHT BURN IN HELL), still didn’t want to tell his family to bury him as a Muslim and distribute his assets like a Muslim.”
the Syariah Court said “you
cannot say he must answer to God for everything. Sometimes he also has
to answer to us, the Islamic Authority and Syariah Court. If we say he
has to answer to us, then he has to. When it comes to God's law, logic
has nothing to do with it. Why is it so difficult to understand?”
“New Conversion Policy” vs New Economic Policy
The
case to declare one of the richest Chinese in the world (at his death)
as a Muslim was started 2 years ago (8 years after his death), 1 month
after another non-Muslim Malaysian tycoon’s Muslim son was able to
exclusively inherit his father’s global business empire – worth RM80
billion at that time – by proving in Syariah Court that his father had
“converted in secret,” resulting in his mother and all 9 other siblings
losing the right to inherit any part of the tycoon’s wealth, leaving
him the sole heir to the huge fortune.
There are
currently at least 200 more cases of the same nature pending before the
Syariah Courts nationwide involving deceased non-Muslims who were
wealthy during their lifetime and left behind a huge personal fortune.
Rough estimate suggests that 50% of them were started by 1 of the
Muslim children of the deceased (99% of them newly converted as
Muslims), and the rest by the Islamic Authorities seeking to disinherit
all non-Muslim children.
If all of the cases
succeed, it is estimated that the ratio of equity held by Muslims in
Malaysia would jump from the meagre 19% as at 1 January 2018 to 76%, a
whopping 3-fold increase.
The Perak Mufti,
who applauded the Syariah Court’s ruling, said that this wave of
after-death declarations of conversions is the new approach taken by
the Islamic Authority to speed up the Islamicization of Malaysia, but
is also designed to achieve the government’s goal to redistribute
wealth among the races which the government could no longer do (and
failed repeatedly to do) under the now abolished National Economic
Policy.
“By creating real economic
incentives for the dhimmis to become a real citizen of the Islamic
state, we expect more of them to embrace the true path, and this will
mean that we no longer have to rely on the NEP to achieve such noble
socio-economic goals of the government. Besides, this is more effective
because to take money away from living people will create a lot of
noise, but a dead person will not make any noise, right?” He said.
However,
it is not clear whether the non-Muslim children would still be able to
keep their inheritance if they convert to Islam immediately. The Mufti
of Perak, when consulted on this issue, said,
“If
that could bring them to Islam, then it would be good, so the Syariah
Court should allow that. But then it might be unfair to those children
who converted into Islam earlier… perhaps we can still allow them to
inherit only 30% of what an “early bird” Muslim heir would have been
able to get, to provide some “early bird bonus incentives” for them to
convert earlier. When we are dealing with Chinese, such bonus
incentives are very important, if you know what I mean. Anyway, we’ll
think about this in the next National Fatwa Council meeting. But rest
assured that we shall continue to our struggle – until the Kingdom
comes (literally).”
Chinese Beginning to Be Concerned
The Chinese community has now taken this matter very seriously and are brainstorming on the options
to overcome this problem. They have also called for an end to the
practice of declaring a person’s status as a Muslim after his or her
death, a radical change from their usual attitude to shy away from
controversial political and religious issues. Analysts believe that
this is because this is threatening their economic interests.
Supporters
of the now semi-defunct Malaysian Chinese Association, Gerakan and
Malaysian Indian Congress, still part of the ruling Barisan Nasional
coalition, have called on the top BN leadership to put forward a plan
to resolve such controversial and provocative religious issues once and
for all and in a manner which is fair to the non-Muslims. An MCA leader
who declined to be named told our reporter:
“We fear a backlash. Most NGO and opposition leaders have called on the non-Muslims to boycott
BN if no fair solution is put forward before the upcoming general
election. These issues have been around since at least the Moorthy
controversy in 2005 but still remained unresolved. The are now
affecting the basic security and fundamental well-being of the
non-Muslims.”
[Juslo’s clarification: This is purely a SATIRE. NOTHING in this post is factually true. DEEP APOLOGIES
to the family of the late Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong. Forgive me for using a
real, prominent name in order to try to bring out the real, concrete
implications of the stupidity, madness and suffering which are happening in Malaysia right now, and hopefully to raise awareness of the people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike.]
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Bamboo River Club
Anyway, these are photos from Christ super and terrer DSLR taken at Rahman Putra Club@Sungai Buloh few weeks ago.
David vs. Goliath
Andy and Chin Wei competing, results was Andy(ex SMK 13 representative) lost.
An ugly photo of CCW gasping and showing his strokes.
Pool monster emerging?
Order sticker !
Danny - confirm
Marcus - confirm
YLO - confirm
Chris - confirm
Looi - off
KeLvin - confirm
CL - confirm
Aaron - confirm
FS - confirm
JS - confirm
WH - confirm
Jin - confirm
Ah loong - OFF
Andy - confirm
CW -
CF (UK) - OFF
JH (AUS)- confirm
plz confirm faster.. kelvin going to order d...
now shirt ..
Member:
double shirt
Danny & Audrey - confirm
Marcus & Seemun - confirm
JH & Ayumi - confirm
YLO & "secret GIRL" - confirm (plz confirm wif the girl asap)
Chris & Irene - confirm
Looi - confirm
KeLvin & Yvonne - confirm
CL & teddy - confirm
JS & Coming soon GF - confirm (wtf how help me edit) haha
single shirt
Andy -confirm
CW
Aaron - confirm
FS - confirm
WH - confirm
Jin - confirm
CF - confirm
Ah loong - confirm
plz leave a comment at chat box there.. if not ur name will be cancel... haha
kel leng mo.. hahaha
Toilet bowl ! (chris suggestion)
for danny, fs, marc, chris and wh
toilet bowl(TB) just like couple,
every1 need it to do imba thing everyday,
without TB will make every1 emo, stress, no mood, no feel, or mayb feel like die,
U just like my TB, without YOU , i will EMO, STREESS , no mOOD, No feel and FEEL like DIE.
In this moment, i REALLY REALLY need U to be part of my life.. without u i rather die cuz i cant stay happily WITHOUT U BABY...
- NOOB JS -
2nd poem : frm chirs
In an hour im cold, cold as stone;
When you leaves it, it gets harder;
And harder to face life alone;
When i saw u, i feel like very warm;
When i 2gether wif u, my feeling just like owning perfect girls like U !
- CHRIS -
3rd poem : frm fs
"Just like a tissue for your tears,Im here to wipe your fears,and bring you all the cheers
- fs -
4th poem : frm marcus
i'm just like the bloated air in your asshole.. i try to hide my feelings as hard as possible until i reach a limit that i have no choice but to release it.. hope u don't mind me being kindda conservative about my feelings
- marcus -
Friday, June 25, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Consequences of mismanagement
Malaysia : A ‘bankrupt’ nation ?
CPI Writings
Written by Dr Lim Teck Ghee
Thursday, 10 June 2010 17:53
What is 'financial crisis?’
Readers following the great national debate initiated by Minister Idris Jala in the Prime Minister’s Department on the possibility of the country going bankrupt must be thoroughly confused with the mixed messages from government.
On the one hand, we are told that the country is more prosperous than ever before and that absolute poverty in the country, for example, is almost completely eradicated. We are also told that the country’s economy is in good hands and that the finances of the country are well-managed.
Every few days or so, we are reminded of how fortunate we are to be living in Malaysia and how much foreign investors love us. Just a short while ago, it was trumpeted that our competitiveness had shot up this past year so that we are now ranked number ten in the world – ahead of many advanced economies.
We regularly receive a barrage of statistics and data on not only how well the economy is performing but also how, thanks to the outstanding economic management of the government, we will soon reach dizzier heights of prosperity and affluence.
The New Economic Model, it is claimed, will transform the Malaysian economy to become one with a high income and high quality growth. Presently, per capita annual income in Malaysia stands at RM23,100; under the NEM plan, that figure would more than double to RM49,500 by the year 2020.
Lucky Malaysians – according to the government’s plan – to be able to live in a land of milk and honey with fistfuls of ringgit to throw around and to be standing side by side with the developed countries in the foreseeable future.
We have been fed with this optimistic and glowing picture of the country’s economic prospects for so long that many of us can be forgiven for believing that we stand on the threshold of unprecedented economic prosperity if not greatness. Never mind that doubt –in the way of the impoverished in our slums, squatter and ulu areas – is often just around the corner, many Malaysians prefer to close their eyes to this reality.
Idris Jala’s wake-up call
Fortunately or unfortunately, thanks to Minister Idris, we have now received a dose of reality that our economic situation is more complicated and a lot worse than what earlier leaders and the government-controlled media would like us to believe.
Although a few recalcitrant leaders are still living in denial and claiming that the minister has misled Malaysians on the true state of the country’s financial health, a closer look at Idris’s speech during the open house on ‘subsidy reduction’ shows that his concern and warning on the country becoming bankrupt (in the same way as Greece is) was absolutely correct and spot on.
Idris’s warning is based on a number of economic projections including:
* the country’s GDP would grow at 3% annually
* government debt continues to grow at 12% annually
Both assumptions are not unreasonable.
Average GDP growth has been slowing down in the past two decades. Prior to the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, the country’s growth rate averaged 9% from 1990-1997. Between 2000 and 2008, growth rates fell to an average of 5.5%. If the trend of slowing growth continues, then the assumption of 3% GDP annual growth for 2011-2020 may well prove correct.
If there is no quick recovery in the global economy and we have a prolonged double-dip recession which seems more likely now following the ongoing financial crisis in the Euro zone, then even 3% annual growth in the GDP may seem optimistic.
As for the country’s debt, government debt in 1997 was RM90 billion. This has grown at a rate of 12% per annum to RM362 billion today. Based on a similar annual increase of 12% over the next nine years, the country’s debt will balloon to RM1.16 trillion by 2019.
The government’s own Performance Management and Delivery Unit’s calculations show that by the year 2019, the following economic scenario will be faced by the Malaysian government:
* The country’s projected debt will be 103% of GDP
* The fiscal deficit will reach RM449 billion or 38% of GDP
At that point, what will happen is that government revenue will not be enough to service its debt and to operate the hospitals, schools and other government services. In other words, the country will go into sovereign debt crisis, which is a polite way of saying that the country will become bankrupt.
The bigger subsidies are …
Where Idris went wrong is not in his assumptions and projections but in his focus on subsidies as the main culprit in the country’s perilous financial state. Addressing a public audience and as a member of the Barisan Nasional government, however, he was not in a position to finger the colossal wastage, inefficiency and corruption that has characterized Barisan rule and economic management of the country.
Yes, subsidies are part of the cause of our potential financial downfall but it is not subsidies to the poor that are to be blamed – in fact, the entire food subsidy bill in 2009 was only RM3.4 billion or less than the cost of the two recently purchased low-quality diesel submarines that cannot even dive properly! What is being spent on tolls, sugar, flour, cooking oil, school books, etc. is only a tiny fraction of what goes into the country’s black hole of defence expenditure (see attached box).
Instead of being fixated on subsidies to the poor, let us open the books on the subsidies that have gone to the ruling political elite and its business allies – the cronies, middlemen, consultants, and agents that are key to the massive binge of irresponsible government procurement in all sectors, especially defence.
Finally, it is also the subsidy of a huge, bloated and unsustainable civil service that is swallowing much of public revenue and helping to pile up our debt. Subsidies that have kept the cost of living down for the average Malaysian are only a small part of the larger subsidy equation.
The Black Hole of the Country’s Defence Expenditure
(Source:http://www.janes.com/articles/Janes-Sentinel-Security-Assessment-Southeast-Asia/Defence-budget-Malaysia.html)
Although Malaysia publishes an annual defence budget figure as part of the government's state budget, it is split into just two sections - operating and development expenditure - and it is widely thought that real defence spending is significantly higher than the official budget suggests.
The official budget, for example, does not include defence industry funding, nor does it cover certain procurement items which are sometimes settled by other arrangements including barter agreements. What is certain is that actual spending has exceeded the official budget regularly in recent years. According to the Malay Ministry of Defence, expenditure in 2006 (the most recent year for which expenditure details are available) was 8.5 per cent higher than the budget allocation, with the majority of the overspend coming in the operations budget.
This was not unusual as the degree to which military spending exceeded budget allocations has been steadily increasing since 2003, going from 3 percent in that year to 3.8 per cent in 2004 and to 5.5 per cent in 2005.2007 and 2008 saw further budget increases, fuelled in part by sustained economic growth of around 6 per cent in real terms, while the government has also seen increase in its revenues and expenditure. However, during 2007 and 2008 overspending was also recorded in the operations budget by 1.7 percent and 6.5 percent respectively with 2008 entailing an operations expenditure of MYR10.597 billion, whereas the actual allocation was MYR 9.939 billion. The 2009 allocation appears to have reflected this with MYR10.65 billion
Consequences of mismanagement
So what happens when the country becomes bankrupt?
When ordinary citizens or businesses become bankrupt, they can hide behind a court order and return to some kind of normal life thereafter. Those who have borrowed from Ah Longs, of course, cannot throw themselves at the mercy of the courts. They are more likely to be forced to rely on family members or friends to help them reach some kind of settlement or have to flee their aggressive creditors by changing their residence or even identity.
Countries that are in default do not have the luxury of changing their identity or getting a court to provide some measure of protection. In Argentina which defaulted on sovereign borrowings and debt repayment in 2001, the consequences were horrendous. The country experienced a brutal spiral of inflation followed by hyperinflation, soaring unemployment soared and a collapse in the currency.
The economy imploded, shrinking by 13 per cent in a year and the government was forced to cut public sector wages, slash the state pension and other social benefits. Unable to pay for goods with cash and with banks rationing withdrawals, citizens had to resort to bartering. Imported goods became unattainable.
Economic shock was followed by social trauma and political crisis. The quality of life of the average Argentinian was lowered drastically and many businesses closed or went bankrupt. Argentinian society has still to recover fully from the mismanagement of the country’s economy during the late 90s.
Let us pray – but prayer is not enough – let us make sure that the government never mismanages the Malaysian economy to the stage when we have to go through what the people of Argentina have had to suffer.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
X-Destination Sticker
By the way the small front windscreen sticker is like those insurance kind of sticker that stick from the inside one. Not stick from the outside. And then can either have name below the X-D or only X-D.
T-Shirt Template
you all can choose which one you all like or merge it together with a few design or come out with a new quote if you all don't want the complaining the malaysian style.
by the way not necessarily the shirt have to be white can be white or black, the font colour just different only lo.
Attention !!
any suggestion please tell to our boss... weng hong!!
this already delay very long time.. according to fook siang (2010) XD
please done this project within this months please.. haha XD
Member:
Danny & Audrey
Marcus & Seemun
JH & Ayumi
YLO & "secret GIRL"
Chris & Irene
Looi & "who u wan"
KeLvin & Yvonne
CL & teddy
Andy & "??"
CW & "??"
Aaron & "??"
FS & "??"
JS & "??"
WH & "??"
Jin & "??"
CF & "??"
Note: those who "??" please find girlfren now... hahahhaha XD like that list down only realized left few newbie so lonely... hahaha
-x-dest BIG BOSS-
- JS -
(TOO FREE)
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
a joyous occation
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
A Woman's Definition of a Man (True?)
1. The nice men are ugly.
2. The handsome men are not nice.
3. The handsome and nice men are gay.
4. The handsome, nice, and heterosexual men are married.
5. The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men, have no money.
6. The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men with money think we are only after their money.
7. The handsome men without money are after our money.
8. The handsome men, who are not so nice and somewhat heterosexual, don't think we are beautiful enough.
9. The men who think we are beautiful, that are heterosexual, somewhat nice and have no money, are cowards.
10. The men who are somewhat handsome, somewhat nice and have money and thank God are straight, are shy and NEVER MAKE THE FIRST MOVE!!!
11. The men who never make the first move, automatically lose interest in us when we take the initiative.
-Fs- So which of us guys is in what number…? I think JS number 9 (Cowards!!!) Muahahaha
Dangers of Car Air-conditioning
Please do NOT turn on A/C as soon as you enter the car.
Open the windows after you enter your car and turn ON the AC after a couple of minutes.
Here's why:
According to a research, the car dashboard, sofa, air freshener emit Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin
(carcinogen - take time to observe the smell of heated plastic in your car).
In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes anemia and reduces white blood cells.
Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer.
Can also cause miscarriage.
Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50mg per sq.ft. A car parked indoors with windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene.
If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level.
People who get into the car, keeping windows closed will inevitably inhale, in quick succession, excessive amounts of the toxin.
Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver.. What's worse, it is extremely difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.
So friends, please open the windows and door of your car - give time for interior to air out -dispel the deadly stuff - before you enter.
- JS -