Link graphic for a KJB version Bible Verse that will be automatically updated when we update it from time to time
">


Articles, Opinions & Views: From political prisoner to PM; but Anwar faces bumpy ride ahead By Mariam Mokhtar

Photobucket
Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
 
Fighting Seventh
The Fighting Rangers
On War, Politics
and Burning Issues
Profile
Miscellaneous

American Thinker
American
Newspapers Online

Arab News
Asia News
Asia Times
Assyrian News
BBC News
Breitbart News
British and
International
Newspapers Online

CAMERA
CBS News
City Journal
CNN
Christian Solidarity
International

Daily Caller
Daily Mail
DAP Malaysia
Dawn
Drudge Report
Dutch News
Faith Freedom
Ali Sina

Foreign Affairs
Forward
Fox News
Google News
Guardian
Haaretz
Harakah Daily
English

Herald Malaysia
Hurriyet Turkey
History of Jihad
Independent
Indian Newspapers
Online

Inspire Magazine
IPOH Echo
International
Herald Tribune

Jerusalem Newswire
Jihad Watch
Local-
French News
In English)

London Times
Malaysiakini

Malaysian Insider
Malaysia
Centre for Policy
Initiatives

Free Malaysia Today
Malaysia Chronicle
Malaysia
-Sarawak Report

MEMRI TV
Middle East
Forum

Mission Network
News

MSNBC News
National Review
NEWSMAX
New York Post
New York Times
Nut Graph
Opinion Journal
Right Wing News
Spiegel
Star Online
Straits Times
Sun Malaysia
Sydney
Morning Herald

Telegraph
The Malay Mail
The Rebel Media
The Sun (UK)
Time
Times of India
Town Hall
US News
World Report

USA Today
VBS TV
Washington Post
Washington Times
World Net Daily
World
Watch Monitor

Yahoo News
Ynet News



No Atheists
In A Foxhole

Rudyard Kipling

" “When you're left wounded on
Afganistan's plains and

the women come out to cut up what remains,
Just roll to your rifle

and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur

" “We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”

“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”
“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace,
for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .”
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."

Proud To Have
Served With Warriors

Glorious
Malaysian Food
Foreign Bloggers
&
Other Stuff
Gaming

Major D Swami
WITH Lt Col Ivan Lee
Click Here

Lt Col Ivan Lee
you want him with
you in a firefight!!!!

Dying Warrior
xxxxxx
Condors-Infantry
Fighting Vehicles
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Camp
Bujang Senang
Click Here
xxxxxxxx
The A Team
Click Here
xxxxxxxx
Major General
Toh Choon Siang
Click here
Lieutenant General
Stephen Mundaw
Click Here
With His
Dying Breath
Killed in Battle
In Death
Last Thoughts
Before Battle
Whilst There Is
Life, There Is Fight

Not Done In Yet!!

Iban Trackers
XXXXXXXX
Facts On RoP
Hutang Negara
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
From political prisoner to PM; but Anwar faces bumpy ride ahead By Mariam Mokhtar
Friday, November 25, 2022

Malaysiakini : Both Muhyiddin and Hadi are bankrupt of new ideas and are clueless about propelling Malaysia forwards.

Two years ago, Muhyiddin used the emergency and the coronavirus pandemic to consolidate his power, whilst Hadi does what Hadi does best. He used the pulpit to further divide the nation with his brand of conservative religious teachings.

Although Anwar faces huge challenges to rescue Malaysia from religious and racial extremism, and economic decline, he will get no free pass from some of us.

Nevertheless, older Malaysians who lived through the 1970s and 1980s will find that Anwar's rise to power is full of many little ironies.

Clearing up the mess

Anwar spent 16 years in Dr Mahathir Mohamad's first premiership, of which 15 was spent in the cabinet, as minister for education, culture, youth and sports, agriculture, and finance.

Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad

Successive PMs did nothing to reverse the slide and stop the wrongdoings under Mahathir, like cronyism, corruption, and racism. They merely perfected Mahathir's techniques.

The irony is that Anwar must now clear up this mess, with less money available in the kitty, increased borrowing by the treasury and a rakyat desperate for public aid, and expecting immediate results from reform.

Will the rakyat understand that these problems cannot be resolved within a matter of months or even years? They wrongly assumed 22 months was ample time for Harapan to clear up 63 years of Umno's mess. It is not like pressing the reset button on a computer.

The rakyat may give Anwar time, but Muhyiddin and Hadi will do their best to seize power back.

When rebuilding Malaysia, Anwar has to counter Bersatu and PAS' 3Rs with the three Es. The economy, education and getting rid of extremism.

Hunger 

In the 1970s, Anwar, the student leader, led protests to highlight the plight of the starving rural poor, and impoverished rubber tappers of Baling, Kedah.

Anwar probably had a strange feeling of déjà vu in 2022, as he must again address both rural and urban poverty, and help starving Malaysians whose lives and jobs were affected by the depressed economy and the Coronavirus pandemic.

He must act fast. A hungry rakyat may quickly turn hangry.

The genie that was let out of the bottle. The 1979 Iranian Revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini reverberated around the world with the Islamic resurgence shocking many people, including Mahathir, the then PM.

In the early 1980s, Umno MPs in Kedah warned Mahathir that Umno faced defeat at the polls from an energised PAS. Acknowledging the PAS threat, he hand-picked the then-leader of the Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (Abim), Anwar, to give Umno a religious facelift. It worked.

By 2022, the extremism, which Mahathir and successive Umno PMs left unchecked, had become an insatiable monster.

The irony is that Anwar must stop the rise of extremism before Malaysia becomes yet another intolerant Islamic state, like Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Education

As PM, Mahathir wasted no time industrialising Malaysia. Whilst he was busy building skyscrapers and factories, Anwar was tasked with countering the PAS threat. He was responsible for the Islamicisation of the country, in particular the civil service and the education system.

In 2022, it is highly ironic that Anwar must undo the Islamicisation process, which he initiated before further damage is done.

Today, Little Napoleons wield unnecessary power with their own interpretations of the dress code, speaking English is not seen as patriotic, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects are ignored whilst Islamic studies dominate the school timetable, and some English teachers in government schools are so bad, that many students 'improve' their English by watching Western programmes and music videos.

Nationalists want to ban vernacular schools, but say nothing about banning international schools and the mushrooming tahfiz schools.

Anwar will need a firm, but a thick-skinned and knowledgeable person to be his education minister, who must also be sensitive to the needs of the Malay/Muslim electorate. Could that person be Rafizi Ramli? A non-Malay would find this job impossible and feel as if he is walking on eggshells.

What goes around comes around. When Mahathir invited Anwar to join Umno in 1982, he killed two birds with one stone. Student protests stopped, whilst Islamicisation work on the government progressed. When Anwar became more popular than him, Mahathir then tried to destroy Anwar.

The irony is that 40 years later, Mahathir was humiliated at GE15 when he lost both his seat and his deposit. It must have been painful for him to watch Anwar being installed as Malaysia's 10th prime minister.

The nationalists live in their own bubble. They were probably unaware that the Malaysian stock exchange and the ringgit jumped after Anwar was appointed 10th PM, and messages of congratulations from world leaders flooded Putrajaya.

Some politicians who lost in GE15 will be vindictive. Is there a mechanism in place to stop power-hungry politicians like Mahathir, Najib Abdul Razak, Muhyiddin and Hadi, and destructive speakers like Azhar Azizan Harun, from creating havoc, making a mockery of democracy and destabilising a nation?

posted by Major D Swami (Retired) @ 12:34 PM  
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home
 
ARCHIVES


Previous Post
Indian Soldiers
World War 1
Links To Rangers
Military Related Links


End of a Saracen
East Malaysian
Warriors
Blow Pipe
xxxx
xxxx
Lieutenant Colonel
Zulkapli Abdul Rahman
Click Here
Lieutenant Colonel
Harbhajan Singh
Click Here
Heads from the Land
of the Head Hunters
Heads
20 Harrowing Images
Vietnam War

Creme De La Creme-Click here

Killing Time
Before Deployment

Lt Col Idris Hassan
Royal Malay
Regiment
Click Here

Also Known as
General Half Track

Warriors
Dayak Warrior
Iban Tracker with
British Soldier

Showing the
British Trooper
what a jackfruit is!!

Iban Tracker

A British Trooper training
an Iban Tracker

Iban Tracker

Tracker explaining
to the British Soldier who
knows little about tracking

Iban Tracker
Explaining to the
British Trooper the meaning
of the marks on the leaf

Iban Tracker
Aussie admiring
Tracker's Tattoos

Lest We Forget Major Sabdin Ghani
Click Here
Captain Mohana Chandran
al Velayuthan (200402) SP
Ranger Bajau
ak Ladi PGB
Cpl Osman PGB

Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
Photobucket
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Advertistment
XXXXXXXX
Powered by

Free Blogger Templates

BLOGGER

google.com, pub-8423681730090065, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 <bgsound src=""> google.com, pub-8423681730090065, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0