Khamis, 31 Mac 2011

Anwar Ibrahim

Anwar Ibrahim

Gossip And Slander: A Muslim Response

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:23 PM PDT

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

It is with great dismay that we watch the recent events unfolding in Malaysia. As much as we are not in the position to guess the motives or the truth behind the issue of the recent scandal we should, as Muslims, remind ourselves of how we should react when confronted with such news.

Our declaration of “There is no god worthy of worship except Allah” compels us to believe and abide by the word of Qur'an. A scandal is exciting but it blurs our judgment. As Muslims it is imperative that we remain lucid and not be swayed. Allah has revealed the Qur'an as our guide to distinguish between right and wrong.

When confronted with an issue, instead of following our whims, we must allow the Qur'an to be the final word. From then it determines how we react and move forward.

As in the lesson of Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) the Prophet Muhammad's wife (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), to accuse someone of adultery, Allah says:

Why then, did not the believers, men and women, when you heard it (the slander) think good of their own people and say: “This (charge) is an obvious lie?” Why did they not produce four witnesses? Since they (the slanderers) have not produced witnesses! Then with Allâh they are the liars. (Chapter 24 – The Light, Verses 12-13)

Islam upholds the sanctity of human dignity and it is our obligation to defend our fellow brothers' and sisters’ honour. To accuse someone of adultery and to repeat it without evidence is a grave offence that infringes upon the rights of our fellow Muslim. To accept, judge the person and spread news based on stories or hearsay with no clear evidence is a form of oppression. Allah says:

When you were propagating it with your tongues, and uttering with your mouths that whereof you had no knowledge, you counted it a little thing, while with Allah it was very great. (Chapter 24 – The Light, Verse 15)

The media carries a heavy responsibility and burden for the public. We must be careful of what we hear and pass on. We might not be in control of the news but we are responsible for how we deal with it.

We must remember to also look at the implications of our actions. This incident has a much longer lasting and negative effect on the youth of our country. The terrible way news is featured in the media and the direct access teenagers and children have towards obscene news will shape their outlook on politics, leadership, and private and public sins.

We must also be cautious not to fall into the trap of backbiting. Backbiting is something we take lightly but in reality comes with grave consequences.

We are warned in the Qur’an about suspicion, backbiting and spying where backbiting is likened to eating dead flesh:

“Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate it (so hate backbiting)” (Chapter Hujurat – The Dwellings, Verse 12)

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) defined backbiting: “Do you know what is meant by backbiting?” They said, “Allah and His Messenger know best.” He said, “To say something about your brother which he dislikes.” One asked, “Even if what I say is true about my brother?” He replied, “If such defects you say are true about him, then you have backbitten him, and if he doesn’t have what you say, then you have committed slander against him.” (Related by Muslim, Abu Dawood, and Tirmidhi)

He also emphatically stated "The gossiper will not enter paradise". (Bukhari and Muslim)

We have so many other pressing issues at hand. From corruption to poverty to unemployment and that’s just to name a few.

During these times we must remind each other of the words of Allah so that the slandering does not perpetuate further and cause more harm to the society. We call upon everyone, our elders, our leaders, our brothers and sisters, and all Malaysians from all walks of life to always walk the moral high round when dealing with our fellow brothers and sisters in humanity.

Let us show our future generation exemplary conduct we can be proud of.

May Allah always guide us to the right path.

Young Worried Malaysian Muslims

Program Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim Tawan Sarawak

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:20 PM PDT

1 April 2011 (Jumaat)

12.30 thgari – Solat Jumaat di Masjid As Solihin Kampong Samir (DUN Asajaya)

2.00 ptg – Jamuan Rakyat dan Ceramah di Kampong Samir (DUN Asajaya)

5.00 ptg – Ceramah di Tasik Biru (DUN Tasik Biru)

7.00 ptg – Ceramah di Kampong Tarat Rayang (DUN Tarat dan Bengoh)

10.00 mlm – Ceramah di Kampong Bratan, Bengoh (DUN Bengoh)

‘Peruntukan Rasuah’, 4 MP KEADILAN Adu Kepada SPRM

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:18 AM PDT

Dari KeadilanDaily

Empat Ahli Parlimen KEADILAN hari ini mendesak Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) menyiasat perbuatan pimpinan Barisan Nasional (BN) yang menjanjikan peruntukan tertentu, sebaik sahaja Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Sarawak dibubar.

Ia adalah perbuatan rasuah dan menyalahi peruntukan undang-undang tetapi pimpinan BN melakukannya secara terang-terangan, malah dilapor dalam media arus perdana yang dikawal mereka.

Dalam kenyataan media, Naib Presiden KEADILAN, Nurul Izzah Anwar, seorang daripada empat pemimpin muda parti yang membuat laporan ke SPRM hari ini, berkata perbuatan itu bukan pertama kali dilakukan pimpinan BN.

Katanya, Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan timbalannya, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin pada 19 Mac lalu mengumumkan peruntukan RM252.35 juta, kononnya untuk bekalan air dan elektrik di Sarawak.

Beliau berkata, ia jelas perbuatan rasuah kerana pengumuman itu dibuat pada hari sama Ketua Menteri Sarawak, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud membubar DUN negeri berkenaan.
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Malah, Nurul Izzah berkata, Taib Mahmud pada 23 Mac lalu turut melakukan rasuah apabila mengumumkan peruntukan kira RM5.7 bilion untuk negeri itu, dua hari selepas DUN dibubar.

"Walhal Taib Mahmud sejak 21 Mac lalu hingga pilihan raya berakhir bukan Ketua Menteri kerana Sarawak semasa sepanjang tempoh itu ditadbir oleh polis," katanya.

Selain Nurul Izzah yang juga Ahli Parlimen Lembah Pantai, tiga ahli parlimen yang turut membuat laporan ialah Yusmadi Yusoff (Balik Pulau), Azan Ismail (Indera Mahkota) dan Gwo Burne Loh (Kelana Jaya).

Mendesak SPRM bertindak segera terhadap semua laporan berkenaan, Nurul Izzah berkata, tindakan Muhyiddin mengumumkan peruntukan RM73.68 juta dal;am tempoh itu, kononnya untuk kepentingan tiga kategori sekolah di negeri itu, juga amalan rasuah.

Pada Pilihan Raya Kecil (PRK) Parlimen Sibu di Sarawak, Mei tahun lalu, Najib pada satu ceramah melakukan rasuah terang-terangan apabila menjanjikan RM5 juta kepada pengundi jika BN menang dan kenyataan itu yang termuat dalam laman Youtube, dikecam rakyat.

"Saya mahu membuat perjanjian dengan anda, perjanjiannya amat mudah. Anda tolong saya, saya tolong anda. Jika Robert Lau, calon BN menang pada Ahad ini, maka esoknya saya akan memberi anda RM5 juta," katanya, dipetik.

Sementara itu, Presiden Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M), Datuk Paul Low berkata, Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) gagal memperlihat agensi itu sebagai bebas dalam menjalankan fungsinya meskipun autonomi mereka dijamin Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

"Kita tidak boleh harap sepenuhnya pada SPR dalam menguatkuasakan undang-undang (pilihan raya), mereka kelihatan tidak bebas dalam tindakan mereka," katanya pada 30 Mac lalu.

Mengikut Buku Jingga, SPR dan SPRM antara yang akan direformasi secara menyeluruh jika Pakatan Rakyat membentuk kerajaan baru di peringkat persekutuan pada Pilihan Raya Umum (PRU) ke-13.

New Politically Motivated Police Investigation On Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:24 PM PDT

Kenyataan Media

Siasatan Polis Bermotif Politik Ke Atas Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim

Pada 30 Mac 2011, pihak polis telah mengemukakan satu notis di bawah Seksyen 111 Kanun Acara Jenayah ke atas Ketua Pembangkang Malaysia, Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Notis tersebut mengarahkan beliau untuk hadir ke Pejabat Polis Daerah Ampang untuk disoalsiasat polis berkaitan ceramah yang beliau sampaikan pada hari Jumaat, 25 Mac 2011 di Pusat Khidmat Rakyat Parlimen Gombak.

Polis,secara salah telah mengacau-ganggu ceramah sebaik saja Dato’ Seri Anwar memulakan ceramah, melakukan tangkapan tidak sah dan mengasari Ahli Parlimen Gombak yang juga Timbalan Presiden KEADILAN, YB Azmin Ali.

Penyiasatan terbaru ke atas Dato’ Seri Anwar ini di bawah Seksyen 4(1) Akta Hasutan 1948 dan Seksyen 27(5) Akta Polis 1967.

Kedua akta zalim dan bercanggah dengan perlembagaan ini, lazimnya digunapakai oleh kerajaan Barisan Nasional untuk menghalang kebebasan bersuara dan berhimpun.

Kami memerhatikan BN secara terus menerus bertindak di luar batas moral dan undang-undang untuk merendahtarafkan ‘rule of law’ dan menjadikan negara ini sebagai negara polis.

Jelas terbukti, BN sedang bersedia untuk menggunakan apa jua kaedah-kaedah yang jelek dan berniat jahat untuk mengukuhkan cengkaman mereka ke atas negara untuk kekal berkuasa. Di dalam sistem demokrasi berparlimen, adalah merupakan satu hak yang sah dalam konteks perlembagaan mengenai peranan Ketua Pembangkang untuk membuat kritikan dan menyediakan peranan ‘semak dan imbang’ ke atas semua tindakan dan dasar kerajaan.

Menyalahguna dan memanipulasi kuasa untuk mensasar,mencabul dan menakuti Ketua Pembangkang lebih bersifat satu bentuk serangan ke atas sistem demokrasi kita.

Penyiasatan terbaru ke atas Dato’ Seri Anwar ini jelas bermotidkan politik, berniat jahat dan satu bentuk penyelewengan kuasa polis yang terang dan jelas.

Kami mendesak agar siasatan tidak berasas ini dihentikan pada kadar segera dan semua yang bertanggungjawab menginstitusikan penyelewengan ini dihadapkan ke muka pengadilan, tanpa mengira setinggi mana kedudukan ataupun kuasa mereka.

Kami juga mendesak agar sebuah Suruhanjaya Diraja ditubuhkan bertujuan untuk menyiasat penyalahgunaan dan penyelewengan Barisan Nasional atas pihak polis dan kuasa pendakwaan dalam menyerang, memalukan, menjatuhkan hukuman dan memenjarakan politisi pembangkang, aktiviti masyarakat, dan
pihak-pihak yang kritis ke atas pemerintah.

N SURENDRAN
NAIB PRESIDEN
PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT

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PRESS RELEASE

New politically motivated police investigation on Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim

On 30 March 2011, police served a notice under section 111 of the Criminal Procedure Code on Opposition Leader Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim. The notice summons him to appear at Ampang District police station to be interrogated by police regarding a ceramah he had given on the night of Friday 25th March 2001 at the Gombak Parliament service center. Police had unlawfully disrupted this ceramah just as Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim was speaking, made several unlawful arrests and assaulted the Gombak MP and PKR Deputy President Sdr Azmin Ali. This new investigation on Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim is under s.4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948 and s.27(5) of the Police Act 1967. These are both draconian amd unconstitutional laws which are regularly used by the Barisan Nasional goverment to prevent freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.

We note that the BN continues in its immoral and unlawful quest to undermine the rule of law and turn this nation into a police state. It is clear that they are prepared to use every underhand and unlawful means to perpetuate their grip on the country and to stay in power indefinitely. In our parliamentary democracy, it is the constitutionally protected role of the Opposition Leader to scrutinize, check and criticize government policies and actions. Abusing and manipulating state powers to target, harass and intimidate the Opposition Leader is nothing short of an attack on our democratic system.

This new investigation on Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim is politically motivated, in bad faith and a blatant abuse of police powers. We ask that this baseless investigation be ended immediately and all those responsible for instituting it be brought to justice for abuse of power, no mattter how high or powerful they may be. We also ask that a Royal Commission be formed for the purpose of inquiring into the decades long abuse of police and prosecutorial powers by the Barisan Nasional in order to attack, discredit, criminalize and imprison the political opposition,civil society activists and others who have been critical of the government.

N SURENDRAN
VICE-PRESIDENT
KEADILAN

Mufti Nasihat Siasat Dahulu Berita Si Fasik

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:03 PM PDT

Dari Malaysiakini

Dalam menghadapi keadaan politik mengeksploitasi isu peribadi, seperti dalam isu video seks yang dikaitkan dengan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, umat Islam dinasihatkan menyiasat dahulu kesahihan dakwaan itu.

“Nasihat saya, dalam al-Quran, Allah berfirman dalam surah al-Hujurat, apabila datang berita daripada orang fasik, hendaklah kamu selidik dahulu berita itu,” kata Mufti Perlis Dr Juanda Jaya.

“Dan kalau tidak cukup empat orang saksi, sepatutnya penuduh dikenakan hukuman Qazaf. Hukum orang fasik ini, dia tak layak lagi jadi saksi untuk sebarang kes kerana sudah hilang kredibeliti.”

Ketika dihubungi Malaysiakini hari ini, Dr Juanda berpendapat isu melibatkan keaiban peribadi tidak boleh dijadikan modal politik, apatah lagi jika perkara berkaitan seks yang amat memalukan.

“(Kalau betul pun), kita tak tahu, mungkin dia sudah bertaubat. Kenapa perlu dedahkan perkara itu? Siapa tak ada aib di masa lalu?” soal Dr Juanda lagi.

Katanya, rakaman video sahaja tidak mencukupi jika tidak disokong oleh empat saksi yang adil kerana kesalahan zina amat berat dan hukuman yang dijatuhkan hendaklah bebas daripada sebarang prasangka.

“Kalau ada (hanya) tiga orang saksi yang melihat perkara itu, lebih elok mereka tutup mulut sahaja daripada mendedahkannya. Kesan tindakan itu melibatkan banyak pihak, termasuk anggota keluarga yang terlibat,” katanya.

Semalam, ulama terkenal Prof Madya Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin berkata, para mufti wajar menyatakan pendirian berhubung isu "politik selak kain" susulan tayangan video kontroversi minggu lalu.
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