Kerajaan Negeri Selangor menyokong penuh titah DYMM Sultan Selangor semalam bahawa kutipan zakat di Selangor hanya boleh digunakan untuk membantu umat Islam dan pembangunan ummah di negeri ini.
Sepertimana yang dititah oleh Tuanku Sultan semalam, Kerajaan Negeri juga berharap Majlis Agama Islam Selangor, Lembaga Zakat Selangor dan Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor dapat bersama-sama berganding bahu untuk memastikan pengurusan zakat dijalankan dengan baik dan sempurna. (more…)
Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin kesal dengan tohmahan pembangkang kononnya beliau pernah menjual sebidang tanah kepada Singapura semasa menjadi menteri besar Johor.
Katanya, fitnah itu sengaja dilemparkan kepadanya bagi menaikkan kebencian rakyat kepada beliau dan kerajaan BN.
“Saya ingin menjelaskan bahawa saya (semasa menjadi menteri besar Johor) tidak pernah menjual tanah walau seinci pun kepada Singapura dan ini adalah fitnah semata-mata,” kata beliau pada ceramah di Tanjong Putus sempena pilihan raya kecil DUN Permatang Pasir di Bukit Mertajam malam tadi.
Pada tahun 2002, Koperasi Pekebun Getah Pulau Pinang Berhad mencadang membeli sebidang tanah untuk meluaskan perniagaan mereka dan telah melantik Firma Guaman Saif Ariff and Rohaizat untuk menguruskan pembelian tanah tgersebut.
Saya dan Rohaizat telah berbincang dengan lembaga pengarah koperasi tentang syarat syarat perjanjian jual beli. Setelah semua dipersetujui saya telah menyediakan perjanjian jual beli tanah tersebut.
Untuk tujuan pembelian ini, koperasi telah memohon pinjaman RM320,000 dari Jabatan Pembangunan Koperasi. Pinjaman tersebut telah diluluskan dan wang tersebut dideposit ke dalam akaun klien di firma guaman.
Namun atas sebab masalah komunikasi dengan penjual, yang tinggal di Acheh, jual beli tersebut telah tidak disempurnakan.
Selepas saya menjadi sasaran fitnah, serangan pimpinan umno-bn beralih pula kepada Tuan Guru Nik Abdul Aziz. Segala macam tuduhan dihamburkan oleh media milik penguasa kepada ulama tersebut. Pimpinan umno dan konco-konco mereka sanggup memutar belitkan fakta hatta memintal fitnah asalkan matlamat untuk memenangi pilihanraya kecil DUN Permatang Pasir terpenuhi.
Apatah lagi bila tersepit dihimpit kecuaian sendiri ketika memilih calon, segala upaya dan jentera propaganda digembeling merekayasa fiksi politik. Adu domba dilatari politik perkauman sempit biar rakyat terus berpecah, sedangkan pimpinan umno seharusnya sedar, merekalah yang menyebabkan terbit rasa curiga dalam masyarakat. Walhasil merekalah yang terkait dengan pelbagai tuduhan penyelewengan amanah rakyat.
Manakala itu Pakatan Rakyat tetap terus beriltizam untuk membawa Perubahan dan arus Politik baru sunggupun berulang kali tuduhan yang tidak berasas dilemparkan kepada kami. Saya yakin rakyat akan membuat pilihan yang tepat memandangkan mereka tidak sanggup dipermainkan lagi.
ANWAR IBRAHIM
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After being the target of slander, the Umno-BN leadership has now shifted their attacks from me to Tok Guru Nik Abdul Aziz. All sorts of accusations have been scattered by the government-owned media against the Islamic theologian. Umno leadership and its members are willing to bend truths and twist facts, even of a respected religious scholar, just as long as their aim to win the state constituency by-election of Permatang Pasir is fulfilled.
What more when they find themselves cornered by their own negligence in choosing a candidate, all efforts and propaganda machinery are engaged to create a fictional political story to serve as diversion. The Umno leadership should realise by now, that they are the ones who are raising doubts amongst fellow Malaysians with their narrow-minded racial politics
In the mean time, Pakatan Rakyat remains determined to bring forth change and a new political wave, despite the repeated and baseless accusations thrown at us. I am confident the people will make the right choice, for they no longer want to be taken for fools.
The name of Kim Dae-Jung, the former President of the Republic of Korea who died in Seoul yesterday, will resonate wherever in Asia people struggle against the fetters imposed by authoritarian regimes.
He was a leader who was willing to risk his life so that his countrymen would be free of the chains imposed by military regimes that ruled Korea from the 1960s onwards.
His courage in the face of danger to life and liberty shone like a beacon throughout the period of his struggles and, without doubt, the memory of its example will continue to inspire those on the continent who battle to free their societies from oppressive controls.
Kim Dae-Jung will also be remembered for his firm rejection of the argument, espoused by sundry Asian autocrats, that societies imbued with Confucian values are apt to prioritize social order and prosperity above the disorderly freedom of contentious democracies.
It was an argument he rebutted as intellectually shoddy and scorned for its implication that Asians would acquiesce to curtailments to their rights as long as their stomachs were full and their streets free of strife.
His name will occupy an imperishable niche in the history of the struggles waged by national patriots who were prepared to pay the highest price so that their people could enjoy the full measure of their humanity under freed polities.
PERMATANG PASIR, Aug 20 — The controversy surrounding Barisan Nasional candidate Rohaizat Othman’s disbarment took a new twist today when his partner, the one Umno accused of taking their client’s money, appeared to deny the allegation.
Yusri Ishak alleged that the money was used by Rohaizat to open up a branch of the firm in Ipoh and said that the Umno politician cannot deny involvement in the case.
