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DAP/Pakatan Feel Threatened Over Huge Turnout At PM Najib's Open House

Hantu Laut

DAP/Pakatan must have felt threatened with the huge turnout at the PM's Hari Raya open house. They see the huge attendance as an indication of what will happen at the polls.

A Thambi senator from DAP said the people shown in the photos are mirages invented by Bernama.

Extract from FMT:

He alleged that different pictures had been “juxtaposed and superimposed” to create the impression that a large crowd had gathered there.

The DAP leader also wondered why the image did not show Najib there, and queried why it portrayed the people there armed with cameras.

Is it a crime to carry cameras to the PM's house? 

What a dumb question.Can your brain get any smaller.....than this man.

..........all for cheap publicity.

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LDP:We Were Only Absent, We Did Not Boycott

Pathetic ! We were only absent, we did not boycott! .

Salleh Keruak wasn't born yesterday, you can't fault him for his hawk-eyed observation of missing LDP leaders at the CM's Raya open house, he has been in politics longer than V.K.Liew.

Liew and all top LDP leaders can visit Rahim Ismail away in Papar who is not even a cabinet minister (of course that's his choice) but people can see through him and his pathetic excuse.Obviously, he is not in charge of LDP and completely lack finesse and the cultivated veneer of refinement expected of a politician of his stature.

Maybe, he should also just send his minions to the Prime Minister's house and say he is just too busy to come himself.

Photo showing Lim Guan Eng talking to Prime Minister Najib during the PM's Raya open house.In spite of being jailed before by this very same government Guan Eng holds no grudge against Najib and the administration.LDP leaders should emulate this man and should stop being political toddlers which only reflect badly on their political immaturity.

We did not boycott – LDP

by Nancy Lai. Posted on September 7, 2011, Wednesday

Liew says Salleh’s claim not true and party leaders went unnoticed at open house

KOTA KINABALU: Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president Datuk VK Liew has again stressed that party leaders and members were present at the state government’s Hari Raya open house which was hosted by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman and the Muslim Cabinet ministers.

The Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department was in fact disheartened that State Assembly Speaker Datuk Salleh Said had made such unnecessary disparaging remarks against LDP.

Liew was of the opinion that Salleh had made an incorrect factual statement by saying LDP leaders were absent when its youth chief, divisional chairmen and members were there but they went unnoticed in the crowd of thousands.

According to Liew further, unlike in previous years, the state government’s open house this year was held on the second day of the Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations and not on the first day.

“It is the norm for me and LDP elected representatives to return to our constituencies after the first day of Raya to celebrate with our constituents and programs have been fixed in advance.

“As a matter of fact and as confirmed by Salleh himself, we already met at the Istana together with the TYT Tun Juhar Mahiruddin on the first day where Raya greetings were exchanged between me, my Supreme Council members and the Cabinet members of the Sabah state government.

“The allegation that we boycotted the Chief Minister and State Cabinet Minister’s open house on the second day is not true and a myth. Such allegation coming out from the mouth of the State Speaker is most incorrect and immature,” he said.

Liew said this when asked to comment on the statement of Salleh, who is also Sabah Umno Liaison Committee deputy chairman, on the absence of LDP senior leaders at the state government’s Hari Raya open house.

The State Assembly Speaker who hosted a similar celebration in conjunction with the Hari Raya Aidifitri on Monday, told reporters there that he was puzzled as to why none of the senior LDP leaders attended the recent Hari Raya open house hosted by the Chief Minister and the State Cabinet at the Likas Sports Complex.

Salleh said he found it strange that they managed to attend the open houses at the state palace and that of Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal and Pantai Manis assemblyman Datuk Abdul Rahim Ismail which were much further away.

“Were they really too busy with other commitments or were they boycotting the event?

“If indeed it was a boycott, then it is sad because it did not show respect to the Chief Minister and State Cabinet. And there was no spirit of the Barisan Nasional family or 1Malaysia concept,” he said.

On the first day of Hari Raya, LDP president Datuk VK Liew attended the state palace open house but neither he nor other senior party leaders were seen at the state’s open house the next day, he said.

He said on the third day, Liew and other leaders were present at Mohd Shafie’s open house in Semporna and on the fourth day at Rahim’s function in Papar. Read more.

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Indonesia’s Answer to Islamophobia: Fun

By Farish A. Noor

As the centre of my universe has moved to Central Java, I find myself traveling to the cities of Jogjakarta and Surakarta quite a lot. The last time I was there was during the celebration of Eidul Firtri (or Lebaran) as its called in Indonesia, just in time to catch the celebrations that customarily take place on the last night of Ramadan and on the eve of the month of Shawal. On that night, I set by the road in the middle of Jogjakarta, camera in hand, to watch hundreds of kids from their respective schools and mosques parade in the streets in a myriad of funky and funny costumes: There were Pokemons and Doraemons, Sponge Bobs, Devils and Angels, Dragons and monsters galore. I watched as the bands marched past blaring their horns and drums, and as the floats made of paper and plastic rolled past. As this colourful parade marched past, I wondered aloud about how and why there seems to be so much fun in this country, and so little elsewhere in the Muslim world today…

Like all Lebarans in Java, its all very funky and ecumenical. Spongebob and Doraemon were there to join the celebrations too.

Now of course it is a well known and well established fact that Muslims celebrate Eidul Fitri all over the planet. Indonesia is not unique in this respect and one can make the rather facile point that celebrations are celebrations, wherever they may be. But one qualitative difference has always distinguished Indonesian Muslim celebrations from other celebrations I have seen elsewhere in the world, and it lies in one subjective factor that has to be seen and felt rather than theorised: Indonesian Muslim celebrations are fun. Yes fun. Remember what it was like, to actually have some real fun during Eid?

I throw this question to the readers for the simple reason that in my own accounting I have suffered a deficit of fun over the past two decades or so.

As a child in Malaysia I recall celebrating the end of Ramadan with fireworks, oil lamps, music and a jolly dose of cake-eating, which kids are wont to do. Ramadan and Eid were fun then, during those days in the 60s and 70s when the entire month of Ramadan was spent cleaning the oil lamps, filling them with kerosene, lighting them up every evening, buying (and hoarding) fireworks and having firework fights with my neighbours. Things however began to change as soon as the tone and tenor of normative Islam in Malaysia took a turn for the political and the Mullah-wannabes began to preach from the pulpit about the evils of fun and happiness.

Needless to say, Jogja kids dont sleep much and on the night of Lebaran they hardly sleep at all. Im always taken by the fact that in Java kids dont fight or cry, or make a nuisance of themselves. Thats largely because from an early age they are taught to fend for themselves and be independent. These kids were out for the night on their own, without their parents. My mom would have a fit at the thought of that.

By the 1980s, as Malaysia went into full swing in the spirit of an Islamisation programme that witnessed little fun but rather the rise of more and more conservative types in mosques and the Parliament, the element of fun was slowly but surely stamped out. We were told that music was haram, that the oil lamps were Hindu, that the fireworks were decadent and corrupt. Tell that to a seven-year old and you kill his love for fun for the rest of his life.Read more......

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