Zunar: Is Altantuya a forbidden issue?

This press statement comes directly from the horse’s mouth:Zunar Kartunis:

1. I condemn the action by the police and officers from the Home Ministry who confiscated my book, “1 Funny Malaysia” from bookstores in Penang, Malacca, Negeri Sembilan and Kuala Lumpur recently. According to news report, the raids were carried out under Section 18 of Printing Press and Publications Act.

2. For the record, the book was in market since November last year, and most of my work in the book had been published on Malaysiakini.

3. This is my second book to be confiscated in recent months. August last year, my office in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur was raided by eight officers from the Home Ministry and 408 copies of the inaugural issue of my cartoon magazine, Gedung Kartun (Cartoon Store) were seized.

4. On the next day, the Home Ministry officers raided the factory that printed Gedung Kartun magazine and seized 18 printing plates of the magazine.

The statement:

1. What is the similarity between these two publications?

Mystery of the 40,000 missing Indians.

I thought the missing jet engines were quite bizzare. But here’s another mystery for you, my dear Malaysians.

40,000 Indian nationals from Chennai are missing in this country and no one knows where they are. I heard the news on TV. How could that happen? They escaped the immigration and police as well. Mind you, it’s 40,000 breathing souls!

Immigration also sleeping or is there something more sinister? I dread to mention it. But what do we expect?

The authorities are not known for capturing suspects – they could not find the kidnappers and rapists of missing children, they could even nab (can only show photos of luxurious flat through their newspaper machais) one RPK, though they seem to know his itenery. I pray he is never caught, though.

More churches bombed, where are the police!

“This is what your tax ringgit looks like”.

Attacks on churches are now extended to schools and guard posts and more states. Where are the police? No matter what IGP Musa Hassan says, it is all bullshit if his force can’t find the culprits and charge them.

After telling us they are not enough to protect our safety, they are really taking their time to catch the perpetrators of this recent crimes against Malaysians, against Islam itself.

The police used to boast of having one of the best special branch officers in the region, hey where are they? It seems they can’t find those religious criminals although the minutes are ticking away like cracy.

How many more churches, schools must be damaged before the perpetrators are punished? Must we wait until somebody’s life is at stake before it happens?

Do not be fooled by the fires.

Note: Can’t help feeling that all this Allah madness has got more to do with covering up of bigger issues involving 1Malaysia and his mistress. Don’t let the fires douse your interest in other issues affecting this nation. Issues like corruption, of missing jet engines, of our drowning economy, of deaths of a witness and those in police custody, of increasing crime rates and ineffective police force.

From FreeMalaysiaToday:

SHAH ALAM: The Embassy of France in Malaysia is declining to comment on any possible investigations into Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak over the purchase of two Scorpene submarines when he was Defence Minister.

“The embassy has no comments on the matter,” its press attache Remi Yahyu-Ishmael stated in a e-mail reply to FMT regarding a report that the French police might soon be investigating alleged corruption in the submarine deal.

Parti Keadilan Rakyat weekly newspaper Suara Keadilan reported that two French lawyers were in Kuala Lumpur recently to gather information regarding the submarine deal and a purported RM540million paid to a company as commission.

According to the report, the lawyers also gathered documents related to the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu who was the lover of Najib’s aide Razak Baginda who was linked to a company paid commission for the submarine deal.

Altantuya who was blown to death in 2006 purportedly came to Kuala Lumpur seeking part of her commission of US$500,000 in the submarine deal.

The report said the French lawyers were gathering relevant documents related to the submarine deal to a lodge a police report in Paris.

Bigotry in the name of Allah.

By ALIRAN.

The Allah issue has now literally become a burning issue. We are appalled that extreme elements have resorted to fire bombs to target three churches in the Klang Valley. These are reprehensible and cowardly acts that deserve to be roundly condemned.

Malaysians are disturbed and disillusioned by the lack of a firm stand by the national leadership in putting a stop to the heat and tension that is being deliberately generated by the bigots and zealots in our midst.

Both the Prime Minister and the Home Minister had reportedly ”backed the right to protest within mosque grounds”(Malaysian Insider). The PM was quoted in the NST as saying, “As far as possible, we do not want people to protest, but we cannot stop them from doing so if they gather at mosques and if confined to a certain area.”

There is love still.

The recent incident of Church burning in Selangor must not teach us how to hate.

Father Francis Anthony of the Holy Spirit Chruch in Penang was really calm today when speaking about the Church ‘burning’ issue. It’s good to see that most people are not panicking over this unfortunate incident.

The Priest sent some heartwarming messages which he received from many considerate and loving Malay/Muslims, some offered to help clean the damaged churches. Some called to ask how he was doing and if he needed help. These are wonderful gestures.

So much love still in the air.

Don’t label everyone as ‘terrorist’ or ‘violent’ or ‘church burners’. Most Malaysians are peace loving, united, and caring.

And have a good weekend. I’ll pray that love fills the hearts of those who hate, pray even for the church burners. But first, let’s hope, they will be brought to justice.

Burnt churches – thank you, Najib’s 1Malaysia!

PM Najib Razak should be proud of himself that in his 1Malaysia, we have recently witnessed this: the burning of 3 churches in Selangor!

He tells us not to blame UMNO, but how does he know that no UMNO member was involved in this attack.

Was he around at the churches’ vicinity during the bombing? Or did he have a dream? Wasn’t he too fast to rally behind the attackers so soon?

The churches had suffered losses and damages amounting to millions. But Christians always believe that every cloud has a silver lining, behind every misery, is a blessing.

And so, what RM2-3 million losses is nothing if this incident contributes to a change of government come next election.

Read also SUARAM’s statement below/inside:Stop Unacceptable Religious Violence Immediately!

SUARAM strongly condemns the attack on three churches – the Metro Tabernacle Church in Kuala Lumpur, and the Assumption Church and the Life Chapel in Petaling Jaya – early this morning, widely believed to be linked to the ongoing controversy over the use of the word “Allah” – a word which some claim to be an exclusive right of Muslims – following the High Court’s ruling which allowed the Catholic publication Herald to use the word in its publications.

MACC – such a bully?

Police reports are used to intimidate people. These days they’re no longer tools for victims to seek protection or redress. This happens when aggressors think they have the Attorney General’s office on their side.

On Jan 1, MACC officers filed two separate police reports against Dr Porntip nd Suara Keadilan, the organ of PKR, which claimed, in an article, that the pathologist had confirmed that Teoh Beng Hock was murdered. (Malaysiakini)

Yesterday, Teoh’s family has applied for the MACC officers to be hauled up for criminal intimidation of an expert witness and for attempting to delay the course of justice.

I hope Dr Pornthip would take some action herself. She should NOT take this threat lightly. Or allow these bullies to go unchecked. If she were just doing her job, if she has her own conclusions based on her expert opinion, why must she be intimidated for that?

After Teoh, MACC doesn’t seem to have learned any lessons.  Do they wish to lose another witness?

It’s so familiar that it’s eerie!

So, the excuse is, I mean the revelation by AG Gani Patail is:  no seniors were involved in the theft of jet engines (malaysiakini) worth RM100 million. They’ve gone as far as Uruguay but no one knows why and how.

Worst still, they’ve been missing since 2007 but only discovered now. I marvel at the efficiency of the Royal Malaysian AirForce.  I wonder what other “equipments” went missing (according to Defense Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi).

Only weeks ago, the police boasted to us about having ‘located’ Raja Petra Kamaruddin. But all we were shown for days was a luxurious apartment building. “We do not know his exact location,” they say. \

Then why the hell show us that apartment!!!

Now jet engines have gone missing, possible in Uruguay. “but we do not know that it is still there”. Then where the hell are they? Outerspace?

Gani as usual has made up his mind that this “rank and file” are to be blamed although none have been prosecuted and none has gone to trial.

Don’t you get a sense of de javu? It’s so bloody familiar that’s it’s eerie!

Change your diet first, you two!

Najib Razak has the cheek to ask others to change their diet. Eat less sugar. This is what he had to say about the increase in sugar prices.  Easy to say for him, as his life does not depend on it, unlike for hawkers, for example.

I don’ t mean to insult fat people (I am fat myself) but looking at Najib and his lovely Dotty, I think they ought to be ashamed to ask people to change their diet when they should be doing it first!

Leadership by example, Najib!