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Nurul's watershed idea for the nation
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The Malaysiakini report on Nurul Izzah Anwar's statement that there should be no compulsion in religion even for Malays is a watershed idea for the nation.
This poignant truth surpasses even the remarkable observation made by former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on the country's "first rate infrastructure and third world mentality."
It shows that Malaysian leaders know what's wrong with their country but do they have the moral courage and political capability to right the wrongs?
I am sure Nurul Izzah and her political coalition will win many votes if she makes her suggestion a key policy in their political manifesto.
It will bring Malaysia in line with contemporary values of human rights because the Malays are still a bonded people, controlled by all sorts of rules and regulations that exempt other Malaysians.
This one-nation two-system method of governance is retrograde and reason why despite all the high-sounding political slogans about 1Malaysia, real unity remains elusive.
Control is a double-edged sword and the government has done harm to the image of Islam because to non-Muslims the double standards it practises in propagating Islam while restricting other religions, shows Muslims as weak in their beliefs and need cocooning from the world.
The Malay mind thus becomes like a licensed mind because the government and its religious authorities decide what they can and cannot believe and do.
For example, they cannot marry a non-Muslim without having their intended spouse convert to Islam. Such a practice is not seen in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country.
We have also seen Lina Joy, a Malay who had converted to Christianity, unable to have her conversion recognised. I know of others in similar circumstances who have faced persecution and Operation Lallang in 1987 saw several Malays unfairly jailed and beaten while in custody.
The politicians are not concerned about the welfare of the Malays or Islam but their political control over the Malays so that they can keep them as a fixed deposit.
With political control, the corrupt politicians are then able to plunder the nation and prove they are the real enemies of Islam, and fortunately more Malays are seeing the truth.
You only need to meet a Singaporean Malay to observe how myopic Malaysian Malays appear in comparison.
It seems pointless to send Malays on government scholarships to obtain PhDs in various fields when the Malay mind is still like the proverbial frog's under a tempurung (coconut shell).
Thus such a Malay mind is a closeted mind and this is often reflected in the sorts of ridiculous ideas we often hear or read about in the media when those sorts of leaders open their mouths and give us a peek into their minds.
Did not one even ludicrously suggest to vote for the DAP is a sin?
Sometime in the early 80s, I wrote a letter with a similar view as Nurul Izzah's that was published in the New Straits Times.
I opined that the Malays have a right to be exposed to various ideas including different religions and I still believe that when the Malay mind is liberated from government control, then the country may soon see the enlightenment that Anwar Ibrahim wrote about in his book 'The Asian Renaissance'.
Malays are not inferior to the Chinese or anyone but after 55 years of feudalistic control by their political overlords, the system of political largesse has resulted in a government-sanctioned policy of treating Malays as inferior and needing special treatment and the government continues to labour this perception.
States that practise religious or ideological control over citizens are like the communists that dictated what the people should believe. They failed miserably and their capitalism today can only succeed when the human spirit is free to soar.
We are told Malay graduates fare poorly in the queue for jobs in the private sector and the finger can be pointed at the government's failed policy of racial segregation and producing what the employers consider an inferior product.
Until meritocracy is practised the Malays will continue to suffer a bad image.
When we were in school the Malays in our class were always among the top students and ours was a top school in the country. But because of the government's subsequent policy of racial discrimination, sadly our alma mater has lost its former glory.
Today religion and ideology-repressed states are failed states and even China, the remaining major bastion of communism, no longer practises thought control and freedom of faith is upheld albeit religious persecution still happens within certain places.
Malaysians have seen that rapid Islamisation and religious zeal by the authorities have not produced a society that reflects the high moral values that Islam and all religions advocate.
Instead in Malaysia we see Muslims act against the teachings of their religion and even so-called religious leaders have allowed themselves to be used as political tools in a political agenda at the expense of Islam.
Is that not why corruption is rife and many Muslims are culpable of all sorts of crimes even the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, linked to the incumbent political leadership?
The religion of force has not produced true believers and no matter what the religion, it becomes diluted and delusional when its adherents become nominal and have to play hypocrite to avoid persecution.
Even the enigmatic Dr Mahathir Mohamad had to concede that his Muslim brothers and sisters conform more to form than substance but his half-truths overlook that it was due to his Islamisation and failure to right the wrongs after 22 long years in the driver's seat, that is largely to blame.
If anything is deficient in the Malay mind blame it on a government that has fed the disease, not cure it.
Not long ago a Malay friend of mine died and was buried a Muslim though I know he had since stopped being a Muslim and was a strong follower of a strange foreign cult and he had not been tacit about his real beliefs and even tried to convert me.
Is it so difficult for those who claim they believe in the true religion to accept the hard truth? Is form more important than substance and face-saving more important than honouring the truth?
Pseudo-believers can be found in any religion and that is why no religion that takes its own teachings seriously advocates coercion though all religions have spread through proselytisation.
When religionists confuse submission with subscription they lose the plot. Forcing someone to submit to something is different from seeing someone subscribe to something out of willingness and conviction.
It results in the sort of silly actions by teachers who whip students for not obeying their enforced Islamic zeal in schools.
The forcing of non-Muslims to convert to Islam when they marry Muslims only creates a class of nominal Muslims.
The same can be said of forcing those who are born into Muslim families to be Muslims. Malays therefore are like 'religious slaves' if I may use the analogy.
They are born into religious and ideological bondage. They are often fed lies about other religions. Reading what some of their books describe of subjects that I know intimately is like reading horror fiction.
So when I hear enlightened Muslims like Nurul Izzah talk sense, I feel there is hope for the truth to be vindicated.
Anyone who is not free to think for himself or herself and has the freedom to adopt the religion of personal conscience and conviction is still a slave in reality. For this reason, religion becomes a farce.
Can anyone afford to entrust his or her eternal future to any political party?
It is reason why those Muslims who go to mosque every Friday and pray five times a day and fast at Ramadan still think it is okay to accept bribes in their jobs because it has been the practice for so long.
They are no different from the prostitute who has a shrine of Kuan Yin in her room while engaged in a sinful business.
The same hypocrisy can also be found among the practitioners of other religions because nominalism and hypocrisy go hand in hand and produce spiritual blindness and intellectual darkness.
Is that not why we find so many Muslims in high office guilty of corruption and sexual misconduct, not unlike those who do not believe in God or consider themselves religious?
At least the latter unlike the former are acting out their beliefs and can't be called hypocrites. Sometimes I respect the atheist more than the religious hypocrite. Nevertheless, God tells us the fool believes there is no God.
The liberation of the Malay mind will not only enhance the quality of Muslim faith but also enrich the Malay race as a people and community.
The government has been hypocritical in preaching about diversity but practising a system of racial and religious discrimination.
Add to it a policy of keeping the Malays in religious bondage and you have the ingredients for an incendiary society that can be ignited by the political conspirators as we saw in May 13, 1969.
Only this time we have bright and enlightened Malays who prevent history repeating itself.
I don't see the Chinese hung up about their religious and political diversity. The fact a Malay is defined as a follower of Islam defies logic, natural justice, and the fact race is not synonymous with religion. So were the pre-Muslim Hindu Malays not real Malays?
The doctrine of Ketuanan Melayu is really a misguided idea of nationalism, a subversion against nationhood, a political ploy and an idea bound to fail because it has no moral authority in contemporary society.
You cannot believe that European colonialism is morally repugnant when you replace it with your own local variety.
Fifty-five years of political feudalism as we have seen in Malaysia is enough for Malaysians to realise until they discard the status quo, they will never see radical change and remarkable progress as we see in Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
Even Indonesia is outpacing Malaysia in its democratisation and economic progress.
The sooner the political cocoon is discarded the quicker we will see the Malay emerge as a beautiful butterfly instead of remaining in the suspended stranglehold of political ugliness.
There are many emancipated Malay minds and the hope of the Malays lies in their intellectual leadership, not those who exploit race and religion to advance their own perverted, selfish and greedy interests and still speak the language of deceit.
It is time Malaysians reject the idea that the government is the licensing board for intellectual freedom.
The Malays have to emancipate themselves and it is young leaders like Nurul Izzah who offer hope for them.
The archaic ideas and ways of the old political guard that has controlled the country for so long, is out of sync with the times and aspirations of contemporary Malaysians.
It is the corrupting ways of the old guard that is why Malaysia is unable to make real progress and falling further behind Singapore, because while Malaysia protects its corrupt police and politicians, Singapore prosecutes them, and they don't even have to factor in religion to act righteously.
We only need to look across the Causeway to realise that an honest and sincere respect for others is the way to build a successful nation.
It gave me great joy to listen to the public announcement in Tamil as I alighted from a train in Singapore's MRT station.
Singapore has no hang-ups about its colonial past or that promoting Malay, Tamil, English and even Japanese is less nationalistic among its majority Chinese leaders.
What is wrong with Malaysia begins in the Malay mindset because they control the government and its machinery.
It has affected even non-Malay minds of certain MCA and MIC leaders who have sold out their own people for the same reasons the Malay leaders have sold out theirs.
Watching them shadow box with their Umno comrades while their constituencies continue to suffer serious injustices gives credence to the notion of the Ugly Chinaman and the Ugly Indiaman.
They need to prove to the majority race that they can be relied on to put their own people in their place as long as they are recipients of political largesse.
Nurul Izzah offers hope for the nation because she thinks like a Malaysian and a Muslim coming to terms with the reality that God is not just the God of the Malays but everyone and that faith is not about clobbering others and cocooning oneself in ignorance and bigotry but engaging those who differ from us.
I have just spent more than two weeks in Taiwan and though this country has been colonised by various nations, it has no chip on its shoulder and is not xenophobic.
Its tourism slogan is ‘Taiwan the Heart of Asia' and I soon found out why, because its people are generous.
Malaysia claims it is Truly Asia but is it really?
How is it truly Asia? Or is it just another slick slogan? How Asian are you when you compel others to speak like you, dress like you and believe like you?
Fortunately it is the people themselves, the ordinary Malaysians who reflect the virtues of the country and its appeal to foreigners as a friendly and hospitable place.
The victims of this ugly political bigotry are the Malays themselves who in my purview are among the nicest people anywhere.
The same can't be said of some of their lying and conniving political leaders and that is why Nurul Izzah is a leader of the times and the future despite her youth.
Pak Lah hit the nail on the head with his 'first world infrastructure, third world mentality' comment and it is my hope that younger politicians like Nurul Izzah will be able to liberate the Malay mindset from its bondage to the political and religious status quo.
What Pak Lah could only diagnose, perhaps Nurul Izzah, her mom and dad in politics, and others who love their country will be able to cure.
The hope of Malaysians is in the hope that a new government will cure the sickness that sees the country bedevilled by the devils they know and want no more of.
There is a brave new world waiting for Malaysians but it is not in hanging on to the past and the present political leaders whose performance despite the fresh slogans, are banal at best, and who have yet to learn that slogans, spin and lies do not make a nation, least of all a great one.
If Malaysians want change they have to work hard for change and if a report that more than 20 percent of Malaysians are still not registered to vote, it is yet another challenge the opposition face to rouse them to act because every vote counts when the system is against you.
This poignant truth surpasses even the remarkable observation made by former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on the country's "first rate infrastructure and third world mentality."
It shows that Malaysian leaders know what's wrong with their country but do they have the moral courage and political capability to right the wrongs?
I am sure Nurul Izzah and her political coalition will win many votes if she makes her suggestion a key policy in their political manifesto.
It will bring Malaysia in line with contemporary values of human rights because the Malays are still a bonded people, controlled by all sorts of rules and regulations that exempt other Malaysians.
This one-nation two-system method of governance is retrograde and reason why despite all the high-sounding political slogans about 1Malaysia, real unity remains elusive.
Control is a double-edged sword and the government has done harm to the image of Islam because to non-Muslims the double standards it practises in propagating Islam while restricting other religions, shows Muslims as weak in their beliefs and need cocooning from the world.
The Malay mind thus becomes like a licensed mind because the government and its religious authorities decide what they can and cannot believe and do.
For example, they cannot marry a non-Muslim without having their intended spouse convert to Islam. Such a practice is not seen in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country.
We have also seen Lina Joy, a Malay who had converted to Christianity, unable to have her conversion recognised. I know of others in similar circumstances who have faced persecution and Operation Lallang in 1987 saw several Malays unfairly jailed and beaten while in custody.
The politicians are not concerned about the welfare of the Malays or Islam but their political control over the Malays so that they can keep them as a fixed deposit.
With political control, the corrupt politicians are then able to plunder the nation and prove they are the real enemies of Islam, and fortunately more Malays are seeing the truth.
You only need to meet a Singaporean Malay to observe how myopic Malaysian Malays appear in comparison.
It seems pointless to send Malays on government scholarships to obtain PhDs in various fields when the Malay mind is still like the proverbial frog's under a tempurung (coconut shell).
Thus such a Malay mind is a closeted mind and this is often reflected in the sorts of ridiculous ideas we often hear or read about in the media when those sorts of leaders open their mouths and give us a peek into their minds.
Did not one even ludicrously suggest to vote for the DAP is a sin?
Sometime in the early 80s, I wrote a letter with a similar view as Nurul Izzah's that was published in the New Straits Times.
I opined that the Malays have a right to be exposed to various ideas including different religions and I still believe that when the Malay mind is liberated from government control, then the country may soon see the enlightenment that Anwar Ibrahim wrote about in his book 'The Asian Renaissance'.
Malays are not inferior to the Chinese or anyone but after 55 years of feudalistic control by their political overlords, the system of political largesse has resulted in a government-sanctioned policy of treating Malays as inferior and needing special treatment and the government continues to labour this perception.
States that practise religious or ideological control over citizens are like the communists that dictated what the people should believe. They failed miserably and their capitalism today can only succeed when the human spirit is free to soar.
We are told Malay graduates fare poorly in the queue for jobs in the private sector and the finger can be pointed at the government's failed policy of racial segregation and producing what the employers consider an inferior product.
Until meritocracy is practised the Malays will continue to suffer a bad image.
When we were in school the Malays in our class were always among the top students and ours was a top school in the country. But because of the government's subsequent policy of racial discrimination, sadly our alma mater has lost its former glory.
Today religion and ideology-repressed states are failed states and even China, the remaining major bastion of communism, no longer practises thought control and freedom of faith is upheld albeit religious persecution still happens within certain places.
Malaysians have seen that rapid Islamisation and religious zeal by the authorities have not produced a society that reflects the high moral values that Islam and all religions advocate.
Instead in Malaysia we see Muslims act against the teachings of their religion and even so-called religious leaders have allowed themselves to be used as political tools in a political agenda at the expense of Islam.
Is that not why corruption is rife and many Muslims are culpable of all sorts of crimes even the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, linked to the incumbent political leadership?
The religion of force has not produced true believers and no matter what the religion, it becomes diluted and delusional when its adherents become nominal and have to play hypocrite to avoid persecution.
Even the enigmatic Dr Mahathir Mohamad had to concede that his Muslim brothers and sisters conform more to form than substance but his half-truths overlook that it was due to his Islamisation and failure to right the wrongs after 22 long years in the driver's seat, that is largely to blame.
If anything is deficient in the Malay mind blame it on a government that has fed the disease, not cure it.
Not long ago a Malay friend of mine died and was buried a Muslim though I know he had since stopped being a Muslim and was a strong follower of a strange foreign cult and he had not been tacit about his real beliefs and even tried to convert me.
Is it so difficult for those who claim they believe in the true religion to accept the hard truth? Is form more important than substance and face-saving more important than honouring the truth?
Pseudo-believers can be found in any religion and that is why no religion that takes its own teachings seriously advocates coercion though all religions have spread through proselytisation.
When religionists confuse submission with subscription they lose the plot. Forcing someone to submit to something is different from seeing someone subscribe to something out of willingness and conviction.
It results in the sort of silly actions by teachers who whip students for not obeying their enforced Islamic zeal in schools.
The forcing of non-Muslims to convert to Islam when they marry Muslims only creates a class of nominal Muslims.
The same can be said of forcing those who are born into Muslim families to be Muslims. Malays therefore are like 'religious slaves' if I may use the analogy.
They are born into religious and ideological bondage. They are often fed lies about other religions. Reading what some of their books describe of subjects that I know intimately is like reading horror fiction.
So when I hear enlightened Muslims like Nurul Izzah talk sense, I feel there is hope for the truth to be vindicated.
Anyone who is not free to think for himself or herself and has the freedom to adopt the religion of personal conscience and conviction is still a slave in reality. For this reason, religion becomes a farce.
Can anyone afford to entrust his or her eternal future to any political party?
It is reason why those Muslims who go to mosque every Friday and pray five times a day and fast at Ramadan still think it is okay to accept bribes in their jobs because it has been the practice for so long.
They are no different from the prostitute who has a shrine of Kuan Yin in her room while engaged in a sinful business.
The same hypocrisy can also be found among the practitioners of other religions because nominalism and hypocrisy go hand in hand and produce spiritual blindness and intellectual darkness.
Is that not why we find so many Muslims in high office guilty of corruption and sexual misconduct, not unlike those who do not believe in God or consider themselves religious?
At least the latter unlike the former are acting out their beliefs and can't be called hypocrites. Sometimes I respect the atheist more than the religious hypocrite. Nevertheless, God tells us the fool believes there is no God.
The liberation of the Malay mind will not only enhance the quality of Muslim faith but also enrich the Malay race as a people and community.
The government has been hypocritical in preaching about diversity but practising a system of racial and religious discrimination.
Add to it a policy of keeping the Malays in religious bondage and you have the ingredients for an incendiary society that can be ignited by the political conspirators as we saw in May 13, 1969.
Only this time we have bright and enlightened Malays who prevent history repeating itself.
I don't see the Chinese hung up about their religious and political diversity. The fact a Malay is defined as a follower of Islam defies logic, natural justice, and the fact race is not synonymous with religion. So were the pre-Muslim Hindu Malays not real Malays?
The doctrine of Ketuanan Melayu is really a misguided idea of nationalism, a subversion against nationhood, a political ploy and an idea bound to fail because it has no moral authority in contemporary society.
You cannot believe that European colonialism is morally repugnant when you replace it with your own local variety.
Fifty-five years of political feudalism as we have seen in Malaysia is enough for Malaysians to realise until they discard the status quo, they will never see radical change and remarkable progress as we see in Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
Even Indonesia is outpacing Malaysia in its democratisation and economic progress.
The sooner the political cocoon is discarded the quicker we will see the Malay emerge as a beautiful butterfly instead of remaining in the suspended stranglehold of political ugliness.
There are many emancipated Malay minds and the hope of the Malays lies in their intellectual leadership, not those who exploit race and religion to advance their own perverted, selfish and greedy interests and still speak the language of deceit.
It is time Malaysians reject the idea that the government is the licensing board for intellectual freedom.
The Malays have to emancipate themselves and it is young leaders like Nurul Izzah who offer hope for them.
The archaic ideas and ways of the old political guard that has controlled the country for so long, is out of sync with the times and aspirations of contemporary Malaysians.
It is the corrupting ways of the old guard that is why Malaysia is unable to make real progress and falling further behind Singapore, because while Malaysia protects its corrupt police and politicians, Singapore prosecutes them, and they don't even have to factor in religion to act righteously.
We only need to look across the Causeway to realise that an honest and sincere respect for others is the way to build a successful nation.
It gave me great joy to listen to the public announcement in Tamil as I alighted from a train in Singapore's MRT station.
Singapore has no hang-ups about its colonial past or that promoting Malay, Tamil, English and even Japanese is less nationalistic among its majority Chinese leaders.
What is wrong with Malaysia begins in the Malay mindset because they control the government and its machinery.
It has affected even non-Malay minds of certain MCA and MIC leaders who have sold out their own people for the same reasons the Malay leaders have sold out theirs.
Watching them shadow box with their Umno comrades while their constituencies continue to suffer serious injustices gives credence to the notion of the Ugly Chinaman and the Ugly Indiaman.
They need to prove to the majority race that they can be relied on to put their own people in their place as long as they are recipients of political largesse.
Nurul Izzah offers hope for the nation because she thinks like a Malaysian and a Muslim coming to terms with the reality that God is not just the God of the Malays but everyone and that faith is not about clobbering others and cocooning oneself in ignorance and bigotry but engaging those who differ from us.
I have just spent more than two weeks in Taiwan and though this country has been colonised by various nations, it has no chip on its shoulder and is not xenophobic.
Its tourism slogan is ‘Taiwan the Heart of Asia' and I soon found out why, because its people are generous.
Malaysia claims it is Truly Asia but is it really?
How is it truly Asia? Or is it just another slick slogan? How Asian are you when you compel others to speak like you, dress like you and believe like you?
Fortunately it is the people themselves, the ordinary Malaysians who reflect the virtues of the country and its appeal to foreigners as a friendly and hospitable place.
The victims of this ugly political bigotry are the Malays themselves who in my purview are among the nicest people anywhere.
The same can't be said of some of their lying and conniving political leaders and that is why Nurul Izzah is a leader of the times and the future despite her youth.
Pak Lah hit the nail on the head with his 'first world infrastructure, third world mentality' comment and it is my hope that younger politicians like Nurul Izzah will be able to liberate the Malay mindset from its bondage to the political and religious status quo.
What Pak Lah could only diagnose, perhaps Nurul Izzah, her mom and dad in politics, and others who love their country will be able to cure.
The hope of Malaysians is in the hope that a new government will cure the sickness that sees the country bedevilled by the devils they know and want no more of.
There is a brave new world waiting for Malaysians but it is not in hanging on to the past and the present political leaders whose performance despite the fresh slogans, are banal at best, and who have yet to learn that slogans, spin and lies do not make a nation, least of all a great one.
If Malaysians want change they have to work hard for change and if a report that more than 20 percent of Malaysians are still not registered to vote, it is yet another challenge the opposition face to rouse them to act because every vote counts when the system is against you.
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PEMANDANGAN lelaki berusia lebih 50 tahun bermain dengan kanak-kanak mungkin mudah diterima dengan tanggapan kedua-duanya merupakan datuk dan cucu. Namun, juruhebah radio era 80-an, Mohd. Noor Amin, 60, atau lebih dikenali sebagai Noramin mengakui, penerimaan itu tidak sama apabila orang ramai mengetahui kanak-kanak lelaki berusia lima tahun yang dipangkunya ialah anak bongsunya sendiri.
"Mereka menyindir kami sedang menghadiri konsert sekolah cucu. Kami sudah lali dengan situasi seperti itu," kongsi Noramin dan isteri, Hanizah Mohd. Hamzah, 50, yang kadangkala terpaksa berpakaian dengan cita rasa orang muda untuk mengurangkan jurang usia antara mereka dengan ibu bapa lain.
Noramin popular menerusi segmen radio 'moshi-moshi' yang mengajar bahasa Jepun di saluran Radio Malaysia Ibukota (RMIK) yang kini diberi nama baru, KLFM. Beliau juga pernah merakamkan dua buah album.
Layan kerenah
Menjangkakan bapa kepada empat orang anak yang berusia antara 26 hingga lima tahun itu akan cepat letih melayan kerenah Mohammad Noriman, 5, dan kakaknya, Nur Hanna, 9, yang ternyata aktif dan bertenaga tinggi, berlari ke sana dan ke mari, memanjat naik dan turun kerusi restoran ketika ditemui di pusat membeli-belah Subang Parade, Noramin bagaimanapun kelihatan tenang dan bersahaja.
"Tak perlu dikejar dan diturut ke mana mereka pergi. Cukuplah dengan memerhati dari jauh. Buatlah kerja apa pun, mata kami akan terus mengikut pergerakan mereka. Tetapi kalau mereka hilang dari pandangan kami akan cepat-cepat pergi mencari mereka," jelas Noramin.
Katanya, kemahiran menjadi ibu bapa sudah dimiliki ketika membesarkan anak sulung, Mohd Noramin, 26, dan Nur Haniz, 20.
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PAS Selangor abai kerusi Melayu?
Ahmad Lutfi Othman, | 13 Mac 2012 |
Khamis 1 Mac, saya, isteri dan wartawan Harakah Selangor, Saidah Hairan ke Tanjong Karang dan kawasan sekitarnya, sehingga melewati kawasan Sungai Besar.
Meskipun agak kerap ke sana menziarahi keluarga sebelah 'orang rumah', namun kunjungan kali ini lebih kepada tinjauan rambang Harakah terhadap situasi politik Selangor, negeri yang menjadi idaman Najib Razak.
Setiap kali melewati pekan Tanjong Karang, Sekinchan dan Sungai Panjang, ia mengingatkan saya peristiwa lebih sepuluh tahun lalu, tentang pendedahan salahguna kuasa dan rasuah membabitkan bekas Menteri Besar Selangor, Dr Khir Toyo.
Bersama rakan-rakan yang pernah mengusahakan penerbitan tabloid politik tanpa permit, kami waktu itu mengutip maklumat dan menjejak bukti, termasuk untuk menyiapkan laporan kepada Badan Pencegah Rasuah (sekarang Suruhjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia).
Tidak cukup dengan itu, saya bersama Dinsman dan pengarah Nasir Jani turut merakamkan pengambaran video di sekitar Tanjong Karang -- termasuk rumah sewa Khir di Sekinchan, jalan termahal merentasi bendang dan juga mencari reban ayam -- bagi memperkukuhkan dakwaan kami bahawa Khir terbabit dengan pelbagai bentuk penyelewengan dan korupsi.
Seingat saya, Ketua Pembangkang Dun Selangor, Dr Hasan Ali, yang juga Adun Sungai Burong 1999-2004, terbabit sama.
Beliau turut membuat aduan rasuah Khir di Ibu Pejabat BPR, di Putrajaya.
Kini, ketika banyak pihak ghairah berbicara (dan berteka-teki) dengan kecenderungan politik pengundi Melayu, bagi saya, kerusi-kerusi yang ditandingi PAS di empat kawasan Parlimen, iaitu Kuala Selangor, Tanjong Karang, Sungai Besar dan Sabak Bernam, perlu didekati dengan lebih rapat.
Selepas tsunami politik empat tahun lalu, ramai beranggapan pengaruh PAS masih tersekat di kawasan majoriti pengundi Melayu dan kampung-kampung tradisi tertentu.
Justeru, saya kira Harakah sebagai lidah rasmi parti wajar menjadikan kerusi-kerusi seumpama itu, termasuk di Selangor, sebagai kawasan fokus.
Dalam Pilihan Raya Umum 2008, di kawasan berkenaan, PAS bertanding lima kerusi Dun: Jeram, Sungai Burong, Sungai Panjang, Sabak dan Sungai Air Tawar. Manakala bagi kerusi Parlimen, PAS diberi kepercayaan untuk menyaingi BN di Kuala Selangor, Tanjong Karang dan Sungai Besar.
Bagaimanapun PAS hanya menang di Kuala Selangor, melalui wakilnya, Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, dengan majoriti 862 undi, tetapi tewas di semua kerusi lainnya.
"Kita perlu menunjukkan prestasi yang baik dalam PRU13 di lima kerusi Dun yang diserahkan kepada PAS itu. Selain memperkukuhkan kerajaan negeri Pakatan Rakyat, kita juga dapat menangkis tohmahan bahawa PAS hanya menang dengan sokongan pengundi bukan Melayu," kata seorang aktivis PAS yang saya temui.
Jadual 1 menunjukkan peratusan pengundi Melayu dan majoriti kemenangan calon BN untuk lima kerusi Dun berkenaan. Kerusi % Melayu Majoriti BN Sungai Air Tawar 83.6 123 Sabak 79.7 117 Sungai Panjang 85.4 5,828 Sungai Burong 86.1 2,710 Jeram 73.1 1,476 Pertemuan pertama diatur bersama Yang Dipertua PAS Tanjong Karang, Ustaz Mohamad Judi Sarjo di Pusat Khidmat Masyarakat Dun Sungai Burong.
Beliau yang mudah diajak bersembang menekankan keyakinannya bahawa jentera parti akar umbi sudah bersedia berdepan misi getir menghadapi PRU13, khusus bagi memenangi kembali Dun Sungai Burong, sekali gus memberikan cabaran sengit kepada Noh Omar, Timbalan Pengerusi Umno Negeri dan menteri kabinet, di Parlimen Tanjong Karang.
Namun begitu, Ustaz Judi mengakui, ia bukan tugas mudah, apatah lagi untuk berdepan pelbagai taktik dan strategi licik BN, termasuk penggunaan politik wang.
Noh sebagai ahli Parlimen dan pembantu Najib di Selangor pastinya akan memperalatkan apa sahaja untuk mempertahankan kerusinya. Jika Noh tewas di kampung halaman sendiri, bermakna operasi tawan Selangor berkecai dengan begitu mudah.
Justeru, Ustaz Judi mengakui tanggungjawab besarnya, terutama untuk menggembleng setiap potensi kekuatan PAS Kawasan. Saya perhatikan, semangatnya untuk mencipta sejarah cukup tinggi.
Semasa makan tengahari dengan Dr Mohd Yusof Abd Wahab di sebuah restoran berdekatan kliniknya, di pekan Tanjong Karang, bekas calon PAS yang pernah menentang Noh pada 1999 ini, turut menaruh keyakinan bahawa perubahan boleh dicatatkan pada PRU13.
Saya mengenali Dr Yusof lebih sepuluh tahun lalu; kes berkaitan rasuah Khir Toyo yang menemukan kami. Seperti lazimnya, beliau agak kritikal terhadap persiapan jentera parti.
Dr Yusof membayangkan program Umno ada kalanya lebih rancak dan berterusan berbanding PAS. "Umno bukan saja anjurkan karaoke dan acara sukan tetapi juga kuliah-kuliah agama.
Kita harus lebih ke depan jika mahu memberi cabaran sengit. Apa pun, saya yakin, jika segalanya direncanakan dengan baik, terutama dengan sokongan pengundi muda yang lebih celik politik, kita boleh menang," ujarnya.
Hasrat saya untuk menemui Ustaz Mohd Fadzlin Taslimin, Yang Dipertua PAS Sungai Besar tidak kesampaian.
Aturcara programnya hari itu agak padat sehingga jam 4 petang. Saya pula terpaksa berkejar pulang kerana ada temujanji lain sebelum Maghrib.
Ustaz Fadzlin hampir dapat menewaskan Khir Toyo pada pilihan raya 1999 di Dun Sungai Panjang, apabila hanya ketinggalan 165 undi. Bagaimanapun, pada PRU 2008, majoriti Khir, ketika itu MB Selangor, meningkat kepada 5,828 undi.
Di Markas PAS Sungai Besar, saya menemui orang kuat Ustaz Fadzlin, Setiausaha Kawasan, Samsuri Abdul Karim.
Beliau yang kaya dengan pengalaman ternyata tidak memandang ringan cabaran Umno setempat meskipun Khir mungkin tidak dicalonkan lagi berikutan keputusan mahkamah baru-baru ini.
Timbalan Pesuruhjaya II PAS Negeri, Ustaz Sallehen Mukhyi, yang turut merancakkan perbualan kami, melontarkan pelbagai input menarik, khusus untuk menangani kawasan-kawasan luar bandar bermajoriti Melayu.
Sallehen juga saya kenali semasa era reformasi ketika beliau menjadi Adun dan Ketua Pemuda Negeri; seperti Dr Yusof, isu Khir Toyo tambah mendekatkan kami.
Dalam PRU12, beliau hanya kalah 117 undi kepada calon BN di Dun Sabak, Warno Dogol.
Meskipun Umno Sabak Bernam berdepan problem dalaman dan dilihat sukar menampilkan calon berwibawa, Sallehen tetap merendah diri.
"Kita mesti fikirkan pendekatan lebih baik untuk golongan muda. Saya kira kita ada masalah dalam hal ini," katanya. Beliau mengakui pimpinan PAS perlu lebih menumpukan usaha di kawasan Melayu secara sistematik, dan bukan sekadar berpuas hati melancarkan program.
"Tidak mudah menyusun aktiviti di kampung-kampung. Masyarakat juga tidak begitu terdedah dengan isu-isu mutakhir. Anak-anak muda juga satu cabaran besar," tambahnya. Untuk kawasan luar bandar yang menjadi gelanggang aktivitinya, Sallehin kelihatan agak bimbang dengan tindakan agresif kerajaan BN yang menyalurkan pelbagai bantuan 'one-off'.
Dan saya kira kerisauannya itu, berdasarkan faktor sosio-ekonomi di Sabak Bernam, adalah berasas.
Namun tentulah segalanya ada jalan keluar, 'kan? Sementara itu, dalam konteks keseluruhan Selangor, ada beberapa kerusi Dun yang dilihat berpotensi untuk dimenangi PAS, merujuk keputusan PRU12, seperti ditunjukkan dalam Jadual 2 Kerusi % Melayu Majoriti BN:
Seri Serdang 52.1 45
Morib 61.0 286
Taman Templer 55.1 613
Paya Jaras 60.0 642
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