Friday, March 19, 2010

March Headlines 2010

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Friday, March 12, 2010

What the Malaysian think of the Malaysian Police

Police come under the spotlight — Martin Jalleh; The Malaysian Insider
MARCH 12 — 2009 was a year when the police was unfortunately perceived to be playing politics and pandering to the wishes of their political (pay) masters rather than protecting the people. About 76 per cent of the respondents in a Home Ministry online survey (August 2009) said that they feel angry each time they see a police officer!

In an earlier Home Ministry online survey (July 2009), 97 per cent of 10,060 respondents felt unsafe due to the high crime rate; 95 per cent of 9,319 respondents felt the safety of the people was not guaranteed; and 94 per cent of 9,261 respondents felt the government had not done its best to ensure the safety of the people.
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Monday, March 1, 2010

March News 2010

An insult to our intelligence
Do they acknowledge the difference in severity: Kartika is to be whipped and fined RM5000 for drinking beer but the man who leaves his wife and kids and mistreats her is only fined RM1000? Do they notice the inconsistencies and injustice?

Mariam Mokhtar, Malaysian Mirror (from Malaysia Today)

It has become something of a ritual lately that when certain Muslim NGOs run scared of a good debate, they eagerly go about making police reports.

Events of the past week have raised urgent questions about the political leadership in Malaysia. When various NGOs and Majlis Agama Islam Selangor (MAIS) lodged a police report against The Star's managing editor, P Gunasegaran, they said that he had no right to comment about Islamic matters because he is not a Muslim.

I disagree. As a Malaysian, his contribution is of immense importance.
......more at Malaysia Today