One Brain Cell:Thanks again, Dr Kua Kia Soong, for doing such the shining job of articulating what contingency be articulated - as well as in the most lucid terms.
KUALA LUMPUR, December eighteen Utusan Malaysiatoday expressed confidence that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim would be convicted of his sodomy charge, though predicted that public disturbance would follow the hearing decision.
KUALA LUMPUR, December eighteen Former Johor Corp (JCorp) arch senior manager Tan Sri Muhammad Ali Hashim has blamed outside forces he dubbed "Superman" for incurring some-more debts to the once-powerful Johor state investment company.
December 18, 2011
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This essay (below) has been revised to reflect a following correction:
Correction: December 17, 2011
Because of an modifying error, an necrology in a little copies upon Friday about a bard Christopher Hitchens referred incorrectly to a resources of his death. While he did die during a M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, he had not entered hospice caring there, as well as he had not stopped treatment. The necrology additionally misstated a source of a acknowledgement by Mr. Hitchens, an avowed atheist, about a probability of a deathbed conversion. It came from a 2010 talk with The Atlantic, not with The New York Times. And a necrology additionally misstated a magnitude of "Minority Report," a mainstay Mr. Hitchens wrote for The Nation. It appeared biweekly, not bimonthly.
by William Grimes (12-16-11)
Christopher Hitchens, a slicing polemicist in a convention of Thomas Paine as well as George Orwell who lerned his sights upon targets as assorted as Henry Kissinger, a British monarchy as well as Mother Teresa, wrote a best-seller aggressive eremite belief, as well as dismayed his former comrades upon a left by enthusiastically ancillary a American-led fight in Iraq, died upon Thursday in Houston. He was 62.
The means was pneumonia, a snarl of esophageal cancer, Vanity Fair repo! sitory p ronounced in 
announcing a death, during a M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Mr. Hitchens, who lived in Washington, schooled he had cancer whilst upon a publicity debate in 2010 for his memoir, "Hitch-22," as well as began essay and, upon television, vocalization about his illness frequently.
"In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, we have really during once become a finalist," Mr. Hitchens wrote in Vanity Fair, for which he was a contributing editor.
He took heedfulness to stress which he had not revised his in front of upon atheism, articulated in his best-selling 2007 book, "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," although he did demonstrate amused high regard during a hope, between a little concerned Christians, which he competence bear a late-life conversion.
He additionally professed to have no regrets for a lifetime of complicated smoking as well as drinking. "Writing is what's important to me, as well as anything which helps me do which or enhances as well as prolongs as well as deepens as well as infrequently intensifies evidence as well as conversation is value it to me," he told Charlie Rose in a television talk in 2010, adding which it was "impossible for me to imagine carrying my life though starting to those parties, though carrying those late nights, though which second bottle."
Armed with a discerning quick mind as well as a keen appetite for combat, Mr. Hitchens was in consistent demand as a orator upon television, radio as well as a debating platform, where he hold forth in a sonorous, plummily acce! nted voi ce which seemed during contingency with his rumpled appearance. He was a master of a lengthened peroration, peppered with well read allusions, as well as of a bright, off-the-cuff remark.
In 2007, when a interviewer Sean Hannity attempted to make a case for an all-seeing God, Mr. Hitchens dismissed a thought with contempt. "It would be similar to vital in North Korea," he said.
Mr. Hitchens, a British Trotskyite who had mislaid conviction in a Socialist movement, spent most of his life wandering a globe as well as stating upon a world's difficulty spots for The Nation magazine, a British newsmagazine The New Statesman as well as alternative publications.
His work took him to Northern Ireland, Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain as well as Argentina in a 1970s, generally to shine a light upon a immorality practices of confirmed dictators or a majestic machinations of a great powers.
After relocating to a United States in 1981, he combined American governing body to his beat, essay a biweekly Minority Report for The Nation. He wrote a monthly review-essay for The Atlantic and, as a carte-blanche columnist during Vanity Fair, filed essays upon topics as assorted as removing a Brazilian bikini polish as well as a knowledge of being waterboarded, a proffer assignment which he called "very most some-more frightening though reduction unpleasant than a bikini wax." He was additionally a columnist for a online repository Slate.
His support for a Iraq fight sprang from a flourishing conviction which radical elements in a Islamic star acted a mortal risk to Western principles of domestic liberty as well as leisure of conscience. The first stirrings of which view came in 1989 with a Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwah opposite a novelist Salman Rushdie for his supposedly irreverent words in "The Satanic Verses." To Mr. Hitchens, a terrorist attacks of Sep 11, 2001, confirmed a threat.
In a domestic shift which repelled most of his friends as well as readers, he cut his! ties to The Nation as well as became an outspoken advocate of a American-led advance of Iraq in 2003 as well as a ferocious critic of what he called "Islamofascism." Although he denied coining a word, he popularized it.
He remained unapologetic about a war. In 2006 he told a British newspaper The Guardian: "There have been a lot of people who will not be happy, it seems to me, until we am compelled to write a minute to these comrades in Iraq as well as say: 'Look, guys, it's been real, though I'm starting to have to dump we now. The domestic price to me is just too high.' Do we see myself we do this? No, we do not!"
Christopher Eric Hitchens was born upon April 13, 1949, in Portsmouth, England. His father was a career officer in a Royal Navy as well as later earned a modest vital as a bookkeeper.Though it stretched a family budget, Christopher was sent to private schools in Tavistock as well as Cambridge, during a insistence of his mother. "If there is starting to be an top class in this country, afterwards Christopher is starting to be in it," he overheard his mom saying to his father, clinching a energetic argument.
He was politically attuned even as a 7-year-old. "I was venerable enough to watch a headlines as well as read a papers, as well as we can recollect Oct 1956, a coexisting crisis in Hungary as well as Suez, really well," he told a repository The Progressive in 1997. "And removing a clarity which a star was dangerous, a clarity which a game was up, which a Empire was over."
Even before arriving during Balliol College, Oxford, Mr. Hitchens had been drawn in to severe politics, primarily out of antithesis to a Vietnam War. After heckling a Maoist orator during a domestic meeting, he was invited to stick upon a International Socialists, a Trotskyite party. Thus began a dual career as domestic rabble-rouser as well as upper-crust sybarite. He organised a packed report of antiwar demonstrations by day as well as Champagne-flooded parties with Oxford's chosen during night. Spar! e time w as clinging to a study of philosophy, governing body as well as economics.
After graduating from Oxford in 1970, he spent a year roving across a United States. He afterwards attempted his fitness as a publisher in London, where he contributed reviews, columns as well as editorials to The New Statesman, The Daily Express as well as The Evening Standard.
"I would do my day jobs during assorted mainstream writings as well as magazines as well as TV stations, where my title was 'Christopher Hitchens,' " he wrote in "Hitch-22," "and afterwards sneak down to a East End, where we was variously features editor of Socialist Worker as well as book review editor of a fanciful monthly International Socialism."
He became a staff bard as well as editor for The New Statesman in a late 1970s as well as fell in with a well read clique which included Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, James Fenton, Clive James as well as Ian McEwan. The group favourite to fool around a game in which members came up with a sentence slightest expected to be spoken by a single of their number. Mr. Hitchens's was "I do not caring how rich we are, I'm not entrance to your party."
After collaborating upon a 1976 autobiography of James Callaghan, a Labour leader, he published his first book, "Cyprus," in 1984 to honour Turkey's advance of Cyprus a decade earlier. A longer chronicle was published in 1989 as "Hostage to History: Cyprus From a Ottomans to Kissinger."
His interest in a segment led to another book, "Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of a Elgin Marbles" (1987), in which he argued which Britain should return a Elgin marbles to Greece.
In 1981 he married a Greek Cypriot, Eleni Meleagrou. The matrimony ended in divorce. He is survived by their dual children, Alexander as well as Sophia; his wife, Carol Blue, as well as their daughter, Antonia; as well as his brother, Peter.
Mr. Hitchens's stating upon Greece came through unusual circumstances. He was summoned to Athens in 1973 because his mother,! after l eaving his father, had committed suicide there with her new partner. After his father's genocide in 1987, he schooled which his mom was Jewish, a actuality she had concealed from her father as well as her children.
After relocating to a United States, where he in a future became a citizen, Mr. Hitchens became a fixture upon television, in imitation as well as during a lectern. Many of his essays for The Nation as well as alternative magazines were collected in "Prepared for a Worst" (1988).
He additionally threw himself in to a invulnerability of his crony Mr. Rushdie. "It was, if we can word it similar to this, a matter of all we hated contra all we loved," he wrote in his memoir. "In a hatred column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying as well as intimidation. In a adore column: literature, irony, humor, a particular as well as a invulnerability of free expression."
To assistance rally public support, Mr. Hitchens organised for Mr. Rushdie to be received during a White House by President Bill Clinton, a single of Mr. Hitchens's slightest favorite politicians as well as a subject of his book "No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton" (1999).
He regarded a response of severe intellectuals to Mr. Rushdie's difficulty as feeble, as well as he soon began to subject most of his loving domestic assumptions. He had already broken with a International Socialists when, in 1982, he dismayed a little of his brethren by ancillary Britain's advance of a Falkland Islands.
The deposit was reflected in books clinging to heroes similar to George Orwell ("Why Orwell Matters," 
2002), Thomas Paine ("Thomas Paine's 'Rights of Man': A Biography," 2006) as well as Thomas Jefferson ("Thomas Jefferson: Author of America," 2005).
His p! olemical urges found alternative outlets. In 2001 he excoriated Mr. Kissinger, a secretary of state in a Nixon administration, as a fight criminal in a book "The Trial of Henry Kissinger." He helped write a 2002 documentary movie by a same title based upon a book.
Mr. Hitchens became a campaigner opposite eremite belief, most particularly in his screed opposite Mother Teresa, "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory as well as Practice" (1995), as well as "God Is Not Great." He regarded Mother Teresa as a proselytizer for a opposing chronicle of Roman Catholicism rather than as a spiritual charity worker.
"I do not quite see Christopher as a 'man of action,' " a bard Ian Buruma told The New Yorker in 2006, "but he's regularly seeking for a defining impulse as it were, a Spanish Civil War, where we put yourself upon a right side, as well as mount up to a enemy."
One mount distressed most of his friends. In 1999, Sidney Blumenthal, an help to Mr. Clinton as well as a crony of Mr. Hitchens's, testified before a grand jury which he was not a source of deleterious comments done to reporters about Monica Lewinsky, whose ostensible event with a boss was underneath review by a House of Representatives.
Contacted by House investigators, Mr. Hitchens supplied report in an affidavit that, in effect, indicted Mr. Blumenthal of perjury as well as put him in risk of being indicted.
At a lunch in 1998, Mr. Hitchens wrote, Mr. Blumenthal had characterized Ms. Lewinsky as "a stalker" as well as pronounced a President was a victim of a predatory as well as inconstant woman. Overnight, Mr. Hitchens right away called "Hitch a Snitch" by Blumenthal partisans became persona non grata in vital bedrooms all over Washington. In a review of "Hitch-22" in The New York Review of Books, Mr. Buruma critic! ized Mr. Hitchens for creation governing body personal.
To Mr. Hitchens, he wrote, "politics is radically a matter of character." "Politicians do bad things," Mr. Buruma continued, "because they have been bad men. The thought which great group can do terrible things (even for great reasons), as well as bad group great things, does not come in in to this particular moral universe." Mr. Hitchens's ultimate pick up of writings, "Arguably: Essays," published this year, has been a best-seller as well as ranked between a top 10 books of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review.
Mr. Hitchens discussed a probability of a deathbed conversion, insisting which a contingency were slim which he would confess a life of God.
"The entity creation such a acknowledgement competence be a raving, shocked person whose cancer has spread to a brain," he told The Atlantic in Aug 2010. "I can't pledge which such an entity wouldn't make such a ridiculous remark, though no a single recognizable as myself would ever make such a remark."
Readers of "Hitch-22" already knew his feelings about a end. "I privately want to 'do' genocide in a active as well as not a passive," he wrote, "and to be there to look it in a eye as well as be we do something when it comes for me."
University students demanding dissolution of the Universities as well as University Colleges Act lowered the flag bearing the image of Umno boss Najib Tun Razak at Putra World Trade Centre as well as hoisted the ensign for educational freedom, as partial of their two-hour-long demonstration. About 500 students had marched from Masjid Jamek to the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) as well as on to Umno headquarters. Saifuddin mahu maklumat perinci
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KOTA BAHARU, December 17 Some 1,000 units of houses catered for a low-income group will be built subsequent year in conjunction with a Malaysia Compassionate Housing Programme project. The plan is managed by a Proprimas Holdings Sdn Bhd (Proprimas) according to a Bernama Online inform today.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Proprimas, Datuk Dr Baha Nordin said which a houses will be built using prefabricated materials as well as is approaching to be launched by Datuk Seri Najib Razak in February subsequent year.
The houses have been approaching to good those who have been currently in a supervision zone as well as pensioners, privately former servicemen who do not own their own homes.
A total of 120 contractors have already been identified by Proprimas for a project. Dr Baha explained which a overall construction will take about two months to complete. He combined which there have been already 700 field from Kelantan.
Four people wish to control UMNO or during slightest wish to be means to control a UMNO president, whoever t! shawl might be during any since time or year.
The most powerful of these four group as well as a a single who has a most during interest is former premier Mahathir Mohamad. Next is a fabulously abounding former Finance minister Daim Zainuddin, former premier Abdullah Badawi as well as an additional former Finance minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, who holds a slightest poke amongst a 4 most influential power-brokers in UMNO.
Analyzing a UMNO elite's stream diversion plan, it looks like it's Mahathir's kitchen which is a most busy during a moment. The feisty 85-year-old who ruled Malaysia for twenty-two years is pronounced to have since a thumbs up to Najib. But in reality, it is some-more of a goodbye gesture!
Goodbye Greedy-Najib
Mahathir realizes right away which Najib has his own agenda; to be in energy as well as establish his family as well as kin in long-term businesses which might later cross or rival those interests held by his sons - Mokhzani, Mirzan as well as even Mukhriz.
But ambitious as Mahathir might be, due to a talent vacuum in UMNO, a usually horse which he can rest upon is usually Muhyiddin Yassin, a emissary prime minister.
The connection in between Mahathir as well as Muhyiddin goes behind a long way, when Muhyiddin together with Defense minister Zahid Hamidi were part of an UMNO faction called a Wawasan 2020 group led by Anwar Ibrahim.
Anwar, right away a Opposition Leader, was afterwards a UMNO emissary president as well as Deputy Prim! e Minist er of Malaysia. But Mahathir, fearfu! l of los ing his seat to a intensely renouned Anwar, motionless to sack him upon manifestly trumped-up sodomy charges.
Mahathir's horse
Both Muhyiddin as well as Zahid had been 'devoted' lieutenants to Anwar then. Thus, to swing them behind to his side, Mahathir betrothed both group a little really critical positions which would yield great benefits in a longer term, although they might not seem remunerative then. Mahathir did all he could to to isolate Anwar, as well as this is why Muhyiddin as well as Zahid have been still Mahathir's men.
Recently, Muhyiddin tried to stand up to Mahathir by insisting upon starting by with a anathema upon teaching arithmetic as well as scholarship in English. But teaching a two subjects in English is Mahathir's cherished bequest as well as certain enough, Mahathir straight line released comments which amounted to a open scolding for Muhyiddin.
Muhyiddin's supporters had no preference though to punch a bullet. Muhyiddin was usually trying to score spirit points with a Malay electorate, they clarified, claiming which Mahathir additionally needed Muhyiddin to "be his ho! rse".
Daim, Badawi as well as Ku Li would prefer to behind Najib
As for Daim, a former Finance minister w! ill usually await Najib since Muhyiddin is already Mahathir's man. Daim had been held scheming under Mahathir's nose when he was a Finance Minister. All a banks as well as a abounding Malays tycoons have been Daim's men. So far Najib has not dug up any dirt upon Daim. Even for RM12bil PKFZ financial debacle, Najib took pains to safeguard which usually a parts continuous to Mahathir were revealed.
Badawi as well has no preference though to await Najib since Mahathir is still insane with him for reversing multiform of his mega projects together with a curved bridge to Singapore. As far behind as 2004, Badawi made Muhyiddin a Agriculture Minister, regarded as a! squalid ministry. Even then, Badawi knew Muhyiddin was Mahathir's man.
Despite approving a NFC cattle stock project as well as awarding a stewardship of a project to a family of Shahrizat Jalil, Muhyiddin did not fully defend a disturbance as well as he let Badawi's son-in-law Khairy Jamalu! ddin ans wer for everything.
Mahathir is additionally really indignant with Khairy. Mahathir additionally hates Rosmah. Khairy has no goal alternative afterwards to align himself with Najib. Khairy was a a single who shielded Najib when he was indicted of regulating open income to attend a engagement party of his daughter in Kazakhstan. Then again, if Khairy had been some-more respectful over a Kazakh episode, fewer people would have well known of it, call guess which Khairy might be playing a "double-game".
Nevertheless, Tengku Razaleigh or Ku Li, if since a preference in between Muhyiddin as well as Najib, he would definitely await Najib since he additionally knows which Muhyiddin is Mahathir's man.
So it looks like Mahathir as well as Muhyiddin have been a single team, whilst Badawi, Daim as well as Najib form a alternative team.
Mahathir Mohamad
First as well as foremost, Mahathir wants to wield power. He quiescent with mixed feelings. He was not means to accomplish most things as well as was actually really demure to lose power. Yet he knew which he had committed as well most blunders as well as Malaysia was starting south as well rapidly, he knew he must rinse his hands as well as let someone else to take a fall.
From a economy to corruption to social integration, a law to a police to a institutions, Mahathir had erred in all his decisions. He was unfortunate to strengthen his name as well as legacy.
He additionally had his sons' future, their businesses as well as political careers to caring about. Not to mention, his c! ronies a nd diehard supporters had to be fast too. After all they were a ones who have been in cold blood supporting hi! m from d ay a single until now.
Make no mistake, Mahathir still wants to hold upon to power.
Daim Zainuddin
Daim is different. He usually wants to have certain which no a single will dig in to his past as well as spoil all which he has built, during slightest whilst he is still alive. Some contend he is penetrating to have some-more income as well as have immature girls as his companions. Other than which he couldn't be disturbed either UMNO wins a GE-13 or not.
But still if he can say a benefaction status quo, why not? It would be most simpler for him to lead his daily life though being disturbed by a everlasting politicking. Daim is like a sleeping tiger; usually wants not to be disturbed.
Abdullah Badawi
Badawi upon a alternative hand is disturbed as well as afraid. He is endangered as well as needs to safeguard which his hermit as well as alternative relatives, together with his son as well as son-in-law will not be taken to charge by a authorities or be hated by the rakyat(populace).
We all know which his son Kamaluddin was involved with Scomi which was indicted of provision centrifugal machines to an aggressive nation to heighten Uranium. His hermit Ibrahim as well as multiform others have been indicted of siphoning increase from MAS.
Perhaps, what Badawi wants most of all is to see his dear son-in-law Khairy Jamaluddin stand out of his stream rut as well as behind in to a full swing of energy once again. Badawi not usually has a soft spot for Khairy though Khairy has been some-more than a son-in-law. Khairy was a a single who jumped in to a open grave to receive a physique of his dear late mother Endon, when she was lowered to her fin! al resti ng place. Khairy did it with so most caring as well as respect which not even Badawi's own son could match him. That was most memorable as well as touching to Badawi, as well as it had an everlasting stroke upon him as well as his adore for Khairy.
Sen timent as well as affect aside, Badawi additionally believes which Khairy has a potential to have it as a top leader. He sees in Khairy a usually goal for UMNO as well as wants Khairy to be since full await as well as not be sidelined. Badawi cares about his sons as well as relatives. He additionally knows which if Khairy was in power, Kamaluddin as well as his alternative kin will be safe!
Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah
At 74, Ku Li is still ambitious. He has already made a lot of money, has a fast bank of supporters as well as has built an picture of himself as a little arrange of a eminent as well as stately statesman. He still can't get over how he was deceived of a UMNO presidency by Mahathir, an eventuality which led to a demise of a "old" UMNO as well as a formation of a right away defunct Semangat 46. Like a asleep volcano, Ku Li still has a little implicit feverishness as well as power.
The de sire for a top post is still there, blazing day as well as night, though he has been as well cautious. The post was inside of his learn as well as he was opposite a most powerful Mahathir himself, so small stooges like Badawi as well as Najib should usually be easy meals.
Yet a opportunity is not there for him to burst into. Thus Ku Li is regularly upon a prowl like all a alternative 3 vital energy brokers. He is not interested in alternative things solely to be a PM, no make a difference how as well as when. Still, time is not upon his side.
Since Ku Li no longer has no vital network inside of a UMNO system, he has to find assistance from outside. He has to do a joint-venture somehow since there is a slim possibility - though still a possibility - which he can grasp his life's ambition. And this is why he formed Amanah, to further correlate as well as to turn some-more informed with a opposition parties.
Ku Li has additionally refrained from criticizing a Pakatan Rakyat though is critical upon a UMNO-BN government. There is no need for him to with! out dela y challenge Najib, Muhyiddin or even Mahathir during this moment. He need not mystify things; he usually needs to fool around safe. He is a silent predator. Ku Li is carrying an open door policy as well as unlike Mahathir, Daim as well as Badawi, he usually wants to be PM.
What about Prime Minister Najib Razak as well as his emissary Muhyiddin Yassin then? Well, they have been usually teenager warlords in their own territories. None of them really have a energy to be upon their own.
Malaysia Chronicle
KUALA LUMPUR, December seventeen Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has maintained that the sodomy charge opposite him has not affected his recognition abroad, as well as that he will be travelling subsequent month even as the tall justice delivers its decision upon his case.
Sodomy II hearing judge Datuk Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah is expected to broach the decision upon the case upon Jan 9, wrapping up the hearing that strictly began upon Feb last year.
Anwar (picture) is charged with sodomising the former aide, of that he has vehemently denied.
Anwar believes that he will be fully clear as long as there is no political division in the hearing judgment.
On the ninth of subsequent month we will embrace my verdict. But there are already two invitations watchful for me, from the grandson of Indias champion Mahatma Ghandi, Raj Mohan. He has invited me to Bombay from Jan 9 to eleven to launch the big anti-graft debate in India.
On Jan 12 we have been invited to verbalise during the bureau of the Turkish prime apportion Recep Erdogan in Istanbul, he was quoted by PAS organ Harakahdaily as saying.
You can debase Anwar in Malaysia, but not in the eyes of the world, he added.
Election 2008 saw Barisan Nasional humour its worst performance during the polls, ceding five state governments as well as 82 parliamentary seats to Pakatan Rakyat.
This upcoming general choosing is as crucial for Opposition personality Anwar as it is for his rival Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
For Anwar, it is the matter of proof his aptitude as well as legitimacy as the personality of his fledgling PR pact, after being hit with countless allegations of sexual improprieties that enclosed an alleged sex video.
For Najib, the choosing will be referendum for the Umno president who took over from his prototype Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in 2009.
Whi le considered highly popular among voters, Najibs credibility was badly hit following his administrations handling of the barbarous Jul 9 rally.
He rught away voiced the slew of reforms after the rally, that enclosed the Peaceful Assembly Act, repeal of the Internal Security Act (ISA) as well as permitting university students above 21 to stick on governing body outside of campus grounds.
BUTTERWORTH, seventeen DECEMBER, 2011: Political conflict as well as not Islam is a base means of Muslims confli! ct in a country, pronounced former prime apportion Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
He pronounced a Muslims in a nation were separate into three groups although they were not fighting opposite each alternative using weapons similar to in alternative Islamic countries.
"Just since of ideological differences, a little Muslims have refused to share a same mosque as well as funeral ground with associate Muslims.
"As Islam promotes brotherhood, we need to encourage togetherness between us. Unity is a substructure of a Islamic community, as well as not conflict as well as hostility towards each other," he told reporters after opening a third Multaqa Wehdatul Ummah here today.
Mahathir, who is also Muslim Welfare Organisation of Malaysia president, pronounced Muslims should port! ray a constant Islamic teachings to gain a apply oneself of alternative communities.
"Muslims will become diseased due to conflicts between us. We might have forgotten which 55 years ago, all Muslims as well as Malays in this nation fought for a independence as well as opposite a Malayan Union," he said.
He pronounced although Muslims were diseased as well as poor, as well as had no power then, they managed to better a Malayan Union since they were united.
- Bernama (Malaysi! an Diges t)
