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A multi-faith organisation in Britain is operative to put a stop to speak about Yuletide being criminialized in a UK since of potential corruption to a little ethnic group. The Phoenix initiative, consisting of bloggers, activists as well as village representatives, wish to demonstrate support as well as respect for Yuletide among different faiths.
Julie Siddiqui, vice-president of a Islamic Society of Britain pronounced roughly every year there had been stories which internal authorities have altered a name of Christmas, or have been not having lights, or have criminialized it.
"It's deleterious in conditions of village relations. No a single is asking for Yuletide to be banned, Muslims positively haven't. The inference is often which it's entrance from Muslims."
Vidhya Ramalingam of a Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a Hindu: "I do not know anyone who essentially wants to ban Yuletide as well as many Hindus as well as Muslims which I know essentially applaud Christmas."
Birmingham city legislature was once reported to have criminialized Christmas. Phoenix hopes to counter such myths, highlighting participation by non-Christians in traditional activities. One of a posts upon a Facebook page shows cinema of Muslim students receiving part in a nativity play.
Siddiqui says a little British Muslims do applaud Yuletide with a tree as well as a special meal. For others it is a great time to put something behind in to a community. Phoenix is enlivening non-Christians to come in in to a suggestion of organization to help the poor through volunteering.
She is volunteering during her internal church in Maidenhead upon Yuletide Day. Other members have been assisting out during Christian charities or non-faith groups similar to homelessness charity Crisis during Christmas. IN FULL: The Guardian|SEE ALS O: An non-believer during Christmas: Oh come all ye faithless
December 26, 2011
No earlier had we accomplished celebration of a mass an essay which eulogized Vclav Havel, a playwright incited dissident incited pacific insubordinate incited boss who had only died, than dual subsequent headlines stories set Havel's extraordinary career in context: a genocide of Kim Jong-il, North Korea's pornography-addicted as well as nuclear-armed autarchic leader, as well as a pacific protests opposite land sequestration by a villagers of Wukan in Guandong province, southern China.
If Havel ever had any moments of disbelief about his durability positive impact upon a world, we goal he was equates to to see reports from Wukan before he died. In which fishing encampment of 6,000, a "power of a powerless" which Havel promoted as a equates to to criticise total order was demonstrated anew, as well as with such enormous grace as well as discipline which it has galvanized China similar to no criticism since those in Tiananmen Square in a spring of 1989.
Kim, in a sense, was a anti-Havel, not in not usually moral scruples, though even a common dictatorial concern for how a country is managed. His genocide done me stop which of Mao Zedong, with all a mass hysteria genuine as well as feigned which accompanies a demise of a self-anointed god.
But Mao's genocide did during slightest finish a era of Caesarism in China. Because he had no son to attain him, Mao appointed a five-person politburo to do a job. Its members, which included his nephew, Mao Yuanxin, his mistress, Zhang Yufeng, as well as Jiang Qing, his final wife were as amateurish during statute as Kim, but, following a disaster of a Cultural Revolution, enmity to them in a troops as well as alternative state institutio! ns was a s well widespread for them to last. They, as well as a Gang of Four (of which Jiang Qing was a member), were soon ousted.
North Korea is a kind of looking-glass universe to Havel's dictum that, to tarry under totalitarianism, one contingency live in truth. Fortunately for Havel, Czechoslovakia's small-minded communist rulers were also small-minded in their lies. But when each aspect of society is built, as in North Korea, upon a Big Lie, as well as afterwards an Even Bigger Lie, it is probably tough to say one's sanity, let alone a capability to live in truth.
In any case, Kim Jong-un's power is unlikely to final or be as certifiably demented as those of his father as well as grandfather. Communism, interjection to a captivate of successful market economies as well as a e.g. set by people similar to Havel, has put a system under such outmost aria which Kim III has nowhere to spin for effective help. Indeed, even a dual regimes many fervent to say a Kim dynasty China's as well as Russia's have been feeling pressure from their disaffected but, it now seems, not-so-powerless populations.
In Wukan, elementary villagers wer! e unafra id to plea a competence of a inner celebration as well as Police when officials stole their land for a development project. In Henan, policemen have left in to a streets demanding which human rights be protected.
In Dalian, hundreds of thousands of people protested opposite a building a whole of petrochemical plant. Unlike what has happened so far in Wukan, a Dalian criticism was crushed, though it similar to a tens of thousands of alternative protests across China final year signaled to a statute celebration which typical Chinese have been no longer interested usually in a politically pacifist pursuit of material gain.
In Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's incident is much a same. Following a assume elections in early December, large protests erupted in Moscow as well as Saint Petersburg. And those marching were not a common impoverished rabblerousers, though Russia's new center classes. Like a villagers of Wukan, they have simply had enough of official dishonesty.
North Koreans have suffered coercion for a prolonged time, as well as although they have been brainwashed to be docile as well as constant to Kim's dynasty, you only cannot suppose how they will sojourn during a beck as well as call of Kim Jong-un, who has no credentials, troops or otherwise, to rule.
Given its increasingly isolated general position in Asia, if North Korea's inner conflicts turn acute, China might find it formidable to handle toward Kim Jong-un with anything though cold as well as anxiety-ridden indifference.
And stop which it was insusceptibility to a non-reforming East European communist regimes upon a partial of Mikhail Gorbachev as well as a Soviet Union which ultimately sealed their predestine as well as delivered Havel from a jail cell to Prague Castle. , of course, was a beneficiary of such indifference, though he never practiced it, remaining a warrior for law as well as freedom via his life.
For Chinese concerned about how to live in truth, Havel remains a exemplar. The Charter 77 transformation which he founded provided a template for group similar to a detained Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, who helped to found Charter 08, which proclaimed which Chinese, too, could live in grace as well as freedom.
Kim Jong-il's demise reminds us which all people have been next to before death. Havel's flitting reminds us which a value of life will eventually gain respect.
Ma Jian's many recent novel is Beijing Coma.
Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2011.
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2 arriving events have been waited upon with great anticipation. (1) The result of an claim duplicate by a couple of settlers to stop a FELDA FGV inventory as well as (2) a 5th January EGM of Koperasi Permodalan FELDA.
The result of a second event is a foregone conclusion. Chairman Isa will get elected as a KPF chairman despite not having a education to turn an bureau bearer. He is not a settler nor is he a FELDA employee. But a Minister in Charge of FELDA has since his approval, what can people do. The Minister is additionally a PM. He is lord over whoever lives in this land.
We contingency not be sidetracked by this sideshow involving a dual bit actress Isa Samad. The some-more dire make a difference concerns a inventory exercise.
Why a injunction? Why should 4 people extend appetite as well as time as well as pretence a risks of being called traitors as well as all that, want to request an injunction? Greed can't be a major objective? If it is, a some-more profitable for a 4 people to side with Chairman Isa who can be generous as he is pleased.
The intent of a claim is to stop FGV receiving over resources as well as shares belonging to KPF in FELDA Holdings. These people believed which a 350,000 hectares of land which FELDA took was actually meant for settlers. All a resources owned by KPF in FELDA Holdings will be leased to FGV for a subsequent 99 years. They will no longer practice control over a resources as their interests have been all converted in to shares. FELDA Holdings is 51% owned by settlers as well as 49% owned by FELDA Global.
They have been peaceful to risk it all, because they hold settlers have been being sole out.
This inventory is a idealisation shortchanging of settlers. The initial occurred when FELDA withheld some-more than 300,000 hectares of land from being since to settlers. By assuming tenure of a land, FELDA was means to turn a planter itself. So we have a farmer settler as well as a corporate settler. The corporate settler! s have c hanged upon to becoming fabulously rich whilst a farmer settler ( Tun Razak's regimented landless as well as jobless) have remained comparatively behind. They get to suffer a drip down effects tangible as well as determined by FELDA who most run a commercial operation upon behalf as well as for a great of settlers.
The corporate settler sells CPO as well as busies itself in a far-reaching range of downstream manufacturing as well as marketing activities. They were even means to go in to various businesses out of a capital created from tenure of a land which was ostensible to go to a landless as well as jobless.
The second took place, when FELDA listed a sugarine enlightening business. It done over RM 800 million out of which IPO. How much did KPF make by trait of owning 20% of a business? On paper it done 300 million? How did Sabri Ahmad winnow this figure? If KPF makes a paper gain of 300 million as well as a 300m is 20%, then a total gain is 1.5 billion. But Sabri says, FELDA done 800 million. Maybe it's only a figure of speech- a point is, he longed for to say KPF done income albeit upon paper. Does which lift a share worth of KPF in FELDA Holdings right away which it done 300m paper gain?
If a claim is successful, a due inventory of FELDA Global will be delayed. The inventory will see a merger of FELDA Holdings with FELDA Global. The not as large partner in terms of equity, FELDA Global is buying out KPF who has 51%.
How is a nature of a transaction? Does it engage as well as offer by FGV to buy out KPF during a certain cost or will it engage only a share swap? You labelled it with reward fella- that's because KPF is removing 61%.
But a share cost of a new listed entity is additionally during a premium. You can easily inflate a cost of a would be listed entity, paint silken pictures, introduce exotic word such as unlocking worth as well as so forth- we will substantially satisfy KPF member to hold they have been removing a great deal. KPF will get 61%. That's great ! we say. Isa Samad goes around berating ungrateful settlers- apa lagi awak semua mahu- dari 51% jadi 61%?
But we ask in return- 61% of how much? If 30% of a shares have been sole to a public, a settlers end up with 61% of 70% of a business. That's not all. 30% is held by a public- a interests of settlers have been converted in to shares which have been tradable in a marketplace place. As with a lane record of bumiputera held equities, we can gamble which chances are, a shares will be sold.
We have to go behind to a initial source of dissatisfaction. The farmer settler has remained some-more or less a same. The corporate settler has done it big. The farmer settlers get palliatives- bonuses here as well as there. RM 1200 as yearly reward translates in to RM 100 per month. 400 per year translate in to 30 Ringgit per month- not even sufficient to buy a T-bone beef during Meatworks. The farmer settler gets MRSM colleges, indoor stadiums, futsal stadiums as well as other social comforts but a worth of these, pale in more aged with a comforts as well as resources enhancing resources performed by a corporate settler. The corporate settler has changed upon in to oleo chemicals, downstream activities, hotels, sugarine commercial operation etc. because can't a farmer settler be orderly which same way?
The elemental reason because this inventory is vehemently opposed is which people believed it's a sellout as well as it's a culmination of unconscionable acts by FELDA.
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Both in this universe as well as in a Hereafter, I am a nearest of all people to Jesus, a son of Mary. The prophets have been paternal brothers; their mothers have been different, though their sacrament is one.
Prophet Muhammad
quoted by Mohamad Bashar Arafat
imam as well as executive of an inter-faith foundatation in Baltimore, Maryland
Harakah Daily
KUALA LUMPUR, December twenty-five Yuletide joy around Malaysia, as Christians as well as their fellow Malaysians got into a gratifying feel with church congregations, present exchanges as well as amicable visits.
Many took to amicable media, as twits as well as Facebook greetings competed with a usual phone calls as well as content messages, Bernama Online reported.
The collateral citys churches drew in a numbers, including foreigners, for the Yuletide Eve as well as Day church services.
Though there were pockets of delayed trade around church as well as mall zones, a Klang Valley by large was experiencing easy drives, as most have headed to their hometowns considering a prolonged weekend.
The national-level Yuletide open residence is slated during Kajang tomorrow. The satay towns Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Tinggi Kajang will horde it.
Over in Malacca, Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam was seen during a Portuguese Settlement in Ujong Pasir. 2011 additionally outlines a 500th year of a attainment of colonisers Portugal who brought a Catholic faith with them, as well as carried upon by their progeny till currently in Malacca.
Village conduct Peter Thomas Gomes met his attainment during noon, as a village continued the modest warm celebration which went upon given yesterday with most tourists.
The 11.2ha settlement of some 1,200 people of Portuguese descent occupying 118 homes was really gratifying with on vacation kin as well as friends.
Across a South China Seas, Sarawakian Christians were land open houses assimilated by those of alternative faiths.
State Social Development Minister Tan Sri William Mawan Ikom pronounced racial as well as religious toleration is high in a Hornbill State. He was vocalization during a open residence he was hosting.
While there have been fewer Christians in Perlis, most residents instead headed to a Sungai Batu Pahat Snake as well as Reptile Park to locate a Cat Carnival 2011.
In the se! cond as well as final day, cat competitions, displays of doing unwholesome snakes as well as karaoke singing perplexed a audiences.
December 25, 2011
I choose this square by my great friend, Karim Raslan to communicate a summary to you, all my blogging associates as good as friends, who for a many partial have provided utilitarian inputs of views as good as ideas upon this blog.
Because of your contributions, a blog now has some-more than 7 million hits (wordpress shows upon 2 million plus though inside their system, it is some-more than 3 times which figure) since you launched it in November, 2007.
Thank you unequivocally many for your seductiveness as good as support, though with which comes responsibility to be acceptable as good as offset (objective?) in what you put upon this blog, as good as in a comments you as good as you make. This blog is review around a world since you have been interconnected.
I am still unequivocally concerned about a peculiarity of sermon as good as a denunciation used is distant from satisfactory, nonetheless you acknowledge which you have done a little progress. It still pains me, however, to have to delete a little comments for "bad" language, name calling , rudeness, as good as sheer longhorn headedness.
Please recollect which a peculiarity of your thoughts as good as a approach you demonstrate yourself tell pick readers about a arrange of chairman you have been and, if you have been a Malaysian, you additionally create a negative impression of a people as a whole. Please, therefore, write with care as good as consideration.
I goal in 2012 when you can urge both peculiarity as good as content. you take pains to choose! stuff c arefully for this blog since you use them for conducting a kind of online convention or tutorialif you might be authorised to feel a little similar to a grouchy village propagandize teacher upon human affairs. The goal to inform a supervision as good as polite society organisations which you out in cyberspace wish great government, a single which must serve people (demos) as good as demonstrate a concerns when things have been "not right".
We might disagree (and you expect that) upon a issues, though all of us share a usual aspirationat slightest you consider so as good as which is you wish what is many appropriate for a country. After all, you have been a single People as good as a single Country with stakes in Malaysia's social, economic as good as political swell as good as egghead development. Karim says,"[T]he subsequent ubiquitous election will be a many critical polls we've had in decades as good as might good conclude a future.It's important, therefore, which you go in to them bargain what's during stake.Having explained because as good as how you write, you goal to be means to minister to this process." Let us try to do that. Din Merican
by Karim Raslan (12-20-11)@www.thestar.com.my
CERITALAH
Mainstream media is locked in an endless cycle, a Groundhog Day of sorts, still shackled by decades-old regulations, even as a pick media entirely practice their scathing wit.
I STARTED essay this mainstay a little nineteen years ago: Yes, I've been around which long. For a little people, essay is only something they do; for me as a tukang cerita it's a necessity, something you have to do every day or else I'll go mad.
The early 1990s were an refreshing time. Kuala Lumpur was starting by a massive office building boom as good as everythi! ng as go od as anything seemed possible. While you relished a excitement of those years, you regretted as good as still do a many laws which limited what reporters as good as editors could write.
Nonetheless, you soon detected which there were ways to criticism upon a prohibited issues of a day without tedious my readers or incurring a rage of my editors as good as a authorities.The trick lay in essay around subjects similar to crime as good as abuse of power, for example, by sketch parallels with what was function elsewhere in a world only as you did last week with Vladimir Putin's Russia.
It's not direct though it's a approach of making your indicate by adding different layers of meaning.Indeed, many of my stating upon Indonesia over a past 10 years has unequivocally been directed during Malaysia, highlighting a differences as good as similarities in between a dual countries over critical issues such as competition as good as religion, polite liberties as good as democracy.
But essay in this demeanour additionally equates to which your essay character becomes somewhat exuberant since you can't essentially strike with a same liking as good as straightforwardness similar to say, Sakmongkol AK47, a former politician as good as blogger.
Still, you kept writing, as good as when 1996 came, you launched my initial Ceritalah book. Dipping in to a collection today, I'm struck by how many a mainstream media turf hasn't essentially changed.
While a Internet is bursting with headlines as good as views, a mainstream is still shackled by decades-old regulations. In short, we're locked in an endless cycle a Groundhog Day of sorts.
Ceritalah: Malaysia in Transition contained dual essays which summed up a frustr! ations y ou felt behind then, as good as still do today. In dual essays compiled in a book; The Ancient Art of Reading Between a Lines as good as The Art of Writing Between a Lines, you wrote about how Malaysians had become skilful in a face of all a controls upon their headlines as good as analyses during celebration of a mass with what you called "the third eye".
This equates to essentially detecting hidden messages as good as themes in differently harmless journal coverage. This, however, has done us utterly cynical.We're always upon a lookout for a "hidden hand" a dalang behind a theatre performance nonetheless some-more mostly than not there unequivocally isn't one.
As you wrote in a initial column: "This, then, is a problem with a third eye; it distorts a notice of a world it creates us consider everything in conditions of celebrity as good as clique We lend towards not to consider in conditions of beliefs since you have been always seeking for personal motives; a people who will benefit from any particular contract as good as by how many they will benefit."
Are things unequivocally any different now? Writing currently for a mainstream media still requires treading a fine, excellent line. Reading it, too, still requires a gift of a "third eye"; to cynically regard any square of headlines brought to us.
I can't help feeling which you seem to have gone nowhere, as good as in truth have been regressing as a neighbours as good as a world during large have fake ahead. Indeed, a advent of a Internet has done lives of mainstream media reporters all a some-more difficult.
It's painful to have your work so unequivocally unerring when your online media counterparts have been authorised to entirely practice their scathing quick thoughts generally when some-more mostly than not you determine with them. Let me contend here which many mainstream journal editors as good as writers have been against to a kind of censorship as good as control as practised i! n this c ountry. But rsther than than all quit to a blogsphere, you stay "within a system". Why?
As I've pronounced many times before: It's since you truly hold in a genre. Call me old-fashion though you still hold which newspapers have a role in this cyber era. It's a craft which has been refined for centuries as good as still has a potential to heighten a public sermon in a approach blogs haven't nonetheless been means to.
That is all which you as good as you brave contend many reporters as good as columnists, as good set out to do every week as good as day. Everything's political no doubt, though it should be probable for citizens of a nation to verbalise but having it received similar to a stipulation of war.
The actuality which you still have to rely upon a "third eyes" shows how little you have unequivocally progressed spiritually as good as mentally despite all a element advances all these years. There's a unequivocally large chance which not doing anything about this will consign us to irrelevance.
It is with which in mind, as good as a actuality which a subsequent ubiquitous election is looming, which you am now proposing to spend a subsequent couple of weeks essay about issues which Malaysians need to be unequivocally meditative about, of questions a politicians as good as we, typical folk, aren't asking.
I goal to excavate in to what unequivocally constitutes a inhabitant seductiveness as good as additionally those age-old questions of what it unequivocally equates to to be Malaysian.
The subsequent ubiquitous election will be a many critical polls we've had in decades as good as might good conclude a future. It's important, therefore, which you go in to them bargain what's during stake. Having explained because as good as how you write, you goal to be means to minister to this process.