July 8, 2012
Borders: JAWI wants a Media Circus
by Din Merican
My wife, Dr. Kamsiah, as well as you went to Borders during Mid-Valley this afternoon since you longed for to squeeze a duplicate of former US Secretary of State General Colin L. Powell's ultimate book titled It Worked for Me: In Life as well as Leadership.
This is not his domestic memoirs, during slightest not yet, but a tellurian interest story of a really famous American General as well as Statesman.
The book papers General Powell's clear experiences, recollections, sober reflections as well as lessons he learned as a soldier, a Four Star General of a Army as well as Joint Chief of US Armed Forces, National Security Advisor in a White House, as well as Secretary of State in a Bush 2 Administration.
Knowing General Powell during my years during The George Washington
University School of Business (1968-1970), this book has special meaning to me.
His personal stories exhibit a lot about in effect leadership, conviction, tough work as well as respect for others. General Powell is a reflective, self-effacing as well as common soldier-leader who became one of America's many dignified open figures. That is no mean feat for a man from South Bronx, New York City.
Meeting Nik Raina during Borders, Mid Valley
We got a reward when a Store Manager Merchanising, came to serve us. Her name is Nik Raina Binti Nik Abdul Aziz. She thanked me openly for giving her box with JAWI over a sale of Irshad Manji's book (Bahasa Malaysia version) worldwide exposure.
Nik appeared calm as well as picked up since her box was listened in a Syariah Court. She said that her box is being handled by a efficient as well as superb lawyer, Rosli Dahlan who is well known to readers of this blog in tie with a box of a former Director, Commercial Crimes Investigation Department of a Royal Malaysian Police, Dato Ramli Yusuff.
Nik told me my wife, Dr. Kamsiah as well as you that she was charged by JAWI 
because she was a many comparison Muslim in a use of Borders Mid-Valley.
Her trainer is a really nice Chinese lady, Ms Yau Su Peng, but since she is non-Muslim, she was not touched by JAWI.
It is Nik's set-back to be around when JAWI officers raided a bookshop in a upmarket Mid-Valley Shopping Center. It is a box of being during a right place during a wrong time.
She told my wife as well as you that JAWI officials accused her of being a lesbian since she was not married, as well as after they altered their tag when they detected that she had recently married. Now she is, according to them, a bisexual. What's next if this caper do not work.
What a playground with these characters as proprietor clowns. They do not realise how someone, a young woman during that, who is being put through an emotional millstone feels. It is not all fun as well as games, as well as you as lay persons all know instinctively that she is not guilty, as well as Borders has not damaged a law.
Borders detected that JAWI had created to a Registrar of a Syariah Court upon Jun 27, 2012 to assist a box upon a basement that it had turn a "matter of open interest" as well as to "clarify a facts with a media as well as bloggers". It said a box should be listened some time August (see letter below).
If there is any open interest in this Nik Raina case, you think, it is since you wish to know if probity will overcome opposite those who abuse a law in a name of religion.
Letter from JAWI to assist 1
Letter from JAWI to assist , 2nd page
JAWI's ask was done opposite a following factual backdrop:
The Syariah Court Judge upon Jun 18, 2012 upon a ask of Nik Raina's counsel, gave September 19, 2012 as a next Mention so that a parties could have sufficient time to draw up of a Judicial Review record brought by Berjaya Books opposite JAWI in a High Court first; and
The High Court Judge Rohana Yusof upon September 19, 2012 pronouncing that Berjaya Book's duplicate for Judicial Review opposite a actions of JAWI had merit as well as granting leave to Berjaya Books to ensue with a duplicate for Judicial Review opposite a actions of JAWI upon September 19, 2012.
It looks like JAWI is right away perplexing to by-pass a Judicial Review
record as well as create a conflict situation between a Syariah as well as Civil courts! How can Nik as well as her Lawyer be during dual places during a same time. To me, this ridiculous pierce is a pointer that JAWI has no legal leg to mount on. It must right away perform a playground act for a media as well as a bloggers.
There is no legal basement for prosecution, since a book was not criminialized during a time when JAWI paid a "friendly visit" to Borders as well as decided to charge Nik Raina.
My recommendation to JAWI is that they should stop posterior this case. The open knows that JAWI had acted hastily. It should additionally realise that a sick deliberate pierce is an annoyance to a Prime Minister as well as a government.
Please wise up as well as drop a box that is right away reception a international attention. Stop a Media circus, if JAWI wants to keep a integrity as well as repute intact. you say it again as well as JAWI knows it too. Nik Raina is trusting as well as Borders as a reputable book store as well as a responsible corporate citizen has not damaged a Law.
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