Siapa Berani Mencabar Barat Selepas Tun Dr. Mahathir

Siapa Berani Mencabar Barat Selepas Tun Dr Mahathir?

Oleh Pusat Media Forum Keamanan Perdana III

Baru baru ini, semasa Forum Keamanan Perdana III, “Membongkar Jenayah Peperangan: Menjenayahkan Peperangan”, 5-7 Februari 2007 diPWTC, Kuala Lumpur, begitu banyak hujah hujah berserta bukti bukti dan akuan bersumpah mereka yang menjadi mangsa peperangan, terutama diAsia Barat, diutarakan. Isu isu yang tiada penyelesaian seperti Isu Palestin, Penentangan Keatas Penubuhan Israel, Pencerobohan Iraq dan tafsiran Barat, terutama AS dan UK terhadap keganasan yang berpunca kunun kunun dari umat Islam begitu intensif dibincangkan.

Pakar pakar perundangan, sains radiasi, ekonomi antarabangsa, hubungan antarabangsa dan diplomasi, mantan penjawat utama PBB, penganalisa politik, termasuk dari Barat dan ahli politik AS yang menentang peperangan sendiri membentangkan kes kes mereka mengenai kekejaman yang timbul dari dasar dan tindakan AS, UK, Israel dan Australia kepada berjuta umat Islam tidak berdosa dan tertindas disekitar Asia Barat. Berpuluh kertas kerja dibentangkan dan sessi soal jawab yang tidak kurang hangat menyusul disetiap akhir setiap sessi.

Semasa Ucaputama Majlis Pembukaan persidangan ini, mantan Perdana Menteri Malaysia dengan lantang menegaskan bahawa “Sejarah sepatutnya mengingati bahawa Blair dan Bush ialah sebagai Pembunuh Kanak Kanak dan/atau Perdana Menteri dan Presiden yang berbohong! Apa yang Blair dan Bush telah lakukan adalah lebih buruk dari apa yang Saddam telah lakukan. Kita tidak sepatutnya mengantung Blair sekiranya Tribunal Peperangan ini mendapati mereka bersalah TETAPI mereka seharusnya membawa label dan dikenali sebagai Penjenayah Peperangan, Pembunuh Kanak Kanak dan Pembohong. Ini juga sepatutnya kepada Bush dan Bush yang didalam poket, yang tinggal diBushland”.

Usaha mengadakan Suruhanjaya Peperangan Kuala Lumpur, yang akan mengkaji aduan aduan bersumpah dan membawa kes kes mereka yang dizalimi dari sudut jenayah peperangan dan hak hak mereka yang dicabuli, akibat kancah kancah konflik "haram" kepada Tirbunal Peperangan Kuala Lumpur mendapat perhatian dunia. Kes kes seperti Ali Shalah, Abbas Zaid (yang diseksa tentera pencoboh AS dipenjara Al Ghuraib) dan rayuan emaja tidak berdosa, Najwa kerana dizalimi tentera ganas Israel adalah manifestasi berapa pentingkan kancah konflik bersenjata ini perlu diharamkan dan pemimpin Barat seperti George W Bush, Tony Blair dan John Howard wajar dilabel sebagai "Pembohong, Pembunuh Kanak Kanak dan Penjenayah Perang" oleh warga dunia, termasuk rakyat mereka sendiri dan ini kekal sebagai meructanda mereka dalam lipatan sejarah.

Semasa Ucapan Pengulungan pula, Tun Dr Mahathir menegaskan bahwa bangsa Barat tidaklah seperti bangsa Timur. Kita diMalaysia ini seudah menjalankan perhubungan dan perdagangan dengan bangsa Timur seperti China melebihi 1000 tahun dan mereka tidak pernah sekali pun mengancam keselamatan kita, apatah lagi ingin menceroboh dan menakluki kita. Tidak seperti Barat, mereka yang asalnya dating untuk berdagang, mudah sangat merasa tamak dan ingin membolot kepentingan perdagangan itu dengan menggunakan kuasa. Ini dibuktikan banyak kali oleh Portugis, Sepanyol, Belanda, Inggeris dan akhir sekali, Amerika, semenjak 500 tahun ini. Akibatnya, banyak tanah tanah diAsia ini jatuh kepada pencerobohan dan penjajahan Barat dalam tempoh itu dan peperangan dan keganasan merupakan saluran untuk sampai kepada agenda ketamakan itu.

Dunia melihat bagaimana Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, mantan Perdana Menteri Malaysia merangkap mantan Pengerusi NAM dan OIC, makin lantang mengutarakan perasaan perasaan menentang dasar berat sebelah Barat, terutama AS, UK dan sekutu sekutu kuat mereka dalam banyak isu melibat diplomasi antarabangsa, isu Palestin dan konflik Asia Barat, isu Afghanistan, isu perdagangan, isu keganasan berstruktur mengunakan bala tentera dan sebagainya. Semasa beliau dalam jawatan, pemimpin kuasa besar dunia seperti Presiden Perancis Jacques Chirac dan terakhir sekali, Presiden Russia Vladimir Putin sanggup menurunkan sokongan mereka kepada isu isu yang dibangkitkan Tun Dr Mahathir. Penentang imperialisman Barat AS paling utama, iaitu Presiden Fidel Castro juga amat mengagumi mantan Perdana Menteri Malaysia ini kerana ketegasan dan sikap terbuka, kepada isim dan roh sebenar ‘demokrasi’, iaitu hak suara ramai didengari (bukan tafsiran demokrasi ala AS, yang memberi tafsiran berat sebelah yang hanya mementingkan mereka sahaja!)

Tun Dr Mahathir juga menerima banyak perhatian negatif dan kecaman media Barat apabila dalam tahun 90an, beliau dengan lantang membangkitkan bahawa kaum Yahudi ‘mengawal’ dunia secara proksi.

Hari ini, sebagai rakyat Malaysia dan warga dunia, beliau masih lagi begitu lantang mempersoalkan dengan penuh keyakinan bahawa kuasa kuasa Barat seperti AS, UK dan sekutu mereka seperti Australia mengunakan kudrat mereka untuk menzalimi dunia, terutama sebahagian orang orang Islam diAsia Barat. Kini beliau memulakan usaha antarabangsa dalam mengelar pemimpin AS, UK dan Australia iaitu George W Bush, Tony Blair dan John Howard sebagai “Pembunuh kanak kanak, pembohong dan penganas”!

Suara suara lantang Tun Dr Mahahir ini datang dari seorang pemimpin akan mencecah 82 tahun, Julai ini. Adat alam, jika kita semua, warga dunia bergantung kepada insan mulia ini meneruskan Perjuangan ini, mungkin tidak lama. Persoalan sekarang, siapa lagi tinggal dalam dunia ini yang mampu meneruskan obor Perjuangan menentang kezaliman dan tidak adilan Barat, selepas Tun Dr Mahathir?

Apakah ada pemimpin pemimpin dunia Islam hari ini, yang cukup “merdeka” dan “bebas” dari ‘belengu’ Barat, untuk benar benar memperjuangkan hak dan kesengsaraan saudara saudara seIslam mereka? Pemimpin mana yang mampu mengatakan yang benar dan hakiki, tanpa sebarang sekatan dan tekanan, samada langsung atau tidak? Pemimpin mana yang sanggup dan ada waja diri untuk bangkit dan didengari, bagi pihak mereka yang tidak berdaya “berbunyi”?

Perdana Menteri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysia ? Raja Al Malik Abdullah Al Saud? Raja Abdullah , Jordan ? Presiden Gen Pervez Musharaff , Pakistan ? Presiden Muammar Al Ghadaffi, Libya ? Presiden Bashir Al Assad, Syria ? Raja Sheikh Al Sabah, Kuwait ? Presiden Sheikh Al Makhtoum, UAE? Presiden Hosni Mubarak, Mesir? Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah , Brunei ? Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia ? Presiden Ahmadinejad , Iran ?

Mungkin hadiah keamanan tahunan Alfred Nobel yang amat berprestij yang dicadangkan beberapa NGO diBosnia dan Croatia kepada Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad sebenar belum memadai bagi dunia betul betul menghargai usaha, keberanian, kecekalan dan ketegasan belaiu meletakan apa yang hak ditempatnya. Dunia akan benar benar menujukan penghargaan apabila ada legasi meneruskan apa yang Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad buat selama 25 tahun ini, terutama dari ketegasan mesej mesej beliau melalui Perdana Global Peace Organisation.

Semoga warga dunia beroleh kebaikan sejagat dan diberkati Allah s.w.t., dari langkah yang dimulakan, YABhg Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, insan warga dunia yang unggul, abad ini.

While we are sleeping..

"While sleeping may bring you peace, peace can’t be realized by sleeping"

Why we love and admire Tun Mahathir..


From Rocky Bru's comment section:

ahmad a talib said...
Bru Bro,Many, many years ago I went to Bosnia Herzegovina when I was reporting for the New Straits Times. Newspaper editors and several non-governmental organisations had formed an action front called Barisan Bertindak Bosnia or the Bosnian Action Front. We initiated a peoples' donation of RM1. Millions of Malaysians donated. We collected some RM5 million. Some of the money was handed over to Pak Lah in New York when he was attending the US as our Foreign Minister. The money was then passed to representatives of the Bosnian govt for the country's rebuilding.

I brought the balance of the money (bank draft la) to Sarajevo and pass it to Tun Dr Mahathir to be handed to the imam of an old mosque in the heart of Sarajevo. This was duly done in the presence of mosque officials and officers from Wisma Putra. Dr M had continously highlighted the ethnic cleansing that was going on and on there. He had talked so much about it and helped created such an intense level of awareness of the issue then. Dr M held press conferences, issued statements, gave interviews. He provoked Malaysians into action. The government sent soldiers for peace keeping and Malaysian NGOs moved to give moral and physical support such as medicines etc. I'm very happy to have been a part of the whole movement to create that awareness, triggered of course, by Dr M's continous flow of statements!Dr M for Nobel prize - that'll make many of us proud!! And typical of the man - he refused to talk about it, hence next question please!

A Woman Misunderstood

I was introduced to Karen Armstrong's books and writings by Susan my American host in Washington DC. I like and enjoyed her writings and came across this on rantingsbymm.blogspot.com

A Woman Misunderstood?

This is not a new article but is Karen Armstrong's response to British Foreign Minister Jack Straw's views about the niqab or full-face veil. Interestingly enough, Karen Armstrong's books are banned in this country (some retroactively).

My years in a habit taught me the paradox of veiling
By Karen ArmstrongAl-Jazeerah, October 31, 2006Guardian, October 26, 2006

If ministers really want a proper debate, they must learn that where the veil is forbidden, women hasten to wear it.I spent seven years of my girlhood heavily veiled - not in a Muslim niqab but in a nun's habit. We wore voluminous black robes, large rosaries and crucifixes, and an elaborate headdress: you could see a small slice of my face from the front, but from the side I was entirely shielded from view. We must have looked very odd indeed, walking dourly through the colourful carnival of London during the swinging 60s, but nobody ever asked us to exchange our habits for more conventional attire.

When my order was founded in the 1840s, not long after Catholic emancipation, people were so enraged to see nuns brazenly wearing their habits ! in the streets that they pelted them with rotten fruit and horse dung. Nuns had been banned from Britain since the Reformation; their return seemed to herald the resurgence of barbarism. Two hundred and fifty years after the gunpowder plot, Catholicism was still feared as unassimilable, irredeemably alien to the British ethos, fanatically opposed to democracy and freedom, and a fifth column allied to dangerous enemies abroad.

Today the veiled Muslim woman appears to symbolise the perceived Islamic threat, as nuns once epitomised the evils of popery. She seems a barbaric affront to hard-won values that are essential to our cultural identity: gender equality, freedom, transparency and openness. But in the Muslim world the veil has also acquired a new symbolism.

If government ministers really want to debate the issue fruitfully, they must become familiar with the bitterly ironic history of veiling during the last hundred years.Until the late 19th century, veiling was neither a central nor a universal practice in the Islamic world. The Qur'an does not command all women to cover their heads; the full hijab was traditionally worn only by aristocratic women, as a mark of status. In Egypt, under Muhammad Ali's leadership (1805-48), the lot of women improved dramatically, and many were abandoning the veil and moving more freely in society.But after the British occupied Egypt in 1882, the consul general, Lord Cromer, ignored this development. He argued that veiling was the "fatal obstacle" that prevented Egyptians from participating fully in western civilisation. Until it was abolished, Egypt would need the benevolent supervision of the colonialists. But Cromer had cynically exploited feminist ideas to advance the colonial project. Egyptian women lost many of their new educational and professional opportunities under the British, and Cromer was co-founder in London of the Anti-Women's Suffrage League.When Egyptian pundits sycophantically supported Cromer, veiling became a hot issue.

In 1899 Qassim Amin published Tahrir al-Mara - The Liberation of Women - which obsequiously praised the nobility of European culture, arguing that the veil symbolised everything that was wrong with Islam and Egypt. It was no feminist tract: Egyptian women, according to Amin, were dirty, ignorant and hopelessly inadequate parents. The book created a furore, and the ensuing debate made the veil a symbol of resistance to colonialism.The problem was compounded in other parts of the Muslim world by reformers who wanted their countries to look modern, even though most of the population had no real understanding of secular institutions.

When Ataturk secularised Turkey, men and women were forced into European costumes that felt like fancy dress. In Iran, the shahs' soldiers used to march through the streets with their bayonets at the ready, tearing off the women's veils and ripping them to pieces. In 1935, Shah Reza Pahlavi ordered the army to shoot at unarmed demonstrators who were protesting against obligatory western dress. Hundreds of Iranians died that day. Many women, whose mothers had happily discarded the veil, adopted the hijab in order to dissociate themselves from aggressively secular regimes.

This happened in Egypt under President Anwar Sadat and it continues under Hosni Mubarak. When the shah banned the chador, during the Iranian revolution, women wore it as a matter of principle - even those who usually wore western clothes. Today in the US, more and more Muslim women are wearing the hijab to distance themselves from the foreign policy of the Bush administration; something similar may well be happening in Britain.

In the patriarchal society of Victorian Britain, nuns offended by tacitly proclaiming that they had no need of men. I found my habit liberating: for seven years I never had to give a thought to my clothes, makeup and hair - all the rubbish that clutters the minds of the most liberated women. In the same way, Muslim women feel that the veil frees them from the constraints of some uncongenial aspects of western modernity.They argue that you do not have to look western to be modern.

The veiled woman defies the sexual mores of the west, with its strange compulsion to "reveal all". Where western men and women display their expensive clothes and flaunt their finely honed bodies as a mark of privilege, the uniformity of traditional Muslim dress stresses the egalitarian and communal ethos of Islam. Muslims feel embattled at present, and at such times the bodies of women often symbolise the beleaguered community. Because of its complex history, Jack Straw and his supporters must realise that many Muslims now suspect such western interventions about the veil as having a hidden agenda. Instead of improving relations, they usually make matters worse. Lord Cromer made the originally marginal practice of veiling problematic in the first place. When women are forbidden to wear the veil, they hasten in ever greater numbers to put it on. In Victorian Britain, nuns believed that until they could appear in public fully veiled, Catholics would never be accepted in this country. But Britain got over its visceral dread of popery. In the late 1960s, shortly before I left my order, we decided to give up the full habit. This decision expressed, among other things, our new confidence, but had it been forced upon us, our deeply ingrained fears of persecution would have revived.

But Muslims today do not feel similarly empowered. The unfolding tragedy of the Middle East has convinced some that the west is bent on the destruction of Islam. The demand that they abandon the veil will exacerbate these fears, and make some women cling more fiercely to the garment that now symbolises their resistance to oppression.

Karen Armstrong is the author of Muhammad: Prophet for Our Time comment@guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329610756-103677,00.html

The Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalize War

International Conference“Expose War Crimes – Criminalise War”

5th to 7th February 2007Dewan Merdeka, Putra World Trade CentreKuala Lumpur
Organised By Perdana Global Peace Organisation under the leadership of Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad

“Wars increasingly involve the killings of innocent people and are therefore, abhorrent and criminal. Killings in war are as criminal as the killings within societies in times of peace. Since killings in peace time are subject to the domestic law of crime, killings in war must likewise be subject to the international law of crimes. This should be so irrespective of whether these killings in war are authorised or permitted by domestic laws.”

The Kuala Lumpur Initiative To Criminalise War

"In a world scarred by violent conflicts and ideological confrontations, made worse by religious misinterpretations and cultural extremism and bigotry, the global community is threatened with endless conflicts and wars. The United Nations, set up to to prevent wars and to achieve peaceful solutions to world conflicts has been denigrated by the very nations which founded it. Now peace is getting even further from becoming a reality. We are still primitive because we believe in killing people to solve out problems."
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad (Fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia)

"I hope that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats..."
Benjamin Franklin - one of the founding fathers of the United States.

Dr M nominated for Nobel Prize

04/02: Dr M nominated for Nobel Prize
By JUNE H.L. WONGThe Star

Four non-governmental organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina have nominated Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad for the Nobel Peace Prize 2007.
They are the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, the Congress of Bosnik Intellectuals and two Christian organisations – the Serb Civic Council from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croat National Council.

The move to nominate the former Prime Minister was spearheaded by Dr Ejup Ganic, who was Vice-President of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1990-96 and President of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina until March 2001.

Dr Ganic, currently the Chancellor of the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, worked closely with Dr Mahathir in the 1990s when Malaysia provided economic, political and humanitarian support to a Bosnia-Herzegovina recovering from the trauma of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the 1992-95 civil war.

Nominations to the Norwegian Nobel Committee closed on Feb 1 and this year’s list includes former US Vice-President Al Gore, Finnish peace broker Martti Ahtisaari and Chinese dissident Rebiya Kadeer.

In a nomination paper signed by Dr Ganic made available to The Star, Dr Mahathir is described as the Third World’s “most illustrious contemporary” and its “most courageous advocate.”
Dr Ganic said that Dr Mahathir had influenced the world by leaving behind lessons on how diversity could be managed, conflicts reconciled and multi ethnicity harnessed to build a vibrant economic and political system.

He also highlighted Dr Mahathir’s “Prosper Thy Neighbour” policy, his enlightened vision of Islam and his work as an ambassador of peace in Iraq-Iran, Bosnia-Herzegovina, southern Thailand, Philippines and Aceh.

Dr Mahathir, 81, who retired from public office in 2003, launched the Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalise War in December 2005 and chairs the Perdana Global Peace Organisation (PGPO) that was set up to implement the initiative.

PGPO’s “Expose War Crimes: Criminalise War” Conference and Exhibition begins tomorrow at Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur.

Expose War Crimes: Criminalise War Feb 5-7

Dr M to speak at war crimes meet

PETALING JAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad will give a keynote address at an international conference-cum-exhibition entitled Expose War Crimes: Criminalise War from Feb 5-7 at the Putra World Trade Centre.

The war crimes exhibition will be the first of its kind to be held in a Muslim country and will highlight atrocities committed in Iraq, Bosnia, Palestine, Vietnam and Hiroshima, Japan. The interactive exhibition will expose visitors to the horrors of the tortures inflicted on those held in the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo detention centres. The event will also launch a petition to set up a War Crimes Tribunal, with testimonies from victims of war crimes, expert witnesses and international law experts. The event is organised by the Perdana Global Peace Organisation.

Admission is free. For enquiries, call: 016-306 8848/03-4041 2920.

Now everyone can lease!

Hmm.. I think Malaysians learnt a very interesting economic lesson from our Minister of Finance this week. That we can all afford to lease!

In that case, I'd like to order a top of the line tan-interior leather cabriolet black beemer please!

by Umar Mukhtar Jan 31, 07

Now everyone can lease!

Yesterday, my minister of finance taught me a few lessons in Bolehland economics with regards to prudent spending on luxury items like an Airbus private airliner. First, if I cannot afford a Ferrari, I should just lease it instead of buying. The monthly payments are much less than the purchase price so (suddenly) I will be able to afford it.

Second, If I don't want to be seen spending money that goes outside the family circle, I should just lease it from my brother. The fact that my brother had bought it from someone outside the family, and also the fact that he used the family's children education trust fund, is irrelevant. What the children don't know won't hurt them!

Third, justify it by conceding that the Ferrari will also be used to ferry grandpa around instead of just for your frivolous gallivanting. It does not matter if grandpa rarely travels outside the neighbourhood, and that he would be too timid to demand its use over your international travels propagating Islam Hadhari for the world. If Dr Mahathir Mohamad was that finance minister, I would have concluded that he was an evil genius. But that coming from Pak Lah, I shall presume that he means well (as always) and was just parroting what the crony commissioned agent said when convincing Pak Lah to conclude the sale. Ooops, the lease, I mean.

Well done, Professor Pak Lah! You are a smart and perceptive manager of public funds. I will now check out if the finance ministers of other Asian economies like Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore have stumbled onto your secret recipe. I guess if they have not leased private jets, it’s probably because they are either not smart enough or maybe because their economies have not performed as well as ours. Or simply because they don't have a King for an excuse, don’t you think?