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Looks like the father of all by-election battles, the Permatang Pauh by-election, has kicked off last night.

Report from Bernama:

Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said he will definitely contest in the by-election for the Permatang Pauh parliamentary seat even if he were to be locked up behind bars.

He said that his intention to contest had never been deterred no matter what the circumstances were to achieve his objective of taking over Putrajaya.

........Anwar said the question of his wife, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, betraying the Permatang Pauh electorate by resigning as the member of parliament for the constituency should not arise because she had explained from the beginning that she would make way for her husband as soon as he was eligible to contest.

Several Pakatan Rakyat leaders who were present at the ceramah, including PAS vice-president Datuk Husam Musa, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and PKR president Dr Wan Azizah, also spoke at the function.

I must thank Anil Netto for driving home two remarkable points reflecting the mood of the people in anticipating the by-election.

The first one is the capture of the crowd sitting there listening to the ceramah. 15,000 of them:

f Abdullah Ahmad Badawi steps down since 9th of March 2008, to focus on his personal search of Abadi, perhaps he could have found it. But, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has prefered to stay on the Chair of the Prime Minister, possibly until mid 2010, thus he is doing much more disaster now to himself and others too. Particularly to PAS and Pakatan Rakyat.

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Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Still Searching For Abadi Not Found Yet
In Wondering He Lost The Malay Votes In UMNO And Malaysia
In Wandering He Back Pushing Islam Hadhari To Grovel Islam Ala-PAS

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Wishing To Living Behind A Legacy

In History Remembered The Best He Can Be

But

In Darkness He Is Asking For Mercy

In History The Worst Leader To We And Me

Zubli Zainordin,

I told a blogger friend Rastom Abdul Rahman at Halwa Romantis, What disaster Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is doing since 2004, it will need for us 100 years to correct this, so Malaysia is safe again.
But, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi did not do one disaster, he did many, as a leader and his leadership, he did it his in family, in party, in coalition, in government, neighboring countries, and abroad too.
The tick of time is so fast now and beyond, for a weak, slow, sleepy leader, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
The doings he did not do, and the not to be done that he did, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, is the doer to himself and others too, choking to suffocation, and decaying to an inevitable death.
What stone can Abdullah Ahmad Badawi stand on now? What branch can Abdullah Ahmad Badawi cling on now?
Family, Friend, Fans…who?
In darkness, within this endarkenment, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi grabs what is near and available, in an attempt to have more time given to continue the initial search of Abadi.
So, Malay, and Islam.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is a leader who is first Melayu. He may be seen a bit confuse about Semangat 46, but Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has been with UMNO since.
An Individual Melayu can be a Melayu and talk about Melayu and fight for Melayu, and engrossed only totally Melayu.
For example, Persatuan Orang Melayu Untuk Melayu.
But.
A leader of Malaysia, more so the Prime Minister Of Malaysia, cannot be a Melayu who does all that, but shall be successful as a Melayu doing for all Malaysians and Malaysia.
A Muslim, one who submits and surrender, with an option of total, is one who ask, seek, when found, an Islam in accordance to The God.
But.
On earth, one cannot be a Muslim, when one introduces another which is not ordained by The God, such as Islam Hadhari.
Similar to other forms of Islam throughout the world and around the globe, with so many names, each will think her or his is the right one, then so engrossed in it, a blunder, forever…
After the Malaysian 12th General Election, the sweetness of winning the historical best earlier, has been turned a bitterness into the historical worst now.
Why?
Well, the honeymooning between 2004 to 2008, has been filled with sleep, and when not awake, there shall be no awakening toward Abadi.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi can understand more on this about his searching for Abadi, if he remembers the Wise relating to us the story of Agas, and the verse about Light in Chapter 24, of The Book from The God.
Agas is the insect surrounding where light is. Agas in darkness, prefering to go and meet The God, and was informed about this Light, and in the searching, this Agas mistakenly took the lamp of light as The God; The Light.
To Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, UMNO is no longer an entity a President can be supreme. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi no longer gets the total number of Malays in UMNO. Even the majority of Malays in UMNO who once trusted him, is continuously decreasing now. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi still gets a handful of loyalists and supporters in UMNO. But, these cannot be the sincere, for each can has individual interest and not the leadership of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi himself. He can feel this if Abdullah Ahmad Badawi can once be sincere to himself.
To Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Islam Hadhari is good if not the best. Even so, if Islam Hadhari is truest to The God. All the promotion and the Ringgit Malaysia involved in this promotion, the young has been using the internet and each of them did not spend much money, just a few pictures of a leader leading a sembahyang, and then in a party hands touching other women, and this alone is enough to be a lasting joke upon Islam Hadhari, in cyberspace within the bloggosphere.
A lesson to those who mocks The God.
So, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is seen on a delicate balance, between to pursue a daching dunia, or a daching akhirat.
Thus, of all the political parties in Malaysia, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, can see a chance of remaining in power, and retaining sitting on the Chair, and this party is PAS.
PAS is a party seen lower than UMNO, but higher in the public acceptance.
PAS is a party seen a loser than UMNO, but winning more states and having more Menteri Besar, earlier in kelantan only, now to include Kedah and Perak.
PAS is a party seen dress funny than UMNO, but the Taqwa is higher.
So, a simple preference to continue in power and proceed to sit on the Chair, what Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is involved in, the what secret meetings between UMNO and PAS, if…in a name of unity, this Abdullah Ahmad Badawi move, has disunited the beauty of PAS as a political party, and has disunited the small loyalty left in UMNO.
If Abdullah Ahmad Badawi continues to search for ways to continue as the Prime Minister Of Malaysia, the Chairman Of Barisan Nasional, and the President Of UMNO, he can possibly be lost more than a loser, and the Abadi he has been searching for since, is becoming further in terms of distance, and away from where he is now and where he is heading.
The God willing, a possibility is to step down honorably from all these Chairs, a personal return to The God, and the Abadi search can possibly end because Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at last has found it.
Hopefully.
When found, good for him, he found it, and good for us the Public Of Malaysians and the Republic Of Malaysia, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi no longer on the Chair.

First of all, I am no big fan of Condi Rice at all. In fact, there is no love lost between us. I hate her to the core for all the hypocrisies and cruelties that the US state government has done, as manifested by her actions and decisions. In Iraq. In Afghanistan. In all matters relating to Muslims.

But at least I just hope that we Malaysians don't acquire that hypocrisy trait from them. At least not from within the educated and learned lot like cabinet ministers.

So I was greatly discomforted, and displeased, to read the kind of English understanding (or was it an intentional, fully orchestrated failure of English comprehension to the Mike Tysonian proportions), that was shown by our foreign minister, one guy by the name of Rais Yatim when he tried to relay what he understood from Condi Rice's speech in Singapore.

TEXT:
SINGAPORE, July 23 (Bernama) -- The United States agrees with Malaysia's view pertaining to the rule of law, Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said.

During a meeting with the United States Wednesday, he said Malaysia raised the point that "we recognise the role of the United States as a world power and appreciate what it has given in terms of assistance, and what it has meant to liberty, freedom, equality, democracy and the rest."

"But we emphasised that the rule of law - system of each country - should be respected.

"This, we have pointed out in a clear message to US Secretary of State (Dr Condoleeza) Rice and she has responded by saying that this is the right of the states and that democracy must be seen to be practised within the right of those states," Rais told reporters after attending the Asean Ministerial Meeting with its dialogue partners here.

He had earlier attended bilateral meetings with the United States and Russia, as well as other side meetings.

Rais said Malaysia hoped that Iraq would be liberated at the end of its reconstruction days and forged ahead with its own democratic system so that what belonged to the Iraqis were returned to them.

-- BERNAMA

Listen to this:

On Pas Youth’s reason for going all-out to protest [Indonesian dangdut queen] Inul’s concert [to be held at Stadium Bukit Jalil on Sunday], [Federal Territory Pas Youth chief] Kamaruzaman said: “Have you seen her in action? Just go to the YouTube website and type her name and you will see that her shows are quite obscene. Even I can’t bear watching her.”

He said her concerts were known to make the crowd go “wild sexually” and that this could lead to social problems.

“Once they go wild, some will resort to sex by the roadside. So it’s best that her concert does not go on,” he said. [New Straits Times]

Wow. Go to concert. Watch Inul do the “drill”. Get turned on. Have roadside sex.

Malaysia is such a happening place.

AND speaking of sex, here’s the rebuttal to the rebuttal — Why I Still Believe Anwar Is Not Guilty.

If there’s more coming, maybe someone should compile it all into a booklet.

PLUS, check this out:

The Malaysian Insider understands that the police are considering making public close-circuit television footage to show the treatment given to the Opposition leader when he was in detention at the KL police headquarters. [Malaysian Insider]

How long was Anwar detained?

Unless the plan is to show footage of the entire duration that Anwar was held, it is a bad, bad idea.

Because if you just show parts that put the police in a glowing light, people will ask about the shite that was left out.

Then they’ll start speculating that those parts were not made public because the police have something to hide.

So it’s all or nothing.

Since “all” would involve hours of footage, I suggest the police put out a DVD.

Maybe we can also have a multi-disc special edition, with exclusive footage of his arrest and interviews with the men in ski masks on how they managed to pull off such a risky operation involving a highly dangerous suspect and an angry mob that stood in the way.

We know that life on a fix is the kind of life that street drug peddlers live by.

Lately, looks like we street people of this beloved country are also inundated with all sorts of fixes here and there.

The latest one came out from RPK again today.

Read more here and here. This guy is really unrepentant :). Is he going for broke?

I am sure it will be C4lly explosive again this time.

First of all, I am no big fan of Condi Rice at all. In fact, there is no love lost between us. I hate her to the core for all the hypocrisies and cruelties that the US state government has done, as manifested by her actions and decisions. In Iraq. In Afghanistan. In all matters relating to Muslims.

But at least I just hope that we Malaysians don't acquire that hypocrisy trait from them. At least not from within the educated and learned lot like cabinet ministers.

So I was greatly discomforted, and displeased, to read the kind of English understanding (or was it an intentional, fully orchestrated failure of English comprehension to the Mike Tysonian proportions), that was shown by our foreign minister, one guy by the name of Rais Yatim when he tried to relay what he understood from Condi Rice's speech in Singapore.

When non-Malays voted for PAS in droves during the March 8 elections, it was an indication that the party had made some headway in its efforts to convince these voters that PAS was not the monster some made it out to be.

Undoubtedly, many votes that came PAS’ way were largely due to strong anti-establishment sentiments, but the results must also be seen within the context of non-Malays expressing a preference for an Islamic party over a largely secular, long-established incumbent.

Both non-Malay voters and PAS have crossed significant thresholds that formed a barrier between the two coming together.

When the going got tough, these voters were willing to countenance the act of giving their votes, and consequently, political power, to an Islamic party that in the past was avoided as if it were a colony of lepers.

On its part, PAS managed to dispel the image widely-held by non-Malays that it was nothing more than an extremist group hell-bent on governing Malaysia along the lines of a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

PAS sent out the message that it too stood for justice, fairness and freedom, and that these basic principles, which are both Islamic and universal, would be the basis of its engagement with the people.

That message was, to a considerable degree, successful in moving non-Malay perception of the party from largely negative territory to a more neutral position.

The results of the March 8 elections is proof of that.

But PAS cannot take its newfound “popularity” for granted. For one thing, the whims and fancies of voters are fickle. They can easily swing the other way, especially when the relationship is new and has yet to be battle-tested.

Whether the party realises it or not, it has to prove itself to the non-Malays again and again, before trust can be established on a solid footing.

Non-Malay voters know what they want, and during the elections, they made their hopes and aspirations very clear to all who would look and listen.

PAS sidling up to Umno is not exactly on the wish list.

But what does PAS want?

After March 8, PAS found itself tantalisingly close to the center of power. But the party will never be able to singly achieve political supremacy on its own.

What PAS has going for it is the fact that the party has become the ultimate powerbroker under the current political scenario.

PAS can make the Pakatan Rakyat alliance a success, or it can add much needed steel to the wobbly Barisan National coalition.

The party chose the first option, and saw itself quickly relegated to a supporting role, dominated by a political agenda set out by Anwar Ibrahim.

Some PAS leaders are naturally upset at this state of affairs.

Are the moves to reacquaintant itself with Umno merely intended as a signal that PAS wants to be taken more seriously and be given more prominence in driving the Pakatan Rakyat forward?

Or are they a prelude to a genuinely sought formal political understanding that will see PAS second only to Umno in the heirarchy of the current establishment?

I believe it is the former, because the latter alternative will serve only to consign PAS into the dustbin of Malaysian history.