“Tunjuk muka jika ada dalam negara”
SHAH ALAM – Pengendali laman web Malaysia Today, Raja Petra Kamaruddin digesa tampil menunjukkan diri jika benar dakwaannya mengatakan beliau berada di dalam negara ini melalui laman laman webnya.
Timbalan Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Ismail Omar berkata, sekiranya benar Raja Petra berada di dalam negara ini, dia hendaklah menyerah diri berikutan bersangkut dengan dua waran tangkap yang dikenakan.
“Kalau betul dia (Raja Petra) di Malaysia, tunjukkan muka… kalau tak bersalah dia tak perlu takut.
“Dia cakap dia bukan di luar negara, itu dia yang cakap sebab siasatan kita selama ini kita percaya dia berada di luar negara dan keluar menggunakan dokumen haram,” katanya ketika dihubungi Sinar Harian di sini, semalam. Read more
IGP, stop foaming at the mouth!
The IGP wants the British police to detain me and to send me back to Malaysia. He believes I am in London and am living in a luxury flat in Bayswater. But why does he worry so much about me when I am sure he has other bigger problems on his hands? Well, I suppose one of the many, many reasons is this Statutory Declaration about his dirty dealings, which I revealed earlier.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
STATUTORY DECLARATION
I, XXXXXXXX Police I/C No: XXXXX, a Malaysian citizen of full age and residing at XXXXX Kuala Lumpur, do hereby sincerely and truly affirm and say as follows:-
I joined Polis DiRaja Malaysia since XXXXX and am currently serving as XXXX am the aide de camp (ADC) of the Inspector of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan (IGP Musa) XXXXXX Read more
Part 5: I just want the harassment to end (P. Balasubramaniam)
Bala reveals that to date he was paid RM750,000 but the harassment continues and he feels more like a prisoner. He says he has come out of the closet so that the harassment can end and he can lead a normal life again. He just wants his life back.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Q 69. How long had you known ASP Suresh before this incident?
A. I have known him for about 10 years. I met him when he was a senior Investigation Officer at the IPK Kuala Lumpur. I was a private investigator then. ASP Suresh used to ask me to assist him in obtaining fast traces and details on mobile phones as I had contacts in the phone companies and was able to get the information required faster than the police who had to go through official channels. Read more
Part 4: Bala finds his life turned upside down (P. Balasubramaniam)
Life on the run is not as rosy as most imagine when one’s family has to suffer. Bala finds that the money means very little when family life and the children’s education are sacrificed. He decides to change all that and to regain his normal life but his ‘handlers’ have other ideas. He realises, therefore, he has to break away from them if he really wants to be free.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Q 55. Why did you not tell them the truth about the way the 2nd statutory declaration was made since you had your family with you and they were all safe?
A. I was still in a state of confusion and was still concerned for the safety of my family. I was made aware that Deepak had some very powerful connections, especially after meeting the Malay VIP Datuk at The Curve a few nights previously and his advice was still in my mind. Read more
Part 3: The Malaysian police catch up with Bala (P. Balasubramaniam)
The Malaysian police catch up with Bala in Bangkok and ask to meet him. However, they are only interested in talking about the first SD and there is no discussion whatsoever about the second SD. The Malaysian police, therefore, know the truth but chose to bury it rather than take action.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Q 41. Where did you go once you landed in Bangkok?
A. Deepak was supposed to arrange for someone to meet us at the airport but there was no one there. As I was feeling very tired, I hired a taxi to take my family and I to the Shangri La Hotel. We checked in to this hotel and we went to sleep. Read more
Part 2: Bala’s prison without bars (P. Balasubramaniam)
Bala is made to sign the 2nd SD and is bundled out of the country. From thereon they keep him on a tight leash and he no longer has control over what he can say or do. He discovers he has just entered a life of imprisonment; although without the normal bars and padlocks but still a prison nevertheless.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Q 23. What happened next?
A. Deepak gave instructions to Dinesh to book a room at the Hilton Hotel KL Sentral. I left with ASP Suresh to my house in Rawang to see my wife and explain to her what was happening. I was concerned for the safety of my family. Deepak had informed me he wanted me to retract my 1st statutory declaration and then to immediately leave the country with my family. I was in a state of shock as to what was happening. I had anticipated that I would be arrested and interrogated after releasing my 1st statutory declaration but I did not anticipate my family would be threatened so I was not prepared for this. As this VIP Datuk was also involved, I realised the situation was very serious. Read more
Part 1: The mystery unveiled (P. Balasubramaniam)
What really happened in the 48 hours after PI Bala unveiled his first SD on 3 July 2008? Why did he sign a second SD that contradicted his first SD barely a few hours later? And where did he disappear to for more than a year just hours after signing his second SD? And which SD was signed under duress, the first or second? Today, Malaysia Today will answer all those questions that have been on the minds of Malaysians since July last year.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Q 1. After the press conference held at the PKR headquarters on the 3rd July 2008 you returned to the office of your lawyer where you stayed until about 4.30 pm.
A. Yes that is correct. Read more
(Video) Bala Dedah Ditawar RM5 juta
Penyiasat Persendirian, Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal tampil dalam satu klip video untuk mendedahkan bahawa dirinya telah ditawarkan RM5 juta oleh seorang peniaga bernama Deepak, agar menarik balik akuan sumpahnya yang mengaitkan Najib Abdul Razak dengan kes pembunuhan Altantuya.
Klip video ini disiarkan dalam Malaysia Today hari ini, dengan sarikata yang menyatakan bahawa Deepak ialah pengarah (director) Carpet Raya, sebuah syarikat yang dilaporkan berpendapatan RM122 juta. Syarikat tersebut dikatakan mendaftarkan alamatnya di Dataran Palma Ampang, Selangor, sementara pejabatnya beralamat di Mahkota Taman Maluri.
Malah, sari kata yang terpampang dalam klip video ini cuba mengaitkan Deepak dengan Rosmah Mansor, isteri Perdana Menteri. Balasubramaniam mendakwa bahawa Deepak datang berjumpa dengannya, selepas dirinya mengumumkan akuan sumpah pertamanya pada 3 Julai 2008. Read more
Malaysia halts sedition trial of anti-government blogger
Raja Petra, 59, has infuriated authorities for years by publishing numerous claims of alleged wrongdoing by government leaders. The government has denounced Raja Petra’s allegations as lies.
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A Malaysian court on Wednesday temporarily halted the trial of a prominent anti-government blogger accused of sedition because authorities could not track him down.
Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin went into hiding in April, nearly a year after he was charged with sedition over an article he wrote that allegedly implied the prime minister was involved in the murder of a Mongolian woman.
Sessions Court Judge Rozina Ayub granted Raja Petra a “discharge not amounting to acquittal,” which means the charge has not been formally withdrawn and he can be re-arrested later, said Raja Petra’s lawyer, Jadadish Chandra. Read more
Raja Petra still a wanted man: CID chief
Former Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin is still a wanted man, says Federal CID director Comm Datuk Seri Bakri Zinin.
Despite being given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal by the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court earlier Wednesday, Raja Petra would most likely still have face the court over his sedition charge.
“It is up to the Attorney-General’s Chambers to decide whether to uphold the charges against him.
“We can still charge him after he comes back as the case has not been thrown out yet. He is still wanted based on the charge,” Comm Bakri said. Read more
RPK suggests PI Bala may soon resurface to attack Najib
The fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin, or RPK, has raised the ante again against Datuk Seri Najib Razak by threatening to expose another statutory declaration by missing private investigator P. Balasubramaniam.
Talk has been swirling for several weeks now that the private investigator was going to surface after going missing since July last year.
There has been speculation that Balasubramaniam would restate allegations against the prime minister he first made in a statutory declaration last year linking Najib to the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu.
In a posting on his Malaysia-today.net portal, RPK alleges that Balasubramaniam had been living in India since he went missing and had been paid to keep quiet. Read more
Petra dilepas kes menghasut
Penulis blog Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin hari ini dilepas tanpa dibebaskan oleh Mahkamah Sesyen daripada tuduhan menerbitkan kata-kata hasutan di laman web kerana polis masih gagal mengesan beliau.
Hakim Rozina Ayub yang membuat keputusan itu berkata perkara ini amat memalukan semua pihak sehingga menyebabkan kes itu terpaksa dilepaskan kerana pihak pendakwaan gagal menyerahkan waran tangkap yang menyebabkan kes itu tergantung dan masih tiada penghujung.
“Kes ini tidak dapat diteruskan, terlalu sayang, kerana pihak pendakwaan telah memanggil tujuh saksi pendakwaan,” kata Rozina.
Mahkamah hanya melepaskan tertuduh buat sementara waktu tetapi masih mengarahkan agar notis tunjuk sebab disempurnakan dan diserahkan kepada isteri penulis blog itu, Marina Lee, selaku penjamin. Read more
Will Selangor fall in January?
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Two weeks before the Pakatan Rakyat Perak state government fell I suggested they seek an audience with the Sultan of Perak and request that the Perak State Assembly be dissolved to make way for fresh state elections.
I spoke to Anwar Ibrahim about it and he told me that my anxiety is unfounded because he had already spoken to Lim Kit Siang and Kit Siang had assured him that the problem with Hee had already been resolved and that everything is under control.
I was, however, still adamant that they should request permission for the dissolution of the Perak State Assembly while they still controlled the majority in the Assembly. Once they lose this majority the Sultan need not consider Pakatan Rakyat’s request because Pakatan Rakyat will no longer be the Perak state government.
As long as Pakatan Rakyat is still the government the Sultan will have no excuse to turn down Pakatan Rakyat’s request. Even if he did turn down the Pakatan Rakyat request to dissolve the Perak State Assembly he will have no legitimate reason for doing so and it would be very obvious that the Sultan is a tool of Umno and he would appear like a slime-ball. Read more
Why the Pakatan Rakyat government was brought down in Perak
Raja Petra Kamarudin
We all know what happened in Perak. What many do not know is why it happened.
If you can remember, it took one week for the Perak and Selangor state governments to get sworn in after the March 2008 general election. The Sultans of these two states wanted to first ‘discuss the matter’ with the Pakatan Rakyat State Assemblypersons. The Sultans then set certain terms and conditions before agreeing to swear in the new Pakatan Rakyat state governments.
This gap of one week allowed the old Barisan Nasional state governments time to remove and destroy quite a lot of very damaging evidence of the wrongdoings of the previous governments.
The one-week delay also allowed Barisan Nasional to negotiate the possibility of PAS teaming up with Umno to form the state governments in Perak and Selangor. Umno even agreed that PAS would become the Menteris Besar of these two states. And, to add icing to the cake, Umno even agreed to allow PAS to implement Islamic laws in these two states. Read more
What many Malays do not know
Raja Petra Kamarudin
(Bernama) — Students of the Syariah Law Faculty of Universiti Malaya (UM) have launch a “Friends of Kartika” club to demonstrate support for the part-time model who has expressed he wish to be caned by the authorities over her transgression with alcohol.
UM Students Representative Council secretary, Shah Rizul Ayuni Zulkiply told a press conference here today that the objective of the club was to demonstrate support for Kartika by the Muslims students in the university.
She said the club was confident that the decision by Kartika to accept the punishment was a means of correcting herself and be guided by the teachings of Islam.
Kartika was recently fined RM5,000 and ordered to whipped six times by the Kuantan Syariah High Court after she pleaded to consuming alcohol at a hotel in Kuantan some time last year.
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Many Muslims, Malays of course included, do not realise that there are 6,346 verses in the Quran (Koran) but only about 80 verses or so touch on the issue of ‘laws’. That is slightly over 1% of the Quran. How, therefore, did the Shariah or Islamic law come about?
The Shariah was developed over 300 years from the mid-600s to the mid-900s, after the death of Prophet Muhammad. Some of it was adapted from the Quran, which was revealed over 22 years during the time of the Prophet. The verses of the Quran were not revealed all in one go but came down in bits and pieces as the situation demanded and whenever a ruling needed to be made.
For example, there is the story of how certain people in Medina accused the Prophet’s youngest wife, Aishah, of adultery with a young handsome Arab man. This came about when Aishah was making a journey in the desert and when the caravan stopped she went to answer the call of nature, invariably away from public view. The caravan, not realising that she was missing, continued its journey and she was accidentally left behind.
She returned to the caravan site and discovered that the caravan had left, leaving her behind, so she sat there hoping that they would realise they had left her and come back to fetch her.
But the caravan did not realise she had been left behind until they stopped for the night. So they decided to camp there since it was already getting dark and they would go look for her the next day come daylight.
In the meantime, this young Arab man on his horse came along, saw this woman in a veil sitting all alone in the desert and he immediately recognised her as one of the Prophet’s wives. He had never met Aishah before and of course could not recognise her face — in fact, Aishah’s face could not be seen because of the veil — but he knew she was the Prophet’s wife because of the veil that she wore.
At that time only the Prophet’s wives wore veils.
He took her on his horse and pursued the caravan and it was not till the next day they caught up with the caravan. Imagine the people’s surprise when they saw Aishah sitting behind this young man on his horse.
And that started tongues wagging.
Ali, the Prophet’s companion, cousin and son-in-law, who later on became the fourth Caliph (which means ‘successor’) of Medina, felt that a Prophet could not afford a scandal and because of the allegations of adultery against Aishah then probably the Prophet should divorce her.
This troubled the Prophet because he really loved Aishah, who was his favourite wife. Although he refused to divorce her he did leave her and after three days the ruling on adultery was revealed. The Prophet happily went back to Aishah to tell her what had been revealed.
Those who commit adultery should be whipped 100 lashes and those who wrongly accuse someone of adultery should be whipped 80 lashes. And that was what the Quran stipulated as far as punishment for adultery is concerned.
The old pre-Islamic tribal laws for adultery was, of course, stoning to death.
While the Quran forbids the drinking of intoxicating substances, it is ‘silent’ on the punishment. But over 300 years from the mid-600s to the mid-900s, one Qadi (Kadi), the equivalent of a court official during the time of the Caliphs, decided that the punishment for drinking should be the same as that of the punishment for false allegations of adultery, meaning 80 lashes.
So, if Kartika is supposed to be punished according to ‘Islamic law’, then why a fine of RM5,000 and six lashes? Should not the correct punishment be 80 lashes as decided by the Qadi during the era of the mid-600s to the mid-900s? The Qadi during the time of the Caliphs did not impose a fine plus six lashes. It was 80 lashes.
We must remember that the Shariah was not carved in stone, so to speak. It in fact never existed during the time of the Prophet. It developed over 300 years after the Prophet had died. And by the year 1,000 there was no longer any discussion or ‘development’ allowed.
In other words, the Shariah ‘stood still’ for more than 1,000 years until now, 2009. What had been decided before the year 1,000 was accepted as final and complete and any further ‘innovation’ was declared haram and classified as bida’ah (the Arabic word for ‘innovation’).
But the Shariah itself varied from city to city and from time to time. Let us focus on just two seats of the Islamic Empire at that time — Medina and Kufa. Medina was ruled by the four Caliphs — Abu Bakar, Omar, Othman and Ali — while Kufa was ruled by its governor, Muawiyah, which became the seat of the Abbasid Empire.
In Medina, the punishment of cutting off the hands of thieves would apply if the item you stole exceeded the value of three dirhams while in Kufa it was ten dirhams. This means if you stole a bicycle in Medina your hands would be cut off while it was a motorcycle in Kufa, to use this analogy as a ‘modern’ yardstick. Then, in other parts of the Empire, even stealing a loaf of bread could mean your hands would be cut off.
Different Qadi at different times and different places over those 300 years decided on rulings and punishments based on ‘local conditions’. They would take into consideration local tribal customs, the state of emergency (whether they are at war or at peace), how society functions, the ‘value system’ of the society at that time, and whatnot.
In other words, rulings and punishment would be ‘tailored’ to suit local conditions. This means discretion based on local conditions and situations and whatnot would apply. So the Shariah was not static but dynamic.
For example, in Medina, the man of the household would negotiate a woman’s marriage ‘contract’ such as dowry and so on. Women must stay out of the entire thing and just accept what has been decided. In Kufa, a woman can negotiate her own terms and can make her own decisions regarding her marriage. So the price for ‘sacrificing her virginity’ is hers to decide in Kufa, while in Medina the man of the house decides the woman’s ‘worth’.
The greatest tragedy in Islam was when by the year 1,000 or so they decided that no further ‘innovations’ would be allowed. So, for more than 1,000 years, Muslims have had to live by the rules decided long before the year 1,000 by people who took ‘local conditions’ into consideration in making these rules.
Even then, the rules were not consistent. They varied from place to place and period to period. They changed as and when the Qadi decided they needed to be changed. And some Qadi were strict while others were pragmatic. And when the Abbasid Empire was toppled and the Umayyads took over, the rules were again changed, right up to the time of Harun Al Rashid.
During the time of Harun Al Rashid, a power struggle ensued between the Caliph and the religionists. As a compromise, a deal was struck whereby the religionists would decide on the laws and the Caliph would merely implement the laws. If Harun Al Rashid had resisted he would have been ousted just like the Abbasids before that.
In that sense it was a power-sharing contract of sorts, a separation of the church and state, as they would say in the west. No longer did the state have the power to make laws. The religionists took over this function. But in this case, while the ‘church’ had the powers to make the laws, the ‘state’ was obligated to enforce them or else get kicked out.
Muslims, in particular the Malays, have to understand how the Shariah came about and how it developed over 300 years after the death of the Prophet until what it is today. And they must also understand how ‘time stood still’ for more than 1,000 years because of the many power struggles between Medina and Kufa (which saw the Muslims split into Sunnis and Shiahs, until today), the Abbasids and Umayyads, and the Caliphs and the ‘men of the cloth’.
Imam Malik had a different view and his Muwatta’ lies testimony to this. Zayd too had a different view and it was he who decided on the 80 lashes for drinking where during the time of the Prophet this had not been the case. Abu Yussuf in fact even went into conflict with Harun Al Rahid as to what the proper interpretation of the law should be. And Malik was even whipped and jailed because he and the Caliph disagreed on the doctrine.
And Malaysian Malays, most who follow Imam Shafie, would certainly disagree with Malik, who not only made it legal to keep slaves but also the slave owner is allowed to have sex with female slaves. That is not considered adultery or extra-marital sex since the slave is your property anyway.
This law has never changed until today although I would not know where one can buy female slaves nowadays.
I say we should open the doors for the reinterpretation of Islam and allow ‘innovation’, which has since been outlawed by Islam. And we need brave Muslims to study the history of the Shariah and decide what applies in this day and age and according to the environment we live in.
If we really want to split hairs, then even the Amanah Saham, which many Malays invest in, is haram. Any profit made through no effort of your own is considered usury, according to Zayd, and is therefore haram. Are we prepared to follow Islam to the letter or do we just want to pick and choose what suits us and conveniently ignore the rest since it would be profitable to do so?
That is my take on the Kartika issue and I sincerely apologise if my views differ from that of ‘mainstream’ Muslims. After all, even Malik and the Caliph disagreed on the doctrine of Islam and he was punished severely for that.
Ultimately, what we have today is what the victors or what those in power have decided for us. Those who disagreed but did not have the power to voice their opinions lost out and their views, whether correct or otherwise, died with them.
Do we not say the victors and not the vanquished write the books?
Anwar Ibrahim fiddles while Rome Sabah burns?
Most Malaysians who have been following Malaysian politics, especially opposition politics, know that Azmin Ali has been and is the right hand man of Anwar Ibrahim, El Supremo of PKR and the accepted leader of the loose coalition called Pakatan Rakyat.
Ironically, while Anwar Ibrahim has been acknowledged as the vital glue that holds the component parties of Pakatan together, his party PKR has also been identified as the alliance’s weakest link.
PKR is the successor to Parti KeADILan, with the latter created as a single-issue political entity, to fight for the release of Anwar Ibrahim after he was incarcerated in the original sodomy affair, known locally as Sodomy I (where there is currently a case pending in court unofficially referred to as Sodomy II).
Subsequently KeADILan merged with PRM to form PKR (to my mind as well as many in PRM, that was a sad mistake by Dr Syed Husin). Anyway, in its hasty formation it indiscriminately recruited a considerable number of questionable members – ‘questionable’ in their commitments to the Pakatan avowed ‘clean’ politics.
We have certainly witnessed the lack of discipline in a number of PKR members, but worse, we hear of them ‘continuing’ to harbour the grosser ends of UMNO mentality.
With the exit from PKR of Ezam Mohd Noor, once known as the left hand man of Anwar Ibrahim (well, or vice versa with Ezam as the RH man and Azmin the LH man), maybe Azmin has come to believe he stands just a heartbeat away from being No 1 in PKR and by default (perhaps his ego allows him to think so) the primus inter pares of the Pakatan coalition.
Pak Haji Hadi Awang has similar aspiration wakakaka.
Azmin first showed his ambitious fangs when in July he was reported to demand reshuffling of the state exco but Selangor MB Khalid Ibrahim ignored him.
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