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EC once more shows its incompetence and bias

Malaysian politics has sunk to a new low that only a revamp of the whole political system and removal of corrupt politicians is the only viable solution. But expecting the government and especially the lame duck Pak Lah to act is like asking Dr Mahathir Mohammed to keep silent. Umno politicians are the common denominator in many of the allegations of corrupt and illegal wrongdoings and conspiracies.

Asking the Umno leadership to step down now is like asking the Burmese junta to make Aung Sun Su Kyi Myanmar's new leader. It is an impossible task! But we know that it would be the best thing that can happen both for Malaysia and Myanmar. Both countries are cursed by bad leadership.

One kicks out their citizens and makes them homeless and stateless to die on the high seas, the other allows the police to allegedly kill suspects in custody, ‘trades’ in refugees and illegal immigrants and uses bribery in politics, even in their own political party.

The latest allegation of bribing politicians by a PKR leaders who has put his name down on a statutory declaration is serious. Pak Lah has to let the MACC loose on the politicians that use money politics. But he needn’t lose any sleep over his deputy who is implicated in the allegation. Only the foolish fall guys, not a future PM, pay the price for the government's window dressing reforms.

The EC once more shows its incompetence and bias. Those two PKR politicians are history. We are told the sultan has been informed and the Perak MB had the go-ahead to call for by-elections. The rakyat also wanted by-elections but the EC only takes orders from you-know-who. Well, with all the mess and potential problems in other states, there should be a snap election.

Najib Abdul Razak is in hot soup for so many scandals but Umno still thinks he is their poster boy. He is a real hot potato for Umno, their gift to the opposition. It shows that Umno members have no moral expectations, or moral conscience, only a blind allegiance to the one who feeds them. They are selling out the Malays who have the most to lose by having leaders who don't care for them by not doing their jobs properly. That will teach those who accept money and sell out their race and religion.

And talking about religion, allow me to comment on the letter Allah ban: Let us practise what we preach .

That appeal should have been made to the government, not the Catholics. The writer misunderstands the Catholic religion that believes in social justice. More than any other religious group, the Catholics have always been at the forefront of social justice. Why do you think they and other Christian groups will defend Muslims against acts of injustice? They, like individual Malaysian Muslims, will speak out against injustice whoever is the perpetrator. They respect the truth.

Is the writer suggesting he is smarter and more knowledgeable than the Catholic leaders? For example he wrote: ‘Being confrontational and defying the government's ban only goes to show we do not practise what we preach.’

Huh? Appealing to the law of the land is not practising what Catholics preach? The writer just does not understand that Catholicism - or Christianity for that matter - is not about letting people take advantage of you and turning the other cheek when it is your duty and responsibility to uphold the law, the truth, justice and your God-given rights.

The question is ‘why not’, not why the Catholics use the word 'Allah’.The government is the one rocking the boat of history and creating a problem which did not exist. Other religions have used the word for a long time.

The writer should write a letter to the government and tell it to respect the religious history and traditions of the Catholics. No other Muslims anywhere else are complaining except the arrogant Umno Muslims. Even many distinguished and learned Malaysian Muslims have argued for the Catholic case. Not all Muslims are like the Umno variety.

These religious bandits have yet to point out to us one single verse from the Quran which says the Catholics cannot use the word 'Allah' in their publications. Catholics have every right to appeal to the law and by doing so show themselves as good citizens and God-fearing people.

I just think the government is stepping out of line and being mean and un-Islamic to the publishers of the Herald , and being more intolerant and unnecessarily bossy, even nosy. Umno should keep out of other people's religions because they already have problems keeping their own politicians from following proper Islamic teachings on honesty and corruption.

This is one case the government cannot win except by force and that would be against the teaching of the Quran for there shall be no coercion in religion. So which is worse? An Allah-believing Catholic or a Quran-disbelieving Muslim?

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