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Zakir Naik: No mute button
Passports in pants: Busted!
PAS summons May 13 ghost, DAP erupts
Zakir Naik: No mute button
The controversial Muslim preacher is both revered and reviled. In 2019, the police barred him from giving speeches, but now, Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail says he is free to speak.
He told the Dewan Rakyat today that the ban that stopped the Indian national from delivering any ceramah was only imposed in 2019 as he was under police investigation at the time.
“I have just checked on this again and there is no longer a ban against him, as it was only imposed pending the investigations against his two speeches,” he said.
The ban in 2019 was imposed after Zakir allegedly made controversial remarks about Hindus and Chinese in Malaysia during a lecture in Kota Bharu, Kelantan.
The preacher made headlines again after delivering a speech in Perlis, which led to a war of words between the state mufti Asri Zainul Abidin and DAP lawmaker RSN Rayer.
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Passports in pants: Busted!
An Immigration Department officer was caught by a colleague sleeping at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) with 12 foreign passports hidden in his pants.
A police report was lodged. But in a bizarre twist, the case was handed back to the Immigration Department, where, according to insiders, the officer got off with little more than a wrist slap.
Immigration director-general Zakaria Shaaban confirmed the incident, adding that an internal integrity probe was underway. The officer was reportedly reassigned to an immigration depot but he hasn’t shown up for duty yet.
Sources claim he’s still dabbling in the shady world of “fly” activities —where dodgy officers work with syndicates to manipulate entry and exit records to wipe out overstayers’ blacklists with fraudulent stamping.
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PAS summons May 13 ghost, DAP erupts
DAP national chairperson Lim Guan Eng has urged Parliament to take strong action against PAS lawmaker Ahmad Marzuk Shaary for associating his proposed anti-discrimination law with the May 13 racial riots.
Lim argued that Marzuk’s remarks could incite hostility among the nation’s multiracial community and mislead the August House.
Similarly, DAP’s Kota Melaka MP, Khoo Poay Tiong, criticised the PAS MP for making irresponsible and dangerously inflammatory statements.
He also accused Marzuk of disregarding Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar’s advice to lawmakers to prioritize unity, instead choosing to sow division and fear.
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