Why and why religion only causes hardships

Courtesy.....Anonymous Ex-Muslim on why he left religion.

"What really broke it was the morals. 

“....made me believe in things I did not want to believe. 

“I don't want the homosexual to be killed. 

“I don't want men to have concubines. 

“I don't think a woman's testimony is worth half of man. 

“I don't think the woman deserves half the inheritance of a man. 

“I don't want fornicators to be punished for simply following an innocent teenager instinct. 

“I don't think masturbation is wrong. 

“I don't want apostates to be killed or jailed. 

“I don't want court evidence to only rely on testimony. 

“I don't want a theocracy. 

“I want to have doubts about everything and not feel guilty about it.

“I decided to read another document of morals, the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 

“It was so sublime, it was...beautiful...

“I cried when I read it for the first time. 

“Honestly, in terms of justice and equality,....... 

“Not only that, I realized that all the humanity in me already existed, even without religion."

TOPPLING NAJIB IS NOW EASY: BUOYED BY RED-HOT WELCOME IN SARAWAK & SABAH, HARAPAN NOW GUNS FOR TWO-THIRD MAJORITY FOR LANDMARK REFORMS AT GE14

Tonight’s ceramah in Kuching is unique and special, since the re-ignition of new hope and expectations among Malaysians with regard to the next 14th General Election since July 14, following the announcement of a new Pakatan Harapan structure, Pakatan Harapan logo and new PH leadership line-up.

I was with the Pakatan Harapan Chairman, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad at the DAP “Sayangi Malaysia, Hapuskan Kleptokrasi” dinner in Penang last night, and today, I flew into Kuching, transiting at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.


Wherever I went today, especially when transiting in KLIA and on arrival in Kuching, there was a throb in the air, a fervor and great expectation with people regardless of region, race or religion coming up to me in anticipation of something significant happening in Kuching today.

This is the why there is such a huge turn-out of the people of Kuching and Sarawak from all communities at the Pakatan Harapan ceramah tonight despite the heavy rain for the soft-launch of the Pakatan Harapan manifesto for Sarawak and Sabah.

The people of Sarawak and Malaysia have been waiting political change, a “New Deal, New Hope” for more than half a century, and they are not going to allow inclement conditions, whether of the weather or the political situation, to stand in the way.

Sarawak has been regarded a “fixed deposit” of Barisan Nasional, but like other former BN “fixed deposits” especially the states of Johore and Malacca, Sarawak is now an important “key” to political change in Malaysia in the 14GE.

Two significant events took place in the past week in Sarawak and Sabah.

Firstly, there was the continued abuse of immigration autonomy powers by the Sarawak Chief Minister in the refusal to allow two PKR MPs entry into Sarawak and the ejection of a PKR Perak State Assemblywoman yesterday.

The Malaysia Agreement 1963 conferred immigrant autonomy powers to Sarawak and Sabah, but as provided in Section 67 of the Immigration Act 1959/63, no Malaysian citizen should be barred from entering Sarawak and Sabah “for the sole purpose of engaging in legitimate political activity”.

DAP and Pakatan Harapan are committed to the review of Malaysia Agreement 1963 and necessary constitutional adjustments and re-arrangements to uphold both the word and spirit of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 to ensure “New Deal, New Hope” for Sarawakians and Sabahans, but how can the Sarawak and Sabah Chief Ministers ask for a fair and equitable review of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 and the Federal Constitution when they are in the forefront in blatantly abusing their powers and the provisions in Malaysia Agreement 1963?





I had been a victim of such abuses of powers of Malaysia Agreement 1963 when 43 years ago, in 1974, I was first barred entry into Sarawak.

We have with us tonight Sdr. Ting Ling Kiew, four-term MP for Bintulu from 1974 to 1990, who was with me at the Kuching Airport on that day in 1974. We objected to the abuse of powers of immigration autonomy in Malaysia Agreement 1963, and who took me to spend a night in Borneo Hotel, Kuching as the last flight out of Kuching that day had already left.

Will the Sarawak Chief Minister announce that henceforth there will be no abuse of powers of the immigrant autonomy under the Malaysia Agreement 1963 and that no Pakatan Harapan leaders from Peninsular Malaysia will be barred from entry into Sarawak “for the sole purpose of engaging in legitimate political activity”?

The second significant event was the speech by the former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Rahim Noor at a forum “Malaysia in the Future” in Kota Kinabalu on Tuesday where he warned Umno that its concessions to PAS, particularly over the controversial Islamic penal code hudud, could lose it Sabah and Sarawak support.

I have a lot of differences with Rahim Noor, in particular the infamous black-eye which he inflicted on former Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in 1998, but he has paid his dues for his greatest mistake in his life with jail time, a fine and loss of position as the top policeman in the land.

However, I am not shy to declare that I appreciate his warning that the federal government would not only lose the goodwill and support of the East Malaysian states, the latter may even agitate to leave the Federation if the government submits to PAS’ demands to implement hudud, “inch by inch”, just to ensure that Umno remains in power.

Abdul Rahim Noor warned that “”If people’s anxiety over the issue of religion gets heated up, Malaysia may be thrown into chaos” as “Sabah and Sarawak may think twice whether to continue to be in Malaysia or not”.

The former Inspector-General of Police stressed that the Federation of Malaysia was never meant to be an Islamic country because if it was, Sabah and Sarawak would never have agreed to it.

He said when the idea of Malaysia was mooted, religion was the main issue addressed by the Cobbold Commission.

“The people in the Bornean states, all of them, regardless of race and religion, did not want an official religion for the new federation.

“The demand was reasonable. After all, there are many Muslim-majority countries in the world that do not have Islam as their official religion, for example Egypt and Indonesia, a country with the highest number of Muslims in the world.”

I call on the Chief Ministers of the Sarawak and Sabah, as well as all Barisan Nasional Ministers and MPs from Sarawak and Sabah, to publicly endorse the stand of the former Inspector-General of Police, for it concerns one of the bedrock nation-building principles of the country as well as one of the fundamental terms and conditions for Sarawak and Sabah’s agreement to form the Malaysian Federation in 1963.

Yesterday, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, claimed success for his National Blue Ocean Strategy (NBOS) programme.

I confess I do not understand what Najib is talking about. Is he claiming success for the NBOS programme for achieving the following three things:



Malaysia becoming overnight as a global kleptocracy under his premiership;
his support of US President’s “America First” policy by offering three “value propositions” during his visit to White House and meeting with Trump to “strengthen the US economy”;
the closure one by one throughout Malaysia of Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia (KRIM) to benefit urban Malaysians with low-income levels, by selling basic necessities like rice, cooking oil, milk powder and diapers at prices, 30 to 50 percent lower than at other supermarkets?
Earlier today, Najib ridiculed Pakatan Harapan as one opposition pact that is “laughable”, whose relationship among component parties is nothing but a “marriage of convenience” and that the different Pakatan Harapan leaders from the component parties “sleep in same bed, but with different dreams”.

Let me tell Najib tonight that Pakatan Harapan leaders, whether DAP, PKR, Amanah or Pribumi Bersatu, whether Tun Dr. Mahathir, Anwar Ibrahim, Mat Sabu or myself – we all have one common dream and one objective, which is to topple Najib, UMNO and BN through the ballox box in the 14GE to give Malaysians a “New Deal, New Hope”.

If there is swing of 10% of the Malay voters and 5% of the non-Malay voters from UMNO/Barisan Nasional to Pakatan Harapan in the 14GE as compared to the 13GE, Pakatan Harapan would win 113 of the 165 parliamentary seats in Peninsular Malaysia, leaving 50 to BN and two to PAS.

Together with support from Sarawak and Sabah, Pakatan Harapan may have 125 to 130 out of 222 parliamentary seats to form the new Pakatan Harapan Federal Government.

But this is not enough to achieve a two-thirds parliamentary majority of at least 149 out of the 222 parliamentary seats, to ensure that there can be constitutional re-arrangements following a fair and equitable review of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 to provide “New Hope, New Deal” to Sarawakians, Sabahans as well as all Malaysians.

Can Sarawak and Sabah provide the 36 Members of Parliament for Pakatan Harapan to ensure Pakatan Harapan has the two-thirds parliamentary majority in 14GE to ensure “New Deal, New Hope” from a fair and just constitutional re-arrangements based on review of Malaysia Agreement 1963?

This is one of the greatest challenges of the forthcoming 14GE!

– https://blog.limkitsiang.com

How US TV News Covered Najib's Visit to The White House - OUCH!

Malaysians are all familiar with the propaganda spin put out on the government-controlled media about Najib’s visit to the US.

Despite the disastrous revelations about how the Prime Minister went promising vast investments to curry favour, the inevitable messaging has been that the visit acted as ‘proof’ that Najib is not being investigated by the DOJ after all and that the whole 1MDB case is a cooked up tale by the opposition.

So, it is worth watching how Najib has been portrayed on US TV instead, which Malaysians can do, thanks to the internet (despite bans against Sarawak Report). Below we offer the video and transcript of the report put out just a few days ago by NBC reflecting on the significance of the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Unit that has been investigating Najib and 1MDB.

Malaysians can judge by such statements as “that Malaysian Prime Minister is at the centre of a gigantic Department of Justice corruption prosecution” and “This kleptocracy money laundering probe, like the one they have got against the Malaysian Prime Minister” that American TV News has taken a very different perspective to Malaysian TV News on this matter.

TRANSCRIPT (highlights): We had been planning to report about something called the kleptocracy asset recovery initiative, which was started by FBI Director Eric Holder during the Obama administration.

Last week the President hosted the Prime Minister of Malaysia at the White House – given all the other things going on in the White House last week it was not the highest profile story in the world, but that visit by the Malaysian Prime Minister was notable in terms of corruption and law enforcement and high public officials finding themselves in the crosshairs of US law enforcement, because that Malaysian Prime Minister is at the centre of a gigantic Department of Justice corruption prosecution. The Department of Justice is trying to recover well over a billion dollars in assets, everything from movie rights to private jets, through apartments to hotels, all things that were purchased with money that was allegedly stolen from the people of Malaysia, from the government of that country.

That money was stolen from Malaysia, but it was laundered in the United States by buying stuff in the United States and the Justice Department has been heavily and aggressively involved in this gigantic corruption case to try to get that stuff back.

So, President Trump bringing that Prime Minister of Malaysia to the White House, while that Prime Minister is in the middle of a gigantic corruption investigation by the US Justice Department, that of course was the White House and this President spitting in the eye of the FBI and the Justice Department… but that ends up being important beyond just that insult to law enforcement, because aside from Malaysia, the other known major target of the FBI’s Kleptocracy Asset Recoverty Initiative – the other major target other than Malaysia is Ukraine – specifically this guy who is also believed to have looted his country’s treasury for his own benefit, and who the FBI has been chasing ever sincetrying to find out where Victor Yanukovitch stashed all his money and where and how he laundered it, so that the stolen assets can be located and recovered and given back to the people of Ukraine, that is a major FBI effort under this kleptocracy initiative ….. This kleptocracy money laundering probe, like the one they have got against the Malaysian Prime Minister, they have also had against the deposed Ukranian dictator that Paul Manafort worked for, that’s why they were listening in on him….. they were already deep into Paul Manafort before the [US Presidential] campaign started..

AUTO-TRANSLATION:
Kami telah merancang untuk melaporkan tentang sesuatu yang dipanggil inisiatif pemulihan aset kleptokrasi, yang dimulakan oleh Pengarah FBI Eric Holder semasa pentadbiran Obama.

Minggu lalu, Presiden menjadi tuan rumah Perdana Menteri Malaysia di White House – memandangkan semua perkara lain yang berlaku di White House minggu lepas bukanlah cerita profil tertinggi di dunia, tapi lawatan Perdana Menteri Malaysia itu terkenal di terma-terma rasuah dan penguatkuasaan undang-undang dan para pegawai tinggi yang menemui diri mereka dalam penyebaran undang-undang penguatkuasaan undang-undang AS, kerana Perdana Menteri Malaysia berada di tengah-tengah pendakwaan rasuah Jabatan Kehakiman yang raksasa. Jabatan Kehakiman berusaha untuk mendapatkan lebih dari satu bilion dolar aset, segalanya dari hak filem ke jet swasta, melalui pangsapuri ke hotel, semua barang yang dibeli dengan wang yang didakwa dicuri dari rakyat Malaysia, dari kerajaan negara itu.

Wang itu dicuri dari Malaysia, tetapi ia telah dibasuh di Amerika Syarikat dengan membeli barangan di Amerika Syarikat dan Jabatan Keadilan telah terlibat secara besar-besaran dan agresif dalam kes rasuah raksasa ini untuk cuba mendapatkan semula barangan tersebut.

Oleh itu, Presiden Trump membawa Perdana Menteri Malaysia ke Rumah Putih, sementara Perdana Menteri berada di tengah-tengah penyelidikan rasuah raksasa oleh Jabatan Keadilan AS, yang tentunya adalah Gedung Putih dan Presiden ini meludah di mata FBI dan Jabatan Keadilan … tetapi yang akhirnya menjadi penting melampaui penghinaan terhadap penguatkuasaan undang-undang, kerana selain dari Malaysia, sasaran utama yang lain yang dikenali sebagai Inisiatif Kemiskinan Aset Kleptokrasi FBI – sasaran utama lain selain Malaysia ialah Ukraine – khususnya lelaki ini yang juga dipercayai telah menjarah perbendaharaan negaranya untuk faedahnya sendiri, dan siapa yang FBI telah mengejar sejak cuba mencari tahu di mana Victor Yanukovitch memusnahkan semua wangnya dan di mana dan bagaimana dia membasuhnya, supaya aset yang dicuri itu boleh terletak dan pulih dan diberikan kembali kepada rakyat Ukraina, yang merupakan usaha FBI utama di bawah inisiatif kleptokrasi … .. Ini kleptocracy money launder seperti yang mereka lakukan terhadap Perdana Menteri Malaysia, mereka juga telah menentang diktator Ukraine yang digulingkan bahawa Paul Manafort bekerja, sebab itulah mereka mendengar tentang dia … .. mereka sudah jauh ke dalam Paul Manafort sebelum Kempen [Presiden AS] bermula ..

Life comes full circle

You Dare Show disrespect to the PM? GOOD! Saya Sokong!

Polis Pengiring Kalut Bila Kenderaan Orang Ramai Tidak Beri Laluan Kepada Kereta Perdana Menteri !
September 24, 2017 admin Viral
Polis Pengiring KALUT Bila Kenderaan Orang Ramai Tidak Beri Laluan Kepada Kereta Perdana Menteri!
Saya dalam perjalanan ke Sri Petaling untuk satu lagi kelas personal coaching.
Tiba-tiba di belakang saya ada beberapa buah superbike Polis Trafik yang memberi arahan kepada semua kereta ke tepi untuk memberi laluan kepada VVIP di belakangnya.
Saya dengan muka bodohnya buat bodoh dengan arahan polis trafik tersebut sehingga kereta VVIP tersebut terpaksa memasuki lorong kanan saya. Saya melihat nombor pendaftaran keretanya, rupanya kereta rasmi Najib.
Apa yang menariknya, saya ingat saya seorang saja yang tidak memberikan laluan, rupa-rupanya semua kereta di depan saya juga buat bodoh dengan arahan Polis Trafik itu sehingga Polis Trafik itu kelihatan kalut tak tahu nak buat apa-apa apabila kereta-kereta yang lain buat tak tahu dan enggan memberikan laluan.
Syabas rakyat Malaysia, anda memperjuangkan hak anda. Kami tak marah polis yang menjalankan tugas, kami cuma mahu menyuruh menteri amalkan apa yang menteri sarankan kepada rakyat iaitu:
Kalau tak nak bayar tol dan elak jalan sesak, sila bangun awal pagi
Jadi, menteri kalau tak nak menghadap jalan sesak, hangpa bangun pagi atau balik kerja lewatlah bhai. Tak pun naik saja pengangkutan awam, kata berjiwa rakyat.
Tak teringat pula nak rakam gambar polis dan kereta Najib itu yang kelihatan tidak tentu arah kerana gagal meloloskan diri dari jalan sesak. Terpana dengan panaroma yang jarang-jarang dapat dilihat ini.
– Fadzil Khairi.

CHRIST CHURCH MELAKA

Quotes from Robert Mugabe.

1) "When your clothes are made of cassava leaves, you don’t take a goat as a friend."

2) "If you are ugly, you are ugly. Stop talking about inner beauty because men don’t walk around with X-ray machines to see inner beauty"

3) "When one’s goat gets missing, the aroma of a neighbour’s soup gets suspicious."

4) "Treat every part of your towel nicely because the part that wipes your buttocks today will wipe your face tomorrow"

5) "Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real"

6) "If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first."

7) "What is the problem with deporting white men from Africa? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors."

8) "Cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in a piece of paper with fire on one end and a fool on the other end.

9) Interviewer: "Mr President, when are you bidding the people of Zimbabwe farewell?"

Robert Mugabe: "Where are they going?"

10) "if I am given chance to travel through time, I will go back to 1952 and find Tun Razak, Najib's father and give him a condom"