Mahathir Mohamad's Blog, page 14

BASHIR’S LEGACY

I would like to wish all Malaysians, especially readers of Chedet a Happy Chinese New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai

1. I drove to KLIA and I could not help noticing how well the trees have grown. Tan Sri Bashir promised that Sepang would have a forest in the airport and be an airport in the forest.

2. I remember during weekends I would drive to see construction work on the airport. The contractors had cut down all the trees and bushes leaving some 4000 acres of bare land. It looked ugly and I just could...

ANWAR’S PROMISE

1. In Australia it is reported that Anwar promised to engineer an Arab Spring in Malaysia.

2. He will duplicate Cairo’s Tahrir Square in Kuala Lumpur and he will organise demonstrations involving hundreds of thousands of people in order to bring down the Government if he loses the election.

3. He claims that the election victories of the BN in the past were due to cheating, and to dirty tactics. That is why he organised the “Bersih” demonstrations with a quarter of a million people. Bersih mean...

KONTROVERSI “ALLAH”

This is a translation of the original article that appeared in this Blog on Jan 31st.
1. Malaysia adalah sebuah negara berbilang agama dan rakyat boleh mengamalkan agama masing-masing walaupun Islam agama resmi. Secara keseluruhan penduduk yang berlainan agama hidup bersama dengan aman. Kita tidak melihat keganasan antara pengikut yang berlainan agama seperti yang terjadi di Ireland Utara, Lebanon dan benua kecil India.

2. Rakyat Malaysia menghormati agama yang berlainan dan hak mengamal upacar...

AGAMA POLITIK

Artikel ini telah disiarkan di dalam Mingguan Malaysia Februari 3, 2013
1. Apabila agama dijadikan isu politik, tak dapat tidak ia akan tercemar. Politik kerap kotor. Apabila yang bersih dicampur dengan yang kotor, yang bersih akan jadi kotor, bukan sebaliknya.

2. Kita sedang menyaksi pencemaran ini berlaku kepada agama Islam bukan sahaja oleh musuh Islam tetapi oleh orang Islam sendiri. Kehormatan terhadap agama, Nabi bahkan Allah sudah berkurangan.

3. Sudah ada pemuda Melayu yang sanggup berka...

THE “ALLAH” CONTROVERSY

1. Malaysia is a multi-religious country where people can adhere to their own religion even though Islam is the official religion. For most of the time the followers of the different religions have lived in peace with each other. We do not see the kind of violence between the followers of different religions as found in Northern Ireland, Lebanon and the Indian sub-continent.

2. Malaysians respect each others’ religions and the rights of the religious practises of their followers. We avoid comm...

PENGUATKUASAAN SECARA AUTOMATIK (AUTOMATED ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM)

1. Di negara-negara dimana terdapat kereta bermotor, undang-undang diadakan untuk menentu had laju kereta. Tujuannya ialah untuk mengurangkan kemalangan di jalanraya kerana memandu terlalu laju. Tidak ada sesiapa yang membantah terhadap penentuan had laju.

2. Malangnya ada pemandu yang tidak menghormati undang-undang. Mereka pandu dengan kelajuan yang kerterlaluan. Dan berlakulah kemalangan dengan kehilangan nyawa.

3. Undang-undang sahaja tidak mencukupi. Penguatkuasaan undang-undang diperluka...

ELECTION

The original Malay version of this article, which is at the end of this translated variant, was published in Mingguan Malaysia of Jan 20th 2013.
1. Everywhere I go, in Malaysia and in foreign countries, people ask me when the elections will be held.

2. I wish I know but the Prime Minister has not told me anything, and in practise only the Prime Minister can determine the date. Of course it cannot go beyond the 5-year term of Parliament.

3. The next question is whether the Barisan Nasional will...

LIBOR

1. The world is Eurocentric. We trust Europe and Europeans almost unreservedly. The standards are set by them and we follow these standards unquestioningly.

2. Thus banking! The so-called conventional banking system was invented by the Europeans. Today the whole world accepts and practices this banking system.

3. Lately the Islamic banking (no interest) system has been introduced. But it is no match for the Western initiated “conventional” banking system.

4. But we now know that the current fina...

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1. Two things happened in the U.S. recently which are worthy of comment.

2. Firstly Obama’s candidate to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Susan Rice, announced her decision not to take up the post because of criticisms by the Republican Party over her comments and handling of the killing of the U.S Ambassador in Libya.

3. Although she claims she had done no wrong and Obama still wanted her to be Secretary of State, she decided not to accept the post. She felt that her appointment...

BERTAUBAT

Artikel ini telah disiarkan di dalam akhbar Mingguan Malaysia pada 6 Januari, 2013.
1. Harun Din, pemimpin PAS menyuruh saya bertaubat kerana saya telah berkata dalam bahasa Inggeris “Better the devil you know than the angel you don’t”.

2. Mungkin kerana Harun Din tidak mahir dengan loghat pepatah Inggeris maka ia fikir ini bermakna saya sanggup bersama dengan syaitan. Makna sebenarnya pepatah ini ialah “lebih baik orang yang dikenali daripada orang yang tidak dikenali”.

3. Kalau Harun Din fikir...