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Mahashithead, you can add to your trophy of Father of All Corruption the trophy of mastermind behind mass killings of Memali. Just how low can you go.

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and the nenek of all corrupted wanita battles is on http://1426.********.com/2008/...ttles.html

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TO REMAIN IN POWER, UMNNNO--PPPUTRAS (Especially the evil anak kelin MAMMMAKK Ma-Hai)have and will, without any hesitation, imprison their own race, the Malays.

Now this "Memali Massacre" have revealed that these Greedy Evil warlords will also kill Malays to remain in power.

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And here is the File Photo of the End effects of this incident

If Malaysia is not careful, UMNO will do this to Malaysians to remain in Power.
We already have a Mongolian Casualty !!!

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Temenggong,

From the economy side of things, Mamak started accelerated the NEP pseudo nationalition of key sectors of the economy introducing legislation like ICA, FIC CIC which stifle big time the businesses of the Chinese then.

Then Mamak also lost tax payers money in the London Tin Market etc... The rest is history.

A classic example was Tun Daim bought over Malaysian French Bank for a song to be sold at a hugh profit. Same goes with UMBC from Chang Min Thien. Bought at 15omillion or so and sold at 800 million over a short 2 year period.

Isnt this the reason for the recession.

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Faber group including also pump into later known as renong or UMNO company

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Good article, though it oversimplies the history of Islamization in this country. The problem didn't start because of the Iranian Revolution, and Dr.M was more responsible - in unexpected ways - for the phenomenon than many might've thought.

It isn't true that no one wore the tudung before 1979. The dakwa movement had started about 10 years earlier, give or take a few years, and by the mid-70s many schoolgirls were already wearing the tudung. I taught physical education during the late 60s in a Malay medium school, and of course had to train both boys and girls in a number of sports. These girls, like girls from other communities, wore shorts. They were great girls - plucky, able to bear intensive training, and nearly always had a great sense of humor. Whenever I think of them, even today, a smile would appear on my lips. I wonder what has happened to them since.

There was a girl called Mariam, who was a tall, cheerful student. She wasn't a great athlete, but highly intelligent. Around 1975, I was teaching in another school but returned with a group of students for an interschool hockey match. Someone grabbed my shoulders, and I turned around to see a smiling, grown up Mariam. She told me she'd become a teacher, and had "applied 'sir's' methods in teaching volleyball." Then I noticed something else: she was wearing a tudung. This, in fact, had also become the attire of many - though not yet all - students.

Islamic fundamentalism, like all fundamentalisms, arose mostly because of certain socio-economic causes. Most are a product of pure captalism - that doctrine of ceaseless, unending and often violent quest for resources and profits, often at the expense of the unwashed masses. The Industrial Revolution caused great upheavals in Europe, what with England's Enclosure movement and seizure of peasant lands in Germany and other places. When liberals and classical economists such as Bentham and Marx called religion an opiate of the people, what they meant was that, given no help from either neighbor or government, all the poor could turn to was "God."

This, then, provides the condition for religious fundamentalism. The ruthless quest for godless materialism often disgusts the pious, just as the gross inequalities - and hence injustice - of corrupt local dictators cause anger among the disenfranchised masses. When such conditions are exacerbated by colonialism and/or outright imperialist conquest, religious fundamentalism begins to take on a patriotic hue as well. This was what happened during the 20s and 30s as witnessed by, for example, Egypt's Hawan movement, and also by Khomeini's Revolution in 1979, not to mention today's resistance against both local tyrants as well as perceived imperialist/colonialist forces throughout the Asia-Middle East region.

During the 80s, Dr.M was embarking on a vast modernization campaign. As in 18th/19th century Europe, this means a lot of uprooting of village life. Unlike Europe, however, we didn't have vast colonies to act as a safety valve, as a place where the poor could try again their luck, where even convicts could've a second chance. As a result, we not only have thousands of kampung girls working in what must be considered as sweat shops, of young villagers who were attracted by city lights but unable to sustain its harsh lifestyle, but also hordes of prostitutes and drug addicts. As the rich-poor gap widened, not only the urban poor suffered - the rural did as well, perhaps even more so as our economic life is based on the traditional center-periphery system. In other words, just as the metropolitan centers of the West siphoned off our nation's wealth, so does our cities bleached the wealth of our countryside. The difference during the Mahathir years was that the UMNOputra was the new middleman, and also the buyer and seller of products to the rural people. This inevitably led to a struggle against UMNO, which PAS ably exploited.

LChuah

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