Denial of even death ceremony hall for Hindu deceased at multi million ringgit Sultan Ismail Hospital Johor. Height of segregation and “ethnic cleansing” a la Malay-sia.

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Date                :    22^nd November 2010 
YAB. Dato Seri Najib Razak
Prime Minister of Malaysia,
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Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan,                 E-Mail : najib@pmo.gov.my
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YB Dato Seri Liaw Tiong Lai
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Federal Government Administrative Centre.                              Fax: 603-8888 6188
62590 Putrajaya. Malaysia.
Dear Sirs,
Re      Denial of even death ceremony hall for Hindu deceased at multi million ringgit Sultan Ismail Hospital Johor. Height of segregation and “ethnic cleansing” a la Malay-sia.
We refer to the above matter and to our note to your goodselves dated 28/8/09 on the urgent need for a death ceremony hall for the Hindus as had been granted to the Malay muslims at the then newly opened multi- million ringgit Johor Baru General Hospital following the Malaysian Nanban 28/8/09 at page 18 newsreport.
We were appalled to read in the front page of today’s Malaysia Nanban 22/11/2010 that the Johor Baru Hindus have still not been granted their said death ceremony hall. To the contrary as usual yet another but this time an insulting temporary solution was granted. That is the Hindus are given a trolley to be used for bathing the dead at the hospital corridors. This is in direct contravention of Article 8 ( Equality before the law ) and Article 11 ( Freedom of Religion) of the Federal Constitution.
Kindly therefore grant a fit and proper death ceremony hall at this hospital and within one week from the date hereof failing which our HRP Johor State committee would proceed to make an appeal to the palace of DYMM the Sultan of Johor for his royal intervention.
We trust this may not be necessary.
Kindly revert to us accordingly.
Thank You,
Yours faithfully
………………………………
P.Uthayakumar
Secretary General (pro-tem)
c.c       Tan Sri Dato, Seri Dr Hj. Mohd Ismail Bin Merican,
Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan
Blok E1, E6, E7, 8 E 10 Kompleks E,                                          Fax: 03-88882545
Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan,
62950 Putrajaya, Malaysia
Email:ismailmerican@moh.govmy
Dr Mohd khairi bin Yakub
Pengarah Kesihatan Negeri Johor memangku Jusa B
Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri Johor             Fax : 07-22477361
Tingkat 3, 4 & 5, Blok B, Email: Khairiyakub@moh.gov.my
Wisma Persekutuan, Jalan Air Molek,
80590 Johor Baru
Dr. Rooshaimi Merican bt. A. Rahim Merican
Pengarah Hospital Sultan Ismail,               Fax: 07-3574842
Jalan Persiaran Mutiara Emasutama,
Taman Mount Austin,
81100 Johor Bahru,

25th Nov 2010, 3rd Anniversary HINDRAF Hunger strike at KLCC from 9.00am to 3.00pm

 
25th Nov 2010, 3rd Anniversary HINDRAF Hunger strike at KLCC from 9.00am to 3.00pm
Protesting HINDRAF 18 point demands not fulfilled by UMNO/BN government.

Banished teen to know if he can go home on Dec 1

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 — Teen Jiegandran Panir Selvam who was banished to Negri Sembilan by order of the Home Ministry earlier this year will know if he can go…

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 — Teen Jiegandran Panir Selvam who was banished to Negri Sembilan by order of the Home Ministry earlier this year will know if he can go home this December 1.

The Selangor-born who was suspected of being involved in armed gang theft at four schools was arrested by the police last year and later locked up for 60 days under the Emergency Ordinance (EO) while still a minor.

The law is usually reserved for hardcore gangsters.

Jiegandran (picture), who only reached the age of maturity on May 22 this year, was then ordered confined to first Linggi and two months ago, Lenggeng, where he celebrated Deepavali alone.

But the ministry today offered to return the 18-year-old to his parents care.

At the High Court here today, senior federal counsel Najib Zakaria told reporters the Home Ministry has proposed to allow Jiegandran to return home, but will lawfully still be under house arrest for the next two years.

The restricted residence order that forms a part of the EO limits the person’s movement to within a certain radius.

When met in Linggi previously, Jiegandran told The Malaysian Insider he was barred from travelling more than 3km from the district police station, where he was also required to report in person weekly.

“The reason [for the banishment order] was to remove him from the influence of his crime mates, so to speak,” said Najib, after leaving trial judge Datuk Mohd Zawawi Salleh’s chambers.

The government lawyer added the ministry had come up with the idea after noting that both Jiegandran’s parents were poor and were hard put to support their second son living in a different state.

Jiegandran’s father works as a lorry driver while his mother works as a cook in a company canteen.

The teen and his father are challenging the Home Ministry’s use of the EO on him.

Lawyers for Jiegandran had previously asked for the banished boy to be reunited with his family, Najib said.

But Yohendra Nadarajan, who is part of the father-and-son’s legal team, told The Malaysian Insider that they may still fight on even if the ministry agrees to move Jiegandram’s place of restriction to the latter’s hometown in Beranang, Kajang.

“The ball is now in the deputy minister’s court,” said Yohendra, referring to Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop who had signed the EO order.

“Even if the deputy minister agrees to vary the restricted [residence] order, the parents may want to fight on for his release,” he added.

Yohendra said they would need to speak with Jiegandra and his parents first before deciding the next step.

Police SB and Tawan Dun Machap meeting with Malacca HINDRAF & HRP

Only at 9am today we sms to meet key Malacca HINDRAF and HRP supporters. At 1.00pm 17 Hindraf & HRP supporters turned up in a such a short notice. Before…

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S.JAYATHAS
Information Chief

Racist DAP, PKR and PAS Selangor as cruel as UMNO and Khir Toyo.

Refuses to implement land for all Hindu temples, cemeteries, Tamil schools and villages in Selangor all in one go, but only offers temporary solution.

Perhaps when another Indian CakraGuna self…

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Refuses to implement land for all Hindu temples, cemeteries, Tamil schools and villages in Selangor all in one go, but only offers temporary solution.

Perhaps when another Indian CakraGuna self immolates himself to prevent his temple, cemetery, Tamil school or village, then they would be given hampers, peanuts, RM 100 ang paw or a temporary land solution.

Where is the change?

(see SH 17/11/2010 at page S6)

Karunai Nithi @ Compassionate Justice.

Indian teenager shot dead forced into world of crime by UMNOs’ social engineering and exclusion from national mainstream development of Malaysia.

Indian teenager shot dead forced into world of crime by UMNOs’ social engineering and exclusion from national mainstream development of Malaysia.
The Malaysian Indians generally are hardworking and prepared to…

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Indian teenager shot dead forced into world of crime by UMNOs’ social engineering and exclusion from national mainstream development of Malaysia.
The Malaysian Indians generally are hardworking and prepared to work hard. But under the UMNO / B.N led Malay-sian Malay muslim racial and religious supremacist regime, Indians are denied equality and equal opportunities from womb to tomb.

To start off with even kindergardens are denied in most of the 523 which has some 110,000 mostly poor Indian children kindergardens nationwide. So much so that 42% of standard one pupils in Tamil schools cannot read and write at all because they could not afford to attend kindergardens, not conducive house etc ( MO 10/3/10 at page 3 ). About 90% of the students in Tamil schools did not attend kindergardens whereas 87 % is targeted by 2012 under the National key Results Area ( NKRA ) ( for Malay and Chinese schools The Star 15/3/10 at page N46 ). Almost all Tamil primary schools are denied full government financial help.

Academically weak and poor Indian students have almost all been excluded / denied the 200,000 places in the Institute Kemahiran Mara Skills Training places ( see BH 29/510 at page 6 ) and in the 209 Giat Mara Skills Training Institutions given a RM 550 Million Budget in the 10th Malaysia Plan. ( BH19/7/10 at page 4 ). 5,000 almost all Indian scrap metal dealers have been denied licences ( see The Star 28/11/09 at page N22 ). Similarly thousands of Indian car wash operators have been denied licences and the business opportunities. There are more the 1,400 different areas of trade opportunities in Malaysia but excluded and segregated to an estimated 99.9 % of the Indians. ( The Star 9/12/09 at page N47 )

There are 44,580 registered contractors in Malaysia and 90% ( 40,305 are Malay muslims )

But 99.9% of the few Indian contractors are denied direct jobs from the Malay-sian government, which is the nation’s biggest spender

The academically weak Indians can naturally cook but are denied even the opportunity to set up a burger stall let alone food stalls, fruit and flower stalls, highway rest areas.

Even government department office boys jobs are denied to these Indian youths when a black “muslim” can even become the President of the world’s most powerful country, the USA.

The Indians poor are being socially engineered by UMNO to become unskilled general workers and cleaners, toilet cleaners, security guards, drivers, office boys, maids, road sweepers, alam flora workers etc.

But these Indian poor office boys have been denied the opportunities to be given licences to run courier companies, denied the security guard, cleaning alam flora, toilet cleaning, road sweeping and lorry transport contracts by both the government sector who give almost all to the Malay muslims and the private sector who give almost all to the Chinese.

The poor but hardworking and prepared to work hard Indians are denied, excluded and segregated from these race and religious based business opportunities, loans, licences and upward mobility opportunities both by the Malay muslim UMNO government and the Chinese capitalist controlled private sector economy. Why One Malay-sia?

Had these aforesaid opportunities been non race and religious based, Jeevan Ramasamy (17) would not have been shot dead while allegedly commiting a crime,(TN ,MO and MN front page and NST 17/11/10 at page 9) So would scores of thousands of Indian youths would not be languishing in prisons.

They would have been like the Chinese criminals and gangsters of the 1960s’ to 1980s’ who today have emerged to become at worst RM5,000.00 earning koay teow sellers to VCD, budget hotels, retailers, suppliers, contractors and project undertakers, bankers and millionaires. Very few Indian poor would then want to become a criminal or a gangster.

Equality and equal employment and business opportunities will keep Indian youths like Jeevan and hundreds of thousands of others out and away from crime.

P.Uthayakumar

Hindraf backs 'Third Force' proposal

(Malaysiakini) Hindraf is all for the idea of a 'third force' in Parliament, but its position on details of the set-up differs from the proponents.

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(Malaysiakini) Hindraf is all for the idea of a 'third force' in Parliament, but its position on details of the set-up differs from the proponents.

The ad-hoc human rights movement was referring to mention of the so-called third force in Pakatan Rakyat coordinator Zaid Ibrahim's statement that he would quit PKR.

Hindraf's political wing, Human Rights Party (HRP), said it is ready to contest under such a force in 15 parliamentary and 38 state seats it has designated in Peninsular Malaysia as "Indian seats", where at least 30 percent of the registered voters are from the community.

The third force is "an idea whose time has come", said Hindraf chairperson P Waythamoorthy (right), whose elder brother is the leader of HRP.

Still, he worries that it may eventually be found wanting, like the opposition alliance Pakatan that Hindraf had no regret abandoning in the wake of the March 2008 political tsunami.

"We have been keenly following the interest in the third force, in Malaysia and abroad," Waythamoorthy said last night in a telephone call from London.

"We are heartened by the public debate on the possibility of a new political movement entering Parliament."

Still, Waythamoorthy is at a loss in trying to figure out what the third force actually means to those pushing for it. None of the proponents, he noted, have articulated what it would be it and the people have been left with vague generalisations.

"We would suggest that the initiative for such a force comes from Sabah and Sarawak," he said. "Let a Borneo-based national party or national coalition arise and work out the details."

Who will lead?

Waythamoorthy offered two reasons why the other half of Malaysia, across the South China Sea, should take the lead in the third force.

First, he thinks that the two Peninsular Malaysia-based national coalitions - Pakatan and the ruling BN - are more than enough to cater to the differing politics in the peninsula. Therefore, another national coalition arising in the peninsula and lacking the necessary critical mass would quickly find itself asphyxiated between Pakatan and BN.

Secondly, Sabah and Sarawak do not have a national party or national coalition and this is where a third force could come in to fill the political vacuum.

"A Borneo-based national party or national coalition would be able to give meaning to the historical and legal fact that Malaysia is a federation of three territories - Sabah, Sarawak and the peninsula," he said.

"But who will take the lead in forming and leading the third force?"

Answering his own question, Waythamoorthy said Sabahan Jeffrey Kitingan should leave PKR and lead the third force.

"Jeffrey has the right political pedigree and must take a stand," he added.

"Either he's with PKR or he's out. If he's out, then the third force is the approach he should take - unless he wants to go back to Parti Bersatu Sabah and save it, like what his brother Pairin has been urging him to do."

Right time for 3rd Force, says Hindraf

By Joe Fernandez - Free Malaysia Today

KOTA KINABALU: Hindraf Makkal Sakthi has expressed its readiness to contest in national elections as part of a so-called Third Force that would…

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KOTA KINABALU: Hindraf Makkal Sakthi has expressed its readiness to contest in national elections as part of a so-called Third Force that would keep both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat in check.

“It is an idea whose time has come,” Hindraf chairman P Waythamoorthy said.

He suggested that it be initiated from East Malaysia and led by Sabah strongman Jeffrey Kitingan, but the latter indicated to FMT that he was not too interested.

Speaking from London, where he lives in self-imposed exile, Waythamoorthy said Hindraf’s political wing, the Human Rights Party Malaysia, was ready to contest under such a force for 15 parliamentary and 38 state seats in Peninsular Malaysia. According to him, Indians make up at least 30 percent of the electorate in each of these constituencies.

He said he planned to hold a conference in London soon to discuss the Third Force and to get feedback from Malaysians resident in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere in Europe.

Talk of a third force has gained momentum, especially in cyberspace, since it became apparent a couple of weeks ago that there is a serious falling out between Pakatan co-ordinator Zaid Ibrahim and his colleagues in the PKR leadership, especially de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim and vice-president Azmin Ali, who has virtually won the race for the party’s deputy presidency.

“We have been keenly following the explosion of interest back home and abroad in the Third Force,” said Waythamoorthy. “We are heartened by the public debate on a possible new political movement entering Parliament.”

However, he noted, none of the proponents of the idea had articulated it clearly enough to capture the imagination of the public.

“We would suggest that the initiative for a third force come from Sabah and Sarawak,” he said. He gave the following two reasons for this:

* PR and BN are “more than enough” for the differing politics on the peninsula. Another national coalition, lacking the necessary critical mass, would quickly find itself asphyxiated between the two.

* Malaysian Borneo does not have a national party or national coalition and the Third Force can fill the vacuum.

He said Jeffrey should leave PKR and lead the new coalition.

“Jeffrey has the right political pedigree and must take a stand,” he said. “Either he’s with PKR or he’s out. If he’s out, then the Third Force is the approach he should take unless he wants to go back to Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS).”

Besides Hindraf and parties in Sabah and Sarawak, Waythamoorthy said the new coalition should include the Orang Asli, marginalized groups like the Christians in Peninsular Malaysia and any new party that Zaid Ibrahim would form.

'Our politics is different'

Jeffrey, contacted late last night after Waythamoorthy’s call, said that he was in no hurry to think about the Third Force.

“If the Peninsular Malaysians want to lead the Third Force as well, then we in Sabah and Sarawak can set up a fourth force,” he said. “And if Umno opens its doors to Indians and Chinese and becomes the Fourth Force, we can set up the Fifth Force.”

He declined to entertain questions that he would leave PKR soon or return to PBS. However, he confirmed that he would not join any party set up by Zaid or anyone else in Peninsular Malaysia. “Our politics is different,” said Jeffrey. “We should not jump from the frying pan into the fire. Two wrongs do not make one right.”

He also declined to dwell on speculation that a new Borneo-based party headed by him was in the works.

He responded that “it was news” to him when asked for his take on widespread speculation in Kota Kinabalu that Anwar Ibrahim called him over the weekend and offered to let him name the party’s candidates for all the KadazanDusunMurut seats in Sabah.

He said Anwar had made many promises in Sabah before and “never kept any of them” except for appointing Christina Liew Chin Jin Hadhikusumo as deputy chief for PKR Sabah.

Two MSRM like fully residential schools for 798 7 As top Tamil school pupils by PKR Selangor and DAP Penang State governments. Every year these top Indian students destiny is a mere “fill in the blanks”.

Every especially the three Tamil dailies carry news reports of hundreds of 7 As’ top Tamil school students. For this year all three Tamil dailies reported in their headlines 798…

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Every especially the three Tamil dailies carry news reports of hundreds of 7 As’ top Tamil school students. For this year all three Tamil dailies reported in their headlines 798 Tamil school pupils who had scored all 7As’. Even Malay school pupils only get to score a maximum of only 5 As in the UPSR. But these 798 Tamil school pupils scored a whopping 7As’. Excellent.

But where do these 798 elite Indian students go to after this under the present oppressive, racist and religious supremacist UMNO led regime of Malay-sia? Top Indian students full potential will not be realized by their exclusion and segregation from the 12,440 places in the tens of MRSM and other fully government residential schools ( BN 21/11/09 at page 7 ) if not allowed in, and may end up becoming mere factory workers.

This is how racist and religious extremist UMNO can get which has today earned One Malay-sia the name as the world’s most racist country. “Atrocities” to this extent does not happen in any other part of the world except in One Malay-sia.

To undo these injustices the PKR and DAP state governments of Selangor and Penang could each urgently set up one MRSM respectively in their states. Why not ? The Selangor state government runs University Unisel. So why not a special MRSM Tamil for these 798 poor Tamil school students. After all we have in Malay-sia MRSM Felda, MRSM ATM ( army) and MRSM PDRM for almost 99% malay muslims alone.

And almost 98% of the aforesaid 12,440 MRSM etc places are for the Malay muslims.
PKR and DAP must not only claim to be multi-racial but must also be seen to be multi-racial by also including these poor 798 top Indian students into the national educational mainstream development of Malay-sia.

This is the kind of change the Indians expected when they had voted in the PKR, DAP and PAS state governments of Selangor Penang and Kedah in the March 2008 general elections.

Rights not Mercy

P.Uthayakumar

Court allows objection in Shamala conversion case

Putrajaya dream far-fetched for Pakatan

By Athi Shankar - Free Malaysia Today,

GEORGE TOWN: Opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat is unlikely to achieve its dream of capturing Putrajaya in the next general election 'under its current…

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GEORGE TOWN: Opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat is unlikely to achieve its dream of capturing Putrajaya in the next general election 'under its current avatar'.

Hindu rights movement Hindraf Makkal Sakti, pouring scorn on Pakatan's aspiration, said as long as the coalition continued to ignore the people's demand for 'real change', there will be no win.

"Pakatan and Anwar Ibrahim will never capture their holy grail if they continue to fail to heed to the people's thirst for real change," said Hindraf adviser N Ganesan.

He urged all Pakatan-ruled states to overhaul their current political and socio-economic policies if the coalition was to get anywhere near Putrajaya.

“Pakatan states must restrategise their policies and structures to convince voters that the coalition is truly a people's alliance,” he said.

He pointed out that many people rejected Barisan Nasional and Umno in the last general election because they yearned for a new political entity with innovative ideas and reform policies to benefit all.
Sadly however the Pakatan-ruled states had failed to heed that call.

"Pakatan governments in Penang, Selangor, Kedah and Kelantan have merely put in place cosmetic changes and are continuing with Umno/BN leftover policies.

“People wanted a new people's political alliance, but, two years on, they only got a carbon copy version of BN,” Ganesan told FMT today.

Defeats
He pointed out that Pakatan's defeats in four of the last five by-elections were warning signs of a real shift in the voting pattern from Pakatan towards BN.


Pakatan recently lost Batu Sapi and Galas. They earlier lost Bagan Pinang and Hulu Selangor.

Except for Batu Sapi, Pakatan won all three seats in 2008 general election. To Pakatan's credit they won the Sibu by-election in May by a hairline majority of just over 300 votes.

Ganesan said given a choice, people would rather prefer to stay with the old wine BN than to vote for Pakatan.

Reminding Pakatan to 'walk its talk', he said the coalition cannot claim to represent the people and their demand for reform and change, when in reality it continues to recycle the same BN policies and programmes.

“Changes cannot be rhetoric . . . they must be real and touch the people's lives,” said Ganesan, who is also an adviser to the yet-to-be-registered Human Rights Party (HRP).

He suggested that Pakatan states carry out policies to stimulate economic growth, incomes, employment and business opportunities.

He called on Pakatan states to provide more affordable and comfortable homes, and upgraded educational facilities to the masses.

He said the coalition should also take pro-active steps to allay fear among non-Muslims against powers of the Syariah laws.

He said Pakatan should also stop BN-like mandore policies to address the marginalised Indian community issues.

He added Pakatan must take into account the needs and interests of all disadvantaged and minority groups, such as Indians in the Peninsula and natives in Sabah and Sarawak.

Be cooperative
He said Pakatan must come up with new socio-economic programmes, unlike the current pro-corporate policies, for development of all poor, regardless of their ethnic and religious backgrounds.

“The development policy should be from bottom up and not top to bottom as practiced now,” insisted Ganesan.

He said Umno and BN would not be able to match this if indeed Pakatan went to the ground and provided a real reform alternative to the working class.

He said lack of a real reform-orientated Pakatan currently has given BN the advantage, dashing hopes of Malaysians for a political change.

He suggested for the current Pakatan warlords to set aside their ego to cooperate and compromise with other parties representing minority interests, such as HRP, SAPP and marginalised factions in Pakatan itself like Jeffrey Kittingan’s group in Sabah.

Society seeks way to protect Hindu parents’ rights

Hindu parent M. Indira Gandhi (centre) is embroiled in a bid similar to Shamala’s. — file pic

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Hindu parent M. Indira Gandhi (centre) is embroiled in a bid similar to Shamala’s. — file pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 12 — The Malaysian Hindu Sangam is checking with its lawyers for a way to keep alive S. Shamala’s conversion challenge after it was dismissed by the nation’s highest court earlier today.

A five-man panel of the nation’s most senior judges, led by Chief Justice Tun Zaki Azmi, ruled to close the case of the 38-year-old mother who wants the Federal Court to recognise her right to raise her two young children as Hindus.

“We feel disappointed with the decision. We are also checking with our lawyers on what next we can do because from the first day we have been involved,” the Hindu society’s president Mohan Shanmugam told The Malaysian Insider.

“The conversion was not done right,” an upset-sounding Mohan added.

The society has been keeping tabs on the court case of Shamala’s bid to raise her children Saktiwaran and Theivaswaran in the religion they were born into, for the last eight years.

Shamala had married anaesthetist Dr Jeyaganesh C. Mogarajah in 1998. Her husband was a Hindu at that time but embraced Islam four years later.

He converted their two children into his new-found religion shortly after without Shamala’s knowledge or agreement.

Both parents are in a bitter fight to gain custody over Saktiwaran and Theivaswaran, now aged 11 and nine respectively, and to be allowed to raise them in their respective religions.

Under Malaysian Islamic law, a child necessarily becomes Muslim when one parent enters the faith.

But Shamala claims the federal constitution, the supreme law of the land, provides that she has an equal right as a parent and guardian to decide the religion for children below 18.

Malaysia has a dual-track justice system that allows Muslims to seek legal redress in the Syariah Court, but not non-Muslims.

Dr Jeyaganesh, now also known as Muhammad Ridwan, went to the Syariah Court and won full custody while Shamala, a Hindu, resorted to the civil High Court.

She was awarded custody as well, but was ordered to allow her estranged husband weekend visits.

Shamala appealed the ruling but fled the country with the two children in 2004 before the court could hear the case.

For a while, they were believed to be in Australia, but Shamala’s current whereabouts, as well as that of Saktiwaran and Theivaswaran , remain unknown.

Today’s ruling dealt a hard blow to the battle to end one-sided religious conversions, which has caused a deep rift in this multicultural and secular nation but where Islam is recognised as the official creed.

Zaki, in his grounds of judgment, noted that Shamala had gained an unfair advantage over her husband when she breached a court order allowing the father the right to visit the two children.

“By doing so, she had unlawfully had custody of the children and even if the court were to examine the children now as to who would they chose to live with, most likely they will choose to live with the wife,” the top judge said.

The Federal Court said it cannot adopt a “fugitive doctrine of heads I win, tails you lose” in deciding the basic rights for either parent.

“Parties must have equal footing and not unfair representation,” Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Richard Malanjum said in his judgment.

The great Malaysian sidestep — The Malaysian Insider

NOV 12 — Today, the Federal Court sidestepped hearing five questions from S. Shamala by allowing her estranged husband’s objection that she must return to the country to enjoy the…

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NOV 12 — Today, the Federal Court sidestepped hearing five questions from S. Shamala by allowing her estranged husband’s objection that she must return to the country to enjoy the court’s protection.

She is apparently in Australia with her two children, who had been converted to Islam by her Muslim convert husband.

The questions she had asked are as follows:

1. Whether Section 95 (b) of the Administration of Islamic Law (Federal Territories) Act 1993 is ultra vires (beyond the powers) of Article 12 (4) of the federal constitution (specifically concerning the right to determine the religion of the children under the age of 18 by the parent or guardian) and Article 8 regarding equality rights;

2. Whether the same section in state law is inconsistent with federal law, namely Section 5(1) of the Guardianship of Infants Act 1961, and is therefore invalid;

3. Regarding Article 121 (1A) of the federal constitution, where a custody order for children is made, which court, between the Syariah Court and the High Court, is the higher authority?

4. When there is conversion of children from a civil marriage to Islam by one parent without the consent of the other, are the rights to remedies for the non-Muslim parent vested in the High Court?

5. Does the Syariah Court have jurisdiction to determine the validity of conversions of minors into Islam, once it had been registered by the Registrar of Muallafs (Registrar for newly-converted Muslims)?

The Federal Court evaded the issue by not answering any of the questions, and Malaysia lost an opportunity to figure out the testy and choppy waters of the legality of under-age conversions.

More than that, the implication of the Federal Court decision is that more Shamalas will rely less and less on the courts and, instead, take matters in their own hands. They will flee Malaysia for the courts afford no protection, let alone answers.

Civil courts have, even before this decision, abdicated their rights to hear conversion cases to Syariah courts. So which non-Muslim spouse is going to hang around and be a party to any civil court proceeding where the outcome is known?

This is the harsh reality facing non-Malay or non-Muslim spouses in cases where their partners have converted to Islam without informing the other partner.

Like everything else in racially-polarised Malaysia, this is the question: Can Malaysians expect justice from those who are not from same race and religion when it comes to matters of the faith?

The Federal Court’s silence is loud and deafening. They sidestepped the issue. The people will sidestep the law. And distrust will fester.

Anwar you must apologise.

Anwar sends his henchman to insult the HINDRAF/HRP protesstors and then sends his other henchman Tian Chua to organize an apology.
Anwar thinks he can play around with the minority Indians in the country as UMNO has been doing. He must take complete responsibility for the insult committed against us who gathered in front of his house on Tuesday the 9th of Novemeber 2010.. Firstly we were protesting there because a temple devotee in Pusat Bandar Puchong M Chakragunasegaran, 52,  doused himself with petrol and lit himself up over fears that part of his temple would be demolished by the local authorities. As of the writing of this piece he is in critical condition in the KL General Hospital.

This incident happened because temples like this all over the country do not sit on their own land because of the politics of this land. HINDRAF has been highlighting this from way back in 2005. The political Tsunami occurred in large part due to incidents like this. Came Anwar with all his shouts of “makkal sakthi” and pomises both explicit and implicit that he would take care of the minority Indians in the country like UMNO did not. He got the Indian votes, won 5 states and then he turns around and gives the Indians who voted in large numbers for him the shaft.
He is responsible for this self immolation act in more than one way. One is that he is reneging on all his promises to the Indian poor. Two this is happening in a PKR ruled state and the authorities that came to demolish were from the state. So, we gathered in front of his house to call Anwar to account .

Our Keadilan ( Justice ) guru and leader of the new democracy in Malaysia, what does he do – he sends his lowest level security person, if you can call him even that, someone called Din, to shoo us off, the protestors. That is all we are now worth for him. That is how this exalted democrat deals with protests.

He does not think it worthwhile for Wan Azizah or someone else in his Party in the house at that moment, if he is not in, to come meet us and receive our memorandum in the spirit of democracy. That will be the act of a true democrat. But that will not certainly be an act of a rat. That is what he has become – a rat ( more of that later). This chap Din, not only does he obstruct us, he also acts aggressively and finally he crumples and throws away the memo we had brought for Anwar. All this is no record in video at this



Then a day later after the uproar that this incident caused within the Indian community his other henchman Tian Chua gets this guy Din and comes online and delivers a sham apology. Sham because it is obvious Tian Chua is lying and sham because this guy Din says  “kalau say silap saya minta maaf, tapi saya rasa saya pun tak ….kalau saya betul betul aggreif lain cerita..” see it in this video



Tian Chua says and let me quote him from the video ” Saya juga dimaklumkan oleh Anwar Ibrahim dan keluarganya, sebenarnya mereka tidak tahu diluar ada orang demonstrasi.” You expect us to believe this piece of bullshit. Come on Anwar, come on Tian Chua, stop this bloody nonsense.

See the first video and look at the elaborate security that Anwar has in the front of his house. When a serious incident like this is happening in the front of the house, you expect us to believe that they don’t know anything about this inside. What were they doing – were they at the fiddle like Nero? You think the Indians in this country are  idiots and you can dish out any nonsense. This is exactly the kind of game a rat plays. Anwar you are increasingly becoming a rat – you are nowhere to be seen now. where is your statesmanship. Where is any moral turpitude? Where is there any integrity left in you? What about an apology or an explanation from you. What about a sound from you. What about from Azizah or is too lowly for you and your queen to deal with this rabble.

Nothing  – not a word.

We bury for you, any hopes you may have of going to Putrajaya with this.
Just watch.

Regards
Namasivayam

ANWAR IBRAHIM HAS TO GO!!!!

Watch this video. I am boiling mad, mad as hell!!! When I see the video.

This is about Anwar Ibrahim and they way he heaps indignity on all of us Indians.

This is the way this fellow who wants to be the future Prime Minister for a new Malaysia treats the minority Indians. After all, the Hindraf/HRP group that were outside his house were there for no other reason than to hand over a protest memorandum for the self immolation of an Indian over the demolition of a temple property in the PKR run State of Selangor . And he is the Defacto leader of PKR and therefore is accountable for such acts in the state. And what does this great leader do – he sends out his coolie to insult the waiting protestors, nay not just the waiting protestors but to insult all the Indians in this country, all the Indians in the country..

 

I am filled with so much anger at seeing this. We had suffered so much indignity already at the hands of the UMNO regime, now we are increasingly seeing the same kind of nonsense from the so called opposition parties and from Anwar Ibrahim. They are absolutely no better.He thinks because we are a weak minority he can go on demeaning us like this, with impunity. He thinks he can get away with any thing and there will be no retribution.

We have to cut our losses. We definitely need a new approach to pushing UMNO out as this Anwar and his PKR and PR are such a bloody letdown. We do not want UMNO anymore in Putrajaya. we cannot have these PR clowns there too. We definitely need an alternative approach. Every day that passes, he reduces the chance for a change in this country. He is the master pied piper. He just leads down to doom.

You decide for yourself whether these kinds of treacherous fellows need to be supported any more. For, me I am tired of his selfish and devious leadership style . He just has to go. I have no more room for him in my mind.

He has no honor left . He not only does not deliver on his election promises which anyway is not any where near as serious, as what he has just done here with the insult he has heaped on us all. He has trampled on the dignity of all Indians in the country with his act of sending his coolie out to tear up the representation to him.

If you have any modicum of self respect left as an Indian – you must immediately withdraw all and any support for him and his politics totally and unreservedly. Any new body politic that does not understand minority sensitivities needs to be summarily thrown out.

Only decency prevents me from returning his insults with profanity here in my writing.

I am mad as hell!!!!!!