In his most recent interview with Wall Street Journal, Opposition Leader Anwar “Mat King Leather” Ibrahim demonstrated his position as an ‘agent’ and continued commitment to carry on the Neo Con Jewish agenda.
- ASIA NEWS
- JANUARY 26, 2012, 11:17 A.M. ET
Malaysia’s Anwar Presses On Despite Appeal
By SHIBANI MAHTANI
KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said he isn’t worried about state prosecutors’ move to appeal a court decision acquitting him of sodomy earlier this month, and said he remains confident it won’t derail his campaign to lead a new government to power in elections expected later this year.
ReutersAnwar Ibrahim spoke with supporters as his wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, gave two thumbs-up after the verdict of his sodomy trial was announced in Kuala Lumpur Jan. 9.
“The judgment [in the sodomy case] was very strong” and “difficult to appeal,” Mr. Anwar said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal at his political party’s headquarters here Thursday. He said the appeal process, which began Jan. 20, would likely take at least six months, meaning it could loom over and outlast the election campaign.
Prime Minister Najib Razak has to call an election by March 2013, but under Malaysia’s parliamentary system of government, many analysts predict it will be called much sooner, triggering one of the most fiercely fought electoral contests this resource-rich nation has ever seen. Mr. Anwar said he believes the election is unlikely to take place later than June.
Since the Jan. 9 verdict by a High Court judge—who acquitted Mr. Anwar of violating Malaysia’s strict sodomy laws citing a lack of witnesses and flawed DNA evidence—the 64-year-old opposition leader has begun mobilizing support in this multiracial country, promising reforms to dismantle a decades-old affirmative-action program designed to give a leg up to the majority ethnic-Malay population while also targeting what he describes as widespread cronyism in Mr. Najib’s government. If elected, Mr. Anwar said he will accelerate privatizations and do more to enable free markets to operate more efficiently, such as improving transparency in the bidding for government contracts.
Mr. Najib, 58 years old, is also keen to brand himself a reformer in part to win back ethnic-Chinese and Indian voters who in recent years largely have thrown their support behind Mr. Anwar’s opposition alliance. Mr. Najib has also embarked on a series of sales of government assets to spur growth. Earlier this month, a government state investment fund sold its stake in car marker Proton Holdings Bhd. to conglomerateDRB-Hicom Bhd., and last year government-linked funds swapped shares in state-run Malaysian Airline System Bhd. with budget airline AirAsia Bhd.
“The overall principle is that we want the government-linked companies to sell off their noncore and noncompetitive assets,” Mr. Najib said in an interview two weeks ago. “We are always looking out for how to add value to the country.”
Mr. Anwar, though, criticized the way Mr. Najib’s government pursued these privatizations, saying that without open, public tenders, key companies remain controlled by a well-connected few.
Privatization “looks good, but look again at the procedures,” said Mr. Anwar. “The issue is not about privatization, it is blatant corruption.”
Following the Proton deal, state investment fund Khazanah Nasional said in a statement that it chose the best suitor for the job and the country.
A Malaysian government spokesperson said Thursday the government is “fully committed to openness and transparency in all privatizations and divestments of state-owned assets and to tackling corruption wherever and whenever it is found.” The spokesperson noted that Malaysia has introduced a new online database of government contracts so that anybody can alert authorities to any potentially improper actions.
“We are determined to ensure that all government contracts are awarded through a process that is fair and open to scrutiny,” the spokesperson said.
After being embroiled in the sodomy trial—which he claims was politically motivated—Mr. Anwar is now shifting gears from defending his reputation to fighting to win an election.
Once a high-ranking member of the United Malays National Organization that has run Malaysia since independence from Britain in 1957, he was sacked from the party and lost his post as deputy prime minister after challenging former leader Mahathir Mohamad in the 1990s. He was subsequently charged for sodomizing his driver and his speechwriter, and spent six years in prison before his conviction was overturned.
After leading the opposition to one of its strongest-ever showings in 2008′s national elections, Mr. Anwar was accused by former aide Saiful Bukhari Azlan of sodomizing him, setting in train another marathon, headline-stealing trial which Mr. Anwar again said was designed to end his political career. Mr. Najib and his government have repeatedly denied having anything to do with the case.
Now, after Judge Zabidin Diah acquitted Mr. Anwar, ruling that the forensic evidence presented against the opposition leader was flawed, Mr. Anwar argues that he isn’t just “anti-UMNO” but has his own set of policies geared toward restoring Malaysia’s competitiveness in a global economy where countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia are emerging as alternative magnets for investment.
“We must always compare Malaysia to Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan,” said Mr. Anwar. “That’s what we were.”
If elected, Mr. Anwar said he would speed up the removal of racial quotas for university places and focus on helping lower-income groups regardless of race instead of solely aiding ethnic Malays.
In the interview, Mr. Anwar also clarified his position on homosexual rights and Malaysia’s sodomy laws, and also the Muslim-majority nation’s relationship with Israel.
“I support all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel,” said Mr. Anwar, although he stopped short of saying he would open diplomatic ties with the Jewish state, a step which he said remains contingent on Israel respecting the aspirations of Palestinians. Malaysia has consistently refrained from establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, although limited commercial ties exist between private companies in the two countries.
In response to recent local reports that he supported gay marriage, Mr. Anwar said they were wrong and that he “believes in and supports the sanctity of marriage between men and women.” The opposition leader is suing government-linked newspaper Utusan Malaysia for defamation, alleging that it implied he supports and wants to legalize homosexuality.
Still, Mr. Anwar said that Malaysia’s sodomy laws are “archaic” and could be amended.
“It is not my business to attack people or arrest people based on their sexual orientation,” he said.
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It is shocking for him to proclaim his willingness to defend Israeli’s ill-gotten and brutally seized border and security, when he is given power as the Prime Minister. Malaysia has had very strong stance against the Zionist state of Israel and had been a consistently strong critic, even in international bodies such as United Nations.
This is against what Malaysia stood for, ever since Independence. When Malaysia hosted the Organisation of Islamic Countries summit in October 2003, then Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad proclaimed that the “Jews rule the world by proxy”.
This latest statement is not withstanding the fact that Anwar is openly willing to defy Al Quran on issues such as sodomy, which provisions made through the Penal Code he classified as “Archaic”.
This is the most revealing statement as an agent of the Neo Con Jewish agenda by the someone who has been dubbed as “Darling of the Zionism”.
Nothing new in what he said. It is becoming like a bowl of undecipherable alphabet soup. Based on the transcripts of the interview above, he may lose more pengundi atas pagar votes than he can ever imagine. This is after all 2012, not 1998.
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I believe Anwar will sue again saying UMNO’s propaganda machinery has twisted his words just like the BBC’s case.
Anwar can do no wrong.
No, no, Anwar must not be allowed to be PM. He’ll ruin this country. That’s an honest and frank opinion. And I’m not a member of any political party.
Anwar wants to upset the established order of things. Resulting in the country being ruined. He simply cannot be trusted. He cannot be allowed to run the country.
He wants to make changes without giving due regard to the relevant provisions of the Constitution. The laws against same gender sex etc were drawn up on the basis that Islam is the religion of the country as provided in the Constitution. In fact all major religions do not allow same gender sex. He wants to change them to suit his personal interest. He is a sodomizer.
He is a liar and a cheat. Claiming he did not sodomize. Yet the Appeal Court Judges for Sodomy I recorded their judgment that he did sodomize, although they allowed the appeal on technical grounds. Now the Notice of Appeal has been submitted for Sodomy II, and must be appealed when the written judgement is produced. Whatever the grounds for the acquittal. There are always two sides to every coin. And the Appeal Court Judges may see a different side.
Anwar is a pengkhianat bangsa and pengkhianat negara. He bad mouths the country at home and abroad. Saying no democracy. Yet his own party PKR is not democratic. It has become a family party of himself, his wife and his daughter. Ask Zaid Ibrahim who got disgusted with the party election procedures and cabut lari.
The above are sufficient to justify my honest and frank opinion. I can write more but I’ll let it rest for the time being.
Tak bosan-bosan lagi ke dia ni mencerca kerajaan dan by extension negara serta orang Melayu? siang malam corruption, croniysm, persecution, racist. Dah macam orang gila meroyan pulak dah!
Like Nono, Iam not a member of any political party, but this line is getting old and tired alreadylah Anwar!
“I support all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel,”.
Saya teringat satu ketika dulu PAS bandingkan dirinya sebagai HAMAS manakala UMNO tu dilabel sebagai PLO (kadang-kadang Israel). Jadi apa komen PAS dengan kenyataan pemimpin/ikon baru mereka ni?
Sekurang-kurangnya orang yang PAS pernah gelar ”MahaFiraun’ tu tetap pendiriannya dalam isu Israel dan Palestin. Malah beliau sanggup mengambil risiko dicap sebagai pemimpin anti-semitic. Ini tak termasuk soal nak menghalalkan melalui undang-undang perkara yang jelas diharamkan oleh Islam. Itu tandanya otak ‘MahaFiraun’ berada di kepala yang betul, bukan macam si ‘anugerah tuhan’ ni – otak letak di kepala yang satu lagi, perhaps that is why he keep knocking on the wrong (back?) door.
Satu lagi saya tak faham apa yang penyokong-penyokong PAS nampak dalam Anwar sehingga sanggup menggadaikan prinsip perjuangan dan maruah masing-masing. Kepimpinan PAS sanggup menobatkan dia sebagai ketua walaupun pada masa yang sama ramai ahlinya akui dia ada isu moral. Perjuangan PAS ketika ini atas dasar ugama atau semata-mata kerana nak tumbangkan UMNO? Siapa sebenarnya musuh Islam yang lebih besar? Siasah syariyah jenis apa ni?
Saya senang hati sikit bahawa, di masa DAP sibuk kata depa sokong Anwar calon PM, Hadi Awang kata tak payah sibukkan sekarang fasal siapa jadi PM, itu boleh runding kemudian.
Ini bermakna, PAS pun tidak semestinya mahukan Anwar sebagai PM. Saya rasa PAS pun fedap sebab Anwar kata Lim Kit Siang calon TPM tapi tak sebut apa pun portfolio untuk PAS. Rasanya, portfolio agama pun PR tak mahu PAS pegang, macam di Selangor sekarang.
Jadi apa fungsi PAS? hanya tukang deliver undi – jadi keldai tungangan PKR dan DAP? Pimpinan PAS dah tentu ada habuan masing-masing, maka tak perlulah risau. Tapi Pak Mat, Haji Din, Ustaz Zul dan ahli biasa lain yang menyokong kerana idealisme asal PAS tu dapat apa?
Saya rasa PAS akan membayar harga yang sangat tinggi pada PRU 13 ni. Saya yakin PR tidak dapat membentuk kerajaan, pada masa yang sama PAS akan hilang sokongan dalam jumlah yang besar. Orang macam Pak Mat, Haji Din dan Ustaz Zul akan kecewa dan buat undi protes terhadap PAS seperti yang berlaku pada UMNO dalam PRU12. Itu pun nasib baiklah kalau mereka tak keluar parti secara besar-besaran. Kalau benar senario ni, tahniah saya ucapkan kepada pimpinan golongn Erdogan dalam PAS – Anda berjaya capai dalam satu tahun apa yang UMNO tak dapat laksanakan selama 50 tahun.
Sekarang ni pun dah ramai orang PAS yang malu kerana diperli ‘konon alim tapi sokong peliwat’. Baru nak tarbiyah golongan muda, kena soal tentang isu ni terkulat-kulat nak jawab. Tambah pula sekarang ni Anwar semakin menyerlah dengan sokongannya pada rejim Yahudi. So much for Sahsiah Syariyah. TAKBIRRR!!!
ABAI-AsalBukanAnwarIbrahim….bengong…jewish people yang betul betul follow Judaism pun reject dan against state of Israel…mamat Muslim pulak beria sokong!!!