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Mikhail Hafiz
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To those who believe and do deeds of righteousness hath Allah promised forgiveness and a great reward. (Al-Ma'idah 5:9) | Author, #RediscoveringMalaysia series
Nov 17, 2022 • 67 tweets • 10 min read
#REDISCOVERINGMALAYSIA

04 NEW MALAYSIA: DEMOCRACY, INTERRUPTED? - PART IV

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PART I :

PART II :

PART III : Image *REMEDIES*

"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

- Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1977)
Feb 17, 2022 • 31 tweets • 4 min read
In this informative and illuminating article, erudite and prolific novelist @MohdFaizalMusa1 puts aside his literary cap and draws upon his considerable experience as a researcher and social commentator, to expound on the thorny and polarising issue of unethical conversions. Loh Siew Hong bertanya mengapa dia tidak dibenarkan berjumpa dengan anak-anak perempuannya sedangkan kebenaran diberi kepada Mufti Perlis, Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin.
Feb 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It is my personal opinion that no organisation which publishes an article devoted entirely to espousing "Sisi Lembut Seorang Hitler" should be given a first look, never mind a second chance, especially when its co-founder has advocated for political assassinations and pogroms. I am appalled and disgusted by the fact that, in this day and age, there are those who still attempt to "humanise" an evil monster who not only took the lives of 6 million Jews and other minorities, but also stripped them of whatever remnants of dignity they possessed beforehand.
Feb 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Also, this:

Ethnoreligious tribalists are fond of using the word "libtard" as a pejorative slur to address those whom they consider to be "liberal" in a contemptuous and condescending manner. Many do not even realise that they are being disrespectful to two groups of people. For adults and children who suffer from mental illness through no fault of their own, life is already challenging even in the best of times.

They do not need, nor do they deserve, to be further vilified, stigmatised, marginalised or ostracised.
Nov 30, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
SPIRITUALITY VS PERFORMATIVE PIETY

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While spirituality can be regarded as the distilled essence of religion, performative piety is nothing more than the ostentatious, narcissistic, hollow, crass and disingenuous manifestation of religiosity*. (*excessive or overzealous religiousness; self-indulgent and self-conceited religious behaviour, often practised and expressed in a manner that is intrusive, patronising, peremptory and annoying)
Nov 29, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"Deputy Youth and Sports Minister Senator Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal said today that Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia’s Youth wing continues to support the abolishment of vernacular schools in the country."

malaymail.com/amp/news/malay… “Armada completely rejects the statement that vernacular schools will not be closed,” he said, referring to a remark by National Unity Minister Datuk Halimah Sadique in Parliament yesterday.
Nov 27, 2021 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
To my fellow countrymen who think that the disgraced former Prime Minister and convicted felon should be given a second chance, I can only offer the following words of advice:

"Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me."

economist.com/asia/2021/11/2… WHO, AT THE time, did not see the resounding defeat in 2018 of the scandal-drenched prime minister, Najib Razak, and his United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) as a watershed for Malaysia?
Oct 1, 2021 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
'EMPTY CHAIRS AT EMPTY TABLES'* : AN EULOGY FOR MALAYSIA'S BROKEN DREAMS AND SHATTERED ASPIRATIONS

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"Here they talked of revolution
Here it was they lit the flame
Here they sang about tomorrow
And tomorrow never came"

(*- , 'Les Miserables') For the last few decades, Malaysia has suffered, not only from steadily degenerating value system (which has resulted in a decadent age of abject moral decay), (cont'd below)

Sep 30, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Also, security experts have warned that Malaysia is now exposed to the risk of terrorist attacks by Isis, due to the recent explicit praise and support of PAS for the Taliban, which the former considers its sworn enemy.

Relevant excerpts from @1AmyChew 's comprehensive and cogent analysis for @SCMPNews on renewed security threats faced by Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines:
Sep 29, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is what happens when a patriarchal, parochial and primeval mentality, often aided and abetted by male chauvinism and/or misogyny, has infiltrated and embedded itself within the subconscious of some Malaysians. These men expect women to be subservient, even if our FC guarantees equality for all before the law. That they should base their self-worth - partially or otherwise - on this subservience, whether voluntary or coerced, says quite a lot about their character (or lack thereof).
Aug 17, 2021 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
"THINGS FALL APART, THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD"

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And so, just as hastily as it had been stitched together, the morally illegitimate and constitutionally questionable PN government unraveled at breakneck speed, and finally met its ignominious end on 16 August, 2021. Unlike the fall of the kleptocratic BN regime on 9 May 2018, the demise of this government has not been met with joyous celebrations or rapturous responses from the citizenry.
Aug 16, 2021 • 45 tweets • 6 min read
As Malaysia struggles to recover from potentially debilitating political, economic and public health crises, following the collapse of the PN government, @1AmyChew trails her top-notch investigative spotlight on the foreign investment sector to survey the damage it has sustained. Standfirst:

• Analysts say with no clear successor as prime minister, Muhyiddin’s decision to step down will further roil the country’s financial markets and dampen investors’ confidence
Aug 15, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
We should not be that surprised to find ourselves in our current predicament. The writing has been on the wall for years. Our transition from a one party state system to a two coalition system did not happen overnight. This gradual change took the best part of 10 years. It commenced with the emergence of a credible and formidable opposition bloc in GE12, continued with the abandonment of MCA and MIC by the non-Malays, in tandem with the widening fragmentation of the Malay political polity, and culminated with the fall of BN In GE14.
Aug 15, 2021 • 49 tweets • 6 min read
CAN MUHYUDDIN BE TRUSTED?

- WONG CHIN HUAT

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( This article was published by Malaysiakini on 15 August, 2021 at malaysiakini.com/news/587225 ) COMMENT | Speculation is rife that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will go to the palace to seek parliamentary dissolution or resignation, the latter being the only outcome.
Jul 5, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
*HOSPITAL EMERGENCY FUND*

IDEAS Community Projects and Projek #BangsaMalaysia are coming together to launch a *HOSPITAL EMERGENCY FUND* to aid our hospitals and medical frontliners. Image This *URGENT* effort is to support our overstretched healthcare system as a result of the prolonged COVID pandemic. Hospitals are overwhelmed, medical frontliners are exhausted, equipment is insufficient, and patient care is compromised.
Jul 5, 2021 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
HERE ARE OUR PLANS FOR MALAYSIA

- NATHANIEL TAN, FAISAL AZIZ, ADLI ZAKUAN, GRAZELE JENARUN, DR KHOR SWEE KHENG, DR SITI NOOR MUNIRAH IBRAHIM & THARMA PILLAI.

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( This article was published by Malaysiakini on 5 July, 2021 at malaysiakini.com/columns/581737 ) We agree with columnist Wong Chin Huat, who recently wrote on the need for the next leaders of our countries to have clear and concrete plans (malaysiakini.com/news/581528) for the future direction of the country.
Jul 4, 2021 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
*JOINT PRESS STATEMENT, 4 JULY 2021*

MALAYSIA'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE, WHY DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE ITS HEAD IN THE SAND? ImageImage When India faced the worst days of its Covid-19 crisis, the entire world knew.
Jun 9, 2021 • 41 tweets • 5 min read
POLITICAL CEASEFIRE BEFORE PARLIAMENT REOPENS - WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS?

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- WONG CHIN HUAT

( This article was published by Malaysiakini on 9 June, 2021 at m.malaysiakini.com/columns/578145 ) COMMENT | Thanks to voices from the public and within the political class, including that of Deputy Dewan Rakyat Speaker Azalina Othman Said, a hybrid sitting is now being studied after de facto Law Minister Takiyuddin Hassan (cont'd below)
Jun 8, 2021 • 30 tweets • 4 min read
The Malaysian government's failure to curtail the most recent CoVid-19 outbreak, further exacerbated by a sluggish vaccination program, has put our national health services under a tremendous amount of strain, reports @NileBowie .

asiatimes.com/2021/05/malays… "Malaysia’s health crisis is taking a turn for the worst as new Covid-19 cases rise exponentially, a viral surge that as a percentage of the population is now higher than India’s daily infection rate."
Jun 8, 2021 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
"The cancellation by UTM said to be the recommendation of their 'Islamic Center' poses serious questions on the role of the university as a place to enlighten minds or a place to condition knowledge based on a narrow perspective of religious tolerance." "One of the important aspects of nation-building that is lacking in this country is the sharing and appreciation of other cultures like those of the Kadazan, Murut, Dayak, Iban and Orang Asli."
Jun 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Srebrenica War Memorial not only serves as a commemorative focal point for the Bosniak genocide and the final resting place for many of its victims, but also as a damning indictment of man's inhumanity to man.

Radko Mladic - the infamous, unrepentant Butcher of Bosnia. UPDATE:

"The UN court upheld the life sentence for his role in the killing of around 8,000 Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995."

bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…