Friday 29 August 2014

Sabah churches to skip N-Day celebrations

Sabah churches to skip N-Day celebrations

Source: Malaysiakini 

Churches in Sabah are skipping this year’s National Day celebrations and are making Aug 31 a day of prayer to “Remember Sabah our homeland” instead.

The move to celebrate Sabah’s independence on this day 51 years ago is made on the wake of increasing unhappiness with Putrajaya over the ‘Allah’ issue and Islamisation, land rights and security issues, and the inundation of foreigners who have been given residence and citizenship, among the many issues confronting the Land Below the Wind.

Usually the Kota Kinabalu City Hall joins hands with the influential Pastors’ Fellowship of Kota Kinabalu (PFKK) to host the National Day celebrations at the town padang or a public venue.

However, according to the pastors, this year churches will celebrate the occasion within church premises as part of its Sunday services.

Some churches have also decided to hold combined services this Sunday.

The call to prayer has been mass-mail blasted today to all churches not only in Sabah but throughout the country in English, Malay and Chinese to explain the context for the call to prayer.

According to the prayer guidelines, this year’s celebrations is to call into remembrance the “forgotten history of Sabah” that it gained independence on Aug 31, 1963 and not 1957 which is the independence day for Malaya.

However, they would be celebrating Malaysia Day on Sept 16 as a national day as this is the day Malaysia was formed in which Sabah became an equal partner of Malaya together with Sarawak, and not merely as one of the 14 states and territories.

The Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM), which is the umbrella body for Christians, is also making a distinction between the two commemorative dates in a call to national prayer two days ago.

It said plainly “churches will commemorate the 57th Anniversary of Merdeka (for Malaya on Aug 31) and the 51st anniversary of the establishment of the Federation of Malaysia (on Sept 16).”

"Our experience of this past year, however, has been marred by the painful memory of two incidences; first, our sacred Scriptures being seized from the premises of the Bible Society of Malaysia and second, the refusal of the Federal Court to grant leave to the Roman Catholic Church to appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal in the Herald case.

“We continue to be concerned for the status of the seized Bibles and the outcome of other cases pending in the courts related to the use of the word ‘Allah by Christians.

‘An escalation in extremism’

CFM also pointed out that, "In addition to these, we are also witnessing an escalation in ethnic and religious extremism, where unchecked sectarian forces of hatred and bigotry, often fuelled by misinformation and misinterpretation, lies and inflammatory speeches, are ripping apart the social fabric of our nation that had been built on the principles of moderation and multi-culturalism. We believe that all Malaysians truly have cause for concern.”

The Sabah prayer guidelines in outlining the events that shaped the history of Sabah also highlights the hurt over the prohibition of the ‘Allah’ word.

"As Sabah is known as the Land Below the Wind, we pray that the wind of the Holy Spirit will sweep over the land bringing a spiritual reawakening and refreshing.

"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there will be freedom so we pray for the wind of the Holy Spirit to blow mightily so everyone is free to call upon the Lord God Almighty in their own language,” the prayer guidelines pointed out.

It also pointed out that Sabah state constitution was amended to make Islam the state’s official religion in 1973 despite the assurance that there will be no official religion for Sabah and the guarantee of complete freedom of religion in the 20-point conditions attached to the Malaysia Agreement.

On the influx of illegal immigrants, the prayer guidelines said, “Since 1970s, Sabah has been flooded by illegal immigrants especially from Southern Philippines and Indonesia, many of whom have been given blue ICs under suspicious circumstances.”

Meanwhile, many Anak Negeri (natives) in the interior of Sabah till today have only been issued ‘red’ ICs indicating they are stateless persons.

The prayer guidelines also contend that Sabah natives enjoy the same protection and special position as peninsular Malays under Article 153 of the federal constitution.

In recalling the history of Sabah, the prayer guidelines point to the provision of border security, self-management of land and resources, self-government for Sabah.


But it said the 13 May 1969 racial riots in the peninsula resulted in Sabah getting a poor bargain in petroleum royalties from the federal government.

It claims that Sabah was subjected to the Continental Shelf Act 1966 and the Petroleum Mining Act 1966, gazetted under the Emergency Proclamation declared by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on May 15, 1969 (following the May 13 riots).

It added that Sabah lost her top leaders in the Double 6 plane crash on June 6, 1976 and two weeks after Sabah signed the Petronas agreement where, “any oil above and beneath the land in Malaysia belongs to federal government”. This was not even brought to the state assembly.

Sabah ceded Labuan as a federal territory to the federal government on April 16, 1984, again without reference to the state assembly.

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工委会议决:将徐袖珉除名

人民之友工委会2020年9月27日常月会议针对徐袖珉(英文名: See Siew Min)半年多以来胡闹的问题,议决如下:

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2020年9月27日发布



[ 漫画新解 ]
新冠病毒疫情下的马来西亚
舔美精神患者的状态

年轻一辈人民之友有感而作


注:这“漫画新解”是反映一名自诩“智慧高人一等”而且“精于民主理论”的老姐又再突发奇想地运用她所学会的一丁点“颜色革命”理论和伎俩来征服人民之友队伍里的学弟学妹们的心理状态——她在10多年前曾在队伍里因时时表现自己是超群精英,事事都要别人服从她的意愿而人人“惊而远之”,她因此而被挤出队伍近10年之久。

她在三年前被一名年长工委推介,重新加入人民之友队伍。可是,就在今年年初她又再故态复萌,尤其是在3月以来,不断利用部落格的贴文,任意扭曲而胡说八道。起初,还以“不同意见者”的姿态出现,以博取一些不明就里的队友对她的同情和支持,后来,她发现了她的欺骗伎俩无法得逞之后,索性撤下了假面具,对人民之友一贯的“反对霸权主义、反对种族主义”的政治立场,发出歇斯底里的叫嚣,而暴露她设想人民之友“改旗易帜”的真面目!

尤其是在新冠病毒疫情(COVID-19)课题上,她公然猖狂跟人民之友的政治立场对着干,指责人民之友服务于中国文宣或大中华,是 “中国海外统治部”、“中华小红卫兵”等等等等。她甚至通过强硬粗暴手段擅自把我们的WhatsApp群组名称“Sahabat Rakyat Malaysia”改为“吐槽美国样衰俱乐部”这样的无耻行动也做得出来。她的这种种露骨的表现足以说明了她是一名赤裸裸的“反中仇华”份子。

其实,在我们年轻队友看来,这名嘲讽我们“浪费了20年青春”[人民之友成立至今近20年(2001-9-9迄今)]并想要“拯救我们年轻工委”的这位“徐大姐”,她的思想依然停留在20年前的上个世纪。她初始或许是不自觉接受了“西方民主”和“颜色革命”思想的培养,而如今却是自觉地为维护美国的全球霸权统治而与反对美国霸权支配全球的中国人民和全世界各国(包括马来西亚)人民为敌。她是那么狂妄自大,却是多么幼稚可笑啊!

她所说的“你们浪费了20年青春”正好送回给她和她的跟班,让他们把她的这句话吞到自己的肚子里去!


[ 漫画新解 ]
新冠病毒疫情下的马来西亚
"公知"及其跟班的精神面貌

注:这“漫画新解”是与<人民之友>4月24日转贴的美国政客叫嚣“围剿中国”煽动颠覆各国民间和组织 >(原标题为<当心!爱国队伍里混进了这些奸细……>)这篇文章有关联的。这篇文章作者沈逸所说的“已被欧美政治认同洗脑的‘精神欧美人’”正是马来西亚“公知”及其跟班的精神面貌的另一种写照!




[ 漫画新解 ]
新冠病毒疫情下的马来西亚
"舔美"狗狗的角色

编辑 / 来源:人民之友 / 网络图库

注:这“漫画新解”是与《察网》4月22日刊林爱玥专栏文章<公知与鲁迅之间 隔着整整一个中国 >这篇文章有关联的,这是由于这篇文章所述说的中国公知,很明显是跟这组漫画所描绘的马来西亚的“舔美”狗狗,有着孪生兄弟姐妹的亲密关系。

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