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Monday August 17, 2009
Hisham: We’ll act against those who incite hatred on the Net


PETALING JAYA: Those who use the cyberspace to incite hatred or insult any race or religion or the monarchy, will soon find it increasingly difficult to hide behind the ‘mouse’.

Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said: “If we allow it to go unchecked, the attack on these pillars may jeopardise the safety of all Malaysians. It will then be too late if we act after a clash.

“We are not clamping or censoring the Internet. But when it comes to issues involving race, religion and our royalty, the Internet cannot be allowed to go on to de-stabilise the country and do whatever they like,” he said.

He added that three ministries, including his, plus the relevant agencies, including the police, the Attorney-General and Multimedia Commission personnel would meet and discuss this on Wednesday.

“What we are trying to do is to ensure that there are enough provisions for the authorities to take action, and not just the police,” he said yesterday after opening the Lembah Pantai Umno division meeting.

Hishammudin said a template would be created to protect the innocent and warned those who used the cyberspace to hide behind accusations that incite anger that action would be taken against them.

“We do not want the innocent to be prosecuted. For example, we did not take action against DAP’s Loke (DAP Socialist Youth head Anthony Loke Siew Fook) as he reported that the blog (which insulted Islam and Perak royalty) is not his,” he added.
On another note, Hishammuddin said they had yet to decide whether Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan’s contract would be renewed, adding that it was more important to ensure that the public accepted the police force.

“Whether it is extended for one year or not, to me it is not as important as getting the police force to be accepted in the minds of the public. And that is not just dependent on the position of one man,” he added. Read more!

Laporan Sinar Harian 11 Ogos 2009

Itu bukan kenyataan saya: Siew Fook

SEREMBAN – Ketua Pemuda Sosialis DAP (DAPSY), Loke Siew Fook menafikan beliau telah mengeluarkan sebarang kenyataan menghina Islam, sebaliknya mengakui menjadi mangsa laman blog yang tidak bertanggungjawab.

Beliau berkata, kenyataan yang tersiar dalam laman blog www.sjsandteam.wordpress.com ternyata sengaja mahu menimbulkan api kemarahan masyarakat Islam terhadap dirinya, sekali gus untuk mengaibkannya.

“Memang saya terkilan kerana perkara itu saya tidak pernah cakap. Saya menafikan sekeras-kerasnya. Saya tidak pernah keluarkan kenyataan yang menghina Islam atau agama lain.

“Saya rasa ada pihak yang cuba mahu memburukkan dan mengapi-apikan keadaan kononnya saya anti Islam,” katanya.

Beliau berkata, laman blog berkenaan bukan miliknya, tetapi dibangunkan oleh mereka yang tidak bertanggungjawab dan sengaja mahu mencetuskan keadaan huru-hara.

“Itu bukan lama blog saya dan saya tidak boleh kawal dan bertanggungjawab terhadap laman blog itu. Tetapi yang jelas, perkataan keterlaluan menghina Islam itu sebenarnya adalah daripada komen pembaca laman blog berkenaan yang saya tidak tahu siapa,” katanya ketika dihubungi Sinar Harian, di sini semalam.

Siew Fook berkata demikian ketika ditanya mengenai dakwaan Ahli Parlimen Kulim-Bandar Baharu, Zulkifli Noordin yang kesal dengan kenyataan Pengerusi DAP Negeri Sembilan itu menyerang peribadi pendakwah Dr Mohd Ridhuan Tee Abdullah secara keterlaluan, biadab dan boleh mencetuskan ketegangan agama di dalam laman blog berkenaan.

Bagaimanapun, Siew Fook menafikan perkataan mencaci keterlaluan itu adalah kenyataannya, sebaliknya ia adalah komen-komen daripada pembaca laman blog berkenaan dan tidak menolak kemungkinan pihak tertentu cuba memutarbelitkan fakta.

Difahamkan, laman blog berkenaan telah pun ditutup sejak semalam.

Berikutan tersiarnya laman blog berkenaan, Siew Fook yang juga Ahli Parlimen Rasah membuat laporan polis di Balai Polis Dang Wangi, Kuala Lumpur kira-kira 3 petang semalam.

“Saya mengutuk siapa yang membuat komen sebegitu. Saya harap orang ramai menyiasat dulu fakta berkenaan dan jangan terpengaruh dengan dakwaan palsu yang berniat jahat,” katanya. Read more!

Laporan Polis Menafikan dakwaan palsu

Media Statement by DAP Socialist Youth (DAPSY) National Chairman and MP for Rasah Loke Siew Fook on Monday, 10 August 2009 in Kuala Lumpur.

POLICE REPORT TO DENY UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS AND LIES THAT I HAVE INSULTED ISLAM AND THE SULTAN OF PERAK

I’ve just lodged a police report at Dang Wangi Police Station to deny unfounded allegations and lies which was spread by certain blogs and SMS circulation claiming that I have made statements insulting Islam and the Sultan of Perak.

I wish to deny strongly that neither DAPSY nor I have ever issued any statements that insult Islam or the Royalty. Those are lies spread by certain irresponsible parties out to tarnish the image of the DAP and tried to paint DAP as anti-Islam and anti-Malays.

My police report as below:

LAMPIRAN LAPORAN POLIS

Saya datang ke Balai Polis IPD Dang Wangi pada hari ini 10 Ogos 2009 untuk membuat satu repot polis untuk MENAFIKAN dengan sekeras-kerasnya bahawa saya pernah menulis beberapa artikel yang dikatakan menghina agama Islam dan DYMM Sultan Perak serta Raja Nazrin Shah. Dalam 2 hari ini, beberapa blog dalam internet dan sebaran SMS telah menuduh saya menulis tulisan yang dikatakan menghina Islam dengan kata-kata lucah dan kesat dan yang terbaru menuduh saya menghina Sultan Perak.

Mereka mendakwa saya telah menulis artikel-artikel tersebut dalam sebuah laman blog http://sjsandteam.wordpress.com/. Saya ingin menegaskan bahawa saya tidak tahu-menahu tentang kewujudan blog ini dan tidak tahu siapa pemunya blog tersebut. Saya hanya mengetahui bahawa ada orang yang tidak bertanggungjawab yang telah meletakkan satu kenyataan akhbar saya yang bertajuk “Ridhuan Tee must apologize to Teoh Bneg Hock’s family” ke dalam blog tersebut. Selepas itu, ada pemberi-pemberi komen yang saya tidak tahu siapa telah menulis beberapa ayat yang kesat terhadap Ridhuan Tee dan agamanya. Saya langsung tidak bertanggungjawab terhadap komen-komen tersebut.

Dalam blog yang sama, terdapat satu lagi artikel yang dikatakan saya menghina Sultan Perak dan Raja Nazrin yang didakwa oleh dua blog iaitu marahku.blogspot.com dan kitaanakmelayu.blogspot.com. Saya menafikan sekerasnya-kerasnya dakwaan tersebut. Saya TIDAK pernah menulis apa-apa tulisan berkenaan dengan Sultan Perak. Ini adalah satu dakwaan yang palsu dan fitnah terhadap saya.

Saya membuat laporan ini untuk menafikan dakwaan-dakwaan tersebut dan mengharapkan tuduhan yang palsu itu dapat diberhentikan.

Sekian laporan saya. . Read more!

Saya hina Islam?

Saya mendapat tahu bahawa ada beberapa pihak yang tidak bertanggungjawab termasuk seorang Ahli Parlimen PR yang cuba menghentam saya kononnya saya menghina agama Islam. Mereka menggunakan pelbagai saluran; komen dalam blog saya, emel dan sebagainya untuk mencaci saya dengan perkataan-perkataan rasis dan menjijikkan.

Ya, memang saya mengeluarkan satu kenyataan beberapa hari lepas untuk mengutuk seorang penulis dalam Utusan Malaysia yang bernama Mohd Ridhuan Tee berkenaan dengan isu apa yang dikatakan olehnya sebagai "anak luar nikah" Teoh Beng Hock. Saya merasakan tulisannya cukup tidak sensitif terhadap perasaan keluarga Beng Hock dan tidak adil terhadap bayinya yang tidak berdosa. Yang pertama, Beng Hock bukan seorang penganut Islam dan beliau tidak tertakluk kepada hukum agama Islam. Saya tidak mempertikaikan hukum agama Islam tetapi adalah tidak adil untuk Ridhuan Tee untuk mengenakan "moral judgement" ke atas Beng Hock.

Yang keduannya, kenyataan daripada Ahli Parlimen tersebut mengatakan bahasa yang digunakan oleh DAPSY mencaci agama Islam (petikan daripada sebuah blog). Saya ingin menegaskan bahawa bahasa-bahasa yang tidak senonoh tersebut BUKAN sebahagian dari kenyataan saya tetapi adalah komen-komen daripada pembaca blog tersebut yang saya tidak bertanggungjawab. Saya tidak tahu samada YB tersebut sengaja memutarbelitkan fakta atau tidak faham baca kenyataan akhbar. Memang kita menyedari bahawa ada sesetengah pihak yang kerja mereka saban hari ialah cuba mengambarkan DAP sebagai parti anti-Islam. Agenda mereka cukup diragui dan sememangnya ada "udang di sebalik batu".

Rakan-rakan dan para penyokong PR khasnya dari PAS di NS yang pernah mendengar ceramah saya mengenali siapa saya dan cara pemikiran saya. Saya menghormati semua agama dan kaum. Saya tidak akan membalas orang yang menggunakan perkataan yang cukup rasis terhadap saya dengan perkataan yang sama. Kalau kita dalam PR mempunyai fikiran begitu, kita hanya akan jatuh dalam perangkap UMNO! Saya yakin majoriti orang Muslim di Malaysia menolak cara pemikiran yang rasis seumpama itu.

Saya "reproduce" kenyataan saya di bawah ini dan terpulanglah kepada orang ramai untuk menilai kenyataan tersebut.


Media Statement by Loke Siew Fook in Petaling Jaya on Tuesnesday, 4th August 2009:

Mohd Ridhuan Tee must apologize to Teoh Beng Hock’s family and two chinese language dailies!

It is sickening to see that a person with supposedly strong academic credentials and high religious stature can produce such cruel and heartless remarks over the issue of Teoh Beng Hock’s unborn child.

By twisting a dreadful tragedy with his zealous agenda against “bastard children” in his Utusan Malaysia article, Dr. Mohd Ridhuan, the vice-president of the Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association, has caused immense emotional damage to Teoh’s family.

Whatever superficial sympathy Dr. Mohd Ridhuan has for Teoh’s family is lost when he chooses to harp on the status of the child, whom he labels as an illegitimate child. Dr. Mohd Ridhuan has also compared Teoh’s child to the children of “Malay-Muslim girls who have sex with Muslim or non-Muslim partners with or without consent”, who are born without taking their father’s names.

By comparing, with blatantly racist language, an unborn child of an engaged couple who is painfully separated by the fiance’s mysterious death, to children who are results of unplanned conception, Dr Mohd Ridhuan has shown everyone how low he can go to hurt other human beings with broken logic.

As if that wasn’t enough, Dr. Mohd Ridhuan produced another hurtful article to slam his critics, labelling two Chinese language dailies – China Press and Nanyang Siang Pau – as racist, for highlighting his own racist outbursts. You can’t get more hypocritical than that.

DAPSY condemns in the strongest possible terms, the decision by Dr. Mohd Ridhuan to produce such insensitive, racist, zealous and hypocritical writings and the decision by Utusan Malaysia to publish them. DAPSY calls on Dr. Mohd Ridhuan to immediately apologize to Teoh’s family and to China Press and Nanyang Siang Pau, for all they have done is to reveal and reject his nasty character. Read more!

Scrapping of PPSMI - What say you?

The scrapping of PPSMI - teaching of Science and Mathematics in English has sparked off another round of public discourse. It's a contentious issue from Day 1 and there are contrast opinions on this subject. Language activists irrespective of Chinese and Tamil mother tongue education groups or the nationalist Bahasa Malaysia "defender" hailed the decision as a moral victory as they have launched massive opposition to the policy in the last few years.

However, many urban parents seemed dissapointed with this flip-flop policy as they preferred the current method of using English in both subjects. DAP's position on this issue has always been clear. We opposed it, not that we are against the mastery of English but we do not believe that this approach is workable. We must strive to return to the standard of our English in the 70s, no doubt about that. But if even the teachers who teach Maths and Science can't master English, can we expect any success in such policy?

The other option is to let some selected schools which are well-prepared to continue the current method and give the parents a choice.

Well, we would like to hear your views on this issue. Read more!

Office Assistant urgently needed

I'm urgently looking for an Office Assistant to be based in my service center in Jalan Tuanku Munawir (junction to Lobak). The tasks are manning the service center from 9-5 daily (Mon- Fri, Sat 9-1), handling public complaints and general office admin.

If you are looking for an office job, well-versed in spoken and written BM, computer- literate and most important of all willing to listen and friendly, please contact me at 016-668 6165 for an immediate interview or email siewfook@gmail.com

If you have friend or relatives who are interested, please pass them this message.

No gender bias here, but I think a female can handle this job better. Read more!

DAPSY's resolution on Kedah and UMNO Youth

Media statement by DAP Socialist Youth (DAPSY) National Chairman and MP for Rasah Loke Siew Fook on Wednesday, 8 July 2009, at Petaling Jaya:

Kedah State Government and Kedah DAP Must Find the Best Reconciliatory Solution; UMNO Youth Reaffirms its Status as the De-facto Party of Hooligans

DAPSY National Executive Council in its meeting last night at DAP headquarters discussed at length various current political issues and resolved that;

1) The DAPSY national leadership urges the Kedah Pakatan Rakyat state government to be serious about finding a reconciliatory solution for the ongoing rift between itself and DAP Kedah.

DAPSY understood the circumstances that led to DAP Kedah pulling out of the state Pakatan Rakyat but we are of the opinion that both sides shall seek the best solution to resolve their problems with each other, and that breaking up the coalition is not a solution.

DAPSY wishes to remind Pakatan Rakyat governments that they have been entrusted by the Rakyat to serve people of all religious, cultural, social and ethnic backgrounds as an effective coalition. Therefore, Kedah state government must be sensitive to the needs of the non-Malays community in Kedah.

2) The DAPSY national leadership also passed a unanimous resolution to condemn in the strongest possible term the UMNO Youth hooligans who assaulted a number of people including DAPSY NEC member and State Assemblyman for Ayer Keroh Khoo Poay Tiong, DAP Malacca Chairman and State Assemblyman for Kesidang Goh Leong San and a bystander at a DAPSY voter registration booth in Malacca when trying to stop the activity.

UMNO Youth members have no right to stop other parties from providing voter registration services and to resort to violence when they don’t have it their way. DAPSY will not bow to such barbaric act. We fully support DAPSY Malacca and all other state DAPSY to be even more active in our voter registration campaign as we are doing a national service for our democracy.

After rudely confronting Karpal Singh in Parliament, UMNO Youth members were once again putting their gangster roots on display in Malacca. UMNO Youth has hence reaffirmed its status as the de-facto party of hooligans in Malaysia.

UMNO Youth Chief Khairy Jamaludin should make an open apology for its members’ unruly behavior and the police should immediately charge the culprits.

-Loke Siew Fook- Read more!