Muslim Unity

I was attending the conference earlier at PWTC. It was officiated by
my beloved 4th PM of Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir. A good man with a good
heart. A true leader from any context.

He spoke in his usual composed yet relax and firm manner. He started
of explaining what unity is etc and why is it important to the muslim
community. The sort of stuff you can download from Wikipedia. Nothing
much.

However, in the body of his speech he then reminded the disunity since
there are differences in the sect and tribes in Islam. Particularly
the Muslims separation right after Prophet Mohammad s.a.w. demised,
into the Sunni and the Shi'ite.

The formation of OIC was intended to move the Muslims to global unity.
There are 1.6 billion of us. If we all move together we will be strong
and heard. However OIC is a failure (my words). It is a coalition of
governments of Islamic countries. These governments are constrained by
its local politics hence it is difficult to find common ground.

Other NGOs eg Greenpeace, human rights movement, climate change and
whaling worked well because they weren't governed by the government.
They were moved from the coalition of people!

What Tun M recommends is for the people to form a new organisation
called OIU (?) to unite the Muslim NGOs. This OIU should have
realistic goals. But the turn up is poor. I was told by a friend of
mine there are many more Muslim NGOs not involved in this. Not a good
start.

I believe in his idea, but not so much on his execution. There have
been too many mediums being set up to do similar things. But we do
need to start somewhere.

After hearing this, I am not sure how am I able to contribute. How do
I go about this?

Test

...Challenges...

What to do.. Life is like that.. Too many things going on but nothing
I can share with nobody..

Sabarla Labu...

--
Fyzul Adzwan Mustapha Kamal
http://adzwan.blogspot.com

the four frogs

The four frogs, whom leaped from one party to another party/ independent should be castrated. We should hold them contempt to our political morality.

In the era of many gloom and doom, we are putting our focus on wrong things. In principle, the statute and constitution should not have allowed party hopping since this proven to be going against what the people voted. When I went to cast the ballot in March 2008, I voted for the party, not the person. I presume most people did the same because I've never met the candidates. I don't know them, but I thought I knew the party they were representing.

Our prime concern now should be on our economy, Gaza and environmental concern - in this order. Our economic fundamentals are strong. BNM has done a great job since 1997 crisis to ensure we have strong regulations over the financial institutions. The monetary policy has room for flexibility. Our fiscal policy has enough reserves to sustain multiplying expenditures.

According to common sense, the global investors should be flocking to our shores since there are no formidable alternatives. But, our political uncertainties have made our country less attractive. Our country ratings is not getting better because of this. We should address the problem. Which is the constitution that allows party hoping. This is the underlying cause. The political uncertainty is the result of this!

What I'm proposing is not only Perak government to dissolve and hold another state election, but the whole country. I understand the mass majority will be against this. Too much money has been spent last March, but this is the right thing to do. We can put uncertainty aside and move on together for a better Malaysia.

Think about it - it is the right thing to do. Hard but right.

Gloom

...Sigh...

Something I realised, I sigh a lot nowadays. Everything seems to be in dire gloom.

Thousands are dead, children and women were not spared from the wretched Zionists. Nothing of great immediate impact can I do to change it.

There are flyers going around asking the public to show support by not buying products that contribute to the financing of the massacre. This is the least I can do. Now I no longer go to McDonalds/ KFC, buying groceries from Tesco/ Carrefour, drinking Nescafe, eating Maggi, etc.

.. and you know what, it is working. At least by a small margin. Last night I was on the phone with a friend who just came back from OZ. He was at McDonalds yesterday and there was no queue (ignore the part where he went to McDonalds, there is a good story behind it).

In the ads today, McDonalds is slashing their value meals by half! I know we were hurting them, but to slash their price to half proves it.

Now my fellow humanitarians. Let's not stop here! We need to keep on boycotting! We need to keep on our aggregate effort to show that we care. You'll never know what the mass can do if we work together!

Tell everybody... Please... Those kids are suffering because of your money. Choose the harder choice. Buy local products! :)