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• Preserving the "Johor Way"
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• "Not one Indian vote for Kit Siang!"

Preserving the "Johor Way" Posted: 02 May 2013 07:40 PM PDT After 18 years as the Menteri Besar of Johor, Ghani Othman is fighting his biggest political test, not so much against Lim Kit Siang, who's been labelled by no less than the statesman Mahathir Mohamad as a racist, but against the attempt to deconstruct "the Johor Way". Today, in a newspaper advertisement, Ghani sends a powerful message in his usual mild manner. "They use hostile words to stir the emotions of Chinese voters to demonstrate their dissatisfaction towards the government ... I am deeply worried that the moderate Johor Way will be crushed completely by cunning political manipulation. "The election will end soon. But harmony must be preserved forever. Moderation, which underpins the Johor Way, is what I learned from Chinese culture. Now I am facing a competitor who is reaching out to the Chinese using "anti-moderation" tactics which he is very good at. How ironic this is -because such strategy goes against all that is good and honourable in Chinese philosophy and culture." The quintessential Johorean signs offas"Your old friend, Abdul Ghani Othman". The Chinese voters make up 54% of Gelang Patah parliamentary constituency, which sees Ghani taking on marauding DAP strongman Lim Kit Siang.

The Good Malaysian Posted: 02 May 2013 06:20 PM PDT "Is there any [hudud-oriented Islamic] state in the contemporary world that serves as a model worthy of emulation - Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Afghanistan? Why have the people in the world's largest Muslim country rejected hudud-oriented political parties over and over again?" - Chandra Muzaffar, on voting against catastrophe this Sunday, 5th May Anas Zubedy has the full transcript h e r e

"Not one Indian vote for Kit Siang!" Posted: 02 May 2013 10:59 AM PDT Hindraf burns its bridges with DAP Hindraf 4 Ghani. The last time I spoke to P. Waythamoorthy, he was in Singapore traveling on a United Nations passport from London. He was visiting his little girl who had entered the republic from Malaysia. Waytha could not come back to Malaysia then as he would have been arrest upon entry. His comrades from Hindraf, including P. Uthayakumar, had been arrested and detained under the ISA by Abdullah Badawi for their role in a Nov 2007 demonstration in Kuala Lumpur. Waytha had avoided arrest by fleeing to the UK in xxx where he formally applied for asylum. Listening to him speak at a public rally in Taman Teratai, JB last night brought back some sort of nostalgia, for the days when blogging was a foolish past time in Malaysia because it could get you arrested, detained, or sued. Waytha and Uthaya's Hindraf were strong, blinded supporters of the Pakatan Rakyat and, like almost everyone else back then, were frantic about bringing down the Abdullah administration. It's been widely acknowledged that the Indian votes and Hindraf's open support for Pakatan Rakyat, especially DAP, contributed to Barisan Nasional's worst general election showing in March 2008. Ghani & Hindraf vs DAP Now, five years later, a Hindraf's love affair with DAP/Pakatan is over and Waytha has pledged loyalty, instead, to Najib Razak and BN. Pakatan Rakyat had gone back on its words to help the Indians, Waytha said, citing Kampung Buah Pala and the tearing down of Hindu temples. "Remember," Waytha told the midnight crowd at Taman Teratai, in front of Ghani and the media from both Malaysia and Singapore, "make sure not one Indian vote in Gelang Patah goes to Lim Kit Siang.  "Kit Siang does not deserve even one Indian vote because he has granted not even one right to the Indians." There are 106,726 registered voters in Gelang Patah, of which a significant 12.2 per cent are Indians. DAP's Kit Siang will face BN's Ghani Othman in the battle for GP this Sunday.

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