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Pictures don't tell the whole truth, either

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:51 AM PDT

Almost didn't recognize the face. Story at OutSyed The Box.

Did you vote in the UK election in 2007?

Posted: 18 Sep 2013 08:33 PM PDT


Article 24. The point about Wan Saiful Wan Jan's political involvement while residing in the UK for 16 years (read my posting h e r e) has drawn some interest on my Twitter timeline @xrockybrux since this morning.

What is Article 24(3A) or Article (2) of the Malaysian Constitution? Read LoyarBurok's Malaysians who voted in UK: Beware!

Excerpts:
... Malaysian law says vote overseas and you can lose your citizenship 
Now, I have the greatest respect for Tunku Abidin, but unfortunately like many Malaysians he seems not to have realised that whilst the UK lawfully allows us to vote there, Malaysia is rather more restrained in how it allows its citizens to exercise their individual freedoms. 
For those Malaysian citizens who did vote in the recent elections, beware: the Home Minister now has the power to deprive you of your Malaysian citizenship. 
Article 24(2) of the Federal Constitution says this: 
(2) If the Federal Government is satisfied that any citizen has voluntarily claimed and exercised in any country outside the Federation any rights available to him under the law of that country, being rights accorded exclusively to its citizens, the Federal Government may by order deprive that person of his citizenship. 
Read the whole article h e r e.
So, did Tunku Abidin's partner in IDEAS vote in the UK election? 

"Does Wan Saiful know what the duck he's suggesting for Article 153?"

Posted: 18 Sep 2013 07:46 PM PDT


Melayu in the UK 1993-2009
Wan Saiful Wan Jan is one hell of a lucky Melayu. 
Born in 1975 in Alor Setar, Kedah, he grew up in a police barrack but by the age 18 was already in the UK pursuing his studies, one of thousands of young Melayus who have gotten such opportunities as a result of the push for affirmative actions by the Malaysian government. By the time he came back to Malaysia in 2009, Wan Saiful had spend all his adult years - 16 in total - in the UK! He could have financed his studies and his stay there by himself but he was the son of a policeman, not a king, so it's very likely that he had won some scholarships from the government or a Malaysian GLC at some point. 
In the UK, he became a PAS member but was sacked from the party for the un-Islamic act of joining the UK Conservative Party. He even contested in the English local elections in 2007. Now four years later and still only 38, and having co-founded IDEAS with a young prince from Negri Sembilan, Wan Saiful thinks it is time to remove Article 153 of the Constitution, relieve the Yang DiPertuan Agong the responsibilities of safeguarding the special position of the Malays, and deny all Melayus in 10-15 years the privileges that thousands like Wan Saiful himself have enjoyed during the last 40 years or so. 
Excerpts of what Wan Saiful said:


I was not at all surprised by Wan Saiful's attitude. From experience, some of the loudest opponents of pro-Bumiputera policies are people who have benefited immensely from those policies. The anonymous blogger SatD is NOT one of the privileged budak-budak Melayu but I've learned that it's dudes like SatD who usually tend to defend the policies. 
As it is, SatD thinks Wan Saiful probably does not understand the enormity of his suggestion to remove Article 153 and hints that the IDEAS CEO was probably just doing the bidding for Anwar Ibrahim's Pakatan Rakyat. What do you think - Is IDEAS running out of ideas?  
Leave comments at SatD's h e r e.
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