Massila was reported to comment that academic staff and students having sexual relationships should suppress it from public view. “if you want to flirt, even with the dean, do it outside”. Sexual relationships between teachers and students are not only a breach of professional ethics, such behaviour damages the whole system of trust between, destroying any dignity and respect.

Such relationships are totally outside the boundary of any codes of ethics that any reputable institute of higher learning would have governing their organizations. This is also a sign of the disintegration of social ethics in wider society, if such practices are condoned and allowed. Tip of the iceberg Massila advising more discreetness in academic staff-student relationships are much more widespread than UTeM in Malaysia.

Stories went around during my academic career that a vice chancellor took on a foreign student as a second secret second wife, and was given scholarships and privileges far beyond other students. Foreign female students have long been easy prey for male academic staff in universities. Many use the ‘pay to play’ ploy to obtain sexual favours from students to pass.

In some cases, academic staff are offered such favours by students to pass or gain higher marks in courses. Unfortunately, such practices are much wider than many believe. The practice of academic staff keeping their office doors open when female students consult with them is just not enough. Weak and unethical academic staff find it too easy to use their power to take advantage of students, or be taken advantage of.

Some have even been blackmailed by students after been involved in sexual relations with students. While some academic staff take sexual advantage of female students, stories also have surfaced of supervisors asking money from foreign male students to pass their courses, and/or thesis. These practices rarely come to light, as foreign students most often just desperately what to pass and gain their aspirated qualifications to move on in life.

These practices occur mostly with powerless and vulnerable foreign students, but not restricted to just the foreign cohort. Such practices described above should be not just considered as a breach of ethics but a form of bribery. Unfortunately, under Malaysian law, with no money changing hands, the practice is outside the jurisdiction of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

Malaysian universities don’t act upon any of these types of accusations due to the fear of loss of reputation. Massila has opened the door on one of the dark sides of Malaysian higher education. Such practices have also been reported in Malaysian secondary schools before.

Although the Ministry of Education has said there is zero tolerance for such behaviour in education, the latest comments by a vice chancellor indicate that a blind eye to the problem is still continuing, as universities protect their reputations.

Murray Hunter : Mat Madani returns: Who's your Bapa? by Murray Hunter

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Coptic Christians pray during Palm Sunday mass inside the St. Sama'ans Church on the Mokattam hills on April 17, 2022 in Cairo, Egypt. As Covid-19 restrictions ease, Coptic Christians in Cairo return to their Easter celebrations and traditions. Egypt's Copts are the largest Christian community in the Middle East and one of the oldest in the world.

To the Coptic Christian community living throughout the United States, I deeply admire your Steadfast Faith in God, Perseverance through Centuries of Persecution and Love for this Great Country. I am Counting on your support and vote to help uphold our shared Social and Family Values and continue to Make America Great Again!

Ironically, this message coincides with my rereading of Adel Guindy’s excellent book, A Sword Over the Nile. Based on previously unknown or untranslated primary sources, page after page wholly validates Trump’s assertion that the Copts have experienced “centuries of persecution.”

At any rate, Trump’s message to the Copts is a reminder that he is the only president in modern times — certainly when compared to his predecessor and successor — who actually acknowledges the plight of Christians under Islam.

Doing Something About It

For example, in 2020, while still president, Trump issued a statement noting the “ongoing challenges facing the largest Christian group [Copts] in the Middle East,” adding that it is “time for us to acknowledge the importance of religious freedom and reaffirm our commitment to promoting and defending this core tenet of a free society. Tragically, far too many people the world over face persecution on account of their faith.”

That same year, Trump said in an interview that the treatment of Christians in the Mideast is “beyond disgraceful,” that Christianity is being “treated horribly and very unfairly, and it’s criminal.”

During a 2019 UN speech, Trump also called on world leaders “to take action to put an end to all attacks by state and non‑state actors against citizens for simply worshipping according to their beliefs… No one should fear for their safety in a house of worship anywhere in the world.”

This, of course, was a reference to the nonstop attacks on churches, which take place constantly in Egypt both at the hands of the state actors who regularly ban churches and the non-state actors who regularly burn and bomb them. Just last week, a group of Copts had to hold a funeral in the street alleys because the authorities had sealed off access to their church since 2006.

Most notably, in May 2017, after Islamic gunmen massacred 28 Coptic Christians — ten of whom were children while they were traveling home after visiting a monastery, Trump said:

This merciless slaughter of Christians in Egypt tears at our hearts and grieves our souls… America makes clear to its friends, allies, and partners that the treasured and historic Christian communities of the Middle East must be defended and protected. The bloodletting of Christians must end, and all who aid their killers must be punished.

The Evil of Omission

Now compare Trump’s position concerning persecuted Christians with those of Obama and Biden.

At the height of the worst state-sanctioned terrorist attack on Egypt’s Christians in modern history — the 2011 Maspero Massacre, when the government shot at and ran over with tanks dozens of Copts for daring to protest the burnings and closures of their churches — Obama issued “a pointedly even-handed statement that calls equally on Christians and the military to show restraint.” (Because, you know, Egypt’s beleaguered Christian minorities needed to “restrain” themselves against the tanks running them over and the soldiers’ rifles shooting them in the head.)

This, of course, was par for the course: For Obama and his ilk, Christians can never be “persecuted.” That would run completely afoul of their Marxist ideology, which sees Christians unequivocally as “oppressors” in every circumstance.

Thus, when Muslims bombed three churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday in 2019, killing some 300 Christians, Obama and Hilary Clinton could not even bring themselves to identify the slain victims as “Christians” — the way they most certainly would had the perpetrators been Christian and the victims Muslim. Instead, they condemned a “terror” attack on “Easter worshippers.”

In fact, not only did Obama fail to acknowledge (much less do anything about)the Muslim persecution of Christians, he aided and abetted it (see here, here, here, here). ISIS, which committed heinous atrocities against Christians and other non-Muslim minorities, was something of Obama’s “parting gift” to the world, as they rose to power in the final years of his tenure. Conversely, ISIS was eliminated under Trump.

A Glorious Interlude

But it is perhaps in the context of Nigeria, where a bona fide genocide of Christians has been taking place since Obama first entered the White House that the differences between Obama and Biden, on the one hand and Trump on the other emerge most clearly. On average, a Nigerian Christian is martyred every two hours, and that has been the case since Obama entered the White House.

Although jihadists slaughtered and terrorized Nigeria’s Christians all during Obama’s eight-year tenure, and although the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom had, beginning in 2009 and every year afterwards, repeatedly urged the State Department to designate it as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC — a reference to nations that “engage in, or tolerate violations of, religious freedom”) the Obama administration refused.

Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department went so far as to refuse to merely designate Boko Haram as a “terrorist” organization—even though it is a notorious jihadist group that has slaughtered more Christians and bombed more churches than the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria combined.

It was only in 2020, under the Trump administration, that Nigeria was finally designated as a CPC. Moreover, with characteristic bluntness, Trump forthrightly asked Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari — whom many Nigerian officials say Obama helped bring to power — “Why are you killing Christians?”

Back to Business

But once Biden got into office, is was business as usual: his State Department, under Antony Blinken, went out of its way to remove Nigeria from the CPC list.

At the time, many observers responded by slamming the Biden administration. As one human rights lawyer noted:

Outcry over the State Department’s removal of Country of Particular Concern status for Nigeria’s religious freedom violations is entirely warranted. No explanations have been given that could justify this decision. If anything, the situation in Nigeria has grown worse over the last year. Thousands of Christians … are targeted, killed, and kidnapped, and the government is simply unwilling to stop these atrocities…. Removing Country of Particular Concern status for Nigeria will only embolden the increasingly authoritarian government there.

And so, as election day draws nigh, here is one more difference to note between Trump and Harris: Trump has a record of speaking up for and acknowledging the persecution of Christians, whereas Harris — who just denounced the claim that “Jesus is Lord” — will simply further the Obama-Biden legacy.

Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the West and Sword and Scimitar, is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

But one key factor of Trump voters and nonresponse bias shows that the polls may be underestimating Trump once again, which would net him a victory in all battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and North Carolina.

They are angry because they know they are losing. Kamala's final campaign rally only showed people complaining about Trump instead of her ability as a future president. It would be hilarious if Biden called her back to the White House for an "emergency" conference. She can't refuse as being the VP.

- Thomas Jefferson

COMMENT | One of the reasons I enjoy most of what political scientist Wong Chin Huat says and writes is because he gets it.

That question he asked - “How many times will PAS come to (Prime Minister) Anwar (Ibrahim) and Madani’s rescue?” - defines Madani in its outreach to voters and governmental policies both overt and sub rosa using PAS as foil to its toxic agendas.

From a non-Malay perspective, there are two ways of looking at the “Green Wave”. The first is how former DAP lawmaker Ong Kian Ming defines the “Green Wave” as a lazy shorthand. “This kind of sentiment is particularly unhelpful, especially when it comes to understanding the different demands of the increasingly diverse Malay community in Malaysia,” he said.

The second is by a losing Perikatan Nasional candidate in Sekinchan during last year’s Selangor state election, Goh Gaik Meng, who said: “I actually want to tell the people of Selangor... the Chinese cannot stop this Malay tsunami. “A so-called tsunami within the Malay community has been set off.

“As a minority ethnic group with only 20-30 percent (of the population) in this country, we cannot stop this so-called Malay tsunami.”

Steven Ong : Islamophobia is not a perceived view but a fact with hard evident. Its dangerous because , once in total power Islam consume everything that is free and peaceful . All including Muslims becomes slaves of Islam.

We can keep giving the facts and warning but this advancing Islam will continue , as the process of indoctrination continues for the young from first day in class. And the old who now cannot accept anything new as their minds are saturated with the religion and its superiority , keeps pushing for an Islamic State of Malaysia.

The name Malaysia may even be changed when total power is in the hands of the Muslim leaders.

An Air France flight is hijacked by the P.F.L.P. The plane has about one hundred Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in Uganda. Israelis would not negotiate. This movie then shows how less than five hundred soldiers actually flew so far and rescued the passengers in one of the most successful military operations in history.

Prisoners of the extermination camp in Sobibor led by Alexander "Sascha" Pechersky (Rutger Hauer), a Russian military captive managed to break out from the concentration camp in Sobibor. This movie is based on a factual account of what happened at Sobibor during World War II. Let’s not forget that the uncle of yasser Arafat the Palestinian liberation movement was the mufti of Jerusalem and a close friend of Hitler let’s not forget that charter of Hamas says to kill every Jew , nothing changed just the time.

Just so that you know the terrorist sympathizers at You Tube removed a 1 hour documentary on Hitler's Mufti. Read the article at the link below.

This black man is voting Trump. I'm giving the dem party the middle finger. It's bizarre how these people look down on convicted felons yet seem hell bent on ignoring to prosecute felonious crimes while letting thousands of felons into the country. That white lady is every democrat I’ve ever met. I voted first time yesterday—Trump. I cannot wait for this election to be over, lol. I was not going to vote until Obama told black men to vote for Kamala.

You guys lie, just like Madani. I know that you are sycopahant for Sheikh Madani.

Veteran 1972 : Taqiyya, Kitman, Tawariya and Muruna come into play sanitising with lies for the indefensible. Who curses Jews and Christian’s 17 times daily? Rafizi give us a straight answer, you who are so late In history. Rafizi, seriously I do not know which Quran you read.

Do NOT lie, look at all the Muslim majority countries. Name me one Muslim country which applies the rule of law on the minorities. Name me one Muslim country which treats all it's minorities equally. Can you?

Amadeus : There has been countless remarks made against the Non Malays in Malaysia and yet NOTHING or NO ONE has been charged. Some comments made by PxS and some by a foreigner, that is wanted in his own country and staying in Malaysia without any repercussions.

It will soon be 3years since the so called PROGRESSIVE goverment has formed the goverment. Truth be told, the racial slurs against the NON Malays has gotten worst. It is a MOCKERY, of what MADANI means.

Dr Suresh Kumar Whether these PAS dungus and their ilk like it or not, the undeniable fact is that the Chinese business community in Malaysia are the prime movers of the economy. The Chinese community contribute more tax than the sakau groups.

These monies are used by the government since decades to bail out many failed Bumi companies over and over again, even though they have strong backing from the government of the day in terms of government contracts and other incentives, yet kaput because of mismanagement, laziness, greed and corruption. They then blame the mata sepet for their own failures.

This is a festering wound brought about by the disease called NEP upon the nation which needs to be amputated as in the cases of uncontrolled diabetic patients who acquire wound especially in their lower limbs that needs to be amputated to save their life. So, shouldn't the sedition act thrown at their face? Just asking.

Read all about Jew hatred here, Rafizi, educate yourself instead of living under your hateful coconut shell.The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims.

They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).

And now you know no matter what the Jews do to attain peace, there will never be peace. Peace for them can only be achieved by wiping out the Jews. Guess who will wipe out who? More here.....

The film's title refers to the large number of soldiers' boots left on the battlefield due to the muddy conditions during the battle. Ten cadets died in the battle. I’d never heard of this movie. Being a southern boy, I watched it out of curiosity. It’s one of the best movies I’ve seen in a while, it might be an Indie film, but it beats the hell out of the crap Hollywood is forcing down our throats these days.

As time passes, the line between survival and madness blurs, especially when he discovers that he may not be entirely alone. Mysterious footprints, strange sounds, and unseen dangers turn his fight for life into a gripping psychological battle. With breathtaking scenery and heart-pounding tension, the film invites you to witness one man's journey into the unknown. Will he conquer the island's secrets, or be consumed by them? Watch to experience the thrilling tale!

Saladin statue in Karak, Jordan

Unlike the “news,” which is ephemeral, the presumed lessons of history are much more concrete and long-lasting. For example, if you believe the Fake History that presents white people as having some sort of genetic predisposition to enslave everyone else, you may, like black Rutgers University Professor Brittney Cooper, conclude that “white people are committed to being villains.”

To the point: A colleague recently sent me an article extolling Saladin (Salah al-Din), the Muslim sultan who took Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187. Like so much modern literature on Saladin, that article presents the sultan in the most flattering light possible — magnanimous, merciful, moderate, a paragon of virtue in an era marred by crusader brutality.

But is that true?

Western Praise

The one point Saladin’s many Western admirers always stress as proof of the sultan’s quality is that he did not commit a bloodbath in Jerusalem (the way the First Crusaders did in 1099) but rather permitted the Christians to peacefully surrender and leave unmolested.

Thus, in the article in question, we learn that, after conquering Jerusalem, “Saladin shamed the ruthless Crusaders by treating the city with kindness and keeping every promise he made to its people.”

Best of all:

Saladin’s courage, justice and moderation were rare in that age and have won him lasting respect in the West… [The Crusaders] did not live up to Christ’s teachings about love after they had conquered the Middle East. What a different tale the Crusaders might have told if they had at least lived up to Saladin’s code, even if they were unable to abide by the law of love!

Such encomiums are the staple way of presenting Saladin (and have naturally spilled into movies, such as Kingdom of Heaven). Thus, according to esteemed American historian Dana Carleton Munro (d. 1933),

When we contrast with this [the Crusader conquest of Jerusalem in 1099] the conduct of Saladin when he captured Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187, we have a striking illustration of the difference between the two civilizations and realize what the Christians might learn from contact with the Saracens [Muslims] in the Holy Land.

Note the present tense — “might learn.” Saladin is to be held up as an example from whom today’s “intolerant” Western Christians need to learn.

Ancient Role Model

If one accepts this flattering picture of Saladin — and why shouldn’t one, seeing that it is the mainstream portrayal of the sultan in the West? — one will become confused about the truth concerning Islam (hence the dangers of Fake History). If Saladin, whom the sources also present as a highly observant Muslim, behaved so, then clearly the behavior of ISIS and other modern-day “radicals” cannot be based on a correct understanding of Islam. That, of course, is what we’re constantly assured.

Meanwhile, back in the real world — that is, back in actual history — we learn that Saladin behaved little better than an ISIS terrorist. Indeed, a memorable scene that he orchestrated (which for some odd reason never makes it into any of the films about him) has been especially instructive for ISIS.

According to Saladin’s own biographer, Baha’ al-Din, who was present after the Battle of Hattin, Saladin ordered the beheading of all  the captured Christian knights of the military orders, boasting, “I shall purify the land of these … impure races.

With him was a whole band of scholars and Sufis and a certain number of devout men and ascetics; each begged to be allowed to kill one of them, and drew his scimitar and rolled back his sleeve. Saladin, his face joyful, was sitting on his dais; the infidels showed black despair, the troops were drawn up in their ranks, the emirs stood in double file. There were some who slashed and cut cleanly, and were thanked for it.

After saying that some of these would-be executioners did not have the stomach to continue in the ritual slaughter, Baha’ al-Din focused on one — whom some commentators think was Saladin himself — who “killed unbelief to give life to Islam”:

I saw there the man who laughed scornfully and slaughtered, who spoke and acted; how many promises he fulfilled, how much praise he won, the eternal rewards he secured with the blood he shed, the pious works added to his account with a neck severed by him.

Read it all here.....

Dr. Mahathir’s remarks show a shocking disregard for the suffering endured by Sarawak’s people, suffering largely exacerbated by policies enacted during his tenure.

The former Prime minister seems to ignore or deliberately dismiss the grim reality that Sarawak and Sabah were left among the poorest states in Malaysia, despite their vast oil and gas resources being exploited to fuel Malaya’s growth since 1976.

Such a statement only deepens the rift between East and West Malaysia, undermining relations already frayed by decades of resource inequity and federal neglect.

The news report of his remarks on 28 October 2024 sidesteps the critical historical and economic disparities Sarawak has faced as part of Malaysia, and the systemic plunder of its resources.

Thank you Jeff Bezos for triggering Don Lemon. Made my day. Thank you Jeff Bezos for triggering Don Lemon. Made my day. You know the morons canceling the paper couldn't read anyway. Them saying the first amendment is in danger from Trump is the height of hypocrisy. They shouldn’t endorse anyone, you’re supposed to be neutral. Stop with the tantrums, it’s embarrassing.

"The other Publika branch faced four fines for similar infractions, including head covering and apron violations, absence of a grease trap in the kitchen sink, a dirty and greasy kitchen floor, and flour stored directly on the floor," DBKL said in a Facebook post today. DBKL reiterated its commitment to ensuring the safety and cleanliness of food premises in the city for the well-being of consumers.

Menunggu Pencen, sedang Madani tengah kongkek

itu hak mereka... kenapa pencen yang lama sedikit...pencen yg baru terlalu tinggi... kenapa tidak selaras kn... askar dulu lebih berjasa drpd askar skrg... askar ini insurans negara... ape ape yg berlaku pada negara.. askar yang mempertahankan... walaupun saya pilih kerajaan pmx...

The recent announcement of a RM25 million allocation for the restoration of faith in children linked to the Global Ikhwan Services And Business Holdings (GISBH) group has ignited a wave of mixed reactions on social media.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced the allocation as part of the country’s proposed 2025 Budget at the Parliament last Friday.

The allocation, aimed at rehabilitating around 400 children rescued from GISBH’s children’s home following serious allegations, has stirred debates on whether public funds should be used for this purpose.

Netizens Express Conflicted Reactions

The news quickly went viral, with many netizens expressing concerns about using taxpayers’ money for what they see as a private issue.

A prevailing sentiment among the public was the question of why financial aid for these children should come from taxpayers, especially given GISBH’s status as a “global company with millions in assets”.

One user pointedly asked, “Why should this be funded by tax money when JAKIM (the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia) could step in?”

4. DEI is a weapon created to knock over a major supporting pillar of Western Civ. The Merit principle. It is through the merit principle that people who do not have as much, can be content about those who have more, because they either worked harder, sacrificed more, or were in fact massively talented. The purpose of DEI is to create hatred, jealousy and instability. 

Like all dialectics, it pretends to want the opposite. But it clearly is about destroying civilizational contentment. A bonus effect of course, is the reversal of civilizational gains by placing incompetent people in important positions such that the field of endeavour moves backwards.

Here are a couple of recent examples:

Bruce Pardy: At TMU medical school, some students are more equal than others

Remember that the next time you’re waiting to see your newly minted doctor.

Canada’s newest medical school will select students not for their ability, but their identity. Great, as if Canada’s healthcare system wasn’t bad enough already.

The school, which opens next fall at Toronto Metropolitan University, will reserve 75 per cent of its seats for Indigenous, Black, and other “equity-deserving” groups including 2SLGBTQ+. These students will need an undergraduate GPA of only 3.3 on a 4-point scale, and maybe not even that; for comparison, the University of Toronto medical school’s average accepted GPA is 3.95. Able-bodied straight white students can’t apply for these seats. It’s TMU’s affirmative action school for doctors who can’t get in on their merits. Canada now has full-blown racial and gender discrimination. How did we get here? The Supreme Court of Canada is largely to blame.

Airlines announce black-only flight crews at Gatwick airport during so-called ‘Black History Month’. Pilots chosen for the color of their skin and not for their qualities. Would you get on the plane? pic.twitter.com/XtnvXpbRpU

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 6, 2024

5. In case anyone still thinks the UN is any kind of reputable body worthy of any sort of respect:

 Did the UN demand the release of the living hostages Sinwar is responsible for at all? Does anyone know? More specifically, the communist Guterres.

Antonio Guterres Demands Israel Release Sinwar's Body So UN Members Can Pay Their Respects While Body Lies In State pic.twitter.com/s7AM1GR9fh

— Associated Fress (@AssociatedFress) October 20, 2024