A still frame from the 1919 documentary film Auction of Souls, which portrayed eye witnessed events from the Armenian Genocide, including raped, naked, and crucified Christian girls.

Because one cannot remember what one does not know, here is a summary of that tragic event which transpired during World War I (1914-1918):

From 1915 to 1917 the Young Turk regime in the Ottoman Empire carried out a systematic, premeditated, centrally planned genocide against the Armenian people…. More than one million Armenians perished as the result of execution, starvation, disease, the harsh environment, and physical abuse. 

A people who lived in eastern Turkey for nearly 3,000 years lost its homeland and was profoundly decimated in the first large-scale genocide of the twentieth century. At the beginning of 1915 there were some two million Armenians within Turkey; today there are fewer than 60,000…. 

Despite the vast amount of evidence that points to the historical reality of the Armenian Genocide, eyewitness accounts, official archives, photographic evidence, the reports of diplomats, and the testimony of survivors, denial of the Armenian Genocide by successive regimes in Turkey has gone on from 1915 to the present.

The evidence is, indeed, overwhelming. As far back as 1920, U.S. Senate Resolution 316 heard eyewitness testimony concerning the “[m]utilation, violation, torture, and death [which] have left their haunting memories in a hundred beautiful Armenian valleys, and the traveler in that region is seldom free from the evidence of this most colossal crime of all the ages.”

In her memoir, Ravished Armenia, Aurora Mardiganian described how she was raped and thrown into a harem (in keeping with Islam’s rules of war). Unlike thousands of other Armenian girls who were discarded after being defiled, she managed to escape. In the city of Malatia, she saw 16 Christian girls crucified: “Each girl had been nailed alive upon her cross,” Aurora wrote, “spikes through her feet and hands, only their hair blown by the wind, covered their bodies.” (Such scenes were portrayed in the 1919 documentary film Auction of Souls.)

Often overlooked, however, is that this was less a genocide of Armenians and more a genocide of Christians. Thus, the opening sentence of House Resolution 296, which passed on the hundredth anniversary of the genocide (2019), correctly mentions “the campaign of genocide against Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites, and other Christians.”

That last word—“Christians”—is key to understanding this tragic chapter of history: Christianity is what all of those otherwise diverse peoples had in common, and therefore it—not nationality, ethnicity, territory, or grievances—was the ultimate determining factor concerning who the Turks would and would not “purge.”

As one Armenian studies professor asked, “If it [the Armenian Genocide] was a feud between Turks and Armenians, what explains the genocide carried out by Turkey against the Christian Assyrians at the same time?”

According to another professor, Joseph Yacoub, author of Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, the “policy of ethnic cleansing was stirred up by pan-Islamism and religious fanaticism. Christians were considered infidels (kafir). The call to Jihad … was part of the plan” to “combine and sweep over the lands of Christians and to exterminate them.” Several key documents, including a Syriac one from 1920, confirm that “there was an Ottoman plan to exterminate Turkey’s Christians.”

Yacoub recounts many “atrocities carried out by Turks and Kurds from town to town and from village to village without exception.” In one instance, Turks, Kurds, and other Sunni Muslims selected “eighteen of the most beautiful young girls” and hauled them into a local church, “where they were stripped naked and violated in turn on top of the Holy Gospel.” An eyewitness recalled that the “outrages” committed against “even children” were “so horrible that one recoils; it makes the flesh creep.”

The genocide is often conflated with the Armenians because many more of them than other Christians were killed—causing them to be the face of the genocide. According to generally accepted figures, the Turks massacred 1.5 million Armenians, 750,000 Greeks, and 300,000 Assyrians. In fact, relative to their numbers, more Assyrians—half of their total population of 600,000—were massacred.

Because all of these genocidal atrocities occurred during WWI, some, especially Turkey, argue that they were, ultimately, a reflection of just that—war, in all its death-dealing destruction.

War was a factor, but only because it offered the Turks the necessary cover to do what they had apparently long wanted to do.

After describing the massacres as an “administrative holocaust,” Winston Churchill observed that “The opportunity [WWI] presented itself for clearing Turkish soil of a Christian race.” Or, in the unequivocal words of Talaat Pasha, the de facto leader of the Ottoman Empire during the genocide:

Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention…. The question is settled. There are no more Armenians.

As a reflection of how thorough the genocide was, Henry Morgenthau, the U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and personal witness of the atrocities, attested that “I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this.” He added that what the Turks were doing was “a carefully planned scheme to thoroughly extinguish the Armenian race.”

In other writings, Morgenthau also made it clear that the ultimate target of the genocide was Christians:

Will the outrageous terrorizing, the cruel torturing, the driving of women into the harems, the debauchery of innocent girls, the sale of many of them at eighty cents each, the murdering of hundreds of thousands and the deportation to, and starvation in, the deserts of other hundreds of thousands, the destruction of hundreds of villages and cities, will the willful execution of this whole devilish scheme to annihilate the Armenian, Greek and Syrian [or Assyrian] Christians of Turkey—will all this go unpunished?

Not only has it gone unpunished; NATO ally Turkey has been accused of resuming the genocide against the very descendants of those whom the Turks nearly exterminated over a century ago—namely Armenians and Assyrians.

Also the cause of the Trump Derangement Syndrome In Malaysia

John Brenan is a Muslim

Most of the Democrats were unmitigated liars. Joe Biden did not win the elections, it was stolen orchestrated by the nigger Barrack Obama. If he became the President they will all end up in prison for treason. 

Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel will ensure this. This analysis utilizes an Investigative Oversight Model, cross-referencing declassified DNI memos with previous HPSCI (House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) testimony. We prioritize primary source data from DNI.gov, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and Congress.gov. 

The Southern Poverty Law Center. I did an entire video. This is the NGO, much like BLM, much like so many other fake NGO. If you ever see that acronym NGO, just know that fraud is not that far away. But the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the greatest political scams in American history, President Trump says, has been charged with fraud. 

This is another Democrat hoax along with Act Blue and many others. These are all facts. If it is true, the 2020 presidential election should be permanently wiped from the books and be no further force or effect.

Suicidal Empathy

Human rights. What utter rubbish. Where are the rights for British women and girls. I have never hated a government like I do this one. This poor lady should be able to sue the British government and the Home Office for enabling this to happen So should every female who is assaulted by illegal immigrants. Human rights, should only count for humans, not monsters. We think of ourselves as civilised, they see us weak. If that poor girl had used pepper spray against them, she'd be in prison now. What does this government use for brains? We should sue this government for putting all our lives in danger.

Greta looks like she escaped from a Shrek movie! I can guarantee you that none of those sexual advances were made towards Greta ! Looking at greta thunberg I think she would be safe from any sexual impropriety. I believe this young woman had been used and exploited by adults for a political and sexual agenda at a very young age. The worst allegation was thinking she’s sexual.

We break down why this isn't radicalism, but core teaching, and why our non-discriminatory migration program is importing a culture antithetical to Western values. From sex slavery to the destruction of free speech, this isn't personal – it's civilizational. We need a values-based migration policy before Australia becomes like every other 90% Muslim nation.

"The views of any political party or individual should not be play ed up into a social issue, let alone a racial and religious issue. Malaysia is a plural society with many races and religions," Tiong (above) said in a statement today. The minister explained that the event is a carefully planned urban tourism project carried out under close supervision, and not an “uncontrolled” or “disorderly” event as described by its critics.

He described the objections raised by certain parties as exaggerated and could potentially mislead the public. Tiong said the event organisers never promoted anything contrary to Malaysia's social values. Instead, the festival promotes the country's cultural diversity, including its food, and traditional arts and crafts. Tiong also rebutted the critics' focus on interactions between different genders.

World Citizen : Apalah, ini tak boleh, itu tak boleh. What kind of cringes are these people! This kind of festivals are good to promote KL and Malaysia. We are not Afghanistan lah hoi. If you don’t like it, don’t attend and don’t even bother with anything. 

Just stay home ok! Millions of Malaysians like it. About road closures, this happens during late night to early morning, so what is the problem here Mr. PKR? By the way, PAS, you will get a lot of non Malays votes next GE. Keep up with your nonsense.

apanama is back : It looks like once these two fellows had been brainwashed and indoctrinated, both confirmed to be zombified. That is why they spewed nonsense such as: 

1) "At a time when the world is witnessing mass killings, oppression, and prolonged suffering in West Asia, specifically in Palestine, holding a large-scale entertainment event like this is a betrayal of humanity and the solidarity of the ummah." 

What an idiotic statement. If there is war, we stop entertainment. If you do not want to join, keep away. You can join the West Asia and keep fighting while I celebrate back here. The world does not stop rotating due to conflict somewhere. 

2)" Anwar also stressed that large-scale entertainment events running late into the night do not take into account the sensitivities of Islam as the religion of the Federation above is another 'bangang' statement, twisting the religion of the Federation's own agenda. PKR need to be kicked out since it tries to be more PAS than PAS itself.

Well done German police I wish that all Westen police would treat all such Islamists the same way, including westeners who act out th same way.. I live in Florida and our Governor just passed a law that makes it illegal for ANY law ( specifically Sharia law) to supersede American law. I can understand German. 

Those two elderly women were confronting that guy with the Palestinian flag with what Hamas did to Israeli women children on the Oct 2023 attack. These women have also lived long enough to see what happeneds to people mentally like their own parents who went through a war as children. It leaves lasting scars.

She also expressed regret that various parties, including former politicians, had politicised the issue. Malaysiakini is also reproducing Wong's original Bahasa Malaysia speech text for transparency:

“Seri Kembangan menjunjung kasih atas keprihatinan Tuanku terhadap kesejahteraan rakyat Selangor tanpa mengira kaum, agama dan budaya, serta terhadap kelestarian alam sekitar. Seri Kembangan bersetuju bahawa sebarang aktiviti industri atau penternakan tidak boleh dikompromi sekiranya menyebabkan pencemaran alam sekitar.

“Namun demikian, Seri Kembangan berpandangan bahawa Selangor sebagai negeri peneraju tidak seharusnya mengelak daripada cabaran. Sebaliknya, kita perlu mencari penyelesaian yang lebih moden dan mampan. Mengenai isu penternakan babi dalam titah ucapan, Seri Kembangan memohon ampun Tuanku, menyembah bahawa isu ini juga menyentuh hak kesamarataan warganegara yang terjamin di bawah Perkara 8(2) Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

“Penternakan babi tidak seharusnya dibezakan daripada penternakan haiwan yang lain. Risiko pencemaran, aspek kebersihan serta kesihatan dalam penternakan babi adalah sama seperti yang dihadapi oleh penternakan haiwan lain. Namun begitu, amat dukacitanya, seperti yang dibangkitkan dalam titah ucapan Tuanku, isu penternakan babi telah dijadikan sebagai isu politik dan dimainkan oleh pelbagai pihak, termasuk bekas ahli politik di luar sana.

“Sehubungan itu, Seri Kembangan memohon pertimbangan agar diberikan ruang kepada kerajaan dan para pelabur untuk meneroka sistem penternakan tertutup dan moden, termasuk konsep ‘zero discharge’ melalui teknologi kitar semula sisa kepada biogas dan tenaga elektrik. Sistem ini telah terbukti berjaya di negeri-negeri lain, dan Selangor tidak seharusnya ketinggalan.

“Tambahan pula, kebergantungan sepenuhnya kepada import bagi sumber makanan adalah berisiko dalam jangka panjang.”

ZamZam : Perhaps PAS should take over Selangor and then run it the way Kelantan is run. Where all their young men have no jobs and only spend time racing their bikes around the airport.

On the Other Hand : Can any form of invalid decree be treated as law? The Federal Constitution clearly places boundaries on the matters that fall under Royal ambit. 

Everything else is out of their purview, and hence any so-called decree is void of legal power, and should rightfully be ignored. There is nothing to negotiate.

Doubtful : Aiyah.. No amount of explanation (no matter how reasonable) will get thru to the thick skull of these racists, bigots and ketuanan type la... They have already been indoctrinated by the old man for decades....

Average citizen : PAS is forever trying to intimidate non Malay State Assembly Members by playing up racial and religious issues. They are always hitting below the belt and ungentlemanly riding roughshod over the legitimate rights of others. 

All for the sake of winning the votes of the racial extremists. Let’s hope the moderate and enlightened Malays will not give PAS their votes. Just compare the lack of progress of the states ruled by PAS with those by the Unity Government! It will be doomsday for all if they were to take over the Federal Government!

Coward : How can it be "lost" in translation when the speech she made was in Malay and get detractors are supposed said to be only able to understand in that language. 

It's either they deliberately cherry pick the part of her speech that they want to create a commotion about and ignore them rest that they cannot make a song and a dance on, or they cannot understand her perfect BM. You go figure which one it is

Goh Keng Swee

The whole truth is that on a July afternoon in 1965, I sat across from Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak, a man I had known since our student days, and I said words that Lee Kuan Yew had not authorised me to say. I told Razak the best thing would be to call it quits. That we should go our separate ways. Lee had sent me to negotiate a looser federation. A softer arrangement. More autonomy for Singapore within Malaysia.

I never raised it. Not once. From the first meeting, I went for the clean break. Because I knew, with a certainty that sat in my bones and would not leave, that a looser arrangement was a slower death. And I would rather have the surgery than the disease. I kept a file on these negotiations. Handwritten notes. Cabinet papers. Records of every conversation. I called it Albatross.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬.

The name comes from Coleridge. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳. A sailor kills an albatross and is forced to wear the dead bird around his neck as penance. Malaysia was the albatross. The great expectations that we foolishly had.  

Singapore Military the early years

That Malaysia would bring prosperity, a common market, peace, harmony. We were quickly disillusioned and it became an albatross round our necks. Very sad. But instructive episode in our political education. I had had enough of Malaysia. I just wanted to get out. I could see no future in it. The political cost was dreadful and the economic benefits did not exist.

So I cut the bird from our neck. Without permission. Lee found out in 1994. Nearly thirty years later.

He was writing his memoirs and he reviewed the Albatross documents and he realised that I had never pressed Razak for the looser rearrangement he had asked me to pursue. I had, from the start, gone for a clean break.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦, 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬.

I was born in Malacca in 1918. Peranakan family. My father managed a rubber plantation. My mother came from the family that produced Tan Cheng Lock and his son Tan Siew Sin, who would later become my lifelong political opponent and, to my lasting irritation, my cousin. We moved to Singapore when I was two. I grew up on the Pasir Panjang rubber estate. My family spoke English and Malay at home. Church services on Sunday in Malay.

I went to Anglo Chinese School. Then Raffles College, where I met Hon Sui Sen. Later, in London, at the School of Economics, I met the other men who would shape the future. Razak was one of them. So were Lee Kuan Yew and Toh Chin Chye. After the war, I went to the London School of Economics.

Earned a doctorate. Returned to Singapore as a civil servant in the Social Welfare Department. That is where I learned what poverty looks like. Not in a textbook. In a file. In a face. In the gap between what a government promises and what it delivers.

That gap made me a politician.

𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭.

When the PAP won the election and I became Singapore's first Finance Minister, the treasury was projecting a $14 million deficit. Businessmen thought the end of the world had arrived. The stock market collapsed. Capital fled. Several people left the country.

I cut civil service salaries. Do you understand what that means? The very people who had just elected us, the people who worked for the government, the people whose support we needed to survive, I cut their pay.

Because the alternative was bankruptcy. By December, I delivered a surplus. One million dollars. It was not much. But it was black ink instead of red. And it told the world that this government would not spend its way to prosperity.

That was my first lesson in what leadership actually costs. It costs the thing that is most convenient to keep.

𝐆𝐨𝐡'𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲.

In 1962, I started the development of the Jurong industrial estate on the western end of the island. It was a swamp. Let me be precise. It was mud and mangrove and standing water and mosquitoes and the kind of ground that engineers look at and say "not here."

I said here. I said build factories on this swamp. Lay roads. Run power. Bring water. And then convince multinational corporations, who could invest anywhere in the world, to put their money in the mud on the edge of an island that might not exist as a country next year.

They called it Goh's Folly. The cynics. The civil servants. The men who had never built anything and therefore knew exactly why nothing could be built.

Goh's Folly. I said once, "The only way to avoid making mistakes is not to do anything. And that will be the ultimate mistake." By 1968, Jurong had 300 factories and 21,000 workers. By 1976, it had 650 factories and had become the backbone of Singapore's industrialisation.

Nobody calls it Goh's Folly anymore. They call it Jurong. And every Singaporean who has a job in manufacturing, in petrochemicals, in precision engineering, in the industrial economy that feeds this country?

Standing on ground that was once a swamp that nobody wanted. Except me.

𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟓. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦.

Now let me tell you about the room. In mid July 1965, I sat with Razak in Kuala Lumpur. Also present were Ismail Abdul Rahman, Malaysia's Minister for Home Affairs. The context was this.

Singapore had been part of Malaysia for two years. In those two years, there had been two race riots. Communal violence incited by extremists on both sides. The federal government's finance minister, my cousin Tan Siew Sin, had threatened to raise Singapore's revenue contribution from 40 to 60 percent. UMNO leaders had told me, to my face, that Lee Kuan Yew should step down as Prime Minister and that I should replace him.

They wanted a Singapore they could control. I wanted a Singapore that was free. I told Razak: the best thing would be to call it quits.

Razak did not disagree. The Tunku had already been thinking the same thing. He had written to Razak from London, where he was recovering from shingles, about the possibility of "hiving off" Singapore. So the conversation was not whether. It was how. The discussions were conducted in absolute secrecy.

Toh Chin Chye and Rajaratnam, two of our most senior leaders, were not told. Not until 7 August. Two days before separation. When Lee summoned them to Kuala Lumpur and showed them the documents. They were devastated. They refused to sign.

It took a personal letter from the Tunku himself, stating that there was "absolutely no other way," to convince them. That is the part they do not teach you in school. That on the night before Singapore became a country, two of its founding fathers were sitting in a room, reading a letter from the man who was expelling them, and weeping.

𝟗 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟓.

Singapore separated from Malaysia. Lee wept on television. I did not weep. I will tell you why. Not because I was harder than him. Not because I felt less.

Because I had already done the grieving. I had grieved the merger months before, in hotel rooms and meeting rooms and in the back of cars driving between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. By the time it was announced, I had already moved past the loss and into the problem.

The problem was this. We were now a country of two million people with no army, no hinterland, no natural resources, and a neighbour across the causeway who had just told us they did not want us.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭.

I became Minister for Interior and Defence. There was no Singapore Armed Forces. There were a few battalions and a volunteer corps and the withdrawing shadow of the British military, which had been our shield for a century and was now packing its bags. I had to build an army from nothing.

Not in ten years. Not in five. Now. On 13 March 1967, I introduced the National Service Amendment Bill. It passed the next day. Compulsory conscription for every able bodied male citizen aged eighteen. Every son. Every family.

I understood the weight of that. I was not a man who made decisions lightly. I read Clausewitz and Sun Tzu and Liddell Hart. I subscribed to military journals. I studied Israel, a country smaller than ours that had built a citizen army out of necessity and survived. But understanding the theory does not soften the reality. The reality is that you are telling every mother in the country that her eighteen year old son now belongs, for two years, to the state. That is not a policy.

That is a covenant. And the only thing that justifies it is survival.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭.

The Economic Development Board. 1961. The Development Bank of Singapore. 1968. You know it as DBS. The Monetary Authority of Singapore. 1971. I laid the policies that produced a stable Singapore dollar and preserved the purchasing power of every citizen.

The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. 1981. A sovereign wealth fund to invest the reserves. It was unprecedented for a non commodity economy to have one. I did not care about precedent. I cared about the future. But here is what people do not expect from me.

Sentosa. 1968. The Jurong Bird Park. 1971. The Singapore Zoo. 1973. The Singapore Symphony Orchestra. I built these because one evening, early in the 1970s, I looked at what we had created and I felt something I did not expect.

Emptiness. We had the factories. We had the army. We had the banks and the reserves and the institutions. But we had not given our people a reason to walk slowly. To sit. To watch a bird. To listen to music that had no economic purpose. A nation that only works and never lives is not a nation.

It is a factory. So I built the things that made a country worth living in. Not because they were efficient. Because they were necessary.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝.

I will tell you something now that I never said publicly. The Albatross file was not just about Malaysia. It was about me. The albatross in Coleridge's poem is a burden the sailor carries as penance for what he has done. He killed something beautiful, something that had brought his ship good winds, and the crew made him wear the corpse around his neck. The albatross in Coleridge's poem is a burden the sailor carries as penance for what he has done. He killed something beautiful, something that had brought his ship good winds, and the crew made him wear the corpse around his neck.

I killed the merger.

The merger was supposed to bring Singapore prosperity. A common market. A hinterland. A future within something larger than ourselves. I killed it because I could see that it was already dead. That what we were wearing around our necks was not a living partnership but a rotting carcass that would drag us under.

But killing it meant accepting that we were alone. Two million people on a dot. No army. No resources. No guarantee that the water from Johor would keep flowing. No guarantee that Indonesia would not invade. No guarantee that the economy I was trying to build on a swamp would survive its first decade. I carried that.

Every day. Every decision. Every time I stood in front of a microphone or sat across from a foreign investor or signed a paper that committed the country to another gamble. The albatross was not Malaysia. The albatross was the knowledge that I had bet an entire nation on my own judgment. Without permission. Without consensus. Without the certainty that I was right. And Goh Keng Swee carried it until the day he died.

𝟏𝟒 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎.

Goh Keng Swee died at age 91. Lee Kuan Yew's son, Lee Hsien Loong, said at my funeral: "A whole generation of Singaporeans has grown up enjoying the fruits of growth and prosperity, because one of our ablest sons decided to fight for Singapore's independence, progress and future." Those are generous words. But the word I hold closest is one he did not say.

𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴. In December 2025, the Albatross File was finally declassified and published. The handwritten notes. The cabinet papers. The records of conversations that decided the fate of a nation.

Lee Hsien Loong said at the launch: "For those who lived through those times, each step was uncertain, each negotiation harrowing, each decision wrenching. Neither our founding leaders nor the people they led could be certain Singapore would survive, let alone thrive. It was, and still is, a miracle." A miracle.

That is a kind word for the result of a decision made by a man sitting across from his old college friend, in a room in Kuala Lumpur, saying words he had not been told to say. I stepped down from politics in 1984. They gave me the Order of Temasek the following year. But the heaviest thing I ever wore was not a medal.

It was a bird. And I wore it gladly. Because the alternative was to let it hang around the neck of an entire nation. Most Singaporeans know Lee Kuan Yew cried on television when Singapore separated from Malaysia. Almost none of them know that the man who made that separation happen was sitting beside him, dry eyed, carrying a secret file called Albatross.

Goh Keng Swee did not cry because he had already mourned. He had mourned the merger in private, in meeting rooms and hotel corridors, long before the cameras switched on. And by the time it was announced, he had already moved past grief and into the work. That is what it looks like when someone makes the hard call nobody else will make.

You do not get to grieve publicly. You do not get to hesitate. You do not get to say "I was told to do this." You make the decision. You carry the weight. You accept that if you are wrong, history will remember you as the man who broke a country apart. And if you are right, history will call it a miracle and credit someone else.

Goh Keng Swee built your economy on a swamp. He built your army from nothing. He built your banks, your reserves, your industrial base, your zoo, your symphony orchestra. And he separated your country from a federation that was strangling it, without permission, without consensus, without certainty.

Here is the question he leaves behind. What is the decision you are avoiding because you are waiting for permission? The call that everyone around you knows needs to be made, but nobody will make because the cost of being wrong is too visible and the reward of being right will be claimed by someone else.

What is your albatross? The thing that is hanging around your neck, dragging you down, that everyone agrees is a problem but nobody will cut loose because cutting it loose means accepting that you are alone with the consequences.

Goh Keng Swee cut it.

He carried the weight.

And a country flew.

𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒄𝒕. It is whether to act alone.

Hoodwinked under the guise of piety, hypocrisy

The RM230 million investigation involving public donations collected for charitable purposes has drawn significant attention.

According to the authorities, the case involves an NGO and public welfare-related funds, not official zakat institutions.

Sealthedeal : Well said as usual Mariam. There is only one solution. Withhold Zakat until trust is restored. Zakat to government then directly to the needy and cut our the middle men and NGOs. 

I have often wondered how these myriad of Islamic NGOs who are rallied to create a nuisance on ridulous issues are funded. It's becoming clearer. Zakat should never go through middlemen. It's a recipe for corruption.

One of the Taliban’s most powerful tools was execution. Not hidden executions, but public ones meant to warn others. It was a calculated display of terror, captured on camera, showing the world the brutal methods the Taliban used to control a nation, and the fear they left behind still lingers today. WHY would I want ANY of THESE people in MY Country..??!!??

He explains the historical role of Sikh warriors, the significance of the kirpan, and its purpose in defending communities against aggression. The conversation examines UK law around religious exemptions, including carrying the kirpan under the Criminal Justice Act 1988, and debates on equal application of the law. 

He also addresses tensions within Sikh communities, the Khalistan movement, and his stance against extremism and radicalisation. Sikhism was started by Guru Nanak, who preached equality and peaceful living among all men and religions. 

He was tolerated by the Muslim ruler at the time, but after the death of the Muslim ruler, Ackber, the religion came under persecution. When Aurangzeb took over the reign, he forced everyone to convert to Islam. This culminated in the birth of the Khalsa fraternity among the Sikhs, the movement to defend the faith. 

This turned the Sikhs from a peace loving people to a warrior fraternity, but they still retained their beliefs in Guru Nanak to live a virtuous life. Their identity has changed, but not their beliefs. They were no match against the much stronger army of Aurangzeb, but they found on and held their ground. Their bavery became a legend and saved the day for them.

Police Brutality And Murder

What was unexpected were the racist and religious comments on social media - some targeting her skin colour, others even suggesting closing vernacular schools.

Such comments clearly breach Section 233 of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 (CMA), which criminalises offensive communications intended to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass. Yet, the MCMC has done nothing.

GrayParrot9290 : Pmx / PKR / Madaini failed ! Simple for all to see and disappointed for all who voted for them especially non Bumis. Just waiting for GE16 to make right !

Sealthedeal : All non Muslims know that the authorities are biased. It's continual fight against these racist religious bigots that will never cease. They are corrupt. 

The MCMC is a biased organisation employing their army of snoopers to seek out transgressions from non Muslims and ignore the same from their own kind. They should be disbanded if they cannot be trusted to be fair.

BluePanther4725 : This Madani government is a FAILURE! It is a version of BN2.0, no thanks to Anwar and his UMNO cronies. This government is practicing double standards of the Law to suit themselves. 

No criticism of them is allowed while those PAS and UMNO people are free to vilify other races and religions. These politicians have made Malaysia a disgrace, it's time for the People to take back our country!

Asam Pedas : The law is tilted to favor Malays in every sphere. Some areas more blatantly.

Do these politicians even understand how Forbes actually ranks the rich? Every single person in Malaysia’s Top 50 richest list shares one crucial thing in common: they all own at least one major public-listed company. Forbes calculates their net worth almost entirely based on publicly traded shareholdings — the current market value of their stocks on Bursa Malaysia.

This is wealth on paper only. It’s publicly listed shareholdings, stock market valuations, and transparent business empires that actually generate taxes, jobs, and economic activity. Paper wealth from people who build companies instead of looting GLCs and hiding billions in offshore accounts and safe houses.

And you still twist it into “Malays are poor, Chinese are greedy.” This is exactly the pattern across Southeast Asia — 70-80% of the richest in Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand are ethnic Chinese. It’s what happens when a community focuses on business, education, and grinding while others play the race-and-religion lottery for power and contracts.

The same politicians scream “Bumiputera rights!” while their own cronies and families sit on fortunes that would make Robert Kuok look like a pauper. Taib Mahmud , Mahathir & Daim could buy out half the Forbes list. Rosmah Mansor’s jewellery haul alone: One police raid seized over RM443 million worth. That’s not even counting the rest of her collection.

Daim Zainuddin’s family: Menara Ilham (RM1.7–2 billion+), plus MACC-tracked overseas assets exceeding RM3 billion. Just one building. Najib Razak owes LHDN RM1.7 billion in tax. Mahathir’s sons openly bragging they’re billionaires.

Tengku Adnan treating RM2 million as “pocket money” with a net worth pushing RM1 billion. Former UMNO division chief Jamaluddin dying with RM2 billion in assets. Zahid Hamidi’s RM300 million in the bank. Ismail Sabri’s & Azmin Ali “safe house.”

These people don’t appear on Forbes because their wealth is hidden — not listed, not transparent, not contributing a single sen in corporate tax or jobs to the Malaysian economy. If Forbes used real forensic accounting instead of public filings, the top 100 would be almost zero non-Malays. None of them crack Forbes because their fortunes are invisible — offshore accounts, Panama Papers style, proxies, cash, gold, properties not listed on Bursa Malaysia.

Forensic accounting would wipe the non-Malays off the top 100 entirely. Your wealth is the real one. Ours is just the visible part you love to demonise. And the government’s own data you bury every time:

T20 households: 53.81% Bumiputera, 37.05% Chinese, 8.8% Indian. Bumiputera already own the majority of the top income bracket. Among Chinese households: only 29.66% in T20. 42.32% M40. 28.02% B40. That means 7 out of every 10 Chinese families are NOT rich. With 7.6 million Chinese, roughly 2.25 million in T20.

Bumiputera (21.8+ million) have 4.4 million in T20 — double the Chinese. Chinese corporate equity? Crashed from ~70% pre-NEP to ~23% today. Bumiputera equity (including GLCs and GLICs) already exceeds 30%. Yet you liars still parrot the 19% figure like it’s 1970.

71% of Chinese households are NOT in T20. Most are middle-class strivers or struggling like everyone else. But you don’t give a damn. You need the envy narrative to stay in power.

You weaponise the Forbes list every year to stoke envy, win votes, and justify more “pro-Bumiputera” policies that do one thing only: enrich the elite class of pejuang agama dan bangsa. This isn’t about helping poor Malays. It’s about justifying more theft. Jana Wibawa scandals.

Forcing 51% Bumiputera equity in freight forwarding (Ministry of Finance policy, shoving non-Bumis out). Now even GLC/GLIC property disposals demand 50% Bumiputera buyers — another knife in the back of actual entrepreneurs.

All while your cronies feast on GLC contracts, bailouts, and “Bumiputera champions” programs that somehow always enrich the same elite circle. The real parasites aren’t the Chinese tycoons paying taxes and employing Malaysians — it’s the loudest shouters waving keris and samurai swords, hiding their billions offshore, then screaming “Malay poverty!” to justify stealing more of the economic pie.

The Forbes list doesn’t prove Chinese are “richer.” It proves who actually contributes — through listed companies, taxes, jobs, and investment that grows the economic pie for everyone. The real richest?

The loudest pejuang agama dan bangsa waving keris and samurai swords while their hidden billions dwarf the entire Forbes list. They steal the pie, then scream at the Chinese for the crumbs. The hidden wealth — the real wealth — is with the very people who brand themselves as defenders of the race while picking the country’s pockets dry. Stop lying to the poor Malays.

Stop pitting communities against each other. The only people getting richer from your narrative are the elite Bumiputera class who will never appear on any honest rich list — because their billions are buried where the public can never see them. Poor Malays aren’t poor because of Chinese tycoons.

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Investigate all NGOs that receive/collect Zakat funds from all State Religious Councils. Last time palestine fund also same pattern, come on , these fund are meant for those in needs. Selagi ada agama, selagi itu boleh ditunggang. 

Kes kes macam ni yg tunggang Agama dlm Politik semua diam masuk Gua ! They threatened people from other religion, and oh no, now they 'sapu' 'the money. Misappropriation. That amount is huge! PIS Hadi kata rasuah itu sedekah, demi maruah, agama dan bangsa Melayu.

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NBC Los Angeles reported on April 8 that the local cops were “investigating a possible ‘hate incident’ at an Islamic Society of Simi Valley building.” The intrepid journalists, however, showed no apparent curiosity about exactly what kind of “hate incident” had been perpetrated.

Why is the public not allowed to learn the specifics? Law enforcement authorities and/or media outlets (it’s not clear who made the actual decision in this case) seem to assume that their readers are too immature to be able to handle hearing the details of a “hate incident” at the local mosque without grabbing their tiki torches and heading over to the mosque to join in the hate. It’s either that, or authorities think that the public’s sensibilities are so fragile that they simply wouldn’t be able to handle the news.

One possible clue about the nature of the “hate” involved here might come from the fact that a local church was the target of a recent “hate incident” as well. The Ventura County Star reported Friday that “a Lutheran church in Simi Valley was vandalized with a hate message on April 16, over a week after an Islamic mosque in the city reported a potential hate crime, authorities said. Officers with the Simi Valley Police Department arrived at the Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church at 4191 E. Cochran St. around 12:42 p.m. in regard to a vandalism report, according to authorities.”

As the conflict with Iran continues, many elements of an ultimate deal have been explored. Issues such as nuclear weapons development, missile production, uranium divestiture and enrichment, foreign proxy financing, as well as activities in the region by Israel and Arab nations, have been scrutinized. In the meantime, it is well recognized that any deal with the Iranian regime is suspect; compliance has always been questionable, and efficient monitoring creates an even greater set of problems.

From the beginning, the notion of "regime change" has received much attention. For some, it means the termination of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. For others, it entails the complete elimination of all who have led and participated in the Iranian Revolution for decades. For others, it can be satisfied with a mere leadership change on the assumption, as with the U.S. intervention in Venezuela, that new leaders may emerge who will lead the nation to greater cooperation with the U.S., turn away from fueling terror through proxies in other nations, and, because of an improved economy, be open to granting the general population greater individual freedoms.

One focus that has been completely absent from the public discussion concerns the regime’s own constitution and whether amendments, if not a full overhaul, should be on the table. Of course, a change in a document does not guarantee a meaningful change in behavior. Nonetheless, the failure to agree to specified amendments, if not a totally new framework, demonstrates that true change of the type much of the world would appreciate is unlikely.

MICHAEL OREN: IRAN HAS WAGED WAR ON AMERICA FOR 47 YEARS — TIME TO END IT

The existing constitution, formed in 1979 and subsequently amended in 1989, outlines a vision that is fully incompatible with Western principles and that has guided and given reason to all the regime has sought throughout its forty-seven-year existence. It also gives meaning to what has often been mistaken for mere hyperbolic cheerleading: "Death to America."

Tehran responded to the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign by targeting civilian infrastructure across the region, including firing cluster munitions at Israeli residential areas and striking hotels and energy facilities across the Persian Gulf. It also moved to choke the Strait of Hormuz, seeking to raise political costs for the Trump administration by driving up global oil prices. This has now given way to a fragile truce, with Tehran and Washington negotiating over Hormuz, the nuclear file and proxies, while the regime’s repression at home remains absent from the agenda.

Iran’s primary military leverage—its missile production, launch capacity and stockpiles—has suffered a heavy blow. But airpower alone only becomes existential if it creates space for Iranians to shape outcomes on the ground. Aware of that vulnerability, Tehran has used the ceasefire to tighten its grip at home. With fewer external pressures, authorities have escalated executions, extrajudicial killings and arrests, while deploying Shia terror proxies across Iran to reinforce control and deter potential unrest.

Leaving the people of Iran out of the equation is not just a human-rights concern. It risks alienating the regime’s true existential threat: the largest pro-American and pro-Israeli population in the Middle East, which, if it prevails, could reshape the world order. It also stands in contrast to the messaging that casted the campaign as enabling Iranians to reclaim their country.

In fairness, progress was underway toward those promises, but the timeline was abruptly shortened. Israel struck the infrastructure of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), its subordinate Basij and local law enforcement, all units that have fired on unarmed protesters since 1999. But dismantling repression requires degrading personnel, not just facilities. Even estimates of more than 5,000 killed since Feb. 28 pale against the hundreds of thousands across security forces.

Those who have been following Europe’s Islamization crisis (these days, America’s crisis as well) may remember the ‘Burkini’ flare up in France. Pennes-Mirabeau, a French town, barred Muslim women from going into swimming pools fully clothed in ‘Burkinis’ arguing that it was unsanitary.

The media rallied to defend the mandatory Islamic dress codes, which, as previously mentioned, having nothing to do with modesty (people who are actually modest don’t issue press releases or talk endlessly about their bathing suits) and accused Pennes-Mirabeau of ‘Islamophobia’.

Now some years later, Pennes-Mirabeau is in the news with likely more accusations of ‘Islamophobia’ coming after farm animals were sexually assaulted by an Afghan ‘refugee’.

A sordid affair has unfolded near Marseille. A 19-year-old man is suspected of raping goats and sheep in the town of Pennes-Mirabeau (Bouches-du-Rhône). An Afghan national, he was arrested on Friday, April 10, and taken into custody by the anti-crime brigade (BAC), according to information from La Provence and France 3 regions, confirmed by Le Figaro .

It was the sheep and goat owners in the town who alerted the authorities. Since the beginning of 2026, several of them had found some of their goats and sheep injured, particularly in February and March. The animals had their legs tied and showed signs of sexual abuse

After several similar incidents, the owners installed camera traps (motion-activated cameras) on their property in the hope of solving the mystery. They were horrified to discover the silhouette of a young man visiting their livestock.

He was arrested overnight between Thursday and Friday and taken into custody. An Afghan national, he faces up to three years in prison and a €45,000 fine for cruelty to a domestic, tamed, or captive animal.

But who are we to judge their culture? There are some 100,000 Afghans who have invaded and still occupy parts of France. France opened the door to Afghans with catastrophic results for both people and animals.

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