Via WhatsApp : Dengan menggunakan kuasa mengikut s. 187 (b) Akta AT72 dan membatalkan syor minit Mesyuarat 522 Dan 525 kerana mengikuti syor JPA yg tiada bidangkuasa terhadap ATM Dan merugikan veteran.

Kuasa yg ada pada JPA mengikut undang undang kecil Peraturan Pencen Ganjaran Dan Faedah lain ATM 1982, hanyalah Gaji Maksima utk pengiraan Pencen bukan nya skim Gaji ATM Dan Skim Perkhidmatan ATM.

Rujuk keputusan Mahkamah :

1. Kerajaan Malaysia lwn Hakim Ian Chin

2. Kes Muhammad Maliki Lwn MAT

3. Kes Mohd Ami Lwn Majlis Angkatan Tentera

4. Kes Mej Mior Rosli Dan 49 lain lwn MAT

Mengapa MAT tidak merujuk keputusan Hakim Hakim dlm kes d atas tetapi cuma ikut keputusan Mahkamah Rayuan satu kes sahaja.

Bukan kah perkhidmatan ATM berbeza dari perkhidmatan AWAM?

There was an even more forgotten conflict in the region the Indonesian confrontation where Indonesian and commwealth forces were fighting an undeclared war in Borneo in the 1960s. My 2nd post. I grew up in Malaya during that time. In 1954 through to 1957, my parents and I lived in Ipoh. 

Periodically , Australian airforce Lincoln Bombers would arrive over Ipoh at around 7.00 a.m. and drop bombs into an area of Limestone Hills north of the town. We witnessed this fron an upstairs window of our house in Jalan Woidward. The bomb ecplosions would rattle the windows of the house. It left a lasting impression in my memory. I often wonder just what those bombs hit. (If anything.)

Recent developments involving the royal family have spotlighted these tensions.

Tengku Ampuan of Pahang, Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah, extended an offer to displaced Orang Asli families, particularly those affected by disputes in areas like Kampung Sungai Cot in Maran, inviting them to live on her land.

This gesture followed incidents where Orang Asli were earlier detained for alleged trespassing on plantation land. While framed as compassionate, the offer has met a nuanced response by the Orang Asli.

Many Orang Asli have expressed gratitude for the humanitarian intent but firmly insist on recognition of their customary land rights (tanah adat or pusaka) rather than relocation to allocated plots.

To Christians, it was a bastion of security, protecting pilgrims, villages, and the roads leading inland from Acre. To Muslims it was, as a contemporary Arab writer described it, “an obstruction in the throat of Syria and a blockage in the chest of Islam.”

On this day, that obstruction was finally removed.

Its conqueror was the Mamluk sultan Baybars, the greatest practitioner of jihad since Saladin. Through relentless warfare, calculated deception, and uncompromising brutality, he would systematically dismantle the Crusader states, paving the way for their final destruction a generation later.

Safed was not his first victim.

The previous year, Baybars laid siege to the great Hospitaller fortress of Arsuf—even though he was bound to its defenders by treaty. For over a month the Knights of St. John held out against constant bombardment, mining operations, and repeated assaults. At last, with their walls shattered and nearly half their defenders dead, they agreed to surrender only after Baybars personally guaranteed safe passage to Acre.

The promise proved worthless.

The moment the gates opened, every Christian—knights, soldiers, women, and children alike—was seized and enslaved. Many were enslaved and forced to demolish the very fortress they had so valiantly defended before being marched off in chains. Weeks later, Baybars celebrated his triumph in Cairo by parading the captive Hospitallers through the streets with broken crosses hanging around their necks as jeering crowds mocked and assaulted them.

Gottfried Statue vor dem Königspalast in Brüssel

That’s the guy that turned Jerusalem into a kingdom, Baldwin of Boulougne.

Without him, it would have collapsed..Baldwin was born around 1060 into the House of Boulogne. As the youngest son of Eustace II and Ida of Lorraine, it was clear he wouldn’t inherit any land. His path was set for the Church. Chroniclers say he studied for it and even held a canonry at Cambrai.

But he didn’t like it very much..

Long before Urban II called the Crusade in 1095, Baldwin left the clergy. He took up the sword and rode east with his brothers Godfrey and Eustace when the call to liberate Jerusalem came. In 1098, while the main army pushed south, Baldwin headed east toward Edessa (Armenian city).

Three years after conquering Constantinople, the Ottoman Sultan, Muhammad II, at the head of over 100,000 Turks, marched towards the strategic fortress town of Belgrade, key to Western Europe, in the spring of 1456.

Cognizant of all the death, destruction, and mindboggling atrocities this massive Muslim march presaged—memory of the sack of Constantinople was still fresh—a great panic swept through the Danube region. Even Hungarian king Ladislaus V fled his capital to Vienna (on the pretext that he was going “hunting”).

Only one stood his ground—only John Hunyadi, the Transylvanian voivode who had long been a thorn in the Turks’ side. Even as the king fled west, Hunyadi raced to the eastern frontier—towards, not away from, the Turkish army. He immediately manned the fortress of Belgrade with 6,000 veteran fighters at his own expense. Although he implored the higher nobles for aid, few were responsive.

Meanwhile, the 70-year-old Franciscan friar, John Capistrano, went to southern Hungary calling on the people to take the cross and defend their nation against Islam. His “burning zeal, soul-piercing eloquence, and heroic austerities” set tens of thousands of the lower classes aflame. Before long, a massive crusader force of some 40,000 peasants was following Capistrano.

The world had turned upside down: “Where is the French king,” a contemporary document inquires, “who wants to call himself the Christian king? Where are the kings of England, Denmark, Norway, Sweden…? Unarmed peasants, blacksmiths, tailors, tradesmen are walking in front of the armies!”

By late June, Muhammad’s vast forces had reached and surrounded Belgrade. If it fell, all of Hungary and further west would be exposed to and eventually inundated by the hordes of Asia.

Muhammad ordered the heavy bombardment to begin on July 4. The crashing and careening cannon fire was so thunderously loud that it could be heard for a hundred miles around. Twelve days later, on July 16, massive breaches punctuated this once formidable fortress.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) breaks the fast with Imam Amir Aziz (L) as he joins fasting Muslims during an Iftar dinner at the Wilmersdorf mosque during Ramadan in Berlin on March 12, 2025.

Two quite different news reports, and the way they have been handled, illustrate this.

The first, from June 7, stated, “Domestic intelligence agency warns of Islamist influence on German institutions.” The warning originated from a confidential briefing of parliamentarians by Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz), which was leaked to journalists at Bild, who reported on it. The story spread quickly on social media and was then picked up by a few smaller newspapers (among them the Jewish weekly Jüdische Allgemeine).

The second, from June 24, stated, “Alliance presents overview of the extent of anti-Muslim sentiment in Germany.” Unlike the first report, this item was carried by Germany’s state TV and public radio broadcaster DLF in a way that ensured maximum attention. Its message: Islamophobia has reached new heights and poses a grave danger.

The Internal Security Act permitted detention without trial, without charge, and without a court ever hearing why. Parliament repealed it in 2012. He wants it returned, and he has told you whom he wants it pointed at. Nomination day in Negeri Sembilan was two days away.

The record was never hidden There is a temptation, whenever a figure like this produces something ugly, to call it an outburst. A bad night. A man who went too far online. That reading requires you not to have looked.

Until 24 April 2025, the service end date listed on his own university’s staff record for Ridhuan Tee was 31 December 2024, indicating that he was an academic staff member at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin. The university’s expert portal, experts.unisza.edu.my, cataloged his bibliography. Among the entries: Tangan-tangan Jahat: Melayu & Ultrakiasu, published by Utusan Publications in 2014, ISBN 9789676127143. A book, indexed as scholarly output, sitting in a public directory, findable by anyone who typed his name.

“Kiasu“ (惊输) is Hokkien. It means being afraid to lose. In his hands, it stopped being a personality trait years ago and became a designation for a community, and the columns carrying it ran from 2015 to 2020: ‘abolish Dong Zong’. Jail its leadership. Recognizing the Unified Examination Certificate is recognizing communism, which is his own formulation, not anyone else’s. Chinese Malaysians, including a sitting state assemblyman, should go back to China.

None of this leaked. None of it was revealed. It was filed. Thirty-seven hours The escalation is worth walking, because its shape matters more than any single post.

Thursday, 7:03 in the morning. A veiled threat aimed at critics of Perikatan Nasional. Eight thousand one hundred likes. Thursday, 10:35 at night. The Malaysian Chinese Association, the Democratic Action Party, and Gerakan, flattened into a single phrase, “ultra kiasu,” and an electoral threat was attached. Sixteen thousand four hundred likes. 

Three parties with different histories, different constituencies, and a fifty-year record of fighting each other collapsed into one ethnic label because the label is the point, and the politics never were. 

Friday, 9:40 in the morning. The Chinese New Villages should take on a Malay identity. Friday, 8:35 at night. Bring back the Internal Security Act. Thirty-seven hours, one direction, and the last stop is indefinite detention. The Rakyat Post reported the sequence on 19 July. The posts are public. 

The timing is not ambiguous: this landed in the window when a Negeri Sembilan electorate was two days from choosing candidates. What he apologized for in 2015 In September 2015, in his own Sinar Harian column, Ridhuan Tee apologized for the Muslims who shouted “Cina babi (Chinese pigs)” at the Red Shirt rally. He wrote that he was “embarrassed” by the incident. He apologized “for the harsh words used by people who claim to be Muslims to the Chinese who are not ultra kiasu.” 

Read that sentence again. The phrase was already there in 2015, doing the same work it does now: a qualifier separating the Chinese Malaysians he’d apologize to from those he wouldn’t. He has been sorting people into that box for at least eleven years. Eleven years later, he is asking the state to hold their critics without trial.

The pattern is not political; it is reflexive May 2026: the Rain Rave Water Music Festival. He called it a pesta maksiat and Malaysia a kafir illuminati state. The event was organized under a Muslim-led government. The New Straits Times reported that economic activity generated RM320 million.

April 2026: Thean Hock Keong canceled its Hari Raya open house, and he turned to Chinese temples and gambling. March 2024: Qingming, ancestral graves, and a state assemblywoman told she was an immigrant. A festival, a temple, a grave. There is no policy running through these. There is no legislative program, no argument about governance, no proposal. There is a reflex that fires at the same target every time, regardless of what the target was doing.

The part that should worry people who agree with him Set aside your views on the Chinese Malaysian political parties. Set aside the Unified Examination Certificate, Dong Zong, vernacular schooling, all of it. Argue those on the merits, and people do, and they should.

None of that is what happened on Friday night. What happened on Friday night is that a man with a decade of published output and a university listing asked for a law of indefinite detention to be restored and used against critics of a religion, forty-eight hours before an election. The bibliography is real. The post is real. Together, they describe someone who has stopped arguing and started requisitioning.

The Internal Security Act was not repealed because it was inconvenient to one community. It was repealed because a state that can hold anyone without charge eventually holds everyone without charge, and the people who cheer loudest when it comes back are never the ones who get to decide where it points next.

He wrote the book. The university indexed it. He apologized in 2015, and he is now asking for detention camps in 2026. He has told you exactly who he is, in print, for eleven years, with a publisher and an ISBN.

Believe him.

Over the next 16 years, he was deployed across global conflict zones including Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan, ultimately leading the SAS's Mountain Troop. During his service, Thapa became the first active-duty warrant officer to summit both Everest and K2. 

Thapa speaks to Business Insider about the most intense phases of SAS training, such as jungle survival and the escape and evasion test. He explains the regiment’s values, hierarchy, weapons systems, and the meaning behind its "Who Dares Wins" motto. 

Since retiring in 2022, Thapa has built a career in leadership coaching and motivational speaking. He's a frequent guest on TV and podcasts, and he cofounded a resilience initiative supporting veterans through the Gurkha Welfare Trust.

Following a nail-biter of a knockout round World Cup match in Mexico, in which Morocco advanced to the round of 16 after beating the Dutch national team on penalties, Moroccan migrants took to the streets of cities across the Netherlands.

However, while they began as joyful celebrations, the gatherings were ultimately marred by violence and clashes with police in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

According to the Dutch news outlet NU, at around 6:30 am local time, Moroccan supporters began pelting police officers with stones and fireworks in the Schilderswijk area of The Hague.

One man was even arrested at gunpoint after allegedly firing a pistol at officers, though this later turned out to be a BB gun. In response, riot police were deployed to multiple areas of the city, and a water cannon was used to disperse a rowdy crowd.

Malaysiakini : “It felt less like a discussion and more like stepping into an inferno.”

- former DAP MP Charles Santiago

COMMENT | When ex-MP Charles Santiago described his meeting with Indian community leaders in Johor as walking into an inferno, I knew what he meant.

I would also say it is not confined to Johor alone. Anecdotally speaking, community leaders and organisers I have been in contact with are exhibiting the same kind of anger towards Madani, which includes DAP.

Much has been made about the failed strategy of using the possible release of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak as a vote-getter in Johor.

The fact is that the working-class Indians and activists I speak to inform me that this has zero impact.

There is a significant percentage of working-class Indians who do not have animus towards the convicted felon as the political narratives of DAP would have you believe.

Urimai’s P Ramasamy said it best. From reportage - “Commenting on a survey which found that a majority of Indians backed Najib’s bid for a royal pardon, Ramasamy said the community continues to differentiate between his personal misdeeds - especially in the 1MDB scandal - and his outreach to the Indian community.”

Now, of course, in the social media spaces of non-Malays, a statement like this would be mocked. But when it comes to reality, the kitchen table reality, this means that votes are getting lost because nobody is really interested in studying the terrain.

Around election time, the “Indian vote” comes into play. Politicians from both sides of the divide make the necessary noises of “inclusion” to cater to the demographic.

The comment sections of such news stories are sprinkled with the usual racist diatribes against the community.

Besides the urban English-educated voter, the people who actually vote in districts which could actually mean something do not read the “English” news stories that come out in the alternative media or the mainstream (English) media, for that matter.

Charles said: “The irony is striking. The Indian middle class appears ready to cast a protest vote with Bersama, while many in the working class are drifting back to BN - the very coalition they once helped vote out.”

As someone who has spilt much ink about his disdain for MIC, this has been something which has not been easy for me to assimilate.

PSM’s plight

This is an important point and points towards the class conflict within the Indian community, which is probably why a party like PSM is savaged and which the Indian working class runs to whenever they need real help, but which they abandon when it comes to elections.

For example, PSM settled the housing issue of 393 families from four estates in Dengkil.

“The houses are expected to be completed in October. BN and Pakatan Harapan had a hand in the project, but it was PSM and its movement that helped bring the matter to their attention and demand action,” PSM deputy chairperson S Arutchelvan said in 2023.

This is just one example of the sometimes decades-long struggles that PSM has been involved with, but as Arutchelvan said: “We nominated a candidate in Dengkil, and they are surprised to know that we are a political party.”

Furthermore, there is a growing realisation among working-class Indians that when it comes to political parties, it really doesn’t matter who is voted in because all these political parties work with each other when it is convenient.

An Indian voter in Johor reminded me that DAP thanked the MIC and Umno in Kuala Kubu Bharu, so why can’t he and his family vote for MIC now?

From reportage – “The Jelutong MP, who thanked Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and MIC president SA Vigneswaran for supporting the coalition candidate, said he is not surprised by the former Penang deputy chief minister’s actions.”

Anwar errs, MIC gains

It is strange, though. For decades, Anwar Ibrahim, for a myriad of reasons, enjoyed extremely healthy support from the Indian community.

But these days, as prime minister, Harapan and he are slowly but surely losing support from the community.

These days, Anwar seems more interested in bullying a young student who asks him genuine questions about educational opportunities in Malaysia or presiding over a conversion ceremony of a young Indian convert.

I was talking to a MIC operative; he was heartened by the participation of youths in their programmes and took it as a positive sign that young Indians were returning to MIC.

Meanwhile, when I talked to government-aligned youth activists, they claimed that their only interest was to help the community and would take assistance from any place they could get.

There has been much talk as to why Indians are raging at Madani, but the most common flashpoint, anecdotally, I come across is when the prime minister officiated the conversion of a Hindu youth.

What does it say to the Hindu community - or even the Indian community - when the prime minister of this country presides over the conversion of a Hindu youth, while mothers are battling in the courts to get their children back, are suing the state security apparatus to do their jobs, and dealing with the religious bureaucracy who are hampering their efforts to reconcile with their children?

I would say that this event was as totemic as the cow head protest when it comes to the Indian votes, especially the working class abandoning the federal government.

Negeri Sembilan polls

Now, of course, this does not mean that Harapan is in trouble in Negeri Sembilan. But who knows.

The reality is that the Indian vote is now in play, and Charles is correct when he says the winners for the Indian vote are those - “…who attracts the deepest disappointment.”

Indians, especially disenfranchised ones, neither have the luxury of engaging in partisanship nor can they indulge in the numerous political outfits that claim to champion their cause.

There is no true course for the Indian community.

Our fate shall be the same as that of all the non-Malays, but it is just that we will get there sooner.

Dan Burmawi, having seen the uglier realities of Islam up close, isn’t afraid to say what many Westerners are squeamish about admitting. “Palestinianism is a dumping ground,” he explained on X on July 2. “A catch-all container for every resentful ideology, every broken theory, every radical cause. Marxists, postcolonialists, jihadists, queer activists, anarchists, environmentalists, anti-capitalists, and antisemites, they all pour their agendas into it.”

This is true whether the ideologies actually fully align or not. Yes, “queers for Palestine” are ridiculous for not knowing that homosexuals can be executed in Gaza. Marxists are political utopians and Palestinian terrorists are religious zealots. But even if the ideologies do not completely match up, Bumawi argued, the highly fictionalized cause of jihadis in Gaza is “the perfect host, just vague enough to absorb anything, just angry enough to justify everything.”

He explained further. “Muslims use it to legitimize jihad and martyrdom. Marxists use it to revive class warfare under the guise of anti-Zionism. Postcolonial theorists use it to attack the West.”

Bumawi continued, “Intersectional activists use it to link Palestine to trans rights and racial justice in a grotesque logic of shared victimhood. Academics use it to inject critical theory into international politics. Antisemites use it to camouflage their hatred as humanitarianism. Palestinianism is where incompatible ideologies suddenly find unity.”

Dating to centuries before the rise of Islam, this forgotten Christian site offers a rare glimpse into a time when Christianity flourished across parts of the Arabian Gulf. 

In this documentary, we explore the history, discovery, architecture, and significance of the Jubail Church, uncovering evidence of early Christian communities that once lived and worshipped in Arabia. 

Join us as we journey through a forgotten chapter of history buried beneath the sands of time. Explore why archaeologists considered the Jubail Church one of the most significant discoveries ever made in Saudi Arabia. Examine the evidence showing thriving Christian communities throughout pre-Islamic Arabia. 

A closer look at the church’s design, symbolism, and what its structure reveals about early Christian worship. Discover how the church disappeared from history and remained hidden beneath the desert for centuries.

2025 Coeur d'Alene shooting

I was fresh at my new job and I pulled over onto a freeway overpass to watch them return the firefighters bodies from spokane to cour d'alene. Really impacted the entire area. Taking a slug to the spine and still focusing on saving lives. That's what you call a true man of steel. 

Starting a fire to ambush firefighters is so gross. They had no chance. I'm so pissed. Man, you have to be one hell of a shit-bag to kill unarmed fireman. Imagine killing people who’s sole job is to rescue and save other people. What an absolute piece of trash, hope he’s burning in the deepest pits of hell.

Owning slaves was a Malay tradition, but J.W.W Birch tried to stop it

Juliana berjalan kaki hampir 200km bersama anaknya, mengharapkan campur tangan PM untuk memastikan tiada lagi tanah adat Orang Ali dikosongkan.  Rohingya dibela bebas berkeliaran rakyat Orang asli ditindas pemerintah Haprak. 

Sarawakians and Sabahans make sure the orang Malaya do not outnumber you via love jihad for the sake of pussy or dicks. Beware you will lose your own land. Your traditions and your faith. Owning slaves was a Malay tradition, but J.W.W Birch tried to stop it.

Malaysiakini : Time to concede it was the West who stopped bumiputera slavery by Joshua Woo Sze Zeng. The recent controversy over the contributions of non-Malays in the war against the communists in this country has once again raised questions over Malaysians’ general knowledge of our own history.

One disturbing aspect arose from the controversy is how history, or the lack thereof, has been distorted to instil racial antagonism among ethnic groups. Such a malicious tactic is still being used because history is more than a record of the past, it shapes how we see ourselves and others in the present.

Learning about our colonial past in the 1900s is a case in point. My generation was taught that the British were the exploiters of our land and the destroyers of our local traditions. Such indoctrination has led many to believe that the West is the immoral agent of decadence. The West is thus conveniently scapegoated so that the ruling regime can get us to see ourselves as victims, to see the West as a threat, and to see the present rulers as our needed defenders.

That is the recipe for a siege mentality, a proven method to win votes. I am not here defending colonialism or the West, but to point out one piece of our history that has been forgotten, not even footnoted in history textbooks. That is the fact that it was the British who liberated the bumiputeras (Malays and Orang Asli) from slavery, a cruel age-old trade practised by locals for hundreds of years.

• Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Retirement Fund (Incorporated) (KWAP) losses from its nearly RM200 million investment in Indonesian aquaculture start-up eFishery stemmed from a “planned fraud”, with the company’s management allegedly manipulating its financial statements.

  In a written parliamentary reply to Wong Chen (Harapan-Subang), Anwar said the investment had gone through KWAP’s established governance process, including internal assessments, independent due diligence and reviews of the company’s financial, legal, and operational standing before approval.

  Following the fraud, KWAP and the investor consortium had initiated legal action and were continuing efforts to recover invested funds while strengthening internal governance.

  Veteran 1972 : They screwed the Veterans who retired before 2013. Plus the fact that PMX broke his pledge to the Veterans.

  AyamKambingBack : 200m? It sounds familiar lah this figure......

  On the Other Hand : Same amount that he supposedly gave HAMAS.

  Read all the comments here...........

AN OLD map presents Europe in the shape of a queen holding scepter and orb, with Portugal as her crown, Spain as her face, France as her belowthe- neck area, lower Germany and Denmark as her left arm, Italy as her right arm (with Sicily as orb), and the rest of central and eastern Europe as the dres (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Critics on campuses, in international forums, and across much of the media paint a picture of European Zionist invaders displacing an indigenous population, imposing foreign rule on ancient Arab lands. This narrative flips history on its head, ignoring millennia of Jewish connection to the Land of Israel while whitewashing the true architects of regional domination. 

It is time to ask the core question plainly: Who are the colonizers? The answer reveals a legacy of conquest and cultural erasure that reshaped the entire Middle East and North Africa, and one that continues to target the Jewish homeland today.

By Vlad Tepes

European media’s consistent refusal to report the full identity, religion, and immigration status of perpetrators in horrific crimes is not incompetence. It is policy.

In case after case, the pattern is unmistakable: when the attacker is a migrant (often Muslim or African), mainstream outlets default to vague descriptions such as “a man,” “youths,” “locals,” or even misleading nationality labels, while the victim’s background is sometimes highlighted. When the perpetrator is a native European, details flow freely.

This is not random. It follows a clear set of guidelines established at the highest institutional levels.

The 2018 Warnings Which We Ignored at Our Peril

In a Strasbourg press conference ahead of the Marrakesh conference, MEP Marcel de Graaff and colleagues warned exactly what the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration would bring.

Though sold to the public as technically non-binding, it was designed to become the framework for national legislation and media behavior. And clearly that is exactly what it became.

De Graaff stated: “Criticism of migration will become a criminal offense… media outlets that give room to criticism of migration can be shut down… it will become impossible to mention that mass migration leads to explosive surge of rape and murder.”

Another MEP highlighted the UN’s earlier demographic replacement goals and the push to make migration a “human right.”

Who has never been a man of peace but rather the polished face of the most violent Islamism - the one that disfigured Syria under the banners of jihad and massacred Christians, Druze, and Alawites in collusion with Turkish and Qatari protectors.

The imposing door of the Great Umayyad Mosque opened with a theatrical creak. Macron and his host, al-Sharaa, removed their shoes and entered, followed by the delegations. Built 1,300 years ago on the site of a church, the mosque houses the relics of St. John the Baptist and the tomb of Saladin. Beneath Byzantine-era frescoes, the two signed energy and trade agreements.

Two devices meanwhile exploded near the Four Seasons Hotel where the French president had stayed. “Macron is safe," the Élysée immediately reassured. It is not a travel incident, but the background noise of a Middle East that has never stopped being itself. Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!

Macron embodies progressivism in sunglasses, believing he can tame radical Islam with symbolic gestures and energy subcontracts. But the Umayyad mosque, built on the ruins of a church, reminds him that Islamic conquest is never just a metaphor and that every Islamic conquest replaces rather than coexists.

From Wikimedia Commons: View of Constantinople by evening light (Ivan Aivazovsky, 1846)

Posterity may recognize both a brutal end to the Byzantine Empire and a stark warning of what happens when a weakened civilization faces an unrelenting conqueror. In significance, this event, where the ancient walls of the Eastern Roman capital crumbled under Ottoman cannon fire, surpassed a military defeat; it was the death knell for a millennium-old bastion of Christianity, signaling the inexorable advance of Islamic imperialism across Europe and the Near East.

In the context of the demographic trajectories and civilizational fatigue characterizing modern Europe, the fall serves as a chilling precedent. It illustrates how complacency, division, and sustained depopulation can lead to the subjugation of entire peoples, transforming sacred spaces into symbols of triumph for the victors. The tragedy—its causes, the harrowing siege, the final collapse, and its enduring consequences—provides lessons that Europe ignores at its peril.

The roots of Constantinople’s downfall traced back centuries, beginning with the gradual erosion of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern heir to Rome. Founded in 330 AD by Emperor Constantine the Great as New Rome, the city—renamed Constantinople—became a glittering metropolis of Orthodox Christianity, fortified by the formidable Theodosian Walls, a 5.7–6.5-kilometer network of ramparts, moats, and towers that repelled invaders for over a thousand years.

Finance Twitter : Malaysian Chinese have suddenly become a precious commodity this month. As expected, their value skyrockets every time there is an election. With the political campaign for the Johor state election entering its second half, every politician and political party treats the ethnic Chinese like a diamond, saying the Chinese are the best, the cleverest, the kingmaker, and whatnot.

Chinese voters form the largest voting bloc in about 12 of the state’s 56 seats, most of them urban. Hence, it makes perfect sense why UMNO orders its top racist punk – Akmal Saleh – to stay silent. Even Selangor Chief Minister Amirudin Shari, whose government is cracking down on temples and pig farming, shamelesslypretends to admire the Chinese by invoking the “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”. 

Everyone can smell Amirudin’s stinky lies when he said that Malays, Chinese, and Indians were equal citizens. And if he is trying to hoodwink the Chinese that he is “Liu Bei” by bragging about how Selangor’s governance record was built on leaders who were capable, courageous and empathetic, he has failed miserably. Liu Bei did not demolish temples, let alone close down pig farms.

Demonizing Cao Cao does not automatically make Amirudin the hero “Liu Bei” in the Chinese classical novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”. Whether Cao Cao was “really bad” is debatable. While Cao Cao was a ruthless warlord capable of immense brutality, at the same time, he was also a brilliant statesman and poet who stabilized Northern China during a chaotic era.

Did the Selangor Chief Minister realize that without the Five Tiger Generals – Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Huang Zhong – and strategist Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei would have likely perished as a minor warlord? Before Zhuge Liang joined him, Liu Bei was a wandering mercenary who bounced from warlord to warlord. He lost battle after battle because he lacked long-term, macroeconomic strategy.

But Amirudin isn’t the only Malay leader trying to appease and impress upon Chinese voters. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, whose People’s Justice Party (PKR) is on track to be wiped out, is begging the Chinese community to return home to vote in Johor on July 11. If only he had fairly and sincerely defended the minority races from UMNO Youth Chief Akmal’s act of terrorism for the last 3 years.

The racist Prime Minister’s best joke was not about urging young voters not to believe anti-Chinese political rhetoric at a time when he desperately needs the Chinese votes – despite the fact that he was the chief “enabler” in promoting and encouraging UMNO-Malays to attack the Chinese. Neither was it about his boastful – and laughable – claim that he was the leader who was fair to all races in the country.

The best joke of the week was when PM Anwar, who is also Pakatan Harapan chairman, cried, whined, and bitched that rivals have ganged up against him because his Madani government is tough on corruption. He even has the cheek to claim that his administration’s uncompromising policy towards those who steal public funds or abuse their positions for personal gain had made certain quarters uneasy.

“That is why, as you can see now, all these parties are joining forces to bring me down. Why? Because they know we are strict. They know we safeguard everything,” – he lied through his teeth while speaking at the PMX Meet-and-Greet programme for the Senggarang state constituency in conjunction with the Johor state election on July 5 (Sunday).

“I have come to Johor dozens of times. Did I take any land? No. Did I take any projects? No. Did I take any shares? No. We must instil this principle in our elected representatives. If we want a prosperous state, we must uphold integrity,” – Mr Anwar proudly proclaimed. What he did not want people to know is that corruption continues to flourish under his administration.

Did the PM facilitate a royal pardon for ex-PM Najib Razak, who had stolen billions in the infamous 1MDB scandal? Yes. Did he protect Azam Baki, former Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Chief Commissioner caught with his pants down in shareholding and corporate mafia scandals? Yes. Did Anwar quietly throw away UMNO president Zahid Hamidi’s 47 corruption charges? Yes.

Did Anwar Ibrahim work hand-in-glove with MACC to cover up Sabah Chief Minister Hajiji Noor’s corruption scandal despite a series of exposé videos released by a whistleblower? Yes. Did the MACC seize over RM100 million in cash stashed in a “safe house” linked to  aides of former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, but suspiciously no charges have been made? Yes.

Did PM Anwar fiercely defend his trusted aide, Shamsul Iskandar, despite being exposed for issuing a letter of support for six contractors involved in a hospital project? Yes. Did Anwar’s Cabinet award Bestinet with an “extension” in early 2024 after lobbying, despite an earlier promise to terminate the monopoly contract for the company known for exploiting migrant workers? Yes.

Did the Madani government sweep under the carpet the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) scandal involving RM9.14 billion contract to build six warships for the Royal Malaysian Navy? Yes. Did the MACC close both eyes on Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s former aide-turned-crony, Farhash Wafa Salvador, in corruption and corporate mafia scandals? Yes.

So, what type of fighting corruption con artist is Anwar Ibrahim trying to lie? Opposition Perikatan Nasional does not need to join forces with Barisan Nasional to topple Mr Anwar because the Prime Minister has done an excellent job in killing his own Pakatan Harapan coalition by marginalizing the minorities, protecting corrupt cronies, freeing UMNO crooks, introducing more taxes, and whatnot.

More importantly, to claim that rivals have ganged up to overthrow him means PAS (Parti Islam Se-Malaysia or Malaysian Islamic Party) and UMNO (United Malays National Organization) must be super corrupted. The burning question is why the MACC has yet to arrest and charge those in PAS or UMNO whom he suggested were dirty, thus wanted to bring him down?

In the same breath, Anwar was contradicting himself when on one hand, he called on Johor voters to give Pakatan Harapan (PH) the opportunity to govern the state to ensure “clean governance”, yet on the other hand, PH Johor had not raised any criticism about corruption in the state since November 2022. He has to make up his mind whether the Johor government was corrupted or not.

Exactly why the Premier is still begging when he is currently Malaysia’s “most popular” political leader, holding a 52% approval rating according to a nationwide poll released by the independent pollster Merdeka Center, is beyond comprehension. He should have faith in the Democratic Action Party (DAP) under the leadership of Anthony Loke to deliver 95% of Chinese votes for PH.

Amusingly, he made a spectacular tactical blunder – arrogantly bragged that whatever the outcome of the Johor state election, he would remain as Prime Minister. If that is the case, then it doesn’t matter whether the disillusioned and disgruntled Pakatan Harapan voters stay at home or cast their ballots for rivals to teach Anwar Ibrahim and his gang a lesson, no?

Equally hilarious was the absence of the usual screaming of “Reformasi” by the PKR president. Unable to sell its traditional gimmick to hoax gullible voters, the fake reformist has resorted to selling anti-corruption, moderate politics, a fair and clean government, and all types of promises meant to be broken once the election is over.

However, the common issues that unite the voters of Johor – regardless of ethnicity – are the high cost of living, high property prices and lack of affordable housing, traffic congestion, lack of good job opportunities, and water crisis driven by surging demand from a booming data center industry, frequent river pollution, and droughts. Mr Anwar is selling the wrong product to the voters.

But if Umno thinks the showing is because it wants a pardon/house arrest for former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, they are sadly mistaken - evidence is that line of reasoning has no basis given Umno’s declining fortunes over this previously.

Veteran 1972 : The real spoiler is not BERSAMA, it is Anwar Ibrahim with the extremist views of the Muslim Brotherhood which has been banned in a majority of the Middle East. 

Yes PMX wants to Molly Coddle them. The writing is on the wall. He is too brainwashed along with his cohorts. Everyone better wake up, name me one Islamic country that has been successful and tolerant?

Mr Forked Tongue Of The DAP

Although he did not explicitly name the party or individuals, he claimed the Negeri Sembilan coalition government leadership should have come together to weather a crisis.

However, he said some quarters chose to stab them in the back and attempted to topple the state government led by PKR’s Aminuddin Harun.

Veteran 1972 : Ah Loke ah, what about you betraying all your loyal supporters? Pig farms, matriculation, UEC, not bothering to talk about the heights of temples and churches, whilst your allies and Madani are chipping away at our rights? Stand up for us or just plain step down!

BlueShark1548 : PKR failed because DAP compromised its principles and allowed Anwar to pander to Malays who did not and will not support him. DAP was Anwar's silent collaborator. Watch whether Anwar dares to stand in a Malay majority constituency in GE16.He would not even dare stand in Putrajaya, the seat where many civil servants lived.

Anon2000 : Traitors? Loke of DAP calling others traitors? The entire DAP are traitors. Fooled us all (with that chameleon) to vote for you in the last elections. And you call others traitors???

Kingsman : Anthony Loke you are the cost of the downfall in the DAP