Pope Francis with Italy's President Sergio Mattarella in 2022. Credit: Quirinale via Wikimedia Commons.

With just a few words, Pope Francis has plunged relations between Jews and Catholics into their worst crisis for decades and undone years of delicate rapprochement. In a new book published for the Catholic Church’s jubilee year, he wrote: “According to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide. We should investigate carefully to determine whether it fits into the technical definition formulated by jurists and international bodies.”

This is far from the first time the pope has attacked Israel over the war against Hamas and Hezbollah. In September, he berated Israel for an immoral lack of proportion. “Defense must always be proportionate to the attack,” he said. “When there is something disproportionate, one shows a tendency to dominate which goes beyond what is moral.”

These remarks are deeply troubling. They are the accusations routinely made by the enemies of Israel in the West, and they are shameful on many levels. The “genocide” claim is as ludicrous as it is monstrous. Genocide is the intentional annihilation of a people. Yet according to the CIA’s World Factbook, the population of the Gaza Strip has grown by 2.02 percent since the Oct. 7 pogrom and the war that has followed.

Far from intending to wipe out the residents of Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces have been shunting them around the Strip in order to get them out of harm’s way as the IDF pounded Hamas. The pope is also wrong about proportionality in warfare. Defensive military action must be proportionate not to any one attack but to the threat posed by the enemy. The threat against Israel is the stated intention to eradicate it from the face of the earth. What does the pope believe is the proportionate response to that?

If he really is arguing that the response should be identical in scope and nature to the attack, is he therefore proposing that Israel should set out to murder, rape and mutilate 1,200 Gazans as they did to the Israelis on Oct. 7? Or fire tens of thousands of rockets and drones at civilians in Gaza and Lebanon with the intention of murdering them, as Hamas and Hezbollah have done to Israeli civilians for years?

Israel’s military actions are undertaken solely in defense against the genocidal onslaught intended to wipe out Israel and the Jews that’s proclaimed repeatedly by Hamas, Hezbollah and their Iranian puppeteers. To suggest that such self-defense is genocide is cynical linguistic inversion and moral bankruptcy of the highest order.

That’s disturbing enough when it’s articulated across the West. But for the head of the Catholic Church to show himself to be so morally twisted is shocking. Pope Francis knows perfectly well that the International Court of Justice is currently considering a claim of genocide brought against Israel by South Africa. That utterly spurious claim is based upon the “experts” to whom the pope refers.

But those aren’t real experts but venomous propagandists, who peddle lies and distortions to delegitimize and destroy Israel in the court of international public opinion. So why has the pope lent his support to this vile discourse? One obvious answer is that he comes from a background of “liberation theology,” which has characterized churches in the developing world for more than half a century.

This thinking politicized religion, casting the church as fighting for the oppressed and dispossessed of the world. But it defined this according to the Marxist division between the powerful and the powerless, which cast the West as the source of oppression and racism, and the developing world as its blameless victims.

This thinking—in the view of all who subscribed to it—turned Israel into an oppressor. In addition, it fused support for the Palestinian Arabs with a return to the ancient Christian heresy of supersessionism. This was the doctrine that by denying the divinity of Jesus the Jews forfeited God’s love, so that all the promises God made to the Jews, including the land of Israel, were forfeit and transferred instead to the Christians.

Under the influence of Palestinian Christian liberation theology, the updated version held that the Palestinians were now the rightful inheritors of the land and even embodied the suffering Jesus, being crucified all over again by the Jews.

This vicious lie, given the imprimatur of religious doctrine, has made huge inroads in liberal Protestant churches, which have replaced religious belief with social activism. Despite the theological differences between Catholics and Protestants, Pope Francis adheres to that as well, deepened by the trend in Catholic thinking after World War II that embraced pacifism and rejected almost any justification for war.

This has led the pope to use language that makes Jews shudder. When he suggests that the Jews may be guilty of genocide, it’s hard not to hear echoes of his predecessors’ accusation that the Jews were guilty of deicide—the claim that lay behind centuries of Jewish slaughter. This echo is no accident.

On the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, the pope used a vicious citation from the Gospels to denounce the evils of war. This was the accusation that the Jews “are from [their] father, the devil,” which for centuries fueled Christian attacks on Jews. In other words, his attack on Israel is far more than boilerplate liberal hostility to the existence of the Jewish state. It regurgitates the ancient Christian theological hatred of the Jews and the desire to obliterate them.

This pushes the Vatican backwards by several decades. Unlike Protestant churches, the Catholics have made significant attempts from the 1960s onwards to retract their ancient libel against the Jews and express contrition for what the church had done to the Jewish people. Particularly neuralgic had been the behavior of Pope Pius XII, who was accused of having failed to speak out publicly against the Nazis and thus made the church an accomplice to the Holocaust.

Now Pope Francis has undone all of that progress. Yet he has also said good things about Israel and the Jews. In Tablet magazine, Adam Gregerman points out that the pope has celebrated the change in Catholic thinking about Judaism that meant “enemies and strangers have become friends and brothers”; expressed sadness over Catholics’ past misdeeds against Jews; said “the State of Israel has every right to exist in safety and prosperity”; and insisted that “to attack Jews is antisemitism, but an outright attack on the State of Israel is also antisemitism.”

Responding to a letter from Jewish scholars written in November 2023 expressing deep concern over “the worst wave of antisemitism since 1945,” he said the Oct. 7 atrocities reminded him that the promise “never again” remained relevant, and must be taught and affirmed anew. So what’s the explanation for the apparent contradiction?

The answer is surely that the pope is driven entirely by his identification with suffering victims—and since all wars inevitably create victims, he always opposes war. Four days after the Oct. 7 pogrom, he said: “No war is worth the tears of a mother who has seen her child mutilated or killed; no war is worth the loss of the life of even one human being.”

He is a consequentialist. Seeing only the awful consequences of war, the cause becomes irrelevant. War to stop a genocide thus becomes as bad as genocide. That amoral thinking leads him effectively to deny any justification for a just war. He thus inevitably condemns innocent victims of aggression—in this case, the Israelis—to unlimited slaughter, torture and suffering, and ultimately the State of Israel itself to existential destruction.

Believing that war is itself a crime against humanity, he excuses, sanitizes and implicitly encourages actual crimes against humanity while anathematizing the defense against them.

Taliban beating woman in public

Steven Ong : A trip to Israel lead by Education Minister and some heads from the our education ministry would be an eye opener and fruitful for them. Visit the schools that have Arab Muslims and Jewish children studying together and see what we can learn from them.

Israel would be most happy to welcome Fadhlina and entourage if she had request to visit Israel. There are almost two million Arab Muslims living and working in Israel. Many Malaysians do not know this and the antisemitism in Malaysia only make it worst.

Would the madani government ban Malaysians from visiting Israel if they knew about it. The Madani government banned Israeli ships from docking in Malaysia. Heard that Malaysian ships docked in Israel in the past. Would they also ban Malaysians from visiting Israel?

YellowKucing7926 : Can’t help but need to ask this: “Is Fadhlina fit to be the education minister?”

Vent : Lim Guan Eng we have your back on this. Do you expect those usual suspects of media outlets to say anything less?

MerdekaMerdekaMerdeka : LGE, you can’t let this one slide. The clueless EM Fadhlina must reveal on WHO’s order was the invite to those Taliban extremists extended?

Besides her bullsh*t reasoning, what was the actual purpose of dragging in these stray cats from Talibanistan? Lim Lip Eng, how about a barrage from you? They spend taxpayers money like it’s their grandfathers!

Only truth : We are with Lim Guan Eng Disgraceful of Fadhlina to allow in people who do not respect women They definitely would have ridiculed Fadhlina privately cause they just hate women in position Fadhlina you are wrong

OrangePanther1466 : Nothing to do about the religion but the regime's policy of denying women the right to education. That's barbaric and Malaysia cannot be seen as a party endorsing the policy by hosting these misogynistic men.

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PowerRanger : From day 1, I have said Fadhlina is not capable and incompetent to hold any ministry post. She is too narrow minded, insensitive and arrogant. Furthermore, she knows nothing about developing education in Malaysia. Look at what happens to our education system now will tell it all.

AyamKambingBack : So minister of education, did you also teach the Taliban on how to oppress the minorities by setting quota in university entrance selection, and to have unequal entrance qualifications?

Did you tell them that meritocracy is un-islamic, and the majority always need crutches from cradle to grave as a way of life? We believe the MM are master of these BS, and can export such expertise to like minded Taliban.

LimePanther5220: Fadhlina, you and PMX are sympathisers and supporters of the Taliban, otherwise it wouldn’t have been possible for them to visit this country. That support is blind, based solely on religion, without taking into account their atrocities and human rights records.

Knowing our country’s penchant to follow religious practices and way of life in the Middle East, we just hope that they are not schooling our country instead. By the way, would you and PMX host a delegation from Israel so that you can school them about war crimes? Even Israeli ships have been turned away.

apanama is back : Fadhlina, if you are concern about women's education in Afghanistan, you better be Afghanistan Education Minister first. Malaysia need better Education Minister who will focus on our education system. Bon voyage and don't come back.

PurpleCat9452 : The Taliban government is not considered legitimate due to its return to power through force and its human rights record, particularly regarding the treatment of women, freedom of expression, and minorities. Why are we wasting time and resources on them? Use your own personal resources to help whoever you like, but not public office resources!!

DC is about to experience something entirely new, something absolutely unprecedented in its experience. They think the barbarians are coming. And perhaps they are. But not the kinds of barbarians they suspect. Not this time.

The simple fact is that there exists a very small group of incredibly high-function, insanely productive people. It’s the dirty secret of the world. This tiny tribe conceives, invents, and builds basically everything novel. All of it. They are not normal people. They are the 0.1%.

Unless you have worked with them, around them, or been a part of what they do, you simply lack a reference for what they are like. It’s essentially inconceivable how much such people can get done when they set their minds to it, how many rules they will disprove, break, or ignore, and how many paradigms they will upend.

DC has never seen a mob of high-function autist builders and fin warriors coalesce before. They have no fricking idea what’s coming. They cannot possibly know. But I do.

I know A LOT of these people. This is what most of my friends are like. They learn for a living. They pull systems apart, see them as functional wholes, and work 16-hour days reading arcane 1,000-page descriptions until they understand. Then they pull the underwear of whoever thought they understood this material up over their heads in an atomic wedgie and take over a space. 

It’s just what you do if you’re a person like that. It’s compulsion. It’s like breathing. These are 3 and 4 and 5 standard deviation people who have focus and talent in quantities they do not even have maps of in Washington. I keep hearing about people I know a little getting tapped for transition teams and I’m like “Ooooooh, that guy can read 100 CDS prospectuses in a weekend and remember it all,” or “Yeah, that guy thinks in algorithms and sleeps once a month. He could code when he was 6.”

“Only an insider can tackle the swamp” is dead wrong. It takes someone radically different to make a radical difference. And I am giddy realizing that they are coming. It does not matter that they do not know the terrain yet. They will. They have 3 months to learn. That’s more than enough.

Watch. Moving into novel systems or spaces and becoming better at it than the people currently there is what these people do. It’s ALL they do. It’s who and what they are.

It does not matter if it’s the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the DMV, or NASA. Same game, same result. every time.

The “insiders” are so screwed. DC has no one like this. They have never even met people like this because people like this avoid government like it is a bag of plague rats. Because it is.

But now they are interested and looking to play exterminator because the state strayed too far into our world and so now we are coming for theirs. And wait until you see what the world’s best builders can tear down. It’s going to be glorious.

These are the same people who in 10 weeks using just sparse public data and Twitter pulled the pants down on the whole edifice of public health and revealed them as fakes, phonies, and charlatans. Then they rewrote the discipline. It will never be the same. Most of us had never even looked at epidemiology before. In a few months the “amateurs” eclipsed the experts and left them for dead.

We did this as outsiders and without any maps and with the very opposite of help. Imagine what this gang can do with the keys to the kingdom.

Hello @anwaribrahim this is not going to make you popular amongst the ppl u want 2 impress. This will make ur ranking go lower amongst the people who actually voted for you. Why do u have to go OTT eh? We have enough problems of our own in Malaysia. 🙄https://t.co/lvJ3isSorr

— Siti Kasim (@sitikasim) August 1, 2024

PMX with a very dead Palestinian

In a statement, the Movement for Change Sarawak (MOCS) leader questioned the investigation against him and stressed that it was within his right to disagree with the prime minister.

“I wish to categorically state here that I have not done anything wrong nor have I broken any law in my recent post on Facebook, other than to state my disagreement with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on his purported intention to call for the sacking of Israel from the United Nations.

“Perhaps, it is necessary for me to remind our politicians that freedom of speech, as enshrined in many democratic constitutions, protects the right of individuals to express their opinions, even when those opinions disagree with or criticise political leaders, including the prime minister or his government’s policies,” he said.

Adding further, Siah called the probe against him an abuse of public institutions by “political parasites and leeches” to silence government dissenters.

“Public institutions like the police are tasked with upholding the law impartially and protecting the rights of all citizens, including those who dissent or criticise the government.

“When they are misused for political purposes such as targeting activists, journalists, or opposition figures, it represents an abuse of power and a violation of civil liberties,” he said.Malaysiakini has reached out to Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain for comments.

Vijay47 : Well done, Francis Paul Siah, your rebuttal statement is even better than the original Facebook comment!

LoveMyCountry : I am so amused whenever PMX talks so much to support Palestinians and run down Israel. Thinks his statements of Palestinians or Israel matters. So insignificant in the circle of world leaders.

AmradS : PMX from hero to Zero

Falcon : Perhaps it is timely for the Madani government to state publicly that any criticism against current Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is a crime. Please state clearly under which statutory provision this is stated.

And please notify through advisories to all embassy and consulates so that we are all on the same page going forward. No need for insiders and apple polishers to waste their time continuing making frivolous and orchestrated reports?

Doubtful : These clowns 🤡 should know that PMX's political stand and policy on Gaza, Hamas and Israel is not the law of this country... Ordinary citizens have the right to disagree with his political stand and policy..

Where's the law passed by Parliament that says you cannot disagree with PMX? 🤔 ... Is it now the PH Govt policy that the police can be used (or, misused) to investigate an ordinary citizen's disagreement with PMX? 🤔...

Cogito Ergo Sum : Going after Francis Siah is a big mistake. He articulates the views of many Sarawakians and even Peninsular citizens and has a large following. He is veteran journalist. Madani, you now are targeting the messengers for bringing you the bad news.

Instead of studying and digesting the messages, you are striking down the messengers doing their jobs. When you were DPM, you had the reputation of removing those who did not agree with your politics or shared the same creed and colour as you. After your stints in prison, you seemed to have changed superficially. But now, it’s quite obvious, you are the same but older and nastier.

coolhand : Anwar and His protege Fadlina wanted to burnish their Islamic credentials

Sealthedeal : It is absolutely disgusting that the the education ministry hosted the Taliban. Are they crazy?

Positive_Thinking : What do you expect from those who are sick in the head! They’re advancing an evil regime and PMx is a danger to Malaysia.

Salvage Malaysia : Just something is very wrong with PKR side. And LGE, why has DAP become so useless now as Wakil Rakyat ever since coming back into this UG?

Maimun : This minister bayam, is so backward thinking in politics! Already screwing around with job, now she did this! Even the deputy didnt know! Money not enough, need to cut subsidies but can spend money hosting these idiots??? Bapak engkau punya duit kerajaan???

Dummies Dhimmi : We know that the majority in this country belief that the Taliban way is the correct one. Overtly they may not agree but taking the lead from our Hamas salesman, its not surprising. Ask Fadilah who learned what from who.

I listed a catalogue of unkept promises, including abolishing the PPPA (Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984) and the Sedition Act.

I said: “The only thing Anwar is consistent about is his oratorical skills. Of course, we welcome the death penalty amendment and anti-stalking legislation, which have been made to the Penal Code.

Instead, I noted that the seizure of the Swatch watches that had rainbow colours is a repetition of what the Umno government did with Bersih when yellow T-shirts were banned.

So, has anything changed in the past 365 days to warrant a review of the D-minus?

Cakap lain bikin lain : Lame duck Anwar can only make noise because the party firmly in the driver seat is umno and Anwar is somewhere is the boot.

Just a Malaysian : When theatrical and appeasing audiences are key strengths what do you expect. It's all salesmanship and showmanship. We are left with an empty vessel still beating loudly and now angrily. Angry because theatrical acts are not impressing on the audiences anymore. A country lacking great leadership will just drift amidst the sea of global turmoil.

Iceman : Like how syariah law amendments was nulified in Kelantan, more of such ancient laws will be deemed overlap and will be nulified in Malaysia. Next will be Perlis. Then we can finally have a non-Muslim PM from Sarawak to rule Malaysia

BrownSinga7958 : Ah, this explains why the Talibans are here to teach us about improving our education system.

November 7-8, 2024, marked a shocking development at the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) convention, as the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a New York-based Islamic group with documented ties to terrorism, was granted a prominent platform. Under the leadership of NJEA President Sean Spiller, a prominent Democrat currently running for Governor of New Jersey, ICNA was granted prime access to educators. From this position, they distributed free Qurans and “teacher guides” as part of their controversial dawah campaign, which has the stated goal of targeting 10 million non-Muslims for conversion, designed to indoctrinate public school educators into promoting Islam in classrooms under the pretense of inclusivity and cultural awareness.

With over 300 professional development seminars, workshops, and programs, the NJEA convention is the nation’s largest gathering of educators. Thousands of teachers attend every year to improve their craft and gain insights into the latest developments in education. But this year, instead of focusing on academic excellence, teachers encountered ICNA’s insidious agenda to normalize Sharia law, push false victimhood narratives, and pressure educators into turning classrooms into vehicles for Islamic indoctrination.

The ceremony, attended by the Netherlands' King Willem-Alexander and Israel's President Isaac Herzog, commemorated 100,000 Jews who like Anne, were transported by train from the Dutch capital to the camps during the Second World War.

Disgracefully, however, the museum's opening was marred by pro-Palestinian protesters screaming abuse on the pavement outside. Women in hijabs shouted anti-Semitic slogans as Left-wing agitators waved posters supporting the terror group Hamas's invasion of Israel six months earlier, on October 7, 2023.

A heartbreaking picture and video on line shows Rudie Cortissos, one of the few Amsterdam Jews to survive the Holocaust, at the museum for the ceremony as his family and great granddaughter face the full wrath of the mob baying for their blood. 

'Jews were deeply hurt that the demonstration was allowed by the Amsterdam authorities that day,' Robert Oudkerk, a leading light in the city's Jewish community and a former social democrat MP, said this week.

'There were 400 people at the museum opening and we were all shocked by the protest in front of the little girl. Some of the guests inside began crying. The Jews are now frightened in Amsterdam.

'They are asking themselves: 'Where can we go now? We are not safe here or anywhere in western Europe.',' he added.

'There are some Dutch Muslims, a group of maybe 10,000 in this country, who are a danger to us. They want Sharia law not Western law.'

Despite attending high-profile events like the Arab Muslim Summit in Riyadh, APEC Summit in Peru, and the G20 Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; his presence has largely been ignored, with no real support for his views from the global community. These trips seem more like an attempt to create an image of leadership glory, rather than actually making a difference.

His participation in these events often feels like he’s just filling a seat, without any meaningful influence on the discussions. For all the attention he gets in the media, he’s seen more as a token figure than a serious player on the world stage. At home, the Prime Minister is praised by a local media that presents him as a hero, but this image doesn’t match the reality of Malaysia’s struggles.

While he portrays himself as an advocate for Palestine and a global leader, Malaysia is facing serious issues. The country is burdened with RM1 trillion in debt, struggling with corruption, rising living costs, and stagnant wages. These issues create a sharp contrast between his international image and the everyday struggles of the people he leads.

His claims to have secured billions in investments during his trips abroad have not turned into any real results, leaving many to question whether these promises are nothing more than empty boasts. His focus on international matters like Palestine — while important — doesn’t seem to resonate with those who matter most, namely the Arab and Muslim nations.

His diplomatic visits often result in nothing more than polite exchanges with no real commitment to his cause. The truth is, no major Arab or Muslim country seems to care much about his stance, suggesting that his international role is more about gaining domestic political legitimacy, than building meaningful global alliances.

The Prime Minister’s rhetoric of global leadership and support for Palestine also rings hollow when compared to the challenges Malaysia faces at home. Instead of focusing on fixing the country’s pressing issues—such as corruption, debt, and economic stagnation—he spends more time trying to project an image of international importance.

His promises of investment during his diplomatic trips have so far failed to produce any real change for the country. These trips also seem less about benefiting Malaysia and more about boosting his own image abroad. The gap between the Prime Minister’s self-image as a global leader and the harsh reality of Malaysia’s economic and political troubles is glaring.

His focus on international issues has not translated into solutions for the problems Malaysians face daily. Instead of addressing the country’s pressing needs, he seems more interested in projecting a heroic image on the global stage. Until he shifts his attention back to the serious issues at home, his diplomatic travels will remain little more than empty gestures, doing little to help Malaysia’s struggles.

Malaysiakini : The veto power held by the P5 (Permanent Five) countries in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) should be more inclusive, said Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

“The current setting is grossly unfair. There needs to be representatives from Latin America and Africa,” he said, adding that reforms of the United Nations (UN) have been in discussion for over five decades.

Vijay47 : Anwar Ibrahim, you seem to have embarked on some strange mission to transform yourself from the pathetic to the ludicrous and on to the bizarre, a feat you have accomplished with great success.

Perhaps you should remind yourself that you are prime minister of Malaysia, a small south-east Asian country once famous for being world Badminton champions and now better known as the font of the 1MDB scandal.

We Malaysians are aware of you as we the ones saddled with you as our prime minister, but to the rest of the world, the question that comes to their mind when they encounter your name is “Anwar Ibrahim? What is that?”.

Don’t you think that it is about time you shed your delusions and instead focus on what you unfortunately are destined to be at least for the moment – Prime Minister of Malaysia? Earlier, you appeared obsessed with Hamas and Palestine, never failing to make sermons about them and rushing to the Middle East whether invited or not.

You seemed victim to this myth that without Anwar Ibrahim, the world would not exist. You even proudly crowed that at some god-forsaken conference in Peru, you were the only voice spouting about Palestine. You blithely forget that being a solitary spokesman reveals much about you and your inclinations.

So now your overwhelming concern is the UN Security Council and its membership. And what statesman-like philanthropy! You have started speaking about Africa and Latin America - truly, sir, you are a self-appointed man for all nations!

Stay home, Anwar Ibrahim, attend to the many curses and challenges the country faces. And in case you forgot also, one of the state governments may be on the verge of collapse. No, I don’t mean Gaza. It might be amusing to be tilting at windmills but no fame awaits you on that score – Don Quixote beat you to it. Years ago.

J Wick : Anwar, look into the mirror first before opening your gap! First, you condemned IDF in support of Hamas! Second, you scolded Superpower US for their continued support Isreal. Now, you want to lecture the five (5) permanent UNSC countries with nuclear weapons? Your dream to replace Guteres in UNSG?

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Murray Hunter : Since Donald Trump won the US presidency for a second time around, no time has been wasted in selecting a group of change agents to transform US administration.

Trump was elected with a well publicized agenda, which included securing US national borders which have caused many social issues with the inflow of illegal immigrants across the country, and fighting the increasing cost of living.

Trump has picked up on this mandate and selected very capable people. This process of going on with new announcements being made on a daily basis.

Trump after two assassination attempts is not hiding from the public, much to the concern of those near him. Trump is receiving heroic welcomes wherever he goes, something akin to a superstar.

Interestingly Trump is putting a major focus on trimming the size and wastage going on in government. The forthcoming Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE as Elon Musk likes to call it, aims to trim billions off the US government budget.

The plight of education in the US is not being ignored either. The Federal Department of Education will be disbanded and rebuilt from the ground.

There is a great realization that high quality education is needed to ‘Make America Great Again”.

Trump is also focused on destroying the censorship that the government-media-Big Tech deep state has created. Free speech is being revitalised. Trumpism believes there can be no democracy without free speech.

Trump is poised to be at the cutting edge of reform. This makes for a very exciting time in the US over the next four years.

Excitement verses bankruptcy

In November 2022, Anwar Ibrahim generated much excitement after his 24 year quest to become prime minister.

There was an expectation that Anwar would reform the Sedition Act, and bring true freedom of speech to Malaysia. There were also high hopes that Anwar would improve Malaysia’s economic circumstances, so the average family would be better off and be able to afford to live. Most of all, people hoped that Anwar would create a true sense of multiculturalism in Malaysia.

Two years into the Anwar administration, so many traditional supporters are disappointed. Even voters within the Malay heartlands have not warmed to Anwar.

Anwar is propped up by an agreement between the old elites, after a hung parliament. He is disappointing those who put him there for failing to live up to his side of the bargain.

Malaysia has less freedom of speech than ever before. Malaysia is more racially divided than ever before. A democracy is being turned into an Islamic Caliph, through a backdoor circumventing of the constitution.

Anwar’s economic plans are great for the elites. Anwar is reinforcing feudalism post haste. Those who point out these facts are persecuted with the draconian laws his party promised to abolish.

The sadist thing about the Madani regime is it is bankrupt of any new ideas. Even the minister of economy had to call in Toh Pah for help, and those who lost their seats in the general election have been given senior positions in the government. Meritocracy has been caste aside with political appointees, and the legal system is being weaponised and lenient for their friends. DNAAs and discounts on sentences are rewards for the elite.

Malaysians, particularly the traditional supporters of Anwar have been following US politics, especially the presidential race. The US election has been a fairytale to them, a story of what could be. They get excited about the hope Trump is giving people, only to wake up with a nightmare that exists in Malaysia today under Madani.

We are now two years into Anwar Ibrahim’s administration and its clearly evident his government is protecting and enhancing the interests of the “Deep State”. The people come second in the Madani regime.

The 3Rs are there to specially protect the royals and elite and persecute the Rakyat.

The censorship machine led by Salim Fateh heading the MCMC, is covering up corruption. Anyone who tries to expose corruption associated with the Madani government is either blocked or reported to the police, who will round up and intimidate these intrepid journalists. The Sedition Act is being strengthened, rather than repealed in the interests of maintaining power. Now the MCMC is trying to censor Malaysiakini.

You can’t have any semblance of democracy without a free media. Democracy is very quickly being taken away from Malaysians.

The Madani regime is made up of gangsters, grifters and cronies, all after their pound of flesh. The Madani regime has turned money laundering into a fine art. Many development projects are just thinly designed scams to enrich the elites.

Political Islamists are being given even more power, where unelected Muftis will be making laws, independent of the parliament.

My free e-book “Malaysia Deep Corruption Deep State” will inform you how this all works and fits into place. The MCMC and police are going full out to prevent me reaching you through the media. No doubt the link to this free e-book may not be available in Malaysia for long.

“Malaysia Deep Corruption Deep State” is made up of articles and information no one would publish as a book. That’s what I am trying to disseminate to you, what must be known.

You can down load the e-book here, and think deeply about what is really going on in Malaysia today.

I hope you find it informative.

- MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki

COMMENT | In reprimanding “errant cops”, Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain summoned up enough outrage to point to the “culture” that is destroying the integrity of the state security apparatus.

However, he stopped short of offering any kind of solutions which would go against the status quo.

I’m sure the top cop understands the politics behind this all. In the same way, the MACC head honcho clutches his pearls and wonders why people do not trust the MACC.

At the same time, we have to acknowledge that Malaysia is far safer (sometimes) than some advanced countries and much of this has to do with the state security apparatus.

Turnedback : Are you sure Anwar can fix it , he is more concerned and interested with Global stage related to Palestine. He has no time to fix it back, if he is willing to do it set up IPCMC as he promised.