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2/8/15 9:53 PM It's Not About A "White", "Foreign" Woman, Mr Prime Minister | Sarawak Report Page 1 of 6 http://www.sarawakreport.org/2015/08/its-not-about-a-white-foreign-woman-mr-prime-minister/ It's Not About A "White", "Foreign" Woman, Mr Prime Minister 1 Aug 2015 Blaming it on “ill-intentioned foreigners” – New DPM/HM Zahid Hamidi Having, sacked, replaced and arrested numerous of his own colleagues, citizens and public servants over the past few days the Prime Minister of Malaysia has elevated one foreign female blogger to the status of prime threat to the nation. How can this possibly be? And has this Prime Minister now shown his true colours by falling back on

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Having, sacked, replaced and arrested numerous of his own colleagues, citizens and public servants over the past few days the Prime Minister of Malaysia has elevated one foreign female blogger to the status of prime threat to the nation. How can this possibly be?

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It's Not About A "White", "Foreign" Woman, MrPrime Minister

1 Aug 2015

Blaming it on “ill-intentioned foreigners” – NewDPM/HM Zahid Hamidi

Having, sacked, replaced and arrested numerous of his own colleagues,citizens and public servants over the past few days the Prime Minister ofMalaysia has elevated one foreign female blogger to the status of primethreat to the nation.

How can this possibly be?

And has this Prime Minister now shown his true colours by falling back on

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race and religion in this manner – attacking a fellow born Malaysian, whowas also sent to be educated (like him) in the UK?

And while he chooses to attack this blog, purely for being “white” and“foreign” he has shown no such concerns about hiring at vast expense theUK “white” national Paul Stadlen and his “white” colleague, who were thewriters of the Government press release announcing Najib’s ‘reshuffle’ lastweek.

Stadlen originally served Najib as the head of the US/Israeli PR companyAPCO – so why this sudden racist hypocrisy against “white foreigners”?

All in the family – “new Cabinet” line up…

The issue at hand is the investigation of grand scale corruption and theft ofpublic money through the development fund 1MDB.

It is also the matter of related public money going into the account of thePrime Minister.

And, of course, the use of such monies to assist in illegally influencing theoutcome of a democratic election.

Sarawak Report has been one of numerous publications to investigate andreport on the issue, why does this make us the “enemy of the state” asopposed to those who are thieving from it?

Why are we to be accused of seeking to “topple a democratically electedgovernment” as opposed to those who illegally sought to cheat theelectorate of Malaysia by using foreign borrowed funds to sway theelection?

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Another dangerous woman? Arrested today forattempting to protest at corruption in KL

And is it not awfully demeaning to Malaysia to suggest that a few articles,written by one foreign white woman could seriously undermine the powerand authority of the state?

What has really undermined Malaysia and is now threatening to “topple”things is the canker of unrestrained corruption, which has eaten away atthis government’s moral authority from within.

This is a Prime Minister, who has today proclaimed “I value loyal peopleover smart people” – what a disgraceful admission from the man whoseduty it is to Malaysians to make sure their public servants are of the highestquality.

Najib has just cynically and openly admitted that his only real criteria is toappoint people who will worry protecting about him, not the rest ofMalaysia.

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That’s the way we do it? These protestors have beenso far denied their legal rights to representation

Is this why a blog that is more fearless because it is protected by the rules oflaw and press freedom in another country is considered so dangerous toNajib?

Is it because he cannot bully us like the many other politicians, journalists,senior civil servants and members of the public in his own country, many ofwhom he has started rounding up this week and throwing into cells, just forraising the issue of stolen billions from 1MDB?

Does it not show Najib himself up for his own insufferable weakness thathe, the head of a sovereign government with his hands on all the levers ofpower, should resort to no better excuse than making such ridiculousaccusations against one white woman, who lives thousands of miles awayand who has not a single shred of direct influence in his country?

How is it that Sarawak Report is a danger to the state of Malaysia – is it nothe himself that has produced that danger by mismanaging himself into thishumiliating situation?

Friday sermon – Najib’s ultimate abuse of power

Perhaps the most despicable abuse of power available to the Prime Ministerin the present corrupted state of affairs in Malaysia is the usurpation of thereligious duties of Islam, by the creation of a unit in the Prime Minister’sown office – the so-called Islamic Development Department, JAKIM

Intruding into the role of religion?

The sermons on whom all people rely for their moral guidance have been

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utterly politicised in Malaysia by JAKIM, which now supervises theseweekly messages to be read in every mosque in Malaysia.

By this means the secular Prime Minister has hijacked the role of theteachers and religious leaders of the leading faith in the country.

And this Friday he abused that power to direct all the mosques in thecountry to teach their trusting congregations to blame “foreign powers” forsupposedly “insulting” Malaysia and its leaders.

Any Muslim who raised the issue of 1MDB, JAKIM lectured, would bemaking themselves “victims of foreign powers”, reported Singapore’sChannel News Asia last night.

Sarawak Report sees such tactics as a direct attempt by the Prime Ministerto whip up unfounded religious feeling against innocent parties such asitself, purely because the Prime Minister has found himself unable tocounter us by any of the legal methods that would have been available tohim if our reports had been in any way untrue.

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Najib has sunk to talk of a ‘foreign plot’ to cover up his failure to answerquestions over 1MDB

Instead of suing us he has sermonised us and we believe such deeplyirresponsible tactics have placed Sarawak Report in personal danger frompeople, who have been cynically and deliberately mislead.

Islam rightfully denounces theft, deceit and perversions of justice and itdoes not take a “white foreign” woman to put such perpetrators in hot waterin terms of morality and the law in Malaysia.

These are the issues being examined by the forces of law and order today inMalaysia.

The fact that Najib seems forced to respond by arresting, sacking andreplacing everyone, who has been looking into these matters as part of theirpublic duties cannot be laid at the door of Sarawak Report.