Danger of normalizing ‘pariah’
UPDATE: Connected story, ‘Baby’s throat slashed, parents, siblings slaughtered‘ ooo.-O-.ooo ooo.-O-.ooo ooo.-O-.ooo ooo.-O-.ooo CiFwatch, which monitors the psychosis of The Guardian (a British paper that is determinedly anti-Israel), has a write-up which is useful in helping to elucidate the Interlok situation. In ‘Harriet Sherwood and the normalization of anti-Israel bigotry‘, CiFwatch blogger Adam Levick explains how he … Continue reading
It Wasn’t Me
By Crankster In November 2000, an up and coming American artiste called Shaggy, released a song that became a number one hit in both the US and the UK. Since then, I have observed that “It Wasn’t Me” has become the most popular refrain of politicians and other scoundrels worldwide upon being caught red-handed. Our … Continue reading
Najib storm in X’mas teacup: Non-Malays over-reacting
By Sharifuddin A. Latiff The PM’s special officer who made the ‘no-crucifix request’ expressed her “heartfelt regret” in a statement yesterday. Datuk Hardev Kaur clarified that she had merely “requested” for a rostrum to be free from any Christian symbol at the Dec 25 Christmas party where Najib was guest-of-honour. Hardev is a former NST … Continue reading
Icker-Tee’s penis envy
Pix: Visualisation map of Guardian’s news coverage. — credit Benjamin D. Hennig (University of Sheffield) The map above visualizes in graphic form the number of news items carried by British paper The Guardian according to country geography. If you’ll compare the map (of how often any particular country has been mentioned in the paper’s major … Continue reading
Siti Hasmah, mother of all hypocrisies
Pix: Don’t you just luurrve the Tun’s expression? What does he really think of his son? The headline is literal, not figurative. Tun Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali is the mother of Mukhriz. Last year, Hartal did a series called ‘Hypocrisy First’. This year kicks off with a whopper that sure does beat all. From Malaysian … Continue reading
DAP may face street protests in Pg by own members
Corruption allegations (click on banner above for the story) The Penang deputy chief minister P. Ramasamy now wants to sue Free Malaysia Today. But read FMT’s side of the story here. Just a little earlier, LGE wanted to sue Utusan. There are several other pieces of published articles over which DAP leaders have announced they … Continue reading
‘I don’t hate Mahathir, I just despise him’
A reader using the pseudonym ‘2nd class’ responded to our Saturday posting Rebutting Mahathir, the ‘proud to be anti-Semitic’ hypocrite by saying “Your anti-Mahathir opinion is clearly based on your hatred towards him and not based on fact.” 2nd class also added: “Mahathir may have done injustice to some Malaysian but this is not the reason … Continue reading
Did Mahathir ask the Saatchi family if they were Zionists before hiring them?
Pix: Suicide bombing in Neveh Sha’anan, close to the site of Tel Aviv’s old bus station, (Source: Yahoo! News, 2006.) Yesterday our blog carried a write-up by Maz – a regular Hartal reader and commentator on Rebutting Mahathir, the ‘proud to be anti-Semitic’ hypocrite. Here Maz explains why it is necessary to call Mahathir’s bluff … Continue reading
Rebutting Mahathir, the ‘proud to be anti-Semitic’ hypocrite
Mahathir Mohamad in his Che Det blog has responded to his ranking at one of the Top 3 anti-Semitics in the world (see our previous posting). Below our reader Maz responds to Mahathir’s 18-point posting [Mahathir in blue, Maz in black print]. By Maz 1. Mahathir: The Simon Wiesenthal Centre (Jewish) has published a list … Continue reading
Top 10 haram words
FMT reported: “Former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been named as one of the top 10 anti-semitic people for 2010 by the the Simon Weisenthal Centre. However, the 84-year-old statesman refuted the charge, saying he was not against the Arabs and other semitic people, or for that matter Jews who rejected Zionism.” We hope that … Continue reading
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