AMK lancarkan kempen Bebas Anwar 901

KUALA LUMPUR 16 Dis: Angkatan Muda KEADILAN (AMK), menggerakkan kempen besar-besaran dalam usaha untuk membebaskan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dari tuduhan fitnah II.
Menurut Ketua AMK, Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin, kempen dinamakan #BebasAnwar901  itu dimulakan secara maya di laman ‘Twitter’  bagi menghimpunkan seramai mungkin sokongan untuk menuntut pembebasan terhadap Anwar.
Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur menetapkan keputusan terhadap Anwar pada 9 Januari depan.
“Kita ingin mengumpulkan seramai yang mungkin mereka yang membantah usaha kerajaan ingin memenjarakan Anwar berkenaan dengan kes tersebut, yang mana kita lihat segala percaturan untuk memasukan beliau ke dalam penjara sudah dirancang dari awal lagi.
“Melalui kempen ini saya pasti rakyat akan datang memberi sokongan kepada Anwar pada hari keputusan itu nanti.

Muslims and Jews unite over Dutch plans on animal slaughter

Jerusalem Post

THE HAGUE, Dec 15: Hundreds of Jews and Muslims pleaded with Dutch senators in Amsterdam this week to reject legislation banning ritual slaughter. UNITED BY FOOD ... Islam and Judaism have similar dietary laws The Dutch Senate is scheduled to vote on the issue next week. One senior Dutch rabbi told The Jerusalem Post that a ban would apply “double standards that target minorities.” The parliament voted in June to effectively ban Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter. For this to become a law, however, the Senate must ratify the bill introduced by the Party for Animals. The bill forbids any slaughter that isn’t preceded by stunning, calling it inhumane. Both Islamic and Jewish law requires that animals be conscious before slaughter.

Hasan Ali: I will fight UMNO-BN to the end

Sep 19: PAS Central Committee member and Selangor Exco Dr Hasan Ali (pic) has dismissed rumours that he would join UMNO as lies. "In my heart, there is only the struggle for Islam (PAS), not UMNO. "Why should I do that (join UMNO) when UMNO is terminally ill, when its machinery and armada are sinking?" asked Hasan. He was responding to claims by UMNO-leaning blogs that he would soon leave the Islamic party to join UMNO. He also strongly denied a claim that he had met UMNO vice president Hishammuddin Hussein to facilitate his entry into UMNO.

Mustafa: PAS duo 'trapped' in UMNO game

Dec 15: PAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali said the party's defeated former deputy president Nasharudin Mat Isa and Selangor state exco Hasan Ali (pics, right) were being used by UMNO to undermine the Islamic party. Commenting on statements by the duo as published in UMNO mouthpiece Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian, the veteran PAS leader said both could be unwittingly used as pawns by UMNO. "Whether they realise it or not, they are being trapped in the agenda of PAS's political enemy," Mustafa told Harakahdaily during an interview, in what is believed to be the first public reaction by a party leader to recent remarks by the duo agreeing to calls by UMNO leaders for unity with PAS.

'Time for UMNO to stop lies against Penang CM'

Dec 15: Penang PAS said it was time that UMNO and Barisan Nasional stopped its campaign against chief minister Lim Guan Eng with accusations of him being anti-Malay and anti-Islam.

Its information chief Bukhori Ghazali said yesterday's court victory by Lim in his libel suit against right-wing Malay daily Utusan Malaysia was further proof that the accusations were lies.

"The accusations against Lim Guan Eng are all lies. The court has decided (that he is not anti-Islam and anti-Malay)," said Bukhori.

The Penang High Court ordered Utusan Malaysia to pay RM200,000 in damages and RM25,000 in costs to Lim for making defamatory statements suggesting that Lim and the DAP were foreign tools to undermine Islam.

DAP 'fire' put out by editor's apology

Dec 15: In Malaysian politics, all it takes to light the fire is a spark in the form of misreporting. This was the case with the recent spat between Penang deputy chief minister P Ramasamy and DAP chairman Karpal Singh. The dispute was over Ramasamy's use of the word 'godfather' widely believed to be targeted at Karpal. But following Tamil daily Makkal Osai’s apology for misquoting Ramasamy, the war of words looks set to end. In a statement today, a three-panel team comprised of DAP Lim Kit Siang, secretary general Lim Guan Eng and life-time advisor Chen Man Hin came to a decision that party leaders must move on and resolve their dispute within the party channel.

Professor resigns after Muslim students protest his credibility

Inside Higher Ed

TEXAS, Dec 15: Paul Derengowski had been teaching his world religions class as an adjunct at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas for three years without incident. All that changed in November, when two Muslim students decided to challenge the way he taught the Islam section of the course. The students disrupted his class and then walked out Nov. 8. Derengowski (pic), an adjunct professor, filed a report with campus police and later met with college administrators to suggest that the college suspend them with a failing grade as punishment for the disruption, which he said involved repeated in-your-face interruptions that scared the other students in the class. When administrators did not act on his recommendation, he resigned.