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| Malaysian First Lady Contradicts her Warlike Husband |
| 2003-10-19 |
| Islamic countries should reduce their military budgets and instead massively invest in education, particularly science and technology, to help solve problems besetting Muslims, Malaysia’s First Lady, Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamed Ali, said Friday. In making the call, the wife of the Malaysian Prime Minister said the Islamic world should see how it could collectively use its wealth to stem the tide of economic inequity and lack of social justice among the vast majority of the Ummah. "Socialism now, Socialism ever, Socialism forever." Joking aside, Ms. Mohamed doesn’t realize you need Capitalism, not government-run education, to reap the fruits of technology. Dr Siti Hasmah said the survival of the OIC member states depended on whether they were able to imagine dramatically different ways of doing things, including being more in tune with radical changes brought about by Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Islamic countries will deal with ICT all right... by censoring it. On another note, Dr Siti Hasmah urged Islamic countries to reflect deeply to identify the root causes of the problems besetting the community. "We must insist that neither the rule of law nor civil and human rights be sacrificed at the altar of misguided concepts of security and religious beliefs," she said. She said OIC countries must end conflicts, violence and terrorism. A muslim pacifist. Yeah! Dr Siti Hasmah said Muslims were so powerless that they had to resort to suicide bombings and the enemy would retaliate with sophisticated firepower. "What do we achieve with violence? Bombs and missiles cannot be the solution because the terror is in human hearts. This is just too funny. I wonder how dinner went last night at the Mohamed residence. |
| Posted by:Sorge |
| #4 Mr. Crawford; where Shari'a reigns, there is indeed no rule of law, but rule of unreason. |
| Posted by: Sorge 2003-10-19 1:53:19 PM |
| #3 Yeah it's hard to keep it straight about when you should whack your mother, wife, sister, or just beat 'em up, or go gang-rape the daughter, wife, sister, mother of whomever offended you. So many rules. So many options. So many wymyns. So little time. Y'know, mebbe he'll ask his Imam for a fatwa to clarify everything. They can't have a Muslim |
| Posted by: .com 2003-10-19 1:01:49 PM |
| #2 Wonder if this calls for an"Honor Murder"or will a beating be sufficient? |
| Posted by: Raptor 2003-10-19 11:47:54 AM |
| #1 When a Muslim calls for the rule of law, they're probably talking about sharia. Not exactly what the civilized world considers the rule of law. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-10-19 11:02:25 AM |