When Muhyiddin was once a crook

Khalid Ibrahim is God’s gift to Malaysia, said Tony Pua. Tony also swore that all the allegations against Khalid are false. Then they got rid of the Selangor MB. Muhyiddin Yassin is the worst Education Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in history, said the opposition. He is dishonest and a racist. And now he is going to lead the opposition to victory with Mahathir as the new Opposition Leader.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Do you remember what DAP’s Tony Pua said about Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim? If not then you can view the video below.

Yes, Khalid is the best Selangor Menteri Besar in history, God’s gift to Malaysia, extremely honest, incredibly hard working, second to Prophet Muhammad himself, plus more. Then they kicked Khalid out.

Muhyiddin Yassin is the worse Education Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in history, a crook, corrupt, a racist, plus much more. And now he is going to head the new political party that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is going to form, and which is going to lead the new opposition coalition in the next general election.

And we still have morons who ask me why I no longer support Pakatan. I support PAS, since the 1970s till now — dulu, kini dan selama-lamanya. I just do not support the racist and anti-Islam DAP-led Pakatan Harapan. And if you read what they said then, and what they say now, only morons like you will still support them.

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‘Muhyiddin worst education minister ever’

(Free Malaysia Today, 16 Jan 2013) – DAP today slammed Muhyiddin Yassin for keeping mum over the recent Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011, in which Malaysian students suffered the biggest drop in test scores among all countries for Maths and Science between 1999 and 2011.

In a joint statement today, DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua and DAP election strategist in KL Ong Kian Ming accused the Education Minister of purposely keeping mum on the issue — “as if it will blow away just as long as he does not comment on it”.

“If there ever was a yardstick of a non-physical national disaster, this is it. At least two generations of young Malaysians will fail to achieve their potential as a result of rapidly declining education standards,” Pua and Ong said today in a press statement.

In the results released a month ago Malaysia’s ranking in Math fell from 10th in 2003 to 26th in 2011 while its ranking in Science fell by an ever greater margin, from 20th in 2003 to 32nd in 2011.

“The number of students who scored “Below Low” for Mathematics increased from only seven per cent in 1999 to an incredible 35 per cent in 2011. For Science, the percentage rocketed up from 13 to 38,” they said.

“If the students who scored “Low” were taken into consideration, 64 and 66 per cent of Malaysian students scored “Low” and “Below Low” in Mathematics and Science respectively,” they added.

Pua and Ong said it was ironic that Muhyiddin had recently flown on Jan 17 to the United States to receive and honorary doctorate from the United States Sports Academy for his ‘Satu Murid, Satu Sukan’ initiative, aimed to ‘enhance physical education to help in the building of a nation’.

“While Tan Sri Muyhiddin is being ‘honoured’ with a doctorate for this supposed ‘achievements’ in developing sports in schools, our students continue to be ‘dishonoured’ by a Minister of Education who has failed them miserably in the academic arena,” they said.

They claimed Muhyiddin’s only achievements to date have been the controversial decision to enforce history as a compulsory examination subject for SPM and to scrap the national examinations at UPSR and PMR levels.

“The preliminary education blueprint which has been launched to date fails to aggressively address the drastic decline in our standards,” they accused.

“Neither of these will serve to improve the standards of education in Malaysia, while it may arguably make our students worse off than their current deteriorating predicament.”

The two DAP leaders urged Muhyiddin to immediately recognise what they termed as “complete failing of our national education system” and to put a halt to the decline of the country’s education system.

“His shattering silence on the disastrous TIMSS 2011 results for Malaysian students will soon earn him the ignominy of becoming the worst Education Minister ever,” they said.

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Najib-Muhyiddin victory proves Umno lacks talent, Pakatan says

(Malay Mail Online, 22 Sep 2013) – The unopposed contests of Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin in Umno’s top two posts despite Barisan Nasional’s (BN) disastrous Election 2013 results, shows the party’s lack of credible leaders, Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders said today.

PKR vice-president N. Surendran pointed out that under Najib’s leadership, BN had recorded its worst-ever electoral performance in the recent May 5 polls, where it failed to win the coveted two-thirds parliamentary majority and lost the popular vote for the first time since 1969, when it was the Alliance then.

“That despite his poor showing, Najib is re-elected is a sign of Umno’s bankruptcy as a political force,” Surendran told The Malay Mail Online today.

“They did worse in this election and are steadily heading towards GE defeat. But Umno is desperate; they have no one better and can’t afford the massive blood-letting of a presidential contest,” added the Padang Serai MP.

Najib and Muhyiddin returned unopposed as Umno’s president and deputy president yesterday in the party elections.

Malaysia’s prime minister and deputy prime minister are typically the top two leaders in BN’s mainstay party.

PAS central committee member Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad said today that the absence of a challenge against the top two posts in Umno spelled doom for the dominant Malay party.

“Najib failed on both passing marks on the two-thirds majority and winning back Selangor,” Dzulkefly told The Malay Mail Online.

“Despite all those, there’s none in the party that is willing enough to come out and give a strong reprimand over his failures…The challenge is meant to convey a very strong message that you are not indispensable and you must be accountable for your failures,” he added.

Dzulkefly also stressed that although Umno had increased its federal seat tally from 79 to 88 in the 13th general election, BN’s performance as a whole needed to be taken into account.

“They can’t go round bragging they won nine more seats. The question is, at what price? You have to put that in perspective,” said the PAS research centre director.

“The effect of killing your comrades, your partners…there’s only Umno left in BN,” added Dzulkefly.

MCA had suffered a crushing defeat in Election 2013 by winning just seven federal and 11 state seats, leading the main Chinese party in BN to refuse government posts.

DAP strategist Liew Chin Tong said that no one in Umno dared to challenge Najib and Muhyiddin as the duo had the power of incumbency.

“No one has the numbers. The electoral system favours the incumbent. There’s no taker because they don’t see they’re going to win,” Liew told The Malay Mail Online.

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DAP reps surf into DPM’s ‘beach holiday’

(Malaysiakini, 9 Jun 2014) – Two DAP MPs, who previously questioned Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s working trip to Dubai earlier this year, have now raised doubts regarding his working trip to Australia in 2012.

Steven Sim and Zairil Khir Johari said similar to the Dubai trip, which they said was filled with private programmes as opposed to official work, the Australia trip also included minimal official work.

“It appears that the Dubai trip was not an isolated case, but Muhyiddin has a tendency for such extravagant working visits,” Zairil said.

Muhyiddin travelled to Australia between Nov 10 to 18 in 2012, and four last days of the trip was spent at the Gold Coast in Brisbane, a popular tourist destination. The last four days involved minimal programmes, including one full day for private programmes.

During the stay in Gold Coast, Muhyiddin and his entourage of 17 members were stationed in a luxurious five star hotel called the Hilton Surfer’s Paradise Hotel. None of his entourage members were from the Education Ministry.

“Is this because the DPM does not trust his ministry officials, or is this because the trip to Gold Coast was nothing more than a glorified ‘company trip’ for his staffers?” Zairil asked.

Sim, meanwhile, criticised the government for insisting on taking action against civil servants who leak out secrets instead of investigating any ministers. “Why should Malaysians pay for our ministers’ leisurely holidays at the beach while ordinary Malaysians are forced to face inflation and increasing income disparity?” he said.

The documents, according to the MPs, were obtained from the same whistleblower website where they obtained documents regarding Muhyiddin’s Dubai trip.

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Muhyiddin endorses extremist groups with May 13 threat

(The Rocket, 7 Jul 2014) – Is Muhyiddin playing the classic bait of threatening another May 13 to distract attention from his dismal failure as Education Minister in the latest violation of academic freedom in University of Malaya jeopardizing plan to restore its ranking as world’s Top 100 University?

Muhyiddin must answer this question for this is the first time in four decades that a Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister had threatened another May 13 riots – but will any Minister dare to ask Muhyiddin this question point-blank at the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday?

Not the MCA President, Liow Tiong Lai, who had virtually defended Muhyiddin’s May 13 threat, describing it as a “reminder” for Malaysians not to take unity for granted.

Liow spoke about the efforts by our forefathers to build and unite the nation, but what he has forgotten is that our forefathers, whether Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein, Tun Tan Cheng Lock, Tun Tan Siew Sin or Tun V.T. Sambathan would never have endorsed, condoned or sanitised a racial riot threat like the one issued by Muhyiddin in Pagoh on Friday night and would have demanded a retraction and apology if not resignation!

If all the Cabinet Ministers are like-minded as the MCA President, who could sanitize a “threat” of a racial riot as a “reminder”, then for the first time in the 57-year history of Malaysia, the nation has a Cabinet which is not fit or qualified to lead Malaysia’s multi-racial and multi-religious nation.

There can be no question or doubt that a Deputy Prime Minister who could issue a threat of another May 13 is not fit to be Deputy Primer Minister in Malaysia and a Cabinet which could condone, endorse or sanitise the May 13 threat as a “reminder” is not fit to be the Cabinet Malaysia.

It will do good for all the Cabinet Ministers, including the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Muhyiddin, to re-read and digest the Proclamation of Independence by Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman at Merdeka Stadium on August 31, 1957, and the Proclamation of Malaysia on Sept. 16, 1963.

The Proclamation of Indepencence in 1957 ended with the following high commitment:

“But while we think of the past, we look forward in faith and hope to the future; from henceforth we are masters of our destiny, and the welfare of this beloved land is our own responsibility: Let no one think we have reached the end of the road: Independence is indeed a milestone, but it is only the threshold to high endeavour- the creation of a new and sovereign State.

“At this solemn moment therefore I call upon you all to dedicate yourselves to the service of the new Malaya: to work and strive with hand and brain to create a new nation, inspired by the ideals of justice and liberty – a beacon of light in a disturbed and distracted world.

“High confidence has been reposed in us; let us unitedly face the challenge of the years. And so with remembrance for the past, and with confidence in the future, under the providence of God, we shall succeed.”

The Proclamation of Malaysia pledged that Malaysia shall “forever be an independent and sovereign Democratic State founded upon liberty and justice, ever seeking to defend and uphold peace and harmony among its people and to perpetuate peace among nations”.

Muhyiddin has shown no commitment to the ideals of justice and liberty for the nation to be “a beacon of light in a disturbed and distracted world” but is doing his worst for Malaysia to be part of “a disturbed and distracted world”.

Muhyiddin’s May 13 threat is giving legitimacy of a small group extremists who had in the past year since the 13th General Election been responsible for the worst racial and religious polarization in the country with their incessant incitement of racial and religious hatred, conflict and tension with periodic threats of another May 13.

Muhyiddin was not only dishonest and but downright irresponsible when he tried to justify his May 13 threat on the ground that the Malays and Islam were under siege in Malaysia, when there can be no basis for such belief, which is the mischievous creation of those who want to sow and incite racial and religious discord in the country.

All eyes are now on the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, whether it would reprimand Muhyiddin for the mischievous and irresponsible May 13 threat, and what steps and assurances the Cabinet can give to Malaysians and the international community that another May 13 is not possible in Malaysia.