OPINION

ON MUSLIMS

"Disunited, confused about Islam, fighting each other for power and lacking in essential knowledge and skills... Muslims today have reached the lowest point of their development." - January 2003
"Islam is not just for the seventh century AD. Times have changed. Whether we like it or not, we have to change... Islam is not wrong, but the interpretations by our scholars can be wrong." - October 2003
"We (Muslims) must not antagonize everyone. We must win their hearts and minds. We must win them to our side, not by begging for help from them, but by the honorable way that we struggle to help ourselves. We must not strengthen the enemy by pushing everyone into their camps through irresponsible and unIslamic acts." - October 2003

On Jews
"The Jews for example are not merely hook-nosed, but understand money instinctively." - Mahathir's book 'The Malay Dilemma' 1970

"We (Muslims) are actually very strong. 1.3 billion people cannot be simply wiped out. The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them." - October 2003

On Iraq and the war on terror
"It is no longer just a war against terrorism. It is in fact a war to dominate the world."
"Armed attacks or other forms of attack against civilians must be regarded as acts of terror and the perpetrators regarded as terrorists... And anyone supporting them must be considered as terrorists." - April 2002

"They made a mistake in Iraq. Now in Iraq, instead of feeling happy and saying thanks to the liberators, they are killing the liberators." - October 2003
"The Sept. 11 attack on America, which supported Israel, has made an excuse for the Anglo-Saxon Europeans to return to their old violent ways. Their strategy to fight terrorism is through attacking Muslim countries and Muslims, whether they are guilty or not." - June 2003

"If the innocent people who died in the attack on Afghanistan, and those who have been dying from lack of food and medical care in Iraq, are considered collaterals, are not the 3,000 who died in New York and the 200 in Bali also just collaterals, whose deaths are necessary for the operations to succeed?" - February 2003

On Europeans
"They are very clever, brave and have an insatiable curiosity. Unfortunately they are also very greedy and like to take forcibly the territories and rights of other people."

"The culture and the values which they will force us to accept will be hedonism, unlimited quest for pleasure, the satisfaction of base desires, particularly sexual desires. Our way of life must be the same as their way of life. Asian values do not exist to them." - June 2003

On Australia
"This country stands out like a sore thumb trying to impose its European values in Asia as if it is the good old days when people can shoot aborigines without caring about human rights."

"Australia has made known to the world that it wants to be the deputy sheriff of this region. It's very difficult to get along with deputy sheriffs."

"I can assure Australia that if it acts as a sheriff in this country, it will be treated as a terrorist and dealt with as a terrorist."

On economics
"We are told that we must open up, that trade and commerce must be totally free. Free for whom? For rogue speculators. For anarchists wanting to destroy weak countries in their crusade for open societies, to force us to submit to the dictatorship of international manipulators." - July 1997

"Variety is the spice of life. The spice is fast disappearing as we stay in Hilton Hotels, eat McDonald's hamburgers, drive in a Ford car, bank with Citibank and buy our household needs from Carrefour."
"Exploit us, but exploit us fairly." - October 2003

On the Asian financial crisis
"We may suspect that they, the Jews, have an agenda, but we do not want to accuse. And incidentally, we are Muslims, and the Jews are not happy to see the Muslims progress." - October 1997

"All these countries have spent 40 years trying to build up their economy and a moron like (U.S. financier and currency trader George) Soros comes along with a lot of money. Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral.

On domestic issues
"The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other." - 'The Malay Dilemma' 1970

On dictatorships and retiring
"It is good governance by good people that we need. And feudal kings, even dictators, have provided and can provide good governance." - April 2002

"This is the first dictator in the world who has resigned while still quite healthy." - On accusations that he is a dictator

"There were times when I was elated with what I thought was my success. But mostly I feel disappointed, because I achieved too little result from my principal task, the task of making my race a race that is respected, a race that is honorable, a race that is highly regarded." - June 2002

OPENING

1) We always heard and read many successful story, about good and happy times.I wonder, why most of the people, they don’t feel free to share a failure story and their hard times. Some of people, maybe they just want to talk about it when they are finally already successful.

2) At the time most of the people, maybe already forgot the story, and don’t want to talk or write about it anymore. The reasons behind all this, maybe in a journey to achieve what they want, some of them take a short cut with use wrong methods, which is can be questioned, whether its something good or bad. They just prefer to keep it as a secret for themselves.

3) This blog which will touch about ‘another side’ for successful story, that’s the side which I totally believe that people can learn something from that.

4) The world today, just like those who are successful and for those who fail, they are not be acceptable by society. We are now at a fixed level, where’s ‘nobody should commit mistakes’. For those who do mistakes, they should be punished. It seems like if you are not number 1, or at least among top 5, you will fail. Maybe it seems weird, time by time, human actually just already learned from their mistakes to achieve what they got today.

5) To say for those who are successful, having an excellent attitude by without doing any mistakes and also have weakness, this thought is something unrealistic and maybe will bring bad impact.

6) People need to understand that mistakes and failure, it’s a common thing and always happen for those who got a higher achievement compare with people with low achievement.

7) By following east society's reliance, that say all the idea and knowledge that already existed for a long time, I don't want to confess that I'm the cause for the original ideas in this blog. I'm just want to say, that I'm only a arranger of something. Like what was told by Victor Hugo, "that time has come for one ideas", and like Mahatma Gandhi(father of India)said, "I'm not the one who bring a new truth, but only give a new light to the old truth".

8)For the visitor of this blog, if you have any some opinions, comments or whatever about this blog and my writing style, please fell free to drop it here, I really appreciate it. Your opinion and comment are really most welcome here. That's become my pleasure. Thank you very much.

p/s: For those who want to copy something from this blog, plz make a link and I hate plagiarism.Tq.
sincere: SAM

(MALAY TRANSLATATION)

• Selalunya kita mendengar dan membaca bermacam cerita tentang kejayaan, tentang waktu-waktu bagus dan gembira dan lain-lain. Entah kenapa kebanyakan orang tidak gemar bercerita tentang kegagalan dan pengalaman buruk mereka. Sesetengah orang mungkin bercakap tentangnya apabila mereka telah berjaya kesudahannya.

• Ketika kebanyakan mereka mungkin telah melupai perkara-perkara tersebut, apatah lagi hendak bercerita atau menulis tentangnya. Sebaba-sebab lain adalah mungkin kerana ketika dalam perjalanan mencapai apa yang mereka inginkan, ada orang yang mengambil jalan muadah dengan menggunakan cara-cara yang boleh dipersoalkan buruk-baiknya yang mereka lebih suka rahsiakan.

• Blog ini sebuah blog yang menyentuh tentang "sisi yang satu lagi" bagi sesuatu kisah kejayaan, iaitu sisi yang saya benar-benar percaya bahawa ramai orang boleh belajar daripadanya.

• Dunia hari ini hanya menyukai yang menang dan yang tewas langsung tidak diterima. Kita telah sampai ke peringkat yang mana telah ditetapkan bahawa "tiada sesiapa sepatutnya memebuat kesilapan" dan orang yang membuat kesilapan pasti menerima hukuman. Tampaknya seperti jikalau anda bukan no.1 atau sekurang-kurangnya dalam golongan 5 teratas, anda dianggap sebagai telah gagal. Mungkin terasa aneh, sejak zaman -berzaman lagi manusia sebenarnya telah hanya belajar melalui kesilapan untuk sampai ke peringkat kini.

• Tanggapan bahawa orang yang berjaya bersifat luar biasa tanpa membuat kesilapan dan mempunyai kelemahan adalah tidak realistik dan mungkin membawa kesan yang tidak sihat.

• Orang ramai perlulah memahami bahawa kesilapan dan kegagalan adalah perkara biasa dan sememangnya lebih kerap berlaku pada mereka yang tinggi pencapaiannya daripada mereka yang kurang pencapaian.

• Sebagai mengikut kepercayaan masyrakat timur yang mengatakan bahawa semua idea dan ilmu yang ada memang telah sedia wujud sekian lama, saya tidak ingin mendakwa bahawa sayalah punca asal idea-idea yang dikemukakan dalam blog ini. Saya hanyalah ingin memberitahu, saya hanyalah seorang penyusun sesuatu yang disebut oleh Victor Hugo sebagai "suatu idea yang masanya telah tiba", dan seperti kata Mahatma Gandhi, "Saya bukannya bawa kebenaran baru, tapi hanyalah menyuluh cahaya baru pada banyak kebenaran lama".

• Jika anda mempunyai sebarang pandangan, komen, atau ulasan tentang blog ini, saya amat mengalu-alukan.