Plihan Raya Kecil P.036 Kuala Terengganu

Luham telah menghantar kontinjen Legal Team ke Kuala Terengganu sebagai pasukan bantuan kepada Lajnah Guaman Terengganu dalam menghadapi Pilihan Raya Kecil P. 036 Kuala Terengganu.

Seramai 11 orang peguam yang berpengalaman dalam hal berkaitan undang-undang perjalanan pilihan raya telah dihantar di ketuai oleh saudara Hisham Fauzi selaku pengerusi Luham. Kontinjen ini kemudiannya diserapkan dibawah Jabatan Undang-Undang dan Hak Asasi Manusia (JUHAM) Dewan Pemuda Pas Pusat dibawah seliaan saudara Mohd Hanipa Maidin dan diketuai oleh saudara Zulqarnain Lukman.

Peguam-peguam dari negeri lain juga turut turun padang bagi memberikan bantuan seperti dari Perak, Perlis, Pahang dan Kuala Lumpur untuk memastikan tiada undang-undang pilihan raya dicabuli semasa proses plihan raya.

Para peguam seterusnya dibahagikan kepada empat dun yang berada di dalam Parlimen Kuala Terengganu iaitu Dun Batu Burok, Dun Wakaf Mempelam, Dun Ladang dan Dun Bandar.

Beberapa laporan polis telah dibuat oleh peguam-peguam yang betugas mengenai perlanggaran undang-undang pilihan raya termasuklah laporan polis terhadap Dato Azeez, Ketua Putera Umno Malaysia yang dikatakan telah masuk ke kawasan tempat pembuangan undi sedangkan beliau adalah tidak mempunyai kuasa atau diberikan kuasa untuk berbuat demikian.

Nota Penting: Seluruh umat Islam diminta berpuasa pada hari Khamis 15 Januari 2009.

Tentatif program

3.00 pagi Kehadiran Jamaah
3.15 Zikir Munajat
4.00 Taklimat Program
4.15 Solat Taubat dan Tahajjud
4.30 Solat Hajat, Witir dan Munajat
5.58 Solat Subuh
Kuliah Subuh : YB Ust Haji Hasyim Jasin ( Tim Ketua Dewan Ulama PAS Pusat )
7.00 Bersurai

Happy 1430 Hijrah.

Happy? But situations in the Muslim world is still sad as it was 500
years ago since we relaxed our quest for knowledge. Because of that
influence and power shifted to the Christian world - and have remained
there ever since.

The figures are speaking themselves very loudly but we refuse to listen.
Some thoughts - Extracts of speech by Hafez A.B. Mohamed.
Director-General, Al Baraka Bank.

Demographics:
o World Jewish population: 14 million
o Distribution: 7m in America
5m in Asia
2m in Europe
100 thousands in Africa
o World Muslim population: 1.5 billion
o Distribution: 1 billion in Asia/Mid-East
400m in Africa
44m in Europe
6m in the Americas

o Every fifth human being is a Muslim.
o For every single Hindu there are two Muslims o For every Buddhist
there are two Muslims o For every Jew there are 107 Muslims

Yet the 14 million Jews are more powerful than the entire 1.5 billion
Muslims...

Why..?

Here are some of the reasons.

Movers of Recent History
o Albert Einstein - Jewish
o Sigmund Freud - Jewish
o Karl Marx - Jewish
o Paul Samuelson - Jewish
o Milton Friedman - Jewish

Medical Milestones
o Vaccination needle: Benjamin Ruben - Jewish
o Polio vaccine: Jonas Salk - Jewish
o Leukaemia drug: Gertrude Elion - Jewish
o Hepatitis B: Baruch Blumberg - Jewish
o Syphilis drug: Paul Ehrlich - Jewish
o Neuro muscular: Elie Metchnikoff - Jewish
o Endocrinology: Andrew Schally - Jewish
o Cognitive therapy: Aaron Beck - Jewish
o Contraceptive pill: Gregory Pincus - Jewish
o Understanding of human eye: G. Wald - Jewish
o Embryology: Stanley Cohen - Jewish
o Kidney dialysis: Willem Kloffcame - Jewish

Nobel Prize Winners
In the past 105 years, the 14 million Jews have won 180 Nobel prizes
whilst the 1.5 billion Muslims have achieved only 3 Nobel winners.

Inventions that changed History
o Micro-processing chip: Stanley Mezor - Jewish
o Nuclear chain reactor: Leo Sziland - Jewish
o Optical fibre cable: Peter Schultz - Jewish
o Traffic lights: Charles Adler - Jewish
o Stainless steel: Benno Strauss - Jewish
o Sound movies: Isador Kisee - Jewish
o Telephone microphone: Emile Berliner - Jewish
o Video tape recorder: Charles Ginsburg - Jewish

Influential Global Businesses
o Polo: Ralph Lauren - Jewish
o Coca-Cola: - Jewish
o Levi's: Levi Strauss - Jewish
o Starbuck's: Howard Schultz - Jewish
o Google: Sergey Brin - Jewish
o Dell Computers: Michael Dell - Jewish
o Oracle Computers: Larry Ellison - Jewish
o DKNY: Donna Karan - Jewish
o Baskin Robbins: Irv Robbins - Jewish
o Dunkin' Donuts: Bill Rosenberg - Jewish



Influential Policy-makers/ Politicians
o Henry Kissinger, US Sec. of State - Jewish
o Richard Levin, President Yale University - Jewish
o Alan Greenspan, US Federal Reserve - Jewish
o Joseph Lieberman, US Senator - Jewish
o Madeleine Albright, US Sec. of State - Jewish
o CasperWeinberger, US Sec. of Defence - Jewish
o Maxim Litvinov, USSR Foreign Minister - Jewish
o David Marshal, Singapore Chief Minister - Jewish
o Isaac Isaacs, Gov-Gen. Australia - Jewish
o Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman - Jewish
o Yevgeny Primakov, Russian PM - Jewish
o Barry Goldwater, US Politician - Jewish
o Jorge Sampaio, President of Portugal - Jewish
o Herb Gray, Canadian Deputy PM - Jewish
o Pierre Mendes, French PM - Jewish
o Michael Howard, British Home Sec. - Jewish
o Bruno Kriesky, Austrian Chancellor - Jewish
o Robert Rubin, US Sec. of Treasury - Jewish

Global Media Figures
o Wolf Blitzer, CNN - Jewish
o Barbara Walters, ABC News - Jewish
o Eugene Meyer, Washington Post - Jewish
o Henry Grunwald, Time Magazine - Jewish
o Katherine Graham, Washington Post - Jewish
o Joseph Lelyeld, New York Times - Jewish
o Max Frankel, New York Times - Jewish


Global Philanthropists
o George Soros - Jewish
o Walter Annenberg - Jewish


Why are they powerful and why are Muslims powerless?


Here's another reason... We have lost the capacity to produce knowledge.
o In the entire Muslim world (57 Muslim countries) there are only 500
universities
o In USA alone, 5,758 universities
o In India alone, 8,407 universities

Not one university in the entire Islamic World features in the Top 500
Ranking Universities of the World

o Literacy in the Christian world - 90%
o Literacy in the Muslim world - 40%
o 15 Christian-majority countries' literacy rate - 100%
o Muslim-majority countries with 100% - None
o 98% in Christian countries completed primary education o Only 50% in
Muslim countries completed primary education o 40% in Christian
countries attended university o In Muslim countries, a dismal 2%
attended university o Muslim-majority countries have 230 scientists per
million o The USA has 5000 per million
o The Christian world - 1000 technicians per million
o Entire Arab world - only 50 technicians per million
o Muslim world spending on R&D - 0.2% of GDP
o Christian world's R&D - 5.0% of GDP

Conclusions
The Muslim world lacks the capacity to produce knowledge.

Another way of testing the degree of knowledge is the degree of
diffusing knowledge.
o Pakistan: 23 daily newspapers per 1000 citizens o Singapore: 460 per
1000 citizens o UK book titles per million is 2000 o Egypt book titles
per million is only 17


Conclusion.. .
Muslim World is failing to diffuse knowledge.

Applying knowledge is another such test.
o Exports of high-tech products from Pakistan : 0.9%
o In Saudi Arabia : only 0.2%
o Kuwait, Morocco and Algeria : only 0.3%
o Tiny Singapore (4mil pop.) : 68% ...!

Conclusion.. .
Muslim world is failing to apply knowledge.

What do you conclude? No need to tell... The figures are speaking
themselves very loudly but we are unable to use the ears Allah gave us
to listen and eyes to let us see...

Advice
Please educate yourself and your children. Excuses like lack of money,
ability or opening are nothing more than that - excuses.

Always promote education, don't compromise on it. We hate to be weak,
illiterate and poor but are we too weak to give our children the
opportunity to break the curse?

Don't ignore your children's slightest misguidance from education...
and please, for Allah's sake, don't use your personal contacts to
promote your children in their education. If they fail, let them because
it will make them learn the sweetness of success. Remember... if they
can't do it now, they can't ever.

With knowledge comes power, and with it even the small can rule over the
big. We are world's biggest but sadly NOT strongest nation.

All we need is to identify and explore our inner selves. Insha-Allah,
our weapon to victory, our duty to spread God's words and our
opportunity save all humankind is best through knowledge, creativity,
literacy... And nothing else.

.... Wake up O khalifahs of the land ...

.... Wake up ...

ANTARA YANG WAJIB KITA LAKUKAN

Kita Mampu Melakukannya Insyaallah

Wahai Ummat Islam ! Marilah kita lakukan apa sahaja yang mampu kita lakukan demi saudara seagama dan seaqidah yang kini sedang dizalimi , dikepong dan diletupkan oleh Yahudi Alaihilaknatullah .

Mudah-mudahan kita tidak termasuk dalam golongan yang membiayai Yahudi untuk membunuh Ummat Islam di Palestine .

14 Pesuruhjaya Kehakiman Angkat Sumpah Jawatan

PUTRAJAYA: Seramai 14 Pesuruhjaya Kehakiman mengangkat sumpah jawatan di Istana Kehakiman di sini semalam, yang berkuat kuasa Isnin depan. Mereka ialah Pesuruhjaya Kehakiman Peguamcara Negara, Datuk Zaleha Yusof; Ketua Pendaftar Mahkamah Persekutuan, Datuk Halijah Abbas; Penggubal Undang-undang Parlimen, Datuk Nor Bee Ariffin. Pesuruhjaya Penyemak dan Pembaharuan Undang-undang Jabatan Peguam Negara, Datuk Mary Lim Thiam Sua; Yang Dipertua Mahkamah Perusahaan, Datuk Umi Kalthum Abdul Majid; Ketua Pengarah Biro Bantuan Guaman, Dr Hassan Ab Rahman.

Pengerusi Lembaga Penasihat Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Kamardin Hashim dan Yaacob Md Sam; Pengerusi Mahkamah Perusahaan, Datin Yeoh Wee Siam; Pendaftar Mahkamah Rayuan, Datin Zabariah Mohd Yusof; Pendaftar Mahkamah Tinggi Malaya, Tarmizi Abd Rahman. Hakim Mahkamah Sesyen Kuala Lumpur, Akhtar Tahir; Pendaftar Mahkamah Tinggi Sabah dan Sarawak, Rhodzariah Bujang serta Hakim Mahkamah Sesyen Kota Kinabalu, P Ravinthran. Mereka mengangkat sumpah di depan Ketua Hakim Negara, Tan Sri Zaki Tun Azmi; Hakim Besar Malaya, Datuk Ariffin Zakaria; Presiden Mahkamah Rayuan, Tan Sri Alauddin Mohd Sheriff; dan Hakim Besar Sabah serta Sarawak, Tan Sri Richard Malanjum.

Pelantikan dibuat mengikut Perkara 122AB Perlembagaan Persekutuan yang memberi kuasa kepada Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin atas nasihat Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi selepas berunding dengan Ketua Hakim Negara. Zaki dalam ucapannya berkata, semua Pesuruhjaya Kehakiman yang baru dilantik perlu jujur serta bijak menangani persekitaran serta berupaya mengelak pengaruh masyarakat luar. "Mereka boleh meneruskan persahabatan dengan rakan, tetapi jika mendapat maklumat ada antaranya yang bersikap tidak jujur dan ingin mengambil kesempatan maka perlu berterus terang," katanya.

Sumber: Berita Harian

Pindaan Undang-Undang Keluarga Perlu Disegerakan

(Disiarkan di dalam ruangan Peguam Syarie Menulis Berita Harian 10 Disember 2008)
Oleh Zainul Rijal Abu Bakar

MASIH belum luput daripada fikiran kita beberapa tahun lalu apabila kemelut yang dibangkitkan beberapa pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) wanita mengenai Rang Undang-Undang Keluarga Islam Pindaan 2006 diluluskan oleh Parlimen.

Dikatakan Undang-Undang terbabit menindas golongan wanita. Lantaran desakan NGO wanita itu, maka kerajaan mengambil keputusan menangguhkan pelaksanaan undang-undang yang sudah dibentangkan di Parlimen.

Keputusan itu mendapat bantahan ramai termasuk Persatuan Peguam Syarie Malaysia (PGSM). PGSM berpandangan, melaksanakan undang-undang yang sudah diluluskan dan kemudian boleh dikaji semula atau dipinda jika perlu, agak mengambil masa. Jika ditangguhkan akan ada suatu tempoh yang lama bagi pindaan berikutnya.

Lantaran itu Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi sendiri sudah berjanji untuk mengkaji semula dan melantik pakar bagi penambahbaikan undang-undang berkenaan. Kajian itu diselia oleh Peguam Negara sendiri.

Perdana Menteri mengarahkan perkara itu diselesaikan segera. Difahamkan beberapa mesyuarat diadakan dan cadangan menyeluruh sudah digarap bagi penambahbaikan itu. Semua cadangan penambahbaikan sudah disiapkan oleh jawatankuasa berkenaan dengan cepat. Banyak cadangan baik sudah diutarakan dan disepakati.

Namun begitu, sehingga hari ini selepas dua tahun berlalu, Rang Undang-Undang Keluarga (pindaan) itu masih belum lagi dibawa ke Parlimen walaupun jawatankuasa pakar sudah menyiapkannya lebih setahun lalu. Di mana silapnya? Adakah kajian yang dilakukan masih belum lengkap?

Nampaknya pihak kerajaan tidak nampak pentingnya undang-undang ini. Undang-Undang Keluarga adalah undang-undang yang perlu disegerakan kerana hal ehwal kekeluargaan biasanya amat sensitif dan perlu ditangani segera.

Sebenarnya Rang Undang-Undang pindaan yang dibentangkan pada 2006 itu adalah undang-undang seragam yang sudah pun dipersetujui Majlis Raja-Raja dalam mesyuarat Duli-Duli Yang Mulia Raja-Raja Melayu.

Malangnya, Wilayah Persekutuan yang mencadangkan Rang Undang Undang itu terkebelakang dalam melaksanakannya. Negeri seperti Terengganu, Kelantan dan Selangor sudah meluluskan undang-undang itu sejak 2002.

Buat masa ini kebanyakan negeri sudah melulus dan melaksanakan undang-undang keluarga itu. Itulah sebabnya sejak kebelakangan ini amat kurang kita dengar rasa tidak puas hati berkaitan perbezaan undang-undang keluarga Islam antara negeri di Malaysia.

PGSM mendesak supaya undang-undang yang sudah ditambah baik itu secepat mungkin dibentangkan di Parlimen dan dilaksanakan segera. Oleh kerana menurut Perlembagaan Persekutuan, agama adalah di bawah bidang kuasa negeri, Dewan Undangan Negeri juga perlu meluluskan undang-undang yang sama supaya segala pindaan akan dapat diseragamkan dan tiada lagi keresahan undang-undang yang berbeza antara negeri.

Beberapa isu penting yang dibincangkan dalam cadangan pindaan itu berkaitan dengan poligami, nafkah, pembubaran perkahwinan dan harta sepencarian penting untuk diperhalusi supaya tidak ada lagi cemuhan yang mengatakan Undang-Undang Islam menindas wanita.

Walaupun hakikat sebenarnya undang-undang Islam tidak pernah mendiskriminasi mana-mana golongan, kerana ketidakfahaman falsafah undang-undang dan perundangan Islam, menyebabkan tanggapan negatif terhadap undang-undang Islam.

Dengan perkembangan semasa beberapa isu baru juga perlu diberi perhatian. Undang-undang substantif yang baik saja tidak mencukupi kerana di mahkamah, pihak terikat dengan tatacara dan kaedah pembuktian.

Dalam hal demikian, undang-undang tata cara Mahkamah Syariah juga perlu diberi nafas baru supaya ia lebih ‘mesra pelanggan’, tidak terlalu formal dan membebankan serta dapat menghasilkan keadilan dengan kadar lebih segera.

Undang-Undang Keterangan yang memberi garis panduan berhubung pembuktian dan sebagainya juga perlu dipinda bagi menyesuaikan dengan kehendak moden di samping tidak mengetepikan hukum syarak.

Beberapa isu baru seperti DNA, keterangan pakar dan sebagainya boleh dimasukkan di dalam undang-undang keterangan ini bagi memastikan ia boleh diterima di Mahkamah Syariah.

Ada banyak lagi perkara yang perlu diberi penekanan bagi memastikan pihak yang bertikai di Mahkamah Syariah mendapat keadilan dengan kadar segera. Apa yang menyedihkan ialah apabila Mahkamah Syariah dikatakan lewat atau gagal menjalankan perbicaraan adil, keseluruhan kesalahan itu dibebankan kepada mahkamah.

Tanpa menyelidik latar belakang dan fakta sebenar, sering kali Mahkamah Syariah dijadikan bahan cemuhan pelbagai pihak. Mahkamah Syariah hanya pelaksana. Apa yang dilaksanakan adalah apa yang diperuntukkan oleh undang-undang.

Jika undang-undang tidak memberi kuasa kepada Mahkamah Syariah maka tiadalah kuasa mahkamah itu. Jika pun diberi kuasa, beberapa kekangan dihadapi Mahkamah Syariah seperti kekurangan kakitangan, peruntukan dan bangunan masih lagi menghambat mahkamah daripada melaksanakan keadilan. Walaupun dalam kekangan itu, Mahkamah Syariah dapat mengekalkan wibawa mereka dengan cemerlang.

Berbalik kepada undang-undang pindaan di atas, sekali lagi PGSM mendesak kerajaan supaya mempercepatkan penggubalan Rang Undang-Undang Keluarga Islam. Sudah terlalu lama undang-undang itu dibincangkan dan sepatutnya ia sudah dibentangkan di Parlimen untuk diluluskan. Dewan Undangan Negeri juga perlu meminda Enakmen Undang-Undang Keluarga Islam bagi diseragamkan dengan pindaan terbaru ini.

Selepas daripada itu beberapa undang-undang lain pula perlu dipinda seperti Undang-undang tatacara mal Mahkamah Syariah dan Undang-Undang Keterangan Mahkamah Syariah. Dengan cara itu Mahkamah Syariah akan dapat menghasilkan keputusan yang adil dalam kadar segera.
Semoga segala cemuhan terhadap Mahkamah Syariah akan menjadi sejarah.

PGSM merayu Perdana Menteri agar memastikan Rang Undang-Undang Keluarga Islam yang sudah ditambah baik ini dapat dibentang di Parlimen sebelum beliau mengundur diri seperti dijanjikan.

Penulis ialah Presiden Persatuan Peguam Syarie Malaysia (PGSM)

Lingam Tape: No Review of Commission Findings (updated)

KUALA LUMPUR: Two former Chief Justices, a prominent lawyer and two others failed to get a court order to challenge the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the V.K. Lingam video clip that implicated them.

High Court judge Justice Abdul Kadir Musa refused leave applications by the five for a judicial review of the findings.

The five are former Chief Justices Tun Eusoff Chin and Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, lawyer Datuk V.K. Lingam, tycoon Tan Sri Vincent Tan and Barisan Nasional and Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.

Justice Abdul Kadir said he could not agree with the proposition that the findings of the Royal Commission were reviewable based on the common law of other countries being applicable in Malaysia.

“Our court should not import common law from other countries where the provisions of our laws are different, as decided in case laws,” he said.

In dismissing all the applications with costs, Justice Abdul Kadir said he was crystal clear that there was no decision ever made by the Royal Commission.

“They only conveyed their said findings in the report by submitting it (the report) to the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong,” he said.

He said the findings should not be construed as decisions within the ambit of Order 53 Rule 2(4) of the Rules of the High Court 1980.

He said the Commissioners made their findings based on their inquiry into the facts made available to them.

“Such findings was never ever made known to any of the five applicants between the period of Jan 14 and May 19.

“Whatever happened after that period, especially as from the May 9 (the date the report was submitted to the King) is entirely beyond the control of those Commissioners,” he said.
He said it cannot be disputed that it was not the decision of the Royal Commission to make the report public.

The judge then allowed the preliminary objection by Senior Federal Counsel (SFC) Azizah Nawawi over the leave application by the five who wanted to quash the relevant parts of the report which implicated them.

“I have no doubt that public interest is involved, I rule that Attorney-General got necessary locus to oppose the application,” he said.

On July 16, SFC Azizah had argued that the Royal Commission did not make any binding or conclusive decisions and that its findings could not be reviewed.

Justice Abdul Kadir further said that “even though it cannot be denied that all the five applicants are adversely affected in a natural sense by those findings of the Royal Commission, they are nevertheless not so adversely affected within the context of Order 53.”

The Royal Commission had commenced its inquiry by way of a public hearing on Jan 14. It concluded on Feb 15 after hearing testimony from 21 witnesses and receiving more than 100 exhibits and over 15 statutory declarations.

The Royal Commission in May had found, among other things that the video clip was authentic. It found that Lingam was the person in the clip and was in a telephone conversation with Ahmad Fairuz.

It had recommended in its report for six persons to be investigated under the Sedition Act, Legal Profession Act, Official Secrets Act and Penal Code.

In asking for the review in August, Lingam said he had at least 12 reasons to persuade the High Court to consider reviewing the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry.

“The commission had acted in excess of jurisdiction by going beyond its terms of reference. It took into account irrelevant matters and completely lost its focus,” Lingam had said.

He had argued that the disparaging remarks made against him by commissioner Datuk Mahadev Shankar was clearly infected and tainted with bias when he (Mahadev) continued to “sit in participation and adjudication at the inquiry and made perverse findings” against him.

He said there were also apparent bias on the part of commissioners Prof Tan Sri Dr Khoo Kay Kim and Tan Sri Steve Shim Lip Kiong.

“There were breach of rules of natural justice when the commission did not allow Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, lawyer R. Sivarasa and Anwar’s personal assistant Sim Tze Tzin who were already summoned as witnesses to give evidence at the inquiry.

“The evidence of the three under cross-examination of my counsel would establish that the video clip was edited,’’ Lingam had said.