BN dan matematik.

Itulah cara kiraan matematik paling ‘tolol’ untuk memastikan kerajaan membela rakyat

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Kajian Kes Kenaikan Harga Minyak

“Kerajaan komited untuk memastikan golongan berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana tidak akan dibebani dengan kenaikan kos petrol dan makanan. Namun, kos petrol dan komoditi di peringkat global, telah mengalami kenaikan yang drastik dan subsidi perlu distruktur semula supaya bantuan dapat diagihkan dengan lebih adil. Subsidi yang distruktur semula ini akan memberi lebih manfaat kepada mereka yang memerlukannya, terutama golongan berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana.” Kata Dollah Badawi

Kes Pertama : Seorang buruh, pendapatannya RM 1000 sebulan, menggunakan sebuah motorsikal dengan perbelanjaan minyak motorsikal ketempat kerjanya dan urusan lain sebanyak RM 100 sebulan. Setahun belanja minyak motorsikalnya adalah RM 1200. Sekarang apabila minyak naik harga sebanyak 41%, kos minyak motorsikalnya akan menjadi RM 141 sebulan. Setahun dia akan mengalami kenaikan kos minyak motosikalnya menjadi RM 1692. Belanja minyak motorsikalnya akan meningkat sebanyak RM 492 setahun
Dollah Badawi kata kerajaan UMNO/BN komited untuk memastikan golongan berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana tidak akan dibebani dengan kenaikan kos petrol dan makanan.

Jadi kerajaan kata subsidi yang distruktur semula ini akan memberi lebih manfaat kepada mereka yang memerlukannya, terutama golongan berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana.

Maka kerajaan akan berikan bayaran tunai sebanyak RM150 setahun bagi setiap motosikal.

Kes Kedua:

Seorang pekerja swasta, berpendapatan RM 2000 sebulan. Mempunyai sebuah kereta ‘proton’ buruk yang jumlah belanja minyak kereta sebulan adalah sebanyak RM 200 sebulan. Dalam setahun perbelanjaan minyak keretanya adalah berjumlah RM 2400. Sekarang kerana kerajaan UMNO/BN menaikkan harga minyak petrol sebanyak 41% maka kos ataupun belanja minyak keretanya akan menjadi RM 3384 setahun. Maka pekerja swasta ini akan menanggung beban akibat kenaikan harga minyak sebanyak RM 984 setahun.

Oleh kerana Dollah Badawi yang mengetuai kerajaan UMNO/BN komited untuk memastikan golongan berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana tidak akan dibebani dengan kenaikan kos petrol dan makanan.

Jadi kerajaan kata subsidi yang distruktur semula ini akan memberi lebih manfaat kepada mereka yang memerlukannya, terutama golongan berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana.

Maka kerajaan akan berikan bayaran tunai sebanyak RM625 setahun bagi setiap kereta.

Kesimpulan:

Itu belum beban-beban lain yang pasti akan muncul dan akan ditanggung oleh si Buruh dan si Pekerja Swasta di atas.

Oleh kerana pengeluar, pengedar, pemborong, peruncit juga akan turut mengalami kenaikan kos sebanyak 41% didalam kos operasi perniagaannya, maka sudah pasti pengeluar, pengedar, pemborong, peruncit akan menaikkan harga barangan dan perkhidmatan yang mereka tawarkan.

Kesimpulannnya, diulangi sekali lagi “Kerajaan komited untuk memastikan golongan berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana tidak akan dibebani dengan kenaikan kos petrol dan makanan. Namun, kos petrol dan komoditi di peringkat global, telah mengalami kenaikan yang drastik dan subsidi perlu distruktur semula supaya bantuan dapat diagihkan dengan lebih adil. Subsidi yang distruktur semula ini akan memberi lebih manfaat kepada mereka yang memerlukannya, terutama golongan berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana.” Kata Dollah Badawi

Mossad - The World's Most Efficient Killing Machine

Lagi ganas dari 3 line nyerr geng ni...3 line pendokong umno?

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By Gordon Thomas

Standing on a canteen table in down-town Tel Aviv, Israel's spymaster studied the men and women of Mossad.

In the few weeks since taking over Mossad, Meir Dagan knew he already commanded something his recent predecessors never managed. Respect.

Barely raising his voice he spoke.

"When I was fighting in Lebanon, I witnessed the aftermath of a family feud. The patriarch's head had been split open, his brain on the floor. Around him lay his wife and some of his children. All dead. Before I could do anything, one of the murderers scooped up a handful of brain and swallowed it. This is how you will all now operate. Otherwise someone will eat your brain."

His every word held them in thrall - even if they sent a shudder through some of his listeners, hardened as they were.

In the canteen were those who had killed many times already. Killing enemies who could not be brought to trial because they were hidden deep inside Israel's Arab neighbours.

Only Mossad could find and kill them. Rafi Eitan, the legendary former Operations Chief of Mossad told me when we sat together in his living room in a north Tel Aviv suburb:

"I always tried to kill when I could see the whites of a person's eyes. So I could see the fear. Smell it on his breath. Sometimes I used my hands. A knife, or a silenced gun. I never felt a moment's regret over a killing."

Meir Amit, when he had been director of Mossad, later insisted "we are like the official hangman or the doctor on Death Row who administers the lethal injection. Our actions are all endorsed by the State of Israel. When Mossad kills it is not breaking the law. It is fulfilling a sentence sanctioned by the prime minister of the day".

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We spoke as he walked me through Mossad's own unique memorial in Tel Aviv to the dead - a concrete maze shaped in the form of a brain. Each name engraved on the concrete was of an agent who had been killed while trying to destroy Israel's enemies.

Some of those agents had one thing in common. Amit had sent them to their deaths.

"We did all we could to protect them. We trained them better than any other secret service. Sometimes, out on a mission, the dice is against you. But there will always be brave men ready to roll the dice," he said.

Dagan, his listeners in the canteen knew, was cast in the same mould. He would protect them with every means he knew - legal or illegal. He would allow them to use proscribed nerve toxins. Dum-dum bullets. Ways of killing that not even the Mafia, the former KGB or China's secret service use. But he would not hesitate to expose them to death - if it was for the greater good of Israel.

That was the deal those in the canteen had accepted when they were recruited. They, too, were ready to roll the dice.

Dagan, only the tenth man to head Mossad and bear the title of memune - "first among equals in Hebrew" - reminded his listeners sat on their plastic-form chairs what Meir Amit had once said. Then Dagan added:

"I am here to tell you those days are back. The dice is ready to roll."

Dagan jumped down from the table and walked out of the canteen in total silence. Only then did the applause start.

Shortly afterwards came the Mombasa massacre of eleven days ago. An explosive-laden land-cruiser drove into the reception area of the island's Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel.

Fifteen people died and 80 were seriously injured. Two shoulder-fired missiles nearly downed an Israeli passenger plane bringing tourists back to Tel Aviv from Kenya. Two hundred and seventy-five barely missed a Lockerbie-style death.

Meir Dagan immediately suspected it was the work of Osama bin-Laden's al-Quaeda and that the missiles had come from Iraq's arsenal.

But to suspect and prove would be the greatest challenge Mossad had faced since the War on Terrorism was launched by President Bush.

"Mossad would not be operating in its own backyard against suicide bombers. It would be working 1,500 miles away in a hostile environment. There would only be lip-service support from the authorities on the ground. Other intelligence services would be trawling through the evidence looking for clues that would fit their agendas. The CIA for a fix on bin-Laden. MI6 for a lead back to a threat to Britain. The same for the Germans," a senior intelligence man in Tel Aviv told me.

But for Meir Dagan it was time to roll the dice. Every person with proven field experience was on a plane to Kenya within an hour of the massacre.

They would sift and search the wreckage, using sophisticated equipment to do so. Detectors that could detect a sliver of metal deep inside a corpse - metal that would show where the explosives came from. And much else.

The team who would "roll the dice" travelled separately - as they always did. They had their own aircraft, their own pilots. They were the men and women of kidon, Mossad's ultra-secret assassination unit.

Their sole job in Mombasa was to find and kill the perpetrators of the massacre: those behind the three bombers who had gone to their deaths laughing. The kidon would kill the planners of the massacre after they had traced them to their lair - wherever it was. It might take months - as it had with avenging the murder of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. But the kidon would find the men behind the Mombasa outrage and kill them.

They would use a small laboratory of poisons, sealed in vials until the moment came to strike. They had long and short-blade knives. Piano wire to strangle. Explosives no bigger than a throat lozenge capable fo blowing off a person's head. An arsenal of guns: short-barrel pistols, sniper rifles with a mile killing range.

The team chosen to go to Mombasa had local language skills. They could pass for Arabs or for Indian traders. Between them, they spoke Swahili and other dialects. They dressed the part; they looked the part. They also understood the closed language of their world.

They had learned how to memorise fibres - precise physical descriptions of people. Neviof , how to break into an office, a bedroom, or any other given target and plant listening bugs - or a bomb. Masluh, the skill of shaking off a tail.

The women had learned how to use their sex. To be ever ready to sleep with someone to obtain vital information. The link between intelligence work and sexual entrapment is as old as spying itself. Meir Amit had said when he was Mossad's chief:

"Sex is a woman's weapon. Pillow talk is not a problem for her. But it takes a special kind of courage. It is not just sleeping with an enemy. It is to obtain information."

The kidon team had passed the two years course at the Mossad training school at Henzelia, near Tel Aviv. They had been sent to a special camp in the Negev desert. There they had learned to kill.

"They are taught how to use the weapon appropriate for the target. Strangulation with a cheese-cutter if the victim is to be killed at night. A handgun fitted with a silencer. A nerve agent delivered by an aerosol or injection," explained Victor Ostrovsky, a former member of kidon.

Ostrovsky, who today lives in Arizona, will not say who he has killed. But he quit Mossad - saying he could not "stomach the way they did things".

My sources in Mossad say he is "long past his sell-by date. We do things differently now".

And, by all accounts, more ruthlessly.

The man known to Mossad as "The Engineer" was a top Hamas bomb-maker. He lived on the West Bank, protected by gunmen.

One day he received a visitor - a distant cousin from Gaza. The young man spoke like so many from that hotbed of Islamic fanaticism.

Over mint tea, the two men spoke far into the evening. Finally, The Engineer invited his guest to stay over. The offer was accepted. The youth asked if he could use The Engineer's mobile phone to call his own family to say they should not worry.

He asked if he could make the call from outside the house to improve reception. The Engineer nodded. The call over, the two men fell asleep on the floor.

Next day, the youth left to return to Gaza. That morning, The Engineer received a call on the mobile. As he put the phone to his mouth and started to speak, his head was blown off.

The youth had been recruited by Mossad to plant a powerful explosive inside the phone. The detonation signal had come from a kidon half a mile away.

No one had seen him arrive. No one saw him go.

Over the past years, Mossad have killed scores of Israel's enemies by such methods.

"We try to never use the same method twice. Our technicians spend all their time devising new ways to kill," a Mossad source told me last week.

Their roll-call of Mission Successful includes; Fathi Shkaki, the leader of Islamic Jihad, and Gerald Bull, the rogue Canadian investor of Saddam's supergun.

The usual composition of a hit team is four. One is the "target locator". His task is to keep tabs on the victim's movements. Another is the "transporter", to get the team safely away from the killing area.

The remaining two men perform the execution. In the case of Gerald Bull they knocked on his front door late in the evening. The ballistic expert had just moved in. He had been assured he was safe by his Iraqi minders. But they had been lured away by some of the kidon back-up team.

These are known as sayanim - the Hebrew word for helpers. Throughout the world there are tens of thousands. Each has been carefully recruited to provide the kind of help that the kidon unit required to kill Bull.

The assassination was simple. Both kidon wore FedEx courier uniforms. One carried a package. The other knocked on the door. When Bull opened it, the package was thrust at him. As he stepped back he was shot - once in the forehead and once in the throat. He flew backwards into the hall. The package was retrieved, the door closed behind the dead Bull. Both men calmly walked away to where the "transporter" was waiting. In hours, the team was back in Tel Aviv.

Preparation for an assassination can take weeks, even months. The hit team, once selected, is moved to a Mossad safe house, one of many in Israel.

Eli Cohen, a former Mossad agent, told me that "a safe house looks like it was furnished from a car boot sale".

It was in one such safe house that the plan to assassinate Saddam Hussein was prepared.

It was elaborate even by Mossad standards. It revolved around killing Saddam during a visit to one of his mistresses.

Mossad agents in Baghdad had discovered that the woman, the widow of a serving Iraqi officer who had died mysteriously, would be driven from the palace to keep a tryst with Saddam in a desert villa outside the city.

Heavily guarded, the villa would be a hard target to hit.

But Mossad believed there was a window of opportunity between the time Saddam would land in his helicopter near the villa and enter its well-protected compound.

The plan to kill Saddam has long been on Mossad's agenda. But previous attempts had failed due to Saddam's obsession with changing his movements at the last moment.

Mossad believed he would not do so this time.

"The woman is irresistible," said a report from one of its Baghdad undercover agents.

Mossad had scouted an air corridor through which it believed a kidon could be flown in below Iraqi radar.

A final rehearsal was held in the Negev desert. Israeli commandos doubled as Saddam and his bodyguards - a party of five.

As they landed close to a replica of the villa, the kidon were in position. They were equipped with specially adapted shoulder-firing missiles. But their weapons were to only fire blanks for the rehearsal.

In a tragic mistake, one of the missiles had been replaced with a live one. It killed the make-believe Saddam and his bodyguards.

The operation was cancelled.

But last week Meir Dagan was said to be considering adapting it to once more try and kill Saddam.

After eleven days investigation, his teams in Mombasa confirmed the massacre had all the hallmarks of being an Iraqi-sponsored act carried out by al-Quaeda.

How and when Mossad will strike against Saddam is, understandably, a closely guarded secret.

But an intelligence sources suggested to me that a successful assassination of Saddam could see the looming threat of war recede.

"With Saddam out of the way there is no reason to invade Iraq. The people themselves will rise," said the source.

Dagan, the Mossad chief who could possible achieve that was born on a train between Russia and Poland. He speaks several languages. He is an action man, working 18 hour days. His private life is simple: he eschews the trappings of power that goes with the job of running MI6 or the CIA. His salary is a fraction of what their directors get. Three months into the job, he is adored by his staff.

In the past years, Mossad has experienced many publicised failures, a loss of morale and, worst of all, growing public criticism among its own people.

All that Meir Dagan is determined to change.

In his open neck shirt and chain store pants and sneakers, Dagan is no James Bond. The only spy fiction he is known to read is John Le Carre - because, he has told friends, he can at least empathise with its hero, Smiley.

Meir Dagan is also an avid reader of history of other intelligence services. It is said he knows more about the CIA and MI6 than many of its current employees.

He constantly reminds his staff that action cannot wait for certainty. That motive and deception are at the centre of their endeavours. That they must create situations which seek to draw fact out of darkness. For him the art of informed conjecture is an essential weapon.

Since Mombasa, Dagan has virtually worked and slept in his office. Its windows look eastwards to the Judean Hills. Beyond are the tribal badlands of Pakistan - where Dagan is convinced Osama bin-Laden is hiding - and the desert of Iraq through which Dagan believes Saddam will try and escape if war starts. The Mossad chief will be waiting.

Meantime, he is preoccupied with the latest news from Mombasa - and all those points east where his kidon team are tracking the planners of the outrage.

Some have gone to the Philippines. Others to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Mossad's scientists and pathologists, as well as field agents, katsas, have combed and bagged the clues from the Paradise hotel disaster area.

Every day an El Al plane has flown northwards to Israel with the evidence despite behind-the-scene protests by the Kenyan intelligence service.

Mossad agents in Nigeria have provided important details on al-Quaeda in that country. Katsas in South Africa have joined colleagues in Mombasa. From Rome, Malta and Cyprus, other Mossad agents sped down through Africa into the country's fierce heat.

Dagan's men are polite to the counter-intelligence officers from the CIA, MI6 and European services.

"But these are Israelis who are dead or injured. This is Mossad's job. And everybody had better remember that," said one Mossad source.

Mossad has made no friends on the ground. They rarely do. That is their style: go it alone. They believe they know more than anyone else in fighting terrorism. And they may be right.

In Tel Aviv, having done all he could for the moment, Meir Dagan waits.

The 57 years-old, battle-hardened hero of past wars in Lebanon, in all those places in the Middle East where the alleys have no names, has earned his reputation as a no-holds barred leader. In those days, with a handgun in his pocket and his dog at his heel, he had led from the front. Twice he had been wounded, so that nowadays he sometimes uses a walking stick. He dislikes doing so. He detests any sign of weakness in himself or in others.

Dagan is a blunt man, proud and imperious and prepared to stand on his record. He crushed the first Intifada in Gaza in 1971. Two years later he fought in the Yom Kippur War.

For him, Mossad, and ultimately Israel, the Mombasa massacre is a test - to show that Mossad is back on centre stage with a vengeance.

No other intelligence service has a better history of operations in Central Africa. In the 1960s Mossad drove out the vaunted Chinese Secret Intelligence Service. It stopped Cuba's Fidel Castro exporting his revolution into Africa. It beat the KGB at its own plans to turn the Congo into its playground. It was a dirty and deadly war.

A terrorist group ambushed a Mossad katsa in the Congo and fed him to the crocodiles. They filmed his last, threshing moments in the water - and sent the footage to the local Mossad station chief. He retaliated by placing a two-pound bomb under the toilet seat of the terrorist leader. It blew the villa apart. Twelve terrorists died.

Mossad built up a relationship with BOSS, the security service of the South African apartheid government. It sent a team to Pretoria to teach BOSS the art of sophisticated methods of interrogation. Israeli instructors showed them the black art of sleep deprivation, hooding, forcing a suspect to stand facing a wall for long hours, and mental tortures such as mock tortures.

"The one certainty is that if the Mombasa killers are caught Mossad won't bother with mock executions," said a Mossad source.

The methods Mossad uses are often outside the law. They have a unit that specialises in burglary - using far more sophisticated means than those employed by the infamous Watergate burglars. Their ineptitude led to the downfall of President Nixon.

They have a special team of scientists working at the Institute for Biological Research in Tel Aviv. They prepare the deadly toxins for the kidon.

Where other intelligence agencies no longer allow their agents to kill, kidon have no such restraint. They remain fully licensed to assassinate in the name of Israel once they have routinely convinced the incumbent prime minister of the need to do so.

Ariel Sharon needs little convincing.

Mossad's assassins routinely witness some of Israel's leading forensic pathologists at work so as to better understand how to make an assassination look like an accident.

They learn how a pinprick or small blemish left on a victim's skin can be a give away. They are shown how to ensure against this.

It makes them probably the most sophisticated lawfully-approved killers in the world.

This morning (Sunday) Meir Dagan, as he has done every day since the Mombasa attack, will awaken from a combat veteran's light sleep. This squat, barrel-chested man will take his customary cold water shower and eat his daily breakfast of natural yogurt, toast spread with honey washed down with several cups of strong black coffee.

Next he will study the latest reports from not only East Africa - but from all those areas where his team of hunters have now moved.

After briefing the prime minister on the scrambler phone that links Dagan to Ariel Sharon, the memune may spend an hour at an easel in the corner of his office - touching up one of the watercolour paintings which are the only known passion in his life.

But like everything else about him, they will remain under lock and key. Just as with his plan to assassinate Saddam Hussein, the first the world will know, if Mossad is successful, will be after it has happened.

Largest Swiss Newspaper Asks if Bush Was Behind 9/11…

Aku pun percaya pada teori Sept 11 ni...Bush, terrorist...minyak...naik lagi?

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By Elie Peter - Sept 15, 2006, BLICK newspaper, Zurich, Switzerland

(translated from German into English, but not yet published online in English)

2,973 humans died with the attacks of 9/11. “Bin Laden” and “Al Qaeda”, the Bush clan cried. The world believed themm. In the meantime even scientists doubt the Bush version. Now, Swiss university professors Albert A. Stahel and Daniele Ganser raise new questions.

“Something is not correct”, says strategy expert Stahel in “World Week”, and here he refers to the “incomplete” official US Government 9/11 Report of 2004.

The university professor confirms his criticism in BLICK: “Osama Bin Laden cannot be ‘the large godfather’ behind the attacks. He did not have enough means of communication”.

Dr. Stahel doubts that a passenger airliner crashed into the Pentagon: “For trainee pilots it is actually impossible to crash into the building so exactly. Seven hours after the Twin Towers collapsed, the World Trade Center Building 7 next to it also collapsed. The official version: It burned for a long time. Nothing at all is clear.”

Raising questions along with Stahel is historian Dr. Daniele Ganser, his colleague at the University of Zurich. Dr. Ganser also calls the official US version “a conspiracy theory”.

“There are three theories, which we should treat equally”:

1. “Surprise theory” - Bin Laden and Al Qaeda implemented the attacks.

2. “Let it happen on purpose” - The US Government knew the Al Qaeda plans and did not react in order to legitimize a series of wars.

3. “Made it happen on purpose” - The attacks were actually planned and orchestrated by the Pentagon and/or US secret services.

Ganser: “3,000 humans were sacrificed for strategic interests. The more we research, the more we doubt the Bush version. It is conceivable that the Bush government was responsible. Bush has lied so much already! And we already know that the US government planned an operation in 1962 [Operation Northwood] that was approved by the Pentagon that would have sacrificed innocent US citizens for the government’s own interests.”

As for Ganser and Stahel: “We only ask questions.”

The Biography of Prophet Muhammad S.A.W.

1. When was the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) born?
He was born on Monday, 12th Rabi Al Awwal, April 22nd, 571 AC.

2. Where was the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) born?
In Makkah

3. What is the name of the Prophet's father?
Abdullah Ibn Abdul Muttalib.

4. What is the name of the Prophet's mother?
Aminah Bint Wahhab Ibn Abd Manaf Ibn Zahrah.

5. When and where did his (prophet's) father die?
He died in Makkah before Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) was born.

6. What is the name of the Prophet's grandfather?
Abdul Muttalib.

7. What was his granfather's position?
He was the chief of his clan Bani Hashim.

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8. What is the Prophet's (p.b.u.h.) lineage up to his fifth ancestor?
He is Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Ibn Abdul Muttalib Ibn Hashim Ibn Abd Manaf Ibn Qusai Ibn Kilab.

9. Who suckled the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.)?
First Thuyeba, the freed slave girl of his uncle Abdul Uzza known as Abu Lahab, then Haleema Bint Abu Dhuaib, best known as Haleema Al Sadiyah.

10. Who named the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.)?
Abdul Muttalib.

11. What did Muhammad's (p.b.u.h.) mother name him?
Ahmad.

12. Why did she (the Prophet's mother) choose this name?
Because she saw an angel in a dream calling the new-born baby Ahmad.

13. How old was Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) when his mother died?
Six years old.

14. Where did his mother take him?
She took him to Yathrib (Madinah) to visit her relatives.

15. Where did his mother die?
On her way back to Makkah, she died at Abwa and was buried there.

16. Who brought Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) back to Makkah?
His father’s slave girl, Umm Aiman (May Allah be pleased with her).

17. Who took the charge of his care?
His grandfather Abdul Muttalib.

18. How long did The Prophet's grandfather take care of the Prophet Muhammad?
For two years.

19. How was his (Abdul Muttalib's) behavior with Muhammad (p.b.u.h.)?
He loved him very much and preferred him to his own sons.

20. What did Abdul Muttalib foretell about his grandson?
That he would hold a prestigious position.

21. Who took care of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) after the death of Abdul Muttalib?
His uncle Abu Talib.

22. How old was Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) when his grandfather Abdul Muttalib died?
About eight years old.

23. When did Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) travel to Syria and with whom?
He went to Syria with his uncle Abu Talib when he was twelve years old.

24. Who was Khadijah (May Allah be pleased with her)?
She was a wealthy merchant of Makkah.

25. Why did she (Khadijah) want to marry Muhammad (p.b.u.h.)?
Because of his truthfulness and good conduct.

26. When did she (Khadijah) marry Muhammad (p.b.u.h.)?
When she was 40 years old.

27. How old was Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) at the time of the marriage?
He was 25.

28. What did he (the Prophet) give her (Khadijah) as Mahr (dowry)?
Twenty camels.

29. Was Khadijah (May Allah be pleased with her) a widow?
Yes. The Prophet (p.b.u.h.) was her third husband.

30. How was Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) known in the society?
He was known as Al Ameen (trustworthy) and Al Sadiq (truthful).

31. Did he get any sort of education?
No, he didnt get any formal education from the society, rather he was taught by Almighty Allah.

32. What should one say when the Prophet's (p.b.u.h.) name is mentioned?
One should say صلى الله عليه وسلم (May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).

33. How many times is the name of Muhammad mentioned in the Holy Quran?
Four times.

34. What are the names of the Prophet’s (p.b.u.h.) uncles?
They are: Harith, Zubair, Abu Talib, Hamzah (May Allah be pleased with him), Abu Lahab, Ghidaq, Maqwam, Safar and Abbas (May Allah be pleased with him).

35. Did his uncle Abu Talib accept Islam?
No, he died a polytheist.

36. In the New Testament by what name was the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) mentioned?
By the name of Paraclete.

37. What is Kabah?
It is the oldest house of worship on the earth.

38. Who built it?
The Prophet Ibrahim and his son Ismael (May Allah be pleased with them).

39. How did Quraish arrange rebuilding of Kabah?
They divided the work among various tribes. Each tribe was responsible for rebuilding a part of it.

40. Who laid the stones?
A Byzantine mason called Baqum.

41. Where did the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) go into seclusion?
To the Cave of Hira.

42. What was the fist stage of the revelation?
True dreams.

43. When did the first revelation come down to him?
On Monday, 21st of Ramadan, at night (August 10th, 610 AC). He was forty years then.

44. Who brought it?
Jibrael.

45. Who were the first to embrace Islam?
Four persons: Khadijah his wife, Zaid Ibn Haritha his freed slave, Ali Ibn Abi Talib his cousin and Abu Bakr his friend (May Allah be pleased with them).

46. Who accepted Islam at the instance of Abu Bakr (May Allah be pleased with him)?
Uthman Ibn Affan, Zubair Ibn Awwam, Abdur Rahman Ibn Awf, Sad Ibn Abi Waqqaas, Talha Ibn Ubaidullah and Saeed Ibn Zaid (Umar’s son-in-law) (May Allah be pleased with them).

47. Who were the ladies to accept Islam at first?
Abbas’s wife Ummaul Fadl, Abu Bakr’s wife Asma Bint Umais, his daughter Asma Bint Abi Bakr and Fatimah Bint Al Khattab Umar’s sister (May Allah be pleased with them).

48. How was the Dawah done in the beginning?
It was done in secret.

49. How many people embraced Islam in the early stage?
About forty.

50. How many years did the call in secret continue?
For three years.

51. During this period, where would the Muslims gather secretly?
They would gather secretly in the house of a Muslim called Arqam to learn about Islam and the revelations sent down to the Prophet (p.b.u.h.).

52. When did the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) start to preach Islam openly?
After three years when he received the revelation to that effect.

53. What was the impact of his public preaching?
The people accepted Islam increasingly.

54. What was the main miracle of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.)?
The Holy Quran.

55. Did the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) perform other miracles?
Yes, the splitting of the moon was one of them.

56. Who was Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib?
One of the Prophet’s (p.b.u.h.) uncles.

57. Name some of the disbelievers of Makkah who supported the Prophet (p.b.u.h.), but did not embrace Islam until the end.
Abu Talib, Mutim Ibn Adi and Abul Bukhtari.

58. How long did Abu Talib protect the Prophet (p.b.u.h)?
For 42 years – from the Prophet’s childhood until he himself died.

59. Who was Mutim Ibn Adi?
A chief of Makkah.

60. When did he (Mutim Ibn Adi) give protection to the Prophet (p.b.u.h.)?
When the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) returned from Taif and wanted to enter Makkah.

61. When did he (Mutim Ibn Adi) die?
He was killed in the Battle of Badr.

62. Who was Abul Bukhtari?
He was a poet.

63. How did he (Abul Bukhtari) support the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.)?
He spoke out against the social boycott.

64. What lead the Muslims to emigrate to Abyssinia?
Their growing persecution at the hands of Quraish.

65. Which Surah lead to this emigration?
Surah Az Zumar.

66. When was Abul Bukhtari killed?
In the battle of Badr.

67. Who was then the King of Abyssinia?
The King of Abyssinia, known as Najjashi (the Negus), during the time of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) was As'hama.

68. When did the first group of Muslims leave for Abyssinia?
In Rajab, in the fifth year of Prophethood.

69. How many persons were there in the group?
12 men and 4 women.

70. How were the emigrants received in Abyssinia?
They were received warmly and hospitably.

71. When did the second group of emigrants leave for Abyssinia?
In the fifth year of Prophethood.

72. How many people formed the group?
83 men and 18 women.

73. Name a prominent companion included in this group.
Ja'far Ibn Abi Talib (May Allah be pleased with him).

74. What did Quraish do?
They despatched two envoys to Abyssinia to demand the extradition of the emigrants.

75. How did the King respond?
He refused to extradite the Muslims and assured them of his full protection.

76. When did Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) accept Islam?
At the age of 27.

77. Who was Bilal Ibn Rabah (May Allah be pleased with him)?
He was a slave of Umayyah Ibn Khalaf.

78. What was his (Bilal Ibn Rabah's) origin?
He was of Abyssinian decent.

79. What was the name of Bilal's mother?
Hamama.

80. Who was Yaser (May Allah be pleased with him)?
He was a slave of Abu Jahl.

81. Who was Sumayyah (May Allah be pleased with her)?
She was Yaser's (a slave of Abu Jahl) wife.

82. Who was Ammar (May Allah be pleased with him)?
He was Yaser and Sumayyah's only son.

83. How did Summaya (May Allah be pleased) die?
Abu Jahl murderded her with a bayonet.

84. Who was Zaid Ibn Haritha (May Allah be pleased with him)?
He was a slave.

85. Who purchased him (Zaid Ibn Haritha)?
Khadijah's nephew Hakim Ibn Hizam purchased him and presented him to her.

86. What did Khadijah do with Zaid Bin Haritha?
She presented him to the Prophet who set him free.

87. Did Zaid Bin Haritha want to go to his parents?
No, he preferred to live with the Prophet (p.b.u.h.).

88. To whom was Zaid Bin Haritha married?
To Umma Aiman (May Allah be pleased with her).

89. Who was Ja'far?
He was the elder brother of Ali Ibn Talib (May Allah be pleased with him).

90. Where did he (Ja'far) emigrate?
To Abyssinia.

91. Who was Ali (May Allah be pleased with him)?
He was the son of Abu Talib and cousin of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.).

92. When did Ali (May Allah be pleased with him) accept Islam?
When he was 10.

93. What was he (Ali) called for his bravery?
The "Lion of Allah".

94. Whom did Ali first marry?
He first married the Prophet's (p.b.u.h.) daughter Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her).

95. How many sons did Ali have from her?
Two sons: Hasan and Husain (May Allah be pleased with them).

96. When did Sa'd bn Abi Waqqas (May Allah be pleased with him) become a Muslim?
When he was 19.

97. Where did Sa'd (May Allah be pleased with him) die?
He died in Al Madinah.

98. What was Sa'd's advice to Muslims?
To stand united.

99. Who was Abu Bakr's father (May Allah be pleased with him) and did he accept Islam?
He was Uthman (May Allah be pleased with him) (Abu Quhafah). Yes, he accepted Islam during the Conquest of Makkah.

Barang Naik...penyelarasan sajerrr?

Dollah...ko anak beranak memang pembawa sial kpd negara...resign la Dollah ooiiii...

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PUTRAJAYA: Berkuatkuasa jam 12 tengah malam tadi, harga petrol dinaikkan sebanyak 78 sen iaitu kenaikan tertinggi dalam sejarah negara.

Ini menjadikan harga baru bahan api itu RM2.70 seliter berbanding RM1.92 seliter sebelum ini.

Harga baru diesel pula ialah RM2.58 seliter, meningkat RM1 berbanding harga lama RM1.58 sen seliter.

Kali terakhir diesel dan petrol dinaikkan pada 28 Februari 2006 yang membabitkan kenaikan 30 sen seliter bagi kedua-dua bahan api itu. Bagaimanapun, harga baru itu jauh lebih rendah berbanding RM5.20 bagi petrol dan RM4.33 bagi diesel di Singapura yang mengapungkan bahan api berkenaan.
Kenaikan harga petrol dan diesel itu diumumkan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, dalam satu sidang media di pejabatnya di sini, petang semalam.

Dalam usaha mengurangkan beban golongan berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana terhadap kenaikan itu, Perdana Menteri berkata, kerajaan bersetuju memberi bayaran tunai kepada warga Malaysia yang memiliki kenderaan persendirian, termasuk motosikal.

“Bagi pemilik kenderaan persendirian yang berkapasiti enjin sehingga 2000cc (kuasa kuda) manakala trak pikap dan jip berkapasiti enjin sehingga 2500cc, bayaran tunai RM625 setahun bagi setiap kenderaan akan diberikan.

“Bagi pemilik motosikal persendirian berkapasiti enjin sehingga 250cc, bayaran tunai RM150 setahun bagi setiap motosikal akan diberikan,” katanya.

Menjelaskan mengenai pembayaran tunai itu, Abdullah berkata, ia akan diberi apabila pemilik kenderaan dan motosikal membayar atau memperbaharui lesen kenderaan bermotor (cukai jalan) yang berkuat kuasa mulai 1 April 2008 hingga 31 Mac 2009.

“Bayaran tunai itu akan diberikan secara kiriman wang di Pos Malaysia di seluruh negara mulai 1 Julai 2008,” katanya.

Beliau berkata, bagi pemilik kenderaan dan motosikal yang tidak termasuk dalam kategori itu, kerajaan memutuskan untuk mengurangkan bayaran cukai jalan yang berkuat kuasa 1 Jun lalu.

“Bagi pemilik kenderaan petrol dan diesel berkapasiti enjin melebihi 2000cc, cukai jalan akan dikurangkan RM200 manakala pemilik motosikal persendirian berkapasiti enjin lebih daripada 250cc, cukai jalan akan dikurangkan RM50, tertakluk kepada cukai jalan minimum sebanyak RM2,” katanya.

Itu satu daripada langkah yang diluluskan Kabinet menerusi pakej penstrukturan semula subsidi bahan api yang turut merangkumi mekanisme untuk melindungi golongan berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana.

Langkah seterusnya, Abdullah berkata, Kabinet juga bersetuju menyelaraskan subsidi diesel untuk syarikat pengangkutan yang diluluskan, syarikat pengangkutan vesel dan nelayan.

“Pada masa ini, operator pengangkutan, nelayan dan pemilik vesel menikmati harga subsidi berbeza bagi diesel iaitu RM1 seliter bagi nelayan dan RM1.20 seliter bagi pemilik diesel.

“Kabinet hari ini (semalam) bersetuju menyelaraskan harga diesel kepada RM1.43 seliter berkuatkuasa esok (hari ini), dengan penyelarasan harga itu tidak akan menjejaskan syarikat pengangkutan di bawah sistem `fleet card’ yang akan terus menikmati subsidi petrol dan diesel pada harga ini,” katanya.

Berikutan itu, beliau berkata, Kabinet bersetuju membayar sebahagian daripada perbezaan harga lama dan baru itu secara tunai kepada nelayan dan pemilik vesel.

“Kerajaan akan membayar secara tunai sebanyak RM200 setiap bulan kepada pemilik dan pekerja vesel rakyat Malaysia yang berdaftar dengan Jabatan Perikanan dan bayaran insentif kepada pemilik vesel pada kadar 10 sen sekilogram hasil tangkapan ikan yang didaratkan di pusat perikanan dalam negara.

“Kabinet juga memutuskan pengusaha bot penumpang sungai juga akan diberi bayaran tunai 10 sen seliter berdasarkan kuota yang diluluskan,” katanya.

Selain itu, mulai 1 Julai depan, Perdana Menteri berkata, harga gas yang dibekalkan Petronas di Semenanjung akan diubah iaitu bagi sektor elektrik, harganya akan dinaikkan daripada RM6.40 setiap mmBtu kepada RM14.31 setiap mmBtu.

Abdullah turut mengumumkan satu struktur tarif baru elektrik akan berkuatkuasa pada 1 Julai depan.

Ia akan diguna pakai semua pengguna domestik (rumah), komersial dan industri di Semenanjung Malaysia, manakala satu struktur tarif baru bagi Sabah dan Sarawak akan diumumkan selepas ini.

“Struktur tarif baru ini tidak akan menjejaskan pengguna yang menggunakan 200 Kilowatt Jam (kWj) ke bawah setiap bulan dengan anggaran bil elektrik kurang daripada RM43.60 dan ini bermakna, 59 peratus isi rumah di Semenanjung akan membayar kadar sama selagi mereka mengekalkan tahap penggunaan yang sama.

“Pengguna komersial dan industri pula akan mengalami peningkatan sebanyak 26 peratus, tetapi bagi peruncit, pekedai dan pengusaha restoran kecil, mereka hanya akan mengalami kenaikan 18 peratus jika menggunakan tidak melebihi 200 kWj setiap bulan,” katanya.

Beliau berkata, Kabinet juga bersetuju memansuhkan levi sistem subsidi minyak masak (COSS) sedia ada berkuatkuasa 1 Julai depan dan bagi menggantikannya Kabinet akan melaksanakan peruntukan mengikut Akta Levi Keuntungan Berlebihan 1998 ke atas Pengeluar Minyak Kelapa Sawit.

“Walaupun COSS dimansuhkan, harga minyak masak tetap sama kerana hasil daripada pelaksanaan levi baru itu akan digunakan untuk membiayai subsidi minyak masak,” katanya.

Selain harga minyak masak yang tidak akan dinaikkan iaiatu RM1.75 setiap satu kilogram, harga Gas Asli bagi Kenderaan (NGV) iaitu 63.5 sen seliter juga dikekalkan.

Bagi memastikan rakyat tidak terbeban dengan bayaran cukai perkhidmatan restoran yang terletak di luar hotel, kerajaan bersetuju perolehan jualan tahunan (threshold) restoran seperti itu dinaikkan daripada RM500,000 kepada RM3 juta.

Perdana Menteri berkata, kerajaan menganggarkan RM13.7 bilion akan diperolehi daripada penstrukturan semula subsidi petrol, diesel dan gas serta pendapatan daripada levi yang dikenakan terhadap syarikat Penjana Tenaga Bebas (IPP) dan POP.

Ia akan digunakan untuk Dasar Jaminan Bekalan Makanan Negara iaitu RM4 bilion, subsidi minyak masak (RM1.5 bilion), subsidi pembelian beras import bagi penyeragaman harga beras di Sabah dan Sarawak (RM0.4 bilion), subsidi tepung (RM0.2 bilion), subsidi roti (0.1 bilion) dan sumbangan kepada subsidi petrol, diesel dan gas iaitu RM7.5 bilion.

Tarif baru elektrik 1 Julai

Naik lagi...Barang Naik..Barang Naik..BN..BN..

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PUTRAJAYA: Satu struktur baru tarif elektrik untuk Semenanjung Malaysia akan diperkenalkan mulai 1 Julai ini.

Ketika mengumumkan perkara itu hari ini, Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi berkata pelaksanaan tarif baru itu tidak akan menjejaskan pengguna yang menggunakan kurang dari 200 kilowatt jam (kWj) sebulan dengan anggaran bil elektrik kurang dari RM43.60.

"Ini bermakna 59 peratus isi rumah di Semenanjung Malaysia akan membayar kadar yang sama selagi mereka mengekalkan tahap penggunaan yang sama,” kata beliau pada sidang media di sini.
Pengguna domestik dan industri akan mengalami peningkatan tarif sebanyak 26 peratus melalui struktur baru tarif itu, kata beliau.

Bagaimanapun, bagi kategori komersil dan industri, pertimbangan dibuat kepada peruncit, pekedai dan pengusaha restoran kecil serta pengusaha industri seperti perusahaan kampung yang penggunaannya tidak melebihi dari 200 kWj setiap bulan akan hanya mengalami kenaikan 18 peratus, katanya.

"Sektor komersil dan industri akan menjadi lebih bermotivasi untuk melaksanakan langkah-langkah kecekapan dalam operasinya manakala pengguna isi rumah akan mengamalkan penjimatan tenaga serta mengelakkan dari pembaziran,” katanya.

Abdullah berkata pelaksanaan struktur tarif baru itu adalah selaras dengan keputusan kerajaan untuk menstrukturkan semula subsidi di mana usaha itu akan menuju ke arah pasaran sebenar, meningkatkan kecekapan pasaran serta mengalakkan rakyat Malaysia menjimatkan sumber tenaga.

Shamsiah Fakeh...Pejuang kemerdekaan?

Oleh: Jejak-pejuang

Saya cuba mencari data mengenai Shamsiah Fakeh tetapi amat sedikit catatan nya...jadi apa yang saya tuliskan untuk anda hari ini adalah satu pengalaman peribadi saya.....kalau salah harap dapat maafkan....

Di alam persekolahan saya diajar bahawa Shamsiah Fakeh seorang komunis......terus dibenak ini mengatakan dia pembelot bangsa melayu krn setahu saya komunis tidak mempunyai agama..melayu murtadlah beliau ni.......tertanya juga kenapa dia sanggup murtad hanya krn inginkan menjadi pemimpin.......Semasa dialam 20an pula saya agak terkejut apabila Kerajaan Malaysia telah memaafkan beliau dan membawa pulang beliau ke Malaysia setelah hampir seabad lamanya tinggal sebagai buangan di China.....hati saya bertambah marah.....mengapa orang melayu masih mahu perempuan tua ni.....

Jan 2003 adalah tarikh keramat bagi saya.....Dengan izin TUHAN dan juga pertolongan seorang Tuk Muda saya dibawa berjumpa dengan SHAMSIAH FAKEH.....(sekarang ni beliau tinggal di Kuchai Lama)....sedih sungguh keadaannya...bila berjumpa dengannya dia tidak segan-segan memeluk saya....dengan teresak-esak katanya gembira berjumpa dengan gadis melayu (anak nya semua berkahwin dgn wanita cina)....beliau tidak bermaya...beliau berkerusi roda......selama seminggu kami berulang kerumahnya untuk berurut....syukur..kakinya agak pulih....

Dari situlah saya mengenali beliau dgn lebih dekat.....rupanya beliau orang Kuala Pilah, N9..beliau mendapat pendidikan agama sehinggakan menjadi hafizah ketika itu......kenapa komunis????? soalan yang tak sanggup saya tanya kepada wanita tua ini.....akhirnya saya mendapat jawapannya juga.....

Rupanya wanita berhati waja dikatakan bukan sahaja mempunyai ilmu kebal, beliau juga adalah org kepercayaan Ching Peng. Tiada siapa yang boleh menangkap beliau...tetapi dgn tiba-tiba sahaja dikatakan wanita ni lari ke negeri China kerana telah kalah dan mendapat suaka di negeri China....

Sebenarnya beliau bukan takut untuk berperang tetapi sebenarnya beliau sendiri yg menawarkan diri untuk menjadi penasihat ketenteraan negara China...(pelik…kenapa orang Cina mengambil seorang wanita melayu untuk menjadi penasihat ketenteran nya?????) mesti ada agenda dan rupanya inilah satu-satunya cara untuk menyelamatkan orang melayu dari disembelih oleh komunis ketika itu.....2 tahun komunis berkuasa di tanah melayu (ingat semasa Jepun kalah dan British pula belum sampai di tanah melayu dan raja pula semua telah lari ke England dan dimasa ini digelar zaman peralihan kuasa ) ....ketika itu sebenarnya komunis tersangatlah kuat dan Komunis yang berbangsa Cina hanya menunggu arahan dari China utk membunuh orang-orang melayu seperti di Bosnia (pembunuhan enik) dan ingin mengelarkan tanah ni sebagai tanah mereka , akan tetapi Shamsiah Fakeh telah nampak keadaan ni ...beliau dan Rashid Maidin terus ke Negara China utk menolong orang melayu dgn mengarahkan Presiden ketika itu jangan membunuh orang melayu..sebagai gantiannya beliau akan mengajar teknik ketenteraan kepada negara tersebut ...tu pasal lah sekarang ni negara China mempunyai kepakaran ketenteraan yg sangat hebat..sampai USA pun takut.....(mungkin ada yang kurang bersetuju dgn saya)........

Apa yang saya ingin nyatakan disini adalah ....wanita ini sebenarnya telah banyak berjasa (tetapi tidak didokumentasikan) tanpa meminta secubit simpati pun dari warga yang bernama Melayu.....sebenarnya beliau telah patah hati dgn kerajaan Malaysia (maaf tak dapat saya tuliskan disini kenapa).....pejuang ni akan meninggalkan kita tak lama lagi ....beliau akan pulang ke negeri China untuk meneruskan sisa-sisa kehidupannya.........Cuma saya sedih kenapa kerajaan kita tidak mendokumentasikan sejarah pejuang-pejuang kita....yang ada cumalah cerita dari mulut kemulut .......mungkin selepas 100 tahun lagi anak kita tidak mengenal pejuang mereka sendiri atau ada yang akan mengelarkan mereka sebagai cerita dogeng (seperti Hang Tuah)......dan mereka akan menganggap pejuang seperti Shamsiah Fakeh, Rashid Maidin, Mat Kilau, Tok Bahaman, Tok Janggut dan ramai lagi sebagai adalah lanun, perompak dan sebagainya.... samalah seperti saya yang dahulunya beranggapan Shamsiah Fakeh sebagai pembelot bangsa ....