WITH FEET OF CLAY QUIETLY SNEAKING AWAY IN FEAR.

The DG of Jakim, Wan Mohamad has issued a strong challenge to the administration of AAB and has publicly humiliated the premier by telling him to “fly kite” over the latter proposal which requires non-Muslims to inform their family before their conversion to Islam.
Will the minister in the PM department Ahmad Zahid who declared last month that “all officers working with Islamic agencies must support the government policies or they will have to quit their jobs” rise up to Wan Mohamad challenge and pick up that thrown gauntlet? Or will he with feet of clay quietly sneak away in fear and hope that Wan Mohamad challenge stays unnoticed by the public.

Senior Islamic leaders have rejected a proposal to require non-Muslims wishing to convert to Islam to inform their family before doing so.
Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) director-general Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz said this was decided at a recent conference in Seremban to streamline Syariah and civil laws.
The conference was attended by state legal advisors, muftis, syarie judges and Islamic department directors.
“It is the unanimous conclusion of the conference members that the implementation of the proposal was unnecessary,” said Wan Mohamad.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had said the Government would introduce a regulation requiring non-Muslims wishing to convert to Islam to inform their family before doing so.
He said this would prevent problems of families disputing the conversion of their loved ones when they die.

The AAB media is making the most out of the Balkis issue and continues to deliver underbelly blows at Khir Toyo for being on the wrong side of UMNO political divide.
The Warong kopi says “Since the Datin Sri loves to go on “lawatan sambil belajar” activities perhaps an all paid “tinggal sambil belajar” on the practical aspects of our penitentiary system could be scheduled as her next itinerary”

While their husbands went on lawatan sambil belajar, the wives were not to be outdone. Shopping trips, overseas junkets and lavish functions have been the hallmark of activities of Balkis– Association of Wives of State Assemblymen and Members of Parliament in Selangor.
Nothing wrong with the junkets, except that their excesses were paid for by the state government and private donors, who contributed money in the belief that it was going to good causes. Attempts to get an insight into its operations have come to naught – newly appointed state executive councillors Teresa.
Kok and Elizabeth Wong who had gone to the Balkis secretariat to seek information and collect files were refused entry. Staff had been“instructed” not to allow access to the office - some of its programmes raise the question if Balkis’ philanthropy is a façade for a group of VIPs to enjoy themselves at the expense of generous donors who included state government subsidiaries.
In the eight years that Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo has been mentri besar, his wife and Balkis president Datin Seri Zaharah Kechik (above) has led delegations to Europe, Hongkong and Australia.
According to sources in the state government, these trips were listed as among Balkis’ annual activities but had nothing to do with charity.
Balkis’ accounts have never been made public and no one is sure if they too had suffered the same fate as other documents – shredded and destroyed after Barisan Nasional (BN)’s rule in Selangor ended on March 8.

What if it had been an extra 3 votes for Tan Seng Giaw?
That would certainly have been a great start for the 12^th Parliament and would have shaken the URFeG to its core.

The opposition was left flummoxed yesterday over its solidarity when its candidate for the deputy speaker's position, Dr Tan Seng Giaw, polled 81 votes instead of the expected 82.
After the vote, opposition deputies singled out independent, Datuk Ibrahim Ali, as the likely villain.
Ibrahim was coy about it.
"My vote is secret. I am a man of integrity. It is up to people to say what they want. It is confidential," Ibrahim said.
Though an independent, Ibrahim had contested the Pasir Mas seat on a Pas ticket.
Ibrahim said he did not have any problems with Dr Tan and counted him a friend.