When an exchange of opinions gets into egoistic territory and becomes almost a battle of wits, it's best to bow and walk away.Some people are so prone to argument they exhaust you! Some efforts are so exhaustive, they don't really seem worth the result achieved! In a world that makes more demands on us than we have the strength or patience to meet, it would be reasonable to fight for only that which is worth the effort! Why waste time, breath and mental armory if the end result is not really worth i For the cops, being skeptical seems to go with the job profile, though to what end is anybody's guess. The cops' inherent quality to doubt others can come across as a way of verifying all the facts before coming to a conclusion, or it can seem to be a way to discredit or confuse the person being questioned.corruption booms when perverse incentives reward rather than penalize it.
We need institutional changes to end those perverse incentives.
We need three major institutional reforms for starters. First, we need a mechanism that induces criminals to leave politics. Second, we need judicial incentives that speed up justice. Third, we need an independent Police Commission ,that can investigate and prosecute the biggest politicos regardless of their clout, making corruption highly risky instead of profitable.we must extricate the police from the control of politicians, and have a truly independent Police Commission Law and order is necessarily political and has to remain with home ministers. But crime detection should not be political, and so can be devolved entirely to an independent Police Commission. when an angry electorate finally obliged politicians to stop treating politics as a lucrative, tax-free profession
"If one tells the cops a person has committed suicide. They ask why can't it be homicide. When you tell them it was a homicide, they argue that it's a suicide. When you plead with them to register murder, they will call it an accident. When they call it an accident, you have to forget that there was something fishy," said a social worker on condition of anonymity at Imambada police station last week.The social worker said citizens often find it hard to tackle the exaggerated doubts that cops express in every matter. "If a victim says that she was sexually assaulted, the cops would inevitably ask her whether she had recently broken off with the perpetrator of the crime," he said.The social worker believes the police should first file a complaint and find out the facts during investigation. "Just to keep the crime record of the police station descent, there is a section of cops that confuses the complainants on many occasions," he said.A similar drama of cops and aggrieved citizens at loggerheads over a complaint was seen at police station in the wee hours sometime last week
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Gujarat cop Sanjeev Bhatt’s revelations, contained in his affidavit filed before the Supreme Court, may come as a surprise to many. But for all those who lived in Gujarat during those fateful days and were in the thick of things, the contents only provide substantiation of what they had heard then. A top police officer of the state told me a couple of days after the riots started how director general of poice K Chakravarthy was uncomfortable on being told by Narendra Modi at a meeting to allow Hindus to vent their feelings.Though perturbed, Chakravarthy, a naturally timid person, could not muster the guts to stand up to his boss. So, instead he lamented to top police officers like the person to whom I had spoken. Or at least that is what the officer told me.
A mosque is a place where peace and purity should reign, but sad to say this was not so at the Masjid Amru al As in Sentul, Kuala Lumpur.
Instead, a stampede broke out and rough words were used as hundreds of Muslims rowed over a pornographic video depicting two positions of sexual intercourse as well oral sex between a man and a female sex worker.
The video had been 'discovered' by the 'Datuk T' trio and there is widespread belief it is part of a conspiracy hatched by Prime Minister Najib Razak to bring down his arch rival Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.
“Please, I am pleading with you, leave the mosque now. We are all Muslims,” Abdul Razak Husin, the mosque's chairman, had earlier pleaded as shouts of Anwar zina (Anwar adultery) rang out.
The taunts triggered Anwar's supporters to shout back Qazak, qazaf (a Muslim hearing where 4 witnesses are required) and for the religious authorities to come and arrest 'Datuk T'.
Turns up late in bullet-proof vests
But the star of the planned Friday oath-taking, Datuk T's Shazryl Eskay Abdullah, turned up late.The Datuk T trio are businessman Shazryl, former Malacca chief minister Rahim Thamby Chik and Perkasa treasurer Shuaib Lazim. All three have links to Najib and former premier Mahathir Mohamad.
According to the Star, they arrived at 4.15pm and marched into the mosque apparently wearing bullet-proof vests. Only Shazryl performed the sumpah laknat (or oath-cum-curse) rite at about 4.20pm.
Swearing that it was Anwar and himself who were the men in the video, and that it was Anwar who had performed the sex acts, Shazryl said: “If I have committed slander then Allah will lay a curse on me."
The three were escorted out after the ceremony by FRU personnel.
Last month, the trio tried to 'anonymously' screen the video to a group of journalists but their indentities were discovered and they were forced to confess. They claimed their purpose was to expose Anwar and demanded his resignation.
But despite their obvious crime, as distributing or showing pornographic material is illegal in Malaysia, the police have not arrested or charged the trio. This further reinforced speculation of Najib's hand in the scam.
Shazryl was supposed to take the oath at 2pm. He had even challenged Anwar to make a similar oath in the mosque to 'prove' his innocence.
Black day for Islam
PKR Youth chief Shamsul Iskandar, who had earlier led party members in their prayers after the initial ruckus in the mosque had died down, condemned the "circus".
"It is a shame what Shazryl and the Umno leaders are doing to Islam," he told Malaysia Chronicle. "If there is any doubt, as Muslims, let us go to the Islamic courts and take the qazaf route. Why opt for sumpah and bring disrepute and chaos to a place of worship when there is already a court for Islamic justice.""Umno leaders are not interested in abiding by the Islamic law, they just want to take Anwar down. They are giving Datuk T the blessing for distributing pornographic material," Seri Setia assemblyman Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad told Malaysia Chronicle.
There are increasing calls from Muslim leaders for the religious authorities to take action against the Datuk T trio for making allegations without proof. Slander or fitnah is prohibited in Islam and a punishable offense.
Christian leaders have already lashed out at the Najib administration for closing an eye on the porn that has appeared in the government-controlled mainstream media, which have sought to maximise the damage to Anwar's image.
PAS leaders have also called on Parent-Teacher Associations to complain against obscene media coverage, while the DAP has mooted a nationwide anti-smut campaign.
"In Islam, only the person who has been accused can take the oath and not the person who is accusing. Why is Shazryl Eskay taking oath? It is irrelevant. Let the MACC and the police do their work and we will just wait and see what will happen. According to Islamic law, what the Datuk T trio did deserves a heavy sentence because it involves not just the family of the victim, but it will also scar them to life," PAS MP for Kuala Selangor Dzulkefly Ahmad toldMalaysia Chronicle.
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