The article below is quite obsolete, but I have happened to meet this writer, Mr. Martin Jalleh during the tour in Israel, and I learned soon later that he was an active lay leader in the Catholic Church in Penang, Malaysia. (Lily)
Malaysian Insider (http://www.themalaysianinsider.com）
Nazri Aziz, the minister of lies- Martin Jalleh, 15 April 2010
APRIL 15 — Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz acts tough, talks big and throws his weight around. He thinks he is very smart and knows everything! After all, he is also the minister in charge of parliamentary affairs and the de facto law minister.
(Omitted by Lily)
In April 2005, Nazri tried to fool Parliament by claiming that the “Cabinet’s plan to form a select committee on water privatisation was dropped because the King wanted water privatisation to be in place by the end of the year”. Lim Kit Siang told Nazri not to drag the King into the issue and that “…the Royal address is the policy pronouncement of the government of the day”.
In the same month, Nazri came up with a tall tale that “Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia cannot be circulated in the country as this could be seen as an effort to spread Christianity among the Malays….The prohibition had been in force since Independence and was in line with the Constitution” (Star, April 13, 2005). A week later the then-prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said that there was no such ban.
In January this year, Nazri implicitly placed the blame of the aftermath of the court decision on the Allah case on the Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur, Tan Sri Murphy Pakiam. He said it was too late for a dialogue and that the court is the only way to bring an end to the “Allah” debate.
He claimed that his Cabinet colleagues, including fellow Minister in the PM’s Department Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom, have been “pushing to bring religious leaders to the table to settle the simmering stew” and it was “the failure of the ‘rundingan’ (consultations) that resulted in the matter being brought to court”.
“It’s not the fault of the government. Let it be known that it was Tan Sri Pakiam, not the government, who brought the matter to court,” Nazri added (The Malaysian Insider, Jan 18, 2010). There was, in reality, no “rundingan” since the Allah controversy began with only the rude and ridiculous dictates of the then home minister Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar.Nazri will one day leave behind a legacy of lies!
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