RELIGION AND POLITICS - MUST REMAIN SEPARATE

Perak Mentri Besar is showing his PAS colours and it is good that the royal house of Perak has intervened and made it very clear that the Perak Religious Department is off limits.

ALL of us in this country -- ESPECIALLY ALL THE LIBERALS AND PROGRESSIVES OF EVERY RACE, COLOUR AND SEX -- must do everything within our powers to block religious zealots from holding positions of high office. There must be a separation of religion and politics. Failing to ensure the separation of state and religion will only lead to bloodshed as religion is a powerful tool that can both manipulate and move unthinking people into violence.

DEVELOPMENT OF BUFFER ZONE IN AMPANG JAYA

FOOT-IN-THE-MOUTH DISEASE AND POLITICIANS...

I was proud to read in The Sun newspaper's page 4 the article headlined "It's illegal, says planning expert"

It is good that The Sun has taken such a vigilant stance on matters that affect public interest. In the report, it is said that "The development of a buffer zone in Ampang Jaya into a light industrial estate is illegal and a classic example of unsustainable development. The very purpose of a buffer (zone) is to promote sustainable development by separating conflicting land uses," says planning expert Derek Fernandez.

I am assuming that Derek is a town planning expert. He was responding to a politician's rather arbitrary sounding announcement of an intended change of land use.

There are procedures and systems to follow in this country. And politicians should respect these above everyone else!

(Which is why, on a completely different matter departing from The Sun's newsreport, PAS must NEVER be allowed to govern this country. Can you imagine a bunch of buffoons running Malaysia? They'd have no concept of town planning, drainage, traffic management or anything else and the whole country will go the Mujahideen way!)

Oh, having said that, it must also be pointed out that DAP must never be allowed to forget that its past alliance with PAS is not forgotten nor forgiven!