What if PAS refuse to take up MB post?

Iskandar Samad, the next Selangor MB.

• The Selangor palace is considering a new menteri besar from PAS due to treason showed by PKR and DAP but what would happened if the Islamic party refuse to take the offer?
• Several PAS top leaders including Datuk Mustafa Ali and Mohamed Sabu have already made a clear decision that the party is not interested to take up the post, but their boss Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang used his presidential power and named three candidates to the palace.
• Earlier Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah expressed disappointment with parties disobeyed his decree to submit more than two names for the position.
• "DAP and PKR's actions reflect their insolence towards the royal institution and is treason towards the Selangor Sultan," said the statement issued by the Sultan's private secretary, Datuk Munir Bani.
• Luckily PAS submitted three candidates to the palace, namely Iskandar Samad, Salehen Muhyi and Dr. Ahmad Yunus Hairi whereby all of them are scheduled to have an audience with the state ruler any time within this week.
• Question is, what if the Islamic party refuse to take up the state highest administrative post after Sultan Sarafuddin chose one of PAS excos to lead the state? This will lead to another question, what will PKR and DAP do next?
• Are they going to commit the highest treason via demonstrations in front of Istana Alam Shah which may cause unnecessary commotion, or using all media engines to instigate the Selangor palace to give back the MB seat to PKR.
• At the moment, PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail made a public statement that she had been "slightly hurt" by Abdul Hadi’s comments on her capabilities as the future Selangor menteri besar.
• But she added she respected his views and urged all not to respond to his comments, and instead focus on protecting the interests of the people.
• "I was slightly hurt by the personal attacks against me even though I respect Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang's opinion of my abilities and capabilities. However, I am not angry and I accept it as criticism so that I can improve myself, God willing," she said in a statement.
• Thus, Dr Wan Azizah advised all followers not to respond to the statement made by PAS president and focusing on protecting the people from the actions of Umno/Barisan Nasional.
• Meanwhile, PKR deputy president Azmin Ali also called on leaders and members of the party to remain calm in facing the Selangor political crisis that is now becoming increasingly critical.
• He said he was confident that the situation would be resolved. "I urge all PKR leaders and members to remain calm and not resort to doing anything that will make the situation worse.
• "I admit that we are now facing a little difficulty but I am confident, based on experience and the spirit of cooperation in the party and in Pakatan Rakyat (PR), the PKR leadership will be able to overcome the current situation," he said.
• Azmin had previously been named as the second candidate besides Dr Wan Azizah by PAS to be appointed as Selangor menteri besar to replace Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim. 
• Azmin, however, rejected the offer to make way for Dr Wan Azizah, who is also the wife of opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
• Meanwhile public from various parties gave mixed reaction over who is the most suitable candidate to be the next MB after Abdul Khalid Ibrahim.
• Most PKR followers said Dr. Wan Azizah must take the MB seat even though she is not fit to lead the most complicated state as most administrative decision will be done by her hubby, Anwar either from home or prison.
• DAP followers prefer the `kipas woman’ as long as the Chinese party can control Anwar, with having his sodomy information in file.
• PAS followers dream of having either Iskandar, Selehen or Dr Ahmad Yunus to be the next MB so that the party would align the state administration towards Islamic ways. But all in all, the Selangor MB post is still locked in Sultan Sarafuddin’ mind.
• In the latest development today, rumor said Iskandar to take oath as MB on Friday but he later trashed the report.
• "I didn’t even know that I was supposed to take an oath. I didn’t even see His Highness the Sultan today as was reported by the media," he said.
• In a press statement this morning, the Selangor palace confirmed that PAS had been the only party to adhere to the Sultan of Selangor’s request for PAS, DAP and PKR to give the names of at least two candidates. - Yang Benar.

KEWANGAN ISLAM KURANG MENYERLAH DI MALAYSIA

• Semua umat Islam faham mengenai perbankan Islam yang diamalkan oleh bank komersil dan bersedia memberi sokongan.
• Malangnya penyertaan peniaga Islam terhadap sistem pinjaman perbankan Islam tidak sampai 10 peratus, mengapa ini boleh berlaku?.
• Kewangan Islam sering diuar-uarkan sebagai alternatif baharu di dalam industri kewangan dunia. Boleh dikatakan penganjuran seminar atau forum kewangan Islam antarabangsa agak kerap diadakan yang antara lain memuji pencapaian ekonomi Islam meliputi sektor halal dan kewangan Islam sendiri.
• Sehingga kini aset kewangan Islam dunia bernilai lebih AS$2 trilion (RM6.2 trilion), sesuatu yang boleh dibanggakan. Namun, apakah kesan perkembangan itu benar-benar dirasai oleh umat Islam ketika ini?.
• Secara faktanya, kewangan Islam telah berkembang ke lebih 50 buah negara, tetapi lebih 50 peratus aset sektor itu hanya dikuasai oleh beberapa negara seperti Malaysia, Turki dan negara-negara teluk Arab (GCC).
• Itupun penguasaan tersebut lebih disumbangkan oleh penerbitan sukuk atau bon Islam sama ada oleh kerajaan atau korporat.
• Malaysia dalam tempoh beberapa tahun merupakan lokasi penerbitan sukuk terbesar dunia, membuatkan negara turut dilabel sebagai hab bagi sektor halal dan kewangan Islam dunia.
• Tetapi, jika ditinjau secara mendalam ke atas Malaysia sendiri pun, adakah kewangan Islam benar-benar dirasai oleh penduduk terutama yang beragama Islam. Adakah mereka faham maksud sukuk atau konsep Murabahah atau Ijarah.
• Pada forum kewangan Islam di Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) baru-baru ini, Halal Industry Development Corporation (HDC), mendedahkan daripada 4,400 syarikat pengeluar produk halal yang berdaftar dengan HDC, hanya 10 peratus sahaja yang menggunakan pembiayaan perbankan Islam.
• Asasnya mengapa hal itu terjadi adalah kerana kadar faedah pinjaman perbankan Islam lebih mahal berbanding konvensional, sedangkan riba haram di sisi agama.
• Hal itu sahaja sudah cukup membuatkan pinjaman Islam kurang daya penarik dan tentu sekali kehilangan pasaran pengguna-pengguna biasa termasuk perusahaan kecil dan sederhana (PKS).
• Tiadanya penguasaan negara-negara atau syarikat-syarikat Islam sendiri di dalam aktiviti ekonomi sebenar membuatkan tiadanya platform yang baik bagi mempromosi kewangan Islam.
• Dalam pada itu, seminar atau forum mengenai kewangan Islam hanya dihadiri oleh ketua-ketua pegawai eksekutif atau pegawai kanan bank-bank Islam sahaja, dan kurang mendapat sambutan pengguna-pengguna biasa.
• Tidak pasti adakah produk seperti wakaf ini boleh dipraktikkan secara meluas di Malaysia terutama sekali agen penggerak ekonomi negara iaitu syarikat-syarikat milik kerajaan (GLC) sendiri lebih menumpukan usaha memaksimumkan keuntungan.
• Badan berkuasa tempatan perlu mengkaji semula kedudukan kadar faedah pinjaman perbankan Islam, agar kompetitif sebagaimana perbankan konvensional. Setakat ini, produk kewangan Islam lebih dianggap sebagai premium dan bukannya alternatif.

THREE MB CANDIDATES TO HAVE AUDIENCE WITH SULTAN SARAFUDDIN IDRIS SHAH

Sultan Sarafuddin Idris Shah

• Three Selangor executive councillors from PAS have been invited to have an audience with the state ruler Sultan Sarafuddin Idris Shah pertaining the replacement of the current menteri besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim.
• Iskandar Samad will be the first to the palace today, while Salehen Muhyi will have an audience tomorrow and Dr Ahmad Yunus Hairi on Wednesday.
• They were named by PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang as his candidates for the menteri besar post in his first letter to the Selangor palace.
• The appointments with the sultan come a day after PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu and secretary general Datuk Mustafa Ali insisted the party would reject the menteri besar position even if it was offered the post.
• "We"ll reject it," they told a press conference after chairing a PAS central committee meeting yesterday. However, Hadi did not attend the meeting.
• Later yesterday evening, the Syura Council met and decided that Hadi has the final say in all matters concerning the party's interests.
• It is learnt that the sultan will choose the new MB within the three PAS candidates, which will create havoc among PKR and DAP parties.
• If the new MB to be selected from PAS, the other parties may call for state or nationwide demonstration to reject sultan’s decree.
• At the same time, international media are waiting to spin this issue to create unhealthy atmosphere and sparks hatred towards the monarchy system who had turned down the democracy practise in Malaysia.
• This will benefit the local opposition parties to raise public sympathy and votes in the next general election even though they are having a critical crisis at the moment due to PAS refusal to abide its promise to nominate only Dr. Wan Azizah for the menteri besar’s post.
• PKR and DAP refused to accept any excuses given by the Islamic party for disliking Dr. Wan Azizah to fit for the post even though PAS has stated that al Quran strongly advised that women is not the best leader of a state or country as it would be troublesome in many ways.
• PKR and DAP have no ground to follow the instruction or advice from al Quran due to the fact that their membership are open to all religions and races.
• In fact they wanted to takeover Putrajaya to equalise the status races and religions in Malaysia in the name of democracy and multi-racial livings as they believed that the current status of Islam on top of all religions is not an absolute democracy. - Yang Benar.

SULTAN SELANGOR MURKA DAP DAN PKR KERANA ENGKAR TITAH BAGINDA

• Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah merasa amat dukacita di atas tindakan DAP dan PKR yang engkar terhadap titah Baginda supaya mengemukakan lebih dua nama calon Menteri Besar daripada parti masing-masing yang bertarikh 27 Ogos yang lalu.
• Perkara ini disampaikan oleh Setiausaha Sulit Sultan Selangor, Datuk Mohamad Munir Bani kepada pihak media.
• Menurut Munir, DAP dan PKR masing-masing mengemukakan hanya satu nama iaitu presiden PKR, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail sebagai calon menteri besar Selangor.
• “Tindakan DAP dan PKR ini menggambarkan kebiadapan mereka kepada Institusi Raja dan merupakan satu perbuatan derhaka kepada titah Sultan Selangor,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan.
• Munir juga memaklumkan bahawa Sultan Selangor telah menerima senarai nama calon MB dari ketiga-tiga parti di dalam Pakatan Rakyat (PR) sepertimana titah Baginda sebelum ini.
• Namun menurut Munir hanya parti PAS yang akur dengan titah Sultan Selangor dengan menyenaraikan tiga nama calon MB Selangor.
• Sultan Selangor sebelum ini menitahkan supaya ketiga-tiga parti dalam Pakatan Rakyat untuk mengemukakan lebih dua nama orang calon MB Selangor dan ia adalah satu amalan atau konvensi yang dilaksanakan oleh Baginda.
• “Ini adalah bagi membolehkan Baginda membuat pilihan terhadap bakal MB dengan melihat bukan sahaja sokongan majoriti Ahli Dewan Negeri malah dari segi kemahiran, pengalaman, integriti dan kebolehan seseorang ADUN tersebut.
• “Ciri-ciri ini amat penting bagi menjamin perjalanan pentadbiran negeri Selangor agar ia berjalan dengan baik dan lancar demi keharmonian rakyat negeri Selangor,” jelasnya.
• Tambahnya lagi, Sultan Selangor berkeyakinan bahawa terdapat ramai calon di dalam parti PR yang mempunyai ciri-ciri kepimpinan yang tinggi seperti yang disebutkan tadi bagi menerajui Kerajaan Negeri Selangor.
• “Dengan penerimaan senarai calon-calon yang telah diterima maka Sultan Selangor akan meneliti senarai calon-calon berkenaan dan akan mengambil kira segala aspek di dalam menilai setiap calon sebelum sebarang keputusan dibuat.
• “Di dalam masa yang sama, memandangkan kuasa melantik MB Selangor terletak pada budi bicara Sultan Selangor, maka Baginda akan meneliti nama-nama ADUN yang lain dari PR yang berkelayakan dan pada fikiran Sultan Selangor mendapat kepercayaan majoriti Ahli Dewan Negeri,” katanya.
• Sementara itu, Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak berkata PKR gagal memahami Undang-undang Tubuh Kerajaan Negeri Selangor apabila mempertikai kuasa Sultan Selangor.
• Beliau berkata, parti itu juga sanggup bersekongkol dengan DAP semata-mata untuk memastikan cita-cita untuk melantik Presidennya Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail sebagai Menteri Besar Selangor tercapai.
• "Tengok gelagat PKR di Selangor macam mana, mereka tidak faham perlembagaan tentang kedudukan raja-raja. Yang tersurat itu satu, yang tersiratpun mereka tak faham, tetapi saya faham. Sebab itu mereka bersekongkol dengan DAP, macam beri kata dua kepada raja," katanya.
• Kini rakyat tertanya-tanya mengapa PKR dan DAP beria-ria sangat mahu memberikan satu nama calon, sedangkan ramai lagi pemimpin dalam PR berkelayakan untuk dilantik sebagai menteri besar.
• Kalau PKR betul-betul sebuah parti yang demokratik, mereka akan mendengar permintaan akar umbi dan juga titah istana, tetapi dalam hal ini rakyat percaya PKR mempunyai agenda lain.
• Sultan Selangor dilihat cuba menamatkan krisis ini secepat mungkin, namun perbuatan PKR dan DAP dilihat sengaja membiarkan perkara ini berlarutan.
• Jika hanya satu sahaja calon dikemukakan ia akan menyebabkan sultan dalam dilema dan serba salah untuk memilih calon menteri besar.
• Nasib baik PAS mengemukakan beberapa nama untuk pilihan Sultan, jika tidak Baginda terpaksa melanjutkan tempoh kepada Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim untuk menerajui negeri itu.
• Sultan ada hak berbuat demikian sehingga melantik menteri besar baharu yang benar-benar layak.
• Rakyat yakin sultan sebenarnya mahukan menteri besar yang berkaliber yang bukan sahaja mampu memajukan negeri Selangor tetapi disukai rakyat serta memenuhi ciri-ciri kepimpinan yang diinginkan baginda. - Yang Benar.