Marina says not afraid to stand in Malay-majority seats
Outgoing Skudai rep says she has been involved in political fieldwork in Malay-majority areas since 2021\
Marina Ibrahim carrying out volunteer work in the Layang-Layang state constituency. (Facebook pic)
PETALING JAYA: Outgoing Skudai assemblyman Marina Ibrahim has rejected suggestions that she is afraid to contest in Malay-majority areas, saying she has been involved in political fieldwork in such constituencies since 2021.
Marina said she was sent to Layang-Layang in 2021 to carry out grassroots work and set up a community centre, and that she was initially expected to contest the seat during the March 2022 Johor election.
“I was fresh, inexperienced, and new in politics when I was sent to work in Layang-Layang,” she wrote in a Facebook post published shortly after midnight.
“At that time, I was expected to face Onn Hafiz Ghazi, who was then Johor tourism, youth and sports exco.”
She said she also served as campaign manager in Mersing during the 2022 general election, where a first-time DAP candidate contested in a constituency with about 76% Malay voters without losing her deposit.
“If we truly wanted to expand the party in Malay areas, a coordinator should have been appointed long ago,” she said.
“Grassroots members have raised this issue repeatedly. So, where is the coordinator to develop the seat?”
Marina eventually stood in Skudai in the 2022 Johor polls, where she won with 26,359 votes, defeating Barisan Nasional’s Lim Soon Hai (12,416 votes) and Perikatan Nasional’s Khoo Keng Ek (6,258 votes).
On May 31, she announced that she was leaving politics and would not seek re-election in Skudai.
Johor DAP chairman Teo Nie Ching responded by disclosing that the party had planned to move Marina to contest the Tiram seat, and that she had intended to propose Marina for the chairmanship of a statutory body regardless of the electoral outcome.
A letter purportedly written by Marina to Teo, stemming from a May 17 discussion, was later circulated on social media. In it, Marina rejected the seat transfer and declined what she described as a GLC post.
Marina said her decision to leave politics had nothing to do with frustration or a preference for safer ground.
“This is not about winning or losing. My decision has nothing to do with being upset or wanting a comfortable seat. That’s nonsense,” she said.
Marina said she was sent to Layang-Layang in 2021 to carry out grassroots work and set up a community centre, and that she was initially expected to contest the seat during the March 2022 Johor election.
“I was fresh, inexperienced, and new in politics when I was sent to work in Layang-Layang,” she wrote in a Facebook post published shortly after midnight.
“At that time, I was expected to face Onn Hafiz Ghazi, who was then Johor tourism, youth and sports exco.”
She said she also served as campaign manager in Mersing during the 2022 general election, where a first-time DAP candidate contested in a constituency with about 76% Malay voters without losing her deposit.
“If we truly wanted to expand the party in Malay areas, a coordinator should have been appointed long ago,” she said.
“Grassroots members have raised this issue repeatedly. So, where is the coordinator to develop the seat?”
Marina eventually stood in Skudai in the 2022 Johor polls, where she won with 26,359 votes, defeating Barisan Nasional’s Lim Soon Hai (12,416 votes) and Perikatan Nasional’s Khoo Keng Ek (6,258 votes).
On May 31, she announced that she was leaving politics and would not seek re-election in Skudai.
Johor DAP chairman Teo Nie Ching responded by disclosing that the party had planned to move Marina to contest the Tiram seat, and that she had intended to propose Marina for the chairmanship of a statutory body regardless of the electoral outcome.
A letter purportedly written by Marina to Teo, stemming from a May 17 discussion, was later circulated on social media. In it, Marina rejected the seat transfer and declined what she described as a GLC post.
Marina said her decision to leave politics had nothing to do with frustration or a preference for safer ground.
“This is not about winning or losing. My decision has nothing to do with being upset or wanting a comfortable seat. That’s nonsense,” she said.
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Horrific details laid out by the judge at Digwa sentencing.
As follows;
Digwa used his own mobile phone to film his victim attempting to escape by climbing onto a commercial rubbish bin and over a fence, while Digwa taunted: 'You're not going to get away with this big man.'
Sentencing Digwa, Judge William Mousley KC said: 'You continued to make films of Henry suffering, ignoring much of his desperation at having been stabbed. You told him that had not happened, no doubt to convince others who were nearby.' These clips have not been released.
Henry managed to land on top of a car parked in front of number 68, on the other side of the fence he jumped over. Digwa went on to take close-up photos of the incapacitated Henry lying on the ground.
In footage from a home security camera, Henry was heard saying 'I am dying', with Digwa replying, 'you're not dying bro'.
Ten minutes later, Henry said 'you stabbed me', with Digwa responding, 'no, I didn't', and, 'you were recording me thinking you're sick', which is slang for 'tough'.
In that ten-minute period, Digwa did not call an ambulance - but did film Henry for a full five minutes.
This clip was not played in court for being 'too disturbing to be shown'. The court heard the attack was not witnessed but neighbours heard Henry say he had been stabbed and was dying.
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A few minutes ago: A resident captured an unusual object or phenomenon in the sky over Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.
Labour MPs taking the knee for a career criminal George Floyd
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Two Tier Kier and Angela Raynor Took A Knee for A Convicted Criminal Black Foreigner.
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The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines issued a cease-and-desist order against AirAsia Philippines over 271 million pesos in unpaid airport charges since 2021.
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Over half a million Arabs poured into Mandate Palestine in just 12 years to take advantage of the economic opportunities created by Jewish development — the only place in the entire Middle East with a growing Arab middle class.
Robert F. Kennedy, then only 22, made that striking observation in his reporting from British Mandate Palestine in April 1948 (just weeks before Israel’s independence). His dispatch was published this day in the Boston Post.
RFK wrote:
“The Jews point with pride to the fact that over 500,000 Arabs ... came into Palestine to take advantage of living conditions existing in no other Arab state. This is the only country in the Near and Middle East where an Arab middle class is in existence.”
He described how the Jews had transformed arid desert into flourishing orange groves through relentless labor and ingenuity. Tel Aviv had grown from a small village into a modern metropolis of over 200,000 in a single generation.
RFK noted that the Jews had already built a thriving community with its own institutions, language, and national characteristics — and were determined to reclaim their ancient homeland “as of right and not on sufferance.”
A young Bobby Kennedy saw the truth clearly: a people returning home, rebuilding their land with their own hands, and refusing to live as guests in their own country.
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