"No, absolutely not" - Shahrizat insists NFC no impact on Umno

Under fire from her own party, Wanita Umno chief Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil attempted to silence detractors today by insisting that the National Feedlot Corporation (NFCorp) scandal would have no effect on the ruling party.

“No, absolutely not,” she told reporters at Hospital Kuala Lumpur here when asked if claims of financial misappropriation at the cattle-raising company would hurt Umno.

Shahrizat (picture) said there was a “dichotomy” between her political role as head of the women’s wing and her personal one as the wife of NFCorp chairman Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh Ismail, who has been linked to the scandal by PKR.

“I stand here today as Wanita Umno chief. You’re not speaking to me as spouse of the CEO or the chairman (of NFCorp),” she said.

No Human Rights please, we’re Malaysian

F
ormer prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, known for his decades of inhumane administration, has come out strongly against Human Rights in Malaysia. This was after Rahim Noor, the thuggish former policeman who beat up Anwar Ibrahim while he was handcuffed, equated the Human Rights movement with Communism.

Mahathir declared that he was against Human Rights because it would allow people of the same sex to marry. Clearly he is mixing it up with gay rights. But then, Mahathir always seems to have homosexuality on his mind, right from his graphic description of a homosexual act on national television in 1998. He also built the twin towers, an entirely unnecessary piece of real estate for a small nation like Malaysia, and a phallic symbol if there ever was one. It remains an unviable and loss-making entity, propped up by Petronas and clever accounting.