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Tuesday, 25-May-2004 2:22 PM Malaysian Book of Records Guinness is haram (forbidden), so, in keeping with Malaysia’s ‘Islamic Nation’ image, Malaysia does not enter its records into the Guinness Book of Records but has its own halal (kosher) book of records called the Malaysian Book of Records. Of course, it makes sense that Malaysia maintains its own book or records seeing that many of our records would not qualify for the Guinness Book of Records anyway. I mean, as they say, one man’s meat is another man’s poison, so what may be considered a record to some, say like Malaysia, may be considered crap to others. Anyway, let us look through the records that Malaysia has set which have unfairly been excluded from the Guinness Book of Records and if not for the wisdom of our leaders in establishing our own book of records would have gone unnoticed and would not have been etched for posterity. 1) Anwar Ibrahim is the first person in Malaysian judicial history to be charged for corruption under Ordinance 22 when his alleged crime did not involve any monetary gain or financial benefit of any kind. Normally, only those who have committed corruption by benefiting monetarily would be charged under this section of the law. In Anwar’s case, not a Cent was benefited from his alleged abuse of power. Nevertheless, he was found guilty and sentenced to a total of 24 years in jail. As the four charges ran concurrent, he had to serve only six years and, after a one-third remission on his sentence, completed his sentence in four years. Others charged for an offence under this same section of the law, though it involved millions of Ringgit, were only slapped with a token fine. 2) Anwar Ibrahim is the first first-time offender and non-hardcore criminal in Malaysian judicial history to be denied bail on an offence where bail is normally automatically allowed. Others, even those charged for murder, where bail is prohibited under the law, have been granted bail. 3) Anwar Ibrahim is the first person in Malaysian judicial history to be found guilty of sodomising someone where the victim testified THREE times under oath Anwar never sodomised him, ever. 4) Anwar Ibrahim is the first person in Malaysian judicial history to be charged, tried and found guilty of an offence he allegedly committed one night, around 7.30pm, over a period of 90 days. 5) Anwar Ibrahim is the first person in Malaysian judicial history to be charged for an offence he allegedly committed in a building that was not in existence yet. 6) Anwar Ibrahim is the first ex-Deputy Prime Minister in Malaysian history to be arrested by the police just for the heck of it. Many hours later, the police decided maybe they should detain him under the Internal Security Act just to explain and justify why they needed to arrest and detain him without producing him in front of a magistrate within 24 hours to be charged for a criminal offence as required by the law. Then, many days later, they decided to charge him for a crime so that they could lend further credibility for his continued detention. Finally, many days later, the police managed to painfully invent the evidence to make the charge stick. And the evidence they invented was the sole testimony of a witness who testified three times under oath it never happened. 7) One-time Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is the first Prime Minister in Malaysian history to conduct his own criminal investigation into the activities of his ex-Deputy Prime Minister where the investigation was so thorough he declared to the world he does not need the police or the courts to further prove Anwar’s guilt. Dr Mahathir actually personally interviewed a driver to get to the bottom of it all, making him also the first Prime Minister in Malaysian history to spend his valuable time talking to a driver in the privacy of his office while all his Cabinet Ministers waiting to discuss important affairs of the state hovered outside his office. 8) Ummi Hafilda Ali is the first virgin prostitute in Malaysian history. Aziz Shamsuddin, the then Minister of Education, had proclaimed Ummi a prostitute, which was recorded for posterity in the transcripts of the court trials, while Ummi made a public declaration she is still a virgin. As both declarations are to be believed (the Minister of Education would certainly never lie -- if not what is to become of our school-going children -- and the court transcripts are also to be believed, if not the person making the testimony under oath would be cited for perjury, and he never was) this therefore makes her a virgin prostitute. 9) Anwar Ibrahim is the first ex-Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia to make a police report on the insistence of the police who would not take “no” for an answer where the police report was then used to launch an investigation into him and finally he and not the culprit was charged, tried and found guilty of the crime.
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