Ten Qs for Alhan [The Addu Parliamentarian]

1- Why did you leave the DRP and united with ‘Maldivian Dhebogeri Party’ aka MDP?
2- Did you ask your beloved voters before you make this awful decision?
3- Did you consult and communicate with DRP before making this cynical decision?
4- What was your motivation to join ‘The Maldivian Dhebogei Party’?
5- How much did they ('Dhebogeres') pay you?
6- Do you ‘REALY’ like ‘Maldivian Dhebogeri Party’ or is it just a mockery to restrain your celebrity status?
7- Do you think you can face the public again (Addu -Feydhoo) with your disgraced mockery choice?
8- Are you matured or still the same kid that we've known as neighbours?
9- Are you a ‘Munafiq’ or a ‘Coca Cola Muslim’ or a practicing Muslim?
10- What do you think of your early resignation?

A Poll has shown the MDP belongs to Thugs and Activitis Groups

One of atoll’s polls has shown that the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) belongs to thug and activists groups. The majority (64%) who enrolled in this poll believed that the MDP belongs to criminal groups and followed by DRP which pulled off 12%. However, the rests remained low in the poll between 1– 3%. The other poll that was on the website was one of the famous polls; from that poll the infamous President aka Thulhaabe remained low in the poll and Mr Gayyoom won the poll with appalling figure (67%) as the most famous President in the history of Maldives.

The atoll Male’ Bureau chief suggested that one of the polls that have been taken by the President Office was a corrupt poll due its nature. Unconfirmed sources suggested that these polls were taken between only MDP members and they used MDP party listings. Therefore, any poll taken by the President Office would be fraudulent in nature and no one should be taken these polls seriously the chief suggested.

Atoll will be publishing more polls during this year and would recommend our readers to join these polls.

Maldives Will Bid for 2024 Olympics says President Kerafa Nasheed: HaHaHaHa

Mohamed Nasheed, the outspoken President of the soon-to-be-submerged Maldives, announced in Copenhagen that his country will bid for the Summer Olympics of 2024.

By then most of his island nation will be under water due to climate change. The announcement set off immediate speculation that the IOC may in fact select the Maldives to show their support for climate change action and not to be outcrazied by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.

If Maldives wins the bid, the games will present particular challenges to the athletes. Rafael Nadal is already practicing for this new environment having mastered the clay and hard courts.
Beach Volleyball and Water Polo will be combined sports in this Underwater Olympics. Marathoners will wear wet suits and cyclists will be fitted with underwater bikes. Of course the rowers, sailors and kaykers will be right at home.

It is hoped that Maersk, the big Danish shipping line, will step up as a sponsor of the 2024 Olympics and provide a large container ship to serve as the Athlete's Village. President Nasheed has been preparing his government for underwater life by holding the first cabinet meeting at the bottom of the lagoon.

One cabinet member described the experience as very focusing - it is hard to use a blackberry during a meeting underwater.

With golf joining as an Olympic sport, it is likely that Tiger Woods will play underwater, unless he pulls a Michael Jordan and switches to another sport - co-ed underwater roller derby?
So far the IOC has not commented on the unusual bid except to say, "We are very concerned about climate change and rising oceans. While the Maldives may be an interesting location, Greenland or Antarctica may also fit the bill."

Source:<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-hidary/live-from-copenhagen---ma_b_386606.html>

A Convert from MDP Activism to Realism: Nasheed aka President Exposed!

The following interview is a true account from a former Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) activist and how she found the truth about the real MDP. Her name is changed with her wish and intentionally part of her interview is edited without distorting the real content.

Fathindi (not real name) is from Seenu Hithadhoo lives in the neighbourhood of southern district of Hithadhoo. She migrated from her mother-island to Male’ – the capital city of Maldives for better education. Since then, she lived in Male’ from her young age to the end of her 20 years public service career in one of the Ministries in Male’. For reasons, she became frustrated with the previous government and gradually started to criticize the former government.

Before the formation of MDP she was involved in the anti-government campaigns and joined the party after its formation. She became an active member and involved physically in the anti-government rallies and MDP Haruge activities.

atollcounselor: Fathindi, could you please elaborate us little bit about your activities as you were a member of MDP.

Fathindi: I was someone who wants to give all my energy into the party and I was actively involved most of MDP gatherings and functions at Haruge and other places. I know everyone in the MDP...I mean the head of its members and I was very friendly with them and they know me as a good old friend.

atollcounselor: Did you involve any anti-government campaigns and thug activities such as the impairment of the government premises and public servants (police)?

Fathindi: For your first part of the question I would say yes but I didn’t harm anyone or damage any premises. As far as MDP activists concerns, their aim was to destroy everything they could find and touch. They were really irritated by the previous government and they were in the mood to pressure the government at any cost to bring down the regime. I would say most of the MDP members have bad attitude and may be it’s because most of the members are uneducated or frustrated by the previous regime. Also, I remember there were gatherings that advocated such attitude and especially, MDP officials (some of them are the founding members) advised to practice such belligerent actions in their rallies to pressure the government.

atollcounselor: When did you leave the party and what was the reason you left MDP?

Fathindi: I left the party before the presidential election. There are many reasons and there is one specific reason I left that party.

atollcounselor: Could you elaborate us that particular reason?

Fathindi: Out of many reasons, there was one occasion that I thought I should not further be involved in any MDP activities. By the way, no one told to me to leave the MDP and may be they still need me. That was one night that I received a call from a high official (name not revealed) to participate their ‘meeting’. After receiving that call I went to that location and I knocked the door and he (her friend) opened the door for me. Believe me that was the first time I saw something like that. There were the founding members of MDP and some of them in the sitting room enjoying with drinks (alcohol) and they politely asked me to join with them for a drink. That was a mind blowing moment for me...and that was the night I made up my mind not to join them and leave the party for betterment of myself and for the society. To be honest, that was the day I lost the faith of the party and at some point I thought I was betraying the nation being with them but I guess I am not anymore.

atollcounselor: That is interesting, could you tell us who were there in that so called meeting?

Fathindi I can tell you some of them...there were Munawar, Addu MP Aslam, Nasheed (president), Zaki, other few inner circle MDP members and my friend (the one who called me).

atollcounselor: Are you sure that the current President of Maldives Mr Mohamed Nasheed (President) was present in that room?

Fathindi: why would I tell a lie to if he wasn’t there and as far as I know most of them consume alcohol from my experience during my membership in the party?

atollcounselor: Are you still a member or do you still support MDP?

Fathindi: I am no longer a member of MDP and I have been concentrating on my own life rather involved in this dirty politics.

atollcounselor: What do you think of the current regime?

Fathindi: I am very sad of the political environment in the Maldives. My faith is lost for Anni and his attitude and behaviour is against Islam and I would say that he is a very irresponsible president. I believe that the president is creating an unsafe environment for our children and making more divisions within this small community for power greediness and other selfish reasons and we need to stop him!

atollcounselor: Thank you Fathindi!

Fathindi: Thank you

A President who break promises for the pleasure of breaking them - atollreview

One year has gone by without a productive change. The things that we see are the weekly radio show-off, environmental stunts and phony talks where Nasheed promotes the Yellow regime to stay in power for the next three decades. Thus far, this is what the President of Maldives good at doing from the very beginning. The propaganda machines are working with him to accomplish his goals by ignoring the public outcry.

By rewinding back the time, people may notice the frequent lies of Mr Nasheed and his awkward discourse in the media and public. The IDP has published a book with 151 of his lies and as calculation shows that the President aka ‘Kerafa’ was lying to the public every two days. These lies are officially recorded but political analyst reckons this is his habitual mind-set to deceive everyone around him apart from the white folks.

Mr President, this is not the public that you consider as ignorant but the public is waiting to execute their constitutional power at the end of your term. I swear by God, the blow-off will be unsympathetic and it wouldn’t be easy for you and your activists to acknowledge the blowback from the public. Mr President, we are waiting for you and your MDP activists in the battleground.

The soaring food price that make us hungry, the delusional flats that you erect us, the foreign policy that you promote against us and the Muslim nations, the unrealistic transport network that you endorsed in your campaign, the November third terrorists and convicts (porn stars, drug dealers, alcoholics, fraudsters and you name it) who works in the cabinet and other high posts, your version of open alcohol communities (inhabited islands) against the norm of Islam, introducing multi-faiths at a snail's pace into this small community and the mounting debt that inherit our future generations, your indistinct public private partnership in every institutions including primary schools as we consider unsympathetic.

Not only this, you have created an environment with less moral values and divisions under the banner of ‘democracy’. Last but not the least, the judicial system is still running with its flaws and corruption is widely spread across every branch of your regime.

Without doubt, you have put so much effort to create a prison system where the prisoners have every right to violate the constitution and harm the prison guards and its properties as if they were fallen angels from heaven. This is what you have created for this generation and to clean up your mess the broken society will need another 50 to 100 years to get back into its own feet.

When asked about the broken promises, this is what he has to say about it; “...broken promises don’t upset me. I just think, why did they believe me”

The sad story of The Silent Revolution

Yesterday was a sad day for us – The silent Revolution. The MDP supporters and activists are asking whether we are demoralised of the lost battle in the Parliament yesterday. To be honest, we have been badly hurt of the decision that the Parliamentarians made yesterday. Not only been hurt but it is disappointing to see a result which favours for the Jews but not the poor citizen of this nation and the helpless Palestinians. The question one must ask is that whether Majilis defended the President or Foreign Minister or MDP or the powerless Palestinian or the Zionism. Indeed, it was the Zionist nation the vote was in favour!

However, no one denies that Mr Mohamed Nasheed aka ‘Kerafaa’ is behind this dirty politics but the Foreign Minister is the ultimate person who is responsible to set forth and accomplish foreign policies on behalf of the regime. Therefore, Dr Shaheed is the one who is accountable for these reckless policies that the regime signed with Zionist Jews. To show that the world, the Maldivians are against this policy, the Parliament has every right to denounce this policy by taking a vote against this man. If this could be made possible within the framework of the Maldivian constitution, people badly wanted to condemn this policy but not rebellious with the regime as MDP activists consider. Thus far, the message was to the Zionist regime for their actions against the helpless Palestinians with their repetitive violations of all the International rules which set forth to protect the Palestinians and their lawful lands. Furthermore, by taking this vote which send a message to Muslim nations and the whole world that the Maldivians are with the Palestinians no matter how tiny and helpless we are in this warmongering world.

Some people (few hundreds) were rallied to support Mr Nasheed and his regime for signing this agreement with Jews. The so called Muslim leaders (Adhaalath Party) were in the forefront to support this regime giving deaf ears to the public outcry. Being so called Muslim, by supporting this regime’s action they were showing to the world that they are with the Zionists while supporting their atrocious crimes against Palestinians. Bear in mind, the so called Adhaalath and regimes activists have defended the Zionist Jews with greediness and political attainments. Therefore, the atonement is imminent from Allah (AW) for those who advocate corruptions and manifest lies against the helpless.

Brothers and sisters! Before the victorious celebration, it is worthwhile to feel what others have to say and feel about your favourable triumph. What we have to ask is whether the Palestinians are going to be happy with the decision you made in favour of the state of Israel. As a matter of fact, the real victory is for the Jews but not anyone else.

Without doubt, people are being badly hurt and this shows that there is a great deal of division within this Muslim nation after MDP came into Power. The Hypocrites have been known and they are sitting in the Parliament chairs in the name of the people. Though, people employed them to defend their nation, faith, rights and freedom but they did the opposite by voting against the course of the Palestinians. This is not about Dr Shaheed’s job or Nasheed’s term but this is for a nation where its principles and rules are based on its faith to protect her citizens and Muslim brotherhood. Indeed, we are so sad and humiliated by the actions of this regime towards our Muslim brothers and sisters in Palestine. Peace to Palestine!

Personal view: A Sleeping Generation – by Hussein

Today, the religion of Islam becomes a burden for our society and hard to acknowledge its basic fundamentals as we speak. The growing concerns vary from its fundamentals to its known laws. For instance, some of them have the complete opposite misrepresentation and misinterpretation of its pillars against its pure teachings.

In case, if someone being asked about the third pillar of Islam majority of us will have a mixed feeling and would misinterpret the pillar incorrectly. Not only the third, but the rest would be misinterpreted wrongly. As I know, the last three pillars of Islam renders with conditions based approach unlike the first two pillars.

However, recently, I have been confronted a question about the third pillar of Islam by some friends. Before anyone confronts this question I have been asked myself the same question and had an opportunity to get its scholarly views.

In a debate we had between friends, the question was raised whether the Fitr Zakah is the main pillar of Islam – as known as the third pillar. With convinced tone, I told them that the mandatory giving or the ‘Farulh’ Zakah is the ‘Mudhaluge Zakah’ which is the third Pillar of Islam. Unlike the ‘Fitr Zakah’ the ‘Mudhaluge Zakah’ is the annual payment of a fortieth of one’s capital and this is obligatory to every Muslim who is capable of giving parts of their wealth to the poor. This happened to be the end of Ramadan and people were giving their portions as Zakah considering that they were substantiation the obligatory Zakah.

However, by giving that answer, the crowd’s reaction was unbelievably mind blowing. They all believed that by giving Fitr Zakah they can fulfil the terms and conditions of the obligatory Zakah - ‘Mudhaluge Zakah. In fact, if anyone who discontents this Zakah would be skipping the third pillar of Islam as if they were deliberately skipping the rest of the pillars. After hours and days of discussions with scholarly views it became evident to them that ‘Mudhaluge Zakah’ is the Zakah which makes the third Pillar of Islam.

The other burning issue is that whether women should wear Hijab (veil) or not and we have seen many interpretations and discussions within the youths of today. With reference to the Quran and Hadith, it is quite obvious that Muslim women should wear Hijab. There are lot of other issues but it will be impossible to articulate all the issues in one article. Instead, I will focus on the hostility and disintegration that exists in our community as we call ‘the 100% Muslim nation’.

The disintegration of this community didn’t happen overnight but it started to occur from decades back. Our parents, Muslim groups, schools and governments or the supreme authority have been failed to address the issue when it started to emerge before their eyes. The misunderstandings and misinterpretations of Islam has become the searing issue of this community. Everywhere the youth and the young generation turn, they see the same old arguments within their own families and communities that they live in. Therefore, they find the religion contradictory with these mixed feelings. In fact, the religion is not a contradictory religion but their parents’ lack of knowledge, faith and carelessness results the burden of intolerance, divergence and indecent upheaval within our society. Parents are the main stakeholders of their children but they have been failed to act responsibly by ignoring their parental duties which results enduring affect of turmoils in the society.

The other group is the religious affiliated groups and scholars. We see many religious figures and groups who are distant from the society without knowing the gravity of its negative impact on the Muslim community and its generations. However, they have forgotten the importance and values of Da’wah (spreading the message of Islam). Just behaving as if they were alien to the community would not fulfil their obligation of delivering the perfect message of Islam. On the contrary, they must be soft spoken, forbearance, high esteem and bringing others into conversations and spreading the message of Islam but we see a complete opposite behaviour from these groups. For instance, as they walk pass their brothers on the side of the road they pretend they don’t see anyone or just look down on the people as if they were seen Antichrist on the bright day lights.

This is not the Islam that the prophets have been conveyed to their people and the last Prophet (PBUH) himself. The generation is slowly secluding from their faith because of such behaviour within the society. Different groups are alien to one another as if they were from the African Sub-Sahara tribes. What if they approach these kids with good hearts without giving sudden burst of theological lessons while keeping the brotherhood to make them feel as part of the community? Hence, God is the one who gives the faith but His slaves have to keep on trying to bring them into the faith no matter how hard it is.

The last but not the least is the government where it has been failed to deliver the message of Islam resulting significant damage to this society. However, they were busy in playing their political games with their counterparts rather interacting community problems and issues. As we speak, the Parliamentarians are having quite hard time to implement some of the portion of the Shariah. As a customary of this Parliament House, they are quarrelling with bills to achieve their dirty political objectives by forgetting the covenants they made in the name of Allah before the very eyes of the public.

While they were into this fight, the President of Maldives Mr Mohamed Nasheed, who suppose to be the Muslim supreme leader of this nation gave a confusing message to the public about the capital punishment during his weekly radio show-off. He acknowledged that the Maldives judiciary system has got some serious flaws and lacked potential to be fair to give capital punishments.

My advice to the President is to make all his effort to create an unprejudiced judicial system to execute laws fairly rather going for the series of public stunts. As people may recall, one of the recent stunt was gathering his cabinet in under the sea as if Maldivians were mermaids - I remember one of his interviews to the 9 News Channel and he called Maldivians are ‘sea creatures’. When a known famous scientist publicizes his covert environmental operations then he came up with the twenty first century pretense making all educated Maldivians are Islamic fundamentalists and terrorists. Mr President, what’s next in your list? I guess you have run out of all options?

To be honest, the overseas meetings he attends, the medals he receives and the stunt he does will never be a good remedy to the society. Since, history has proven us that those archived medals and the unique stunts have not been accomplished a single objective of the public but leaves the country in debt and slavery.

With all that, the baby boomers and generations y have fallen back with religious knowledge. With few authenticate religious books available to the public, people have been fallen into the trap of this ignorant society. Moreover, schools were the main gates for their religious education but it was limited to a certain grades with limited standards. As people might have known, the Thauleemudiyanah 1 and 2 were widely available to the community for religious references. As today we understand it has got some serious inconsistencies in terms of religious scholarly or theological views.

For the debate I had with my friends, one of my friends brought this ‘Thauleemudiyana’ and read the whole chapter about Zakah and it revealed a confusing view about the obligatory Zakah. The confused status of the generations are the results of all these peoples’ actions and this will continue to worse if unless we take immediate actions to shape up the community. This is the status of this nation and if we do not address these issues now, there will be serious consequences with conflicts of intolerance, disintegration and beyond belief social predicaments in the community.

The Big Questions: Part One

The author, Dr Laurence B. Brown has given us his full consent to post his articles in this blog. He is the author of The First and Final Commandment (Amana Publications) and Bearing True Witness (Dar-us-Salam). Forthcoming books are a historical thriller, The Eighth Scroll, and a second edition of The First and Final Commandment, rewritten and divided into MisGod'ed and its sequel, God'ed. The following article is part one of the three part series:

At some point in our lives, everybody asks the big questions: "Who made us," and "Why are we here?"

So who did make us? Atheists speak of the Big Bang and evolution, whereas all others speak of God. Those who answer "I don't know" are atheist for all intents and purposes, not because they deny God's existence, but because they fail to affirm it.

Now, the Big Bang may explain the origin of the universe, but it doesn't explain the origin of the primordial dust cloud. This dust cloud (which, according to the theory, drew together, compacted and then exploded) had to come from somewhere. After all, it contained enough matter to form not just our galaxy, but the billion other galaxies in the known universe. So where did that come form? Who, or what, created the primordial dust cloud?

Similarly, evolution may explain the fossil record, but it falls far short of explaining the quintessential essence of human life—the soul. We all have one. We feel its presence, we speak of its existence and at times pray for its salvation. But only the religious can explain where it came from. The theory of natural selection can explain many of the material aspects of living things, but it fails to explain the human soul.

Furthermore, anyone who studies the complexities of life and the universe cannot help but witness the signature of the Creator.* Whether or not people recognize these signs is another matter—as the old saying goes, denial isn't just a river in Egypt. (Get it? Denial, spelled "de Nile" … the river Ni … oh, never mind.) The point is that if we see a painting, we know there is a painter. If we see a sculpture, we know there's a sculptor; a pot, a potter. So when we view creation, shouldn't we know there's a Creator?

The concept that the universe exploded and then developed in balanced perfection through random events and natural selection is little different from the proposal that, by dropping bombs into a junkyard, sooner or later one of them will blow everything together into a perfect Mercedes. In the color and trim of our hearts' desire, no less.

If there is one thing we know for certain, it is that without a controlling influence, all systems degenerate into chaos. The theories of the Big Bang and evolution propose the exact opposite, however—that chaos fostered perfection. Would it not be more reasonable to conclude that the Big Bang and evolution were controlled events? Controlled, that is, by the Creator?

The Arabs tell the tale of a nomad finding an exquisite palace at an oasis in the middle of an otherwise barren desert. When he asks how it was built, the owner tells him it was formed by the forces of nature. The wind shaped the rocks and blew them to the edge of this oasis, and then tumbled them together into the shape of the palace. Then it blew strands of sheep's wool together into rugs and tapestries, stray wood together into furniture, doors, windowsills and trim, and positioned them in the palace at just the right locations. Lightning strikes melted sand into sheets of glass and blasted them into the window-frames, and smelted black sand into steel and shaped it into the fence and gate with perfect alignment and symmetry. The process took billions of years and only happened at this one place on earth—purely through coincidence.

When we finish rolling our eyes, we get the point. Obviously, the palace was built by design, not by happenstance. To what (or more to the point, to Whom), then, should we attribute the origin of items of infinitely greater complexity, such as our universe and our lives?

Another classic argument for atheism focuses upon what people perceive to be the imperfections of creation. These are the "How can there be a God if such-and-such happened?" arguments. The issue under discussion could be anything from a natural disaster to birth defects, from genocide to grandmother's cancer. That's not the point. The point is that denying God based upon what we perceive to be injustices of life presumes that a divine being would not have designed our lives to be anything other than perfect, and would have established justice on Earth.

Hmm … is there no other option?

We can just as easily propose that God did not design life on Earth to be paradise, but rather a test, the punishment or rewards of which are to be had in the next life, which is where God establishes his ultimate justice. In support of this concept we can well ask who suffered more injustices in their worldly lives than God's favorites, which is to say the prophets? And who do we expect to occupy the highest stations in paradise, if not those who maintain true faith in the face of worldly adversity?

I would hope that, by this line of reasoning, we can agree upon the answer to the first "big question." Who made us? Can we agree that if we are creation, God is the Creator?

If we can't agree on this point, there probably isn't much point in continuing. However, for those who do agree, let's move on to "big question" number two—why are we here? What, in other words, is the purpose of life?

(To be continued)

Insults reveal a profound truth by Aisha

On August 24, the Telegraph.co.uk published a short piece of entitled “Insults are better taken lying down.” Apparently, research shows, “that those who took personal insults while upright exhibited brain activity linked to attacking, but this urge disappeared when they took the same insults lying down.” Any Muslim reading this would immediately think of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) advising his followers to lie down when they became angry.

In a tradition related to us from Imam Ahmad, we learn that the companion Abu Dharr was involved in an altercation at watering trough. In the midst of the argument, Abu Darr sat down, and then he lay down. Someone asked him why, he replied, “The Messenger of God advised us, if one of you becomes angry and he is standing, let him sit down so his anger will go away, if it down not go away, let him lie down”.

Al Khattabi, renowned Islamic scholar of the 10th century C.E., commented, “One who is standing is in a position to strike and destroy, while the one who is sitting is less likely to do that, and the one who is lying down can do neither”. Now, in the 21st century, scientists at the Texas A&M University have made this awesome discovery by conducting extensive research into insults and body position.

Muslims, however, know with certainly that the advice given to them by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was correct, and appropriate. When Muslims read about such discoveries, they smile enigmatically and go about their daily lives secure in the knowledge that Islam is a way of life, not merely a religion.

On the other hand, coverts to Islam react in a slightly different way. For many, their journey to Islam has been a series of epiphanies and revelations. Coverts, or reverts, as many like to be called, often tell amazing stories of discovering the truth of Islam.

Therefore, small articles in dusty journals or snippets or information in the health, science, or technology sections of new papers and magazines reinforce their feelings of discovering a great universal truth. Reading a newspaper article takes on a whole new meaning when it confirms a profound reality.

For Muslims, worship is life and life is worship. Knowing how to please God is a profound reality itself. The month of Ramadan and God ordered Muslims to fast. In the month of Ramadan, spiritual batteries are being charged and Muslim s all over the world is reaping the benefits of decreasing their food intake and increasing their worship and generosity.

At the same times scientists across the globe, are studying the benefits of fasting; in mice and rats, in monkeys, and in humans, and the benefits become increasingly obvious. An article on Serendip (Bryn Mawr College website) states that the most apparent benefit of fasting is a sense of rejuvenation and a longer life expectancy. This comes about due to a slower metabolic rate, more efficient protein production, an improved of hormones.

Every day, in a myriad or ways, the truth of Islam becomes visible and palpable. Those born to Islam accept this universal truth with grace and elegance, while converts to Islam each new revelation with a twinkling of the eye reminiscent of a child opening an Eid gift. Islam does not need scientific discoveries to confirm its legitimacy. However, modern discoveries add to the sense of wonder that accompanies real submission to God.

*Aisha Stacey is an Australia convert to Islam. She spent from 20034 until 2007 working as a writer/researcher/da’eh at tge Fanar Islamic Cultural Centre in Doha Qatar. Aisha recently returned to Australia, and completed her Bachelor of Arts, specialising in Terrorism, Security and Counterterrorism. Aisha writes a weekly column for www.islamreligion.com

The President’s childish policies - by zoo

It is time to say no to the President aka Anni. He has done more harm than good for the past 11 months of his presidency. Every week he brings to the public his ‘coffee table plans’ – the plans he discusses with his mates in the backyard of ‘Muliaage’ aka Presidential Palace. His tone is very much like Zaki and his MDP closed circle friends.

He comes up with phony plans in the coffee table and goes on the national Radio revealing his plans and changes it before the next dawn. In fact, the very next radio cast, he will have a complete different stance on his previous week’s policies. Anyone who listen to his absurd policies will think, ‘is this guy mad or what?’

It is not a question of perhaps, but certainly he is mad and got some damaged brain cells since his long activist campaign. The very instant, when he started the activist work, he told to the corner shop chap that he will bring food price down with affordable rates but instead things are getting expensive day by day. The matter of fact is that the government does not have any control over the food price in Maldives. As usual, when people complain such issues he goes on the national Radio by way of old-fashioned tone of voice with his bizarre explanations . When the camera runs the shot and the radio tunes his voice, he opens up his mouth with humility (show-off) and lies to the public of his convenience. But the inconvenient truth is that he has no experience to deal with the international community to obtain funds and market tourism to get cash for his unrealistic policies.

Last few weeks he was talking about reducing and capping up the paycheques of the civil servants. Bear in mind, he is the one who increases the salary package before the Parliamentary election. As soon as it’s over, rumours were out that the regime has got plans to reduce the civil servants income. Now, for few weeks, he was talking about his chronicle plan on his weekly radio show but what happened after few weeks of his cap plan? When rival MPs and public uproar over this issue he softened like a ‘sponge-cake’ and portrayed to the public that the reduction of the civil servants’ salary will stay for only few months. Is it going to happen in few months down the road? Indeed, the ambiguous dialogue could only be sold to his hardcore MDP gossipmongers but the wider public won’t buy his preposterous telltales.

How he comes up with these immediate plans? Are there any strategic frameworks for this regime’s policies? What measures he has taken into account for such changes to his policies? Is there any decent stand for such amendments? Does he’s aware of the foreseeable economic future of this country or the global economy? When you pose a serious question he just baffles around and change things as if he was dealing with an uninformed public. Mr President, the public that you see is not all activists who applaud any time you open up your mouth. You are a President of a nation elected by majority of its people to govern the presidential system fairly but not to put your party first. Sometime your actions are more like you are governing a parliamentary system of power.

On the other hand, what about the agreements he signed on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly enabling normalization of ties between Israel and Maldives. Without doubt, the Maldivian general public is against any sort of relation with this warmongering nation but still he tries to convince to the public that this is acceptable to have relation with Israel by hurting the brothers and sisters of Islam in Palestine.

In fact, this is a nation which killed hundreds of innocent children and women and occupies the land without the wills of the landowners and put them forcefully into concentration camps. This is a country where it challenges the international community and kills helpless innocent civilians with WMDs. The so called President justifies his poor foreign policy by saying that the Middle Eastern nations (Egypt and Jordon) have such relations with this warmongering nation too. Mr President, do you know that why they have such relations with Israel? It’s not because they want it but it’s because there is no other way to get their stolen land back! You are just comparing us and them with your ridicule mind to get some political gains but people are not that stupid Anni!

Does the public know what he talks about when he meets the international delegates? Every time he meets a white folk he talks about “Islamic fundamentalism”. This is a President of a Muslim country talking about his own people to outsiders (Non-Muslim) that we are ‘bad people’ and our children are terrorists. This is the message he put out there to get some publicity from his white folk friends. This whole issue of ‘Islamic fundamentalism’ is to alienate the Muslim nations and degrade its citizens. Therefore, the question is, are you a Muslim or one of them?

It is time for us to come out our little rooms and challenge this man. We brought this change not to hurt our brothers and sisters in Palestine. His conservative thoughts, unislamic actions are hurting the wider public and Muslim nations. The young generation of this nation is getting misunderstood of his poor judgemental measures and actions. The public has being misleading with his unrealistic mockery plans for years. His inexperience, activist, conservative and disdain thought have been a dilemma for the wider community. Before the nation falls apart it’s our duty to act and put our faith in God rather getting more involved with his bogus policies and actions.