Anwar to BN: Clean your own backyard first - www.malaysiakini.com

Government condemnation on Israel for its atrocities in the Gaza Strip, while perpetrating the very same “atrocities” on its own people was tantamount to hypocrisy, said PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim. He said this in his speech delivered at today’s parliamentary special session to discuss the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, convened by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Although commending the effort taken by the federal government on the matter, Anwar said it was also important that human rights in this country be respected before condemning others of it. “Let us not condemn Israel for its violations of humanitarian laws and urge other countries to follow suit when we ourselves would violate the same laws in our own country by stopping participants from demonstrating peacefully against Israel last Saturday,” he said...Anwar said that it was also important that while the government scrutinise heavily the Israeli attack on Gaza which have taken the lives of 880 Palestinians and injured 3,650 others, at home it was important that laws such as the Internal Security Act be abolished. * Note: The above content was taken from news headlined 'Anwar to BN: Clean your own backyard first' that has now been updated (updated 9.15pm) to 'Take regional stance against Israel, Anwar tells gov't'. The content has changed a lot. *

Yup, yup. Clean our own backyard first, Malaysians - be it BN or PR, police or citizens. Like I said earlier in my post here - there are already so many problems at our own backyard.

This 'adversity' coming from the Gaza madness is indeed an 'opportunity' for BN to divert our attention from the real thing at home. Thus, the call by Anwar, as the Opposition leader, to BN to clean its own backyard first is indeed timely!