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Leaders and Vision 2020

Almost thirty years ago, Dr Mahathir had a dream to make Malaysia as a developed nation by 2020. He named that dream as Vision 2020. Now, we are at the end road about 2020. What, we as the people of this nation had achieved? What are our contributions to make this country great? Regrettably, we always blamed others especially, our leaders for any shortcomings. Then, who actually supported and elected these devious leaders?? We as the citizen and voters of this country, always elected leaders who are corrupted and misuse their powers. Should we have blamed these leaders or ourselves for the failure of this nation? A few days ago in Penang, a family of three young kids stayed in a car for eight months. When the media highlighted this family’s deplorable state then only steps had been taken to remedy the situation. Further, we have seen recently that our graduates are working as garbage collectors in our neighbouring country. There is nothing wrong working in that sector...

Terrorism and False Ideology

An Introduction Since 2017, the Ansar al-Sunna insurgent group which is associated with ISIS evacuated more than 430.000 people from Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique. Last month, these terrorists beheaded more than 50 people in the same province. Some local youth are attracted to this group’s false ideology because of poverty and unemployment issues. Last August, two female suicide bombers killed more than 14 people and at least 70 people were injured in Jolo, Southern Philippines. These attackers, who are widows of slain terrorists, used the improvised explosive devices to kill innocent people and a number of security forces. Further, they were affiliated with the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) which is known as Islamic State – East Asia Province. This has suggested that the terrorist attacks are to be led by females and young people. According to the recent American Enterprise Institute (AEI) report on youth and terrorism, terrorist groups like ISIS and al Shabaab designate...