Foreign donations have been defended by the proponents as being legitimate means of obtaining operating capital. Groups such as Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF), Merdeka Centre, Centre to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4) are among the few grantees of such aid.
These funds are obtained from agencies such as Open Society FOundations (OSF), National Democrat Institute (NDI), International Republican Institute (IRI) to name a few.
The organisations that provide these benefactions have objectives that need to be fulfilled by the donee. However none of the objectives involve feeding the poor, clothing the needy or any other form of humanitarian relief.
Instead they prefer political struggles. Ironically enough, all of the recipients are to some extent politically inclined.
Some seek to empower the LGBTIQ groups while others want to change the democratic process altogether. Countries like Singapore and Russia have taken stern action(s) against LGBTIQ camps.
Russia bans gay rights movements within her boders. Singapore recently blocked funds for an LGBTIQ rally. Despite being a close ally of the USA, Singapore was not spared when it comes down to minority rights.
Ostensibly, minorities in today’s world does not refer to any particular race or religion, it can be any type of ideology or behaviour. Even if an act is clearly against the law of a nation it can be challenged blatantly.
All in all the main objective of these movements is to amend policies that are seen as being unfavourable. Bersih is one such organisation that strives to make amendments to the current legal system.
Though they gather with the pretext of “peaceful assembly”, the reality is much different.
In one of the episodes of their rallies a police car was overturned. Thankfully no one was hurt in the incident. Coming to think about it, things could have been much worse.
In another rally by Bersih, the participants allegedly urinated en masse along the path of their struggle. Being fair to Bersih, they could not have possibly controlled such a large crowd.
However, knowing that such a large assembly is difficult to control, the lesson has not been learned. They insist on organising another event this year too.
Likewise elsewhere massive demonstrations started with the pretext of peace and ended up with violence. Violence that will take years to resolve, with the collective casualties amounting to millions.
If we ever see peace in these lands again someday in the future, there is much left to do. The economies have been crushed, the infrastructure destroyed to the ground.
Reconstruction effort can take years if not decades. The American government pumped billions into Iraq, and a decade later we are yet to reach pre-war level of developments let alone surpass them.
Political change might be imperative, but the process should be holistic and take into consideration the greater good of a country.
Reflecting on historical events, Vladimir Putin’s government took measures to ban funds from NED entirely.
Foreign assistance is still allowed and groups that want to keep on receiving endowments would have to register with the Russian Justice Ministry as “foreign agents”.
“Agents” would have to file a report to officials on a quarterly basis. Maybe the Malaysian government could emulate this policy.
After all, transparency was the reason that inspired their plight in the first place. Maybe it is time to practice what they have been preaching all this while.
The staggering bit about these sponsors is that their own policies that are opaque in nature.
NED has four satellite institutes operating under their purview, American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS), the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), and the International Republican Institute (IRI).
The activities of these subsidiaries are not reported to the American Congress. Apparently in this case, transparency is a relative term.
We should rightfully expect politically tilted NGOs to come clean about their spending habits. Practice should start with those who preach, so as to set an example for the rest.
Albeit the aspiration of these rallies was for human rights, in the end it was their own struggle that failed them.
Rehan Ahmad Bin Jamaluddin Ahmad
Research Fellow, Insitut Kajian Strategik Islam Malaysia (IKSIM)
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official views of, and should not be attributed to, Isma or Ismaweb.
The anti-Islam NGOs and some anti-Islam opposition political parties are being financed, supported, trained, controlled and manipulated by the US , CIA and Pro-Israel Foundations to:
(1) attack, insult, demonize, defame and oppose Islam, Muslim scholars of Islam, Islamic authorities, Islamic political party PAS, Muslims,
(2) promote and spread prejudice against, hatred towards, irrational fear of, or racism towards Muslims and Islam,
(3) pit non-Muslims (the minority) against Muslims (the majority),
(4) undermine and overthrow Muslim-led government by inciting protest, demonstrations, riots , rebellion etc and spreading baseless rumour etc against the government.
(5) change Islamic country [ Federal constitution 3(1) ] into a secular and liberal country.
Some leaders of the anti-Islam NGOs and anti-Islam political parties admit to receiving money etc from the US organizations such as the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Open Society Institute (OSI) etc.
Former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright chairs the National Democratic Institute, an organization that supplies electoral observers and promotes governance reform, widely seen as an attempt to foster foreign political systems compatible with American interests by assisting civil society groups in mounting pressure on national governments. NDI President Kenneth Wollack served as the legislative director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, widely considered to be Israel’s most prominent lobbyist organization, one that influences American legislation to exert aggressive Israeli policy and viewpoints. [6]
The National Democratic Institute is one of four organizations funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in addition to the International Republican Institute (IRI), the Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity.
Alan Weinstein, one of the founders of the National Endowment for Democracy was notably quoted in 1991 as saying, “A lot of what we (NED) do was done 25 years ago covertly by the CIA.” [7] The National Endowment for Democracy receives its funding entirely through an annual allocation of funds from the United States Congress within the budget of the development assistance agency USAID, a branch of the US State Department. [8] Although the NED receives public funding from the US taxpayer, the activities of its four satellite institutes are not reported to Congress, making funding trails and their final recipients difficult to identify.
Although the organization boasts of “promoting democracy” and “fortifying civil society” around the world, history had proven that these tired euphemisms have been used in numerous countries to mask funding to various political forces opposed to their national governments and aligned with American interests.
American historian and former employee of the US State Department William Blum writes:
NED’s Statement of Principles and Objectives, adopted in 1984, asserts that “No Endowment funds may be used to finance the campaigns of candidates for public office.” But the ways to circumvent the spirit of such a prohibition are not difficult to come up with; as with American elections, there’s “hard money” and there’s “soft money”. As described in the “Elections” and “Interventions” chapters, NED successfully manipulated elections in Nicaragua in 1990 and Mongolia in 1996; helped to overthrow democratically elected governments in Bulgaria in 1990 and Albania in 1991 and 1992; and worked to defeat the candidate for prime minister of Slovakia in 2002 who was out of favor in Washington. And from 1999 to 2004, NED heavily funded members of the opposition to President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela to subvert his rule and to support a referendum to unseat him.
Reference: http://www.globalresearch.ca/towards-a-colored-revolution-in-malaysia-us-and-pro-israel-foundations-channel-support-to-pakatan-rakyat-opposition/5305869
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
Will Malaysia be the next target of the US, Israel and their allies and proxies after the US and Israel have illegally intervened in the affair of Muslim countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Yaman etc and overthrown the governments of Muslim countries ?
Dear Muslims, let us unite and obey the command of Allah and His messenger and practice the teaching of Islam and support and defend Islam, Islamic party PAS and the rights of Muslims in this country and boycott the anti-Islam political parties in the coming election (PRU14) in order to defeat the enemy of Islam.
For further reading:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/towards-a-colored-revolution-in-malaysia-us-and-pro-israel-foundations-channel-support-to-pakatan-rakyat-opposition/5305869
The US government, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Pro-Israel Foundations are financing and supporting local NGOs and opposition parties in order to control and manipulate them as the US proxies. Some local leaders of the secular and liberal NGOs and political parties have admitted to receiving money etc from the US organizations such as the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Open Society Institute (OSI) etc.
The US government, CIA and Pro-Israel Foundations have been using NGOs and political parties to undermine, destabilize and overthrow foreign governments since the Second World War. For example:
Iran 1953
Guatemala 1954
British Guiana 1953-64
Iraq 1963
Cambodia 1955-70
Laos 1958 , 1959 , 1960
Ecuador 1960-63
Congo 1960
Brazil 1962-64
Dominican Republic 1963
Bolivia 1964
Indonesia 1965
Ghana 1966
Chile 1964-73
Greece 1967
Bolivia 1971
Australia 1973-75
Portugal 1974-76
Jamaica 1976-80
Chad 1981-82
Grenada 1983
Fiji 1987
Nicaragua 1981-90
Panama 1989
Bulgaria 1990
Albania 1991
Afghanistan 1980s
Somalia 1993
Ecuador 2000
Afghanistan 2001
Venezuela 2002
Iraq 2003
Haiti 2004
Somalia 2007 to present
Libya 2011
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014
Will Malaysia be the next target of the US, Israel and their allies and proxies after the US and Israel have illegally intervened and destabilized Muslim countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen etc and overthrown the governments of Muslim countries ?