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Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

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Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

The Muslim Dilemma - Singapore and Malaysia struggle for tourists

This may be the travel message for most of Islam:
"Welcome to Malaysia, where it is easy to die and expensive to stay alive."

Singapore and Malaysia struggle for tourists - English pravda.ru
12.08.2013
A diplomatic scandal broke out between the Republic of Singapore and Malaysia after Singapore newspaper New Paper published an article entitled "Welcome to Malaysia, where it is easy to die and expensive to stay alive." The Malaysian Government decided that the article may have inflicted a severe material damage on its tourism industry.
The author of the article listed recent high-profile murders and attacks that took place in Malaysia at the end of the month. They include an attack on the founder of a major banking group AMMB Holdings Hussein Ahmad Nazhadi, chairman of NGO MyWatch R. Sri Sanjeevan, and two other Malays. All crimes were committed in broad daylight, in busy streets, and involved the use of firearms. Then the journalist noted that he personally hired a killer in Kuala Lumpur for only 2,000 dollars. The article caused a storm of indignation among Malaysian officials. For example, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia Dato' Sri Anifah Hj. Aman has expressed concern that the newspaper misled the reader with a sensational headline.
Deputy Chairman of the Crime Prevention Foundation Tan Sri Lee Tai Lam said that Singapore competes for tourists through unacceptable methods. "Yes, they have freedom of speech and can write whatever they want, but we also have the right to respond. After reading the article one gets the impression that the authors want to keep tourists from visiting Malaysia, as the country is allegedly unsafe."
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