{"id":2768,"date":"2010-07-03T20:23:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2010\/07\/gambling-is-for-the-weak\/"},"modified":"2010-07-03T20:23:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T12:23:47","slug":"gambling-is-for-the-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/gambling-is-for-the-weak\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling is for the weak."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_2514.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.buletinonline.net\/images\/stories\/berita28\/DSC_2514.JPG\" style=\"float: left;\" \/><strong>KUALA LUMPUR<\/strong> \u2013 Activists in Malaysia on Saturday launched a campaign to ban all forms of gambling in the country, after the government cancelled plans to legalise sports betting.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of activist mostly Malay Muslim supporters launched the movement with a demonstration at the capital&#8217;s national mosque on Saturday, chanting &#8220;We hate gambling&#8221; and &#8220;Gambling is for the weak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The campaign follows Prime Minister Najib Razak&#8217;s announcement last week that his government had dropped a proposal to allow sports betting amid protests by groups who fear it would create more social ills.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia bans its majority Muslims from gambling but allows betting at a casino in Genting Highlands, on horse-racing and the national lottery.<\/p>\n<p>PAS youth chief Nasrudin Hassan Tantawi, a member of the coalition against gambling, said the new campaign was aimed at getting all Malaysians to give up gambling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to eliminate gambling on ships at sea, from the kampungs and all the way to the peak of Genting Highlands,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It cannot be done immediately but on a phase by phase basis so that its acceptable to all religions and gambling can be totally eliminated,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Uproar over sports betting erupted after Ascot Sports, a company controlled by influential tycoon Vincent Tan, said in May it had been granted a licence to offer odds for the hugely popular English Premier League football season.<\/p>\n<p>Berjaya, the property-to-gaming group which has a 70 percent state in Ascot Sports, has said the illegal sports betting market in Malaysia is worth as much as 20 billion ringgit (six billion US dollars) a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR \u2013 Activists in Malaysia on Saturday launched a campaign to ban all forms of gambling in the country, after the government cancelled plans to legalise sports betting. Thousands of activist mostly Malay Muslim supporters launched the movement with a demonstration at the capital&#8217;s national mosque on Saturday, chanting &#8220;We hate gambling&#8221; and &#8220;Gambling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}