December 21, 2011
Sungei Buloh: A Pit Stop to Putrajaya for Anwar
by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com (12-20-11)
COMMENT: Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izaah Anwar once offering a perspective which if her father had not become a statesman he would have been a teacher.
That hypothesis gains faith as Anwar Ibrahim intensifies an already chaotic debate schedule, what with a vicious High Court verdict in Sodomy II tentative as good as a general choosing imminent.
The oscillations in in between being a statesman as good as pedagogue have been more clear right away than prior to as a PKR supremo senses he is during a main impulse in his career.
From a approach he channels Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left in photo) as good as Rajmohan Gandhi in his debate speeches to audiences which occupy a operation in in between labouring category as good as a intelligentsia, it is quite clear that, both as statesman as good as guru, Anwar has achieved a clarity of mission as good as summary which puts a single in mind of what Dr Samuel Johnson pronounced about concentration.
The latter held which if man knows he is going to cling to in dual weeks, it concentrates a mind wonderfully.
The calm of Anwar's speeches these days is focused, with laser-like sharpness, upon what he feels a people who have come to hear him wish to know about what would happen if he goes to prison as a result of Sodomy II.
To diffuse their misgivings about a destiny in which he could be in gaol, he channels Erdogan, his friend as good as Turkey's Prime Minister.
Anwar tells them which Erdogan went from prison to being Prime Minister of Turkey. "They had an choosing after they put him in jail. His celebration won a choosing as good as Erdogan went from prison to being Prime Minister," pronounced Anwar, reassuringly, to a throng which turned up in Paya Besar, Kedah, to his debate stops final Sunday.
The Erdogan story is crucial to a core summary of Anwar's career: he feels which a Turkish personality as good as he have been comrades-in-arms in a struggle to uncover which Islam is concordant with democracy.
Invitation from Gandhi's grandson
Usually, Anwar eases a knowledge which he could go to prison upon his assembly by revelation them something of how he spent his time a final occasion he was incarcerated (1998-2004).
If it is a Malay audience, he talks of a Islamic books he had read while gaoled; if Chinese, he speaks about what he understood of Confucius' teachings (he takes care to enunciate a name in its Mandarin intonation, regularly an applause-winning turn); as good as if Indian, he channels Gandhi as good as through a Indian autonomy fighter, he mentions Nelson Mandela.
Gandhi, he cites frequently these days, yet it is not a father of Indian independence, yet his grandson, Rajmohan, similar to Erdogan, a friend of Anwar's.
Rajmohan (left) has invited Anwar to Mumbai for a conference which is to be held about a time Justice Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah is to broach visualisation in Sodomy II upon Jan 9.
Rajmohan is a publicist for Gandhian ideals, privately a a single about revelation law to power.
As long ago as Sep 19, Anwar told a largely Malay assembly in Jelapang, Ipoh, which Rajmohan had SMS-ed an invitation to him to broach a keynote address during a conference ! schedule d for January.
To especially Muslim audiences, Anwar emphasises Rajmohan's sacrament ('dia Hindu'), as if to contend which he, a card-carrying Muslim, is deemed important sufficient for a torchbearer-grandson of a celebrated Mahatma to broach a key summary to a conference upon a prerequisite of revelation law to power.
"I will be during a High Court to hear a visualisation as good as afterwards see if we can ensue to Mumbai after which day to attend a conference," Anwar tells a crowd, by right away attuned to a global-grappling participation of a speaker.
The summary is subtly semaphored: Anwar's domestic travails have been a road untimely yet from his main mission as a Pied Piper of political reform as good as of Islam's computability with democracy.
By bringing up Erdogan's experience of prison prior to his designation as PM of Turkey, Anwar conveys to a crowds which Sungai Buloh would good be a penultimate hire upon a personal odyssey which has had Putrajaya as its logical culmination.
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