Fear didn't come first, abuse by the state did


YOURSAY'Thayaparan can't speak of the inculcation of the enlightenment of fright though the parallel inculcation of the enlightenment of abuse.'
The manufacturing of the fright culture

your sayOnyourtoes:The 'state' of Malaysia today is due to non-Malays being subservient, Malays being fearful to be branded as traitors to their own competition as well as religion, as well as the supervision since autonomy which is ever intrusive as well as instrumental in engineering fright as well as insecurities among the citizens.

I must contend these have been common thesis as well as regard made when analysing the current situation.

Some questions: First, do you consider the non-Malays dare as well as know how to be defiant, generally prior to the age of Internet as well as online media?

Lee Kuan Yew attempted really tough to remonstrate Malaysians which the model adopted by the Alliance supervision then was not workable as well as sustainable over the prolonged run.

It took us some-more than 50 years to realise which you were upon the wrong trail and! which al so you am not certain at this juncture you have been able to find the scold route.

Second, do you consider the Malays have been ready to change? Yes, most have turn some-more prepared as well as exposed, though they have also turn some-more 'indoctrinated' over years by the state apparatuses.

I consider you assimilate the view of Pakatan Rakyat leaders by not starting all out to idle the benefaction 'national ethos' precisely since of Malays' insecurity as well as parochialism.

It will take time to shift incrementally as wel! l as con clude the benefits of being some-more cosmopolitan, thorough as well as multicultural.

Anonymous_3hdchd:Spot on, Commander (Rtd) S Thayaparan. This is the single of the best pieces I've review in the prolonged time.

When you first came here 20 years ago, you was struck by my wife's teenage Malay cousins (nice, well-spoken, football-loving kids) who were totally unqualified of meditative outside eremite as well as secular confines.

Any critique which deviated from habit was met with 'cannot, cannot, lah'. These youngsters (i.e. those prepared underneath the NEP dispensation from the mid-70s onwards) were shockingly conservative as well as victims of the narrow-minded, fear-based system.

Yes, ban the racist BTN (Biro Tatanegara) by all means, though the single biggest step toward swell would be to remove Agama classes from the schools as well as reduce the powers of undeveloped ustaz who offer usually to order Malaysians into two graphic groups from the age of six onwards.

Paul Warren:Somewhere by the centuries, you hold the Malays had been inculcated with the faith complement which inbred in them the clarity which Islam was to them the make the difference of personal hold as well as practice.

Hence you never listened of syariah-style impositions of the hudud law amongst them in the past. you mount corrected if you am wrong in which assertion.

However, somewhere along the way, energy brokers discovered the betterment to the seats of energy as well as management lay in the elementary bid of the boundless call.
Hence you find really little critique entrance from any Muslim of Hasan Ali's claims which Islam in Malaysia is endangered. you suspect it is tough to criticize anyone vocalization from the pulpit or in defense of Islam.

Some would contend which thesermons review in mosqueson the Friday prior to Anwar Ibrahim's exculpation were con! tradicto ry to the first of Islam itself as well as politically motivated, as well as yet there was really little criticism.

Of those who want Islam to be personalised, their voices have been lull.

Blackknight:I desire to talk about with most others who saluted this 'great' square of writing. Thayaparan seems to indicate which the non-Malays have been equally responsible for the plight of the fright enlightenment prevalent among the Malays.

It is their self-interest, arrogance, supremacist meditative as well as eremite prejudice which has got the infancy of the Malays to where they find themselves. They fell for the Umno social engineering hook, line as well as sinker since it catered to their self-interest.

Let it not be lost which Lim Guan Eng paid the heavy price when he dared step out of the confines which Umno underneath Dr Mahathir Mohamad had prescribed for DAP as well as alternative non-Malay domestic leaders.

He was sent to jail since he dared plea the notion which usually the Malay personality can defend the Malay against an additional Malay. And the likes of the MCA were rubbing off their hands in glee.

Manjit Bhatia:Thayaparan can't speak of the inculcation of the enlightenment of fright though the parallel inculcation of the enlightenment of abuse. Because though one, the other's worthless.

For decades, Malaysians have been quiet by the enlightenment of abuse foremost, so permitting for the enlightenment of fright to develop as well as co-exist. The enlightenment of fright is the inference of the enlightenment of abuse.

Recall the 1969 competition riots: fright didn't come first; abuse (state violence) did. Fear became institutionalised ! once abu se was bedded down as the Umno regime's 'legitimate' response to those who dared comparison the bounds of regime-orchestrated fear.

Their manifestations, as the gatekeepers system of administration subservience as well as mental conditioning of ! Malaysia ns, is found in the apparatus of state apprehension - the police, Special Branch, the Royal Malay Regiment (all Malays); in fact, the entire armed forces of the regime.

Matsalleh1:Thayaparan, what an engaging as well as thought-provoking article! Your character is not always really clear, if you might contend so, as well as you fright which might do some harm to your argument, which is glorious as well as convincing.

You have really accurately identified the great smirch in this otherwise so earnest country. If Malaysians find the courage to tackle it, Malaysia will turn what so most of us 'mat salleh' who have love for the nation know it can be.

But the nation is distant left down the dangerous trail as well as it won't be easy - not at all. you hope readers will review you carefully.

Anonymous_3f35:This critique square by Thayaparan beautifully articulated the cause of Malaysia's problems as well as the flattering elementary approach to go forward, provided, yes, supposing you have the courage to take upon the forces of fear-mongering head on. - Malaysiakini
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