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COMMENTThere has been the ratcheting up of extremist tongue opposite the Chinese village of late by Umno, culminating in the rsther than odious challenge to PAS by Umno's Kemelah state assemblyperson Ayub Rahmat which 'hudud law' be implemented in Johor for everyone, Muslim as good as non-Muslim.
Notice Ayub's hapless choice of words, "The Syariah Criminal Code (II) 1993 State of Kelantan does not reflect the loyal requirements of Islam. It creates taste in terms of execution (among Muslims as good as non-Muslims)."
In alternative words, it's "unIslamic" to have the set of laws which discriminates in in in between Muslim as good as non-Muslim as good as because this is Malaysia, in in in between Malay as good as non-Malay. Do you see where I'm starting with this?
Like many Umno politicians Ayub does not see the counterbalance in in in between the Umno obsession of upholding Malay rights, which in turn is translated into unaccepted as good as official institutionalised discrimination, as good as the supposed egalitarian viewpoint of Islam.
Never mi! nd which Ayub has conceded which the Islamic process of his own Umno is, well, unIslamic following the strict criteria of his own definition.
Prime Minister Najib Razak might crow of the "moderate" Islam practiced here in Malaysia though the being is which the Arabisation process has taken base as good as the statute system of administrati! on is ev er peaceful to use it as the weapon of fear opposite Muslims as good as non-Muslims, as you wrote in myfear enlightenment piece.
Ayub's handbill is the single of many politically encouraged provocations meant to incite the multiracial/religious Malaysian nicely into reliving their long buried secular or religious nightmares. Nightmares which usually Umno as good as the power-sharing formula can defense them from. Unfortunately for Umno, this does not go down well, with the sizeable territory of the choosing by casting votes open which considers anything entrance from Umno as anathema.
I hurl my eyes during your convenience you hear the common refrain by this system of administration as good as the little others who put up with in the many grotesque poise in the name of Islam as good as nonetheless claim which theirs is the religion of "peace".
When you have those paragons of purity during University Putra Malaysia indulging in anorgy of hateagainst the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, as good as transgender) village as good as 'immigrant ethnicities' as good as the budding apportion dogmatic which there isno place in Malaysiafor the LGBT community, whilst members of his own celebration have been disseminating the "pendatang" narrative, who could overtly have the argument which the kind of Islam promulgated by Umno is anything though divisive to this country?
The pink elephant in the room
But what is many sickening about this total contemptible mess is which the genuine targets of these hate campaigns have been Bersih co-chairperson Ambiga Sreenavesan as good as the assorted 'opposition' personalities. Whatever collateral repairs is accrued as far as marginalised communities have been endangered is par for the march as far a! s Asian values go.
Non-Malay/Muslim bigots have been utterly calm to let their Malay/Muslim counterparts claim the field, all the whilst basking in their supposed inclusive tongue which seems to usually revolve around crime as good as the division of the mercantile cake instead of any genuine philosophical principles which would need sustained commitment.
DAP chairperson Karpal Singh is regularly accused of rocking the Pakatan Rakyat boat during your convenience he keeps PAS upon the true as good as narrow 'secular' road as far as their Islamic preoccupations have been concerned, though with Umno ever ready to play the Islamic credentials card, Pakatan partisans should chuck their await during the back of politicians similar to Karpal during your convenience PAS shows any signs of wavering.
And let's face facts, Pakatan loyalists would similar to to put this total 'Islamic' state emanate upon the backburner though with the likes of PAS ulama chief Harun Taib stirring the hudud pot for whatever reasons, you ignore the pink elephant in the room during the own peril.
Add to thi! s PAS sp iritual personality Nik Aziz Nik Mat"congratulating"Umno for attempting to impose hudud in Johor as good as the single can't tell if the diversion of religious chicken is being played or is there the little darker sinister agendas during work.
I have known for too many loyal believers in PAS who believe which the idea of an Islamic state supercedes which of any multireligous/racial convictions of Pakatan. Even worse, you know the couple of influential Umno diehards who have been sympathethic to those aims.
With former budding apportion Dr Mahathir Mohamad dogmati! c Malays ia an Islamic state as good as the Islamic 'Hadhari' of his immediate successor, courteous observers would understand which the conflict for Islam is not merely an Umno as good as PAS emanate where it is easy to select sides, though rsther than the ticking time explosve which can usually be defused if as good as when as the republic you select to tackle this emanate once as good as for all.
All this is unequivocally amusing of march entrance right after Najib advised his Umno brethren to"cool it"as far as provocative "racial" statements have been concerned. Notice Najib's rsther than hapless choice of words.
"We would similar to to remind the members to not emanate any statements which touch upon sentiments of any competition or anything which can means problems in in in between BN member parties," he said.
In alternative words, Najib is usually endangered of "the problems" as it relates to the workings of his member parties as good as not to the larger multiethnic Malaysian community. Just to belabour the point.
Something is usually 'racist' (for example) if it is tangible by BN member part! ies as good as consecrated by Umno. Non-BN supporters have been left totally out of the loop. And who exactly have been these 'members'? Do they embody members who belong to right-wing Malay rights groups? Former budding ministers?
Mahathir's greatest hits
Mahathir is reviving his greatest hits collection when he attacks the Chinese village with the stale canards of minority overthrow as good as dominance. 'Kingmakers' he shrilly proclaims them whilst in the swell of the Umno beast -Utusan Malaysia- the paper warlocks stir the cauldron of communal fears of Machiavellian alliances in in in between the Houses of DAP as good as PAP.
The account is simple. The Malays have been splintered during the mercy of the devilish Chinese 'pendatangs' who want zero some-more than to physically as good as psychologically indenture them. The Malays have been weak as good as usually Umno can protect them. So what if Umno gets rich in the process? Doesn't this 'service' need remuneration?
As has been demonstrated innumerous articles, Mahathir gets the math wrong as far as the kingmaker demographic goes. But wonky numbers has never deterred Umno from spinning the horrid lie. This total country is built upon dodgy numbers.
The same account applies to the approach how Islam is practiced in this country as good as the rest of the world where despotic regimes in all their banal varieties reason sway. T! he conviction ful need to be stable opposite anything which would shake up their faith. If their conviction in Islam is shaken, what afterwards of their conviction in the statute classes which lord it over them?
All this 'kingmakers' speak contingency unequivocally piss off the Hindraf lads. If the Chinese have been the kingmakers, what afterwards of the bad Indians? And it does seem unfair. So-called Chinese advocacy groups have been in ubiquitous timid as good as discreet when criticising the regime.
And who could censure them, considering the firepower opposite them. They might not in being be the transparent as good as benefaction risk to the Umno system of administration though they have been anointed as such as good as all the state's promotion organs have been during work portraying them as placing the destiny of the Malay nicely in harm's way.
But if you unequivocally want to review the draining edge in secular as good as religious discourse, you should check out the Human Rights Partywebsite and the explanation by the Hindraf faithful.
Whatever my criticisms of Hindraf, usually they have had the cojones to fury opposite the Umno machine in an open as good as official demeanour instead of the sub rosa tongue which perhaps even you am guilty off. If they ever get the await of the majority of Malaysians, they will indeed be the transparent as good as benefaction risk which Umno so fears.
Even RPK (blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin) has taken the gash during the Indian as good as Chinese communities. At slightest in this courtesy the Indians have been not left out. And this creates me happy.
His blog post about how the Indians as good as Chinese have been to "blame" for keeping Umno in energy was anextremely funny read. Like Mahathir, he gets the demographic numbers wrong though afterwards again Pete (as he is fondly known) was never the numbers guy. His gift is stirring the shit as good as saying who complains of the smell.
Why should RPK get all the brickbats? you have some-more or reduction done the same argument in many of myMalaysiakinipieces. you have discussed the complicity of the Chinese as good as Indians communities of nutritious Umno hegemony with their obsessions upon their communal preoccupations tangible by Umno. you have heaped scorn upon those who complain though do not vote.
I have pointed to the uncomfortable actuality which there were regularly opposition parties (who might have played the diversion badly, though afterwards again how good was BN playing?) though not sufficient opposition support.
Of course, the Malays as good as the vote banks in Sabah as good as Sarawak have been partial of the numbers diversion though let's concentrate upon those vocal communities who conclude (for improved or worse) competition relations in Malaysia. Spare me "we voted out of fear" o! r the la rge alternative BS rationales for choosing by casting votes BN because the usual fact of former BN electorate was which "we do not have the credible opposition" (sic).
At the finish of the day, it's all about money anyway. Whenever you see these political or religious sorts pontificating about religious or cultural values, the single should consider this Dorothy Parker quote as decree rsther than than bon mot, "If you want to know what God thinks of money, only look during the people he gave it to."
Notice Ayub's hapless choice of words, "The Syariah Criminal Code (II) 1993 State of Kelantan does not reflect the loyal requirements of Islam. It creates taste in terms of execution (among Muslims as good as non-Muslims)."In alternative words, it's "unIslamic" to have the set of laws which discriminates in in in between Muslim as good as non-Muslim as good as because this is Malaysia, in in in between Malay as good as non-Malay. Do you see where I'm starting with this?
Like many Umno politicians Ayub does not see the counterbalance in in in between the Umno obsession of upholding Malay rights, which in turn is translated into unaccepted as good as official institutionalised discrimination, as good as the supposed egalitarian viewpoint of Islam.
Never mi! nd which Ayub has conceded which the Islamic process of his own Umno is, well, unIslamic following the strict criteria of his own definition.
Prime Minister Najib Razak might crow of the "moderate" Islam practiced here in Malaysia though the being is which the Arabisation process has taken base as good as the statute system of administrati! on is ev er peaceful to use it as the weapon of fear opposite Muslims as good as non-Muslims, as you wrote in myfear enlightenment piece.
Ayub's handbill is the single of many politically encouraged provocations meant to incite the multiracial/religious Malaysian nicely into reliving their long buried secular or religious nightmares. Nightmares which usually Umno as good as the power-sharing formula can defense them from. Unfortunately for Umno, this does not go down well, with the sizeable territory of the choosing by casting votes open which considers anything entrance from Umno as anathema.
I hurl my eyes during your convenience you hear the common refrain by this system of administration as good as the little others who put up with in the many grotesque poise in the name of Islam as good as nonetheless claim which theirs is the religion of "peace".
When you have those paragons of purity during University Putra Malaysia indulging in anorgy of hateagainst the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, as good as transgender) village as good as 'immigrant ethnicities' as good as the budding apportion dogmatic which there isno place in Malaysiafor the LGBT community, whilst members of his own celebration have been disseminating the "pendatang" narrative, who could overtly have the argument which the kind of Islam promulgated by Umno is anything though divisive to this country?
The pink elephant in the room
But what is many sickening about this total contemptible mess is which the genuine targets of these hate campaigns have been Bersih co-chairperson Ambiga Sreenavesan as good as the assorted 'opposition' personalities. Whatever collateral repairs is accrued as far as marginalised communities have been endangered is par for the march as far a! s Asian values go.
Non-Malay/Muslim bigots have been utterly calm to let their Malay/Muslim counterparts claim the field, all the whilst basking in their supposed inclusive tongue which seems to usually revolve around crime as good as the division of the mercantile cake instead of any genuine philosophical principles which would need sustained commitment.
DAP chairperson Karpal Singh is regularly accused of rocking the Pakatan Rakyat boat during your convenience he keeps PAS upon the true as good as narrow 'secular' road as far as their Islamic preoccupations have been concerned, though with Umno ever ready to play the Islamic credentials card, Pakatan partisans should chuck their await during the back of politicians similar to Karpal during your convenience PAS shows any signs of wavering.
And let's face facts, Pakatan loyalists would similar to to put this total 'Islamic' state emanate upon the backburner though with the likes of PAS ulama chief Harun Taib stirring the hudud pot for whatever reasons, you ignore the pink elephant in the room during the own peril.
Add to thi! s PAS sp iritual personality Nik Aziz Nik Mat"congratulating"Umno for attempting to impose hudud in Johor as good as the single can't tell if the diversion of religious chicken is being played or is there the little darker sinister agendas during work.I have known for too many loyal believers in PAS who believe which the idea of an Islamic state supercedes which of any multireligous/racial convictions of Pakatan. Even worse, you know the couple of influential Umno diehards who have been sympathethic to those aims.
With former budding apportion Dr Mahathir Mohamad dogmati! c Malays ia an Islamic state as good as the Islamic 'Hadhari' of his immediate successor, courteous observers would understand which the conflict for Islam is not merely an Umno as good as PAS emanate where it is easy to select sides, though rsther than the ticking time explosve which can usually be defused if as good as when as the republic you select to tackle this emanate once as good as for all.
All this is unequivocally amusing of march entrance right after Najib advised his Umno brethren to"cool it"as far as provocative "racial" statements have been concerned. Notice Najib's rsther than hapless choice of words.
"We would similar to to remind the members to not emanate any statements which touch upon sentiments of any competition or anything which can means problems in in in between BN member parties," he said.
In alternative words, Najib is usually endangered of "the problems" as it relates to the workings of his member parties as good as not to the larger multiethnic Malaysian community. Just to belabour the point.
Something is usually 'racist' (for example) if it is tangible by BN member part! ies as good as consecrated by Umno. Non-BN supporters have been left totally out of the loop. And who exactly have been these 'members'? Do they embody members who belong to right-wing Malay rights groups? Former budding ministers?
Mahathir's greatest hits
Mahathir is reviving his greatest hits collection when he attacks the Chinese village with the stale canards of minority overthrow as good as dominance. 'Kingmakers' he shrilly proclaims them whilst in the swell of the Umno beast -Utusan Malaysia- the paper warlocks stir the cauldron of communal fears of Machiavellian alliances in in in between the Houses of DAP as good as PAP.
The account is simple. The Malays have been splintered during the mercy of the devilish Chinese 'pendatangs' who want zero some-more than to physically as good as psychologically indenture them. The Malays have been weak as good as usually Umno can protect them. So what if Umno gets rich in the process? Doesn't this 'service' need remuneration?As has been demonstrated innumerous articles, Mahathir gets the math wrong as far as the kingmaker demographic goes. But wonky numbers has never deterred Umno from spinning the horrid lie. This total country is built upon dodgy numbers.
The same account applies to the approach how Islam is practiced in this country as good as the rest of the world where despotic regimes in all their banal varieties reason sway. T! he conviction ful need to be stable opposite anything which would shake up their faith. If their conviction in Islam is shaken, what afterwards of their conviction in the statute classes which lord it over them?
All this 'kingmakers' speak contingency unequivocally piss off the Hindraf lads. If the Chinese have been the kingmakers, what afterwards of the bad Indians? And it does seem unfair. So-called Chinese advocacy groups have been in ubiquitous timid as good as discreet when criticising the regime.
And who could censure them, considering the firepower opposite them. They might not in being be the transparent as good as benefaction risk to the Umno system of administration though they have been anointed as such as good as all the state's promotion organs have been during work portraying them as placing the destiny of the Malay nicely in harm's way.
But if you unequivocally want to review the draining edge in secular as good as religious discourse, you should check out the Human Rights Partywebsite and the explanation by the Hindraf faithful.
Whatever my criticisms of Hindraf, usually they have had the cojones to fury opposite the Umno machine in an open as good as official demeanour instead of the sub rosa tongue which perhaps even you am guilty off. If they ever get the await of the majority of Malaysians, they will indeed be the transparent as good as benefaction risk which Umno so fears.
Even RPK (blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin) has taken the gash during the Indian as good as Chinese communities. At slightest in this courtesy the Indians have been not left out. And this creates me happy.
His blog post about how the Indians as good as Chinese have been to "blame" for keeping Umno in energy was anextremely funny read. Like Mahathir, he gets the demographic numbers wrong though afterwards again Pete (as he is fondly known) was never the numbers guy. His gift is stirring the shit as good as saying who complains of the smell.
Why should RPK get all the brickbats? you have some-more or reduction done the same argument in many of myMalaysiakinipieces. you have discussed the complicity of the Chinese as good as Indians communities of nutritious Umno hegemony with their obsessions upon their communal preoccupations tangible by Umno. you have heaped scorn upon those who complain though do not vote.
I have pointed to the uncomfortable actuality which there were regularly opposition parties (who might have played the diversion badly, though afterwards again how good was BN playing?) though not sufficient opposition support.
Of course, the Malays as good as the vote banks in Sabah as good as Sarawak have been partial of the numbers diversion though let's concentrate upon those vocal communities who conclude (for improved or worse) competition relations in Malaysia. Spare me "we voted out of fear" o! r the la rge alternative BS rationales for choosing by casting votes BN because the usual fact of former BN electorate was which "we do not have the credible opposition" (sic).
At the finish of the day, it's all about money anyway. Whenever you see these political or religious sorts pontificating about religious or cultural values, the single should consider this Dorothy Parker quote as decree rsther than than bon mot, "If you want to know what God thinks of money, only look during the people he gave it to."
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