July 1, 2012
Netto Defends Anwar's Record
by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT: Nobody seems to have devised the approach of office building egghead circles but adding immeasurably to the usual stock of nastiness, bitchery as well as backbiting which have been the lot of tellurian nature. Perhaps which is the price society has to pay for the centres which generate ideas.
Concerning the spleen author-cum-politician Kassim Ahmad vented opposite Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and, to the lesser extent, PAS devout leader Nik Aziz Nik Mat in an interview he gave Malaysiakini, the singular is not astounded during the anger, given what we know of the orneriness which continually courses through egghead circles.
But from someone similar to Kassim, we don't expect what he says about personages as pithy to the political scene as Anwar as well as Nik Aziz to be an egghead content-free zone, unburdened by reason or analysis.
This isn't the crime; ordinary mortals, even egghead ones, can be moody as well as in which state might feel as burned out as an overdrawn bank account as well as exasperated during the predicament.
Invective, paraphrasing Dr Samuel Johnson upon the topic of patriotism, might be the final retreat of weather-worn intellectuals. Repeat readings of the vitriol Kassim spewed upon Anwar as well as Nik Aziz in the Malaysiakini interview indicate which his rant was the mood-piece, the window in to the unstable emotional state egghead elitists have been successor to.
A entertain century has upheld given Anwar incurred the fury of Kassim in the controversy! over th e latter's book 'Hadis: Satu Penilaian Semula', which was an evidence for the reappraisal of the standing of the Hadith (the sayings attributed to Prophet Muhammad) in the Islamic canon.
The book was banned as well as though Kassim right away absolves Anwar of shortcoming for the ban, he was well known to be apoplectic during the very discuss of the man's name in the recriminations which followed.
Rage continues to burn
Twenty-five years upon from which furore, it appears Kassim's hackles upon the make the disproportion of Anwar's presumed purpose opposite what he was perplexing to do get the discuss starting upon the standing of the Hadith in Islamic exegesis have not subsided.
That the passage of the entertain century has not malleable the corner of which annoy tells we which egghead vendettas can be as fast as tribal ones. 
The ridicule Kassim pours upon Anwar is some-more denigratory of him as an egghead than it is defining of the differences in in between the dual exponents of Islamic thought.
One would have felt which the find which Anwar's stance these days upon Islam's understand divided from textual acerbity as well as prone to emphasise the principle behind the parable would have entitled Kassim to the clarity of triumph, of vindication.
Instead the singular finds the fury which contingency have attended the beginnings of the controversy some-more than dual decades ago continues to burn till this day with an intensity which is disabling.
The disproportion in in between the thinker similar to Kassim as well as an egghead statesman similar to Anwar is which the thinker looks for the concept law which will assistance insist unique events while the intelligent politico tends ! to award the unique with an sign of the universal.
The risk in the a singular is monism the try to insist the world through the lens of the singular idea; the limitation in the alternative lies in the practical worth attached to ideas as the motor to expostulate people to the shift which society needs, as well as nothing more.
Let's say the disproportion in the dual attitudes is not distributed to engender mutual respect. Here lies the rub. The underlying ideals of the separate political trajectories of Kassim as well as Anwar, from their genesis in the 1960s to the present, have some-more in common than the principals might be peaceful to concede.
More which unites than divides them
Intellectuals both, possessed of the worldview which transcends their provincial upbringing, exponents of the Malay language as the unifying medium, as well as campaigners for the alleviation of Malay poverty inside of the context of thorough growth of all of Malaysian society, there's some-more which unites than divides them.
You wouldn't suspect there were these similarities in in between the dual from the vituperation Kassim has just right away shown Anwar.
But in the curious approach the passage of time tends to draw the veil over faults as well as render aged conflicts archaic provided successful creation endures.
If the Opposition Pakatan Rakyat endures, which would count as successful as well as outstanding creation no need to discuss to whose credit which would be.
Poet TS Eliot noticed the absolving outcome of time as well as successful creation upon the scourges as well as disputes of the English polite way. In 'Little Gidding' he wrote:
I think of the aristocrat during nightfall,
Of three group as well as some-m! ore upon the scaffold,
And the few alternative who died forgotten,
In places here as well as abroad.
These group as well as those who against them,
And those whom they opposed,
Accept the constitution of silence
And have been folded in the singular party.
Given the threats to inhabitant well-being acted by the UMNO-BN plutocracy, right away during the tallness of the extractive ardor, only the complacency of small differences can forestall the extended assembly of forces as well as leaders, before (like Kassim) as well as presently (like Anwar) against to it, from being "folded in the singular party."
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