January 29, 2013
Bridge builders stand down Book Burners
by Terence Netto (01-28-13) @http://www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT It was a week end fraught with anxiety over what a small pyromaniacs had in jeopardy to do. In a event, it turned out to be an arise when suggestive symbolism triumphed as agitator intent fizzled out as well as a rest of a country breathed a small easier.
The children of light had triumphed over a children of darkness which was a essential story of a week end just past. Whom as well as what did it take for this to happen?
It took imagination by a small leaders as well as helpful meditative by typical people for a triumph albeit, temporary of a nobler impulses over a baser instincts of man.
Rarely have such manifold symbolic gestures, like a birthday celebration of a permanent leader, as well as a still celebration of a mass as well as speculation of scriptural texts by a host of typical people, total to provide an appraising open with a liberating possibilities which a beautiful imagination affords.
Perkasa firebrand Ibrahim Ali (left) had set a theatre for apocalyptic probability two weeks ago with his call to Malays to bake Malay-language bibles which used a term 'Allah' for God.
That agitator call stirred a welter of greeting though nothing was publicly forthcoming from leaders rhetorically invested in a paths of moderation.
Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Predictably, Ibrahim's call, clearly safe from interdiction by a powers-that-be, drew an unknown respondent to post an invitation to a open t! o declar e a burning of bibles upon Jan 27 during a open venue upon mainland Penang.Fortunately, not everybody took a threat in supine fashion.
Nik Aziz meets Karpal
The ecumenical Mujahid Yusof Rawa, a PAS MP for Parit Buntar as well as his party's pointman for their outreach programme to non-Muslims, had been operative for a long time to opposite just a kind of fear mongering during which Ibrahim Ali is a dab hand.
Mujahid, in cahoots with comrades in PKR as well as DAP in Penang, contrived to have PAS devout personality Tok Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat encounter up with DAP chairperson Karpal Singh during a latter's home, which is located in a thick of a Thaipusam frolic yesterday along Waterfall Road in Penang.
Sunday, Jan 27, happened to be a Kelantan Menteri Besar's 82nd birthday. Karpal, who has recently been a aim of critique by a small ulama in PAS over a former's appeal to them to reconsider their position upon a 'Allah' issue, was agreeably surprised by a visit to his residence by Nik Aziz, a birthday male himself.
They reminisced upon a past when they first became colleagues in 1978 upon a Opposition benches in Parliament, Karpal representing Jelutong in Penang, as well as Nik Aziz branch out for Pengkalan Chepa in Kelantan.
"His presence sends a clever summary which our togetherness is as clever as ever, notwithstanding all which happened," chimed a happy Karpal.
A baked sweat bread for a prelate
After which visit to Karpal, Nik Aziz met up with a Catholic bishop of Penang, Sebastian Francis, during a hotel where he presented a baked sweat bread to a prelate.
The meeting was not originally upo! n Nik Az iz's report though was arranged spontaneously, as a counterpoint no doubt, to a in jeopardy bible-burning eventuality which did not take place.
Bishop Francis told a frail-looking Nik Aziz which a country's needs his devout example, a view which Ibrahim Ali would expected disagree.
Elsewhere in a country, during a park inside of a closeness of a Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, a small throng of people, who could not have known about a ecumenical goings-on between DAP as well as PAS in a north as well as between Islamic as well as Christian leaders, flopped down upon a grass to read devout books they have brought along to a collective read-in.
One of them, a Muslim declared Masjaliza Hamzah (right), brought a Bible as well as read from it. She said, "Other people might be worried for me, though I am not worried about my own faith."
The suspicion here echoes with a small musical lines from a producer William Blake: "In each cry of man/In each infant's cry of fear/In each voice, in each ban/The mind-forged manacles I hear."
Yesterday, devout as well as lay leaders in Penang as well as in Kuala Lumpur, acted out gestures whose distinguished panache helped crack a 'mind-forged manacles' which a book-burning throng want people to be shackled with.
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