Little did Mohd Elfie Nieshem Juferi @ MENJ realise that he would be on almost all of Malaysia’s blogosphere’s firing range when he posted his satire on Christianity being wiped out from the face of the planet!
MENJ has always been a royal pain in the ass for christian fundamentalists and diehard bloggers.
His Bismika Allahumma website has since 2002 been waging an online war against the Christian missionaries and he at times pokes his thorny words too deep into their Christian hearts that they bleed profusely and seethe with immense anger at his proddings into the very basics of Christian beliefs.
I am sure that if they got a chance to rip him to shreds, they would have done it with a gusto that would make even Slobodan Milosevic proud!
The thing is MENJ didn’t anticipate that the newsclipping similar to this that he posted on his blog http://www.menj.org/ would spark an outrage in another blogger who took offense at his satire in destroying her Christian faith!
minishorts is her name and MENJ’s satire to her was not a game! Spontaneous combustion of her inner anger brought about a raging flame and she immediately launched an all out attack against MENJ to give him the same!
To her rallying call, her fellow Christian bloggers sprang to put MENJ to shame! Put him behind bars ; throw away the key was their aim!
So for a few days now, MENJ has not been the same. Malaysian IP’s were blocked from accessing his blog ; tch tch tch …what a shame.
Apologise he will not for to him it was all a game. If Malaysian blogging community weren’t up to his standards, well they are just too lame.
So MENJ has decided ; ‘Enough of this BS! I won’t succumb to such pain. Apologising for nothing is just in vain.
To the international arena, MENJ wants to explore.
Where Americans, Englanders and Europeans play, MENJ wants to go for more blood,sweat and tears …oh my ..it will be horrendous…full of curse words..it will be a massacre..’twill be murder…extreme carnage…it will be gore.
so, Malaysian bloggers..be informed that MENJ is adamant in not saying sorry, apologise or ‘kowtow’ to anyone here. Tis his blog, his way of thinking, his own wishes to be left to go explore. This stand of his is as it is for now. Can’t predict the future.
I did the interview with him personally last night and this clipping is just to let you know what is in his mind for now.
Reporting live from Muddy Bay, May 24th, 2006 CE.
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1. I read somewhere that MENJ did apologize. I don’t think it was necessary, I did not expect it but the fact that he did shows that he is a gracious man. Well done MENJ!
2. Can’t say for others but as for me, I am no longer attending church. So my article was not written with seething anger or malice from a Christian standpoint.
My faith is not governed by what a mortal writes.
3. I wish that MENJ will come back soon because a good discourse is good for the nation. It benefits him and it benefits me. What we all need a measure of good faith and courage to be respectful of the differences each of us might possess.
4. Again I think you are belittling what the satire was about. I don’t really care much for the satire and I did not write my article because of the satire.
I wrote my article because some people had the cheek to call it a satire and said it was for fun… but did not see the Danish cartoons as funny.
It was like the pot calling the kettle black.
You can’t take the jokes of others, then don’t joke.
5. I do not condone reporting MENJ to any authorities – be it his college, webhost or the police. However I stand by what I said about the police should keep a tab and monitor his activities. Just as long as he keeps blogging, there is no harm done.
However I did not call for anyone to report him to the police. If he is dangerous, the police would have known. That’s what the intelligence are for =)
6. Again I must point out that I have reasons to doubt/fear/ring the alarms on MENJ because he said that he did not pledge his alligence to the state.
You heard of the Rukun Negara? Each country has their version and it clearly states that you pledge your alliegence to the country you are residing in.
IMHO that one statement was made swift and opened the gates to critisisms as many terrorists have uttered the same word. It simply means that you will not do what you can to protect your country and its people.
The question therefore is, to whom does he pledge his alliegence, if not to the state?
I am not saying that MENJ is a terrorist but seriously, he opened the door to be critised by uttering that one sentence.
7. That said, I would apologize to MENJ if he felt some readers persecuted him after reading my article. That was never my intention. My article encouraged readers to think and be proactive in our community. It clearly states that we should discuss the current issues (politics, economics, social etc) with dignity and maturity.
Thanks for allowing me to clear up some things, Mahaguru. Much appreciated.
Your comments are welcome and to me you make sense.
I have been advising MENJ all this while not to just fire away as he pleases for it simply doesn’t help Islamic Dakwah efforts by causing undue distress and strife in the Christian hearts especially here in Malaysia and the rest of the world.
People like MENJ are different. You either like him or hate him. I am the former. To me, MENJ comes across as a smart, knowledgable and brilliant young Muslim but he is too fired up and doesn’t really stop to consider his options.
It’s like the classic western- shoot first , ask questions later. The damage would have been done by then.
Wisdom to consider comes with age.
To some it doesn’t even materialise.
They go on till their last day on earth looms up.Too late..no can do.
So, if MENJ is gifted enough to live up to his old age, I am sure that his views and points of consideration will be more rational than what he’s going through right now.
He’s a good, decent geek! 😀
Only thing is that he has some years to go before his ‘red hot’ ego cools down somewhat and he can ‘look’ before he ‘leaps’ with his choice of words or ‘satire’.
But then again, if he’s too cool, you guys would hate him.
He’s MENJ, Malaysia’s most controversial blogger , whether people like him or not.
There are many out there who wannabe his clone but MENJ will continue surprising us all with his out of this world viewpoints that at times are down right ‘crude’ but most of the times , they ‘jarr’ you awake as to the consequences of being inate sleepyheads in the Malaysian blogosphere.
The SB must be really awake by now due to his ‘ MENJ Will…MENJ Will..ROCK U!
I hope they just let him be.. He’s just a Royal ‘Geek’.
We need geeks like him to keep us at our best in thoughts and viewpoints..at least while we are able to blog and so on.
Those wishing to report him just forget that if the big boys clamp down on PPS, we get zipped the same.
So, please reconsider ‘ratting’ on him. Serves no purpose.
He has apologised. Be big enough to forgive him. Amen.