I posted this comment in response to the constantly racist mentality deep rooted within certain elements of this nation’s citizens especially the bloggers in Malaysia-Today, an alternative news website which at times gets comments and postings that reek of venomous outpourings that if left unchecked can render the fragile unity of this nation asunder!
“All these racism and deep rooted hatred erupting now and then from the hearts of certain bloggers in MT makes me feel so disgusted to even comment that often.
Our nation’s environment is being raped left right north and south by those in power and criminals under the name of development.
Every now and then, disasters induced by such ecological destruction kills those who live within such disaster zones.Pollution of our water resources is widespread and fingerpointing to each other is ingrained into the local authorities who are bloody corrupt and even when proven guilty still manage to escape persecution in this Bolehland.
We have all been raised amidst apartheid @ Assabiyah and continue to be divided by the color of our skin forgetting that the Almighty created us all from a single Father, the Holy Prophet Adam Alaihisalam.
Even the Malays continue to wage pyschological warfare amongst themselves in 3 different parties, UMNO,PAS and PKR!Wastage of precious funds and resources continue to run riot in this nation obsessed with breaking idiotic records; neglecting the welfare of the rural masses and like those poverty stricken folks of Sg.Petani who have to resort to queueing at the Sports Toto gambling outlet to receive RM20…
Malaysia is not a land of one particular ethnicity. We are a melting pot of Malays, Chinese, Indians, Punjabis,Orang Asli’s, Iban, Kadazan,Eurasian,etc.
You gentlemen need to remember that no matter what we all need to preserve the peace and harmony between us as Children of Adam.Before Almighty God, only our deeds and faith in Him will be taken into consideration.
The Angels Munkar and Naqir who will be interrogating us in our graves are not gonna ask us whether we are an UMNO member or PAS member, MCA, GERAKAN, MIC,PKR, DAP,and all the other numerous parties in our nation!
They are not gonna be bothered about whether you hold a PhD, Masters,Degree, Diploma, Certificate, etc.
They won’t care whether you are a bleeding billionaire or tycoon, etc.At the end of the day, all our worldly powers and position is gonna come to a zilch when we are lying dead and cold in our graves; yet here we are bickering about being Malay, Chinese, etc!
Each and everyone of us have schoolmates from all walks of life, creed and color.I am sure that we will never have to be as those in Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro who slaughtered each other just because some bloody idiot in power gave the order to ethnically cleanse their lands from those who look different, pray differently and live a different lifestyle.
All this racist venom being spewed and bandied forth serves no one any good!We are all living on borrowed time.
Let’s take a breather and ease off from this useless animosity.Cherish the life we have and focus on what we can build upon and not destroy what our forefathers have toiled with their lifes and souls to free this land from the Colonial Imperialists.
The topic at hand is about Tun Dr.Mahathir, who today is voicing aloud his frustrations at his successor’s handling of the government.Let’s stick to discussing the matter at hand and not allow the poison of racism creep into our hearts.
I wish you all well and pray to Allah SWT that we remain rational and have wisdom in our sharingof thoughts and viewpoints with each other. Amin.”
Saturday, June 10, 2006 1:20:16 AM
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It’s kind of sickening to constantly having to hear such racist views in our midst though we have now been independent for 49 years already from British Colonial rule!
49 years of Independence is still nothing much to crow about compared to other countries but still, we ought to be more mature at this age.
What good is there in all these negativity being continuously be aired in a public forum?
What good does it do to the nation except to serve as a flashpoint for civil unrest and strife to break out and destroy this nation after the riots of May the 13th, 1969?
These idiots ought to be thrown into the slammer and the keys thrown into the seas for their treacherous viewpoints that stink and pollute the minds of those who always look for ways to destroy instead of build bridges and ties between the various ethnicities present in our nation.
What’s so bloody special about being this race or that race?
There are good souls in any one race or ethnicity and there are @#$%^*! in any given race or lineage!
Even a couple of the paternal uncles of the Holiest Messenger of Allah the Almighty , the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam are recorded in history as being the worst of mankind and one of them is condemned eternally in the Holy Qur’an for his atrocities against the Mercy of Allah for all mankind in the Surah Al-Lahab !
I pray for the day when we as Malaysians stop looking at the skin color and ethnicity of our fellow citizens and instead look at the person inside before passing any comments of judgements against anyone!
Peel away that skin from anyone and what have we but the same old skeletal frame and muscles that are the very true nature of us , Children of the Prophet Adam Alaihis salam. All the same!
Think before posting such racist views in public forums. Religious differences will always be there but we need to discuss our differences on a more rational platform than succumb to such destructive thoughts and mindsets! I am sure ‘most’ of us will agree to this.
This is the reality of our human entity! Beneath all those ‘nobility of skin color and being ‘fair and lovely’ or claim of being blueblood or hailing from the lineage of the Prophet’s, we are all just the same deep inside.
Some of those in our society come across proud of their lineage and hold themselves too high forgetting that each and every humanbeing is a direct descendant of the Prophet Adam (peace be upon him) and is no lesser in status than the other except for the matter of deeds and faith in Allah! Ponder on that………..
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Agree with thee 100%, brudder.
Msians — Bloggers and commenters — must focus on thge ISSUES, less the personalities altho sometimes they (the perons) become an issue.
Thanks for the comment bro.
The irony is that for all the hype about muhibbah etcetera being bandied about by the government, in reality we continue to be divided by our race and ethnic origins.
Some of the bloggers simply do not bother thinking about what they post regarding the racial card and some even think I am a bloody racist myself when I protested against blaspheming my faith.
The thing is that I am all for social integration but just ask that religious matters be left on a you do as your faith asks you to and I shall do as per mine.
Being united in citizenship yet able to live according to our faith in peace with each other.
Not too much to ask, is it?
hi mahaguru58
wise words indeed. totally agree with ya.
Problem is, to get the government to agree with ya. Phrase of the day is ‘Subtle Persecution’.
Indian Temples being torn down, churces being denied to be constructed for 20 odd years. Therea are just some of the few things that the government is doing, that is making racists of all of us. Just my 2 cents dude…
what about skin colour? the young people of today are downright ancient. even my grandma is more socially accepting of other races, compared to some of the “x generations”.
there’s racial discrimination in my day to day life. and everytime that happens, i am just reminded of my days in NS. my camp in terengganu was fab. everyone was toasted down to the same skin colour. and it was the only situation i’ve ever been in that deserves the “muhibbah” label.
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49 years of independence from our former colonial masters, the British.
49 years of bondage under UMNO – Barisan Nasional.
We have replaced cruel masters with other cruel masters.
The difficulty as I understand it is that “social integration” and “citizenship” are fancy terms which involve politics, and that separation between church and state is not an option. Or am I missing something here?
Good morning folks!
I am honored to see your comments gracing my space here.
It shows that the subject matter is a painful thorn skewering our hearts and minds no matter what the newspapers print painting a rosy picture that all’s well and fine in our beloved Malaysia.
I will respond to each and every comment here in chronological first comment first answered fashion.
1. Brother Lord Apprentice:-
We all know that this land is a nation built upon the understanding between the major ethnicities Malays,Chinese and Indians.
Other ethnicities too hve helped bring about the formation of Malaysia, independent from the rule of the British Masters.
The mutual understanding back then was a good strong bond between the Malays, Chinese and Indians to help each other improve economically and contribute to nation building.
Nevertheless, we all know that each particular ethnicity tends to revert to their ancestors’ inclinations.
I was born a year after Merdeka hence during my childhood could still feel the prevalent British atmosphere and post Colonial rule mentality.
The Malays were not that inclined towards business, the Chinese were very much into trade and the Indians were used to estate life.
This is what I perceive and proven by the facts recorded in history.
Yet still, we read about individuals from all three mjor ethnicities rise up from all the gloom and become major icons for their respective groups and try their very best to help their own and others.
The problem today is that as proven by the passing of Time, mankind always regresses to the major sins that differentiates mankind from other creatures on Earth.
Power corrupts and egos hve always screwed up mankind’s inborn sense of justice and goodwill.
Sometimes, it is the result of the influence of the company that the leaders keep.
UMNO has its fair share of these behind the stage kingmakers and connivers.
MCA has its kingpins and power brokers.
MIC is legendary for the factions, cliques and so on that has stalemated the Malaysian Indian Congress up to this day.
The leader of each party and faction is always being manipulated and influenced by their so called ‘advisers’ etc.
As such, the racial card is continuously played and in turn, policies continue to be implemented accordingly.
Hence, the quagmire we see in the ruling establishments day to day administering of this nation.
Anyone who tries to speak up in Parliament and go against the time established political grain will instantly be dubbed a ‘traitor’ by the backbenchers and hounded out of his or her seat in Parliament.
We all know that this happens and will continue to happen untul and unless a revolution of mindsets takes place and there emerges a strong powerful resolute leader who sticks to his principles and rules according to the sense of justice and fairplay, no matter what is being offered to him to desist from stopping the rot!
When the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) started calling his people to obey Allah the Almighty and stop the nonsense they were doing back then, his detractors offered him the same. He refused to back down and said that even if they offered him all the riches of the world, ‘the sun and the moon’; nothing would make him stop his mission to bring the people back to worshipping Allah, God Almighty!
Today’s leaders are easily bought and continue to be easily bribed even for a measly couple of thousands.
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As to your statements aboutthe temples being brought down and churches awaiting 20 years to get building approvals, as a layman, I can only say that maybe those who want to build temples and churches would do well to purchase land in appropriate locations where there is a majority of such ethnicities and followers of the faith or creed.
Apply to the relevant authorities through the respective parties and then the onus rests on the particular Ministers to seek support and get approval from the government failing which you can always have legal grounds to pursue it further.
From what I see, there are temples being built without approvals in places that do not allow such establishments. We see temples being constructed on the roadsides, government lands where there are plans for future developments, townships,etcetera.
When development takes place , the illegal temple then faces demolition by the owners of the land or by the local authorities, hence the brouhaha about temples being demolished.
An illegally built PAS mosque in Kg.Bujal,Terengganu was demolished by the local authorities too!
PAS followers tried to use the ‘Rumah Allah’ card to stop the demolition but as it was built without permission, the masjid was flattened by the government’s bulldozers! End of story.
Religious structures need to be built legally by those who aspire to raise their places of worship no matter what creed!
When people build as they please, they disrupt the future plannings and Master Development Plans of the city development authorities.
Hence, the demolition of such places of worship. We need to look at it from all angles.
Temple authorities, Church authorities and Mosque AJK’s all need to be responsible when they want to build their respective houses of worship.
Legal ownership of the lands and grounds must first be acquired, then build those places of worship according to the specifications and guidelines of law. Failure to do so will see their structures come down when the authorities and landowners start their development plans.
I am sure you will agree to that.
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Ladies and gents, I will follow up later and respond to your comments.
Need to rush to office now. Catch up with you all later.
Have a positive day folks! 🙂
Are you attaining Nirvana sir:)
Islam is the “Official” religion. All others must defer.
Malays are the “Chosen” race. All other must defer.
This is the message the goverment has been sending all these years.
Whilst I don’t believe in Adam (I don’t subscribe to the Abrahamic belief system or pantheon), I do believe we’ve descended from the same troop of monkeys from Africa and all this bangsa melayu vs bangsa asing crap is completely foolish.
Chloe,
Personally I think the Latihan Khidmat Negara is a fabulous idea of social integration.
I lived in Singapore between 1980 to 1986.
I witnessed how the National Service program there turned out good disciplined youths after their compulsory 2 years service program in the Republic’s Uniformed Services like serving in the Army and Police Force.
As such, their NS Servicemen and women are sort of the republic’s reserve force of properly trained and disciplined personnel ready to take over or assist their uniformed services in times of crisis or need of their services!
The result is better integration of the various ethnicities as Singapore has about the same citizenry as ours.
As you found out for yourself, the PLKN is a great program to forge a better populace where race is sidelined and everyone treated as equals.
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adoi,
I share your sentiments that things are not totally hunky dory under the BN rule but still we can all live as we please without being enslaved by way of generally be considered inferior by skincolor.
Non Malays here have become billionaires and live a life of luxury without any restrictions imposed on them by the ruling government.
Just take a drive by Bangsar, Damansara, Sri Hartamas and all other affluent areas and witness for yourself that it is not only Malays living like kings and queens in palatial mansions and driving luxury automobiles.
No matter what one’s race or faith is, one can still do business and make tons of money if one puts in the effort and goes for gold.
So, maybe we need to see things on a more realistic manner and not have a blanket negative opinion on the situation all the time. 🙂
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stag,
You got that right. Religion and politics is intertwined here in Malaysia.
It plays a very important part of our lives and we need to tread carefully lest we step on someone’s toes as we go about it in our daily day to day affairs.
Now and then , things do flare up and some get all heated up but eventually the law of nature takes over and things simmer down and cool off.
Malaysians are the most easy to chill out people in South East Asia until and unless some major idiot sparks off a frenzy of racial hatred in our midst!
Seriously praying to Allah, God Almighty not to see a repeat of the racial riots of May the 13th, 1969! Amen.
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shalu,
I attain my nirvana everytime I surrender my soul to Allah Azza Wa Jalla in my prayers to Him.
Hope that makes you glad for me! 🙂
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Ladies and Gents, we have the Devil in the house! 😀
Didn’t know that Mr.Devil blogs and is a Malaysian to boot! 😛
Well Mr.Devil, we all know that Islam is the official religion here in Malaysia and every faith except yours is allowed to be practiced here.
‘Kepercayaan kepada Tuhan’ is one out of the 5 principles of Rukunegara so that outlaws your choice of belief.
Malays might be the chosen race but if you look at the who’s who amongst Malaysia’s billionaires, you will see that the Malays are outnumbered by the Chinese and Indians. Robert Kuok, Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, Ananda Krishnan etc are just a few names I can think of who are the richest billionaires in this land of Malaywood!
So, can’t say that the Malays are all living with a lifestyle that we need to be envious upon.
The majority of them are living a life that borders near the lower income and poverty level so I feel that you sir need not fuss too much about them.
As per your contention that you are descended from African monkeys, I will respect your opinion and not object to it! 😛
As for myself, I firmly believe contrary to what you have perceived and stand by the Quranic injunction of being a descendant of the Holy Prophet Adam Alaihis salam.
Hope that satisfies all parties concerned and we stick to our own ideals and perceptions on the matters. Good night folks.
Hope to see you all in my next posting.
Shalu,
Your refusal to acknowledge God’s existence is your own contention. I leave it to you to believe as you will whether He exists or not.
You can rant and rave about the Non Malays who have made their fortunes through whatever means ; it just doesn’t change the fact that they work hard to be where they are today.
Chose not to publish your comment for sheer reason that the choice of words are a bit too crass for publishing.
You might want to rephrase it in better terms yet still containing the gist of what you want to say or share.
Hope you can do that. Thanks.
here I will try.
I think you have missunderstood the whole politic masked economic status of those non malay names you dropped. There is no hard working involved you know.
The scenario in malaysian politic is as such. No amount of hard work would bring you wealth, unless you have (even the tiniest) political connection.
You are welcome to prove me wrong though.
And About the 1st article of Rukun Negara. I still stand by my opinion that it is a violation of human right (not to mention a direct insult to human’s thinking ability). This too, if you want, you can prove me wrong.
Now a question, Can a Man, live an honest life, work hard an become rich here in Malaysia?
>Non Malays here have become billionaires and live a life of luxury without any restrictions imposed on them by the ruling government.
No. There are laws and govt regulations that make life harder for non-bumi people and business. Those requiring companies to have bumi partners/shareholders? THose offering cheap loans/discounts to bumi? Government contracts that say “bumiputera sahaja”.
You may argue in favour of this “affirmative action”. But it still is discrimination.
You have failed to discount the possibilities that there are successful non-bumis:
1. in spite of the discrimination (you make our life harder, we will work harder).
2. who are successful because of their political ties e.g. Ananda Krishnan and Vincent Tan (Daim).
What pisses me of is that UMNO makes it look as if the Malays have a problem with the chinese. They then raise a keris. MCA makes it look as if the chinese have a problem with the malays. They then threaten to raise a sword. Then when it comes to general election, they say that chinese and malays work together very well under BN-UMNO.
And all this while, the Malay politician and the Chinese tau keh will be busy shagging behind the bushes and then robbing our pockets, while most of us rakyat (malay and non-malay) bicker with each other.
The enemy isn’t other races. The enemy is the crony capitalists and politicians that play the race card, not so much because they really believe it, but because they can use it as a means to steathily tax us poorer 99%.
And the malay will continue to gripe about that greedy chinese shopkeeper, and the chinese will grumble that they are being discriminated.
That is the Semangat Konsensus Barisan Nasional.
adoi,
What you have said is true and the Malays do get preference over the Non Malays in contracts, etc.
What do you expect? Think that the situation is gonna change in the next 10,20,30,50 or 100 years?
It will remain as it is till Doomsday. Whether one likes it or not, this land is dominated by the Malays and they have accepted other races to live together with them here out of necessities.
There are those who keep harping that the original inhabitants of this peninsular are the Orang Asli’s. No one is gonna deny that.
The reality is that only after the Hindu Malay prince Parameswara crossed the seas from Sumatera and established Melaka did the peninsular slowly get progress.
Trade developed from there and eventually Muslim traders from India and Arabia taught Islam to Parameswara,the Sultan of Melaka who embraced Islam and took the Muslim name and title of Sultan Mansor Shah.
Naturally his subjects embraced the faith of their Sultan and Melaka prospered further.
Chinese traders emigrated to the Peninsular and settled down in Melaka.
I don’t need to teach you our nation’s history to add that events took place one after the other when the Portuguese invaded Melaka and after them the Dutch and then followed by the British bringing in Indians to work in the estates and so forth.
If all this didn’t take place, the Peninsular would remain as Papua New Guinea is today where you would have the Orang Asli’s remaining as they were thousands of years ago.
Same case as in Australia where the Aborigines were robbed of their lands by the British convicts who were banished to that continent Down Under.
New Zealand where the Maoris were ripped off their ancestral lands,etcetera.
What about the United States of America? The lands belonged to the Red Indians. We all know the history.
If you want to talk about rights etcetera, be realistic that ‘rights’ belong to the rich powerful and mighty oppressors of the entire world!
Usually , the poor get sidelined and screwed everywhere on Earth.
As far as Malaysia is concerned, the power lies with the Malay ruling party, UMNO.
As long as UMNO exists, you have to live according to their dictates. Plain fact.
No matter how right you are or anyone else here like Shalu’s crusade for the poor to be fed , this and that, the reality is that you, me and her can’t do nothing much except to exercise that one single vote we have as a citizen of this nation to select those whom we want as our ADUN or AP!
That’s all we can do or we can express our frustrations here in the blogosphere or even write to the newspapers.
Does it change anything? Nahh!!!
Not a hair is disturbed from the person holding the highest office in this land or anywhere else on Earth!
Out of the trillions and billions of postings, social comment, etcetera, our voices will disappear into the labyrinth of the internet and pages of history unless you happen to be a powerful force of influence to be reckoned with and have tremendous support from the masses , please wake up and realise that it is a classic case of ‘Que Sera Sera..whatever will be ; will be , the future’s not ours to see, que sera sera..what will be ..will be!’
Speak what you want, in a proper manner, voice out your dissent..you have the right to speak up.
But remember we are responsible for what we say or do.
There’s a reaction to every action that we cause.
We need to be aware of the consequences. Plain and simple.
There’s an Aussie idiom that says “If you don’t like it, either shut the hell up or bugger off mate!”
We can’t be repeating what the Jerai MP keeps repeating ,can we?
Just state your case, then carry on with your life unless you have the means to affect change which I don’t think, you, me or Shalu can ever do that.
Just keep on living your life as you see fit, bro.
May Peace be with us all. Amen.
So what is the conclusion
Can a man become rich by leading an honest life here, or not?