VMY 2007 Tourist Information Brochure Series: What is the purpose of stating 'Islam' in the Malaysian Identity Card?
As part of the ongoing efforts to introduce Malaysia to the world during the Visit Malaysia Year 2007: “Celebrating 50 Years of Nationhood – We Are Still too Polite to Say NO WAY” campaign, we shall introduce to you, in this post, one essential feature of Malaysian life: The Identity Card.
This Brochure would also help you understand the meaning and the complex historical, political and social background to the now world famous landmark judgment in the Lina Joy case by our highest court, the Federal Court.
One hassel we are trying to avoid is to have ignorant, unbelieving visitors asking uninformed questions like the one asked by one of our own ignorant morons here at Lina Joy: The aftermath:
Although required by law, why is it necessary for the NRD to specify a muslim’s faith on his/her identity card? What were the circumstances leading to this requirement?
This blogger, being also the incumbent VMY 2007 Assistant Propaganda Chief, has attempted to set the record straight by providing the following answer at that post:
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bcos it’s the MAJOR instrument of controlling muslims.
before the days of mykad, the islamic authorities had hard time enforcing islamic rules such as catching people drinking alcohol, not fasting, khalwat and zina (especially when doing it with non-muslims).
having mykad makes it a lot easier to conduct raids bcos u no longer have to guess, from the name n the look, whether a person is/not muslim.
now, mykad has made it even possible to catch even pan-asian faced muslims who dont look like malays at all.
lina joy tried to get married, but her ic stood in her way.
the corpse of nyonya tahir was grabbed solely bcos her ic stated that she was islam.
before mykad, u only heard 1 or 2 cases here n there in a decade about this sort of religious disputes. after mykad, u hear moorthy, nyonya tahir, rayappan n lina joy all in the space of 2 years.
it all began with mykad. mykad is like the invention of the magic wheels which unleashed the forces of islamicization, which make the islamic revolution possible.
ask yourself - without mykad (stating ‘islam’), how is a state religious authority going to enforce ‘no-exposing of aurat’ law by catching the young, sexily-dressed chicks walking on the streets, n fine her on the spot - without the need to get into a long, drawn-out debate/proof of whether she’s a muslim or not?
-- many would deny they r ‘muslims’ at the precise moments when syariah laws r being shoved down their throats against their wills; they still want to b a muslim, still believe in allah swt n the qu’ran, but just cant stand the man-made, repressive laws called ’syariah’.
put it another way - they want to b spiritual muslims, not malaysian legal muslims.
those r the main reasons (aside from want marry non-muslims who dont want to convert) why so many want to covert out - not bcos they doubt the basic tenets of islam.
so, to sum up my answer to your question, my view is that mykad is the lock which would ‘unite’ (read: confine, bind, chain) the muslims together in the ‘gas chambers’, where the conservative, fascist, nazi clerics could begin to release the 'gas' - to use the tools of the police state to strip muslims of their rights piece by piece, n turn the muslim nation in malaysia into a repressive, totalitalian theocracy. with mykad, there’s now no way to escape.
(few years back, there was a proposal to imbed dna codes into mykad chip. they said it’s to facilitate tracking down of criminals, i say it’s to make it easier to identify offsprings of muslims who (r by definition muslims) might have evaded the ‘net’…)
[Sorry, I wasn't supposed to disclose the last paragraph in the bracket, because it is part of the Government's secret programs. So, please don't tell my boss.]
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Ok, now back to the educational part of the Brochure.
The Identity Card is affectionally known as MyKad, or officially known as The Government Multipurpose Card.
Before any visitor gets the wrong idea, note the word 'Government'. It should be obvious that the main purpose of that Kad is to facilitate the Multipurposes of the Government, not of the citizens - duh!!
We are going to introduce some of these 'purposes' to you in this post (but we obviously cannot tell you all, as most of them relates to national security and government secret programs).
However, due to space constraint, we'll only focus on the most exciting category of MyKad-holders - the Green group - as it has the biggest membership group (and, the rest of the Kad-hodler groups are not really important and the features of their Kads are pretty dull anyway).
The following are the main benefits of MyKad as highlighted by the Government, and we shall, you should be reminded, ignore the non-Green groups:
One Card For All
GMPC replaces the National Identification Card and Driving License and is the access key to other services and entertainments available exclusively for all Kad-holders. such as:
- Religious Zealots Mid-Night Hotel Safaris/Raids;
- Ongoing, 24-hour, comprehensive Way-of-Life mentoring programs to prepare and guide the Kad-holders in the 'Be A Good Green Person in this Life' lifelong marathon race;
- Guidance and Educational Programs in the many 'Green Rehabilitation Centers' (gazetted) found at every corner of the country for all the indifferent, apathetic Green people who have lost stamina (and thinking of quitting halfway) in the 'Be A Good Green Person in this Life' lifelong marathon race;
- Execution services for those idiots who can't even follow the merciful, compassionate Guidance and Educational Programs for crying out loud;
- Access to the expert counselling services offered at the Polygamy Advice and Promotion Bureau, for all you love-sick teenagers (minimum registration number being 5, 1 Male and 4 Females. Sorry, currently we do not offer such services to groupings with only 1 Female); and
- 24 hour government surveillance program - to ensure that you stay on the right path and avoid the crooked, at all times.
Quick Exit & Re-Entry
Availability of racial and religious information in the GMPC facilitates efficient exit and re-entry of Kad-holders at Malaysian religious checkpoints.
*Exit services are available to non-Green Kad-holders exiting from non-Green groups only. Entry services are available for all Kad-holders into the Green group only, whereas Re-Entry services are designed exclusively for those who wish/manage to exit from the Green group. (Re-Entry into the Green group, of course.)
Reliable Identification of Data
The chip and biometrics technology ensure that the data kept are secures and accurate. GMPC security features protect the holder from any kind of forgery and misuse of the card such as misidentification of racial or religious data.
(And because the Government seldom, if ever, make any mistake on such data, any correction required would have to go through an elaborate, seemingly obscure process at the Green courts -- not for the faint-hearted; so you people better think twice, and the Government suggests you just forget about it.)
Facilitate transportation needs
Functions like a Touch ‘n Go card. Reload value to pay for toll, parking, bus fares and theme park fares, as well as the transportation of Green Kad-holders from non-Green sections of the country and places of ill-repute such as unlighted cinema theatres, Jom Heboh concerts, discos, unsegregrated shopping malls and residences of non-Green Kad-holders, back to where they really belong.
Vision
To provide uncompromising quality and customer service through highly secured solutions on single card to spearhead the nation into the Information Age and to achieve the Malaysian Green Apartheid Utopia by the year 2020.
Objectives
- To provide Government and payment applications and other future applications on a single card.
- To provide enhanced customers service and improve the ease for Malaysians to conduct routine transactions with Government and private companies.
- To ensure full segregation and comprehensive control of thoughts and activities of the Green Kad-holders and to regulate, discourage, with the ultimate target of completely banning the Green Kad-holders' interactions with the non-Green group.
- To divide and rule in order to enhance the entrenchment of the Great Ruling Party of the Motherland.
[Note to visitors: We also aim to deforest the entire nation by 2010, so rest assured, and please be clear, that the colour Green has absolutely no connection with the subversive environmental movement currently plaguing most of the developed, non-Green world.]
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