Malaysian Men Banned From Non-OIC Countries

Juslo's Satire (Used without permission)


EMERGENCY UPDATE on 24 June 2008:
ONIC has issued travel advisory to the citizens all member states against travelling to the Northern Malaysian city of Kota Baharu. The ONIC Secretary General's Office says that the DEPTH OF PERVERSION AND DEPRAVITY of all men (or wolves???) living in that city has reached an 'extremely critical level' because in addition to being aroused by school uniforms (which is a national phenomenon not restricted to that city), men in Kota Baharu will also lose control of their sexual desire by the sight of lipstick and high heel shoes as well. It is believed that "incidents like rape and illicit sex" would befall any female wearing lipstick and high heel shoes.
The Malaysian Tourism Minister responded that "I could assure you, from my personal experience, that the women of Kota Baharu are delicioius, voluptuous, sexy and seductive enough without wearing lipstick and high heel shoes. This is to keep our men from losing their mind and self-control."


(Miami, Florida, USA, Friday, 31 June 2008) At the First Emergency Summit of the Organization of Non-Islamic Conference countries (ONIC) held here today, the ONIC have unanimously resolved that all Malaysian males who have attained the age of puberty be banned, with immediate effect, from travelling to their respective countries. All visas already granted to such Malaysian males are also automatically revoked with immediate effect. This issue was the only thing being discussed in this Emergency Summit.

Secretary-General of ONIC, Madam Angelina Jolie (above, who is also the United Nations’ Goodwill Ambassador and a renowned American actress), says that its member states were concerned about the serious lack of fundamental sexual maturity among Malaysian men which has reached a new, dangerous level, which is considered as posing clear and imminent danger to all females across its member states, including young girls and old women.

“The member states must do everything they can to protect all our women, especially our young, school girls,” said Madam Angelina Jolie. “Due to the latest authoritative confirmation by one of the leading scholars in Malaysia, the member states felt that they have run out of options to protect the safety of half of their populations (i.e. the females) from sexual harassments and attacks by a group of deeply troubled men, and depraved beasts – if I may say so. This is the only responsible and effective thing for the member states to do.”

The “latest authoritative confirmation by one of the leading scholars” referred to by Madam Angelina Jolie is the pronouncement by one of Malaysia’s most respected, most intellectual, most learned, most scholarly and most influential NGOs, the National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia, whose vice-president Professor Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr Munirah Bahari (a leading authority on criminal psychology and gender studies in the Islamic world) has dished out her latest nugget of wisdom called the "Theory of Uniform Arousal", to the effect that the school uniforms worn by the students of the Southeast Asian country would invite “social ills, including rape, sexual harassment and even premarital sex.”

“This leads to babies born out of wedlock and, to an extent, even prostitution,” Professor Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr Munirah Bahari said. “This could see them getting molested, having premarital sex and all sorts of things.”

This is despite the fact that the uniforms cover most of the flesh of the female body anyway, from the neck to the wrists and to the toes.

(Picture: A typical Malaysian school uniform)

It appears that the ONIC have monitored the sexual maturity of Malaysian men closely in recent years, and Professor Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr Munirah Bahari's latest scholarly opinion firmly confirmed their respective opinions about the danger posed by Malaysian men. Analysts believe that the last straw which triggered this unprecedented ban was the Malaysian men's perverse attitude towards female school uniforms, because all of ONIC’s member states have less conservative school uniforms than those worn in Malaysia.

One woman Minister attending the Summit, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that

“When Professor Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr Munirah Bahari opens her mouth, we all listen. With a group of men who could go crazy even by seeing innocent school uniforms like that, you really don’t know what would provoke them next. It makes you wonder what the f**k is going on in these men's heads, and how our Malaysian sisters could live in such a dangerous environment. I would say Malaysia is even more dangerous than Iraq, because half of the population is just waiting to pounce on the other half, 24-7. Our hearts and prayers are with our Malaysian sisters.”

An emotional Malaysian male journalist (who was due to be deported immediately after covering the Summit’s press conference) questioned Madam Angelina Jolie whether the ban was "racist and anti-Islam", due to the fact that Malaysia is currently the Chair of the OIC and that the views of Professor Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr Munirah Bahari is widely shared by the member states of the OIC, especially distinguished and pious religious scholars such as the Mufti of Australia.

Upon learning about the male journalist’s nationality and before she could muster a response, Madam Angelina Jolie visibly panicked and immediately asked for the protection of the armed policemen present. After a barrier was formed by 10 policemen armed with AK-47 assault rifles between her and the male journalist, (who was more than 25 metres away below the stage anyway), she then took a deep breath, and proceeded to explain,

“If you could get aroused even by a 13 year old’s school uniform, I’m pretty sure you would have raped Lara Croft the Tomb Raider."

"As your country’s Sisters in Islam Programme manager, Miss Norhayati Kaprawi said, “Something must be seriously wrong with local men if the sight of girls in their school uniform turns them on.”

"So, we really can’t take any chances of having a bunch of horny animals who have absolutely no self-control whatsoever walking around the streets of Milan, Marseille, Miami, Monte Carlo and Mongolia, among glamorous and beautiful women. Even though the member states would lose the tourism revenue from Malaysian men, this is far outweighed by the corresponding savings in eliminating the need to beef up security at whichever place on our soils where a Malaysian man is found. It’s just not worth it.”

Referring specifically to Professor Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr Munirah Bahari’s comments that “It becomes a distraction to men, who are drawn to it, whether or not they like looking at it… This leads to babies born out of wedlock and, to an extent, even prostitution… This could see them getting molested, having premarital sex and all sorts of things,” Madam Angelina Jolie added,

“Malaysian men can’t seem to distinguish between being pretty or sexy and being slutty. Even if it is not a question of rape, we would still save our women a great deal of harassment from sexually immature Malaysian men, who would definitely misunderstand the ordinary dresses of our member states’ women as an invitation to sexual intercourse, or to be under the mistaken belief that our waitresses at McDonald’s are actually prostitutes advertising their services. Indeed, Malaysian men are worse than Borat. At least, Borat was charming and hilarious. Anyway, we are happy to at least do without the flirting from these childish men, which is no great loss at all – after all, your own Minister has said that the Malaysian men aren’t exactly Brad Pitt material anyway, you know what I mean?”

This blanket ban would be the first time in history that an entire country’s male population has been banned by any other country, although it is less comprehensive than Malaysia’s own complete ban on all Israeli nationals from travelling to Malaysia, which is currently still in force. Therefore, analysts believe that the Malaysian government would not have the audacity to complain about it, since this is only a taste of 'half' of its own medicine.

In Miami beach, Florida, the Mayor has already announced that the City’s police have been given the authority to “shoot first, investigate later” any Malaysian men approaching a 5 mile radius of the famous Miami beach, where skimpily dressed sexy, young women is a common sight. “If they could go wild over school uniform, imagine what these sons of bitches would do to our half naked American beauties on the beaches.” Other socially liberal ONIC member states as well as countries with nude beaches such as France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Australia and Thailand are expected to adopt the same “shoot first, investigate later” policy towards any man looking suspiciously like a Malaysian, who comes close to any female (including the ugly ones).

For reasons still unknown to the international press, Ulan Bator is the 2^nd City to follow such a “shoot first, investigate later” policy towards Malaysian men found in the City, even though Mongolia is a land-locked country with no beach. The country's Deputy Foreign Minister has declared -- without elaboration -- that "We'll shoot any Malaysian man who dares to come to our country, absolutely! We'll blow them up too!!" fueling speculation that Mongolia's policy has nothing to do with the uniform issue but some other undisclosed reasons.

Meanwhile, back in Malaysia, it is reported that non-Muslim men are planning a street protest against the blanket ban, in an effort to clarify that they have a much higher degree of sexual maturity and self-control around women and girls, especially beautiful women, so that they should not be lumped together with their Muslim compatriots.

In Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur (the country’s hippiest fashion hub), T-Shirts bearing the slogans such as “I Am Not Horny, Angelina! (Even Though You Are So Damned Hot!!)” and “Hey, My Cork Doesn’t Pop at Uniforms!” are selling like hotcakes. Surprisingly, overwhelming majority of the buyers in the long queues are actually Muslim men, who seem to be ashamed of, and eager to distance themselves from, the enlightened opinion of Professor Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr Munirah Bahari. This perhaps explains why there is a lack of protest of “Selling Out” against the non-Muslim men for their intended protest from the usually vocal UMNO Youths.

However, at press time, it is still unclear whether the country’s top leaders would be granted diplomatic exemptions for official visits to the ONIC countries, although the consensus seems to be that the country’s ‘trigger-happy’ Deputy Premier would most likely to be unwelcome in the ONIC.

The Malaysian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, while stated that Malaysia “understands with regret” the resolution adopted by the ONIC, have refused to comment on the Deputy Premier’s likely ban. However, the spokesperson did express the country's gratitude to Professor Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr Munirah Bahari for publishing her "Theory of Uniform Arousal" and hailing it as "the most important discovery of Malaysian men's psychology since our Independence 50 years ago." The spokesperson added,

"In fact, if there ever was a "Theory of EVERYTHING" in the social sciences, this is it. It explains the root cause of EVERY SINGLE social problem faced by our country -- prostitution, sexual crimes, over-population by unwanted babies, et cetera et cetera et cetera et cetera! Our government will now follow the Professor's advice by changing the school uniforms. We believe that EVERY SINGLE ONE of our social problem will be automatically solved the moment we just take care of the school uniforms -- at ONE stroke of the pen only! No other country on earth could do this. This is pure genius!

So, the Malaysian Government will formally nominate the Professor for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. We believe that if the Nobel Prize committee is not racist and anti-Islam, the Professor would surely get a Nobel Peace Prize this year for her outstanding contribution to world peace (or at least peace in Muslim countries)."

Meanwhile, the Tourism Minister (whose status as a Woman is unclear), in a last-ditch attempt to woo back tourists to Malaysia, said:

"The ONIC might have missed the point here. We must remember that attraction is a 2-way process. Perhaps the ONIC women populations are simply jealous about the kind of attention our female population are getting from our men. Here is the other side of the coin: if Malaysian women could arouse our men into going wild by simply wearing a conservative school uniform, just imagine how astonishingly, breath-takingly pretty and sexy our women are! Come and check it out for yourselves -- I know I did!"

(Picture below: An unparalleled Malaysian beauty)

Well, it seems that outsiders would not be able to conclude whether it's the chicken (Malaysian men's extreme perversion) or the egg (Malaysian women's unequalled beauty) behind the "Uniform Arousal", unless they visit Malaysia personally. The intrigue continues...

Love - The Most Corrupted, Disgusting Idea

Something as DISGUSTING as this would wake anybody up from a coma!!

Just read what the most respected newspaper in Malaysia has to say about these 2 shameless people:

"NST reported that the couple had turned an abandoned toilet at the Gemas railway station into their home in March, after Ismail was employed to upkeep some new toilets located nearby.

They had used wooden planks and plastic to cover leaks and the toilet bowls."

At first, I was like "Wow, what a romantic story..." 2 persons, already 70 and 68 years old, who love each other SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH that they don't mind living in a tiny shithole (literally!) converted from a public toilet, while keeping themselves alive with a dirty, dead end job of washing toilets, which doesn't even pay enough for them taking public transport to collect medicine from the nearest hospital -- for the past 18 years.

-- so long as they have each other;
-- so long as they could grow older and older and sicker and frailer with each other, day after day;
-- so long as they can spend the last few remaining years, or even months or weeks, of each other's lifes together, until one of them slowly fades away...
-- so long as when one of them died, the other is holding his/her body in her/his arms, in this tiny paradise of love which belongs to them and them alone...


As they say in Hollywood movies,

“...to be your faithful partner in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, and in joy as well as in sorrow... to love you unconditionally, to support you in your goals, to honor and respect you, to laugh with you and cry with you, and to cherish you for as long as we both shall live."

Look at our young people today -- do they still understand what is 'love' anymore? Ask yourselves -- would you have married your husband if he only has a deadend, shit job of cleaning toilets, while both of you can only afford to live in a shithole the size of a public toilet?

For the blokes -- would you have worked till you drop dead just to keep both of you alive even though the only way to make an honest living for you and your wife is to clean other people's shit and lives in a shithole?

I don't think any of you would have lasted 18 hours like that, let alone 18 years.

I say we should make a movie about this extraordinary couple so that we can teach our kids HOW TO REALLY LOVE SOMEBODY, something most of them no longer knows how to do anymore. Maybe they should start teaching our kids how to love, instead of all the junk they teach in schools nowadays?

You might have been seduced by the romance of the story like me but wait a minute -- just read the headline:

'Abandoned toilet couple' not married

What the....!!!
NOT MARRIED?!? NOT MARRIED?!? Plague be on both your houses!!!!!!

To be perfectly honest with you, those 2 words totally changed my perception of the entire story, and completely destroyed my sympathy and admiration of this couple! I'm sure that as a pious and God-fearing person yourself, my dear reader, you would feel the same as well.

I feel so deceived, to be perfectly honest with you. When I first read the story, I was so touched, I wanted to cry for them! But now, to be perfectly honest with you again, I just want to see those 2 disgusting motherfuckers STONED TO DEATH or beheaded in Pasar Seni.

How dare they commit zina/adultery and khalwat/close proximity?!?!
In the name of ‘love’??? I say hell is their eternal abode!!
“because you love me”??!! Hell is their eternal abode!!
“I will always love you”??!! Hell is their eternal abode!!

Did I hear you say "Let them live the remainder of their lives as they wish, they are old adults, they know what they are doing"??!! Have you forgotten your Al-Amr Bil-Ma'roof Wa An-Nahy 'An Al-Munkar?! Didn't they teach you fardh 'ain and fardh kifaya?! What the hell kind of trash are they teaching you people in the religious classes nowadays???!!

Listen up, boys and girls, as uncle Aisehman said, It's A Sin!!

This shameful life of these 2 shameless people is even more disgusting than the toilets they are staying in. This is the perfect example of how the western ideas of ‘love’ have CORRUPTED not only our innocent, ignorant youths, but also our elderly, who have lived long enough to see enough crazy shit in life, and who are much more mature and know much better than you and I about what does life really mean, what is most important in life after all.

To hell with you, GREAT SATAN’s Hollywood!! DOWN WITH AMERICA!!! "Till death doth us part" my ass!!! Hell is definitely their eternal abode!!


Of course, while we shame the evildoers and hypocrites amongst us, we must not forget to honour our mujaheedeen too, the hero of the ummah, the defender of the faith!

You're the MAN, TUN Mizan Maulud!!! What would the UMMAH do without u!!!!!!!!!!!!! PRAISES AND THANKS TO GOD FOR Y-OOOOO-OOOOOOOOO-OOO—–UUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!

Yes, we can!! ;-P

Keep it up, our hero!!

(Incidentally, before you decide to denigrate our wise sister Munirah's enlightened, wise, incisive comments that “covering up” according to Islamic precepts was important to fend off social ills, including “rape, sexual harassment and even premarital sex" by cheekily pointing out to us that the makcik in the above report did cover up herself with a tudung/scarf but still (most probably have, I have full confidence in pakcik) committed extra-marital sex, or at least some 'social ill'... you are dead wrong!!

Why you are dead wrong?? Well, because... my ustaz says you are wrong!!!
You want to ask me the same question again because I did not actually answer your question?? ...Alright, that's it -- because you don't understand the religion, so you don't have the right to criticise it, just shut the fuck up, will ya?!!)


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The full report from NST is reproduced here. The MOST DISGUSTING part of the report is the title, as I'm sure you would agree:

'Abandoned toilet couple' not married

TAMPIN: It has been revealed that the poverty-stricken elderly couple who turned an abandoned toilet into their home are not legally married. They have been living together for the past 18 years.

The story of Ismail Mat, 70, and Rahimah Jolan, 68, was highlighted in the New Straits Times on April 4, and touched the hearts of many.

They were given a new house in the hardcore poor housing scheme in Kampung Tengah, Gemenceh, and a RM300 monthly allowance each. Television station NTV7 had given them RM2,000 and some groceries, and many others came forward to help.

State Welfare Department director Mizan Maulud said the couple's secret came to light after the department received a tip-off.

"We then asked the religious department to investigate, and were surprised when we found out that Ismail, from Jelebu, and Rahimah, from Jasin, Malacca are not married. Rahimah even has a husband who is still alive and well," he said.

The couple have been separated. Rahimah is in a welfare home in Cheng, Malacca, while Ismail is still living in their house in Kampung Tengah.

NST reported that the couple had turned an abandoned toilet at the Gemas railway station into their home in March, after Ismail was employed to upkeep some new toilets located nearby.

They had used wooden planks and plastic to cover leaks and the toilet bowls."

Election 2008 - Vote for PUNDAK

I am a proud member of PUNDAK, and here is my manifesto for the coming General Election 2008. (Different from the President's, so this is only for my own 'constituency'...)

If you are a hardcore opposition supporter, I don’t intend to sway your vote here; but those who are not the keen and passionate ‘supporters’ of BN nor the opposition – the ‘silent majority’ – should SPOIL THEIR VOTES on Saturday.

I have 3 reasons for spoiling votes in this election:

1) You should not vote for BN

2) You should not vote for any of the opposition parties as they are today

3) We should all take a ‘multi-elections’ view, to have a collective agenda of shaping the country’s direction through at least 3 elections

1) BN sucks

If you are a regular blog-reader, I don’t think I need to elaborate much.

- MIC exists solely for the purpose of keeping the Indians poor and ignorant, for the ease of control (ultimately by UMNO-putras). Semi-value is seriously out-of-touch and will have to rely on non-Indian votes to remain the taiko of Indians. Pathetic.

- MCA, UMNO’s dog, exists also to keep Chinese under control for UMNO-putras, but by a different approach: keeping Chinese scared and quiet. They have become so ineffective in protecting the rights of minorities that entitlements (e.g. building more Chinese primary schools) have become mere ‘gratuities’ dished out by UMNO, turning full-fledged citizens with extensive rights under the Constitution into beggars for ‘mercy’.

- Gerakan, also UMNO’s dog (like all the other parties in BN, to be honest) and doing the same thing to the Chinese like MCA but worse – they were supposed to be a multi-racial party championing multi-racial agenda, but has now become dominated by Chinese and Chinese issues. A sad example of how multi-racial politics get stifled in Malaysia.

- UMNO basically does the same thing as MIC, except that they are doing it to the Malays. UMNO-putras have hijacked the New Economic Policy, betrayed the Malay trust. Again, they use the same tactic as MCA – fear of minorities necessitating the need for absolute Malay/Muslim unity.

- BN in general is full of crooks, thieves and uneducated, shameless politikus. AAB has totally forgotten his previous manifesto in 2004 to tackle corruption and hunt down the '20 VIPs'. It is very telling that tackling of corruption is no longer a highlighted priority of the 2008 manifesto, and there’s no more ‘VIPs’ to be hunt down.

Above all, BN has systematically allowed the right to freedom of religion be undermined, creating uncertainties and fear among the minorities for their fundamental well-beings. AAB’s standard answer to this sort of controversies is “Everything shall be done according to the law” even though many people are precisely complaining that ‘the law’ is biased towards the ‘Islamic’ religious establishment.

Although AAB has allowed more space for freedom of speech than his predecessor, it is still not good enough and ISA is still used on bloggers (Nat Tan) and activists (Hindraf).

Let’s not forget the traditional ‘bragging rights’ of BN – the economy and material well-being. Our living costs have increased so much in recent years. Further, by refusing to do the right thing (taking away the ‘clutches’) after almost 40 years, BN has created a new generation of ‘bumiputras’ who are allergic to competitions and indirectly dragged the competitiveness of the whole nation down. Our Foreign Direct Investment has even begun to fall behind much less educated, non-English speaking countries in ASEAN like Thailand and Vietnam! Clearly, BN does not have genuine leaders who would drag their followers to do the right thing, but only clowns and tricksters who are good at hiding the truth and realities from a whole nation of ‘boiling frogs’.

So, a vote for BN is a sign of approval for all of the above. Anybody who has a brain could see that.

2) Opposition sucks

- PAS, for me, is the single biggest problem and threat for Malaysia's unity today. Its racist and religiously chauvinistic agenda of an Islamic State is the single biggest divisive factor of Malaysian politics. The fact that non-Muslims can only become a member of “PAS Supporters Club” instead of a full-fledged member of equal standing in PAS itself (and has to stand for election under the banner of another party instead of PAS) should tell us very clearly the obsession of PAS to turn all non-Muslim citizens of this country into dhimmis. (And don't forget their tendency to subjugate women in the name of religion.) Equality for non-Muslim is not what PAS is willing to offer. Any non-Muslim who still harbours any fantasy or delusion that PAS is the answer for a better future should open their eyes.

Not only does PAS incite hatred and resentment among non-Muslims, it’s biggest threat is the indirect effect of its very existence and strength – forcing UMNO to engage in an ‘out-Islamicization’ contest. If not because of PAS, UMNO would have less pressure to demonstrate how ‘serious’ they are in defending ‘Islam’ and in oppressing non-Muslims. Not to mention PAS’s tendency to say utterly stupid things (Valentine’s Day celebration could lead to promiscuity; educated women should not work because they can marry rich husbands, so leave the jobs to ugly women; cinemas should have the lights on to prevent fondling and kissing in the dark, etc) – and take pride in their own stupidity. PAS is therefore a constant source of embarrassment and disgrace - as well as threat - for Malaysia.

I’ll give credit where it is due, though – the fact that no PAS ‘big shot’ had yet been implicated in any corruption scandal (despite the monopoly of vast political, legal and economic resources by BN) would suggest that PAS politicians are clean, very clean indeed. But if we were to elect leaders based on who is more innocent and innocence alone, I would argue that Buddhist monks and Catholic priests who keep the vow to a celibate and frugal lifestyle are much better candidate at controlling their ‘nafsu’ (lust and desire) for worldly temptations than PAS ulamas who advocate polygamy of up to 4 wives and hell-bent on dominating/subjugating women.

- Keadilan is only the ‘loser version’ of UMNO/BN. A party facing the threat of survival could still get into power struggles (Ezam, Nalla have quit the parties as a result) is incredible.

I do welcome Keadilan's apparent agenda of a multi-racial politics which puts unity first. However, many suspect that most politicians in Keadilan – including Anwar himself – is only waiting to get elected and then jump back into UMNO/BN. The fact that Anwar himself has not apologized for/disavowed his past actions/complicity when he was a top leader (up to being the heir apparent) in BN (e.g. apologize for all the corruption, undermining of judiciary, suffocating of Chinese education etc) is very telling, again not correcting people's (especially minorities') perception of him being "all things to all people". It only strengthens my suspicion that he is not prepared to burn all his bridges, and is just waiting for the ‘opportune time’ to return to UMNO. (I don't think he has ever sworn that he would not do what Semangat 46 did - by returning to UMNO a decade or so later.)

If Anwar is a true statesman – as opposed to just another politician – he would have had the courage to say sorry, to put history behind and to chart a new vision and course for the nation as a whole. (Can't wait to call himself a 'de facto leader' only strengthen Anwar's image of being a power-hungry, opportunistic politician, rather than a visionary, intellectual statesman.) I don’t expect him to be like Nelson Mandela, but he is not even a Lee Kwan Yew. So, frankly, I don't trust Keadilan.

- DAP is becoming like Gerakan, turning from a multi-racial, socialist party (yes, let’s not forget that!) which is supposed to fight for all the poor, into a Chinese-dominated dynasty dominated by 1 ageing Chinese Emperor and his Indian puppet (Karpal Singh). Many good people have been driven out of the party, and nearly Fong Poh Kuan too. This is a very sad example of how politics without power could still corrupt. Truly amazing...

So, personally I do not think any of the opposition parties is electable at all. To vote for them is to encourage them to remain opportunistic, petty, obsessed with trivial matters and sexual control and domination, and to advance personal egos.

3) ‘Multi-Election’ Agenda for Malaysia's Future

Therefore, I propose that YOU – the ‘silent majority’ who feels that if there is no good, electable opposition, so you should vote BN by default (because you 'have to' choose the 'lesser of 2 evils') – to SPOIL YOUR VOTE this coming election. And for those who do not wish to participate in the electoral process at all because "there seems to be no choice" - please believe that you still can vote, even though you don't have a choice - by SPOILING YOUR VOTE.

Imagine the scenario when there are more spoilt votes than the number of votes obtained by the 'winning' candidate – BN or opposition. E.g. BN Candidate 3,000 votes, Opposition Candidate 2,700 votes, Undi Rosak 10,000 votes. With all those spoilt votes staring at them, both winner and loser would blush with embarrassment. This is especially humiliating for BN, because they would definitely use phantom voters; and if even after including the phantom votes, they still get LESS votes than the number of spoilt votes, they would know they are really in deep shit...

After the election, both BN and opposition would be thinking hard about how to woo all these ‘silent majority’ voters, and therefore how to behave and upgrade themselves to meet the taste of the increasingly fussy and demanding electorate. Neither of them could take us for granted anymore.

We the people, by casting spoilt votes, would be sending a loud and clear message to them that “We don’t like either of you, please fuck off” as well as “Come and get us IF you want!” We will be able to turn the table and tell them, we have a THIRD CHOICE between black and white, and being less evil/bad than your opponent is no longer good enough for us. We want the top of the class to be a Grade A student (and the No.2 a Grade A- student), rather than just a Grade E student (and the No.2 a Grade F student). Raise your standards – BOTH OF YOU – or we will not play the game of ‘lesser of 2 evils’.

On the other hand, to vote BN by default (because you don't think the opposition is electable) or opposition by default (because you are not happy with BN) might send out the wrong message - both of them could misunderstand our real intention, and think that they are being rewarded for their behaviours, because a vote in favour is still a PLUS - but a spoilt vote is a NEGATIVE FOR BOTH.

CONCLUSION

So, to sum up, the ‘multi-election’ agenda works like this:

2008 – Eliminate substandard, Grade E’s and F’s parties. (Especially PAS – if it is a straight fight between PAS and UMNO, vote UMNO, so that PAS will be severely weakened if not totally eliminated. This (eliminate PAS at all costs, even if it means voting for Son-in-Law) is the only exception to the ‘spoilt vote agenda’.)

2012 – Keep spoiling the votes if they still do not improve. I expect them to take at least 2 elections to get/'confirm' the message. (Again, to eliminate all traces of PAS.)

2016 – Hopefully, genuinely electable and up-to-standard opposition and ruling parties and candidates would have emerged by now, in which case we could bring ourselves to pick 1 of them. Otherwise, we’ll still do the same for the next few elections until they finally ‘get’ what we are trying to tell them.

Emphasis: If the winning party gets less votes than spoilt votes, it would be a MINORITY government by any definition – but very, very embarrassing indeed. Whoever wins, they would be very embarrassed for the next 5 years – whereas the loser would regret why s/he did not behave properly or else s/he would have captured all those spoilt votes.

Question 1: What if, say, by spoiling our votes, the worst happens – say, PAS wins? Sure, I wouldn’t like that, but even then, PAS is only the minority government, and they would know damn well that they have to behave properly to stay in power. If BN wins – they are still a minority government and they would have suffered a very serious blow because they know they could no longer take us for granted. Whoever wins, they know they would have to come and get us next time.

Question 2: Why can’t we just refuse to turn up to vote? No, that is not a strong enough message, because by making the effort to travel to the polling station, queue, and then spoil your vote, you are telling them that you are willing to go out and make a point. Whereas staying home would be sending out a more equivocal message, could be interpreted as “weather no good” or “busy because of school holidays” by the politicians.

I know BN will still win this election, but it is time we ‘vote’ with a longer term perspective than just 5 years/1 electoral cycle. It is time we tell them loud and clear:

I WOULD RATHER SPOIL MY VOTES THAN WASTE IT ON YOU IDIOTS - BOTH OF YOU. NOW, COME AND GET ME IF YOU WANT, OR JUST FUCK OFF.

The POWER (to spoil the votes) is, and has always been, YOURS.

Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong Declared a Muslim, Children ‘Disinherited’

Saturday, 31 February 2018

Malaysiakelak.com.my News (used with permission, copyright not protected)
By Juslo Satire

(KUANTAN, Friday) – The Syariah Court has today declared that the late Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong was a Muslim when he passed away more than 10 years ago in 2007. The Syariah Court also ruled that since no non-Muslim is allowed to inherit any part of a Muslim’s assets or wealth, the inheritance of Lim’s assets by his non-Muslim children are invalid and unlawful.

“Therefore, the assets should be immediately returned to Tan Sri Lim’s name, and then redistributed to his Muslim heirs (if any) according to Syariah law. If he has no Muslim heir, then the assets shall be given to the Islamic authorities and they can do whatever they wish. The non-Muslim children are disinherited.” The Syariah Court ruled.

Dato’ Zakaria Lim Abdullah, 35, the late Tan Sri Lim’s only Muslim child and the 20th of his 20 offsprings, would be his sole heir and is now poised to become the Chairman of Genting Group, 1 of Southeast Asia’s richest companies worth RM2 trillion as at press time, after inheriting all the assets. (He would have inherited only 1/20 of Tan Sri Lim’s assets if Tan Sri Lim was not declared a Muslim.) However, he refused to confirm whether he would stop the gambling business of Genting even though it is haram under Islamic law.

“Are you saying that our Hadhari government should refuse to collect taxes from gambling, alcohol, pork and other haram businesses?” Dato’ Zakaria replied, perhaps rhetorically.

Dato’ Zakaria has also said that he shall honor his pledge to donate 1/10 of his newly inherited fortune to Jabatan Agama Islam Pahang and UMNO in equal share if he won the case, made 3 days before the Syariah Court decision.

“Business Reasons”

“My late father wanted to keep his conversion secret because he was a gambling tycoon, and he did not want to jeopardize his gambling empire or make his shareholders lose confidence in Genting,” said Dato’ Zakaria during the hearing in Syariah Court. The Syariah Court felt that “this is most likely true because of the huge business implications. It is very normal for Chinese to do this. We can accept that.”

As to the testimonies of Tan Sri Lim’s 19 other offsprings in the Syariah Court, who unanimously disputed the alleged conversion, the Syariah Court said,

“Even though it is 19 to 1, but because the non-Muslim witnesses refused to swear on the Qur’an before they testified in court, we could not consider their testimonies. In any event, even if they did swear on the Qur’an, the dhimmis… sorry, the non-Muslims would still carry less weight when compared to the testimony of 2 Muslim men. It is not about the number, it is about quality of the witnesses.”

The other witness supporting Dato’ Zakaria’s claim to have witnessed Tan Sri Lim’s conversion is Ustaz Abdul Rahman Ganilan Abdullah, 23 year old. The Ustaz would have been only 13 year old at that time of the conversion, but the Syariah Court said that,

“Being a righteous, God-fearing Muslim, we have no reason to suspect that the Ustaz told any lie. In any event, he has reached the age of puberty at the time (of the conversion) so he was qualified to witness the conversion.”

“Answer To God” – It Depends

The Syariah Court has also ruled that the overwhelming evidence of Tan Sri Lim drinking alcohol, praying to pagan idols, celebrating pagan religious festivals, eating pork and gambling in his own Genting Casino and generally behaving like a non-Muslim all his life until his death was “…irrelevant. Once you have converted, you are a Muslim till you die, no matter what you did before your death. You will answer to God for all your sins.”

However, on the same kind of “answer to God” argument made by the non-Muslim children that:

“By the same logic, the Deceased himself should answer to God for concealing his alleged 'conversion' from his family (and resulting in him not being buried as a Muslim and his assets distributed among his non-Muslim children); it's not up to the Islamic Authority to insist on his assets being inherited under Islamic law if he, had indeed converted but KNOWING FULLY WELL THAT HIS ASSETS WOULD BE DISTRIBUTED LIKE AN INFIDEL (AND HE MIGHT BURN IN HELL), still didn’t want to tell his family to bury him as a Muslim and distribute his assets like a Muslim.”

the Syariah Court said “you cannot say he must answer to God for everything. Sometimes he also has to answer to us, the Islamic Authority and Syariah Court. If we say he has to answer to us, then he has to. When it comes to God's law, logic has nothing to do with it. Why is it so difficult to understand?”

“New Conversion Policy” vs New Economic Policy

The case to declare one of the richest Chinese in the world (at his death) as a Muslim was started 2 years ago (8 years after his death), 1 month after another non-Muslim Malaysian tycoon’s Muslim son was able to exclusively inherit his father’s global business empire – worth RM80 billion at that time – by proving in Syariah Court that his father had “converted in secret,” resulting in his mother and all 9 other siblings losing the right to inherit any part of the tycoon’s wealth, leaving him the sole heir to the huge fortune.

There are currently at least 200 more cases of the same nature pending before the Syariah Courts nationwide involving deceased non-Muslims who were wealthy during their lifetime and left behind a huge personal fortune. Rough estimate suggests that 50% of them were started by 1 of the Muslim children of the deceased (99% of them newly converted as Muslims), and the rest by the Islamic Authorities seeking to disinherit all non-Muslim children. Many are now wondering who's next, and bookies all over the country (including those operated by Genting) have now closed the bets on the top 1,000 richest Chinese in Malaysia (both dead and alive) "as they have become hot favourites now," says the representatives from Ladbrokes Malaysia and William Hill Wahid (the Malaysian subsidiary of William Hill, UK).

If all of the cases succeed, it is estimated that the ratio of equity held by Muslims in Malaysia would jump from the meagre 19% as at 1 January 2018 to 76%, a whopping 3-fold increase.

The Perak Mufti, who applauded the Syariah Court’s ruling, said that this wave of after-death declarations of conversions is the new approach taken by the Islamic Authority to bring people to the right path. "We used to focus on the living, now we think we should focus on the dead people too. Under Islam Hadhari, it's never too late to bring them back to the right path so that they can achieve salvation on Judgment Day, even if they are already dead." He added that this would help to speed up the Islamicization of Malaysia, but is also designed to achieve the government’s goal to redistribute wealth among the races which the government could no longer do (and failed repeatedly to do) under the now abolished National Economic Policy.

“By creating real economic incentives for the dhimmis to become a real citizens of the Islamic state, we expect more of them to embrace the true path, and this will mean that we no longer have to rely on the NEP to achieve such noble socio-economic goals of the government. Besides, this is more effective because to take money away from living people will create a lot of noise, but a dead person will not make any noise, right?” He said.

However, it is not clear whether the non-Muslim children would still be able to keep their inheritance if they convert to Islam Hadhari immediately. The Perak Mufti, when consulted on this issue, said,

“If that could bring them to Islam Hadhari, then it would be good, so the Syariah Court should allow that. But then it might be unfair to those children who converted into Islam Hadhari earlier… perhaps we can still allow them to inherit only 30% of what an “early bird” Muslim heir would have been able to get, to provide some “early bird bonus incentives” for them to convert earlier. When we are dealing with Chinese, such bonus incentives are very important, if you know what I mean. Anyway, we’ll think about this in the next National Fatwa Council meeting. But rest assured that we shall continue our struggle and to finish our job – until the Kingdom comes (literally).”

Chinese Beginning to Be Concerned

The Chinese community has now taken this matter very seriously and are brainstorming on the options to overcome this problem. They have also called for an end to the practice of declaring a person’s status as a Muslim after his or her death, a radical change from their usual attitude to shy away from controversial political and religious issues. Analysts believe that this is because this time, it is threatening their economic interests.

Supporters of the now semi-defunct Malaysian Chinese Association, Gerakan and Malaysian Indian Congress (still part of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, though) have called on the top BN leadership to put forward a plan to resolve such controversial and provocative religious issues once and for all and in a manner which is fair to the non-Muslims. An MCA leader who declined to be named told our reporter:

“We fear a backlash. Most NGO and opposition leaders have called on the non-Muslims to boycott BN if no fair solution is put forward before the upcoming general election. These issues have been around since at least the Moorthy controversy in 2005 but still remained unresolved. They are now affecting the basic security and fundamental well-being of the non-Muslims.”

[Juslo’s clarification:

This is purely a SATIRE. NOTHING in this post is factually true. DEEP APOLOGIES to the family of the late Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong. Forgive me for using a real, prominent name in order to try to bring out the real, concrete implications of the stupidity, madness and suffering which are happening in Malaysia right now, and hopefully to raise awareness of the people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, in order to prevent ABUSE AND MANIPULATION. Let's ensure that the above WILL NOT HAPPEN.

Juslo’s additional clarification on 1 February 2008:

Some have accused me of being 'provocative' and 'inciting hatred.' I want to clarify that these are NOT my intentions -- but I strongly believe that these are what the corpse-snatching evil doers from the 'Islamic Authorities' intended. You cannot blame the victims/their communities for reacting in anger to your provocation because you knew very well that this would cause anger, pain and disharomony, and yet you still chose to go ahead to do it -- you expect your victims/their communities to SMILE AND WELCOME you??

These reactions were dead certain -- you have seen them in the Moorthy case, and many cases before, so don't pretend that you are somehow 'surprised' by the anger this time. Please don't be so SELF-CENTERED, put yourselves into other people's shoes for a change.

Some also accused me of "bashing Islam." Honestly and sincerely, I D-O N-O-T believe that this is ISLAM, and (as someone who was once 'attracted to' and have learned much about Islam) I am sad that people would equate these pain-anger-suffering-causing evil actions as 'Islam.' I hope all those who wish to defend these people think twice before equating them with 'Islam.' And if you think this is just 'islamophobia' or 'lies,' then explain to us where are the safeguards and how and why this kind of abuse and manipulation will never happen. Put our minds at ease. (But please spare us the naive "Muslims will never lie in syariah court" excuses.)

But I hope this much we could agree on:

that Islam should be practised in a FAIR & JUST manner towards non-Muslims;

that good Muslims will continue to speak up against injustices everywhere, ESPECIALLY those committed against non-Muslims in the name of Islam;

that no more suffering n pain would be visited upon non-Muslims in the name of Islam no matter what is the justification;

that Islam will not be manipulated by individual Muslims for their selfish gains.]

2007: Year of Women –- Especially Courageous, Muslim Women

As if this year was not sad enough, one of my heroes had to be assassinated when the year is almost over.

“A discredited former prime minister, accused of massive corruption, Miss Bhutto had won grudging praise from many Pakistanis for her courage in defying the terrorists’ threat… In her final political address -- a few minutes before her death -- Miss Bhutto alluded to the risk she was running. She said: “I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. People are worried. We will bring the country out of this crisis.”

She -- like most politicians -- was not an angel, and was apparently rather corrupt and inept even:

“While Benazir's Western education made her adept at speaking of democracy and women's rights, her feudal background had more of a bearing on her manner of government. Little was done to alleviate Pakistan's appalling rates of illiteracy and child mortality; instead there was a pervasive atmosphere of corruption, in which her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, whom she married in 1987, was frequently implicated. The scion of a lesser feudal family who had done well in business, he was known during his wife's reign as "Mr 10 Per Cent" for the alleged amount of his rake-offs, though some claimed 30 per cent would have been more appropriate.”

But she sure was much better than many male politicians to me. (And I agree with Michael Fathers: Bhutto's flaws in office cannot diminish her greatness, or the extent of Pakistan's loss)

Yes, she came from a privileged and elite background, and with that in mind her achievements might not seem that surprising. On the other hand, her courage to rise to the occasion to succeed her father’s political career in the most trying of circumstances would put most male politicians (and men in general, for that matter) to shame:

“If her personal circumstances had been different, Ms Bhutto’s feudal family background from the interior of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, might well have confined her to a role as a Begum, no more than being a full-time affluent housewife and part-time politician. But Ms Bhutto’s two brothers, Murtaza and Shahnawaz, chose to live overseas after Pakistan’s military, led by the late General Zia ul Haq, overthrew the government headed by her father in 1977.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was arrested after the coup and hanged two years later on a controversial charge of ordering the assassination of a political foe.

Young and western-educated, his daughter was the obvious choice to stay to lead her father’s Pakistan People’s party (PPP) through Gen Zia’s harsh military dictatorship.”

When he country called, she accepted the challenge:

"I didn't choose this life in Pakistan; it chose me," Benazir Bhutto wrote in her autobiography, Daughter of the East.

Not forgetting that she was a modern woman in a fundamentalist, conservative Muslim country, and there aren’t that many men in this world who would have the courage to struggle against a military dictatorship (Compare Malaysia -- we are too chicken shit to even stand up to a semi-authoritarian regime.):

“She did so two years later, daring General Zia's increasingly authoritarian regime to imprison her or have her killed, addressing huge rallies about the martyrdom of her father and demanding an end to military rule. In 1988 the general died in a mid-air explosion which has never been fully explained, and the military called free elections, the first in a decade. Benazir was swept into power at the head of the PPP at the age of only 35, the first woman to be elected leader of a Muslim state.”

My personal respect and admiration for her is not influenced by her gender, but the way she overcame the, shall we say, “inconvenience” of her gender makes her a truly extraordinary human being (not just woman):

“Nor was there any doubting her courage. In January 1990, when she was heavily pregnant and elements of the establishment were demanding that she step down temporarily until the baby was born, she secretly had her daughter Bakhtwar by Caesarean section and returned to work the following day.”

But I think her historical significance is not only in her life -- her death also brings out what is fundamentally wrong with the contemporary Muslim world, especially for a fundamentalist, conservative but semi-democratic, heavyweight, nuclear-power Muslim country such as Pakistan.

The way she died -- and President Pervez Musharraf’s political maneuvering and utter failure to curb Islamic extremism and violence before and after that -- signifies that the Muslim world is at a crossroad: how to balance the demands of democracy and modernity on one hand with those of extremism and fundamentalism in the name of Islam, on the other.

Pakistan is not just a ‘basket-case’ of failed Muslim states -- it is one of the first Muslim democracies, and as a nuclear power it cannot be a ‘basket-case’ or a failed state. The world -- especially the Great Satan and the West -- will not allow it to become one. The world would brace itself, for the months and years to come, for further turmoil (caused by Pakistan’s domestic and international actors) in that volatile region which would have widespread repercussions globally, including in Malaysia.

LINA JOY, REVATHI AND SUBASHINI

The second courageous woman I want to mention here, who is “both Muslim and Christian” (according to Aisehman), is Lina Joy. Her failed battle to be legally recognised as a Christian in Malaysia is well-known by now, generating much international interests including most recently from an Australian High Court Judge, Michael Kirby.

Even though she has lost her battle before the Malaysian courts, her struggle for religious freedom has stirred up an important debate in Malaysia and captured the whole nation. For the first half of the year, the country was waiting for the decision to be delivered by the highest court, and for the second half of the year, we are still experiencing its ‘aftershocks’. Wherever she is, many Malaysians wish her well, and may she find happiness with her partner. The struggle for religious freedom in Malaysia and the Muslim world continues.

What Revathi experienced seems to confirm that going to the Syariah court to seek an 'apostasy order' (as suggested by the Federal Court in the Lina Joy case) is self-incriminating and digging your own grave. She was imprisoned for going to the Syariah court to try to quit Islam, mentally tortured as the 'Islamic' authorities sought to brainwash her to bring her back to the 'right path', forcibly split from her husband and young baby (all in the name of 'Islam'), but she did not give in. "My name is Revathi. I want to hold on to that name - forever. I want to drop the name Siti Fatimah." she said, defiantly.

Her example also confirms that trying to convert out of 'Islam' by going to the Syariah court system is a delusion, if not a flat out lie, because it is a confirmed dead-end:

“They held me for six months, only to say that I cannot leave Islam. If that is the case, they should have told me earlier, so I don’t have to go into the centre."

Her plight aslo caught the attention of Al-Jazeera. Until today, we have no news about whether she has been allowed to re-unite with her husband and live the life she has chosen for herself. But her words shows how much (unnecessary!!) damage which has been done to the name of Islam:

“I hate Islam even more now”.

In the aftermath of Lina Joy, another courageous lady is Subashini, a 29 year old Hindu lady who was abandoned by her ball-less husband who ran for cover to the Syariah court system in the hope of escaping his civil law, marital obligations as a man (which he ain't) by converting into Islam and at the same time converting his 2 minor children too (Dharvin Joshua, 4, and 2-year-old Sharvin), most probably because he wanted to make sure that he got custody of these kids (I guess along the line of “they are ‘Muslims’ now (legally, though not factually), so it is more suitable for me, a good, pious, responsible and upright Muslim ‘man’, to take care of them, rather than some infidel, pagan woman who would only make my children kuffar”).

Subashini did not just give up her love for her children and -- most probably because she did not want her children to turn out like a piece of shit like their father -- she bravely fought all the way to the highest court in Malaysia, capturing the nation’s imagination once again.

From what I understand, the Federal Court of Malaysia has said that that her husband is not allowed to escape to the Syariah court and treat it like a ‘get out of jail free card’, but must settle his scores with his wife in the civil court system first.

But when it comes to the kids, whatever the decision is/means, I think the kids should not be converted into something they could not convert out later (‘Islam’, Malaysian style, is the only IDEOLOGY that fits the ‘Hotel California’ description right now in Malaysia). And even if they were so converted, I think they should be allowed to ‘reconsider’ it once they reach 18 or 21, when they could really think for themselves (which they are obviously too young to do now at 2 and 4).

If the custody is given to their piece-of-shit father, they could be converted into Islam now if they have to stay with the father, fine, but they should be free to choose for themselves later. THAT’S what I would regard as “justice will be done, for EVERYONE” (including the kids, obviously, since this is a custody battle). Whether it is to be achieved by way of ‘divorce’ law, syariah or civil, or ‘religious freedom’ law, syariah or civil, in this case or the next, doesn’t really matter to me -- so long as that end is achieved and the religious freedom of those poor kids guaranteed.

But what this case highlighted is the need for clear rules when it comes to religious conflicts like apostasy and conversion of minors. It also, to me, highlights how the Syariah court system in Malaysia has been perverted by scumbags like Subashini's piece-of-shit husband (whose name I don’t care to remember). No decent father would involve his children in this manner in a custody- or religious- fight with his wife. That 'man' should go to hell as far as I’m concerned, whatever religion he chooses to associate his name with. There should be laws which ban a lousy father like that from ever becoming a father to any child in his lifetime.

OTHER NOTABLE LEADERS...

And I think we should not forget these 3 inspirational female political leaders who have made some waves during 2007 and before:

The classy and intelligent Ségolène Royal -- who nearly became the first female President of France. I hope she’ll make it next time, and soon.

The loyal Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, who faithfully guarded her husband’s political base and stood by her man while he served time in prison (for some, shall we say, ‘funny’ charges), whom was an outstanding doctor in her own right. I hope she would not simply fade away after her husband formally takes over as the ‘de facto opposition leader’.

The ‘Indian equivalent’ of Benazir Bhutto, Sonia Gandhi, widow of Rajiv Gandhi (Deceased) and the President of the Indian National Congress. She admirably ‘renounced’ herself from being the candidate for Prime Minister of India after her party and coalition won the general election in 2004, rather than trying to get a constitutional amendment or something like that to get there. I wonder whether she did this nice gesture because she’s not a Malaysian, or because she’s a woman?

...AND ONE CHILD

We could never forget Nurin -- not yet a woman when she was brutally killed and shall never be one. Her tragic death made all our hearts bleed (and still bleeding), left a permanent scar on the nation's soul, made us wonder what had happened to us as a society, and our anger towards the breakdown of law and order in this country reached boiling point upon learning her demise. Until today, the animal who violated her is still at large.

I hope her death would keep the public anger at our incompetent police and demand for better law enforcement alive, into the next year and beyond, so that NO MORE child or woman -- NOT EVEN ONE -- would be violated or oppressed in this country anymore, EVER. That way, Nurin would not have died in vain.

STRUGGLES CONTINUE IN 2008

The courage of women will continue on display in 2008. Moorthy’s wife would be waiting for her hearing at the higher court.

Revathi could still be fighting. Subashini would also have to carry on fighting in the civil court (and perhaps even the syariah court), and I hope justice -- albeit belated -- will be done, and that piece of shit be taught a lesson.

I’m also waiting for the final outcome of Mukhtar Mai’s case, who survived the ‘shame’ forcibly imposed on her by barbarians and heroically fought back, and whose case becomes even more intriguing given what has happened in Pakistan this year.

Also, since I’m tired of seeing men dominating the world’s headlines, so a female ‘leader of the free world’ would be a nice breath of fresh air.

Why should 2007 be "The Year of Women"? Because what these extraordinary women did and experienced were in relation to issues which have far reaching impacts on the freedom of many human beings -- both men and women -- not just regarding some 'women/feminist issues'. It could have been men who played their roles this year in the exact same stories. Women, in trying to win freedom, respect and dignity for all human beings, were the leaders this year.

So, wherever you are, courageous women of the world-- individually and collectively, you are changing the world. 2007 is not the beginning, and will not be the end. In the coming election, would your hands rock Malaysia too?

Believing in 'Islam' Would Make You Stupid and Vulnerable?

The Malaysian government has said that "Muslims might get confused" if religions other than Islam is allowed to use the word "Allah" to refer to their God.

That is, frankly, the dumbest thing said about Muslims I've ever heard. (Let me say at the beginning that this is an attack on the Malaysian government's manipulation of 'Islam', not on all Muslims or Islam in general.) To hold that claim seriously would make people wonder what would believing in Islam/ becoming a Muslim do to your brain.

Seriously, think about it -- according to the Malaysian government/ religious authorities, Muslims in Malaysia are too 'vulnerable' (read: stupid?) to handle the following:

1, The Hollywood comedies "Bruce Almighty" and "Evan Almighty" (which the government was asked to ban because it was blasphemous)

2, Religious books written by foreign authors, especially if they are written in Bahasa Melayu (which the government has banned their imports)

3, Seeing the 'patung patung' (statues) erected by infidels by the roadside (which the Sabah Mufti has declared 'haram' to Muslims by his fatwa)

4, Reading the reference to 'Allah' in a Catholic publication (for which the Ministry of Internal Security has banned the Catholic Herald)

5, Wishing the infidels for their religious celebrations such as Deepavali (according to the Perak Mufti and Takaful Insurance)

6, etc etc...

In other words, Muslims just "can't handle the truth!" They, as Muslims and believers of Islam, could be easily led astray.

This is very strange, because it seems to suggest that even though a Muslim could tell "the straight path from the crooked" and "Truth from Error" when they quit their original religion and converted into Islam, (i.e. knew how to choose what is the truth,) they have suddenly lost their ability to tell right from wrong after they become a Muslim? It is as if becoming a Muslim causes you instant brain damage!?

I mean, are you seriously telling me that when a Muslim picked up a copy of the “Catholic Herald” and read an article talking about “Allah” having a son called “Yesus,” he couldn’t tell that he was reading the “Catholic Herald” and not the “Harakah”?? You got to be fucking kidding me.

HELLO ABANG -- READ THE TOP OF THE PAGE, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!

CAN'T YOU SEE THE WORD 'C-A-T-H-O-L-I-C'??? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!

BUTA HURUF KE??

(And frankly, if this abang still can’t tell that he was reading a non-Islamic publication, then he’s most probably illiterate anyway -- the government would not need to save him from Satan’s seductive words disguised as Christian propaganda materials!!)

I would urge the government/ religious authorities to stop using this kind of stupid excuses which sounds like 'defending Islam' but in actual fact would only insult the intelligence of -- who else? -- Muslims, because they are indirectly saying that believing in 'Islam' (the Malaysian style) could make you stupid and vulnerable... This is a great disservice to Islam.

As Thomas Jefferson said,

"It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason."

On the other hand, if the government has to resort to such desperate excuses and psuedo-reasons like "protecting the 'stupid' Muslims" in order to justify its discriminatory (YES, LET'S NOT FORGET THAT ULTIMATELY, WHAT THIS IS REALLY ABOUT) policies and actions (especially in order to violate non-Muslims' constitutional right to religious freedom), then we as the people should be alert.

Just like "A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise" (Niccolò Machiavelli), the Malaysian government never runs out of absurd reasons to violate the people's constitutional rights and freedom (aka 'social contract'). As some have said, when no good reason is given to justify an action by the government, "no reason, that is, that could not be instantly refuted by a literate teenager" (Noam Chomsky, MIT Professor), then we can only conclude that all the absurd reasons given are just excuses deployed to disguise the REAL MOTIVE -- to violate the religious freedom of non-Muslims.

Thomas Jefferson again:

"We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."

We are not stupid or naïve, no matter how much the government wishes us to be. I therefore call upon the government to stop insulting the intelligence of the Malaysian people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, and take their hands off non-Muslims' religious freedom.

UPDATE: The Malaysian government has backed down.

"The publisher of Herald - The Catholic Weekly newspaper has been allowed to continue printing its Bahasa Malaysia section with no restrictions on the use of the word Allah for God."

I am happy that good sense has finally prevailed, and as far as I am concerned (not a Christian), I am happy to welcome this is a victory for the freedom of speech.

UPDATE 2: Nope, sorry folks, the Malaysian Cabinet still think that Muslims are too stupid and vulnerable:

"The restrictions on the use of the word “Allah” was still enforceable and shall be upheld as decided by the Cabinet in two of its meetings – on Oct 18 and Nov 1, 2006, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Abdullah Mohd Zin said.

Abdullah, who said the Prime Minister had instructed him to clarify the matter so the public would not be confused, told a press conference on Thursday:

“One of the reasons given to uphold the restriction is because that it has long been the practice of this country that the world Allah refers to God according to the Muslim faith.”

It was only proper for other religions to use the word "God" and not "Allah" when referring to their God in respective beliefs, Abdullah said, adding that the use of the word “Allah” shall not be made a public debate that may give the impression as if there is no freedom of religion in the country.

“The use of the word 'Allah' by non-Muslims may arouse sensitivity and create confusion among Muslims in the country,” he said."

All Muslims in Malaysia should be proud of the government and themselves. Really.

To prevent 'confusion' among non-Muslims, let's see the Malaysian government prohibit Muslims from reciting the following verses of the Quran:

5:17: "In blasphemy indeed are those that say that Allah is Christ the son of Mary."

9:5: "Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush."

47:4: "Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens. Thus (are ye commanded): but if it had been Allah's Will, He could certainly have exacted retribution from them (Himself); but (He lets you fight) in order to test you, some with others. But those who are slain in the Way of Allah,- He will never let their deeds be lost."

8:39: "And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah. But if they cease, then lo! Allah is Seer of what they do."

9:123: "O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto Him)."

And many, many other verses in the Quran -- they all should be immediately banned and deleted from the copies of the Quran found in Malaysia, and anybody who posseses a copy of the Quran with those verses (as well as those who print or import the Quran with verses in those words especially in languages other than Bahasa Melayu, since the kafirs are deemed not holy enough for Bahasa Melayu) should be detained indefinitely without trial under the ISA for suspicion of incitement to violence and hate.

It is only fair, in order to prevent 'confusion' among, and to protect the 'sensitivity' of, non-Muslims (for a change). After all, this is a government for all races and religion, and our Prime Minister is the "Prime Minister of all Malaysians", so let's see the non-Muslims getting some 'protection' for a change.

I say the Herald should fight all the way in the court because otherwise, one thing will lead to another. Today it is about 'Allah', tomorrow it could be many other things! The moment you accept government interference with your internal communications, that's it -- next time they might even stop you from telling the virgin Mary story because it would be an abomination of 'Allah' to suggest that 'Allah' could beget a son and the Christians would be accused of trying to 'confuse' Muslims again!! (Quran, 6:101 and 9:30) (Which would be a wet dream comes true for many extremist Muslims, I tell ya.)

This is simply ridiculous -- which means the ulterior motive is very obvious.