05/02: Why I kick ass

No, don't blame the Malays. Don't blame Umno. Don't blame Barisan Nasional. Umno can't form the government without the other 13 non-Malay component members of Barisan Nasional unless the non-Malays allow it to happen.

More three-way fights likely in Johor

(The Star, 1 Feb 2008): The opposition’s hope of straight fights in Johor for the general election has been dashed as several parliamentary and state seats are expected to see three-cornered battles.

The “hot seats” are the Gelang Patah parliamentary and Johor Jaya, Permas, Stulang and Skudai state constituencies.

The constituencies, except for Permas, have a sizeable number of non-Malay voters.

Permas and Skudai are held by the MIC and Gerakan respectively while the MCA holds the other constituencies.

Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM) has announced that it would contest six seats -- the Johor Baru and Gelang Patah parliamentary seats and the Stulang, Permas Jaya, Skudai and Johor Jaya state seats.

Its secretary-general S.K Song said PRM would not give way to other opposition parties to contest in these seats.

The opposition votes are expected to be heavily split this time compared to the 2004 elections, when only the Johor Jaya and Jorak state seats saw a three-cornered fight in Johor.

State DAP deputy chairman Norman Fernandez said while it was unwise to split the opposition votes, the party would be contesting in Skudai, Stulang and Gelang Patah.

PAS commissioner Datuk Dr Mahfodz Mohamed said that PRM should not “act gung-ho” and try to split the opposition votes.

“We are willing to discuss with them and if they have valid reasons, PAS is willing to allow them to contest in Permas,” he said.

Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) state chief Dr Ahmad Saidhi Saidi said it would be disappointing to see the opposition votes split in Johor.

(AP, 1 Feb 2008) - A dog fight in Swabi, Pakistan, turned nasty on Wednesday when the animals' owners started scuffling among themselves. Dog fighting is one of the established local games in the poverty-stricken north-western region of Pakistan.

Although the government has banned the sport, enforcement is not strict. Many people defy the ruling and continue with the practice.

Dog fighting was also banned in parts of nearby Afghanistan by the Taleban -- along with cock fights and other traditional sports -- but it made a swift comeback after the fundamentalist militia was ousted from power in late 2001.

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All abuzz over oily man

(The Star, 1 Feb 2008) - While not many in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) are taking the stories of an orang minyak (oily man) preying on female students seriously, some of them have begun taking extra safety precautions on their own.

The main campus has been abuzz over the last few days with talk that an oily man had broken into several hostels and raped female students.

USM acting vice-chancellor Prof Ahmad Syukri Mustapa Kamal said so far, the authorities had yet to receive any reports of rape or sightings by students.

“USM is working closely with the police to ensure the security of the campus. We appeal for people to refrain from spreading rumours about rape cases that have been found to be baseless,” he said in a press statement.

Security has been stepped up at the entrances with closed-circuit TV camera surveillance and 24-hour patrols conducted by guards and hostel authorities.

Female students are taking better care of themselves.

“Students are saying that the orang minyak is raping girls to improve his prowess in black magic, but whatever the reason, we are very concerned,” said second-year communications student Nur Farahiyah Mohd Taib, 21, who stays in a hostel on campus.

She said the girls were now staying together in big groups at their hostels or when walking back from meetings at night.

Course mate V. Kumutha, 22, said the girls in her hostel also had a meeting with the hostel committee.

“They advised us to keep safe and also taught some of the girls prayers to deter the oily man,” she said.

Some students had gone to the extent of vacating the campus hostels during the night.

“For the last two days, many people have been sleeping over with friends who live off campus,” said second-year management student C.P. Teng, 22.

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Comment by 'indianputra' posted in Malaysia Today's Blog

I am blaming the Malaysian Government led by the UMNO for the status of Indians in Malaysia. Do you want me to repeat? I will!

* 90% of all jobs in the civil service are for the Malays

* 98% of all jobs in Petronas is for Malays

* 95% of all CEO's & MD's of GLC's are Malays

* 90% of all police are Malays

* 95% of all Headmasters of schools are Malays

* 95% of all Government contract goes to Malays

* 85% of Malaysian Cabinet are Malays

* 90% of all nurses in Malaysia are Malays

* 96% of Malaysian Army, Air Force and Navy is manned by the Malays

* 10% discount is given to Malays to purchase houses

* With UMNO support almost all Malay businessmen are guaranteed bank and SME loans

* 90% of all government-linked education establishment have Malay students

Now, who is masterminding this? It is NOT YOU AND I. It is the UMNO-led Government. MIC and MCA are given handouts by this Government to satisfy the Indians and Chinese. Yet, these handouts do not reach the Rakyat and pocketed handsomely by the leaders.

So, what do we do?? GET RID OF BN. My plea for the Malays to feel guilty was to make them feel that this Government is unfair to the Indian and Chinese brothers and hopefully they will vote the opposition to reduce the 2/3 majority BN is having now. I know Malays. They are kind, have tremendous values, respects human beings and will ever support the downtrodden.... at least the vast majority of them.

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Malaysia Today in general and I in particular have been accused of embarking on a Malay-Islam bashing campaign. Actually they are only partly right. I am not bashing Malays and Islam. I am bashing Malays and Muslims. And there is a difference. Furthermore, I not only bash the Malays but the Chinese and Indians as well. But I bash the Malays 90% of the time while I bash the Chinese and Indians maybe only 10% of the time. And while the Malays just sulk, the Chinese and Indians accuse me of being a racist.

That's right. When I bash the Malays and Muslims I am a great guy, a liberal Muslim, a towering Malay, and all that crap. But when I bash the Chinese and Indians I am a racist.

I can cite so many examples of why the Malays, Muslims, Chinese and Indians deserve getting bashed. Allow me to bring your attention to the four items above. Of course, you may say that one swallow does not make a summer. But we are not talking of one swallow here but four swallows out of thousands. I picked the four above not because these are the best examples but only because these four are the latest news items and comments posted in Malaysia Today.

We complain about the government. We complain about the Barisan Nasional hegemony. We complain about the 'Malay' government. We complain about the Umno-led government. The Chinese and Indians complain that they are being sidelined in favour of the Malays. The Malays complain they are being sidelined in favour of the Umnoputras. We complain about the unfair election system. We complain about the gerrymandering that favours the ruling party. We complain about the rampant and blatant corruption. We complain about the abuse of power and police brutality. We complain about the non-independent and biased judiciary. We complain about the cronyism and wastage of public funds. Aiyah.... you name it and we will complain about it.

But what are we doing about it? We can't even unite and form a credible opposition front to challenge the system that we are so unhappy with. When we are asked to unite and seek common ground we will offer one thousand and one excuses why that is not possible. PKR has no future and is only about Anwar Ibrahim. PAS is an Islamic party and therefore very dangerous. DAP is a Chinese chauvinist party and still stuck in the past. Only Barisan Nasional is capable of running this country because it has a 50-year track record and the opposition has not been tested or proven itself yet. (This is of course a Catch 22. If it is not given a chance to form the government then when will it be able to prove itself?).

Muslims are so paranoid about criticism against Islam. They want it to be made illegal and punishable by detention without trial. They want those who leave Islam to be sentenced to death. They want those who convince Muslims to leave Islam to be put in jail. They arrest and jail Muslims who work in pubs, bars and discos. They arrest those who hold hands in public, even if they are non-Muslims. They snatch dead bodies of those who have been rumoured to have embraced Islam before they died. They want all women to be scarfed and for separate check-out counters and swimming pools for males and females to be set up.

But look at the news items above. Muslims indulge in dog fights and cock fights. Look at the blood on the mouth of the dogs in the picture above. Is this not cruel? Muslims are fond of relating the story about the Prophet -- when he saw a prostitute giving a thirsty dog a drink of water -- telling his companions that she is going to heaven. The companions were puzzled. The women was a prostitute and she was giving a 'najis' (impure) dog a drink in the cup of her hands. How can she be going to heaven? And the Prophet replied that she is going to heaven because she has shown compassion to the dog (in spite of she being a prostitute and in spite of she allowing the 'dirty' dog to drink out of the cup of her hands).

That is supposed to be an authentic Hadith. But then what do the Muslims do? They cruelly indulge in dog fights. Is holding hands and working in pubs, bars and discos worse than indulging in 'sports' where dogs kill each other in a most brutal manner? Is women and men paying for their purchases at the same checkout counter worse than cruelty to animals? Is not wearing a scarf worse than brutality to animals?

I used to live in a PAS stronghold in Kuala Terengganu called Kuala Ibai. Mustapha Ali lives there, as do the one-time PAS Member of Parliament for Kuala Terengganu, Harun Jusoh, and the one-time Mufti of Terengganu (don't know if he is still alive though). In fact, almost everyone living there was PAS, including me of course who lived there for 20 years. Umno people would not dare venture into our area unless they want to get verbally abused. But the cock-fighting in Kuala Ibai is a serious problem. And the irony of the whole thing is they indulge in it during Friday prayers because that is the time everyone will be in the mosque -- so it is the safest time -- and the gelanggang (arena) is not far from the mosque. I was Chairman of that mosque so I was fully aware of the problem because we discussed it at every mosque committee meeting.

I don't care about the gambling aspect of cock-fighting -- and it is just that, gambling -- but what concerns me most is how cruel this 'sport' is. Razor blades are tied to the feet of the cocks so that they can slash their opponents. Can you imagine the bloody sight when two vicious cocks trained to fight slash each other with razor blades? And we are talking about Muslims in a PAS stronghold who would abuse Umno people if they accidentally strayed into our area.

Muslims are very paranoid about akidah. They will ban books which they say may make our akidah go astray (hundreds of books have been banned, 11 this week alone). Actually they don't really understand what the word akidah means but they are very concerned about the matter. Of course, the books they ban are merely books that argue Islam differently from what they believe. So, since what these books say differ from their view, they will ban them on the excuse that it will affect the akidah of Muslims.

But they will believe in evil spirits and black magic in spite of all this being shirik. Shirik is considered a mortal and unforgivable sin in Islam. It is worse than murder. In Islam you can be forgiven for murder if the victim's family chooses to forgive you. But not even God will forgive you for shirik, so the Muslims believe. And here we have educated people like university students and Professors believing in 'oily men' who can perform magic and disappear into mist.

This reminds me of a case in Wakaf Mempelam, Kuala Terengganu, about 20 years or so ago. Wakaf Mempelam (Mustapha Ali's state constituency) was at that time being terrorised by an 'oily man' who would pukau the house-owners, rob them (they would be aware they were being robbed but would be paralysed and could not do anything about it) and then transform into an animal and escape.

The villagers of Wakaf Mempelam got so fed up that one day they decided to lie in wait. When the 'oily man' appeared they chased him and, as usual, he evaporated into mist and escaped. The villagers 'knew' the oily man had transformed into an animal. The villagers went searching for an animal in the bushes where the 'oily man' was last seen and they found a cow grazing. They immediately attacked the cow and killed it. The owner of the cow came running, screaming for them to stop. But it was too late. The poor cow had died of multiple wounds. However, since then, the 'oily man' never again appeared in Wakaf Mempelam so the villagers were quite convinced that it was not a cow they killed that night but the 'oily man'.

No, I don't think that I am unjustified in bashing the Malays and Muslims. If at all, I think I am not bashing them enough. I need to expose them. I need to strip them naked. I need to shame them. And I should not stop until the Malays shed their shameful ways and beliefs. But don't the Chinese and Indians applaud just yet because they too are equally deserving of a bashing.

'Indianputra' posted that comment above. That was actually stolen from an e-mail that has been floating around for two years or more. No, 'indianputra' did not come up with those statistics. He stole them and is pretending that they are the result of his own research. And the original is actually much longer than that.

But none of those statistics are correct or are supported with any evidence. They were created just for sensation and I am not going to waste my time dissecting them and rebutting them.

Okay, let us for argument's sake agree with what 'indianputra' says. Let us give him the benefit of the doubt. You mean all this happened over the last six months? You mean in the 2004 general election when the voters gave 92% of the seats in Parliament to Barisan Nasional what is prevalent today was not prevalent then? What about in the 1999 general election? What about in the 1995 general election? What about in the 1990 general election? What about in the 1986 general election? Why were all the top guns of DAP wiped out and the party given only nine Parliament seats in the 1990 general election (from 24 seats in the 1986 general election before that) when what we complain about today was prevalent even way back in 1990? Why were all the top guns of PAS wiped out in the 1986 general election and the party given only one Parliament seat when what we complain about today was prevalent even way back in 1986?

No, don't blame the Malays. Don't blame Umno. Don't blame Barisan Nasional. Umno can't form the government without the other 13 non-Malay component members of Barisan Nasional unless the non-Malays allow it to happen. Umno holds only roughly half the 222 seats in Parliament. The other 13 non-Malay component members of Barisan Nasional hold the other 100 or so. On Malay votes alone Umno can't form the government even if 100% of the Malays vote for Umno and not a single Malay vote goes to PAS. And as it is now PAS and PKR get about one-third the popular votes, mostly from the Malays.

Barisan Nasional is not, I repeat, is not a Malay government. Umno, on Malay votes alone and without the other 13 non-Malay component members, can't form the government. Long before the 2004 general election Umno announced that Malaysia is already a Muslim country. But the voters did not reject Umno or Barisan Nasional. All the 13 non-Malay component members of Barisan Nasional applauded when Umno announced that Malaysia is already a Muslim country. And the non-Malays still gave Barisan Nasional 92% of the seats in Parliament. And when Abdullah Ahmad Badawi launched Islam Hadhari the 13 non-Malay component members of Barisan Nasional again applauded.

Sure, if we don't vote Barisan Nasional then who do we vote for? We don't see any better alternative to Barisan Nasional. The opposition is not tested. The opposition has not proven itself yet. The opposition is not united. We are scared of the PAS Islamic party. We are scared of the DAP Chinese chauvinist party. We are scared of the PKR Anwar Ibrahim single agenda party. We are more comfortable with Barisan Nasional.

So, we will vote Barisan Nasional and we will whack the Malays for whatever Barisan Nasional does even if the Malays voted for PAS and the non-Malays voted for Barisan Nasional. That is the only way we can vote for Barisan Nasional and not feel bad about doing so. After all, losers always make the wrong decision and will never admit it and will always blame others for what happened. And since we are losers that is how we will act.

'Indianputra' and others of that ilk, you are all losers. But don't feel too bad about it because your brother-Malays who scream, rant and rave about akidah are also losers. You all deserve one another. May you all hold hands as you lead each other into hell.