Later in the afternoon, I will join my friend Mr Yuen and three other foreign students, two from Hong Kong and another from PRC on a road trip to the southern old city of Tainan.
We are going to spend the weekend there. Hopefully the weather improves.
Meanwhile, back in Malaysia, the political nonsense there shows no sign of letting up.
DAP is trying to stretch the "Allah" issue as much as they can. I think they are benefitting immensely from the issue which was rekindled by their sec-gen Lim Guan Eng whom in his Christmas message last month demanded for the BN federal government to allow the use of the word "Allah" in Malay language Bible. The issue seems to unite the non-Muslims against the BN government while splitting the Muslims with the Pas Muslims supporting Guan Eng's demand while the other Muslims opposing it.
Umno, on its part have been relatively quiet about the issue. They seem to be playing it smart this time and ignored the DAP's provocation. It is clearly DAP's wish for the Umno leaders to respond aggressively so that they can turn around and accuse Umno as being racists and using religion to gain political mileage whilst it was them who are actually doing so. Karpal Singh even dragged in the Sikhs who all these while have no trouble with the Muslims in this country. Want to even pick up a fight with the Sultan of Selangor as if he is such a great defender of the Sikh religion. Karpal, you and your sons are devoutly religious Sikhs ka?
Well, there are of course a few not so smart Umno people who tries to be a hero for personal glory. So, when that irritatingly loud mouthed Deputy Education Minister Puad Zarkashi opened his mouth, the DAP immediately jumped on it. You can read about it here
Well, I hope the rest of Umno and other Muslims remain calm. The non-Muslims are not your enemy. Just remember that the whole mess was created by Guan Eng and his supporters including those from Pas and PKR. They are the ones who are trying to gain political milage by using the "Allah" issue. I hope Malaysians realized this and do the right thing for the future of our country.
I don't think that any right thinking Malaysian would want our multi-racial and multi-religious country which has been progressing well over the past half a century (despite being led by a BN government which have been accused as being racists, corrupt and evil) be torn apart just to satisfy the lust for more power of individuals such as Guan Eng and his gang.
Please be humble and admit that this whole "Allah" word mess was created by UMNO Syed Hamid Albar back in 2005 when he use his ministerial power to ban it among Bumiputera Christians...
ReplyDeleteAll the while Malaysians until that time was living peacefully without this religious conflict.
So UMNO create this shit and now you want UMNO to be silent and pretend dunno kah...
~ Kluang girl
The Catholic Church had won its case to use the word "Allah" in its Bahasa Malaysia section of the Herald in 2009. The Court (which has always been accused of being pro BN/Umno) was the one who ruled on it. The case was however pending an appeal by the Home Ministry. The ministry probably decided on that measure as it feel that it has something to do with security issues in the country. I believe that in the event the ministry lose its appeal, the government will respect the decision of the court, as always. It's all a matter of respect to the Rule of Law. It is not about BN or Umno wanting to suppress Christianity or using religion as a political tool like what Guan Eng is trying to do with his Christmas message. As for Syed Hamid, he is a minister under the Pak Lah administration, which not only Christians has a few issues with.
DeleteThe Catholic Church which swear allegiance to the Pope in Italy has not won its case. It was a Chinese woman who the Agung appointed as judge not knowing that she is a bible thumper who believes in the crap.
DeleteJust google bee lian and read about her european myth teachings. Why these Chinese dont stick to confuscius rather than talk about things she dont know about. The
Pope cringe to hear that he is praying to Allah.
All this while, even before independence , non muslims refer to their God as " Tuhan' whether they refer to their son of God , or Vishnu or Kwan Yin. Suddenly every other person now claim that their God should be translated as Allah,no longer Tuhan. interesting why most of these non muslims, though smart n educated , suddenly without rational thinking or logic , follows the politicians blindly. Have they suddenly become stupid? or suddenly they realised that there is only ONE God, Allah??
ReplyDeleteguang eng is distracting the DAP election fiasco issue. umno should continue to harp on the matter and forget about this Allah issue. let all the Tuankus issue an edict and don't layan whatever dap is saying after that
ReplyDeleteWhat does the degree to which Karpal and his sons are religious have to do with anything? The Sultan of Selangor entered this debate via the 'blanket ban' that he apparently issued. Karpal as a Sikh (regardless of how religious) is well within his rights to respond especially considering the members of his religion use the word Allah too and the Sultan's statement affects them just as much.
ReplyDeleteThe key words here are - hypocrisy and political expediency. Got it?
DeleteThe key words are corrupt, corrupt, corrupt. Got it ?
DeleteOh sorry, the key words for BN are korek, korek, korek. Rakyat has enough of the korek-ing. Got it ?
Deletehehehe....running out of ideas, eh?
DeleteNot running out of ideas, dear. You're all running out of time.....
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