Dear Ivan,
,,,,its almost similar being a Malay too, we Malays must change to accept the reality of life and living plus accept responsibility ofup-keeping oneself, stop blaming 'others' in the country and acceptthe fact that we are as human as the rest with nil special RIGHTS to earn an honest living without the subsidy mentality plus rid of the'corruption culture' ingrained in some or most of us !. Our mindset is out of fashion too and the fast changing world awaits for no one.
,,,am a Malay by defination but a true Malaysian by spirit and soul. All true Malaysians are my bro. and sis. no matter color, religion orcreep. What is WRONG cannot be politically right too. There is no such thing as special rights for anyone, we are equal in the eyes of God as such should/shall be equally respected as an individual. Dirty andcorrupted politics and politicians should be arrested and those foundbreaking the law be punished accordingly. Respect must be earned bydeeds not forced upon or pressured into.
,,,The Malay culture has been tarnished by these evil characters for their own personal political gainsand for short term personal gain. In fact, the Malays are/is a gentle group of people, fair thinking, honest and God fearing. Their roots goes as far back to China/India/Cambodia/Indonesia/Thailand and finally Malaya. An interesting tribe but kind of lost in history unfortunately due to very little written records or appreciation leftbehind, perhaps yet to be fully discovered.
,,,In fact, Malay history goes as far back as other old cultures in Asia but the local Malays is too Islam centric to admit their non-islamic history. How can one completely remove history ?. Guess only the Malays is good at it ?. Living only for the day, like bloody chickens with no past orfuture....laying just one stupid egg and making so much noise, waking the whole kampung !. ,,,The Malays must learn from others too and don't be too self centered with their so called RIGHTS plus all the bloody bullshit claimed by their misguided leadership to remain as masters when they actually are servants to the rest of the world. We are only masters to ourselves via hard work earned the honest way, no two ways about it. Just stand up and face the reality of life and living, itsso simple.....why all the hoo har ?. Its no big deal really.
,,,i really don't pity the lazy Malays i.e. the stupid individuals that don't learn to fish or to swim when you earn your living above water!.....plus they must stop throwing stones at their glass windows too. Only oneself to take the blame and learn the hard lessons for survival, there is no free lunch or easy way out in this dog eat dogworld of ours. Even the top dog has to earn the respect from othercrazy dogs yaa hehehe
....the moral of the story ?........stop the bloody stupid political nonsense and be real for God's sake-lah.
,,,WAKE-up lah!. Don't get conned again and again by these dirty characters.
Capt. Longhouse
On 6/8/10, Ivan Ang wrote:> *"I am a Muslim by faith.... a Christian by spirit....a Jew by heart....and above all I am a human being." Dr. Tawfik Hamid.*>* Dr. Hamid is an Egyptian scholar and author opposed to Islam fundamentalism. *From the heart of a Muslim - Tawfik Hamid.
,,,"I was born a Muslim and lived all my life as a follower of Islam. After the barbaric terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims, everywhere on this globe, and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many parts of the world, I feel responsible as a Muslim and as a human being, to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations. I have to admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward Non-Muslims. We Muslims are the ones who need to change. Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other religions. We have never had a clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force them> to pay a humiliating tax called Jizia. We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the Mosques. What message do we convey to our children when we call the Jews "Descendants of the pigs and monkeys".. Is this a message of love and peace, or a message> of hate?. I have been into churches and synagogues where they were praying for Muslims. While all the time we curse them, and teach our generations to call them infidels, and to hate them. We immediately jump in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend Prophet Mohammed when someone accuses him of being a pedophile while, at the same time, we are proud with the story in our Islamic books, that he married a young girl seven years old (Aisha) when he was above 50 years old. I am sad to say that many, if not most of us, rejoiced in happiness after September 11th and after many other terror attacks. Muslims denounce these attacks to look good in front of the media, but we condone the Islamic terrorists and sympathise with their cause. Till now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a Fatwa or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Shariia law just for writing a book criticizing Islam. Muslims demonstrated to get more religious rights as we did in France to stop the ban on the Hejab (Head Scarf), while we did not demonstrate with> such passion and in such numbers against the terrorist murders. It is our absolute silence against the terrorists that gives the energy to these terrorists to continue doing their evil acts. We Muslims need to stop blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. As a matter of honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East . We kicked out the Jews with no compensation or mercy from most of the Arab countries to make them "Jews-Free countries" while Israel accepted more than a million Arabs to live there, have its nationality, and enjoy their rights as human beings. In Israel , women can not be beaten legally by men, and any person can change his/her belief system with no fear of being killed by the Islamic law of 'Apostasy,' while in our Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights. I agree that the 'Palestinians' suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders and not because of Israel . It is not common to see Arabs who live in Israel leaving to live in the Arab world. On the other hand, we used to see thousands of Palestinians going to work with happiness in Israel , its 'enemy'. If Israel treats Arabs badly as some people claim, surely we would have seen the opposite happening. We Muslims need to admit our problems and face them. Only then we can treat them and start a new era to live in harmony with human mankind. Our religious leaders have to show a clear and very strong stand against> polygamy, pedophilia, slavery, killing those who convert from Islam to other religions, beating of women by men, and declaring wars on non-Muslims to spread Islam. Then, and only then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion".
