I have refrained from putting anything on this blog for a while, decided to just break away from what looked like a hopeless situation, a country run by tyrants and crooks, and a PM who is a pawn in the hands of his old master and some sort of a relative.
The Allah issue has raised the stakes for the ordinary Malaysian, there are now five classes of citizens in Malaysia.
Top on the list is the Malay Muslim or the what I'd call the Keris grade citizen, second on the list is the Mamak,a nd that is why Nor Yaacob was second Finance Minister, third on the list are the nativeswhich includes the ethnic peoples of East Malaysia and the orang Asli, next comes the Baba/Nonya, the Eurasians, and the Melaka Chitty, and lastly the Indians and Chinese.
First class and second class are reserved only for and only for the Muslims, and that too only if the toe the line of the present government, there can be no dissent, Anwar was a dissenter and see what happened.
What has happened to Anwar is now happening to all citizens in this country, in the last elections the Malaysians of other races voted mainly the opposition, many Malays more than in any other election voted the opposition, five states fell and the UMNOputras were shaken to the core.
Prior to that election the ground swell was not too much in UMNO's favour but Selangor UMNO had Khir Toyo the son of a Java Contra go around destroying Hindu temples, in an apparent show of strength in order to show the Malays that he was more Islamic then anyone else. Little did he realise that the many Muslims in the country objected to his modus operandi, their religion forbids it and he was looked on as a scourge to the nation, the race and the religon, his actions was a contributing factor that led to the poor showing of the BN in the last elections.
Of course there was HINDRAF and Abdullah Badawi's handling of the issue, in fact from what I know Abdullah just did nothing and allowed the Police and the others including one of Malaysia's most stupid Home Ministers, (the other beign Krishamuddin) handle the issue. That was UMNO's biggest fall from grace, Malays in Kg Baru and other parts of KL gave the HINDRAF members refuge, the tide was turning it was apparent, the new Malay rejected racist policies, and did not want to be associated with it. It was even clear when very recently Nazri called Mahathir a racist and Mahathir responded by admitting that UMNO was indeed a racist party.
Then we had the cow head incident, when the present Selangor State government granted the Hindus of Shah Alam a piece of land for a temple an UMNO led gathering had the audacity to take cow's head to the State Secretariat in protest. Notwithstanding the sensitivities of the Hindus, and nothing has come out of the entire episode.
It was a silence that led to this Allah issue being challenged in a very illegal manner.
If the Christians give in, they shall be gving in to a reign of terror, because all the government has to do to trample on their constitutional rights is to let terror on the streets as they have done in this case.
Before I proceed any further may I congratulate those who have stood up to these terrorists, terrorists who claim they are the government, for it is only terrorists who will use words like tolerate when you do what is constitutionally right to show you that they are above the constitution, and will ask you to compromise your constitutional rights when it suits their purposes or face terror again and again.
Let us address the Allah issue with all clarity here;
The word Allah was there long before Islam, it predates Islam, it is an Arabic word.
Christianity was in the Arab lands before the coming of Islam, Christianity there fore predates Islam as a religion.
In the pre Islamic era and even now there are Christians in the Arab Lands, for that matter Damascus was a Christian city before it became Muslim. It is clear that Christains used this word before the Muslims, and this is something this government knows.
Islam's Holiest prophet - The Prophet Muhammed had this to say; (http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/a/3489)
"This is a message from Muhammad ibn Abdullah, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, near and far, we are with them. Verily I, the servants, the helpers, and my followers defend them, because Christians are my citizens; and by Allah! I hold out against anything that displeases them. No compulsion is to be on them. Neither are their judges to be removed from their jobs nor their monks from their monasteries. No one is to destroy a house of their religion, to damage it, or to carry anything from it to the Muslims' houses. Should anyone take any of these, he would spoil God's covenant and disobey His Prophet. Verily, they are my allies and have my secure charter against all that they hate. No one is to force them to travel or to oblige them to fight. The Muslims are to fight for them. If a female Christian is married to a Muslim, it is not to take place without her approval. She is not to be prevented from visiting her church to pray. Their churches are to be respected. They are neither to be prevented from repairing them nor the sacredness of their covenants. No one of the nation (Muslims) is to disobey the covenant till the Last Day (end of the world)."
Now this Allah issue is being raised by some who call themselves Muslims in this country, I honestly do not blame the persons who fire bombed. They have done so in the misguided belief, the propoganda of UMNO politicians that the use of the word Allah by Christians is to convert Muslims to Christianity here in Malaysia.
I challenge this government to show the numbers of Muslims who have converted to Christianity in Malaysia, and I also challenge them provide the statistics of the numbers of Christians who have been converted so that we can all, Muslims and Christians see if indeed the Christians are covertly trying to convert Muslims to Christians.
In the first place Christian Carols the real Christian Carols not the commercial Christian songs like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer are not allowed to be broadcast over the radio and TV stations in this country.
Islamic programmes are so plentiful, and there is not a day that goes by when a single Malaysian hears the Islamic call to prayer over the loud hailers placed in mosques. Islamic literature is found everywhere and yet this government has decided that the word of the word Allah in Malaysia is sensitive because it will ocnfuese the Muslims.
The Secretary General of the Home Minsitry when questioned by the diplomats he called in to explain the situation had this to say when asked by an attending diplomat why was it only in Malaysia this ruling was made to apply; "you can't compare an apple and an orange," what on earth he was talking about only he will knwo he seemed more confused then anybody else when he continued, "in Indonesia they have a different understanding, in Malaysia it is different."
Was he trying to say that in Indonesia they practice a different Islam for that practiced in Malaysia, and if that is the case is he going ban Indonesian Muslims form praying with Malay Muslims?
The absurd things they say can only be because of two reasons. One that that is the level of reasoning of our Secretaries General in the Ministries in Malaysia, or tat they know they are wrong and a stammering for answers when asked to explain something very silly.
The fire bombing of the Churches has gone on with the Government saying the situation is under control, this whole issue is not about Islam and Christianity, and if it is not then what is it?
It is a political issue, the typical UMNO type to show that they champion Islam, jsut like they did when Khir Toyo destroyed Hindu Temples, it is done to show the Malays that only UMNO can protect them, it is an extreme measure to gain Malay support which is moving in the direction of PAS and PKR,and they use terror tactics to force us into submission.
It was first practiced when on the eve of a general election Mahathir Mohammed circulated a picture of Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah in the Kadazaan headgear which looked like the head piece used by Bishops in the Christian churches and said he has become Christian, that changed history, for if that was not done the Barisan Government would have been finished in the eighties.
After that master stroke, a political manoeuvring, religion has always been used by UMNO to rally the Malay vote and all the time it was stroked with lies, as is the case now.
Frankly Xroy
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