No More Vernacular Schools: What Say NUCC and ‘the-new-NGO-for-unity-that-has-yet-to-be-named’?

After ‘Negaraku’ (I still can’t believe that this is an NGO’s name) there is a new NGO set up by the same people or at least the people who belong to the same group – the liberals, namely Saifuddin Abdullah and Mujahid Rawa.  Yes, I was made to understand that one of them is from UMNO and another from PAS but I bet that they are both there, for DAP, though they, themselves might not know it. 

Both of them are, respectively, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of this new NGO. The crazy thing is, this NGO has yet to have a name.  I don’t understand…what’s so hard about finding a name?  Ambiga can call hers ‘Negaraku’, so Saifuddin can call his ‘Negaraku too’ or anything like that, right? 

I mean, just give it any name, it won’t make any difference.  It still plays the same song.  And why in such a hurry to announce the NGO when you have not had a name?    

It is stated that this new NGO is all about curbing racism and uniting the people of Malaysia.  Funny, that both the Chairman and the Deputy of this new NGO are already being given the same task under National Unity Consultation Council (NUCC).  The setting up of a new NGO with the same objective only marks their failure in NUCC thus makes the Council’s failure an official one. 

With the same ‘failed’ people running the NGO, how can we expect much? 

In fact, how can we expect anything from these same groups of lowly-hypocritical liberals?

These liberals know and we all know for a fact that the problem of racism lies with the racists who refuse to blend in with the original settlers, even refuse to go to the same school.  The problem keeps growing with their constant denials of being the descendents of immigrants who ‘overstayed their visits’. 

Therefore, the only way to curb racism in Malaysia is to first teach these racists to accept who they are and admit what they are.  Unfortunately, asking such thing from the racists is just too much.  You cannot expect the racists to be rationale or admit anything because they are just not capable of it.  There is no conscience. 

Just like the Zionists who don’t have any guilt for taking everything away from the Palestinians, these racists too, feel that they have the rights to take anything they like from anybody.  If you try to reason with them, they will straight away call you a racist.  That’s just how their minds work – it doesn’t get connected to the heart because there is no heart.   

Just days ago, the National GPMS Alumni Organisation has again voiced out what the rationale Malaysians have been saying, that is, Malaysia needs to stop entertaining future demands for construction of vernacular schools. It is clear that nothing good is achieved from having Chinese or Tamil Type Schools and only bad and the worst things come out from it.  Plus, it doesn’t make sense to have a Tamil or Chinese Type school, sometimes, next to the National School, just to accommodate around 10 or so students.  It’s non-practical and a waste of tax-payers money.

Denying this and choosing to go along with whatever the demands by the racists are the worst mistake any government could ever make.  These vernacular schools are going to breed more and worse kinds of racists that will be harder or impossible to curb. 

The NUCC has obviously denied this and that is why it failed.  And with the same people heading this new NGO-for-unity-that-has-no-name, I don’t think Malaysians are going to unite very soon. 

Let’s face it.  Racism is not caused by Bumiputra Rights or Islam being the official religion.  It is caused by Vernacular Schools!  Until NUCC or whatever NGO these liberals are going to set up in the name of unity acknowledge this fact, nothing can be done to curb racism in the country. 

So stop setting up new NGOs will ya?  Go get a life! Unless, you want to hold a record as someone who set up the most NGOs, you may spend your whole life doing so.  But you know what? Margaret Thatcher once said that she didn’t want to die washing dishes like other women.  Well, I think it is more pathetic to die setting up stupid NGOs…

Counting on Hudud to Unite the Muslims?

Firstly, I would like to offer my condolences to the family of Mr. Karpal Singh. Karpal was not a statesman or a hero, but he was surely an exceptional lawyer, a true politician and a gentleman. May he rest in peace.

Much had been said about Karpal’s lives and death, and so I’m not going into that. I am not going to discuss about Karpal’s role in the Hudud dispute either, as one death in DAP does not make any difference in the party’s stance towards the issue.

Hudud is a problem of the Malays, and the Malays only. It is the Hudud that divided the Malays and now they are talking about Hudud as a vehicle of unity. I am just wondering how practical is the strategy?

“United we stand, divided we fall” is a universal quote understood by all.

Today, our beloved Malaysia is no longer united. The country is divided into pieces of political ideology, fanatical supporters, race and religion. Still, we boast of our growth in economy, and positive ratings and believe that we stand as strong.

The only unity that exists is among the chinese community. The chinese has always stand together through thick and thin, through right and wrong. That way, they can force everybody else to accept that it is their rights to claim their wrongs as right. And that way, they can do no wrong and others are never right.

The Malays however, is totally the opposite of the chinese. They are aware that they are divided and very much concern over it. They want to unite, but too damn ‘holly’ to do so. The Malays always find their fellow Muslims brothers and sisters as wrong. Therefore, many of them choose to be in a party that can do no wrong that is, PAS. Muslims, especially UMNO members who are not a member of PAS are judged as unIslamic or in worse cases, non-Muslims.

Through naked eyes, there is no difference in the way both parties practice Islam except that UMNO has done more for Islam than PAS, in every way. If I am not a Malaysian and looking from the non-Muslim’s point of view, I would believe that PAS portrays the true Islam and that Islam is backward, unintelligent, and even barbaric. Fortunately, I am a Malaysian and I’ve been reading enough about Islam to know that PAS is not anywhere near to Islam.

In order to justify their ‘holliness’, PAS needs to differentiate itself from UMNO. Since both are practicing the same Islam, PAS needs to find a way to stand up as the only real Islamist. And so, PAS choose to wear gowns like the Arabs and announce the fight for a total implementation of sharia law, the Hudud.

As for now, Hudud, has been the only excuse left for PAS to not unite with UMNO. It is the only reason left to argue on UMNO being un-Islamic and PAS the true Islamist. The only problem is that DAP and PKR are not going to accept Hudud - not in a million years. Without DAP and PKR, PAS might as well kiss their dream of power goodbye and forget politics altogether. PAS is not willing to do that. And so, PAS hangs on to Hudud on one hand, and on DAP, on the other hand.

UMNO has always been very clear that the party does not see Hudud as a necessity, what more a priority in Islam. I have taken the trouble to ask around and found the same answer that there are no particular, specific guidelines on Hudud. In fact, again and again I found that the Prophet Muhammad had tried to avoid having to punish wrongdoers by Hudud’s punishment.

According to Hudud, rape victims are supposed to provide 4 witnesses with no deadly sins in order to prove the crime. However, problem number one is that Islam also stated that humans are no judge of other human’s sins. Problem number two is that, any sane person, what more a non-sinner, would never let such crime takes place in front of his eyes. And we are talking about 4 non-sinners!

These problems are what we called the impossible.

Failing to prove the crime would let the victim to being punished as a liar and should she got pregnant by the rape, she would be stoned to death for adultery.

Now, why would God give such impossible cases as guidelines, unless the law is not meant to be implemented?

Hudud is a picture of a perfect world where it is possible for humans to commit no sins and no rape would ever take place. A world where humans are so true and pure that no one will ever steal anything. And if the humans ever did commit such crimes, it would not be impossible to get a confession from them. For all we know, the wrongdoers that were mentioned in the story of the Prophet and Hudud, they all confessed to the crime and asked to be punished.

Unfortunately, our world is far from perfect. Our world is full of sinners and hearing them confessing to a crime is something out of this earth, what more begging to be punished! Even religious scholars can be evil, and the Quran had specifically stated it clearly. That is how corrupt our world is.

Although Hudud is the problems of the Malays, it starts to bothers me when UMNO chooses to play the same Hudud game. UMNO starts speaking the same language with PAS in the quest for Muslims unity. What UMNO forgets is that PAS brought Hudud up not because of Islam, but rather as a political tool. UMNO should never have tried to grab or share the tool with PAS. UMNO should just stick to its original stance on Hudud that it is neither a necessity nor a priority.

By showing support for Hudud, UMNO is opening doors for the suspicious eyes of the busybody superpower to peek into our affairs. Should Hudud be fully implemented, Malaysia will not be their ‘friend’ anymore, but rather their ‘enemy’. Every step we make will be monitored and watched carefully. Pretty soon, we might also hear about honour killing or craps like that and provide every reasons for foreign ‘intervention’ as the lines between justice and injustice is blurred.

In no time, the colour of terrorism will be painted in our country.

The Prime Minister has been promoting the spirit of moderation but somehow he does not see the importance to stop all these talking about supporting Hudud by UMNO members. It seems that he gives full freedom for every leader of UMNO to say anything they like and to make their own assumption on UMNO’s stance towards Hudud. He seems to not hear the shouts for Muslims unity through Hudud.

While unity should make the Muslims stronger, unity through Hudud will not give them the same effect. A united Muslims practicing Hudud Law will only be weaker than they already are. They will be busy judging and punishing people on every little thing rather than looking at the bigger picture of living. There will be more angry and mentally disturbed Muslims and there will definitely be more social problems and more crimes. Of course, not all will be reported so as to safeguard the name of Islam.

Admit it or not, the Muslims are not striving for the sake of justice, but for the law itself – not for the sake of Islam, but for the hypocrisy of it. Therefore, destruction is almost certain.

If Muslims are serious in wanting to build up strength, they should start with mastering science and mathematics, not Hudud. Until then, no law or prayers would save the Muslims from destruction.