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" ā€œWhen you're left wounded on
Afganistan's plains and

the women come out to cut up what remains,
Just roll to your rifle

and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldierā€
General Douglas MacArthur

" ā€œWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā€

ā€œIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā€
ā€œOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
ā€œThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace,
for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā€
ā€œMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā€
ā€œThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

ā€œNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
ā€œIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."

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The enemies of our secular state - By Commander (Rtd) S THAYAPARAN Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, October 16, 2017
Malaysiakini : ā€œWhat the State can usefully do is to make itself a central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting from many trials. Its business is to enable each experimentalist to benefit by the experiments of others, instead of tolerating no experiments but its own.ā€ ā€“ John Stuart Mill, ā€œOn Libertyā€

Muslim Extremists in Malaysia
Malaysiakini columnist P Gunasegeram ends his latest piece, ā€˜I am a pendatang and proud of it,ā€ with the appropriate ā€œAnd know that I am here to stay whether you bloody like it or not because this country is mine too!ā€ which is exactly how most non-Malay/Muslims feel whenever they read about the use of the weaponised Islam in this country.
All you have to do is read the comments on social media when Johorā€™s Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar stands up for what is right and decent when it comes to countering the agendas of Islamists in this country who would use religion as a demarcation line between Malaysians to understand the frustrations non-Malays have with a system that on the one hand, finds utilitarian value in non-Malay contribution to this country and on the other, is disgusted by their very existence as Malaysians with hopes and agendas of their own. These agendas are not necessarily different from each other but are anathema to the agendas of these state-sponsored Islamists.

People often miss the larger narrative when it is easier to digest soundbites. When a religious school burns down, this should have been an opportunity for a national discussion on why these religious schools exists in the first, what values they are promoting, how safe are they and the corrupt practices that goes in the creation and maintenance of these schools. Instead, nobody was really interested in this but carried on putting all their eggs in the 1MDB basket.
The Muslims-only launderette issue becomes about how:
1) the Johor sultan was the line in the sand when it comes to this type of religious mischief because politicians offered only mild condemnation which sounded more like bemusement, and
2) the relevancy of an institution like Jakim (Malaysian Islamic Development Department) to state religious bodies is questioned by the moves of the Johor sultan who by cutting off contact between the federal religious authorities and his state's religious department is making it clear that ā€“ for the time being at least ā€“ he does not want religious extremism from the federal level contaminating Islamic moderation at the state level.
Where is our glorious opposition in all of this? As I said before ā€“ ā€œIf you are waffling on your commitment to a secular state, then you have to make your case for an Islamic state and this is where the trouble begins and ends. If oppositional Muslim political operatives and their allies would just stop using religion as the basis of critique and concentrate on furthering the agenda of the secular state, oppositional Muslims MPs would not have to worry about attempting to ā€˜out Islamā€™ their rivals because this would not be the grounds on which they battle for votes.ā€

Deputy Minister in the Prime Ministerā€™s Department Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki (photo) reminds us that BN ā€“ not Umno but BN ā€“ is committed to make Malaysia an Islamic state and of course, we will not hear anything from the MCA and MIC about this glorious agenda. Neither will we hear anything from our doughty opposition because they have convinced themselves that they need to be ā€œIslamicā€ to win the votes of the majority of the Malay community to replace the current Umno poohbah who is apparently the enemy of the state. Which brings up the uncomfortable question of what kind of state? The enemy of an Islamic state or a secular state?
Forsaking the Constitution
Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak blathers on about how we should embrace new politics ā€“ whatever that means ā€“ and not abandon the Constitution, but the reality is that by chipping away at the Constitution which is what Umno is doing in its attempt to create an ā€œIslamicā€ state, is just further evidence that the Constitution is not worth the paper it is printed on.
Meanwhile, the opposition is doing nothing about this. Nobody in the opposition has ever made statements that reaffirm the primacy of the Constitution or the oppositionā€™s agenda of ending the Islamisation process. We do not even know if this is one of the reforms that would "save Malaysia," that the opposition intends to carry out.

Remember, ā€œthis meme that by benching Umno, we as Malaysians, whatever our religion or credo, would be safe from the machinations of Islamic extremists, is irrational considering that we neither have a committed secular opposition nor Muslim politicians who openly commit to secular agendas. As long as this remains the default setting of Malaysian politics, there will never be a period where secularism is safe from encroaching Islamic extremism.ā€
I mean really, this whole idea of making Malaysia an ā€œIslamicā€ state is really about making Malaysia more like Saudi Arabia. And you know what the Johor sultan thinks about that, right? Here is a reminder ā€“ ā€œIf there are some of you who wish to be an Arab and practise Arab culture, and do not wish to follow our Malay customs and traditions, that is up to you. I also welcome you to live in Saudi Arabia.ā€
But what I really want to know is, what does the opposition think of that? Does the opposition think that Malay culture should emulate Arab culture and if so, does the opposition advocate that Malays who donā€™t want to follow "Malay" customs and traditions are welcome to live in Saudi Arabia?
Depending on your point of view, the balkanisation of Malaysia is something that is a very real possibility because of this agenda of turning Malaysia into an ā€œIslamicā€ state. This is not something that any rational person would want and I am including the Malays in this equation because if they really wanted to live in an Islamic paradise, they would have voted for PAS a long time ago.

Writing for Malaysiakini has presented me with opportunity to talk to young people from all over Malaysia. This is purely anecdotal but what young people tell me is that they are disgusted by politics in this country. They voted for change and even on a state level, this has not happened. Most, if not all, of them say that if Umno stops ā€œplayingā€ with race and religion they will vote BN because they know all over the world politicians are corrupt.
A common complaint or some variation of the same, is that Pakatan Harapan is not doing anything to stop Malaysia for becoming an Islamic state. Most young people who choose to leave do not leave because of corruption but because of race and religion.
I am beginning to realise that the idea of voting for the opposition to create a two-party system and the almost zealous advocacy (mine?) of such, is an idea of diminishing returns.
posted by Major D Swami (Retired) @ 10:13 AM  
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