Rudyard Kipling"
“When 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 soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It 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."
Religious extremists attempt to hijack healthcare system By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, March 27, 2023
Malaysiakini : Selangor state religious department’s argument that a certain group
should be denied medical aid, which is funded by taxpayers, is
essentially laying the foundation to use healthcare as a punitive
instrument against people they deem against the teachings of Islam.
We
should ask ourselves why religious leaders would risk the spread of
diseases just to satisfy the requirements of their religious dogma.
Deputy Health Minister Lukanisman Awang Sauni
We
should also ask ourselves why religious leaders want to jeopardise the
economy and other social services by the spread of a disease which could
be mitigated by rational healthcare policies.
As noted, these
religious supremacists are intent on not only dictating who could use
taxpayer ringgit but also making people who do not subscribe to their
religious beliefs complicit in contributing to a healthcare crisis made
worse by religious dogma.
Now, Malaysians who think that the attacks against the LGBTQ
community are not really important are missing the point. By forcing the
government to capitulate to their extreme demands, what they are
essentially doing is shaping healthcare policy when it comes to all
Malaysians.
Furthermore, these religious extremists are counting
on the fact that some Malaysians believe the same thing they do and
object to the existence of LGBTQ people on religious grounds.
Then,
of course, they are those who subscribe to the dumb US culture wars
where the LGBTQ community is a major talking point. All these people, in
reality, are helping religious extremists in this country to carry out
their agenda to turn Malaysia into a theocracy.
Fascist regimes do
this all the time. What we are dealing with here are not lifestyle
choices but rather the overt control of how people use their bodies.
Religious
extremists already control the way women use their bodies and human
sexuality in all its diversity is anathema to religious extremists.
This
is also why someone like Local Government Development Minister Nga Kor
Ming attempting to equate the LGBTQ lifestyle (whatever that is) to
hedonism, profanity and free sex, is exactly the kind of culture war
horse manure which enables the religious extremists in this country and
his pusillanimous comrades in the unity government.
PAS/Perikatan
Nasional take great delight when the DAP makes statements like this
because they know that LGBTQ activists and those oppressed by the ketuanan system look to the DAP as the progressive and secular alternative and this includes Malays as well.
So
go ahead DAP, contribute to the toxic narrative which finds transaction
in the base that wants to turn this country into a theocracy.
The reason why Kuantan MP Wan Razali Wan Nor asked the Health
Ministry for its response to the Selangor mufti’s stance was that he was
attempting to cow the ministry into acquiescing to the will of the
Selangor mufti.
This is a healthcare issue so why on earth would
the stand of the mufti of Selangor be relevant? Well because the
religious bureaucracy has become a beast of its own and some politicians
feel they have to bend their knees to these organisations.
Keep
in mind it was never always like this. The religious bureaucracy has
grown to such an extent that these days, we have religious personalities
sounding off on numerous issues without consulting the political
apparatus.
Here a PAS political operative from Pahang is
referencing the religious diktats of the mufti of Selangor. This is the
kind of collusion that has been happening for decades with the
normalisation of PAS in mainstream Malaysian politics.
Local Government Development Minister Nga Kor Ming
We
have seen how PAS operatives have attempted to use dodgy science to
attack the Rahmah food programme. Every day, PN political operatives
attempt to stir up some religious controversy hoping it would derail the
government.
Keep in mind that all this is part of a coordinated narrative. The outdated policy
of barring HIV-positive Malaysians from public universities is a case
in point. This is not a directive from the Health Ministry but rather
from the Education Ministry.
There is really no scientific
evidence to ban HIV-positive Malaysians from public universities. So you
have to ask yourself if this is not a decision by the Health Ministry,
why is it that the Education Ministry is carrying on with this ban?
The
reason is simple. It is far easier to link HIV/AIDS with the LGBTQ
community and in this way, religious extremists get to ban LGBTQ people
from public universities - which are tightly controlled and infiltrated
by operatives from the deep Islamic state. Keep in mind that this is
about control and controlling young people in public universities is
what extremists desire.
During the pandemic, the spread of
Covid-19 was made worse by the fact that religious extremists and their
proxies were flaunting regulations and radicalising their supporters to
break with regulations designed to stop the spread of the disease.
And they were helped by agents in the government who made it easier for these people to carry out their destructive behaviour.
We
had the biggest clusters from religious groups, who intentionally
disobeyed protocol and were on social media attempting to portray the
government as being dictatorial because they would not allow people to
fulfil their religious obligations.
Mind you, religious operatives
who spread such nonsense like anti-vaccination theories were more
likely than not to scramble to get vaccinated and stayed away from
massive gatherings they encourage their supporters to attend. All these
are patterns we need to pay attention to.
Religious extremists don't care about their own, much less a diverse polity. This is why they cannot govern. They can only rule.
