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."
Non-Malays cannot stop the Malay tsunami By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, July 31, 2023
Malaysiakini : For decades, the MCA were called running dogs and in those decades
they created an economic and political environment for the Chinese
community to break free from the shackles of BN. The same cannot be said
of MIC.
Non-Malay power structures do not deal with their Malay
counterparts as equals. The DAP for instance has had to eat barrels of
manure to ensure that whatever they said or did, was not used by
Perikatan Nasional as evidence they were controlling the unity
government.
If you thought it was bad when Dr Mahathir Mohamad was
in power, it is even worse now that Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has to
carry Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Umno to remain in power.
When Anwar
decided that Jakim needed to play a bigger role in policy-making, for
instance, non-Malay political operatives in the Madani government were
silent as church mice.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
Indeed, if PN had made the same decision, non-Malay political operatives would be claiming it was the end of the world.
The
small voices who were appalled by this move were dismissed by the prime
minister who reportedly said - “I want Jakim not only to talk about
religion and Islamic law. Jakim is to expand its duties, talk about
economic issues, look at digital programmes, and look at the education
curriculum.
“The responsibility is broader, so that the values of
Islam can be applied, and this is opposed by those who do not
understand, a small group of non-Muslims who write that ‘Anwar is now
displaying his strong Islamist attitude, which he has tried to hide all
this time by ordering Jakim to control all the systems.’”
The
question we should ask ourselves is, are those values promulgated by
Jakim the kind of values that Mariam believes would lead to a
progressive Malaysia?
But more importantly, for non-Malays, what we need to understand is
that “don’t spook the Malays” is just another way of describing the
“Malay tsunami”.
I am vehemently opposed to enabling the religious
industrial complex because, ultimately, it serves the ethnocentric
narrative of this country which the mainstream political establishment
(which includes the opposition) embraces because the Malay political
establishment did not want to spook the Malays.
What this
narrative has done is make political personalities interchangeable,
while establishing the primacy of the religious institution.
Theocratic state-in-waiting
Have you noticed that especially among PN supporters, there really is no central figure standing in opposition to Anwar?
Bersatu
president Muhyiddin Yassin and PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang, of
course, take their shots but there really is no central rallying figure
who galvanises the PN base.
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang (left) and Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin
And
for the PN base, this is a good thing. What we are dealing with now is
something much more different. It is a system which the establishment
has very little control over. And this is what the progenitors of the ketuanan (supremacist) system are reckoning with.
The
theocratic state-in-waiting understands they have no need for prime
ministers in the sense of someone leading the country. All they need is a
figurehead.
PN, because of electoral legerdemain, has become the
realisation of theocratic dreams of fellow Islamic travellers within the
bureaucracy.
They do not care about democracy, they do not care
about the royal institution, and they are as obsessed about controlling
the non-Muslims in this country as they are controlling the majority
Malay polity.
For Umno members working within and without the
party, hooking up with PN if this unity government falls is business as
usual. But of course, what they fail to realise is they will not be part
of a right-wing government but rather a theocracy, which eventually
consumes them.
PAS intelligentsia has told me what PN offers is a
tabula rasa from the corruption of Umno. What they “promote” is a
rejection of a corrupt Umno and a Chinese insurgency through Anwar.
So
if you do not like Umno and you are afraid of the DAP, then the logical
choice is PN, which not only has the experience of running the country
but whose leader Muhyiddin’s olive branch was rejected by an arrogant
non-Malay dominated coalition.
‘Muslims must vote for Muslims’
Do you know why Hadi and company go on about non-Malays being the cause of corruption
in this country? Well, because the DAP by backing Umno who for decades
they called corrupt, feeds into his narratives that the greedy Chinese
will support anyone to keep them in power.
Hadi doesn’t care about
corruption. He has said it clearly. Muslims need to vote for corrupt
Muslim leaders even if the non-Muslims were honest leaders, because it
was a religious imperative.
How
can we have a progressive majority when every institution and every
political operative confirms the majority in this country have to
subscribe to a certain mode of thinking and support a certain kind of
Muslim leader?
Non-Malays can absolutely do nothing except form a
strong secular opposition which may very well be destroyed in the quest
for a theocratic state.
Just because non-Malays cannot stop the
rise of a theocratic state, it doesn’t mean we have to stop fighting
against religious and racial tyranny.
