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."
PAS wants to neutralise non-Muslim vote By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, February 26, 2024
Malaysiakini : Forget that the entire system is predicted to not spook the Malays.
Forget the fact that PAS-led states are attempting to work outside the
perimeters of the constitution of Malaysia disrupting non-Muslim
economic activities.
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang
What
non-Muslims need to remember when it comes to PAS is this. When it
gains federal power, PAS will lead the effort to disenfranchise the
non-Malay vote even more and perhaps even make the non-Malay vote
meaningless. This is the plan and PAS has been very open about it.
Just three years ago before the general election, PAS central committee member Khairuddin Aman Razali said:
“There are long-term (needs) that require us to win the next general
election with a two-thirds majority. (Upon achieving this) the electoral
boundaries need to be changed to benefit Muslims.
“We also need to increase the number of parliamentary seats in Malay-majority areas.”
Gerrymandering
Indeed,
Hadi said the same when on the last general election stump calling on
Muslim parties to unite even briefly so they gerrymander the electoral
boundaries even more. Keep in mind that Hadi said on record that the
whole goal of hooking up with Umno was securing a supermajority in Dewan
Rakyat so they could game the electoral map and make the non-Malay vote
irrelevant.
By making the non-Malay vote irrelevant, what they
are doing is making non-Malay political power inconsequential. Making
non-Muslim political power inconsequential is the very definition of “pak turut”.
Of
course, Mahathir, as reported in the press before he hooked up with
Pakatan Harapan, said that a Malay party was needed because the
multi-racial approach was not well received in rural Malay areas “given
disproportionate weightage in the general election”.
And who engineered this gerrymandering to unfairly if democratically
stay in power? Well, Umno of course, the Malay-based party which we are
told is needed to sustain political power in any alliance in this
country.
By denying non-Muslims the right to vote or making it meaningless who they could vote for, the term kafir harbi
(for instance) would be dropped because there would not be any
opposition to any kind of religious policy. After all, dissent is only
meaningful when it affects consequences.
This is democracy, PAS
style. This way, PAS gets to claim that Malaysia is an Islamic democracy
and carry on winning elections with its fellow Islamic travellers
giving a patina of legitimacy to the theocratic state.
Listen to
PAS vice-president Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar when asked a simple question
like banning Muslims from certain concerts but allowing non-Muslims to
participate: “You need to look at it from the point of view of Muslims
and the Malays, who are the majority in certain areas. So, if they feel
their sensitivities are affected, this will cause a disharmonious
atmosphere.”
PAS’ ‘democracy’
This is what
“democracy” means to PAS and let us face facts, for the mainstream Malay
political and religious establishment. It means always being mindful of
the sensitivities of Muslims even though such sensitivities trespass
into our private and public spaces.
Indeed, what these religious
extremists want is that even in non-Muslims dominated places, the
sensitivities of Muslims need to be observed. This is about control.
Religious control over non-believers.
So, if PAS/PN believed that
the non-Muslim demographic was such a threat to Islam, or if they
believed that non-Muslims should be “pak turut” because their dogma defines anyone exercising their democratic rights as kafir harbi,
then why not draw up legislation which would give legal validity to all
those fears and grievances of the Islamic community when it comes to
non-Muslims voting in this country. Why not make this part of their
election manifesto?
If PAS/PN were the defenders of Islam in this country and believed that non-Muslims could either be kafir harbi or kafir zimmi, why not legislate on this issue to ensure that the sanctity and supremacy of Islam are defended?
This
is the reality, we have in the peninsula a voting polity who do not
care about the rights of non-Malays, which are, in reality, rights for
everyone, but would rather vote for a coalition that has demonstrated
they are willing to suspend those rights. They want non-Malays to be pak turut.
We
are dealing with a coalition that has been unshackled by the
requirements of multiculturalism or power sharing, which was always a
farce anyway, and purely operating on racial and religious imperatives
in which they hope to impose majoritarian rule.
These people
continue to gaslight the public with terms like democracy and
anti-corruption and are aided by a mainstream establishment that does
not have the political will to stop them because it fears spooking the
Malays.
PAS does not want the non-Muslim vote. It wants to neutralise the non-Muslim vote.
