Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
What makes you ashamed to be Malaysian? By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, April 21, 2025
Malaysiakini : Hereās the thing: nobody can really be ashamed of their citizenship.
No, when folks say they are ashamed to be a Malaysian, for instance,
what they are really saying is that they are ashamed of the acts of
their fellow citizens. They are ashamed of the acts of the people in
power. They are ashamed of the behaviour of the people who support the
class in power. And sometimes they are ashamed of the acts of the public
institutions they belong to. More importantly, in a democracy, they are
ashamed of who they voted for.
And
people should be ashamed. If you voted for a coalition for reform and
the said coalition essentially deepens religious and racial divides, you
should be ashamed you voted them in. When I see race hustlers who
glorify the national flag but who support racial and religious
supremacy, I feel ashamed only because I voted these people in.
Ashamed of a nation
But
here is the thing. In order to feel ashamed, especially by acts that
are contrary to decency, you have to have some sense of morality or
conscience. When Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim declared victory
by sanctioning the building of a mosque over the foundation of a temple
which stood for 130 years, and claimed that the temple was built
illegally, was there no shame in this?
Wang Kelian makes me ashamed of Malaysia. The death of Teoh Beng Hock and the way his family is treated
by the state security apparatus makes me ashamed for the DAP, even
though, when in power, the mandarins do not want the truth of the death
of a fallen comrade.
The disappearance of Pastor Raymond Koh,
Pastor Joshua Hilmy, and others makes me ashamed of Malaysia because
this is supposed to be a country where these kinds of acts are not
supposed to happen. In fact, we pride ourselves on being a safe country,
with a stable government, and not the kind of country where enforced
disappearances happen.
And hereās the thing, the people who are
ashamed of their country, which in reality means they are ashamed of the
acts of the people in power, are normally a minority. The people who
are not ashamed donāt really care about the things they claim embody
love of country and fidelity to independent institutions.
Teoh Beng Hockās family
Take this flag fiasco. Umno Veteransā Club secretary Mustapha Yaakub said Tajuddinās statement was unpatriotic and talked about the kingās displeasure.
Really? PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang has openly declared that he will defy the Terengganu sultan when it comes to political sermons in mosques. The PAS ulama wing ignored
the Selangor sultan when it came to the Bon Odori festival. Former
prime minister and former Umno kingpin Dr Mahathir Mohamad has had
run-ins with the royalty and even curtailed their power.
So, when
it comes to royalty and their dikats, are these groups and personalities
unpatriotic? Isnāt it shameful to profess an ideal and not have any
fidelity to it, as the Umno Veteransā Club demonstrates? But you see,
these people have no shame.
A land that rewards the shameless
Lawyers
for Liberty director Zaid Malek, when commenting on the temple issue,
noted that most of the hostility is coming from āone ethnic groupā,
calling it a disturbing and concerning trend. And you have to ask
yourself, are these people ashamed of their actions? No, they are not.
They are coddled by the state, enabled by their religion, and supported
by the political class.
They will claim there is a religion of
peace, and in the words of a Perkaksa goon, āToday, Malaysians -
especially Malays - have been too tolerant with various issues such as
KK Mart, and have now reached a tipping point when the national flag has
been desecrated by those who purposely want to enrage the Malays. How
can Malays be called āvindictiveā for wanting to defend the nationās
dignity?ā
Lawyers for Liberty director Zaid Malek
Now,
a person with any sense of decency or morality reading that statement
would feel ashamed to have anything to do with these kinds of people and
ideology. They would feel that such behaviour goes against national
dogma like the Rukun Negara. And the irony is that these people would be
considered unpatriotic for feeling ashamed of such behaviour that truly
warrants shame.
A soldier from a foreign land long ago told me,
you can tell a lot about a people by what they find shameful about their
government. I replied that it says even more about what they support in
their government.
UiTM KKK drag show reflects 'don't spook Malays' politics By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Malaysiakini : According to the late Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, āThe state government
proposed this because we want to increase our competency in higher
education.ā
The former menteri besar said, āIt was a sincere suggestion
by someone who has the best interests of the Malays and Malaysian
community at heart (and) at times it is good for us to accept advice
because it will help in global development.ā
Fast forward to 2024, students dressed in black
(which, to this writer, gives a bad name to goth culture) because there
was some talk emanating from Putrajaya or at least there were rumours
that UiTM was going to be opened up to non-bumis.
As
one student said, āWe may be seen as racist, but it has nothing to do
with that. Some people think that we are selfish by fighting for the
universityās enrolment policy to remain as it is, but they must
remember, this was how it started back in the day when the university
was set up.ā
When the KKK blew up
empty buses to oppose school integration, they justified their actions
because they wanted to keep things as it was back in the day. Did this
come up in the UiTM KKK drag show?
Apologies to former MP Kasthuri Patto,
but what do you think the response would be from these 587th QS World
University Ranked students if a non-bumi did a Rosa Parks and was
determined to have an education in Uitm? What would be the response of
Madani?
I did say I was going to make a few false equivalencies,
but when you have the gall to defend students dressing up as a terrorist
organisation with the excuse of teaching them about racism and where
your university and its student body justifies exclusion in the name of bangsa (race), then you deserve all the mockery you get.
But do these students know any better? Actually, they do. The system enables and encourages them to think this way. Take the Biro Tata Negara
(BTN or National Civics Bureau) for instance. I have no idea what the
status of this organisation is now, but it was created to mould a
certain segment of society into thinking that, by race, they were
superior and endangered.
Do not take my word for it. Take the
former ambassador to the United States, former government official in
various capacities, and Umno veteran Nazri Aziz. He laid it out clearly
when he feuded with former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad in 2009.
From reportage, Nazri did not deny that the programmes encouraged antagonism
towards the other races. āYou want me to lie? You (will) make people
laugh. I mean there are people who attended the courses who came out
very angry.
Former ambassador to the United States Nazri Abdul Aziz
āThere
were many instances when words like āKetuanan Melayuā (were uttered and
it) is ridiculous. So I want them to tell me where did I go wrong in
not supporting the revamping of the BTN syllabus. Tell me where I went
wrong?
Should I lie and say we all get along? Or maybe the state does not want us to get along.
Remember
in 2018 when the G25 got into trouble because they suggested that
Islamic Development Department (Jakim) and Institute of Islamic
Understanding Malaysia (Ikim) were unconstitutional? As reported in the press, āAs we are not sure what they are doing, but maligning other Muslims as apostates and liberals.ā
Real patriotism
Forget
about UiTMās KKK drag show. Let us talk about the Jalur Gemilang. I
despise all this faux reverence for the national flag from the political
class, and of course, thoroughly spooked non-Malays on social media
platforms.
I spent a good part of my life serving this country.
The men and women I served with came mostly from underprivileged
backgrounds.
Let me tell you something. Most of them did not know
the significance of the colours or symbols on the national flag. Some of
them did not even know the words to the national anthem. What they did
learn was genuine patriotism.
They learnt that patriotism meant
that we were all in the same boat together because we all bleed red.
They learnt that loving your country meant loving the person beside you,
regardless of race or religion.
That is patriotism, not
something these politicians and pencil-pushers tell us we should feel
aggrieved about the desecration of the national flag. But that is part
of the social contract.
Minorities
have to genuflect because we are apparently not patriotic enough.
Mistakes are weaponised. Apologies are never enough, and there should
always be retribution. But when we are maligned, insulted, demeaned, and
vilified, we should - what did MIC deputy president M Saravanan beg us to do? - just ignore it.
You know what ketuanism
(supremacy) really does and which is reflected in the action of these
UiTM students and the mainstream political class? It encourages its
adherents to see the mote in anotherās eyes but ignore the beam in
theirs.
Bawani in Ayer Kuning ā true grit By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, April 14, 2025
Malaysiakini : PSM, the natural inheritor of the long-destroyed Malaysian mainstream
left, is a constant reminder of the failure of Malay uber alles
politics and the parasites that latch onto it promising progressive
reform.
The two ustaz from Umno and PN who are competing in this by-election would never take such an oath as she did.
Their
bread and butter is racial and religious politics and like US President
Donald Trump and his acolytes, they do not care about the
bread-and-butter issues of their constituents.
If you look at this rationally, Bawani is the only candidate who is offering something different to the voters of Ayer Kuning.
BN and PN are offering the status quo which is meagre handouts and the narcotising effects of race and religion.
The
problem with politics in Malaysia and everywhere else is that
candidates like Bawani - who exemplify the kind of personality needed in
a political ecosystem to enact change - are rejected by the tribalism
that defines mainstream politics.
Of course, voters being who they
are, are not going to look at this rationally which means that PSMās
chances are slim because not only do voters tend to vote against their
self-interests, but they have been conditioned to think that their
self-interests are the interest of mainstream political parties through
race and religion.
While the mainstream political coalitions are
busy finding easily identifiable āenemiesā, what PSM identifies are
deficiencies in the system and misguided policies that essentially
encourage the working-class Malay base to vote against their long-term
interests and the non-Malay base to enable a system which ultimately
disenfranchises them.
Mudaās support
Muda has said that it will give ground support for PSM and this is a good thing. To put it mildly, PSMās messaging is terrible.
Muda has demonstrated that for a young party, it has garnered a percentage of votes that PSM never managed to do.
Their messaging, especially using social media, does seem to resonate.
PSM
could benefit in Ayer Kuning from the exposure that Muda offers using
social media to highlight issues that PSM has been attempting to garner
support for, but would be drowned out because of the battle between the
two ustaz.
All about the money?
Keep in mind the federal government has been pouring in aid for the disenfranchised in Ayer Kuning.
PSM
understands this type of politics and how it leads to corrupt
politicians. As another great PSM leader Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj
said about Santa Claus politics - "I asked them, 'do you want me to be clean or not?
"You
want your YB to be Santa Claus, a feudal lord giving away money... But
at the same time, you want your YB to be clean. It doesn't jive," he
said, adding that the role of politicians goes beyond just providing
cash handouts or immediate assistance.
This is why when a DAP minister
in the coalition government plays a card which for decades DAP has
decried as outright bribery, it is Bawani who has to remind voters that -
āYou cannot blindly say that it wasnāt your agenda (and) you didnāt
plan it. Itās very direct - youāre blatantly giving bribes to the
people.ā
We have to keep in mind what working-class philosopher
Eric Hoffer wrote - āEvery great cause begins as a movement, becomes a
business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.ā
PSM is also
facing PAS and as former PSM head honcho Nasir Hashim said when PSM went
up against PAS years back - āWe were literally on our own and got help
from NGO friends. We were not prepared to fight PAS because they are not
our principal enemy and our actions were construed as being weak.ā
Non-Malay votes
While
Umno is hoping that the browbeaten DAP would canvass for the non-Malay
vote and whatever the MCA and MIC could scrounge up, the choice of
candidates demonstrates that Umno and the PAS-led PN are going to use
religion to detract from real-world problems the voters of Ayer Kuning
face.
Umno
is of course hoping that the non-Malay community will view PAS as the
bigger threat even though both are the same kind of threat.
Umno
Youth leader Dr Akmal Saleh is as virulent or more so than most PAS
leaders and has demonstrated that he thinks the non-Malay coalition
partners in the unity government should be seen but not heard.
And
keep in mind that Malays who do reject Umno, are in fact also rejecting
Madani so there is a protest vote that could happen, just not the kind
that would strengthen the crumbling democratic infrastructures of this
country.
So not only is the question can PSM attract the
disaffected non-Malay vote but can it peel off Malay votes from those
people dissatisfied with what mainstream politics is offering?
This
is a steep hill. Non-Malay participation in elections is traditionally
low and PSM has never been the choice of the non-Malay supposedly
progressive community.
People often talk of how this country is going down the theocratic and kleptocratic rabbit hole.
But there have always been options to slow or stall this dissent. They were just never considered for tribal reasons.
PSM
may very well lose this election. However, what Bawani and PSM are
demonstrating and will continue to demonstrate is true grit.
Upset that his critics dared to undermine his authority and criticise him, he called them ābebalā (stupid).
āBebalā appears to be the current fashionable word in Putrajaya. It was first used five days ago by Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek to lash out at a Perikatan Nasional activist, Syarul Ema Rena Abu Samah, also known as Ratu Naga.
Fadhlina
said Syarul Ema was suffering from ābebal-ismā (being stupid) and
spreading ākebebalanā (stupidity), for mistakenly accusing Chinese
school pupils of disrespecting the national anthem, when in actual fact,
they were singing the Perak state anthem.
Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek
Prime
ministers and ministers who freely label their critics as ābebalā show
that they are insecure. They appear vulnerable, lack intuition and are
out of touch with the electorate.
Instead of processing and paying
attention to what had been said and taking note of any constructive
criticism, these ministers fail to listen hard to what their critics are
saying.
The temple issue and the balloon vendor fracas are not
āsmallā issues as described by Anwar. āSmallā issues which are not
managed with the delicacy and urgency they deserve may escalate into
major issues.
Self-serving politicians will almost always complicate matters and allow the problem to spiral out of control.
Temple issues
There have been many other temple issues nationwide.
in
2018, the 120-year-old Seafield Sri Maha Mariamman temple in Subang
Jaya arose from a relocation issue between the temple authorities and
the developer. A riot broke out, which resulted in the death of a firefighter, Adib Kassim.
If
temples which are over a hundred years old face such threats, do
mission schools and churches also fear the risk of being relocated or
their lands seized, and their tenants issued with eviction notices?
Adib Kassim
Developers with powerful political friends appear to be able to purchase prime land with ease, often under cover of secrecy.
When
a scandal erupts, these politicians often use the religious factor,
Islam, to seize ownership of the land on which these buildings are
sited.
What āstrengthā?
At the groundbreaking ceremony of Masjid Madani, Anwar said that he wanted to "showcase Islamās strength".
Is
this "strength" connected to the rising fundamentalism in Malaysia? An
increasingly conservative Muslim society does not bode well for a
multi-cultural Malaysia.
The following examples are probably "small" issues for Anwar. He may recall that last Ramadhan, an old Malay man slapped a non-Malay for eating in a shopping mall.
Was the mental and physical assault of the non-Muslim, this Malay's version of "showcasing Islam's strength"?
On
April 8, we learnt that the state government of Perlis, the Perlis
Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council, the State Registrar of
Converts and the mufti Asri Zainul Abidin were denied their chance to exercise their religious might over the rights of the individual, the single mother Loh Swee Hong.
Perlis mufti Asri Zainul Abidin
Loh's
three children, all Hindus, were unlawfully converted by her former
abusive husband. The Perlis authorities demanded Loh bring the children
up as Muslims. Which politician dared show support for Loh?
Losing sight of important matters
Will our MPs initiate a debate in Parliament about banning child marriages? Some Muslims consider it their religious right to marry an underage girl, just like their religious right to have four wives.
The
other MPs, including the prime minister, Minister in the Prime
Ministerās Department (Islamic Affairs) Naim Mokhtar, and PAS president
Abdul Hadi Awang said nothing.
Large-scale corruption, slapping,
hate speech, destroying/relocating temples, child marriages, incest,
underage sex, and sexual abuse of tahfiz pupils and children in Global
Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISBH) are all perpetrated by
Malays.
Despite the increased religious education, their moral values appear to have diminished.
No Malay MP has shown the courage to undo the decades-long religious brainwashing at home, in school and in the mosque.
So, would solving these "small issuesā interest the PM?
So we have two stages here. The
first is one, where the state encourages citizens to snitch on the
āotherā by using race or religion as a galvanising issue.
The
second stage is when the state encourages citizens to snitch on each
other. This happens when the state religious apparatus encourages the
faithful to report ādeviantā teachings or lifestyles.
Can you
imagine if there was a Facebook page where people documented behaviour
which was deemed haram by the religious state? Can you imagine a
Facebook page where adherents of the religion of the state had their
pictures taken and what they were engaging in, to encourage sanction
from the state?
Imagine if non-Muslims set up a Facebook group
like this. What do you think would be the reaction of the state and
ordinary Muslims?
Already the Malay language social media and
mainstream press are a toxic environment where people are named and
shamed for various reasons.
Moral policing for moral purity
Indeed
the religious bureaucracy, both at the state and federal level,
actively encourages snitching as a form of religious piety.
The idea is that moral policing of the community symbolises the moral purity of said community.
What religious groupthink does - and it does this everywhere - is to make a clear distinction between āusā and āthemā.
What
these types of snitching behaviour encourage is that the majority
community understands that there will always be deviants who threaten
the foundational aspects of the religion.
This kind of thinking is
not only reinforced by the state but is actively encouraged as a form
of communal protection from the inclusion of ideas and concepts that
would alter the community.
For decades, the Islamic bureaucracy -
through its various tributaries - has moulded a young voting polity to
despise democratic traditions and norms, with the belief that doing so
makes you a better Muslim.
So in other words snitching on your
fellow citizens makes you a more pious person. The demonisation of
Muslims who do not follow this groupthink is the underlying cause of
tension within the Malay community, even more so than the cultural war
with the non-Muslim communities.
The
emotional justifications for these kinds of acts using social media as
an alternate reality to justify socially destructive behaviour have been
perfected by US President Donald Trump supporters here in Malaysia and
in the US.
This kind of groupthink is the ultimate endgame for fascist governments/political parties.
As Andrew Sewer wrote in his percipient, Atlantic
article: āā¦Trump supporters, whose community is built by rejoicing in
the anguish of those they see as unlike them, who have found in their
shared cruelty an answer to the loneliness and atomisation of modern
life.ā
While Madani claims it wants social cohesion, the ultimate
goal or āvictoryā as the prime minister so casually announced, is a
polity not only beholden to the state but which thinks it is powerful in
its own right. They are not.
The Russians have a perfect term to describe such people, āuseful idiotsā.
Our leaders struggle to unite this fractious nation with the 3Rs (race, religion, royalty) influencing their every action. It does not help when the perennial issues of temples, forced conversions, halal food and dress codes keep cropping up to divide us on a regular basis.
Most
of the time, these conflicts are fanned by the same politicians who
know that the only way they can hang onto power is to drive a wedge
between us. They have no desire to be rid of the 3Rs.
We will
never know for sure if the temple issue was resolved amicably, although
everyone involved would like us to think so. Many of us suspect that the
usual carrot and stick approach was employed, with more emphasis on the
latter.
In
the past, āsensitiveā issues involving temples or churches almost
always meant that the Muslims had the upper hand. They knew that they
had the power to do as they pleased.
Those who destroyed temple idols escaped scot-free because the perpetrators were alleged to be of unsound mind. Crosses on churches had to be moved.
Religious artefacts removed
At
my mission school in Ipoh, the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (aka
Main Convent), it was alleged that under orders from a former education
minister, religious artifacts from the school chapel were removed
without prior notice.
The nuns were unable to save the statues and
many religious and historical items, which date from when the school
first opened over a century ago. Workers dumped the items onto the back
of a lorry and then, onto a landfill.
Article 11 of the Federal
Constitution states that āevery person has the right to profess and
practice his religionā but local councils and politicians have different
interpretations from us.
Just think about the havoc wreaked if mosques had to endure the same tribulations.
On
March 25, Anwar erroneously claimed that the Dewi Sri Pathrakaliamman
Temple had been built without permission, that it was an āillegal buildingā and that the nation should follow the rule of law.
His aides failed to advise him that the temple was built in 1893 and that the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) did not exist then.
In
his insistence that everyone observes the rule of law, will the prime
minister investigate how Jakel managed to purchase the land via closed
tender?
Double standards
Many Malaysians
are aware of the alleged close ties between Jakel's owners and a former
first lady. They know too that during the disgraced felon Najib Abdul
Razakās tenure, tracts of prime land in KL were sold in allegedly suspicious transactions.
First,
the authorities declared the temple illegal. We then discovered that
the land had been quietly sold off to a high-profile crony company.
Arrogant PMX
Whilst
we are distracted by the turf wars over this temple, the irregularities
about Jakel's purchase of the land will probably be swept under the
carpet.
Anwar then had the cheek to urge Malaysians to live in
harmony. After all the angst, anger and breakdown in communication of
the previous weeks, the prime minister failed to appreciate that his
presence at the mosque's groundbreaking ceremony on March 27 was highly
provocative.
Displaying his usual arrogance, Anwar then claimed āvictoryā, all in the name of Islam and a two-tiered system of justice.
The Education Ministry is now making it mandatory
for school kids to wear the Jalur Gemilang badge. The thinking behind
this diktat is - āThe Education Ministry plays a key role in inculcating
patriotism and love toward the country among students and educators.ā
My
question is this, what are the ideas behind the badge that the
Education Ministry wants to inculcate? Everyone is supposed to be equal
before the national flag, right? But does reality reflect that?
Deputy Education Minister Wong Kah Woh asks, āHow do we teach our children to take pride in being Malaysians? How do we educate them to unite under the Malaysian flag?ā
That
is a good question. How do you teach kids that some kids cannot do
certain things as āequalā citizens of this country? How do you teach
kids that other kids have special privileges that cannot be questioned?
How
do you teach kids that they are barred from certain educational
institutions? How do you teach kids that there are quotas for their
educational aspirations?
How do you teach kids that their
religious beliefs are open to demonisation even though laws that
prohibit that kind of behaviour are enforced against them if they are
perceived to step out of line, but not against others?
How do you
teach kids that there are political parties that cater for a specific
race or that political operatives will say that it is their duty to
defend a specific race and religion even though everyone is supposed to
be equal before the national flag?
Defining patriotism
So,
when it comes to symbols, the ideas behind those symbols are important.
Whether you choose to imbue those symbols with power is entirely up to
the individual, but the reality is that only the state has any power
when it comes to enforcing ideas behind the symbol.
Enforcing
ārespectā towards a symbol has always seemed fascist to me. After all,
if you have to force people to respect symbols, what does this tell you
of the āneedā of some people to disrespect what is supposed to be a
symbol which represents all that we are supposed to believe in?
Here
is another thing about patriotism. It is about people and not
allegiances to totems. And in this country, mired in the toxic politics
of race and religion, can the Education Ministry define patriotism that
would make sense to children who are living in a polarised world?
Here
is a great example of how patriotism is about people. In fact, this
letter is a blueprint as to what defines patriotism and how the state
has trampled on egalitarian sentiments that used to define patriotism in
the military and, yes, in this country.
Close to a decade ago, Persatuan Patriot Kebangsaan (PPK), under the aegis of Arshad Raji released a statement on the enrolment of non-Malays in the military.
Here are five important parts:
(1)
For such fighting men of valour to function, there has to be genuine
love and care between the commanders and personnel. Everyone has to feel
needed and important. The accomplishment of the mission is the
ultimatum.
(2) The governmentās affirmative policies of the 1980s
had seeped into the military administration. Strange sayings like āorang
kitaā (our people) have crept into the minds of military commanders.
Slowly and surely, the commanders saw some of those under their command
as half-brothers or stepsons, unlike the āall are equalā mindset of
previous years.
(3) Yearning for a merit-based promotion system,
the non-Malays would not mind if their Malay subordinates were promoted
if they were really deserving. Perceived as incapable by many non-Malay
officers, there had been a haphazard promotion of officers very much
undeserving of their roles and ranks.
(4) Needless to say, a
mediocre officer given promotion and command would breed mediocrity and
substandard results. Further, numerous deserving Malay officers of merit
were also adversely affected. Malay officers who were promoted based on
their merits earned an endearment of loyalty and respect from the
non-Malays.
(5) Starting from the late 1980s, the military had
become increasingly religious-centric, and non-Malays felt ever more
alienated. The officersā mess life and the lives of soldiers became very
much dictated by religious sensitivity. This eventually affected esprit
de corps and comradeship negatively in multi-racial military units.
So
what can we learn from this letter? Patriotism is about oneās empathy
for his or her brethren regardless of race and religion. Equality
encourages such sentiments. Politics, race, and religion nullify such
sentiments and create a toxic environment.
Does anyone really think that a flag on a badge is going to create a sense of simpatico amongst kids?
Well, as the prime minister says, it is free, so just wear it. That is how much Madani thinks the Jalur Gemilang is worth.
Jalur Gemilang: Patriotism can never be mandatory By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Malaysiakini : āA [national] flag has no real significance for peaceful uses.ā - English writer HG Wells
COMMENT |
Do you know when governments are wary of the people they govern? When
they march on the streets for whatever reason. When people of their own
volition raise the national flag.
A national flag is an object, a
thing, which people imbue with certain ideas. The ideas are the
dangerous part, which is why depending on who is raising the flag, those
ideas either ensure the social cohesion of a populace or destabilise
it.
So,
you see, it is not the object but rather the ideas imbued in the object
or contained within it. Take the banning of books, for instance. The
government banned books because of the ideas contained within them.
This is why, faced with a possible ban
by Madani for two of their books, Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF)
founder Ahmad Farouk Musa said, āIt seems to us that this issue of creed
- ashaāirah and maturidiyah - has been weaponised by
the religious authorities in this country to suppress any ideas that
were deemed to be critical of the issues faced by Muslims concerning the
revision of history associated with the Muslim scholars of the previous
generations and any issues related to critical thinking.ā
It
is the same with religious totems. The items themselves are not
important, but rather the ideas they inspire for those who hold them in
reverence. It gets to the point when it is Pavlovian in nature.
See
the object, and certain emotions are stirred. Fortunately for us, the
Jalur Gemilang does not have such powers. If it did, there would not be
this need to constantly make people aware of its existence.
Veteran 1972 : As long as they believe they are the Q 3:110 which says that they are the "best of people". Really? They believe that! It encourages religiously sanctioned Apartheid. Google that. Not much hope there.
Mediator : Patriotism cannot be instilled by wearing national flag badges on school uniform.It is much deeper than that. Patriotism will come naturally when a citizen is not regarded as a pendatang , this is his home, he belong here,.he is wanted, welcomed, can see his future here and willing to die for the country where there is equality and justice for all.
On the Other Hand : There will be no national unity as long as Malay Muslim apartheid exists. It is simple as that.
But when elections were called more than two years ago,
Pakatan Harapan knew that it would be a drawcard and featured in its
manifesto: āCity councils like DBKL are now seemingly run like private,
for-profit companies that prioritise the interest of developers without
taking any heed to the welfare and interest of residents.
āTherefore,
we need more effective democratisation to protect the interests of the
people. Malaysians have the right to participate in the democratic
process at the local government level to ensure their welfare is
safeguarded.
āThe Harapan government will work hard to empower
democracy and transparency in DBKL through systematic methods. This
effort will ensure that all Malaysians can elect representation that is reliable, inclusive, and represents the interests of the people, not the developers.ā
DBKLās lack of transparency, accountability
DBKL
only has an advisory board and does not have appointed councillors. It
also lacks state-level representation, such as state assembly members,
as in other states.
What about the de facto DBKL councillors who
are referred to as advisors? Donāt they have a say in, or are they
required to endorse, any land transaction?
I doubt that any of
them know how many parcels of land have been sold over the years and
will be unable to say if DBKL obtained āfair valueā for the land.
There
have been rumours that specific individuals, through their respective
companies, had acquired up to 20 tracts of land each from DBKL. In the
absence of transparency, it will remain so until proven or dismissed.
However,
it is essential to note that most of them are party appointees, and
would they have the gall and gumption to ask questions, let alone raise
objections, or have their wings been clipped? They would rather feign
ignorance, claiming not to have seen or heard anything, lest they not be
reappointed.
Well, like many other promises of reform, we
continue the ātraditionā of appointing party members or cronies to local
authority boards as a reward for their loyal services.
Ability, competency, and qualifications do not matter, as you are only expected to raise your hand and say āsetujuā (agree) to proposals presented at the meeting.
There was one outstanding exception when the Petaling Jaya mayor tried to overrule the decision of its One-Stop Centre to reject an application to develop a parcel of land.
Councillors
stood up to him, citing Section 26 (1) of the Local Government Act,
which states: āExcept as otherwise prescribed, all questions coming
before any meeting of the local authority shall be decided by a majority
of the votes of the councillors present.ā
So, who keeps an eye on
their activities and, sometimes, dubious transactions? It is left to
citizens to glean whatever knowledge from leaks and publicly available
information to question land deals, a prime example being the sale of
land meant for a police station in Taman Desa, Kuala Lumpur.
Will we see a glimpse of the reformasi that was promised in DBKL, or will it be another case of reformati?
Media Rallies Against Deportation of Student Who Urged Taking āCueā from Hamas By Daniel Greenfield
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Robert Spencer : Any sane country would never have let the likes of Momodou Taal
inside. But we let him in and welcomed him in every possible way as he
chanted support for Islamic terrorism.
While leading an anti-Israel campus demonstration last
year, Taal called on his fellow student protesters to take their ācue
from the armed resistance in Palestine.ā
That is to say Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Jihadist groups.
Taal made a similar statement hours after the October 7
attacks, writing, āThe dialect demands: That wherever you have
oppression, you will find those who [are] fighting against it. Glory to
the resistance!ā
The ādialectā for that perfect synthesis of the red-green alliance.
Cornell responded to this by not only keeping Taal on campus, but letting him teach a class on how much he hates us.
Also in October 2024, Inside Higher Ed reported that Taal
was ābanned from [Cornellās] campus and from teaching his courseāWhat
Is Blackness? Race and Processes of Racialization.ā However, in fall
2024, Cornell released a brochure with a list of courses that included
Taalās class.
While the Biden administration let Taal rampage, the Trump
administration announced that his visa was being pulled and he was told
to come to ICE and surrender.
Even though Taal had left behind statements endorsing terrorism and
calling for the extermination of Jews, the media and lefties are
rallying on his behalf.
This is what theyāre fine with.
Taal took aim at āZionist-Jewish students at Ivy League institutions.ā
āEvery single Zionist is a sick sick individual,ā he tweeted in 2023.
āAnd there can be no path forward except for the complete eradication
of Zionism; materially and mentally.ā In another tweet, Taal wrote,
āZionists are indeed the chosen peopleā¦ Chosen for hell.ā
This is Nazi rhetoric. And it has the endorsement of the Left.
The Sinister Way Trumpās DOJ Tried to Deport Cornell Student Protester ā The New Republic
He Sued Trump Over Free Speech. Then ICE Demanded He Turn Himself In. ā The Intercept
Pro-Israel watchdog takes credit after Cornell pro-Palestinian activist is told to surrender to ICE ā JTA
The JTA article is especially egregious as it describes Taal as
merely a āpro-Palestinian activistā, makes no mention of his support for
Hamas or the murder of Jews, but slurs Betar US, which reported him, as
a āmilitant pro-Israel groupā.
It at the end puts āHamas sympathizersā in quotation marks.
Iāve said this before, Iāll say it again, if you live in an area with
a Jewish paper, it probably runs JTA material, ask it to stop. If it
wonāt, boycott it.
CNN likewise covers Taal with the greatest of sympathy, tells the
story from his perspective and that of his Islamist allies, and makes
zero mention of his actual rhetoric, but does repeat the false claim
that the actions against him are āracist, Islamophobicā.
The media is quite okay with Jewish genocide. Itās completely opposed to deporting even the worst Hamas supporter.
We continue to be
bombarded with all kinds of information except the truth, and in its
absence, reliance on social media rubbish has become a Malaysian trait.
There are cures - tested and proven - but the powers-that-be are not interested in dispensing them - depending on the status.
Instead,
the carriers are advised or counselled, and in more severe cases, there
have been warnings and admonishment, hoping at least one will work.
These non-invasive remedies have exacerbated the problem, and other strains have emerged and are spreading uncontrollably.
Most
of the carriers are politicians, and for some reason or another, they
are not treated and are not allowed to continue spreading the disease.
Thatās because they are afforded preferential treatment.
āFavourititisā,
equally contagious, is spread when two or more people suffer from the
same disease and are all treated differently.
One is put in
isolation immediately, while the other is counselled and sent home to
continue the spread, and the third with tender-loving parting words:
āPlease do not spread the disease.ā
Hence, without dispensing the cure, the virus tends to reproduce faster and further, infecting people throughout the country.
Under
these circumstances, it becomes an uphill task to contain the virus.
The manner in which the āmovement control orderā (used five years ago
during the Covid-19 outbreak) was enforced must be replicated.
A police roadblock during the MCO in 2021
The
disease can be spread nationwide by individuals sitting in the comfort
of their home or office, using their fingers on the keyboard, or
speaking on the screen before them.
Only one part of the body is affected - the mind. Containing the spread is not tricky, but there is a problem.
Law
enforcers, for reasons better known to themselves, are refusing to
prescribe the bitter bill that will isolate infected persons, preferably
in a small cell.
Politicians the biggest offenders
Disease
carriers must be rounded up and isolated, and access to gadgets should
be denied. But will there be political will to do this?
Especially
so when an annual study on racism by civil society group Pusat Komas
recorded 28 cases involving federal lawmakers in Parliament, the highest portion out of a total of 73 cases recorded last year.
The incidents were monitored based on live parliamentary proceedings and the official Hansard.
āBased
on the incidents, it was found that the MPs have used racial and
religious sentiment in their speeches, placing subtle and/or overt hints
of racial superiority, stereotyping, prejudice, and misinformation of
existing laws,ā according to the Pusat Komas Malaysia Racism Report
2024.
After
the socks and ham issues, for which hundreds of man-hours were wasted,
we are still embroiled in another problem these days - the relocation of
a Hindu temple in Kuala Lumpur.
Anwar did no one any favours by
claiming that the temple was occupying the land illegally. This earned a
rebuke from certain quarters who put the present imbroglio on the Kuala
Lumpur City Hall (DBKL).
Anwarās diatribe included a scathing attack on lawyers representing the temple.
āThe problem is when (there are) those who take advantage of religious sentiments, including those who are Hindu.
āFor
example, there are lawyers who were never involved in Hindu religious
affairs who also became champions and made rash comments, such as
(suggesting that the temple would be) demolished.ā
Then, taking
Anwarās words to be the truth, Umno Youth leader Dr Akmal Salleh joined
the charade by making an idiotic statement and shooting his mouth.
Malaysians want the truth
This
issue, even if resolved amicably, is a prime example of our
administrators - the DBKL is remaining silent or trying to point fingers
to avoid taking the blame.
Many differing explanations have been provided to dispel the notion that the temple is occupying the land illegally.
Why
canāt an official statement outline the events that led to the sale of
the land? Or is it under the impression that it can avoid opening a
Pandoraās Box of land deals and other disreputable transactions by
remaining opaque?
While Anwar advocates and continues to talk
about transparency and accountability, DBKL has retreated into a cocoon,
like a guilty party.
Malaysians want to know the truth from the
horseās mouth, not rely on half-baked news and half-truths on social
media and from blinkered politicians who have been not generous with the
truth.
I read all
these pieces which talk about the beauty of religion and how the
religion or religions do not advocate anything like this, which is
objectively wrong because any kind of religious dogma or holy texts are
littered with ideas of power and subjugation.
Furthermore, these
people write as if this country is a model of religious acceptance - I
despise the word tolerance - which is complete horse manure.
Forcing
non-believers to submit to your authority, especially if they hold
religious beliefs of their own or do not wish to be bound by any
religious dogma, demonstrates power on a fundamental level.
It is
brute force, a demonstration that non-Muslim beliefs are inconsequential
and that they are bound to religious law even if they choose not to
believe.
They will be forced to acknowledge that even if they do
not submit, they are not beyond religious law and will suffer the
consequences of deviations from such religious observances.
To put
it simply, this is what I have been writing about ever since I claimed
that religious extremism is the existential threat facing our country at
the moment.
The nature of the religious juggernaut is submission.
Submission of will, but more importantly, sweeping away all dissent
until all that is left are people who for whatever reasons submit to the
religious authority of the state.
We are not equal
Why
does the kid think this is a normal thing to ask? Because he
understands when it comes to race and religion, there is a disparity in
treatment.
Sure
he may not articulate it in that way and I am sure he may not find it
oppressive because he understands that ethnicity means that different
social rules apply. So at first, he was compliant, and his compliance
was met with violence.
The elderly man who is accused of slapping a non-Muslim eating at a Family Mart outlet in Angsana, Johor
This
was not about religion. This was about power. Now, obviously, this old
cretin does not have much power. Why did this old man slap this young
kid? Why did he ask what ethnicity this kid was?
Because this old
cretin understands that we are all not equal citizens. He understands
that by virtue of his ethnicity, this kid is not equal in terms of how
the state views the two of them. He reads about how preachers in this
country insult and mock other religions and people and they get away
with it.
So, he knows confronting this kid is normal. He reads the
news. He understands that when it comes to the religion of the state,
whatever he does is justified on religious grounds.
Thedark truth
What
people do not want to talk about is how this old cretin slapping this
kid is like public caning. Indeed, what he did was publically assault
this kid much the same way how the religion of the state makes public
caning part of the religious law in this country.
Keep in mind
that public religious whipping has already been normalised in this
country, with advocates always attempting to broaden its scope.
And
if you think that this kind of zealotry is confined to the echelons of
power in the religious class, read what some folks said when PAS tried
to impose public caning on those who committed adultery, a couple of
years ago.
Here is what a businessperson said in relation to what PAS is attempting to do: āShahmimi Abdul Aziz, 30, was also supportive of public caning for zina
(adultery) offenders, adding that it should be carried out nationwide.
āEvery state should implement it. Enforcement should also be done on the
offendersā non-Muslim partners; the punishment must be fair,ā Shahmimi
noted.ā
Therein lies the dark truth. Not only are non-Muslims
dealing with a religious hegemon, but we are also dealing with a
group-think that endorses the idea of non-Muslim subjugation to
religious dogma.
All that remains to be seen is will the state
enable such behaviour or sanction it. The former, of course, would just
be another slap on the collective faces of non-Muslims in the country.
The
slap is a petty display of religious power but carries the same
symbolic weight as the power that comes with building a mosque on the
site of a demolished temple.
Time for Some Green Card-Holding Muslim Leaders to be Deported By Stephen M. Kirby
Friday, March 21, 2025
Robert Spencer : ā¦if you are in this
country, to promote Hamas, to promote terrorist organizationsā¦We never
would have let you in if we had known that and now that we know it,
youāre going to leave.[9]
With regard to a matter involving support for the terrorist group
Hezbollah, a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman stated,
āA visa is a privilege not a right,ā the spokeswoman, Tricia
McLaughlin, said in a statement to The New York Times. āGlorifying and
supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to
be denied. This is common-sense security.ā[10]
As we can see in the statements arranged alphabetically by speaker in
the latter part of this article, five of the above individuals have
expressed support for terrorists: Aishat, Alhajj, Fazaga, Jallow, and
Kablawi.
There is another section of federal law that allows for the
deportation of visa or green card holders: 8 USC 1227 (4)(C)(i). This
section states:
An alien whose presence or activities in the United States the
Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would have
potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United
States is deportable.
This was the basis for the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, the leader of
the pro-Hamas demonstrations at Columbia University, who was arrested
for allegedly circulating āpro-Hamas propaganda flyers.ā[11]
So how does this pertain to our seven individuals? Among them, five
of those individuals (Aishat, Elaswalli, El Quesny, Jallow, and Kablawi)
have called for the killing of Jews/Israelis, Christians (Crusaders),
and Arab and Muslim rulers. In terms of our foreign policy, how could
it not have an adverse effect on our relations with the people of Israel
and Arab leaders when we passively allow certain leaders in the Muslim
American community to call for their killing? And how can we discuss
human rights with other nations when we passively allow certain leaders
in the Muslim American community to call for the killing of certain
groups of people?
It is time to ask our federal officials when the deportation of
certain green-card holding leaders in the Muslim American community will
begin.
Statements
Ayman Aishat
On May 3, 2024, Ayman Aishat, Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR) Director of Mosque Engagement, live streamed a Friday Sermon on
the YouTube channel of Masjid Hawthorne, in Hawthorne, CA. In this sermon, he called for Allah to annihilate the āplundering Zionistsā and support Hamas:
For us to understand the current circumstances, we donāt have to
go thousands of years back. Just go [back] a hundred years ago, and see
what happened when the Zionist movement went ahead and wanted to get a
small piece of land in the heart of the Muslim nation in Palestineā¦
Oh Allah, annihilate the plundering Zionist aggressors. Oh Allah,
annihilate them and drive them out of Gaza defeated. Oh Allah, support
our brothers in Gaza, stand by them and accept their martyrs, support
them against our enemies, Your enemies, the enemies of Islam. Oh Allah,
we can see the glad tidings of victory. Oh Allah, we ask that You allow
us to pray in the Al-Aqsa Mosque when it is liberated from these
criminals.
On January 12, 2024, Ayman Aishat delivered a Friday Sermon at a mosque in Harrisburg, PA. In this sermon,
Aishat expressed support for Hamas and called for the Al-Aqsa mosque in
Jerusalem to be liberated āfrom the plundering Zionist aggressorsā:
Oh Allah, grant us victory over our enemies, Your enemies, the
enemies of Islam, for they are no match for You. Oh Allah, stand by our
family, our brothers, the oppressed Muslims in Palestine. Oh Allah,
stand by them in Gaza, and grant them your support. Annihilate their
enemies, our enemies, the enemies of Islam, and those who are hostile
towards Islam and the Muslims, wherever they are. Oh Allah, liberate the
Al-Aqsa Mosque from the plundering Zionist aggressors, and allow us to
pray there before we die.
Sheikh Abdullah Alhajj
On August 9, 2024, Sheikh Abdullah Alhajj gave a Friday Sermon in Highland, IN. In this sermon, he praised Ismail Haniyeh, a leader of Hamas who was killed on July 31, 2024 :
Allah be praised, we had a big hit, a painful strike last week,
when the mujahid Sheikh Ismail Haniyeh was attacked or slaughtered orā¦
Huhā¦ Assassinatedā¦ He was assassinated by the enemies of Islam in a
Muslim country. And he was a doctor. He was a mujahid since he was a
child. When you look at some of his videos when he was like 10-12 years
old, Someone asked him: āWhat do you want to be?ā He said: āI want to be
a martyrāā¦
Palestine has been and is still and will continue to bring and to
give birth to martyrs for the sake of Allah, to defend Islam and the
Muslims, and the holy sites of the Muslimsā¦When they assassinated him,
it was a big hit, it hurt so much, and the entire world felt that, and
thousands of mosques prayed for him, and we continue to supplicate to
Allah: May Allah accept him as a martyr. Yet Palestine will continue to
bring and feedā¦ and to replace martyr after martyr. Allah willing. This
is the fight that Allah told us would continue.
Imam Amro Elaswalli
On October 13, 2023, Imam Amro Elaswalli gave a Friday Sermon at the
Muslim Association of Greater Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. In this sermon, he referred to the hadith about Muslims killing Jews who are hiding behind trees and rocks[12] and called on Allah to āannihilate the Israelisā:
ā¦ We always have hope, the Prophet gave us the promise that is in
an Al-Bukhari [Hadith collection] that there will be a day ā and the
Day of Judgment will never come until that day comes ā when the Muslims
will fight against the combatant Jews, and they will hide behind trees
and rocks, and on that day the trees and rocks will speak and say: āOh,
Muslims, there is a combatant[[13]]
Jew behind me, come and kill himāā¦ Oh Allah, grant victory to our
oppressed brothers in Palestine. Oh Allah, destroy their enemies, the
enemies of Islam. Oh Allah, annihilate the Israelis, remove them from
the land of Your Prophet. Oh Allah, remove them from the land of Your
Prophetās Night Journey. Oh Allah, purify the Al-Aqsa Mosque from their
filth.
Imam Sheikh Mongy El Quesny
On November 10, 2023, Imam Sheikh Mongy El Quesny gave a Friday
Sermon at the Northwest Indiana Islamic Center in Crown Point, IN. In
this sermon,
he praised the actions of Hamas, and he called for Allah to ābring
annihilation upon the plundering and criminal Zionists, the hateful
Crusader [Christian] aggressorsā¦ā:
What is happening to Gaza is a victory. People think
that victory is [when] you defeat your enemy ā noā¦Victory is when people
stand firm, and adhere firmly to what they believe and they die for
thatā¦
We have here in the United States sending special forces and
special agents, and they are the ones telling the Israelis what to do,
because they know that the Israeli army is the most cowardly army on the
planet. With all these weapons and this technology, they run away from
young men, who are fighting with sneakers on their feet, AK-47s in their
hands, nothing else, but they run like ratsā¦They have no mercy, they
know what happened to their ancestors. They keep bugging us about six
million Jewish people burned in the Holocaust. What are you doing to the
Palestinians? What are you doing? That is what Allah said: āTheir heart
became hardenedāā¦Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon Your enemies, their
enemies, and our enemies. Oh Allah, count them, kill them one by one,
and do not leave a single one of them alive. Oh Allah, bring
annihilation upon the plundering and criminal Zionists, the hateful
Crusader aggressors, and the treacherous Arab and Muslim rulers. Oh
Allah, demonstrate upon them the wonders of Your might. Oh Allah, seize
them with a crushing grip.
On December 8, 2023, Imam Sheikh Mongy El Quesny gave a Friday Sermon
at the Northwest Indiana Islamic Center in Crown Point, IN. In this sermon,
he asked Allah for victory for Hamas and called for Allah to ābring
annihilation upon the aggressor Zionists, the criminal and spiteful
Crusaders, and the treacherous Arab and Muslim rulersā:
America is the one fighting Palestinians, not Israel. As one
Israeli scholar said, Israel is not a stateāit is a project. Israel is a
project of all those Christians. The Crusaders, the West, they failed.
So they are using all of this, preparing for the last war [Armageddon],
for the return of Jesus. So Israel is a project, it is not a stateā¦We
ask Allah for a speedy and perfect victory for our brothers and sisters
in Gaza. This is our central issueāPalestine and Jerusalem, that is our
main issueā¦Oh, Allah, bring annihilation upon the aggressor Zionists,
the criminal and spiteful Crusaders, and the treacherous Arab and Muslim
rulers. Oh, Allah, count them, kill them one by one, do not leave a
single one alive.
Imam Yassir Fazaga
On November 1, 2024, Imam Yassir Fazaga gave a Friday Sermon at the Memphis Islamic Center in Tennessee. In this sermon, Fazaga lauded Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas who was killed on October 16, 2024:
In Gaza, we just saw one of the beautiful ā if not the most
beautiful ā Gazan leaders. We have seen these people sell their own
selves for the sake of their people to please Allah. May Allah have
mercy on his soul, oh, Lord of the Universe. You know, this idea of
living like a man and dying like a manā¦ And this man has demonstrated
what it means to die honorably, and that it is to live my life fighting
you, and the very last action in my life was an act of rebellion. Do you
know how many people nowadays look at somebody like [Yahya] Sinwar
and they say that man is a legend. The man is a hero, the man is brave ā
he not only talked the talk, but walked the walk.
Imam Alhajie Jallow
On October 13, 2023, Imam Alhajie Jallow gave a Friday Sermon at the Madinah Community Center in Madison, WI. In this sermon, Jallow praised the Hamas fighters and said that Muslims would kill all the Jews:
Our brothers in Gaza are heroes! By Allah, they are warriors,
heroes, they are men, just like the Companions. They do not fear deathā¦
Oh Jews, you unjust, criminal, corrupt oppressors ā stop! You
will all most definitely be killed. The Jews, the aggressors, the evilā¦
You describe them, what they do. By Allah, all of them will be killed
by Muslims. They all will be executed by Muslims. They will all be
killed, this is a divine promise that will inevitably be fulfilled. This
is a promise from Allah and it is going to happen. They will all be
killed. They will all be killed, and on that day, the believers will
rejoice in Allahās victory.
Dr. Fadi Kablawi
On November 24, 2023, Dr. Fadi Kablawi gave a lecture at Masjid As Sunna An Nabawiyyah in North Miami, FL. In this lecture
(at 28:23), he expressed support for Hamas, called for Allah to support
Hamas against the ātyrannical Jews,ā and called for Allah to annihilate
the Zionists:
My major warning to myself and to everybody is we go back to
prior of October 7thā¦that we go back to what happened before October 7th
to think that we can trust these people, to think that these people
will not do it again. To think that these people are going to leave our
land. To think that these people are not oppressiveā¦We, as Muslims, need
to keep our mind and our eyes toward the prizeā¦From the river to the
sea. From the river to the seaā¦[Following statements translated from Arabic by MEMRI:] Oh
Allah, support our brothers in Palestine against the tyrannical Jews.
Oh Allah, support our brothers in Gaza against the tyrannical Jews. Oh
Allah, bring annihilation upon the Zionists, for they are not match for
you. Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon them, for they are not match for
you. Oh Allah, shake the ground under their feet. Oh Allah, shatter
their unity, disperse their gathering, and make their hearts quake.
On March 8, 2024, Dr. Fadi Kablawi spoke at the Masjid As Sunna An Nabawiyyah in North Miami, FL. During this talk
(at 30:24), he accused the āNazi Zionistsā of murdering over 30,000
people, supported by the āZionist regime in Washington.ā He called for
Allah to support the mujahideen[14] and annihilate the āaccursed Zionistsā:
What happens in Gaza, I promise you, gonna propagateā¦Over 30,000
people already murdered by Nazi Zionists supported by Zionist regime in
Washington. All Zionist Nazis. There is no difference between them and
Hitler or anybody else who behaved like thatā¦No difference between
Republicans and Democrats. Theyāre all same idea [unintelligible] Satan. Thatās all what rules themā¦[Following statements translated from Arabic by MEMRI:]
Oh Allah, support their mujahideen. Oh Allah, guide their shooting. Oh
Allah, support them with your soldiers. Oh Allah, bring annihilation
upon the enemies of Islam. Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the
accursed Zionists. Oh Allah, curse them and then curse them some moreā¦Oh
Allah, bring annihilation upon the Zionists, the hypocrites, and the
enemies of Islamā¦Oh Allah, support our mujahideen.
On April 26, 2024, Dr. Fadi Kablawi gave a Friday Sermon at the Masjid As Sunna An Nabawiyyah in North Miami, FL. In this sermon
(at 26:10), he accused the Israeli army of harvesting human organs, and
called for Allah to āsupport our oppressed brothers in Palestineā and
āannihilate the tyrannical Jewsā:
[Referring to Israelās army] The most immoral army, Nazis, worse
than Nazis, and I apologized to Nazis last week, because these people
have proven to be worse than the Nazisā¦They steal the skin of the
Palestinians. Not enough they stole their land, now they steal their
skins. Organs missing, from children, from adults, organs are missing.
Go and find who is behind organ trading in this country or in this
world. Go ask the Haitians, when they had the earthquake, what happened
there with these Israeli organizations going under medical helpā¦The guy
will come limping into their tents for treatment. He will walk out, he
will be carried out dead, organs missing. All that is because there is
no God for these people. All that because these people look at you as
nothing but a mistake. Or the best, you were created for their service.
Thatās what they believe, thatās what they sayā¦[Following statements translated from Arabic by MEMRI:] Oh
Allah, support our oppressed brothers in Palestine. Oh Allah,
annihilate the tyrannical Jews. Oh Allah, annihilate them for they are
no match for you. Oh Allah, annihilate the brothers of apes and pigsā¦Oh
Allah, cut off their seed. Oh Allah, break up their fellowship. Oh
Allah, disperse them and render them asunder.
Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is the author of six books and numerous articles about Islam. His latest book is Islamic Doctrine versus the U.S. Constitution: The Dilemma for Muslim Public Officials.
[2]
According to a 2020 study of mosques, 68% of the imams in the United
States were born outside the United States. See: Dr. Ihsan Bagby,
āMosque Administration,ā āThe American Mosque 2020: Growing and
Evolving,ā https://ispu.org/report-1-mosque-survey-2020/#participants.
[12]
Muhammad taught that the end times would come when Muslims fight
against and kill the Jews. During that battle, even the rocks and trees
would call out if a Jew was hiding behind them:
Abu Huraira reported that Allahās Messenger (may peace be upon
him) had said: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will
fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them will [sic]
the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a
tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind
me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the
tree of the Jews.
Abuāl Hussain āAsakir-ud-Din Muslim bin Hajjaj al-Qushayri al-Naisaburi, Sahih Muslim, trans. āAbdul Hamid Siddiqi (New Delhi, India: Adam Publishers and Distributors, 2008), Vol. 8, No. 2922, p. 349.
On another occasion Muhammad just referred to Jews hiding behind the stones:
Narrated Abu Hurairah: Allahās Messenger said, āThe Hour will not
be established until you fight against the Jews, and the stone behind
which a Jew will be hiding will say, āO Muslim! There is a Jew hiding
behind me, so kill him.āā
Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah al-Bukhari, Sahih Al-Bukhari, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997), Vol. 4, Book 56, No. 2926, p. 113.
[13] In neither of the authoritative hadiths above is the word ācombatantā used to describe the Jew.
[14] Mujahideen are Fighters in the Cause of Allah (Jihad). They are promised Paradise if they become martyrs by dying while fighting in that Cause.
Muhammad stressed the importance of martyrdom and stated that martyrs would be admitted to Paradise:
Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet said, āAllah assigns for a
person who participates in (holy battles) in Allahās Cause and nothing
causes him to do so except belief in Allah and in His Messengers, that
he will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he
survives) or will be admitted to Paradise (if he is killed in the battle
as a martyr).ā The Prophet added: āHad I not found it difficult for my
followers, then I would not remain behind any Sariya (an army-unit)
going for Jihad and I would have loved to be martyred in Allahās Cause
and then made alive, and then martyred and then made alive, and then
again martyred in His Cause.ā
Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah al-Bukhari, Sahih Al-Bukhari, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997), Vol. 1, Book 2, No. 36, pp. 72-73.
In Koran Chapter 9, Verse 111, Allah also promised Paradise to the martyrs:
Verily, Allah has purchased of the believers their lives and
their properties for (the price) that theirs shall be Paradise. They
fight in Allahās Cause, so they kill (others) and are killedā¦
In Islam, the munafiqun ('hypocrites', Arabic: Ł ŁŲ§ŁŁŁŁ, singular Ł ŁŲ§ŁŁ munÄfiq) or false Muslims or false believers
are a group decried in the Quran as outward Muslims who were inwardly
concealing disbelief ("kufr") and actively sought to undermine the
Muslim community.
In Islam, "munafiq" (Arabic: Ų§ŁŁ ŁŲ§ŁŁ) refers to a religious hypocrite, someone who outwardly professes faith but secretly disbelieves or acts against it.
Sabah scandal a Madani blueprint for successive govts By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Malaysiakini : Latheefa Koya, the former MACC chief, has claimed that someone high up
threatened the whistleblower. Let us assume that there is a conspiracy
to silence the whistleblower and cover up this corruption scandal.
The
politically strategic thing for Madani to do is to announce that the
government takes these allegations extremely seriously and an
investigation would be carried out.
The whistleblower would be afforded protection by the state, and the graftbusting body would have carried out an investigation.
This
way, Madani could have stage-managed everything, mitigated the damage
and generated optics that would make it seem that Madani was tackling
corruption seriously.
Instead, what we witnessed was a manure show
of epic proportions. This, to me at least, demonstrated that Madani
does not even care what the rakyat thinks.
Instead,
the participants in this sordid drama are issuing laughable denials,
the MACC by perception is seen to be either abetting or enabling their
denials and the political class remains silent.
The way things are and willcontinue to be
Why,
for instance, is the opposition not making this an issue? Well, because
they understand that this is the way they are going to handle things
when they assume power.
In fact, by remaining silent, they allow
Madani to be the corrupt party in this, and what they say will not come
back to bite their behinds when they assume power and do the same thing.
Prime
Minister Anwar Ibrahim, whose platform on the campaign trail was
governmental corruption and malfeasance, has now become the poster boy
for enabling the kleptocratic class.
Anwar claimed the charges against his number two, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, were politically motivated.
Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (left) and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
He
has defended convicted felon and former prime minister Najib Abdul
Razakās reduced sentence. His home minister apparently has the power to
define any location as a prison.
And
now, of course, his number two publicly hopes that another former prime
minister gets the ājusticeā he did when it comes to the latterās
corruption investigation.
If this is not a āwink, winkā, I do not know what is.
All part of complex, corrupt system
Let
us be honest here. We can talk about ābig fishesā when it comes to
corruption, but recall when Pakatan Harapan was in power for the first
time.
Remember when the investigation into former Sarawak governor
Abdul Taib Mahmud - perhaps the white whale of oppositional talking
points when it came to corruption - came to a standstill?
Then de facto law minister Liew Vui Keong said: āThey were not new evidence that would allow MACC to open a new investigation paper.ā
At
the time, Latheefa said of the status of high-profile cases: āHowever,
not all complaints ended up being investigated, especially those with
evidence which were just printouts from the internet.ā
Former MACC chief commissioner Latheefa Koya
This
was a really queer thing to say because Harapan made its case against
corruption from printouts from the internet or at the very least had no
problem making such cases against their political adversaries.
Now,
do not get me wrong. I think that Latheefa and Lawyers For Liberty are
doing good work here, but ultimately, what they are doing is exposing
the corruption of the system in place, one which has been sustained
because of the will of the political class and its factotums.
The
entire political system of this country is part of a complex ecosystem
of private and public interests that seek not only political hegemony
but also religious hegemony.
We are not dealing with corrupt individuals within a system but rather a system of corruption with a few honest men and women.
Rotten to the core, for decades
Corruption
is not a recent phenomenon, but rather it is part of the DNA of the
organism fueled by racial and religious imperatives and a compromised
electoral system.
Umno/BN designed the system, and Madani is
attempting to replicate it, so any attempt at corrective measures is met
by a deluge of propaganda or the spectre of the āGreen Waveā.
Let
us not forget that when we talk of corruption we are not only talking
about the corruption of the political elites but also of institutions
which are considered sacred cows to the bangsa (race) and agama (religion) crowd.
So
you see, even though I believe that there are many honest political
operatives in Harapan, they are outnumbered by people who are willing to
make compromises and sustain the system either for political gain or
because they are so narcotised by their political party that to make
waves would be detrimental to their political survival.
The tragedy here is that Madani is doing something about corruption, albeit nothing that would reform the system.
This
is something that PN is not even capable of doing. When it comes to
corruption in this country, it truly is the devilās alternative.
