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."
Zamri, Firdaus, and cops define Madani’s religious agenda By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, July 28, 2025
Malaysiakini : The action of the police in Kelantan is particularly egregious
because the top brass continues with the disingenuous narrative that
they were disrupting a “gay sex party”, even though the Health Ministry
confirmed that this was an event it was involved in.
The Kelantan
police continued to say otherwise in defiance of what a federal agency
stated, because they understand their actions, which are based on
religious dogma, would not be contradicted by the federal agency tasked
with ensuring the healthcare of citizens.
Meanwhile, Bukit Aman
remains silent when all this does is tarnish the state security
apparatus’ credibility when it comes to gathering “intelligence”.
A banner outside the ‘gay party’ that Kelantan police raided, indicating that it was a HIV/Aids health outreach programme
The
Kelantan police’s top brass continued with their absurd claims that
they were acting on credible and actionable intelligence when it came to
this raid. The fact that this narrative has been debunked has in no way
slowed them down.
Turning blind eye
All
this does is bring into disrepute the intelligence-gathering
capabilities of the police, especially considering the deviancy of the
Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISBH) was left unchecked
for years.
Keep in mind that the controversial state actor, Perlis mufti Asri Zainul Abidin, claimed:
“They may not have picked up this case for certain reasons... some were
unwilling to take the risk, and others may have viewed it as
insignificant.
“Perhaps some of the group’s (GISBH) beliefs are linked to certain individuals involved, or it may be due to other reasons.”
Furthermore,
remember the state security apparatus had heard claims that GISBH were
engaging in criminal (sexual) activities from members.
Note when
the inspector-general of police said, “I urge former GISBH members who
lodged police reports before retracting them to come forward and help in
investigations.”
So, what can we make of this? The police top brass in Kelantan said not to make this political.
Firstly, Abdul Hadi Awang, the big cheese of PAS, has said that there is no separating religion and politics.
Secondly,
the PAS state government has thanked the police for acting the way they
did, even though what they did contradicted what a federal agency said
about this so-called “gay sex party”.
So this is not only
political, but it would seem an action endorsed by Madani. Because
Madani has chosen to remain silent, this sets a precedent for the police
in all other states to carry out their duties based on religious dogma,
as the Kelantan police justified.
Hence, the religious agenda is
set by the police and not by the religious bureaucracy, which, by the
way, has remained silent or maybe they want the state security apparatus
to carry out such actions.
Right in our faces
Now
we come to Zamri Vinoth and Firdaus Wong. The state has decided that no
action can be taken against the preachers because there is a lack of
“evidence”. Remember that the police sent their “investigations” to the
attorney-general’s chambers.
The Islamic Development Department
(Jakim) also worked with Zamri in 2017 to give courses in the Tamil
language to increase productivity when it comes to proselytising in a
multilingual milieu.
Zamri Vinoth
What
this course was supposed to do was make it easier for Muslim preachers
(state-sanctioned) attempting to convert Indians, using Tamil as an
entry point into their lives.
The fact that Zamri reuploaded the
post after the state removed it and no action was taken against him is
further evidence that when it comes to insulting minorities and their
religion, there will always be insufficient evidence for the state to
act.
The police, quick to act against perceived insults to the
religion of the state, remain lackadaisical when it comes to insults
against other religions.
What we are dealing with here are
state-sponsored religious provocateurs. We are dealing with people whose
aim is to sow discontent in the Indian Malaysian community.
The
fact that Zamri continues to be a state actor when it comes to religious
discourse should tell us something about the way Madani views other
religions.
Firdaus Wong
We
also must ask ourselves why Islamic preacher Firdaus uploaded that
video of how to enable minors to lie to their families, subvert
religious rituals (prayers in toilets), empower teachers to transmit
religious dogma to minors under their tutelage and make it very clear
that religious morality trumps legal requirements.
Let us not kid
ourselves. In the uploaded video, Firdaus makes it very clear that all
this is not theoretical. He admits that he has done this before and the
methods he imparts are borne out of practical usage and not something
that he thought about on the spur of the moment.
So this argument by the state that there is insufficient evidence is complete horse manure.
They know they are untouchable
Mind
you, the “hurt feelings” law is vague enough for people like Zamri and
Fridaus to fall foul of, and yet when it comes to these two operatives,
the state cannot muster up the requisite righteous outrage to charge
them.
With Firdaus, for instance, it is even more telling.
The
way the state deals with religious kidnapping or unilateral conversion
demonstrates that when it comes to the religion of the state, successive
governments have given a free hand to religious provocateurs.
So, a preacher asking children to lie to their parents is not really a big deal.
What
do you think Firdaus thinks of all the police reports lodged against
him and others of his ilk? Firdaus knows he is untouchable when it comes
to the religion of the state.
When Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
presided over the conversion of a young man, this signalled to the
religious bureaucracy and its emissaries that in-your-face
proselytisation was acceptable, no matter the tense religious and racial
climate this country was experiencing.
And where is Jakim in all of this? Where is the prime minister’s religious czar?
The
actions of the police in Kelantan and the way the state chooses to
enable these two religious preachers tell us everything we need to know
about Madani’s religious agenda.
These are the first principles of a theocratic state.
