Critical Thoughts

I thank her for addressing me directly in her post here but to be honest, she had done a “tembak sebelum semak” (to borrow the words of Tan Sri Dr. Koh during the Guan Eng-Tsu Koon debate) and assumed that I wanted to debate with her on the issue of Islam & Christianity. So in short, I think you have misunderstood the intention of the debate and even the topic of the debate that I invited you to debate me on. I wasn’t going to ask you to debate with me on the issue of Islam and Christianity (I could do that, but not at this time), but I want to challenge you based on the topic of this post. To be specific, it will be about the Jews and the Muslim attitude towards them, as well as whether Muslims really hate the Jews or otherwise. In fact I want to debate you based on these questions you have raised in your post:

“Why must ask Malaysians of a certain faith to stick together to be wary of the Jews? Why need to warn them? Like we have not enough problems of our own? Smaller, daily routine problems.”

So there is no need to “chicken out” on this. The debate (or if you prefer, discussion) can be conducted in a peaceful and informative manner and there is no need to go in a huff about it either.  So what say you? The offer is still open. I find you an intelligent person and that is why I made the offer because I don’t discuss with stupid people.

As for where Shadowfox is concerned, don’t even mention that bastard’s name to me. He is not even worth the speck of dust under my feet.

Based on the various provisions written in the Federal Constitution itself (i.e., Article 3, Article 121(1A), Article 11(4) and various other provisions that favours Islam) which would not have existed were the document really a “secular” one, one can only surmise that Malaysia is certainly not a secular state. No amount of statements by former Prime Ministers will be able to change that. This has of course been stated many, many times by constitutional lawyers in the likes of Pawancheek Marican (I happen to know his son personally), Prof. Dr. Aziz Bari and many other authorities in law and constitutional law. Unfortunately, those in the secular and “Islam liberal” camp will be wont to disagree, but who cares about their opinion?

I also happen to come across this article Adakah Malaysia Sebuah Negara Sekular which sums up the issue aptly. I’ll get it translated into English soon, insha’allah. For those who want this country so badly to turn secular, why not go ahead and put out a referendum on the issue? And while you are at it, abolish the religious institutions which are empowered by Federal and state funds, lets see whether you will get the support you need to turn this country secular.