I personally believe that the chances GaySec has checkmated a highly-provocative, insulting and idiotic little Islamophobic web troll who has been terrorising the Malaysian internet scene / blogosphere for months running are very high…despite what the losers at “Murtads from Malaysia and Singapore” FB page may have to say about that. I remember that some seven years ago, back when the “Murtad Mama” identity was revealed (I was the person who spread the information about her real identity but didn’t discover it myself), the person in question too made a lot of denials and ran away from questions about her identity, until it came to a point when she could no longer hide it and had to come clean and admit it publicly. I see the same thing happening to this “Sitt al-Wuzara” character on Twitter and Facebook.
I haven’t seen such excitement and passion generated for Malaysian football in a very, very long time. It goes to show that Rajagobal and his boys are on the right track, even despite the 3 – 5 loss to Singapore in the first leg match. In any case, I will be rooting for Harimau Malaya all the way. TANAH TUMPAHNYA DARAHKU!
It is good to read this report from TMI which quotes the PAS President at the 57th Muktamar 2011 reaffirming the Islamic ideology that, contrary to the munaafiqun secularists’ claims, Islam and politics are one. There is no such thing as “separation of state and religion” where Islam is concerned, it just does not enter into the Muslim psyche at all.
“Umno only wants to retain power and not uphold the Malays and Islam because Umno Malays still support Barisan Nasional even when PAS candidates contest against the MCA and MIC but many non-Malays have shown their commitment to PAS by voting for our candidate,” he said.
He added that it was PAS’s responsibility to continuously introduce the teachings of Islam to the people and free them from the shackles of ignorance and political injustice.
“Allah has demonstrated that all nations that have held steadfast to Islam have become leading nations in the world… While Muslims from any nation that have left Islam even though rich became destructive, cruel, weak and are not qualified to lead and eventually will be destroyed,” he said.
To me, this is the biggest difference between UMNO and PAS. UMNO is (mis)using Islam to achieve political power, whereas PAS uses politics for Islam’s gain.
If the principles of jus soli were strictly enforced in the country, I wouldn’t even be registered as a citizen of Malaysia. Thirty-one years ago, my father was working for a multinational corporation based in the Sillicon Valley and he brought his young bride along. I suppose I was conceived during this time. I was born in San Jose, California in the United States.
I even have a US birth certificate and a US passport (expired in 1988) to boot. The US recognises dual citizenship so I have no doubt that I am already recognised as a citizen of the US. But because my parents had the foresight to register me at the US Embassy in Washington, DC using Borang W, I became a Malaysian citizen at birth. My father could have made the decision to stay. But he didn’t. He came home to Malaysia with his family in tow.
I grew up in a middle-class family and was for most of my life based in Penang, having been enrolled into a private school (Sekolah Sri Inai). The majority of students were non-Muslim Chinese, I was only one of the very few Muslim students around in the whole school.
Regardless, I had a lot of inter-racial contact and I count a lot of non-Muslims and Muslims alike as among my closest friends during this time period. Back when we were children, the issue of race and religion did not count for much, not even during the 1990s.
