Critical Thoughts

Published recently on The Malaysian Insider. This is my story.

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.

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Well, I suppose you got what you wanted, you attention whore. As of today, there are 52,400 search results for the phrase “Azwan Ismail” in Google. I suppose more would be indexed by Google in the coming days. And this faggot even had the cheek to whine to AP about a so-called “death threat” made against him after his morally wrong video confession on YouTube. What were you expecting when you told the world that you are a faggot, Azwan Ismail? Cakes and lollipops?

And no, it is not “okay” to be a gay. Something which is against not only religion but also the order of nature, is most certainly not “okay”. Homosexuality is a disease, a psychological disorder. I suggest that you seek immediate treatment for your problem. Maybe those people at NARTH can help you with the psychotherapy, since to my knowledge no similar organisation exists in Malaysia as of to date.

Not long after Project Petaling Street got its first review of the day after its soft launch (our official launch still remains on 1st January 2011), an old pest returned and begun making his slurs against PPS. The poor fella is obviously jealous that I have successfully revived PPS from its ICU state, having been forced to shut it down for three months. So instead of wasting bits and bytes exposing this wanted criminal by the Royal Malaysian Police, let us see now the state of his extremist, bigoted blog where he used to make racist and slanderous remarks against Islam and the Muslims today.

Once a loser, always a loser I like to say.

This is a reminder to the leaders of my political party to be always be wary of the “old guard” from DAP. It is true that currently we are together in an alliance called Pakatan Rakyat, and I would not have it any other way. The other alternative would be to join the ultra-racist party called United Malays National Organisation, and we certainly cannot have that! However, at the same time, there are idiots in the Demons After Power people which are full of people inclined towards Islamophobia. But I’ve always believed that those “enemies” are almost always more honest than the so-called “friends” who hide their keris behind their backs in order to wait for the opportunity to stab you from behind.

As the saying goes, “keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer”.