Disrespect or Emotional?

Why do some citizen of Malaysia can be so disrespectful towards Agong? 😞

In the case of M.G, it may seems blown out of proportion and perhaps she's unlucky to have made such comments by emotions rather rationally.

And worst, she just adds up to this new trend of hate speech  as we are seeing from certain groups (intentionally &/unintentionally).

My personal opinion is this "hate culture" is inflicted through irresponsible campaigning.

Never mind if the Party come out clearly and say, we are pro republic and campaign that. Of course they will lose votes but they can't get the best of both world.

 Sneaky irresponsible campaigning will result in supporters jadi mangsa. 

Will the party she supports stand by her? I guess we will have to wait and see but I doubt it.

There are no excuse to hina Agong. I doubt anybody in Malaysia do not know or do not understand that. 

Our system is perlembagaan beraja berasaskan demokrasi. 

Citizen must understand that the winning party reports in to Agong, so they too will always respect Agong and our system beraja. 

Insult to Agong is unfortunately extended to many Malaysians because Agong is not just head of the country, he is a symbol of religion, symbol of military, symbol race and many more. The insults extended to what he represent.

And so I urged to all of you to help create awareness among us, to understand what is campaign and how we can balance our frustration and how to work the system.

 Citizen should use the political party to channel disagreement and vote for the one that suits you. There is no need to disrespect Agong or his speech just because your chosen party loses and it is not the speech you want to hear. 

We vote for Malaysia so this is Malaysia and this is our system. It is vital you respect our system. It is vital that you're patriotic to your nation. 

Syiah or Sunni ?

So... Are you a Syiah or a Sunni? 😕

Honestly no such thing as sect or denomination in Islam.

My understanding is there's just Islam and in Islam we are all Muslim. 

There are no divisions, sect, cast, groups, etc..that's the beauty of the religion.

According to the Quran, Muslim will follow the words and commands of Allah and to know how to do this, we follow the Al-Quran and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad SAW based on hadith sahih...

Well then, doesn't it make you think why we should have such variation now or even a label ourselves like Syiah or Sunni. The calling is simple, we should all be just Muslim.

Further to note that the terminology of  Syiah didn't even exist during the time of Prophet Muhammad SAW nor does some of the practise within Syiah.

In Islam we practise equality. 

There are no double standards or discrimination against race, origins, wealth, age or gender. 

It's simply Iman and takwa that differs us among us Muslim and should only be on God's judgement (not for us to judge) of our deen.

 We all strive hard to be better Muslim both in this world and hereafter hence we should help each other, it's a common goal after all...

My opinion is, anything else  in between (other than the said Iman dan Takwa) that tries to divide us is just plain political power struggle.. 

It ain't got nothing to do with religion. 

Anyway, this old political friction is getting really old, few thousand years old!..why can't we drop it and embrace what's really said in the Al-Quran, a simple calling of to follow the words of Allah and Hadith sahih.

Thoughts?

The Controversial Leader

What a hectic couple of months, and I thought this is the best time to get back to my hobby, light reading, writing about the little things or the significant things and having my social life back.
In my purse to finish my half read book, I came to a very interesting paragraph in a fiction. The book was written by Kureshi, a story of a Pakistani psychiatrist living in London during the  60s. Anyway, I’m not here to do a book review, because I won’t even know where to begin, it was a bit of reality shocked regardless fiction, I cannot help to think there are more truth in it than fairytale, only that the rawness of it all must be covered up with fiction to ease the social pressure and responsibility to the Muslim community. The fiction was a controversial read in itself.

Anyway, here is the paragraph, absolute random but rightfully relevant,

It interests me because I wanted to pursue writing on social responsibilities and understanding our weakness and how we seek leadership to help us address our fear.

This new found attitude of protesting our way through our ambition troubled me and still does. If you are rational, you will see immediately this is not normal behavior for an adult, but occasionally you will meet people who will gloat and boast their winning and protest their loss.

Of course, it doesn’t matter when this person isn’t a “piper”. But what is the cost when he is, it does concern many that this piper will be bringing his followers down the river.

Stomping your feet out of the battle field, sulking and moaning is a classic symptom of a sore loser and this can be further defined, and I quote, as follows;

“A sore loser refers to one who does not take defeat well, whereas a good sport means being a "good winner" as well as being a "good loser”

A sore loser is unable to maintain self-control if dealing with others and unable to respect for both authority and opponents.

Sore loser behavior includes blaming others for the loss, not accepting responsibility for personal actions that contributed to the defeat, reacting to the loss in an immature or improper fashion, making excuses for the defeat, and citing unfavorable conditions or other petty or weak claims as reasons for the defeat.”

Understanding that, Kureishi writing got me interested in exploring the degree or magnitude of a sore loser. How does a person so strongly believe in something that has been refuted to be wrong? Is this pure ego or is it as said by Kureshi a symptom of psychotic?

And so I quote from NHS website word for word;

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Psychosis/Pages/Symptoms.aspx 

But rather than give you the full text, I thought it would be interesting to highlight the symptom and to focus on delusions.

Symptoms of psychosis

There are four main symptoms associated with a psychotic episode:

• hallucinations
• delusions
• confused and disturbed thoughts
• a lack of insight and self-awareness

Delusion

A delusion is where you have an unshakeable belief in something implausible, bizarre or obviously untrue. Two examples of psychotic delusions are:

· Paranoid delusion

A person with psychosis will often believe an individual or organisation is making plans to hurt or kill them. This can lead to unusual behavior.

· Delusions of grandeur

A person with psychosis may have delusions of grandeur where they believe they have some imaginary power or authority. For example, they may think they are president of a country.

(I swear I took this from NHS website)

Well, let’s make it more complex, I’m curious what happen if we throw in the 3^rd element, the exceptional orator into this mix?

I googled “Psychotic powerful Orator”...and I don’t know why I’m surprised but I did, long behold a name pop-up!

“Adolf Hitler”

This led me to explore more of this man characteristic. If you know me personally, you will know I’m passionate on the Palestinian issue and am enthusiast in seeking to understand the history and the paranoia of old age that cause such a rift till modern time. A friend quoted to me in one of our conversation “this is the mother of all Ali Baba” and so for me, Adolf Hitler is just classic Ali.

Adolf Hitler is a man of many followers, even today; some people still thinks that he is a noble man doing a difficult job. The questions lie as to why?

Here are some interesting characteristic about him that I quote from various sources:

“A highly animated and charismatic orator, Hitler is regarded as one of the most significant leaders in World history.”

“Critics label him as psychotic”

Hmm…. Even that two alone is contradictory on every level and I guess people are still debating and have not made their mind up.

I was curious as to what was it like for him in defeat and death?

“The Germans had lost the war from a military perspective but Hitler allowed no peace talks with the Allied forces and as a consequence the German military continued to fight”

Hitler never accepted defeat regardless the cost. He’s leadership still puzzles me. If the cause is true and of extreme importance to him why wouldn’t he retract and re-plan? Isn’t that a better strategy than pursuing to exhaust the grounds?

What’s more is that Hitler was known to be not a religious man, but perceived to be a savior for one, and in all contradictory issues, a savior for many things that can bend in opposite directions.

“The relationship between Nazism and mysticism is one that has provoked both curiosity and controversy over the years. As Nazism continued to rule Germany, to many people it became a kind of religion in and of itself”

And that paragraph chilled me to my bones; this is the issue of “taksub”. This is the issue of Piper going down the river, or the classic Ali Baba.

This behavior didn’t die in Germany or in old time. This behavior is very much alive and is something that I’ve observed repeatedly all around Europe and in Malaysia too, the many layers of religion. It’s very worrying.

“Because Nazism is an abbreviation for "National Socialism", and Nazi leaders sometimes described their ideology as a form of socialism, some people believe that Nazism was a form of socialism, or that there are similarities between Nazism and socialism.”

And the article goes on to say,

“Hitler soon discovered that he had two remarkable talents — for public oratory and for inspiring personal loyalty”

And hence my oh-uh moment!

“Having secured supreme political power without winning support from the majority of Germans, Hitler did go on to win it and remained overwhelmingly popular until the very end of his regime. He was a master orator, and with mass media to control his propaganda chief, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, he was able to persuade most Germans that he was their saviour from the Depression, the Communists, the Versailles Treaty and the Jews.”

Media oh media! Once the momentum has picked up, it’s viral or I’d rather call it virus.

Anyway, Hitler was never diagnosed. His motivation was unclear; there are many opinions as to why he did what he did. He will remain controversial and will probably be very proud of that legacy. And while there are not too many that get to go to his extreme, there are many leaders that share his characteristic. However, I should say such matter is so subjective and opinion based, how can one ever be certain?

So much for my light reading plans huh?

 

Absent camaraderie

My friends,

Today I write to you from my heart. Today I write to you because I feel the mixed emotions among my my fellow Malaysian, my friends and my family, some are over joyed, some are sadden and disspointed and some like me still remain very worried.

What happen to us?

Personally, I cried while waiting for the election result, I cried when I got the result in relief, then I cried after I got the result in the heartfelt outcry out by some of my friends. I cried at the thought of this polling and I ponder upon how divided we've become. I cried for the division in religion and cried for fear of loosing what makes us Malaysia the vibrant and social society.

I cried when I think about how the oppression we felt seems bigger to us then to what we have imposed upon others.

I cried how we lack the understanding of what racism truly mean.

I cried because some people feels they have lost hope. I cried in vain of loosing the camaraderie among us.

From a far, I'm not crowded with media bombardment everyday, by flags, ceramah. I'm not forced or dragged into choosing, I chose it.

I listened to all my friends, silently, I listened to the complains, the allegations, the wants and don't wants, and I explore. I listen to advice of a friend to engage directly with politician, and I did. I've shared with you my work, my findings. I've invited you to discuss, and invited politicians to discuss.

I wish it is easy to say let the bygone be bygone, but we have both hurt each other in this process. I assure you that both parties have taken the campaign too far in inflicting fear, but never really discussed the policies.

I can tell you that you and I, we failed in taking control on this responsibility. We fail to push the campaign in the right direction instead we readily accept to be a parrot, merely repeating after politician, we don't even know if it rings any truth. We spread the lies, the hate, we made the contribution to our society social and moral distruction. We made it worst than the politician. We played victim, we cry wolves, we point fingers at each other.

We are a society of double moral.

We accuse each other for being racist, yet we are do not understand what it means to be racist when we hit an Indian man because we think we can take one look at a person and judged that he is not Malaysian :(

We labelled and called each other names. We discriminate by race for employment, We ignore the cry of victims because they are "different" from us.

We crossed all boundries, we risked everything, our friendship, our patriotism, our moral and even our faith in this election. How can I not cry, the price is too big than I'm willing.

We forget what we are fighting for and for whom we are fighting this for. We loose all patriotism when we hang our own flag upside down. It's an ultimate betrayal even if the intention is as a protest. And yet some is willing to accept and tolerate as a symbol of mourning.

Let me reiterate to you, any action that shows your lack of patriotism to our national symbol, is unacceptable and intolerable. There are no excuses.

When we want to chose a leader who do not lift hands to ikrar, when we change the national flag without the acceptance of majority, when  do not sign negaraku but  many didn't stop and ask, who is this fight for? If it is for us Malaysian, then where is the patriotism? Malaysian are all of us, not just party supporters.

We fail to respect our society when we spread lies and stories to scare our people about "bangla" who loves chinese girls and will grab their purses and cause a friend sleepless night?

When we asked our people to disrespect the system, instead of the parties themselves take the responsibility to ensure they can represent people to ensure the system are working? If they can't do that one job, why are they disappointed that people don't vote them?

It is not easy being the government.

When we belittle our indepandence history. When we allow ourself to be manipulated, to be fed with hate and we then chant the hate back, we failed.

The worst of all, when we sell our religion to politics, we are willing to do things that are so fundamentally wrong, because we are so focus on the little things, we forget to be a good muslim, a good christian, a good hindu or a good buddhist and others.

This is democratic country. I've never seen such a campaign, I've never seen such a rise in people, the interest, waking up late, holding each other's hand in support, breaking boundaries to fight on both side for what we believe in. I'm excited to embrace that challange. It is unfortunate that our intention is always good, but our ways have lost.

I cannot stop crying, I cried while typing this, I know I will carry this sadness until I feel comfortable that my friends can find it in them to give support to each other regardless of their political ideologi, their religion, their race, and their parties.

It's been too emotional rides, people forget it's politics not personal.

Like you I've been offended many times. Some of my non malay friends feels like an outcast right now. I feel like an outcast for the last 6 months when I'm being accused  as kafir (no longer a muslim) by PAS. Worst, I was more offended when they are saying it's just an imply not an accusation. I'm being accused as lesser citizen because I'm mixed race not a pure malay by my PR friends. I'm being accused by friends who doesn't even realised what they have been saying indirectly, because they are so consumed by hate and frustration. I'm still offended today.

Like you, I'm hurt, but I know my friends. I've grown to love them, I know their hearts and I know what politics do to a person.

This is politics. This is real politics. Politics forces us to take sides but in choosing government not in our relationship and our friendship.

Friends,

Do you know that we are maturing? You and I, we need to get use to this, we will continue to have this going forward. We will never again get the comfortable easy win, always hard work campaign, always emotional, and always feeling frustrated when we cannot convince others to agree to our own political ideologi.

Friends,

I assure you, I care about you. The silent voters care about you.

I have my own worries and fear, I will fight for the better life, for preservation and for what I believe is important within my political ideology. I'm not too proud to change if I see change suits me.

But I ask you to recognize that my fear and worries are real to me as yours are to you.

How far apart will we grow from each other when we are each other's people?

Don't be surprise at how many spectators, the silent majority. Don't label them as dumb, fatwa-kan utusan, tengok media mainstream sahaja, orang kampung, truth is you don't know anything about them in their personal time, and vice versa.

Respect is two way street. I ask PR to respect my voice and other BN voters in the recent election. There is just more of us who share the same idelogy, but yours is growing too, if you can, please acknowladge and recognize that.

You cannot protest your way through democracy. You need to earn it, win us over.

I ask upon you to please, we all want to be heard, it is not just you who wants to be heard. The people have spoken, give our Prime Minister a chance to do his job. His mandate.

Patience is not the ablity to wait, patience is the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

I'm here for you if you need me, I hope you will do the same for me.

Hugs,
Fida

Elephant in the room

Human being default function is weakness!

In Ireland, for many years the country was led by Catholic Church or church influence. In absolute trust, in faith, people never question their priest.

A man in power behind religion (I'm not trying to generalise, not all of them were bad) in Ireland and around the world abuse their power, many abuses cases especially sexual abuse.

When complained was filed, no action was taken as nobody wanted to believe it and some chose to ignore it. It went on over 70 years. Eventually in around year 2002 these priest were brought to court.

Slowly people lose trust in their churches, and the Roman Catholic Church starts to accept responsibilities. These days you will see an apology for this misconduct.

The story I want to tell is about the victim. Everybody ignored them, they did everything they could and many live a life as an outcast, raped as children and only getting some justice as old age. When complained, people doubted them. Imagine the humiliation and pain. Do you think that is fair?

Are you truly shocked at a human being capabilities and desires, even if they are religious man? Imagine that weakness but now with added power at their disposal. Human beings are not Devine. We are built with weaknesses.

I'm tired of this back and forth between DSAI and Saiful, then Saiful's dad's u-turns and roundabouts, the court cases and above all the political spin and the guilt. I just want it to end.

I'm not naive, I know what a man is capable off but at the same time I worry about Fitnah. I'm continuously being made guilty if question on issues like this.

But how can we ignore it? It's a giant elephant in the room! We need to be able to discuss this.

I don't know how many of you have been in Mekah but I have been. I still remember one of the jemaah remarked " I don't want to eat, I don't like camels meat" and she fell ill and couldn't eat anything for days.

In holy land, you behave, you appreciate and you accept the challenges that comes your way. You don't tell a lie in holy land.

So when Saiful Bukhari claims he is a victim against a powerful man and vowed that he speak the truth and vowed in the holy land, I cannot ignore this topic. And as rebuttal to the claims that it was an edit video, today he uploaded a copy of his passport and visa for this trip, it made me re-think this whole thing.

"Yes, its true vs. No, it's not"...This is an argument you can't win!

Hanya Allah sahaja maha mengetahui.

But for me, the faces of those Irish victims I seen on TV and newspaper keeps playing in my mind. Some had witnesses but many didn't.

If there were no witnesses, does that mean the rape was less real?

If raped by a man who their society believed was God himself (Father), would that make the rape less important?

How difficult and what a struggle it is to fight against such powerful influential man. How unfair and unjust it was for them until finally the truth came out, the priests were too old for prison or some already dead.

The rape did happen. Some of the priest did face consequences of their actions albeit 70 years later. It shook the society and woke them up.

So, now we have the case of Saiful Bukhari vs. DSAI...Should we ignore the elephant in the room? The choice is yours...

Tolarance in the term of "Allah"

For my Muslim friends,

 

I understand the sensitivity of this topic, but it is one that must be discuss.

"Salam Maria penuh rahmat Tuhan besertamu,
Terpujilah engkau diantara wanita,
dan terpujilah buah tubuhmu Yesus,
Santa Maria Bunda Allah,
Doakanlah kami yang berdosa ini,
sekarang dan selama-lamanya.
... Amin"

A quotation from translated hail Mary. Doa ini amat penting bagi saudara Christian kita.

Respectfully, I disagree the use of "Allah" because in Islam, Allah is one, Maha Esa.

Therefore, this term is out of context in Catolism mainly because the concept of Holy Trinity.

If you stripped away all noises and hustle bustle, a Muslim can value syirik or otherwise, when you say Allah has a mother.

Today, Muslims doubt themselves because they rely more on facebook feeds than what's written in the Al-Quran, Allah is one.

If I'm hanging the name Allah and Muhammad in my house, I raised the name Allah higher than Muhammad. In Catolism, the name Allah is used interchangeably with Jesus. In Islam, Jesus and Muhammad are both a prophet.

That is my opinion. I stand tegas so no need to convince me otherwise.

I believe it's my right to protect my religion. I'm multi-race myself, my family and friends are so diversified with race and religion, you won't believe. This is not to create division but to create awareness.

Living in Europe, I've seen religious man taking advantage of their position to abuse or to manipulate just to exert power. If you think it doesn't happen all around the world including Malaysia, you are naive.

Some of Govt's job is to make tough unpopular decisions not by hiding behind religion to manipulate an agreement.

Islamic NGO in Malaysia are working hard explaining this issues but it's falling on deaf years. Why? People choses politics.

What's the new shift in our Era? I was hoping a recovery from Capitalism, but now it's looking a downward spiral.

~fida.i~

Merentasi sempadan ketaksuban

For my friends,

Overnight I got so many text and WA from many genuinely worried friends on both sides (silent voters of BN and PAS).

Same worries ( Malaysia, Islam) & abt influence of outside world and especially by that one man who is trying to change foreign policy with the Zionist state.

Insyaallah, Insyaallah it will all be alright... If we care enough and we pray for our Malaysia then Insyaallah. Kita kena yakin dan tawakal kepada Allah SWT. I yakin.

Jangan risau sangat k, I hope this video will give you confidence that despite the differences, there's always friendship.

http://youtu.be/CPhuV4T2sGw


In reality we are all friends even the politicians between PAS and BN.

Semalam I tgk gambar Dr. Maza jumpa Datuk Saifudin Abdullah, both man I equally respect, for their vision and sincerity at work albeit different party.

Itulah nama kepimpinan melalui teladan. Bermoral tinggi, matang hidup berpolitik. Kita boleh amik teladan. Kita boleh ubah cara kita berpolitik.

Jangan terbawa2 dgn hasutan sebab byk org campaign for personal reasons like keluarga bertanding, duit atau perasaan benci. Tolak-lah pemimpin yang bersikap jaguh kampung, menabik dada dan membawa unsur2 perbalahan, sikap tidak patriotik.

Undi ikut keyakinan masing-masing, atas niat ke-arah kebaikan bukan sebab niat jahat, balas dendam atau tamak, bukan untuk huru harakan negara, jadi paranoid, sikap tak hormati orang lain. Itu adalah sikap2 org yang negative.

Insyaallah dengan iringan doa, we will keep Malaysia aman, makmur dan maju.

Most importantly we can uphold Islam and our Islamic friendship to support those under oppression like Rohingya or Palestine.

Our mission is one. Insyaallah kita berjuang demi agama, bangsa dan negara.

Be nice to one another, it is what Islam thought us persaudaraan.

I believe change can come from within, I vote for BN. You choose what you think it's right for you... No matter what, we Malaysian are always one family and we Muslims are always brothers and sisters.

Thank you.

~fida.i~