Project Irrelevant : Just Do It

The words are not mine. I only wish I could write like this.

They are what I found in cyberspace, with no named author who I could credit.

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I am not who you think I should be, want me to be, see me becoming
I am not your possession, your entitlement, your destiny
I am not the person I used to be.
I am living and breathing but I am not defined by your words and your actions.
You cannot define who I am, you cannot define my life for me
You cannot renegotiate who you think I am, who you want me to be
I am not your perception of me, I am not defined by your understanding or memory of me
You cannot tell me where to go, what to think, who to become, what to think
I do as I want, when I want it, as long as I want it.
I will not be defined by your construction of me.
I will not be defined by your actions and words towards me
I am not female. I am not south asian. I am me first.
You may not impose your feelings on me
Treat me improperly
You may not judge me and disrespect me
I will not be at the brunt of your hypocrisies
Of your lies and false promises
I will not be suffocated by your agency
Your ability to seize my opportunities
Because you may have the power the control
You may seek every opportunity and every breath
But my mind is all my own
You cannot entrap my mind with your words
You cannot entrap the very essence of me
Living breathing flowing freely mysteriously flowing everywhere, uncontrollably flowing all of me everywhere, out towards the universe and I am overcome by me the wholeness the fullness that is me, the paradox that is me, the contradiction that is me
The beauty the ugliness the bitterness the sweetness the completeness which is me
Not who you see me as
Not who you think I ought to be and should become
Not what you think I like
What my desires are
But who I am fundamentally
I am no woman
I am not a south asian
I am me and that is fundamental outside of the cultural and gendered identity imposed upon me
Outside my skin crawling everywhere seeping out oozing out into the minds into the universe
You cannot contain me through the crevices of my female body
You cannot hold me hostage by the color of my skin
Because we all have skin and they are all the same
The blood which runs through our veins
The tears which break our hearts
The same warm tears gushing down
Gushing down so fast
With all of me
But I do not give up
I am not who you want me to be
Who you see me as who you define me to be
I am not your expectations
I will not be defined by the reflection in the mirror when skin deep appearance are never to be trusted
What is true lies deep within our souls, in our blood and in our bones
Faces are empty crevices, empty holes and hypocrisies
Faces are lies, lies told through the color of skin
Through the color, color, creed, nationality
What divides us over and over again
Time and time again we fight
Fight over religion
Fight over color
Fight over class
When will this fight be over
I will not be defined by you
I will not be the image you potray of me
You are able to mutilate my body
But my mind is my own
My very own mind that runs freely despite your entrapment
Despite the commercial imposition you have set upon our world
I will not be defined by you
My curves will not compromise because you do not see them as beautiful
My curves are my own and I love them
Every each crevice, every inch, every nook
Every unexercised, ungymed part of my body
Because I refuse to readjust myself to fit who you want me to be
I know I am beautiful and quite frankly I will not have you tell me otherwise
And the beauty has nothing to do with the way I look, it is within me it is within us all.
But there is something wrong with a world which makes so many of us feel ugly,
Makes us hate the very reflections of us which reflect to us our vanity
So we buy products to cover shit up
And wear cologne and perfume to smell nice and all.
When under the covers, under the make up
Behind the gym memberships where does the truth lie
Who can explain the state of world where one part of the world bodies are dieing and being mutilated while in another part bodies are laid down but it is for the purposes of tanning
How can we be blinded by our own destruction
How can we not feel the pain for our very own brothers sisters mothers fathers lovers and friends
When did other countries become foreigners and enemies
So I will not let you define me
I wont ever be who you want me to be
I will not conform to your standards of beauty
Because I don’t want to be skinny and emaciated
You can keep your plastic surgery and hair extensions
I am going to be me and all that I am
I will not be who you want me to be
You have set up capitalism to entrap us all
Suffocated us and enchained us to dollar bills as if they were the end all be all
As if they were the salvation to what,
A heaven for people who are only Christian for namesake
What have we become
Are we empty bodies roaming from 9 to 5
For what really
For that pay check at the end of the month
For that beemer for that Gucci dress for that benz
When it entraps us all
Further and further we get entrapped in the claws of capitalism
And we are suffocating but we ourselves do not know we are suffocating
The walls are coming down upon us and we are stuck
Here we are
We have a house a mortgage to pay,
Kids to send to school
They need their cell phones, ipods and laptons
So the bills go on
And the slavery continues
While some people are not even fortunate to experience this type of slavery experience a worse types
Our brothers and sisters who are incarcerated
Locked up in prison isolated
Who ever thought prisons would be a good idea
A place of suffocation
And forever they are imprisoned
Even when the metal bars in front of them open, they are imprisoned
No jobs no opportunities and back to the same lack of opportunity which put them there in the first place
And so the cycle continues and racial profiling continues
Why is there so much hate and distrust of our communities
Of our own brothers and sisters
Why did color creed and nationality become everything
Do we not feel the same pain when our family is ill or in pain
Then why do we stop these emotions for our blood relations for people of our color
Because we are black, white, Indian, native American?
No, we are human first
Why do so many of us forget humanity
Forget that lives are suffocating
Dieing
Dieing endless
Endless death and destruction
While people watch American idols, bachelor, and day time television
People are being slaughtered murdered raped
The genocide of the mind
The genocide of native Americans, of African Americans of Chinese Americans
Why have we forgotten the history or perhaps we have forgotten because the stories never got told
The stories which would send chills down our backs
How great America could it be
Could we have raped and pillaged too?
But we did rape and pillage and we continue doing so
Change starts from home and it starts with aknowledgement
When will native Americans get a proper apology for the genocide which was done upon them
Who has the answers and who has say
I will not be defined by you
I will not be silenced
I have a voice and I will speak for those who cannot
Write for those who are not able
I am tired of being suffocated in lies and corruption of a material world which pulls me in yet I struggle to free myself
Liberate myself
My body my life entrapped
Yet my mind is free
It roams all around the world and it sees everyone like family
You are my own
Every one of you
Whether you hate me or love me
I consider you my own
We are human first
Human is what I am
I am not south asian
I am not woman
I am human
The very blood running through my veins, the sweat which drips on the forehead, the tears which seep silently down my eyes when I think of the atrocities which have been committed in the past and are being committed now
Sometimes I do not know how we exist
In our bubbles
Perfect little bubbles with starbucks and express
With our university educations and laptops everywhere
I am not who you want me to be
I will not be defined by you
Not now not ever
Most of all,
I will not be silenced
You may entrap my body
But you cannot take my mind
For my mind is free to roam the universe and it shall do so time and time again screaming in agony.
We are all human. We are all human. We exist. All of us. We are all human. All in suffering.. all in pain. The suffering of every child, woman, man, is my suffering, the alleviation of this suffering is my calling.

Walk your talk. End racial profiling. Say “No more”.

I received an e-mail from a lady teacher. She attached the two-paged document that I have reproduced below.

This is what she said in her mail :

“After all the talk of 1Malaysia, we are still asked to mark ourselves as Malay or non-Malay, bumi or non-bumi, Muslim or non-Muslim.

Does my race or religion have any relevance whether I am a good teacher?

Are we not all Malaysians?

I hate this, Haris.

Can I just ignore those irritating questions?

What should I do?”

I replied her :

“Take a red pen and a ruler. Draw a line right through ‘Status Bumiputra’, ‘Bangsa’, ‘Etnik’ and ‘Agama’ and then write over that line you have just drawn, “TIDAK RELEVAN. SAYA ANAK BANGSA MALAYSIA”.

If you do not agree with this sort of profiling, condemn it by refusing to go along with it.

The reason this sort of profiling still goes on is because even as we recognise how wrong it is, we take the easy way out and comply.

In reality, it is we who give life to this profiling.

If we collectively refuse to legitimise thiss policy of profiling by refusing to comply, it will one day surely go away.”

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I’m going to reproduce below parts of an earlier posting.

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RPK, almost tongue-in-cheek, offered a simple definition of ‘civil disobedience’ in a POST at MT sometime back :

“It’s actually quite simple. You defy the powers-that-be, but you do it in a passive, not active, manner. You do not resist. You just do nothing. And is this not what Malaysians are good at, doing nothing?”

Of late, notwithstanding the PM’s talk about 1Malaysia, we still see a lot of racist, divide-and-rule crap coming out from Utusan, which is an UMNO mouthpiece, from the DPM, from other ministers and a whole array of NGOs which, if you bothered to check, again lead back to UMNO.

UMNO continues to play the race card because this is the only politics they understand.

The other BN component parties, most times, don’t have the courage to stand up to UMNO and say ‘Cut out this race crap. We are all Malaysians, so stop this divide-and-rule game’.

In response to UMNO’s ketuanan Melayu, Pakatan Rakyat has been heard to espouse ketuanan rakyat but, sadly, sometimes even the PR politicians appear afraid to walk the full distance needed to truly see this nation on the way to being that of a single people.

For some time now, I’ve believed that if we are to see the aspiration of ‘One People, One Nation’ become a reality, it has to be people-driven.

What say we start a little civil disobedience now to send out our own little message, in our own little way, to the government , that we are no longer going to countenance their divide-and-rule tactics?

We could simply call this initiative Project Irrelevant.

Project Irrelevant is not new.

It was launched at the first Bangsa Malaysia Merdeka forum and get-together on 25th August, 2007 at the then Blog House. You can read about that HERE.

I’ve also written about Project Irrelevant HERE.

Let me just reproduce my closing lines in the Project Irrelevant post :

“If you are one of those who has written with comments to this blog supportive of the many initiatives to one day see this as a nation of one people, I ask you to now support this initiative.

Please walk your talk.

If you proclaim yourself as anak Bangsa Malaysia in cyberspace, have the courage and conviction to do the same on paper.

SEX : IRRELEVANT

RELIGION : IRRELEVANT

RACE : BANGSA MALAYSIA”

Dear Mahathir

Malaysianinsider reports  that you had “defended the social contract, the so-called unwritten agreement between the Malays and the non-Malays during independence, by affirming that without the agreement, Malaysia would not have been formed”.

They quoted you :

“If there was no social contract, the terms and conditions of allowing citizenship to non-Malays would have not taken place. One million outsiders were given citizenships at the time.”

Now,  this quote from you got me curious.

Let me tell you why.

I conferred with my aunt, who confirmed that my maternal great grandfather, Eliathamby, of whom I’ve written previously in a posting entitled “The land that my forefathers helped build”, would have left Ceylon and arrived in what is now West Malaysia, around 1870. He died well before the conclusion of that social contract that you spoke of, so my great grandfather would not have come within those ‘one million outsiders’ who acquired citizenship at the time of independence in 1957.

My maternal grandfather, Vellupillay T. Williams, never lived to see the formation of Malaya so he, too, did not make up the ‘one million outsiders’.

Enough of my family tree.

Let’s look at yours.

I got this from a blog, Malaysiana :

Perhaps, the most famous Malayalee to land in George Town was Iskandar Kutty, a merchant who married a Johor-Riau wife Siti Hawa Iskandar.

They became the proud parents of Alor Star’s top public school Sultan Abdul Hamid College’s founder-principal and Kedah’s royal educator Datuk Mohamad Iskandar.

Mohamad was the school teacher of Tunku Abdul Rahman.

He and his wife Datin Wan Tempawan Wan Hanafi from the Kedah Bendahara’s (Prime Minister’s) clan, were the proud parents of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s Father of Modernisation and fourth Prime Minister.

And this from Malaysia Today :

Born in December 20, 1925, Dr Mahathir hailed from the state of Kedah, at the capital of Alor Star, whose father was a school teacher. His father was Indian who migrated from Kerala, who married a malay lady and sold banana fritters during the second world war. His early education was through vernacular school and at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College in the city.

My question, then, Doc, firstly, is whether your father was amongst the ‘one million outsiders’?

And when did you become ‘Malay’, Doc?

When did you move from being a son of an Indian who migrated from Kerala to a Malay?

Not that I care, but when?

Speaking of Malay, do you remember your “Malay Dilemma”, Doc?

Do you remember what you said about the problem of inbreeding amongst the Malay community, and that whole business of genes?

Back then, who had heard of this thing called DNA?

Who had ever imagined that science would one day make it possible for all of us to trace our genealogy?

Guess what, Doc?

It seems, based on all this new DNA scientific knowledge, that there’s no such thing as a Malay race.

It would seem that you’ve gone from being a son of an Indian who migrated from Kerala to a ‘does not exist’.

Just like that!

My cyber buddy, Michael Chick, has written extensively on this matter, in a three-parter in Malaysiakini. HERE, HERE, and HERE .

See what Michael writes in his final part :  “The people Malaysians call ‘Malay’, are actually only a tiny sub-component of the much larger Austronesian group. And all Austronesians are the end-product of extensive inter-breeding between the Taiwanese and Dravidic Indians. All this has finally been irrefutably proven by independent DNA testings from world-class faculties”.

I’ve never been very good at all these sciences, Doc, but if you’re any better, and you think Michael’s cocked-up big time in his conclusions, why don’t you take him on?

Damn, I digress.

So when and how did you become Malay, Doc?

Because of the definition of ‘Malay’ in the Federal Constitution, Doc?

Article 160 (2)?

That right?

So, right up until the last moments before Tunku’s declaration of independence, you were the son of an Indian who migrated from Kerala, and moments later

you were magically transformed into a Malay?

And is not the definition of Malay in Article 160(2) stated to be for the limited purpose where the word ‘Malay’ appears in the Constitution?

But really, Doc, I don’t give a toss whether you hold yourself out as Malay or the son of an Indian who migrated from Kerala.

Whatever turns you on.

What pisses me off is this Bumi-non Bumi crap.

November 19th, last year, The Star reported on Najib’s balik kampung to Makassar in  South Sulawesi. You can read the report HERE.

Courtesy of The Star

Najib is reported to have said : “I feel like I am returning to my roots,” and, when asked to comment on the possibility that some people might view the fact that he had roots here in a negative light, Najib said: “I am not apologetic about it. This is my family history and I am proud of it.”

According to the report, Najib said he was the direct descendant of Bugis royalty who migrated to Pahang in the 18th century.

Well, at least this Malaysian is not ashamed of his roots!

Now, you know that aunt I mentioned earlier?

You know her.

Aunty Rasammah.

I googled her name yesterday and this is what is written of her in Wikipedia.

“Rasammah Bhupalan, also known as Rasammah Naomi Navarednam or Mrs F.R. Bhupalan is a renowned Malaysian freedom fighter and social activist

Born in 1927, she has championed causes such as the anti-drug abuse movement, women’s rights, education and social justice causes.

Rasammah was one of the earliest women involved in the fight for Malaysian (then Malaya) independence. She joined the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, the women’s wing of the Indian National Army, to fight the British. She served in Burma during World War II.

As founder president of the Women Teacher’s Union, she fought for equal pay for women teachers and tried to bring disparate teachers’ unions under an umbrella.

The former school principal was the first Asian representative of the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession for two successive terms. She was also very active in the National Council of Women’s Organisation (NCWO) and Pemadam.

She was a teacher in the Methodist Boys’ School, Kuala Lumpur from 1959 to 1964 and was the principal of the Methodist Girls School, Kuala Lumpur for 13 years from 1970 until she retired in 1982. On 11th November 2007, Mrs.Bhupalan was one of the few veteran teachers who were invited to attend MBSSKL’s 110th Anniversary Celebration Dinner. The dinner was specially organized to honour all the former and current teachers of the school”.

Quite frankly, I think the write-up in Wikipedia does little justice to all that Aunty Rasammah has done for this country. But that is another matter.

More importantly, Doc, why are you, the son of an Indian who migrated from Kerala, and Najib, the descendant of Bugis who migrated from Sulawesi, bumiputra, whilst Aunty Rasammah is not?

Darah Rakyat : Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia Ipoh Roadshow

Round about this time last year, Perakians were robbed of their most basic of fundamental rights.

The right of self-governance.

Government of the people, for the people, by the people.

Round about this time last year, democracy died in Perak.

Do Perakians desire self-governance?

Do they deserve self-governance, or do they now have the government they deserve?

Do Perakians have what it takes to resurrect democracy in their state?

The Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia Roadshow and Forum goes to Ipoh on 6th February, 2010. We’d like to share our thoughts with our Perakian anak Bangsa Malaysia.

Should you attend?

Click on the image below to read what straits-mongrel has to say.

We do not countenance your ways and we do not fear you, UMNO

Moderator’s note : Seorang pembaca blog ini bernama Peter, dengan menggunakan kemudahan yang disediakan oleh Google, telah menterjemahkan posting ini ke dalam Bahasa Malaysia. Terjemahan tersebut, walaupun bukan begitu tepat, boleh dibaca di SINI.

Tahniah, Peter.

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I was too young to fully understand all that was happening when the May 13 tragedy struck.

I have since had the benefit of reading up on this dark passage of our nation’s history from every possible literature I could lay my hands on, including Dr. Kua’s “May 13″.

Until an earnest attempt to lay bare the truth about the riots of 1969 is made through a mechanism akin to that of a truth and reconciliation commission, we may never really ever know what brought about the violence and mayhem which , as we now know, made all talk thereafter of nation-building, as envisaged by our founding fathers, rhetoric and little else.

At the same time, the race-based ‘divide and rule’ blueprint laid out by the Malay nationalists of the day and carried forward by their progeny to this day has, over the years, been allowed to take root and firmly grip this nation by, again and again, playing out to a fearful people, the spectre of race and religion-based violence erupting to disrupt a peaceful existence sustained, not through genuine respect, acceptance and understanding, but the absence of dissent through fear.

Again and again, the people are reminded of the dark history of May 13.

Take the script of May 13. Tweak it a little.

New actors.

Present-day props.

The stage is set.

Act One : Racial posturing by one group

Act Two : Retaliation by another group

Act Three : Media reports of volatile racial tension

Act Four : Police threat to take the necessary action to restore calm

Act Five : Pre-emptive strike by the powers that be to arrest the ‘trouble makers’ and detain the same under preventive detention laws ( read this as ISA ). Strangely, the actors in Act 1 and Act 2 escape the net that has been cast far and wide

No need for real bloodshed.  Creating public fear of the same would have the same desired effect.

Take the Najib-Lee Kim Sai sandiwara of 1987, that was the prelude to Ops Lalang.

Racial posturing, leading to racial tension, and then mass arrests.

The net cast wide, so that the real targets of detention are not immediately discernible, in the context of media-reported racial tension, in the hope that a fearful people will not retaliate to these arrests.

The main players?

Scot-free. Job well done.

Glean through the history of this nation and one will find that every time the Malay nationalists in UMNO have found themselves politically weak and up against the wall, they have resorted to the script of May 13.

Times have changed, though.

The mainstream media no longer has a monopoly over the dissemination of information to the people.

We are a better informed people now.

Post the Hindraf rally of 25th November, 2007, the ultras in UMNO planned a rally on 19th December.

It was called off.

They were advised that the components of that planned rally would be largely mercenary Mat Rempit and Perkida. Should there be a retaliatory gathering on the same day by those marginalised Malaysians who had protested earlier on 25th November, and should these two groups clash, there would be a bloodbath. Within minutes, sms’s would carry news of the same throughout the country.

The nation would be in flames.

That the ultras in UMNO then called off the rally tells us that they too, then, could not afford a nation in flames.

The economy would be in ruins. There would be no riches to pilfer in the guise of governance.

What they then did was, through the mainstream media, to contrive fear of racial tension.

Every other day, in that December of 2007, the IGP was quoted asking people not to be influenced by e-mails and sms’s warning of trouble looming in the country.

That was enough.

It worked.

Every other day that month, I received sms’s asking me to take care as I travelled in the course of my work, social activism or otherwise.

Looking back now, it would seem that that ploy was too little, too late.

The results of the 12th GE bears testimony to this.

The rakyat were not taken in to vote for stability. Half of those voting voted for change.

Has UMNO since abandoned the script of May 13?

No.

Since Najib launched his 1Malaysia, it’s become difficult for UMNO to openly play the race / religious ‘divide and rule’ card.

Not that they don’t anymore, but it has become difficult.

It’s a credibility issue, so the PR boys have advised.

Play the race and religion card by all means, so the advise goes, but distance UMNO from this.

Do it surreptitiously.

Enter the many NGOs that leave a trail leading back to UMNO, that have sprung up to do the dirty work of stirring alarmist race and religious sentiments amongst our Malay / Muslim brothers and sisters.

Read this to include PERKASA, PEWARIS and Pekida and any other NGO in any way howsoever connected to Ibrahim Ali or Dr M.

Add to this the vile and dangerous rantings of the likes of Zul Nordin and Hassan Ali.

These are the new actors to the drama, founded on the script of May 13, that we see being played out today.

Aided and abetted by the mainstream media and the numerous blogs and websites that serve the racist agenda of UMNO.

Utusan, Berita Harian, NST, The Star, and all the state and UMNO-owned TV and radio stations.

Must I name the bloggers?

We all know who they are.

The history books of this nation may some day record their names, and their deeds, for posterity. Time will tell.

So the script of the new drama unfolding before us and carried out to the Malay heartland by the media is largely the same.

The May 13 script, tweaked to suit present circumstances and needs.

The actors are new.

What of the props and the modus?

Remember the cow-head incident in Shah Alam in August, last year?

How the perpetrators of that shameful act claimed to be PAS members and finally, most, if not all, turned out to be UMNO members or UMNO-connected?

Things, however, didn’t go as they had hoped.

Why?

Our Hindu brothers and sisters did not fall into the trap of the evil perpetrators of that most ugly deed by reacting with any retaliatory move, thereby unwittingly setting the stage for Acts 3, 4 and 5.

Back to the drawing board.

Solution : If the good people of this nation will not retaliate to staged provocation, stage the retaliation as well.

If the Hindus will not retaliate to cow-head stomping and the Christians will not react to church-torching by desecrating Muslim places of worship, do it on their behalf.

And then let the UMNO-subservient media do their work to get word of this staged retaliation to the unsuspecting Malays in the heartlands who have no access to alternative news.

Consider the seeming tit-for-tat church burnings and desecration of mosques and surau that we are witnessing.

The intended demonstrations on 8th January after Friday prayers against the the High Court decision in the “Allah” issue fizzled out.

The church burnings of the same day drew outright condemnation from civil society, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

And little else.

What of the desecration of surau and mosques that followed?

I have no doubt in my mind that these, like the church burnings and the attack on the gurdwara, were staged by UMNO and their thugs.

In the midst of all this comes the announcement of the use of the ISA to detain those alleged to be involved with international terrorism.

Is Act five looming?

Let’s wait and see.

Let’s also say it like it is.

The two biggest enemies of peace, justice and equality in this our nation, are UMNO and their controlled media.

Both are dying a slow death.

If in December of 2007, UMNO appeared to still want to avert any real bloodbath, increasingly now, they do not seem to care.

Or it may be that UMNO now is so fractured and like the days of Pak Lah, the leadership today is unable to reign in the warlords.

Whichever, UMNO has unleashed its agenda of terror.

What of the rest of the nation?

More than ever before, we need to be united to face these enemies from within.

We must not backslide and lose the little ground we have gained over the last few years.

We must all do what we can to neutralise the impact and effect of the lies being spun by the UMNO-subservient media on those who do not have access to the alternative news.

And should mass detention ala Ops Lalang come to pass, we must be ready to step forward to offer leadership in place of those who may be taken in.

What we must not do is to react and give them the stage that their desperate plan requires.

We must counter the message of hate being churned out by UMNO and its media with acts of love, kindness and understanding.

This is our collective responsibility.

If we respond to our enemies agenda with calm and cunning, by God’s Will, we shall soon bury them.

What is the message that we must send to UMNO?

DO NOT MISCONSTRUE OR ACTS OF LOVE, KINDNESS AND UNDERSTANDING TO BE BORNE OUT OF FEAR.

WE DO NOT COUNTENANCE YOUR WAYS AND WE DO NOT FEAR YOU, UMNO.

Will you do your part to make PKR Zul-free?

Received the following e-mail from Lil’ Hummingbird this morning.

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“Much sound and fury from you and your readers on this Zul idiot. Is that all you are good for? Noise and little else?

Much confusion has been generated over this idiot’s antics.

He has tried to frame the debate over his alleged attempts to protect Islam and Allah. In other words, he is trying to project himself as an Islamic warrior and hero.

Truth is, the issue is not about defending Islam.

The issue is not about defending Allah.

The sheer arrogance on the part of this idiot to suggest that Allah, The Almighty, would require defending by a mere mortal?

And by the likes of this idiot?

Wouldn’t  such a declaration in itself  constitute an insult to Allah?

The real issue is politics.

The issue is about gross indiscipline.

The issue is about a cumulative pattern of openly defying the party leadership’s directives to Zulkifli to cease and desist.

The issue is about putting the party to public ridicule and contempt.

The issue is about jeopardizing the party’s relationship with PAS by lodging a police report against Khalid Samad and demanding that he be arrested under the Sedition Act.

The other idiot in the party, Azmin Ali,  has tried to defend Zulkifli by asking why action is being taken against a Muslim and not against a Christian, in reference to Dato Jeffrey Kitingan.

That is the wrong question.

And asking the wrong question gives you the wrong answer!

If you feel as I do about the need to sack this idiot immediately, let his defender, Azmin Ali, know your feelings, especially if you are voting in his constituency - ukay64@yahoo.com.

Meanwhile, you can contact your ADUN or MP or Senator as listed below to let them know that you will only support a Zul-free PKR.

Tell them not to @#$% around with you anymore if they want to continue to be relevant after GE13.

This is important as there is an important meeting to make a decision on Zulkifli Nordin in PKR this Sunday, 31st Jan 2010 involving all of them.

Or are you only good at bitching and griping in blogosphere and, otherwise, quite impotent to do anything else ?”

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The contact details of your PKR MP / ADUN / Senator :

MPs & Senators

Kedah: Senator Zamri Yusof <zamri04@yahoo.com>, Kuala kedah hj ahmad kassim <mpkk08@gmail.com>, Kulim Zulkifli Nordin <zul_lawyer@yahoo.com>, Merbok Rashid Din <pkrmerbo@streamyx.com>, Padang Serai Gobalakrishnan a/l Nagapan <gobalakrishnan23@gmail.com>, Sg Petani Dr Dato Johari Abdul <johariabdul55@yahoo.com>

Kelantan: machang saifuddin nasution <saifuddinnasution@yahoo.com>, Tanah Merah Amran Ab Ghani <amk_t.merah@yahoo.com>, Ketereh Ab Aziz Ab Kadir azkaketereh@gmail.com

KL: Ampang Zuraida Kamaruddin <zuraida.kamaruddin@gmail.com>, Bandar Tun Razak Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim <sekun26@yahoo.com>, Batu Caves Chua Tian Chang <tianchua@gmail.com>, Lembah Pantai Nurul Izzah Anwar <nurianwar@gmail.com>, Wangsa Maju Wee Choo Keong weechookeong@gmail.com

Negri Sembilan: Telok Kemang yb dato kamarul baharin abbas <kam_1011@yahoo.com>

Pahang: Indra Mahkota Azan Ismail <azan@sesamaventures.com>, kuantan fuziah salleh <fuziah99@yahoo.com>

Penang: Balik Pulau Mohd. Yusmadi Mohd Yusoff <yusmadi.yusoff@gmail.com>, Bayan Baru yb dato zahrain mohamed hashim <dzahrain@gmail.com>, Nibong Tebal Tan Tee Beng <dttbeng@hotmail.com>, Permatang Pauh anwar ibrahim <anwar.ib@gmail.com>, Senator pak mus mustafa kamal mohd yusoff <mkmy_penang@yahoo.com>

Perak: Bagan Serai Mohsin Fadzli Haji Samsuri <mohsinfadzli@gmail.com>, Gopeng Dr. Lee Boon Chye <leeboonchye@gmail.com>,

Selangor: Kuala Langat abdullah sani abd hamid <ahliparlimen.klgtp112@gmail.com>,

Gombak azmin ali <ukay64@yahoo.com>, Hulu Selangor Zainal Abidin Ahmad <napilangat@yahoo.com>, Kapar Manikavasagam a/l Sundaram <mike_dato@yahoo.com>, Kelana Jaya Loh Gwo-Burne <loh.gwoburne@gmail.com>, PJS hee loy sian <heels70@gmail.com>, Selayang William Leong <wileong97@gmail.com>, Subang R Sivarasa <parliamentsubang@gmail.com>, senator dr syed husin <husinsa23@yahoo.com>

ADUNs

Kedah: “Bakar Arang Tan Wei Shu” <tanweishu@kedah.gov.my>, “Bt Selambau S Manikumar” <mansub50@yahoo.com>, “Kulim Lim Soo Nee” <snlim88@yahoo.com>, “Sidam Tan Joon Long @ Tan Chow Kang” <pkrsp.015@gmail.com>,

Kelantan: “Gucil Tuan Zamri Ariff Tuan Zakaria” <adunguchil@yahoo.com>,

Negri Sembilan: “Ampangan Rashid Latiff” <ybrash@streamyx.com>, “Chuah Chai Tong Chai” <adunchuah@gmail.com>,  “Port Dickson Ravi a/l Munusamy” <ravipdm@yahoo.com>, Sikamat “Aminuddin Harun” <aminuddin_hasni@yahoo.com>,

Penang: “Balik Pulau Abdul Halim Hussain” <halim@penang.gov.my>, “Batu Maung Abdul Malik Kassim” <amk_keadilantanjong@yahoo.com>, “Batu Uban Raveentharan a/l Subramaniam” <raveenkeadilan@gmail.com>, “Bt Tambun Law Choo Kiang” <cklaw70@yahoo.com.tw>, “Bt Tengah Ong Chin Wen” <ocw77@yahoo.com>,  “Kebun Bunga Jason Ong Khan Lee” <jason_okl@yahoo.com>, “Machang Bubuk Tan Hock Leong” <hltan_5057@yahoo.com.my>, “Pantai Jerejak sim tze tzin” <simtzetzin@gmail.com>, “Penanti Dr Mansor Othman” <mansor@penang.gov.my>,  “Sungai Bakap Makhtar Shapee” <maktar@streamyx.com>,

Perak: ” Kuala Sepetang Tai Sing Ng” <taisn508@gmail.com>,  “Simpang Pulai Chan Ming Kai” <chanmingkai@hotmail.com>, “Teja chang lih kang” <changlihkang@gmail.com>, “Parit Buntar S. Kesavan” <ksevan72@yahoo.com>,  ” Abdul Yunus b Jamahri” <yunusjamsari@yahoo.com>,

Sarawak: “Dominique Ng Kim Ho” ng_dominique@yahoo.com

Selangor: “Batu Caves amirudin shari” <amirudin.shari@gmail.com>,  ”Batu Tiga Rodziah Ismail” <og_mail@yahoo.com, “Bt Antarabangsa azmin ali” <ukay64@yahoo.com>, “Bt Lanjan Elizabeth Wong” <bukitlanjan2008@gmail.com>, “Bt Melawati muthiah m pillay” <jupro1148@yahoo.com>,  “Ijok Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim” <sekun26@yahoo.com>,  “Kg Medan Haniza Mohd Taha” <hanizat@gmail.com>, “Kota Anggerik Yaakop Sapari” <akobqps@yahoo.com>,  ”Rawang gan pei nei” <peinei81@gmail.com>,   ”Sri Andalas Dr Xavier Jayakumar” <drxavier@selangor.gov.my>,  ” Seri Setia Nik Nazmi” <niknazmi@niknazmi.com>, kajang cikgu lee kim sin” <leekimsin@gmail.com>, “Sri Muda Mat Shuhaimi Shafiei” <sshuhaimi@yahoo.com.au>,

PKR : Parti Kena Rembat

“I don’t bow down to Anwar, PKR or anyone” – Zul Nordin, quoted by The Malay Mail

“A defiant Zulkifli Nordin has issued a fresh challenge to his party leaders. He says he will continue talking about the “Allah” issue despite a gag order.

This is despite a warning from PKR leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim of stern action against the Ku­­lim-Bandar Baharu MP if he continues to make me­­dia statements about the matter.

Immediately after the PKR political bureau issued the order yesterday banning party members from making statements on the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims, Zulkifli declared that it was limited to his police report against PAS Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad over the same matter” ‘ The Staronline

Zul no fear little pharaohs. Zul have Big Chief Sitting Bull by the …

Lil’ Hummingbird caught up with me for  drinks last night.

“Zul got  a battering from most of those at the PKR politburo meeting earlier. Most made it clear that this fool had become a liability to the party and would no longer be tolerated.”, he volunteered, as he beckoned the waitress to attend to his near-empty glass.

“Guess who came to his aid, though, and saved his sorry ass, for now at least?”, he asked, practically emptying the glass that had just been filled.

“Who?”, I asked, just as I caught the attention of the waitress and signalled her to get him another pint.

“Big Chief Sitting Bull and his two sidekicks,”, he volunteered.

“Who the hell is that?”, I asked.

“Damn it, can’t you even figure that one out?”, he threw back at me.

“Who?”, I repeated, my impatience showing.

“Anwar, as lead counsel, Azmin and Jui Meng playing second fiddle.”, he rattled.

“Aw, come on. Even Malaysiakini reported yesterday that Anwar had said that this time the idiot had gone too far, and had demanded an explanation from Zul. Having taken such a position publicly, why the about-turn now?”, I asked, unable to hold back my dsibelief at what I had just been told.

“Aiyoh, you are so @#$%^&* naive. Bloody politician, isn’t he? When do they ever say anything and really mean it? They just tell us what they’re sure we want to hear. Bloody sandiwara, that’s what it was. A lot of ‘cakap tak bikin’.”

“You know why? Anwar’s afraid of how Malay voters will react if Zul is sacked or suspended for what some may perceive as he having acted in defence of Islam. So what does he do? Orders Zul to shut the @#$% up and send this matter to the Disciplinary Committee of the party. That way, if the DC takes any decisive action, at least no one can point a finger at Anwar. Better still, may be between now and when the DC is supposed to hear this matter, something else will come up to draw attention away from this idiot’s latest antics,”, he went on.

“People, even within the party, are beginning to talk, though.”, he offered, and, deliberately, I think, left it at that.

I took the bait.

“Ok, what’s the talk?”, I asked.

He looked impishly at his empty glass.

“Miss, one more for my friend, please”.

“Zul has Big Chief by his you-know-what. Nobody knows quite what it is, though. At least, no one is saying anything. Just yet.”, he blurted, as he gulped down the newly arrived pint.

He got up to go, but paused long enough to promise to go dig for details if he thought I’d be a little bit more generous next time round.

Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia : A journey of love and hope

That has been my experience on this journey thus far.

The SABM KL Roadshow and Forum last Saturday at the Kuala Lumpur & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall was no different.

It was a colourful affair, both in terms of speakers and musical presentations, as well as the audience, without whose presence, there would have been no forum to speak of.

The SABM website has an excellent pictorial of the event. You can catch it HERE.

A member of the audience has shared his thoughts on the forum in his blog. You can read the same HERE.

Sivin Kit, one of the speakers at the forum, has uploaded his presentation on his blog for the benefit of those who could not make it to the forum. HERE it is.

In a later post, I will try to share some thoughts that have been on my mind since Nanda spoke to me on Christmas night last and which I tried to share with the audience at the forum.

What do “I am Malaysian” and “I love my country”, mean?

How do we begin to nurture ‘love for country’ in our young?

For now, I leave you with these video clips of the forum.

The mind and heart of anak Bangsa Malaysia

Farida just reminded me of a post I had put up here more than two years ago.

With all the hate-talk that we hear so often these days, it does not seem out of place to reproduce that posting again.

It represents my state of mind and all that I feel, as an anak Bangsa Malaysia.

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When he hears the racist call to shed the blood of this group or that, or the claims that one group is supreme over others, or has more rights, he asks, if not of the racist speaker, at least of himself :

‘Are we not all human? What is the rationale for this class or group discrimination? Different colour? Different culture? Different religion? Some were here before the others and therefore are more superior? The larger in number are the mightier? Can these factors justify these discriminations?’

This is the mind of anak Bangsa Malaysia.

In his mind, all this does not seem right.

The hate-language continues to play on the mind of anak Bangsa Malaysia.

He is greatly burdened by this talk of blood-spilling, by this ‘us and them’, ‘do not like it, get out’, ‘this is our land,your fathers were migrants’, ‘we gave you citizenship’ talk.

‘These are my people. Yes, all of them. No, not just my clan. All of them. They are my brothers and my sisters. Why would you want to hurt them? How can I just watch as you deny their children what my children have? I love their children as I love my own. Ignore their hunger because they are not of my race, of my faith? What God would have me do that? Not my God. No, I will not let you hurt them. They are my people. I love my people. Yes, all of them. Yes, even you. Please, please stop saying these things. It hurts my people and it hurts me.”

No, this is not the mind of anak Bangsa Malaysia.

This is his heart.