The Curse Of the Majority

Back with a "Come with me now!"

Astounding stupidity reeking from the newspapers prevalent in the air surrounding the Bar Council. I'm sure everyone has heard or read the news about the forum on conversion to Islam at the aforementioned venue and the subsequent protests by a rabid army of tok haji's brandishing signs reading "Jangan Cabar Islam".

Enter the neo-con Republicans of Malaysia!

But before we get into a discussion of religion , there be a couple of things I wanted to point out.
Firstly, why were the protesters allowed within a reasonable perimeter of the Bar Council? Why did the police recommend the forum to be ended instead of arresting the protesters for disturbing the peace?

Polly wants a cracker, maybe I should get off her first...

Moving along, I would like to categorically disassociate myself with these fools who invoke divinity for privilege and philistinism; men and women with minds of frozen ice-lollies insanely ignorant of their own faith and doctrine and who only serve to smear my name, the name of my parents and that of my siblings. Implication by extension, and the media loves frenzied religious fanatics, the orientalists of our time. Their actions are as bad as a misquote from My Poor Brain in the newspapers.

But such is the mindset of those who enjoy the fruits of being a majority in a multi-racial country, when privileges of race and religion should never have been handed out. Fair dinkum if Muslims have their own religion-privy court, which is not unlike the Jewish Halakha, so long as it doesn't jump the jurisdiction of those it doesn't involve. The necessity of a a forum on conversion to Islam is therefore of the utmost importance whichever side of the religious-political divide you fall on, as the grey areas are stark and shiny like cents on futsal court to my eyes.

I say curse of the majority (curses!), as the position is taken for granted in this country. Your not about to see such idiocy in a minority state. I ask the protesters, where is your faith? Are thee that insecure about your own religion? Aren't we suppose to be "right" anyways?

God loves the equals, as if that isn't obvious enough and I doubt he'd appreciate being told to "balik Cina" because he's not Malay.

Damn Malays! My ethnicity is guilty of rampant racism and puerile ignorance and my outburst is all that I can do to rebuke the insanity. Neo-conservatism is an easy thing to fall into, but the epoch we live in refuses unsubstantiated bullshit. And thus killing off that ideology.

All this flush during my assignment week. Inconsiderate.

"I went to Paris and found Islam but no Muslims, I came back to Egypt and found Muslims but no Islam."

-Mohammed Abduh