The "Kamikaze" Malay Gay

http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20101221/tap-as-malaysia-gay-confession-1st-ld-wr-b3c65ae.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJLSteQIcms

Above are the news and video link to the incident where a Malay guy openly confessed that he's gay and proud of it.

I've been wanting to blog about this 2 days ago while the news is still hot but i was having writer's block and i didn't have a comfortable place to blog (busy moving so currently i'm blogging with my laptop on the stool and i'm sitting on the floor and it's hurting my back).

What can you conclude from this video based on what the gay dude is saying?

1. It's hard being gay in Malaysia, especially if you are a MUSLIM (when you are a Malay, it's implied you are a Muslim).

Do tell me, is Islam the only religion that says being a homosexual is a SIN? Islam and Christian tells the story of Prophet Lut/Lot, whereby during his time God turned the world upside down to punish those who practice homosexual lifestyle after the wrongdoers refused to listen to the prophet as the messenger of God. I'm not going to lecture you on religion but since the guy brought religion up, it's only FAIR that i do so.

Let's be truthful, it seems like Muslims are more AGGRESSIVE when it comes to religion and God. We don't like it when people make fun of our religion and neither do we like it when some Muslim suddenly want to be SO BLOODY OPEN and GO AGAINST THE TEACHING OF THE RELIGION OPENLY. We show our anger and some Muslims even go to extend of giving death threats (which i think in certain cases is way too extreme).

I'm not saying other followers don't care about their religion but perhaps they are more laid back, more on forgiving perhaps? Perhaps that is caused by the Western culture. I've seen so many cartoons and even shows making fun of Jesus. I personally think it's wrong, sorry if my sense of humor sucks. I don't like it if people make fun of my family, what more my religion?

Yes, to some of you non muslims out there, you probably think we OVER REACTED when we Muslims become angry when somebody draw a picture of Prophet Muhammad with the bomb on his head or when a Muslim killed the guy who made a very degrading video on Islam (he damn deserved it) BUT we are just showing over strong disapproval. If we just keep quiet, people will be MORE DARING to insult the religion even more. If your child did something wrong, do you, as a parent just keep quiet and let him continue doing that wrong thing? No. You must scold him and punish him, only then he will learn and won't dare repeat the same mistake.

Islam also believe in forgiving, but before you can forgive someone, sometimes punishment in necessary so other people won't dare repeat the same mistake.


2. It's hard being gay in Malaysia because of culture and religion.

Duh, one of Malaysia's RUKUN NEGARA is "Kepercayaan kepada Agama" a.k.a "Believe in Religion". So Religion have more priority than whatever damn human right you want to claim that contradicts the religion. I have to thank my dad for telling me this. He was explaining this to me in regards to why gay marriages in Malaysia shouldn't be allowed.


AM I AGAINST GAY?

Be gay all you want but do it privately. Don't go around telling people it's ok to be gay because it isn't. Even if you don't believe in religion, COMMON SENSE tells you that gay is just against HUMAN NATURE because only sex between a man and woman can produce a child. That's how the system is suppose to work. You know something is WRONG when it DOESN'T WORK. Being gay is all about LUST. Sex out of wedlock is wrong but yet people do it. It is caused by lust. But you can't go around telling people and encouraging people it's OKAY TO HAVE SEX OUT OF WEDLOCK. neither do you encourage people and tell people it's okay to have child out of wedlock. Yes, these things happen even if it's wrong but telling people it's ok is not right.

YOU THINK THESE GAYS WANT TO BE GUIDED TO THE RIGHT PATH?

People can't help you unless you help yourself. If you demand society to accept you into society as a gay, you demand the government to give rights to gay and allow gay marriages, how will all these indicate you want to be guided to the right path?

Allowing all these are just encouraging them to be further from the right path because you are giving them what they want.

IF YOU ACKNOWLEDGE GAY, YOU ARE JUST SPREADING THE "DISEASE"

You think i will be happy if one day i have a son and he chooses to be gay because gay is no longer taboo in society and it's a norm? What's happening now in this world is that whatever bad things that is taboo ages ago have been a norm. Like transvestite and having child out of wedlock. These have become norms. If you do any of these, there won't be shame because it's accepted in society TODAY.

If gay becomes a norm, people who won't do it might do it because it's a normal thing, nothing to be embarrass about.

This is Malaysia. Respect the cultures and religions. Do bad things privately until you get caught and then you face the consequences, don't force society to accept your "bad thing".

This gay guy and people who support him are just stupid idiots. Were they born yesterday? Don't expect to come up with something as stupid as this and declare it openly without getting death threats or harsh criticisms. And then have the nerve to say Malaysians aren't open or too conservative or Muslims are violent. Screw you and your way too liberal immoral values.

Top 10 Gruesome Fairy Tale Origins

Top 10 Gruesome Fairy Tale Origins

This is something interesting to be read... so much for happy endings :-)

Bad Things - Privacy or Hypocrisy?

This is about good and bad things that happened to you...

Why DO people tell each other GOOD THINGS?

1. They want to share happiness together OR
2. They want to boast OR
3. They tell when being asked about it.

Why WON'T people tell each other GOOD THINGS?

1. They won't tell when not asked OR
2. If they tell, others may think they are being boastful, especially since they never ask you OR
3. To some, some good things can be privacy.

Why DO people tell each other BAD THINGS?

1. Seeking advice or sympathy or opinion.

Why WON'T people tell each other BAD THINGS?

1. Privacy OR
2. It's an embarrassing matter for them.


So the issue here is that some people only want to share the good and happy things that happened to them, thus giving the impression that his life is all perfect. Is it good to give the impression that your life all perfect? That you are invisible and immunized from problems? The General Rule here is that, NOBODY IS PERFECT, no matter how rich or beautiful the person is.

It is further irritating when people tell good things WITHOUT being asked, giving the impression they are being boastful. Of course not all good things which you tell may make you look boastful. Example, if you are going to get married, engaged, get a baby, get a new job, etc.

One common irritating scenario that i face during my schooling years is when it comes to exam results. I observed people telling others that they happily PASSED the exams when no one asked them. Which is a good thing because you are sharing the JOY of your happiness in passing the exams. But then this same person WON'T tell you he FAILED another exam. The funny thing is that, you tell people you pass without people asking you but you won't tell people you fail? And when people ACTUALLY ASK YOU (which you may accuse the person of being insensitive and busy body), you give a very vague answer as to whether you pass or not. Then if you pass an exam you will be busy calling people about their results so that you too can have the opportunity to tell them you passed BUT if you FAILED your exams, you will be MISSING IN ACTION a.k.a won't pick up calls, won't keep in touch with your friends, etc.

Some claim bad things are privacy. One shouldn't tell bad things because it might give bad impression to those who are involved with the "bad things". Example, like marriage. If your marriage is not doing well, why do you let others think it's all perfect and harmony when they ASKED you how it's doing? You don' have to tell them the juicy details on WHAT kind of marriage problems you are having, just tell them it's having its ups and downs and is not as perfect as they claim to be. Because imagine, if 10 years you have been telling your friends how perfect your marriage is and suddenly you get a divorce, obviously people will be shocked and perhaps talked even more about it because it's UNEXPECTED. Of course have you told them the truth, perhaps the divorce is expected.

Yes, bad things are embarrassing. It happened to me too but i think from the POSITIVE view of it despite you might not agree with me. Personally for me, divorce is not embarrassing but to some it's very embarrassing. And personally i think you think it's embarrassing because YOU CARE TOO MUCH ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THINK. And why do you care so much? Have you been misleading people into letting them think that they your marriage is flawless? Then that's your problem.

It's simple, if you keep the good things to yourself instead of telling without being asked, then you deserved to keep the bad things to yourself. Why not? You chose not to disclose both good and bad things. but if you are always telling people the good stuff, obviously people will keep on asking more and more about that matter, and probably will want to know any bad things that might happened.

Just like Celebrities. They want to show off how glamourous and hip and happening their life style is, encouraging paparazzis and media to sensationalized those good things. Then when they are in deep shit whereupon they face criminal charges, relationship scandals, etc, they want the media to get off their back. Do you think it's fair? Not at all. Don't expect the media just to report on the good stuff and leave out the bad stuff. Have you not been a MEDIA WHORE, the media wouldn't even be interested in the good and bad things that happened to you.

Nobody is perfect in this world. So don't bother to attempt to be one. And SCREW JEALOUSY. Be content with what you have. You think others have what you want to have, but think and be proud that others may not have what you have.

Muslim Sudanese Woman Whipped for Wearing PANTS

Above is the video.

Islam never ban women from wearing pants/trousers, provided that it's not revealing as in tight to the extend showing off the shape of your ass and legs. Some women, who dress properly, would wear a long blouse with pants so that the blouse will cover her ass, not showing the shape of her ass.

Looking at the video, do you think the punishment is justified? To be whipped for wearing pants? Not only that, the whipping is not being carried out properly. If REALLY you are dying to whip her, why can't it just be one stroke on the ass? Do you think for this kind of so called offence she deserved to be whipped many times? Not only many times, but all over the body? Even rapist only get whipped at the ass SEVERAL TIMES because the ass has strong/hard skin or something. If you say the reason why you have to whip her many times is because she's moving around, well screw you. Had you carried out the whipping procedure properly, she wouldn't move around and you can just give her one whipping. Shouldn't someone be holding both of her arms so that she won't try move or run when you whip her? If you can get her to go to her place execution of punishment, i don't see why you can't hold her.. Or do you find it fascinating to see her trying to run here and there to prevent being whipped?

I'm not a religious expert but i don't think the Quran stated the punishment for wearing pants is WHIPPING.

Why can't you just impose FINE on her? WARNING? Why must it be whipping? Who in the F*ck are you to impose whipping over something as petty as a woman wearing pants? Is whipping the only punishment over all sinful acts? Can wearing pants even amount to a sinful act?

Why do some people have to make Islam a difficult religion? You make it look as if Islam is all about torturing it's people when the people do PETTY MISTAKES. This is not even a criminal kind of offence. This is the very reason why people accused Islam of being a religion of terror, extremist etc. I as a Muslim try to show the non Muslims Islam is not like that but when you have a bunch of Muslims who do things like the whipping because the woman just wear pants, then it's useless.


It further angers me that people can laugh and smile watching someone being punished. Yeah, it shows HOW F*CKING COMPASSIONATE you are. Yeah, maybe you will laugh too when your mother gets whipped for wearing pants.

People can't Appreciate the Things which they CAN'T SEE..

Kindly be informed that this entry will contain many bad languages because some asshole just triggered my bitch mode blogger by provoking me.

Humans, they like to judge. Yes, i'm guilty of it too. But although i judge, i won't open my big fat mouth and unnecessarily insult that person if it happens i don't like the person's appearance or whatsoever.

There are another particular type of humans who loooove to insult someone indirectly. This kind of people, they are rude, shallow bastards. Such people will defend their action by saying they are being HONEST (yeah, honest my ass asshole), direct and not a hypocrite. If you see a person is ugly, do you tell the person straight to the face he is fugly? No. Why? It's unnecessary. The same goes to fat comments. I don't see the point of telling someone he/she gained weight UNLESS YOU WERE ASKED to give your opinion. Fat comments only makes the fatty feel low self esteem. Unless that person has a serious health probs or something. But really, don't you think a fat person already knows he's fat without you having to tell him?

Then there's the difference between INSULTING and being SARCASTIC. The latter is less irritating. INSULTING someone is wrong. Being sarcastic is okay okay because some people don't get it and for those who do get it, I just think that it doesn't hurt that much. Example :

Insulting : "You Are Stupid".

Sarcastic : "My Cat is smarter than you".

So, after a few weeks of not being in my SHE HULK BITCH mode, an asshole decides to provoke me. What's the story?

There was a question open to the fans in a facebook page which asked you to comment about why hookers are hookers. So I decide to comment, stating my opinion. Making a general comment about how hookers want to find easy money and easy work which just requires them to spread their legs wide open (i didn't say that but i'm being sarcastic because i'm fucking pissed off).

So then this motherfucker, who perhaps think he's a fucking saint, made a statement saying that i'm just like them (hooker) since I wear sexy to get men. The fucker's exact words were

"mcm hang gak la...tunjuk body kat fb supye org bleh lggn???"

Now, that really fucking pissed me off. This fucker has a problem with the way i dress. Yes, i dress sexy or like a slut but if you insult me by calling me a hooker, you are going to wish you were never born.

Go look up at the definition of a HOOKER but to make your life simpler, a hooker/prostitute is a person who sells her body for SEX. So it means you will get MONEY with the condition that you have sex or perform any sexual favours.

The last time i checked, i didn't get money for dressing sexy and neither did i have sex and get money. So how does that qualify me as a hooker motherfucker? I didn't state in my profile that i offer sex services and neither did i offer any men any sex services. Oh, just because i dress sexy i'm a hooker? Then what about those who dress decently but secretly providing sex services? This kind of person is better than me?

You want to complain about my dressing, be my guest. But calling me a hooker? If you are a girl, i'll bitch slap your fugly face and if you are a man, i'll kicked your dick and punch your fugly face.

Men, they always emphasized that a woman should be decently dress, and not dress scantily. Yes, i admit it's a good thing but you don't have to insult me about it. If you think a person's dressing is more important than her attitude, fine by me.

That's why i smile gleefully when the guys get screwed over by girls who wear head cover. They have this implied perception that if you are decently dress, you will be a good partner. Well, if you don't bother to investigate your partner's true colours, that doesn't mean your partner is a darling angel.

I've been with men who have a problem with the way i dress despite the fact that i'm loyal to them. Of course when i'm single i'm flirty but when i'm in a relationship, i'll give full commitment if he gives me his commitment too.

I gave that fucker a piece of my mind. I don't know whether because i'm getting older or the fact that i think before i say something, but i didn't curse him like hell. I wanted to say that his mother is a hooker. But i chose not to say it. Just say it in my blog. The fucker can go fucked himself and i hope he sleeps with a hooker and gets AIDS

Why Mistresses/Scandals go Public....

Remember Tiger Woods's Mistresses? Or Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky? Wayne Rooney's hooker/pornstar mistress? What do they have in common? These are mistresses of famous MALE politicians/celebrities who go public about the scandals...

Immediately you would have thought that these women are FAME and MONEY WHORES. They go public and sale stories and get paid doing so. Well, they are in fact fame and money whores and that the men having scandals with such women are actually stupid and naive to think that these women won't kiss and tell...

But perhaps another reason is that these women were irked by these men so called "good and loving husband and father" image. These men are celebrities/famous people, their lifestyle and family life will occasionally be featured by the media. So the mistresses will know what's going on with them. So when you show off how family man you are when in fact you aren't, that will perhaps be the trigger point where the mistress decides to go public with the scandal.

It's simple concept actually. You have a friend. Your friend brags about how rich he is. And that simply irks you. Then perhaps you tell someone of your dissatisfaction or you came across someone who happen to know the "TRUTH" bout your friend, the fact that he owes money to loan shark or he's going to be a bankrupt, you can't help yourself from feeling a little smug because your friend is a liar. Probably if your friend continue to go around telling other people how rich he is, it will trigger you to tell those people that he's actually debt ridden and going to be a bankrupt.

Some may think you are bad mouthing that person. Can it be bad mouthing if it's the TRUTH? Your purpose is not to embarrass the person, but to give that person a taste of his own medicine. He asks for it anyway, who asked him to brag in the first place? If your purpose is to merely embarrass the guy, then that's kindda wrong.

If you did something wrong, don't try to misrepresent yourself by saying you are a good person, holy person or whatsoever. It will only want to make people bring you down more.

So yes, all those married people who, on the surface, show off how happy they are but in fact behind their marriage is all about scandals and affair, it irks me. Not that i'm saying i hate seeing people happy. But there's a difference when you see someone who is genuinely happy and doesn't intend to show off and a person who show off the whole time, as if wanting to whole world to know his/her world is super perfect.

But going back to these mistresses, they should have personally inform the wife about her husband affair instead going public for the whole world to know and see the wife embarrassed by the media reports. Then again, you won't get anything by telling the wife personally right? Better to wreck a person's marriage publicly and get money doing so. So for famous married people, if you are famous, and you have affair, your affair will be famous too.

Last but not least, be SAFE, don't BRAG...

Young Bride

Marriage is my right, says 14-year-old Maya

Look at the link above.

What is WRONG with this picture?

1. OBVIOUSLY a 14 year old getting married. She's not even done with her studies. She's not even halfway done with her studies.

2. She's 14, and he' 23. 9 years age difference. it's not a problem if the girl was older, like 20 and he's 29 because it's ASSUMED that by then she already reached a mature mind. So it's ok if a 14 year old gets married if she's MENTALLY and PHYSICALLY MATURE? Not really. You can't really measure a person's maturity. But that's why you have juvenile and adult offenders because it's assumed that when you reached 18, you should be responsible for your actions. So regardless whether you are mature or not at 18, you will be tried as an adult. But if you are a 14 year old offender but a genius criminal offender, perhaps even mature beyond your age, you will still be tried as a juvenile offender because there's still an assumption that you haven't reach the age of majority and that you are just a young offender. So is it right for young teens to get married and asked to be treated like an adult, claiming they are mature but yet face the consequences of their bad decisions as a young teen and not as an adult? People will defend them and say "but he/she is just a childdddd"...

3. If you choose to get married, shouldn't you be INDEPENDENT? Have your own place, not depending on parents, etc. There don't know what is the hardship of a marriage as long as they are still staying with the parents. Besides, is it healthy if your parents are involved in your marriage? Interfering here and there?

4. Being a married woman means you need to look after your husband and his needs. What does a married woman do? Work, clean the house, cook for the husband, fulfill her husband's sexual desire. So her mother will do the house cleaning and cooking while she will be busy preparing for exams and night time be with her husband? Even SOME adult married woman who is working need the assistance of a maid to look after the house. And despite that, when they come back from work, they r too tired to entertain the husband. One of the factors why some marriages end up with divorces.

5. Parents always try to prevent their children from being in a relationship while they are still studying. Some parents are so carefree and so called open minded that they think it's cool if their 13 year old child has a bf/gf. Why won't parents allow their children to be in a relationship while studying? Well, relationship can be distracting to your studies. God knows, when you and your partner have a fight, for some young emo people, they think the world is going to end and thus can't concentrate on their studies. Marriage is a big responsibility.

6. With this current 14 old girl girl's case, people think they are an ideal couple because the guy seems to be "islamic" since he's tutoring religion to the girl's siblings. That is also the explanation on how they met. Yeah, he's so professional too. Tutor + flirting. You know, people always like to use RELIGION as a defence to something as controversial as this. they think, oh the girl and the guy are religiously well taught, marriage shouldn't be a problem. With the knowledge of religion, the relationship should be blessed. Did you hear of the story when the ustazah was caught having an affair and she claims she's unhappy with her husband? Mind you, that's an USTAZAH you are talking about.

7. Would there be a bigger uproar to this controversial marriage if the guy was perhaps 30, 40 or even 50 while the girl is still 14 years old? Why should there be any difference if you claim that the girl is a 14 year old mature girl? Maybe some people are so so with this marriage because the age difference isn't that great, just 9 years. But the main issue here is that most people are unhappy because the child is just a child. And who cares if she's not forced to get married? People will attack her parents anyway.

8. If every 14 year old claims they are mature enough to get married, why is there a need to rate movies as to whether its contents are suitable for underage viewers or not. I can be a 14 year old and i can claim i'm mature enough to watch a movie that contents sex and violence.

9. Yeah, i read somewhere that in Islam, there is no AGE LIMIT to getting married. This will be some of the defending arguments that will be used by Muslims who wants to get married below the age of majority. Use your common sense people, don't make the religion look bad.

10. The concept of pedophile will be made redundant if this kind of young marriage trend were to continue. What is a PEDOPHILE? Dictionary.com --> a person who is sexually attracted to children. A man can disguise his pedophile tendencies by disguising his relationship with a child as a MARRIAGE. You know, if it's OKAY for a 14 year old to get married, why not an 8, 9, 10 or 12 year old. Some girls already get their period even at the age of 5.

11. And what kind of a man let themselves have "FEELINGS" for children? Don't you have an age limit on what kind of people who you can flirt with?

Random Thoughts of The Day : 11.12. 2010

1. People say when you are married, you shouldn't tell your marriage problems to a third party. For me, it's better to tell your friends because your friends won't INTERFERE. But if you tell your PARENTS, your parents will DEFINITELY INTERFERE. Why?

a. They see your partner often, obviously they might bring up some of the problems either directly or indirectly.

b. They think you guys are a FAMILY NOW. So as family, they have rights to interfere.

c. They spend money on your wedding etc, they look after your child. So it's implied they have a say in the family if there's a problem.

Sharing problems is a good thing, that way you will know whether what you did is wrong or right. You can try marriage counseling but that would mean you and your partner have to hear each others problem and if one partner is not happy hearing about that problem, you are dead. Honestly, if you have a problem with your partner, just tell it to your partner. Why prolong an irritating problem?


2. Patience. Don't even claim that you are patient or accept things as there are with your partner if you are cheating behind her/his back. People say they have a so called "problem" with their partner and it's an ongoing problem. If they tell the partner, the partner wouldn't listen or change. So why not go for a break up/divorce? Most people simply don't want to take this drastic solution but yet they have the nerve to say they accept things as there are but turning to the wrong solution, a.k.a affairs/scandals/cheating.

3. I'm beginning to think affairs are a norm in relationship, especially in marriage. Ignorance is bliss.

4. Children. I went to Ikea today and so damn annoyed with the children running around. For crying out loud, why don't you just send your children to the playhouse while you do your errands in the store? I don't mind if your child is well behaved not running around. And why am i annoyed with running children? Coz i can knocked them over with my trolley and I DO FEEL LIKE DOING IT. It's bad enough that the place is crowded with adults and now with children too? And do you know it's not good to bring your newborn child out to a crowded place?

5. People who like to show off should get a life. No point having fancy stuff if you are having many debts.

6. License to Love. Attempting or committing suicide over a failed relationship is lame and pathetic. Sometimes i wonder why some people are so emotional when it comes to relationship, as if the world will end if you can't have that guy or girl. Your dignity is more important than your partner. Some people are simply not fit to be in a relationship if they can't think rationally.

Rude & Arrogant Locals v Foreign Workers

Lately i've been kindda busy trying to settle the condominium's renovation. Not only that, i've been slow in blogging too. But today i feel like blogging because of some incidents that i've come across which is worthy to be blogged about (then again, i've blog about some not so important events anyway :-D). And i'm gonna make sure i didn't blog halfway this time. That's the problem with my last 2 unpublished blogs.. I was blogging then halfway i decided not to post it.

I went out with a friend yesterday and we were hanging out at the mamak. So we ordered but it seems like the guy who is taking down our order couldn't hear us properly and my friend have to repeat twice. But my friend was kindda rude when he had to repeat the 2nd time. Rude in the sense of the way he looked at the guy and the way he repeated his order, as if the guy was slow and stupid. So i asked my friend why he's being rude, he said because the guy couldn't hear. I told him not everyone can hear at the first instance. So he's gonna snap every time he has to repeat himself despite only repeating it TWICE?

It made me think, was he rude to the guy because the guy was a FOREIGN WORKER? I doubt he will behave the same way if that other person is a local. What made me assumed such thing is because there are several guys that i went out with who seem to be rude to "mamaks". Rude from the way they order and the way they snap when the worker can't understand what they wanted. I'm not a saint, and i do come across slow people and sometimes i do get annoyed when i have to repeat myself several times but i never snap (coz i vent out my anger in my beloved blog :-D).

Some locals hate foreign workers because they deemed foreign workers as troublemakers. Yes, some foreign workers are troublemakers, especially those who commit crimes but not all are like that.

I've seen foreign workers who work harder than the locals, and some are even more PROFESSIONAL than the locals in doing business. Sure they are not highly educated people but what makes them professional is their friendliness and their knowledge in the field. Most people like to show off, thinking they are very professional just because they have good high quality education and get good results.

There's another incident that occurred today. 2 foreign workers were fixing the grill at my condo and another Malay guy came because i asked for the condo's management office maintenance guy to take a look at the hole at the ceiling because i was afraid it might be a leaking from the roof. It wasn't.

Before the guy left, he made a big fuss to the foreign workers, saying something like he will SUE them if they mess up the common area. As if he owns the common area? He's just a maintenance guy. Was such statement from him even necessary? I felt sorry for the two foreign workers because they are actually good hardworking people. They cleaned up after finishing their work and their work was satisfactory. The way they behaved was humble.

It also made me think that we should appreciate people who do labor work. Not only is such work tiring but it's dangerous. Many think their work is "easy" because you don't need education and everyone can do it. Think again. Because of such mentality, labor workers are often being looked down.

How many so called educated people are actually willing to get "dirty" to clean a house? Many girls are too lazy to do it, or they think they are "too pretty" to do such dirty and tiring work. Basically, they don't want to mess up their 10 inch 24/7 make up or break a polished nail.

As for "repair" work, that one is tougher compare to cleaning. When i watched the 2 foreign workers setting up the grills, i was awed just watching them working, especially when they have to set up a grill at an open window. To me, it looks dangerous and i was praying for him not to fall. Or hurt himself when handling those electrical tools. Even when my dad uses a drill, i was scared. I guess i've seen too many gory pics of people involved in accidents while handling machines or tools.

The thought of having a bf/husband who is very handy in repairing household stuff is intriguing. I can save costs in not getting a professional to repair stuff. A man who can cook well is a bonus too. Hmmm, perhaps i should reconsider not getting married if i can find either man ;-p.

Women in Danger

So MEN are FLIES then?

I came across this pic and it caught my interest. It's a good comparison to hejab (head cover). Women are like sweets, men are like disgusting flies :-D. However, it also cause some dissatisfaction in me.

So yes, women are told to cover up to protect themselves. It seems like every where a woman goes, she needs to protection. And if she doesn't that the protective steps, society will blame her. Example, if she doesn't dress decently, and she gets raped, people will say serves her right. But if she dresses decently and she was raped, only then people will call the man an animal.

That's another reason why woman can't go out late at night, because of the dangerous men lurking around, waiting for women who are ALONE.

Ha, you don't even have to wait night time for it to be dangerous. So long as you are alone, you will be in danger. Like me, I go to public places but because i'm ALONE, there are a few occasions when i came face to face with dangerous men.

Me doing things alone, is it my fault? It's not always practical to do things with friends. Furthermore, i don't have a bf who can accompany me and protect me in some way. So is this why women are encouraged to get MARRIED? Ha, even in marriages some women have to deal with abusive husband.

This world have never been fair to women. Then again, when were things ever fair? If you don't dress decently, people say it's your fault, you are just looking for trouble. If a robber robs a rich man, do you blame the rich man for having a lot of property?

When it comes to women, women are always at fault. There will always be ads to remind women do dress decently to protect themselves. Yes, i admit it's a good thing but why should women bear all the damn BURDEN? Why can't there be ads to remind men to look after what they "see" or "feel". When you see a scantily clad woman, you think she's immoral, lacked religous teachings. It's so easy to judge a woman right? But when a man ogle or drools after scantily dressed women, or owns porn it's NORMAL, he's not a bad man.

Lacked of Sensitivity?

Above is a video titled "Iklan Deepavali 2010 FINAS". Some think this is a controversial video while others think otherwise. For me, when i first view it i find nothing controversial although i was irritated at how dramatic this whole ad is to the extend that she's giving birth at the end of the ad. I saw some comments on the vid and majority don't see the problem with this vid. Of course you don't see the problem because you are a Malay and you are a Muslim and this video is "siding" the Malay Muslims.

It's not my intention to create issues but i just want to point out what i think. Look at it from a Hindu perspective. What makes you think they enjoy watching their people being converted out from their religion? Especially since the conversion is because the child is going to marry another person of another religion. But for the need to get married, the child wouldn't need to convert to that religion. Ask yourself this, as a Muslim. Wouldn't you be very pissed off when your family member says he/she wants to convert out of Islam because he/she wants to marry a non Muslim? But we are aware that in Islam, you are not allowed to convert out of the religion, therefore when it comes to marriage, the non Muslims have to convert into Islam. There's no compromise to that. Non Muslims will see this as a very strict and non compromising rule. Perhaps this is one of the many reasons why Islamophobia happens among some non Muslims. It won't happen actually if they try to understand Islam and the reasoning for such rules.

Like the movie "Sepet". It's about a Malay girl and Chinese boy who fell in love. I didn't watch it but i know in the end the Chinese boy died. Good too so that the director don't have to touch on the sensitive part in deciding who have to convert to who's religion if they plan to get married. But this being Malaysia, we all know that the Chinese guy MUST convert to Islam. Some Chinese might not be very happy with such ending while some may be COOL about it.

It's understandable if a family with very strong religious beliefs choose to disown the child or becomes very angry if the child choose to convert to another religion.

The problem with this advertisement is that it lacks sensitivity. What happens if this ad was made the other way round? The girl actually converted to Hindu and comes back during Hari Raya with her Hindu husband. What an outrageous scenario! It will never be shown on tv because the Malay Muslims will be so damn angry and claim it's an insult to Islam. Of course it's an insult to Islam.

And don't you think some sensitive Hindu will be insulted by such video? "Oh you can do that, but if we want to do that we can't". This whole conversion thing is a sensitive matter. Yes, it's happening in reality but why do we need to touch about it? It's ok when a non Muslim convert to Islam but if a Muslim convert into another religion we have to keep in hush hush? Apostasy is UNACCEPTABLE in Islam and you shouldn't go around telling people it's ok to convert out because it's not. Yes, if you don't want to be a Muslim, don't practice as a Muslim then but don't declare to the whole world that you converted out of Islam because that will amount to putting ideas into people's head. And you can get killed for that.

What i'm really trying to say is that you don't go around telling people how a non Muslim can convert into Islam and his/her family members should learn to accept it while if the same thing were to happen with a Muslim convert into another religion you will create chaos. Be more sensitive, taking into account the perspective of a Non Muslim. Festival Celebration ads used to be so simply and straightforward. Just because our society has become so complicated, doesn't mean we have to make our ads so complicated and to remind people of this whole complication.

Remember the controversial Hari Raya advertisement where it seems elements of Buddhism and Christianity are being injected into the ad and many Malays were very pissed off about it? I think the ad was improper, but hey, the creators of the ads were probably into the mood of 1 MALAYSIA, where you "rojak" all the religions into one. Seriously, if it's Deepavali, just stick wholly to Deepavali. If it's Hari Raya, just stick wholly to Hari Raya. Same goes to other celebrations. If you want to involve other races in your celebration ads, just show one race visiting another for open house.

Men and Mascara

For these past few weeks, i've been obsessed with Mascara, all thanks to the Maybeline "Long Extreme Double Stretch" mascara. It was a good mascara, i like the effect of it, makes my eyelashes noticeable and make it longer. Mascara's main objective is to volumnized and elongate your eyelashes. Some claimed to make your eyelashes more curled. If you are blessed with super thick curled up eyelashes (like my 8 year old boy cousin!), you won't need mascara.

There's also the option of FAKE EYELASHES. Just glue it on your upper eyelid or something. Never tried it because i was never interested in it because i think it's too fake. I like to work with what i've got, enhanced it. It's like wearing push up bra or getting silicone. One is temporary, the other is permanent but both have the effect of making your breasts look bigger. Push up bra isn't entirely fake because only if you have some boobs will the push up bra worked (unless you have super duper water silicone push up bra or you stuff a lot of tissues in your bra). Silicone on the other is totally fake because you can have a flat chest and with a little help from silicone on the left and right, taa daa, you have two fake big boobs.

Like with mascara, if your original eyelashes isn't that long or thick, then perhaps the effect isn't that great compare if you were to wear fake eyelashes.

So back to my mascara story. After experiencing how good the Maybeline mascara was, i wanted to try a few other mascara, see whether the effect was equally good or even better. So i tried a few, it was disappointing despite the fact that it was a branded brand. Like there's this one Loreal brand for mascara, it's a 2 way mascara, just like the Maybeline, meaning you apply the white applicator first then the black one. But the problem with Loreal is that it makes my eyelashes look hard and clumpy. With Maybeline, it's smooth and look more natural.

So what's the connection with MEN?

If our current partner is good, doesn't cause any problems in the relationship, then you should keep him. Don't be tempted by other man who may just "look" promising on the surface because he's attractive or rich. You don't really know his personality that well. Why be greedy?

So my lesson with mascara is that if my current Maybeline mascara is satisfactory, i shouldn't get another mascara despite the ads saying it will make my eyelashes 5 TIMES THICKER and LONGER.. Coz those are just BS.. Some anyway. Be happy with what you have. Actually, this apply to lipgloss as well.. and probably any other beauty products

The Era of Gays

Firstly, let me identify several type of gays.

1. Manly gay. This kind of gay look and act like any normal macho man. You won't know he's gay unless he tells you. He can also be bisexual. Definitely dangerous because you can't tell and if you, a woman, end up with such a man, you will be humiliated when you find out your partner is gay or bisexual. Gay because he thought he can straight and bisexual because he has sexual urges to both men and women.

2. Transvestites. Dresses and does his make up like a woman. Act and walk like a woman. Some undergo penis removal, some don't.

3. Look like a man, act like a woman gay. This kind of gay, doesn't wear makeup or dresses like a woman. But he walks, acts and talks like a woman. They like to do that irritating thing with their "hand" when they talk. When a girl does it, it makes her look like snobbish biatch but when a man does it, it's soo gay because only a woman will do it.

4. Soft spoken gay. This type may or may not be gay. But most probably will be gay especially if he looks like a "pretty boy". Some men are so soft spoken that it will make you think either he's way too well mannered and gentleman OR he's gay. This kind of man can be bisexual too.

Every time i'm at a shopping mall, i will at least see MINIMUM one man who will walk and talk like a woman. In addition to that, i will see at least ONE TRANSVESTITE working in one of the boutiques in a shopping mall. They are most commonly seen at the perfume department. And they are very common working at Body Shop and Elianto. One thing i can praise about them is that they are good promoters.

Religion wise, homosexuality is WRONG. Prophet Lut's story says so. Sure, religion tells us not to condemn and degrade people, and we shouldn't discriminate against the gays but we definitely SHOULDN'T ACKNOWLEDGE their rights. There shouldn't be gay marriage and gay partners shouldn't be recognised as a spouse at law. Doing so will only encouraged them.

As straight people, we shouldn't prevent them from entering the mosque, church, temple or any other place of worship just because of their perverted sexual orientation. Of course, as a respect to the religion, gay people shouldn't parade their gayness in such places. They can do their gay stuff in private. Its like, you don't dress like you are going to clubs to places of worship out of respect.

I prefer those times when gay is so taboo that nobody dare talks about it and people won't go around admitting they are gay and media will never try to touch on the topic of gay. But NOW, everything is all about GAY. Gay this, gay that. Every drama series i watch, they are gays. GAY MEN. Like Glee and True Blood. There will be one character who champions the role of gay.

The issue of gay is like the issue of prostitute. Both of these are morally wrong. But yet you have some countries legalizing prostitution because some idiots think that legalizing prostitution will make women "safer" in the sense they won't be sexually abuse and if they are abused, they can launched a complaint since prostitution is legal. Why do i find this argument bullshit?

In contract, if you enter into an illegal transaction and you KNOW ABOUT IT, you have to bear the consequences, in other words you won't be awarded any remedy. one of the maxims of equity is that "equity will not permit a party to profit by his own wrong".

Aside from that, the prostitute can just sue for battery or assault, who cares whether you commit and offence? If a police catches a thief and he brutally abuses the non violent thief, that will still amount to police brutality and the police can be liable for it and he can't say in defence that the guy was a thief. So really, i don't see the point of legalizing prostitution. When you legalize it, people will think it's ok to do prostitution and to sleep with a prostitute. Do you like the idea of a prostitution as a career? Do you want to hear "mommy, daddy, i want to be a prostitute one day and be very talented and professional in sex!".

Even without religion, common sense will tell you gay/homosexuality is wrong. A relationship is meant to be between a man and a woman because only thru this, you can produce a child and society will increase in population and human race can continue.

Imagine if this is not a modern world and there is no technique of in vitro fertilization, a gay men couple can not have a child of his own unless one of the man has SEX with a woman and that woman carries his child (and that child only has his own genes alone). I don't know, is it infidelity in the gay world if one of his/her partner have sex with the opposite sex? The same goes for lesbian couple.

You see, if a relationship consists of a man and a woman, they can produce a child and the child has both of his/her parents genes. This is common sense telling you why gay is wrong.

Sarcasm at its best!

I need something CUTE for my blog. Below is an ad by AirAsia who recently have some kind of a rivalry feud with the owner of Tiger Airways or something. I just looooove the ad sooo much coz the crying tiger cub is soooooo CUTE. Below is the link of the news...


http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/10/20/nation/7261501&sec=nation

Culture v Religion

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101017/wl_afp/germanymuslimreligionimmigration

This blog entry is in reference to the link above.

I quote these following passages that got my attention :


1. "This approach has failed, totally," she said, adding that immigrants should integrate and adopt Germany's culture and values.

"We feel tied to Christian values. Those who don't accept them don't have a place here," said the chancellor.

2. Turkish President Abdullah Gul, in a weekend interview, also urged the Turkish community living in Germany to master the language of their adopted country.

"When one doesn't speak the language of the country in which one lives that doesn't serve anyone, neither the person concerned, the country, nor the society," the Turkish president told the Suedeutsche Zeitung.

"That is why I tell them at every opportunity that they should learn German, and speak it fluently and without an accent. That should start at nurseries."


3. The integration of Muslims has been a hot button issue since August when a member of Germany's central bank sparked outrage by saying the country was being made "more stupid" by poorly educated and unproductive Muslim migrants with headscarves.


Truth to be told, this article has some relevance to Malaysia since Malaysia is a Multicultural country.

What i can say about Germany's approach to multicultural society is that it's very strict, as you can see from the above passages. They demand for MIGRANTS to speak fluent German and to adopt it's culture. We are talking about MIGRANTS here, not IMMIGRANTS. the difference?

Migrants : Also called migrant worker. a person who moves from place to place to get work, esp. a farm laborer who harvests crops seasonally.

Immigrants : a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.

So logically speaking, if you were going to make a foreign country as a permanent residence, you should be able to talk FLUENTLY in that country's language right as oppose to just wanting to work in a foreign country and later go back to your own country? But taking Malaysia as an example, you still can find a lot of non malays who can't speak Bahasa Malaysia (BM) fluently despite the fact that they were born here. What i'm trying to point out here is that how lenient and flexible Malaysia is towards the non malays and yet there are some non malays who have the decency to be very critical about Malaysia being very bias and not respecting them. Look at Germany, it seems like they demand that you follow their culture. Again, i quote from the article :

"That is why I tell them at every opportunity that they should learn German, and speak it fluently and without an accent. That should start at nurseries".

How many non Malays can speak BM without an accent? But believe me, i've come across a few non Malays who can speak BM without an accent and i'm very proud of them.

Another thing that i wanted to point out is that it's f*cking unfair when u say "country was being made "more stupid" by poorly educated and unproductive Muslim migrants with headscarves." This is simply another attempt at attacking Islam. Why do pin point a person's religion as the source of his flaw and not his culture? Do you want to humiliate Islam and that's why you think because he's a Muslim, he's lazy and stupid? Because the religion doesn't make the followers advance in life?

Look at Japan for example. We know the people there are hardworking. But we don't say Buddhists are hardworking, instead we say the Japanese are hardworking. When we say Japanese are hardworking it means we are saying something about their culture.

So why the "poorly educated" and "unproductive" migrants have to be MUSLIMS? Why don't you attack that person's nationality? Imagine if those migrants are Christians, i'm pretty sure the Germans won't dare say the same thing but instead will attack that person's nationality.

"abandoning practices such as forced marriages." This is another passage i get from the article. Why do you associate force marriage with Islam. I don't know whether it means arrange marriage too but forced/arranged marriage is not an Islam thing. It's a culture thing that is common in Asian countries and even the Arab countries.

So what i'm trying to conclude from all of this is that

1. Be grateful to live in Malaysia where you are not forced to speak BM fluently or to follow and adapt the Malay culture. Up until now, i still remembered when a non Malay friend of mine said to her friend that she's lucky to be living in Singapore and not in Malaysia. I know she can't wait to get out of Malaysia and that's why she can say such thing. I think some people find the Malay culture to be stupid and uncool and that's why they don't follow it compare to following the Western culture where it's sooooooo cool and open.

2. Culture and religion can sometimes be closely connected to a person's character. But culture and upbringing actually influence more on a person's character since we all know that these days people don't really follow religion. Example, if a person works as a prostitute or drinks alcohol or take drugs and the person is a Muslim, is it fair to say "Oooh Muslims are like that? They are soo into drugs!". Look at America. It has become a norm there for people to have children out of wedlock and these people are Christians. Do we say Christians are bad? No. We blame the culture and not the religion because the Christians in Asian countries still find that having children out of wedlock is a taboo, embarrassing, humiliating and a disgrace to the family.

Can you Speak & Understand your National Language?

We live in Malaysia, so the national and official language used here is Bahasa Malaysia (BM). So if you claimed to be a Malaysian, you should be able to speak in BM. The second language spoken widely in Malaysia is English. Then for those who are non Malays, they will speak other languages like Tamil, Cantonese, Mandarin etc.

I'm a Malay, so why do i blog in English and talk most of the time in English? Do i not appreciate my national language? Do i think it's not cool to speak in BM? It's none of these reasons. I can speak and understand BM well but maybe i'm used to the English language, especially since entering college since the the subjects are taught in English. Yes, perhaps when i speak BM i have a little problem finding the right word but if people talk to me in BM, i will respond in BM and i have no problem understanding the language.

It's irritating when some Malays think that Malays who speak in English are showing off. Yes, true some do show off, especially when they speak in English with some lame accent (coz they think they sound cool) but there are some Malays who simply just feel more comfortable using English while still remain their respect to the national language.

And so i read something in a newspaper where a guy condemn a 38 year old woman who requested for an interpreter for the charge to be read for her. He claims that the woman wasn't patriotic. There was another person who commented on this and said that just because a person requested for interpreter to interpret in a language he's more conversant in, doesn't make the person less patriotic.

Assuming the woman was a MALAYSIAN, i think it's very very very embarrassing if you can't even understand your own national language to the extend that you need an interpreter. A charge is drafted in the simplest BM, no bombastic words are being used. And besides, can't you ask in BM if you don't understand? Are you saying if the interpreter explained to you in BM also you won't understand?

I don't know, maybe requesting an interpreter is an attempt to waste the court's time or something.

Those who i think deserved an interpreter are :

1. Foreigner committing a crime in Malaysia.
2. a very old and uneducated person. Assuming that the person is very old because he wasn't born in Malaysia and came here as an immigrant then settle down and have children.

But if you are born in Malaysia but received no education, does it mean you can't speak BM?

Why people can't speak or understand BM? Perhaps you surround yourself with people who don't speak BM. Perhaps you just stick to your own race?

I don't expect you to speak BM fluently or to be able to know every meaning of a BM word, but if you don't understand basic BM and require an interpreter despite the fact you are a Malaysian, can you actually call yourself a Malaysian? It seems more like you are a foreigner because you can't even speak and understand your own national language without the aid of an interpreter.

I don't care whether you are patriotic or not, but feel some SHAME for not being able to converse well in your own national language when you can converse well in other languages. And hopefully that shame will make you want to improve speaking in your own national language and not make you ignorant, thinking it's not important.

Discrimination or Mean?

Scenario : this man and woman were working in the same company, but looking at the age differences, i think the guy just started working and the woman seem to be his supervisor or something. Things to take note : they are different race and gender. So i observed that the woman was being kindda mean to the guy because the way she was communicating with him, as if he's stupid. So looking at this scenario, several things came to my mind :

1. Was she being mean to him because of his race? Racial discrimination. Or
2. Was she being mean to him because he's a man? Gender discrimination. Or
3. Was she being mean to him because she's naturally a MEAN person?


However, say if the scenario was to be changed, where there are 2 men of the same race and one was treating the other badly, people will just he's being a mean bastard. No discrimination issues.

The thing i'm trying to say here is that people are quick to jump to conclusion that it's discrimination and not simply an act of meanness. And discrimination is no doubt more serious than being mean and that's why people like to use it as an excuse.

Another example, where women are not paid as much as men for the same work they are doing. Or if they are not being promoted despite the fact they both work for the same time period. If a woman is not promoted, she will quickly jump to the conclusion that she's being discriminated for her gender. This may be true but at the same time another possibility of the non promotion is the fact that she doesn't work as hard as the man or not as dedicated as the men.

If you see a person being bullied at a work place where he's of a particular 'race' surrounded by a 'majority of another particular race', people would immediately think it's discrimination. Again, it could be discrimination especially if there is racist remarks but another possibility he's being bullied is that people around him simply don't like him or his attitude or the way he works.

Riba

"The Arabic word riba linguistically means “an addition to, or an increase of, a thing over and above its original size or amount.” In the Qur’an, the term riba signifies an unlawful and forced addition to the payback value of money or goods lent from one person to another."


I'm not gonna discuss about this whole thing in detail coz i lacked the knowledge on this issue. Nevertheless, it's an interesting issue to be discussed without going deeper among those who are not that familiar with economics and business. But i do have an interest to talk about this whole stuff in more detail with someone who has knowledge on this matter. I find it easier to grasp an idea if you talk face to face with a person rather than reading it from the net and slowly fall asleep zZZzz...

So Islam says that adding interest to a loan is wrong. That's understandable. I lend you RM 200 but asked you to pay me back RM 250. You as the borrower would demand why do you need to pay RM 50 extra? Logically me the lender, would give the reason that the RM 50 extra works as some kind of profit for me since i lend you the money. That RM 50 extra is the effort i put to lend you the money. I guess that's how money lending business work. If not how will they survive?

So initially i thought the interest were justifiable. But i soon realized it's actually unfair and it's an extra burden. But there's no point bitching bout the interest imposed since you took up the loan and you agreed to it. Yeah, we are forced to follow such system.

There is no money lending business that doesn't impose interest. Actually there is, when you borrow money from friends and family. You borrow RM 500 from them and promised to pay them back the RM 500 and they never ask any interest in addition to the money they lend you. Yet, despite not imposing interest, people still don't pay up money borrowed from friends and family. Hell, there's no additional charges when you fail to pay on time too! Had you, as a lender, made a contract, the borrower will be in deep shit.

So imposing interest is wrong, what about imposing reasonable penalty interest for LATE PAYMENT? I think it's justifiable because that person didn't pay on time! Islam definitely teach you to KEEP YOUR PROMISE and keeping a promise means PAYING ON TIME. Again, the penalty must be REASONABLE. Do you know how much loss you caused to the person who you borrowed money from by not paying on time?

And i would think giving security for the money you are going to borrow is ok. The purpose of the security is to ensure that you actually pay back and if you don't pay back, you can kiss that security goodbye.

Graduated!

Putting my empty scroll into good use... let my bear hold it. "Driving Dreams"... Did you drive my dreams? I guess you did since i managed to complete my degree while you keep increasing your fees every year... But what i miss most about KDU is the delicious pastries made by the Chef students (if only i had a chef bf back then... all the nice food i can eat!!) :-D~~~~ and the clean toilets (i mean at least it's cleaner compare to other colleges and universities)... Yes, i do miss my friends, lecturers, classes but not my ENEMIES and EXAMS...

We don't follow and do things blindly... unless you are a dumb zombie...

Some of us like to question a lot. We question to seek the truth and reason behind every fact. If you tell a person to do or not to something, there must be a reason to it. Religion wise, if we question a lot, we will be accused of not believing in the religion and it seems to be a fundamental rule that when it comes to religion, we must just accept everything the religion tells you WITHOUT QUESTIONING. That's BS. God gave us a brain to THINK and when we think we QUESTION.

You see, just because i don't look or sound Islamic, when i question something about Islam and the person couldn't answer me, he will get agitated and will start attacking me instead. Once i remembered a guy told me "why are you questioning if you aren't doing anything the religion tells you?". That's like a slap to my face but nevertheless, you still didn't answer my question and i don't see any reason for you to become upset just because you couldn't answer me.

I believe in Islam, my faith have always been with Islam but is it wrong for me to question certain things in Islam? I never question the Quran because it's the perfect book but what's wrong if i questioned a particular hadith? It's a fact that there are some real and fake hadiths. So you can't simply follow blindly whatever a hadith tells you.

"A hadith is a saying of Muhammad or a report about something he did. Over time, during the first few centuries of Islam, it became obvious that many so-called hadith were in fact spurious sayings that had been fabricated for various motives, at best to encourage believers to act righteously and at worse to corrupt believers' understanding of Islam and to lead them astray."

I got that from some website. Not that you can't question the Quran but whatever the Quran tells you to do, it makes sense and it's reasonable. Examples :

1. Why do we pray 5 times a day. Reason : so that whatever we do, we always remember Allah.

2. Why do we fast. Reason : to remember and feel those who don't have enough food to eat.

3. Why can't we eat pork and touch dogs? Reason : both of these animals are dirty and disease carriers. I mean there are scientific research done on how unhealthy pork can be. As for dogs, we can't touch them when they are wet. Dogs are also known for rabies. Of course you can get injection to prevent that. I love dogs coz some can be very cute.




Look at the above. It's a ban on a particular fashion of a head cover. The ban comes from a hadith. For those who don't understand Malay, sorry that i can't translate it for you because it's quite difficult to translate it to English. But what i can say is that the statement says you can't wear a head cover where it shapes like the back of a camel (okay, that sounds a lil stupid when you translate it literally) but what i'm staying is that you can't wear a head cover like as shown in the pictures.

Since i don't wear a head cover, i don't know what kind of fashion is that where they try to make the back of your head look like a mountain or something. First i thought it must be a hair bun but i doubt it can be that high. I've seen some girls with that kind of fashion and i don't see it as a problem?

So my question is why are you not allowed to wear such kind of head cover? It's not like your hair can be seen, your chest is covered, your neck is covered. Obviously that mountain like thing on the back of your head isn't the real shape of your real head.

The only possible reason i can think of is that it turns MEN ON? That's why it's wrong? God only knows why do men think that alien kind fashion of a head cover is sexy. But this is not a strong reason either. If men find your eyes is mesmerizing and sexy, does the woman have to close her eyes then?

http://www.derafsh-kaviyani.com/english/hadith.pdf

Above is an interesting site that i came across discussing about hadiths.

Is it wrong for me to use my common sense? I have a friend who only followed the Quran and he gave me sensible reasons why he didn't follow any hadiths although majority in Malaysia will find him totally at wrong. As for me, i don't totally discard hadiths but if a hadith says something, i expect it to be for a reason and a sensible one.

If you can't explain something with a reason, how are you suppose to explain to a non Muslim if they were to ask something like this? Are we suppose to answer "Oh, it's just like that". "Oh, coz it's stated like that".

TV 3's Hari Raya Controversial Advertisement

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1245600230#!/video/video.php?v=1275079176949&ref=mf

The link above will direct you to the video... I will like to thank my friend for highlighting this to me. He was asking me whether the advertisement looks like a Christmas ad. There was also some elements of Buddhism.

Okay, so what's the problem? A Hari Raya ad is to wish the Muslims happy celebrating Raya, a festival for Muslims. It is also known as "Eid al -Adha". I just google up why we celebrate hari raya and it says and i quote :

is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God, but instead was able to sacrifice a ram (by God's command). Eid is also about spending time with family and friends, sacrifice, and thanksgiving for being able to afford food and housing.

OOO, now i actually know why we celebrate Hari Raya... Luckily i bothered to ask myself that question. Kindda embarrass though. Anway...

Looking at the controversial video, i did see elements of Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity because of the "bicycle like vehicle (i think it's a trishaw?)" flies across the sky like santa claus on a sledge and Buddhism because of the lotus flower. It also has some connection with Hindu.

All these can't be a coincidence. Of all the flowers in Malaysia, you picked a lotus? Why not the hibiscus, it's the national flower right? As for the santa claus sledge thing, the first thing that came across my mind is that why don't they make a flying magic carpet? I don't know why that crossed my mind, maybe i was thinking about Aladdin? I think if it was a magic carpet, people would be less suspicious and won't associate it with santa clause sledge. Aladdin is based on Arabic culture so it's less offensive?

Since Najib became the Prime Minister, Malaysia has this strong motto of "1 Malaysia", to build racial unity. Everything is 1 Malaysia now. 1 Malaysia this, 1 Malaysia that. It's a great motto actually. So perhaps this video was based on the concept of 1 Malaysia, assuming there was no ill intention when this video was made.

So who made the video? Weren't there Muslim people involved? Didn't they notice the controversial parts? If truly the person making the video made it based on the 1 Malaysia concept, he probably tried to combine elements of Christianity, Buddhism and Hindu and Islam together. Good and creative intention but not the smartest move since you can't really mix religions together.

You can show racial unity by showing non muslims visiting the muslims house for the raya celebration. But definitely not combining elements of each religion together.

But personally i think the santa claus signifies culture rather than religious elements while the lotus flowers definitely has something to do with the religion :

In Buddhist symbolism, the lotus represents purity of the body, speech, and mind as if floating above the muddy waters of attachment and desire. According to legend, Gautama Buddha was born with the ability to walk, and lotus flowers bloomed everywhere he stepped.

So is it wrong to combine something from culture into a religion? In Islam, it's not wrong provided it's not against the teachings of Islam.

For all me know, this is just a sad mistaken move in making a video. I hope people don't simply jump to conclusion this video was aimed to hurt the Muslims...

Disrespectful Young People

Above is one of the many examples of racist or religion rudeness which i have come across. Previously, there was a young boy, who is a Muslim, who made fun of the fasting month in a very rude way, using the F word because he thinks he shouldn't fast and nobody can make him and he has an ambition to make a cult of his own. *sigh*... the dreams of YOUNG RETARDS now a days... very laughable.

Issue 1: THE ISSUE

a bunch of young people (assuming in their teens) who make very rude remarks on race and religion on their social networking. Actually to call it "rude" remarks is not enough because rude sounds too tame. The better choice of words to describe it is demeaning, humiliating, degrading etc. You see how the bitch humiliate Islam (above).

I really don't know what are people's problems with Islam. What did the religion do to you to make you say bad things about it? Did it hurt you? humiliate you? Kill your family? Or do you hate Islam because those who profess to Islam are mostly the MALAYS. And you hate the Malays because you think they are spoiled and pampered and you as a non Malay and non Muslim just hate their guts because there is no fairness in Malaysia. So you hate Malay, and you hate Islam and humiliating Islam gives you satisfaction because you will know you will provoke the Malays and degrade them. This is just a possible theory why people hate Islam in Malaysia. Another reason is you are an uncivilized atheist.

Looking at their choice of words, when i was a teen, i never say those stuff to insult another religion. Hell, i don't insult other people's religion. And when im that young, i'm not even concern with religion because i have other better things to be concerned about, like studies and BOYS ;-D.

Teens now a days want to be an adult so much. They try to dress like one and talk like one by discussing so called important stuff which they themselves don't understand. When they don't understand and they lacked maturity, this is the kind of nonsense that take place.

Issue 2 : ARE THEY MENTALLY ILL?

Perhaps not. Just lacked discipline and respect. They are not sensitive enough to other people's feelings, hence the choice of words which are humiliating and degrading. Just because they are so called young and stupid, doesn't mean they can get off the hook easily.

Issue 3 : TA DA... THE APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT

Of course people want to kill such bitch and bastard but that's anger talking. Because they are young and brainless, we need to give them time to repent and regret what they did (although we believe these sickos won't change. I don't know, if God opens their heart, maybe they will change). Besides, these people didn't murder another being nor do they pose a threat to the religion, thus they can't be killed. But they must be PUNISHED. Severe punishment that acts as a DETERRENT.

What they did is a SERIOUS crime and OFFENSIVE. It can create racial and religion tension. If a teen murders, he won't get off the hook. He will still be punished but less severe of a punishment compared with an adult who suppose to have a more mature thinking. The same situation here.

So what's the punishment? I recommend FINE, COUNSELING and CANNING (ROTAN). If you can FINE couples for "khalwat" a.k.a close proximity, why can't you fine these kind of offenders? Of course the parents need to pay for it i guess but it's a reminder for the parents to teach their children manners and respect. If can't pay, then detention at juvenile centres or community service.

Counseling is necessary because it's suppose to give awareness to offenders. Teach them and tell them why what they did is wrong, perhaps they have some kind of internal probs which make them very racist.

Canning. Another better option than death right... But if im not mistaken, there's no canning for women. Perhaps for this kind of offences, go for light canning i guess since they are suppose to be young offenders. But if adult, the normal pain in the ass canning. But if because of health purpose canning is not allowed for women, then someone need to figure out other proper punishments.

CONCLUSION :

Because this kind of shit keeps on occurring and getting serious, that's why authorities need to SEVERELY PUNISH THEM. No matter which race or whose religion they degrade, all deserved to be punished. Saying they are young and don't know what they said or did is utter crap and BS. Why don't you use that same crap of an excuse for all offences committed by young teens.

If the offender is an adult, it will be a even more severe punishment.

Making fun of race and religion is no joke. You may do it in other countries, but not in Asian countries and DEFINITELY not in MALAYSIA. You get upset if someone bitch and degrade your parents, so why do you tell people to take chill pill when someone insult your religion? Religion is not as serious as your parents? It is as serious as your parents if you love your religion.

Freedom of speech you say? freedom of speech comes with a LIMITATION. With freedom, comes responsibility and that means exercise your freedom carefully and respect other race and religion and don't discriminate them.

Response to the vid attacking Islam

I'm a normal average Muslim woman. I may not follow some of the teachings but my faith is always there. Islam is a religion of rational and logic, that's why my faith is still with this religion. And i thank God for blessing me with a brain that is able to think, understand and question logically.

I came across this degrading video where a man attacks and make fun of Islam. I was really pissed off by this video because it's filled with lies. Right now, i'm trying to control bad words from coming out from my mouth but i just want to say this is a brainless fat ass bastard. I'm attacking this person in his personal capacity and i'm not attacking the religion that he's currently profess to. I've always believe that people make the religion bad because any religion is not bad. It's our human nature (some of us at least), enjoy making fun of other religion and at the same time take pride in our religion. There's no problem in being proud of our religion, but we are not suppose to attack and use vulgar words about other religion, that's DISRESPECTFUL.

P/S : i just realized that i can't post the video here... it's only available on facebook...

So i'm gonna counter attack whatever this bastard said about Islam because i don't want any person who watches this video, get the wrong impression about Islam :

1. He converted out of Islam?

He said "kami org Melayu". So i presume that he is a Malay and used to be a Muslim so that means he converted out from Islam, a.k.a MURTAD. Aside from that, he can read al fatihah in arabic.

As you are aware of, those who converted out from Islam will have to be killed after warning him 3 times. I don't know whether this is stated in the Quran or otherwise but initially i think this was kindda harsh, does this mean Islam is forcing you to remain in the religion when you don't want to?

Over time, it came to me that some of these "murtads" can be dangerous people. Like this fat bastard for example. He converted out of Islam, started preaching about how Islam is fake or evil or whatever. He made fun of his previous religion. And whatever that is said by him are LIES. You degrade Islam with lies. And you don't think such people deserved to be killed?

Then the Lina Joy example. A Muslim who wanted to convert out and demand that her IC which shows she's "Islam" be removed. She went PUBLIC with this, attracting media. This is indirectly trying to tell other Muslims you can convert out of Islam and it's ok, just be brave in fighting those who oppose your conversion. First of all, if you want to convert, convert. Don't try to give ideas to people to convert and you give such idea by going public and thru media.

If really you don't want to be a Muslim, then don't do whatever a Muslim does. You don't have to pray like a Muslim, you don't have to believe in Allah, you don't have to tell people you are a Muslim if people asked. I'm not encouraging or telling people how to convert but if you want to save your sorry asses, don't go public. In addition to that, i don't see why you need to go public with your conversion and you know very well conversion out of Islam is wrong.

2. Al Fatiha

He said the al fatihah says "tunjukkan kami ke jalan yg lurus" a.k.a "show us the right path". His argument is that Prophet Muhammad read the same thing, so if he reads the same thing, and he doesn't know where is the right path, how can he lead the people? Truthfully, you don't have to be a Muslim to counter this argument. It's common sense.

Firstly, the Prophet Muhammad is like a normal human being like the rest of us, he eats, sleeps, breath and definitely pray to God. The difference is that he's gifted and he's chosen to be a Prophet and has a duty to guide the people to the right way.

Like i said earlier, he's a Muslim like the rest of us. He's not God. Of course he needs guidance from Allah too. He's not Mr Perfect because if he is, he don't have to submit himself to Allah. He's being H-U-M-B-L-E. All of us have to be humble and submissive to Allah. You are praying to God for him to always put you on the right path. Is that wrong? Again i tell you, we believe that Prophet Muhammad is a prophet and NOT A GOD.

3. POLYGAMY

He continues to attack Islam by saying Islam encourages "zina" when Prophet Muhammad can have up to 23 wives. He said "isterinya sampai 23". First of all, from what i've read, he has 12 wives. So where did this obese monkey get his facts? Did he simply want to make it 23 to make it sound MORE DRAMATIC, knowing very well the Prophet didn't have that many wives.

And he didn't marry all 12 together at one time because Islam only allows you to have 4 wives at the same time. I'm not gonna elaborate long on polygamy and briefly, this is what i want to say. He married old women, he married widowed women, he married some women for political reasons. Unlike Muslims men now a days, Prophet Muhammad didn't marry out of lust. While married to Khathidjah, he didn't marry another woman until she passed away. And that was like what, 20 years plus?

4. PEDOPHILE

So the insults continue calling the Prophet a pedophile because he married Siti Aisyah when she was 6 years old. However, the marriage was only consummated when she was 9 or 10. Some said she was 15.

Some argue that women back then are matured and it's a norm to marry young. I don't know. But really, if he was a pedophile, all of his wives should be that young right? Why would he marry old women and widows? Really, i don't know how physically and mentally mature a woman can be when she's 10 years old back then.

5. THOU SHALL NOT KILL and JIHAD

"Bunuh satu orang Kristian, dpt .... di syurga". I couldn't hear the word he mentioned but basically he says if you kill a Christian, you are guaranteed heaven.

I have read some parts of the Al Quran. I can point you some parts when the Quran states have mercy on your enemy and threat your captives right but i've mentioned this in my previous blog. Killing is only justified when a person threatens Islam. Is it wrong to kill in the name of religion when someone wants to harm you and your religion?

Islam don't tell Muslims to simply kill the non believers. Only kill when they pose a threat. You would kill someone who threaten your family right? The unfortunate part is that some of those who commit Jihad now a days don't do it the right way. They kill innocent people. Thus this caused Islam to be looked as a religion that promotes terrorism. I have a lot of arguments on this but won't mention it here because it will make the blog longer. My previous blog entries have mentioned and justified this matter. I remember blogging bout this when some idiots attack and called Islam a religion of terror and supposedly show some verses in the Quran indicating Islam supports violence. What these evil people did is that, they only show you certain phrases of the Quran that may look like Islam support violence but had they shown the whole paragraph, it explains the justification and when can you only do it.


6. DOGS

Muslims are not afraid of dogs. We don't look at dogs as disgusting creatures. However, i've come across some Muslims who are just being over dramatic with dogs, calling them "binatang jijik" a.k.a disgusting animals. Seriously, i don't know what's disgusting about dogs. Cockroaches are more disgusting.

We are not allowed to touch dogs when it's WET. That's the rule.

7. ANGELS

The guy go on to say that "pelita" needed to be lighted 7 days before Hari Raya, "Malam 7 Likur", "malam turun berkat". And without the lights, the angels can't see, so no blessings from the angels. What BS is this?

Again, i'm pretty sure the Al Quran didn't mention anything about "pelitas" because as far as i'm concern, the lighting of pelita is just a Malay tradition or culture. You want to make fun or tradition and culture? Traditions and cultures have weird activities or activities that may not seem reasonable and this is not just limited to the Malay. Every race has their own tradition and culture and whether it's weird or funny, that's subjective.

This is a question of tradition and culture, not religion. People these days gave mixed their traditions and cultures into religion and thus creating some kind of confusion. In Islam, we can continue our Malay culture as long as it's not against the teaching of Islam.

8. HAJJ

I'm not that sure about what are the practices or what people do when they do hajj, but maybe after this i shall ask my parents. So i can't argue much on this point.

The guy said that the black stone called Hajaru-l-Aswad, rudely saying it shapes like a "woman's vagina", is like some time of "reborn stone" where people put they head in and take it out and sins are forgiven. I copy and paste a part of an article i obtained fro wikipedia on this matter :



They attempt to kiss the Black Stone seven times, once for each circumambulation of the Kaaba, emulating the actions of Muhammad. In modern times, large crowds no longer make it practically possible for everyone to kiss the stone, so it is currently acceptable for pilgrims to simply point in the direction of the Stone on each of their circuits around the building. Some even say that the Stone is best considered simply as a marker, useful in keeping count of the ritual circumambulations (tawaf) one has performed. Its black colour is deemed to symbolise the essential spiritual virtue of detachment and poverty for God (faqr) and the extinction of ego required to progress towards God (qalb).


This is what i know : Your sins are not forgiven by doing some kind of rubbish acts. it's up to Allah to forgive or not to forgive you because only Him can see what's truly in your heart. You can doing an act where people tell you if you do it, your sins will be washed away but that doesn't mean your heart is clean or you genuinely repent.


9. CONCLUSION

Sometimes there are Muslims who do things which Islam in fact didn't ask them to do. But they think if they do something EXTRA, it will be better. So they add in a few things, thinking oh, if i do that, i get more blessing or if i do this longer, God will love me more. Some Muslims simply go over broad, like jihad being given the image of terrorism.

Another example is "Purda", the thing where you cover your whole face except for your eyes. It's unnecessary and Islam never require you to do that. The purda is a culture doing. Islam is not that restrictive. That's what happens when you blend culture with religion, it tends to become something else, something that might be even more difficult to do, or something that may look ridiculous.

So if you don't understand Islam, don't simply accused Islam having crazy and illogical practices. And really, use your bloody head to think before you choose to say something.

Nudity as Art

http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/miss-universe-body-paint-photos-stir-controversy--1471

MISS USA

"This year, the Miss Universe pageant is using photos of contestants, including Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih, in nothing but body paint to promote the August 23 event, and it has one former pageant organizer crying foul.

Angie Meyer, described as a "former pageant-organization worker," expressed her dismay with the photos to Fox News: "It's alarming that this has been turned into a Playboy-esque masquerade, she said. "By implementing topless photos as part of the pageant process, they're putting applicants in an extremely compromising position."

I quote above from Yahoo News. And i agree with Angie Meyer. This is just a cheap publicity stunt to attract more viewers.

What's the purpose of beauty pageants anyway?

1. To celebrate beauty?

More like celebrating fake beauty especially with all those make up. Beauty is not suppose to be measured with the amount of make up you have on your face nor how good your make up skills are.

And i don't know if plastic surgery is permitted. If it's permitted, then this is not a contest of natural beauty and there's no appreciation of such beauty.

2. To celebrate the intelligence of women?

I suggest so because you have to be kindda smart, like being aware of current news and be able to carry yourself well, professionally and intellectually. If not, the contestants wouldn't be asked questions on current affairs in the competition.

And being able to answer well is a requirement.

Besides, the work of the beauty pageant after declared a winner is that she needs to go around the world helping the poor and helpless and at the same time looking pretty.


Then there's a defence to this whole topless pictures.People claim nudity is a form of art, that human bodies are beautiful. Yes, i do think human bodies are beautiful and some nudity can be considered art such as drawings, photographs or sculptures but the topless body paint pictures of the beauty contestants don't really scream art... It's like they are using it as an excuse to justify topless pictures. Again, lame cheap publicity to get the ratings of the show up.


"The Miss Universe organization, which is co-run by the Trump Organization and NBC, says they arranged the Las Vegas photo shoot to celebrate the diversity of this year's contestants. In a statement to Yahoo!, Lark-Marie Anton, vice president of marketing and public relations for pageant, defended the promotion: "The contestants who compete at Miss Universe are diverse, as they represent more than 82 countries around the globe. Many of their cultures embrace nudity," she said."


Many of their cultures embrace nudity? Seriously? Why don't you allow nudist to walk around in the street? In the nudist's defence he can claim it's a form of art and it's acceptable to their culture or whatever.


People are not stupid. Taking semi nude pictures for contest or tv shows is a scheme to attract more viewers. They are so many other kind of photography art but why nude body painting? And this is a beauty pageant contest, artistic photography is not a requirement.

Suppression and Oppression of the Minority Religion...

This blog entry is written in response to an article which can be found at

http://english.cpiasia.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1978:enforcing-nep-on-minority-religions-&catid=198:helen-ang&Itemid=156

It's about the oppression and suppression in religion faced by the minority in Malaysia. As we are well aware of, Islam is the majority's religion. The author wrote an interesting piece but i would say i disagree with her in many aspects.

1. MALAYSIAN MUSLIMS' ATTITUDE

Headlines and blogs now a days seems to show Muslims are always associated with terrorism, intolerance and supporting harsh punishments. That, it is not a religion of love and forgiving. That Muslim emphasized on harsh punishments way too much. Like yesterday, i was reading a blog where the author condemned Sharizat for supporting the death punishment for those who dump babies resulting in the baby's death. The author questions why are the Muslims sooooo keen on the death penalty. As if they are thirsty for blood. Below i copy and paste a portion of that blog entry :

"I am not surprised that Shahrizat could say something like this because Shahrizat is a Muslim. Muslims around the world are well known for suggesting and carrying out terrible punishments against their fellow human beings. In Iran they are now on the verge of stoning a woman to death. In Saudi Arabia they behead people in public on Fridays. Also in Iran they have thrown liwat fellows out of helicopters in the air. In Taliban Afghanistan they used a tank to push a wall over some liwat fellows. In Malaysia our khalwat goons have caused the death of many young people who jumped off balconies and windows while trying to escape from them. Only Muslims are capable of doing things like this and then defend it too". The full version is at

http://syedsoutsidethebox.blogspot.com/2010/08/shahrizat-says-kill-them.html

I don't know whether the Quran did state such punishments or the Muslims made up this punishments. But to throw people of the helicopter for liwat is too much. I would say stoning for adultry is too much too but if the Quran clearly says that's the punishment, i have no say then. It's God's law. It will override human law.

But i support death penalty for baby dumping is not because i'm a Muslim and i have a thirst for blood but i believe in the principle an eye for an eye when it comes to MURDER. The Westerns have come up with the idea that death penalty is inhuman, it's against Human Rights and thus death penalty should be banned and replaced with other punishments like life imprisonment. For them (most of them anyway), countries who carry out death penalty are "bad countries". I say MIND YOUR BUSINESS. Promoting freedom and being compassionate the whole time is not always a good thing.


In Malaysia, there are all kinds of Muslims, hardcore, moderate and liberal. the hardcore ones can be difficult to handle with because they can be insensitive to other religions. I've met these kind of people before and they are not pleasant. i know you love your religion but you have no right to insult other people's religion.

Islam and other Muslims get bad image because of these kind of people. Look at that stupid Osama bin Laden. He shouldn't have organised that September 11 attack because that is soooo not jihad. You killed innocent lives. In addition to that, he made Islam well known internationally as a religion of terrorism that supports the killing of non Muslims. This is what happens when you use violence.


2. THE RIGHT TO BUILD A PLACE OF WORSHIP

Some non Muslims in Malaysia claimed that they are being oppressed by not being allowed to built place of worship as much as the amount of mosque being built. This was one of the issues being brought up in the article mentioned above.

This involved politics. I'm not sure what are the requirements you need to comply with in order for the relevant authorities to allow you to build a place of worship. Do the government really just give permission without consideration if it INVOLVED building of a mosque and will give deep consideration and be more reluctant instead if it involved building other place of worship?

Logically, there would be more mosques because there are more Muslims. And you need to build a lot "suraus" and mosques because Muslims pray 5 times a day and the availability of suraus make it easier for Muslims to pray whenever they are traveling. Muslims need to be on time to catch their daily prayers and that's why you need to have these many convenient suraus and mosques.

A place of worship should be allowed to be built, regardless whether it's a mosque, church or temple if there's empty land available and it's a necessity due to the fact there are a number of people professing to that religion and the next place of worship is too far to travel to. You don't built place of worship to compete with other religion as to the amount of place of worships that you manage to built. That's utterly childish and stupid. You built one out of necessity. Sometimes i find the religions in Malaysia are in conflict with one another because they want to compete who are the best in everything and they want to compete who have the most followers. That's CRAP.

I'm pretty sure countries like France, US and UK don't have that many mosques and suraus either since the majority religion isn't Islam.

3. BANNING NON MUSLIM RELIGIOUS SOCIETY

Do you really have that problem in Malaysia? My former college have a few non Muslim religious societies. Of course when they give out pamphlets to promote their activities there will be disclaimer that it's NOT FOR MUSLIMS. What's with the disclaimer? The objective is to protect the Muslim community. Personally for me it's unnecessary because if you understand your religion well and your faith is strong, you won't fear going to other religion's activities. The disclaimer is to prevent Muslims from being converted. Don't tell me just by watching something or witnessing other religion's rituals and activities you can be converted? If you can be converted because of this, your faith is really weak. I mean you can convert, it's your freedom but people convert because they THINK and QUESTION the essence of their religion and other religion and not convert just because some kind of miracle happened to them. For all you know that can be the devil's work.

That's why the best conversion is one where you don't have to persuade other people as to the greatness of your religion and the miracles that happened but a meaningful conversion is one where a person takes the initiative to learn about another religion and ask around about the religion to get a better idea of it and in the end it is for him to decide whether he wants to remain in his religion or convert after considering many things.


3. NATIONAL SCHOOLS

The author also pointed this out :

"In some schools, doa (Muslim prayer) is recited weekly during assembly. However, if a Christian, Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist prayer were ever recited in a gathering where Malay pupils are present, there will be uproar."

During my primary school days, i went to a CONVENT school. There would be a lot of Christian activities since the majority are Christians while the Muslims would remain in class. There was no issue with this this and i don't have a problem with it. Then when i entered secondary school, it was vice versa because majority are Malays and Muslim so you have to participate in Muslim activities while the non Muslims can do their own stuff.

If majority are of a certain religion, then let they do their thing while the minority to their thing. I remembered once where majority are Malays and then we have to pray for a student dead relative. The Muslims and Non Muslims were told to take a moment of silence and to pray for the deceased.

There are some national schools that may be overly Islamic to the extend that they ban the wearing of cross. Some national school even make and force you to wear head covers. I had a problem with this because the last time i checked, i didn't register in a ISLAMIC SCHOOL. I was studying in matriculation before. I read the regulations and it says the wearing of head covers are ENCOURAGED, not compulsory. But on my first day of orientation, the senior asked me why i'm not wearing a head cover and she starts to blah blah blah religiously.I know this kind of people meant well but things shouldn't be forced. A person can still be wearing a head cover and work part time as a prostitute. That's what happened when you forced people to do something. You know, sometimes things are not compulsory but some idiots have the urge to make it compulsory. In situation like this, a formal complaint should be lodged against the school itself and not to make an attack on the race or religion of that person.

4. OTHERS

A portion of the article states this :


"On the other hand, other religions are suppressed. One infamous incident occurred in 2004 at Christmas where the Selangor Sultan and assorted cabinet ministers were invited guests. At this official function, hymns mentioning Jesus could not be sung."

That Christmas incident is not tolerable. That's the problem with some Muslims, sometimes we simply give others reason to attack us over such a SMALL MATTER. What's wrong if the Christians want to sing about their God? It's a Christian event after all. Might as well you don't attend if they are not allowed to do their very own religious activity at their own special event. Do Muslims think they will be converted the moment they hear these hymns on Jesus? Seriously? Why are you afraid of these hymns? I'm being sarcastic here because i don't see any reasonable reason why you prevent the singing of the hymns mentioning Jesus on a Christmas event?


5. CONCLUSION

I don't think the minority religion are being suppressed that much except for some incidents. I've explained about the building of places of worships. There is no ban on non Muslim religious society in Malaysia. Schools that confiscate things that symbolises other religion are isolated incidents, lodged a complaint against that school itself instead of making it sound as if majority of the schools in Malaysia do that.

Then there was a big issue with the use of "Allah", even with that incident people want to attack the Muslims. How can you not blame the Muslims for being offended and suspicious? All of a sudden you want to use the term Allah? In English religious publications you can use the term Allah but you didn't. In Malay version too you very seldom used Allah. I said seldom because when i was 13, i came across a Malay version of a bible that uses the term Allah. This was in Sabah. I never heard my Christian friends use the term Allah. Why can't you just use the term "Tuhan"?

We could settle this diplomatically with reasonable explanation. Why can't you tolerate with the use of "Tuhan" instead? I wonder if you were to hymn in Malay you would use the word Allah? If majority of the Malay version of bibles used the word Tuhan since before, then it's only reasonable to stick to Tuhan.

I'm not biased when it comes to religion. I admit, certain decisions made by Muslims are unacceptable and illogical, like the Christmas incident not allowing hymn on Jesus. I wasn't even aware of the incident, perhaps because i was young and don't care about current events. i condemned the act of butchering the cow's head and throwing it at the Temple and torching of the churches. These offenders should get severe punishment because these acts create racial tension.