I am Malay, and proud of it

I am Malay, and proud of it
Posted by Super Admin
Sunday, 09 November 2008 17:54

It is time the crutches are removed and the Malays learned
how to walk with their heads held up high. Malays have to be made to
believe that the Ketuanan Melayu and the NEP is an insult and that is
suggests Malays are weak creatures.

NO HOLDS
BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin
Religious superstition and persecution never ceases to amaze me. Take
the case of Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow of Mogadishu, Somalia. On 27th October
2008, 13-year old Aisha was killed. She was killed when 1,000 people
stoned her to death. And she was stoned to death because three men had
raped her. She was raped, so they accused of adultery.

Imagine a
13-year old girl killed in a most brutal manner because she was raped by
three men. Should it not be the three men who should have instead been
stoned to death? And do you not wonder why Islam suffers from a serious
image problem? Muslims should take stock of what they are doing and
understand the disservice they are doing to Islam.

Our religious
rehabilitation by the Kamunting detention camp started on the Tuesday
after Deepavali. The highlight of the sessions was the “nasi tomato” and
the chicken wing in a plastic bag that they served for lunch, courtesy of
JAKIM but paid for by the Malaysian taxpayers, 90% who are
Chinese.

The JAKIM ustaz told us that Islam is the true religion
and that all other religions are false. We were reminded not to believe in
or follow other religions, which are not accepted and recognized by God.
Only the Koran is the true Holy Book and was sent to us by God through the
Prophet Muhammad. All other books are false and were created by man and
did not come from God.

We must also not copy or ape the non-Muslims
as that will lead us astray and we will become an apostate if we act like
the kafir. He did not, however, give any examples on what would be
considered acting like a kafir.

In the meantime, in another
incident that happened outside the Kamunting detention camp, an UKM
lecturer explained that Muslims should not do yoga or meditate, as the
origin of this is Hinduism. Muslims who do yoga or meditate would be led
astray, argued the wise man from UKM. He then asked the religious scholars
to come out with a fatwa or decree banning Muslims from doing yoga or
meditating.

It is ironical that the JAKIM ustaz who visited
Kamunting chose that subject matter to kick off our religious
rehabilitation program. The article that got me into trouble with the
government and which resulted in my detention under the Internal Security
Act said exactly the same thing. I pointed out that the Friday prayer
sermons run down the other religions. I also argued that we are told not
to ape the non-Muslims or take them as our friends as the non-Muslims are
sworn enemies of Islam and can never be our friends. For that I was
detained under the Internal Security Act and my first lecture happened to
be the very thing I said and which got me detained.

There are in
fact many things which Malays do and which originated from Hinduism. Take
the stringing up of coloured lights as one example. Seven days before Hari
Raya Malays would string up coloured lights around their home, sometimes
even on trees like they do during Christmas. This is a throwback of the
old days when they used to use kerosene or oil lamps. And this was a
custom borrowed from Deepavali because the Arabs do not do
this.

So, the next time you pass by a Malay house during Hari Raya
and you see all those coloured lights you can smile, knowing that the
occupant of that house is borrowing a Hindu ritual -- only that he or she
does not know it.

If we really want to go into the long list of
Hindu customs and rituals that the Malays have borrowed the list would be
endless. We should not ape the kafir, the religious scholars tell us. If
not we would become a kafir. Well, what about wearing a tie, coat and
pants? Is this not a kafir attire?

How many Malays go about wearing
a robe and turban? Even that UKM lecturer who wants a fatwa issued banning
Malays from doing yoga or meditation wears kafir clothes. Look at all the
Malay government officers. They all wear kafir clothes and sometimes a tie
as well. The security forces all wear kafir uniforms with a kafir hat on
their heads.

We count our days using a Christian calendar. I am
facing various charges for crimes I committed on certain days of the
Christian calendar. What was the day of the Islamic calendar, the Hijrah
calendar, that I committed my crimes? The charge sheet does not
say.

I am facing various charges in a kafir court. The charges I am
facing are crimes according to kafir laws. I was also under detention
without trial according to a kafir law. In fact, according to Islam, I
have not committed any crime. And Islam does not allow for detention
without trial.

For that matter not only have I not committed a
crime, according to Islam, but what I have done is what Islam has actually
made mandatory. Islam makes it mandatory for all Muslims to perform “Amar
Makruf, Nahi Munkar”. This means to uphold good and oppose evil. All
Muslims must do this without exception. Not doing it, according to Islam,
makes you an extremely weak Muslim.

I, however, am now facing trial
and was under detention without trial for performing my Islamic duty. And
kafir laws, not Islamic laws, are being used against me. Kafir laws are
being used against Muslims for doing what Islam has made
mandatory.

And what is the reaction of Muslims to all this? What is
the UKM lecturer doing about it? Is he up in arms about the kafir system
being implemented against Islam? Is the Member of Parliament for Kulim
demonstrating on the streets and screaming, “I am a Muslim first I don’t
care about other people’s opinions”?

Okay, the UKM lecturer wants
yoga and meditation banned and the Kulim MP wants to shut the mouths of
anyone who wants to talk about Islam. But that is about it. It never goes
beyond that,

Sometimes the Malays can be amazing. Okay, not
sometimes, most times. Now UMNO wants Zaid Ibrahim sacked as a Malay. Can
any Malay actually be sacked as a Malay? I wonder, but UMNO thinks it can
be done. UMNO says that Zaid would be nobody -- he would not be a lawyer
of the biggest law firm in Malaysia -- if he was not a Malay and the
country did not have Ketuanan Melayu and the New Economic
Policy.

Zaid thinks that that is an insult. He would like to
believe he is what he is because he is Zaid and because he is smart. If he
would instead be a simple fisherman in Tumpat, Kelantan, without the
benefit of Ketuanan Melayu and the NEP, then this means Zaid is actually
quite stupid.

I share Zaid’s view. I also would like to believe
that I am “somebody” and “special” because I am Raja Petra. If it is
because of Ketuanan Melayu and the NEP, and if not because of that I would
be washing cars in Bangsar, then this would certainly make me very
unhappy.

Yes, Zaid and people like him do not need crutches. Only
losers need crutches. And that is why UMNO wants these crutches to remain,
because they are all a bunch of losers. I would like to believe that I am
what I am because of who I am and not because of Ketuanan Melayu and the
NEP. I take pride in that. I would hate people saying, “of course Raja
Petra is successful. He is a Malay and Malays have Ketuanan Melayu and the
NEP to help them. Malays need crutches to get ahead.”

It is time
the crutches are removed and the Malays learned how to walk with their
heads held up high. Malays have to be made to believe that the Ketuanan
Melayu and the NEP is an insult and that it suggests Malays are weak
creatures. Malays must be proud of their achievements and not credit their
achievements to the protection and special privileges they enjoy because
they are Malay. The Malays used to be a proud race. Now they are no longer
proud. They accept that they are weak. So they demand protection to
compensate for this
weakness.