Uyghurs Sow a New Terror Against an Entire Race
Written Chinese history as early as the Zhou dynasty (b. 1045 BC) has reported of marauding tribal bands named Xiongnu (Uyghurs are descended from them) at the time raiding Chinese villages and taking away crops, animals, women and silk – after killing every man alive. Saddled [...]
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The Persecuted Race
Posted in Lina Joy Writings on September 6, 2009 | Comments Off
The Kartika Dilemma as Malay Voter: Umno = PAS
Posted in Culture & Politics, Lina Joy Writings on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 – Mosque committee members such as the imam and the bilal will be given powers to arrest Muslims drinking alcohol in public, in a move that highlights the fundamentalist face of PAS and could scare off non-Muslim voters from backing the Pakatan Rakyat (PR).
The “news” by the reporter of the above [...]
Who is the True Malaysian?
Posted in Lina Joy Writings, Malaysia: Dialogue on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Raja Petra Kamarudin on ethnicity:
Many of my very close friends and relatives are half this or half that.
But which half? And Petra says:
Mahathir Mohamad is half-Indian. Anwar Ibrahim is half-Indian. Wan Azizah, according to Umno, is half-Chinese. I am half-Malay.
What about the other half? Mahathir is half Malay, Anwar is half Malay, Wan Azizah [...]
The Four Seas of Anwar Ibrahim & Han Suyin
Posted in Culture & Politics, Lina Joy Writings on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cited by Anwar Ibrahim: 四海之內，皆兄弟也
Hanyu pinyin: si hai zhinei, jie xiongdi ye.
Literal translation: four/seas/inside, all/brothers/(ye=copula particle)
English grammatical form: Within the four seas, all are brothers.
Anwar Ibrahim at his oratorical best happens when he campaigns, not when he gives Press conferences. That difference lies in his ability to [...]
A Dead Body & Dead Silence Among the Critics
Posted in Lina Joy Writings on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One is repeatedly harangued by words, justice, freedom, human rights, save the constitution. But suddenly the fine words fall silent over one dead Elangesvaran Benedict. Here, below, is to explain the failure of politics over a dead body and what this might mean.
ON the North-South Federal Expressway, you are certain to miss Parit Buntar. On [...]
Malaysia: A Wounded Nation
Posted in Lina Joy Writings on September 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This, below, is worth recalling seventeen years later, both on the eve of Sep 11 and in the post Taliban-Korean hostage crisis.
VS Naipual in 1990 on “Our Universal Civilization“:
Eleven years ago, when I was traveling in Java, I met a young man who wanted above everything else to be a poet and to live the life [...]
Hans Andersen: Common Decency vs The Law
Posted in Lina Joy Writings, Snippets on September 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
After the Bible and Shakespeare, the stories of Hans Christian Andersen, total 156, is the most widely translated body of literary work in the world. One story has been translated into 120 languages such as Basque, Estonian and Khmer. The Nightingale in the Chinese is read in Chinese elementary schools today. Why has this storyteller [...]
Religion Begets Violence or Stops It?
Posted in Lina Joy Writings, Snippets on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Roger Scruton answers Christopher Hitchens on the anthropology of religion, or rather its penultimate purpose:
[Rene] Girard begins from an observation no impartial reader of the Hebrew Bible or the Koran can fail to make, which is that religion may offer peace, but has its roots in violence. The God presented in these writings is often [...]
King, Confucianism & Character
Posted in Lina Joy Writings, Malaysia: Dialogue on July 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dialogue Series #4
This essay, a part of Malaysia’s 50th independence Dialogue series, is a critique to a piece of writing that appeared in the People’s Parliament by Jayanath Appudurai. A relevant portion is reproduced below.
I challenge you not to meekly accept your tribe’s group think and let the cartel’s agenda hijack your mind! Pledge that from [...]
The Rectification of Names
Posted in Lina Joy Writings on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
子路曰:「衛君待子而為政，子將奚先?」子曰:「必也正名乎!」論 語 13:3
Luzi asks: “If the Duke of Wei left you his administration, what is your priority?” Master replies: “Give names their true meaning.” Lunyu 13:3
In Malaysia, a country gone mad, here are the exceptions to the rule, true persons bearing true names and up against Islamic tyranny:
Revathi is my name…
Siti Noor is my name…
Lina Joy [...]
Islamic State from Inside the Veil
Posted in Lina Joy Writings on June 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To understand where and what into the future the likes of Anwar Ibrahim, Nik Aziz, PAS, ABIM, JAIS will take Malaysians is to look into that future. And that future is available for the seeing and for the experience in two places: Saudi Arabia and Iran, model societies of the Malaysian Islamists.
SAUDI ARABIA
Megan Stack is a Los [...]
Jika Kau Bercinta…
Posted in Lina Joy Writings on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Miss Joy,
Loganathan, one of the Alleycats, died Tuesday, 5 June. In his songs, he had the Malaysian soul without being Malay. And, in Lina Joy, you have the Malaysian soul without being Arab Muslim.
Letter to Lina Joy: Run Lina, Run
Posted in Lina Joy Writings on June 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Miss Joy,
They shouted Allah Akhbar after Ahmad Fairuz and Alauddin decided you could not have the word, Islam, deleted from your identity card. Did you hear them? You were probably absent that Wednesday morning, May 30 this year, but we are almost certain you at least heard the timbre in the echo. You know [...]
