HYPOCRISY FIRST : DEEPAVALI GREETINGS, CONVERT-TO-ISLAM SUBTEXT

Can’t Finas wish a direct and simple Happy Deepavali without introducing the everybody-converting-to-Islam theme?

This ‘mualaf’ agenda is really pervasive in Malaysian media. It can be subtle or in-your-face. But it’s always Melayu First, Muslim First even when it comes to the holiest or the biggest festival days in the calendar of the other races in the country.

We remember an earlier case where a mainstream Malay paper featured a convert family’s celebration of Chinese New Year in its CNY coverage. Both the mualaf family scenarios with the Chinese are atypical and unrepresentative of celebrants. Yet why do the crafters of public imagery continue their hijack with impunity?

Well, what do you expect when the leaders supposedly representing the other races — like Lim Guan Eng — consistently kiss arse and outdo their Muslim counterparts in their public protestations of Islam? Isn’t Penang the most Islamic state of all under the governance of a Caliph wannabe, what more with a de facto Arabic state slogan that’s Islamist – ‘Amar Ma’aruf, Nahi Mungkar’?

Bapa borek, anak rintik. Finas was merely taking its cue from the leaders of the country where politicians from both sides of the divide are agreed on the Islamization platform.

courtesy of Hartal MSM