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By DANIAL ARIFF SHAARI
Why was turnout at the Bebas rally so low?
Why is Mariam Mokhtar obsessed with my photo?
Why is Farouk A. Peru very fixated on Isma?
Why are smarmy liberals gathered in The Star?
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Armchair warriors are all talk, little action
The liberal group calling themselves Bebas held a counter-rally against RUU335 in Tasik Taman Jaya, Petaling Jaya last weekend.
Malay Mail Online, Malaysiakini, Free Malaysia Today and The Star helpfully publicized Bebas and its event.
MMO assistant news editor Boo Su-Lyn had moreover urged her column readers to participate (note: Ms Boo was one of the speakers). Speaking too at the rally was MMO liberal darling Azrul Mohd Khalib.
DAP man Zaid Ibrahim, lawyers Siti Kasim, Haris Ibrahim dan mereka-mereka yang sewaktu also gave speeches. But together they still failed to pull a crowd even though the number of their Facebook shares combined must have surpassed the thousands.
In the end, a mere 200-plus persons actually turned up for Bebas. There were few takers when push came to shove and Malaysian liberals were asked to put their money where their mouth is. Sad!
Compare the huge PAS-led rally at Padang Merbok, Petaling Jaya in support of RUU355. There Isma stood together with other Muslim political leaders, scholars, asatizah, activists and even local celebrities. All these individuals willingly put aside their personal/organizational agendas for the good of Islam in this county.
⇓ Azrul Khalib-Putera Lilin (holding umbrella) is sandwiched between the Man-in-Red trying to grab snowflake Azira Aziz
Keyboard militant Mariam wants unfettered freedom
I was hoping that Mariam Mokhtar would spit out what she has in her mind about my ‘How liberals are …’ series of writings. Instead she prefers to attach her silly captions to pictures of me.
And as much as I respect Mariam for her seniority in age, I do not condone her modus operandi of liberally presenting me and my fellow youths in such a condescending manner.
We young people possess – as much as Ancient Miss Mariam does – the same gift of critical thinking rather than being easily “deceived”. However on most occasions, we as Muslims do not exercise our choices freely as it would go against the very definition of ‘submission’.
Islam is indeed a religion of submission and there are boundaries as how freedom is not absolute.
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Farouk has the limited vocabulary of a Dapster
“Racist!” … “Fascist!” Blah, blah, blah.
Without any proofs, Farouk A. Peru and his ilk have arrived at an odd conclusion that Isma is an association of “racists”.
Frankly speaking, the self-proclaimed ‘Islamologist’ (huh?) Farouk does not understand the Isma agenda. For starters, he believes I am a “very confused activist” bred by a “very confused organization”.
It is as if to suggest that I submit myself to whatever that Isma preaches and eventually become a blind follower. He can however rest assured that I have not been ‘indoctrinated’ by Isma. I can think for myself.
When Malaysian liberals are unable to refute Isma with reasoned arguments, they resort to accusing Isma of being racist. But how can Isma’s determination to uphold our constitutional provisions be dismissed as promoting racism?
The truth is simply that Isma is the biggest check today on the liberals. This is what gets the liberals mad.
Clearly Farouk is uninterested to accept the realistic approach of Isma working in our Malaysian context. Not to mention it would be detrimental to his liberal propaganda should Isma triumph in its cause which attracts favour from a majority of Muslims irrespective of race.
Farouk just can’t just stand to watch non-Malay Muslims in solidarity with Isma as it would be a slap in the face for him and his liberal mates after having accused Isma as a racist and “Islamofascist” organization.
⇓ A placard spotted at the Bebas rally said “May compassion be upon us”, alluding to RUU355 supporters as haters
Liberal-fascist is not an oxymoron, just a moron
The negativity of the DAP, MCA and the latter’s Star newspaper towards RUU355 is reflective of self-righteous bullies.
They like to speak a lot about peace and harmony while at the same time name-calling and looking down on religious conservatives. It would serve them better to speak correctly of the law than to bleed their aching hearts in nostalgia over the Tunku’s lost era.
“WHAT DISTINGUISHES LIBERAL FASCISM IS OUTRAGE MASKED BY HUMANITARIAN WORDS. LIBERAL FASCISTS PROMOTE TOLERANCE WHILE QUASHING DISAGREEMENT.” — PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR ALEXANDER E. HOOKE
A favourite argument among DAP and MCA personalities as well as in The Star is that Tunku Abdul Rahman disclaimed Malaysia as ever being an Islamic state.
By the same token, we non-secularists can likewise refer to the claim by Dr Mahathir Mohammad in September 2001 that our country is an Islamic state, no?
It is not Malaysian prime ministers but our courts that are empowered to interpret constitutional provisions.
And the court decided in favour of Islam. See for example the case of Titular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur v. Menteri Dalam Negeri and Kerajaan Malaysia (The Herald) regarding the use of the word ‘Allah’ in Christian publications.
The judges upheld that “the purpose and intention of the insertion of the words ‘in peace and harmony’ in Article 3(1) is to protect the sanctity of Islam as the religion of the country and also to insulate against any threat faced or any possible and probable threat to the religion of Islam”.
The bench further found that “the most possible and probable threat to Islam, in the context of this country, is the propagation of other religion to the followers of Islam”.
Hence the very reason why Article 11(4) of the constitution came into place.
Liberals are numbers- and fact-challenged
The liberals sometimes mistakenly assert that Islam is merely the “official” religion.
They conveniently ignore the fact that nowhere in our federal constitution is it declared that Malaysia is a secular country.
They cannot answer either why the declaration “Islam is the religion of the Federation” is enshrined upfront in Article 3 when a secular country means swearing no allegiance to any religion at all.
Learn how to count, please. The word ‘religion’ occurs at least 24 times in the federal constitution. That’s a fact.
But facts are immaterial to Malaysian liberals.
Not too long ago, I read an article in The Baltimore Sun where the writer pronounced, “Liberal fascists are among the most vociferous bullies of today’s politics”.
Liberals … well, we know who they are in Malaysia.
Fascists … they’re the Malaysian liberals lah.
Most vociferous … over RUU355, it’s definitely DAP, MCA and the liberal media.
And the bullies of today’s politics are … the self-confessed peaceniks.
⇓ Siti Kasim (in blue) swears that she will always bash the bigots
The tai-tai in tight cheongsam is Boo Su-lyn
Danial Ariff Shaari is an Isma activist trained in law
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