WOOF! WOOF! THE DOGS OF NAJIB RAZAK

Raja Petra Kamarudin, below, the man who fancies himself as Malaysia’s Prophet from Manchester. He has answers to everything. Everything.

Wanted in Malaysia, he ran off to Manchester. Wanted in Manchester, he says, “I’m not responsible for my SDs, for Malaysia Today, for my columns, for my words. Can’t you read; it says there, Julian Khoo, Editor.”

Ooops…

From where had this man learn his kind of fraud? Hmmm, let’s see….

Ah… got it!

Najib Razak! “True, the bank account is in my name. But, you see, the name is not personal, not personally mine.”

We live in exciting times.

Here’s another: “[Mahathir],” says Rahman Dahlan, “is a master of manipulation and twisting logic, but it is hard to see how even he could spin these results.”

Master of manipulation? Twisting logic? Spin?

Now, let’s see how those work, shall we, Rahman. “Watch me carefully, okay. See here? Three fingers, right? What if I slice off those fingers. You know, like potong ayam. How many do I have left? Two or Zero?”

Rahman, you poor finger-less boy. What did your mother tell you about not playing with knives.

Money and positions chain the attack dogs of Najib Razak to the man. But, what separates the dogs?

This is asked because Rahman Dahlan and Salleh Said Keruak are as different from Petra Kamarudin (RPK) as the latter is to Helen Ang or Ahirudin Attan.

On their CVs, most of them have some formal, tertiary education usually at third rate universities from where they undergo useless training for useless paper degrees. Salleh studied ‘political science’ from Uni Putra; Rahman’s alma mater is Sonoma State, founded 1960, which ten out of ten Americans, if you were to ask them, didn’t know exist. RPK barely finished high school.

That is, Najib’s dogs start their adult lives even as frauds. Poorly trained, unemployable elsewhere, politics offer the only mobility and the route up because Malaysian politics, as Najib has repeatedly demonstrated, require little in menial skilled capability or intellectual acumen; position guarantees everything. This means that they would have relied on some past record — a point in their earlier lives — that led them to their induction into the band of Najib’s propaganda people.

Salleh relied on pedigree, so too RPK. Without a pedigree, others had relied on some connection to politics. Rahman started working life as a district officer. But the most common route is journalism, a grand sounding profession but in Malaysia it means ‘to spin’.

This is so plainly obvious in, for example, Malaysia Today which RPK calls journalism and he the Editor. MT’s uselessness as a source of reliable, reported information is amplified in the persons selling the information. There’s the story of Petra who had to call in an electrician to change a light bulb. His incompetence had drop to that level. Another story, told by Petra himself, says of him selling motorcycles to fishermen out at sea off Trengganu. And, yet, he boasted he made millions. This bizarre, absurd and perverse quality in the RPK’s own life would subsequently made its way as ‘stories’ and as ‘expose’ into Malaysia Today that he bills as ‘independent news’.

Kadir Jasin names his web blog the Scribe, which, before the advent of printing, was someone who record events, usually religious ones, or copy them from an existing record, or take dictation and perform secretarial and administrative work. Scribe he is indeed. Talking about Malay voting preferences in the by-elections, Kadir actually confessed about what it was he did as a journalist 40 years in the New Straits Times: it was telling readers that Umno is only party the Malays ever need. Now, paradoxically, he joins Mahathir to say it is the Malay party that needs to be destroyed.

In politics is easy money. Malays are in Umno to make money. The rest — to protect Malays from the Chinese and to protect Islam from infidels, again the Chinese — are just so much of neo-racist claptrap.

Via journalism is the beginning of the kind of political work attack dogs are hired to do. There is no other work they can do. Consider the case of Helen Ang, a former journalist, with neither the Malay race credentials nor the pedigree. She had begun her working life in Kadir’s kind of ‘scribe’ profession. Once outside it, she drifts from organization to organization; nothing secure, nothing stable, nothing permanent. Just endless drifting. Out of journalism you are out of the loop. But she had something she was trained to do in the newspapers: a way with words.

Rahman seem not to have that. And so, too, the grossly over-rated RPK. Which is to suggests that, being an attack dog, journalism is not a requisite. Knowing how to spin a sentence is necessary however. The difference between attack dogs is in the method of the spin.

Rahman relies on argument; scribes like RPK rely on expose; the first attempts to drive to some logical conclusion or the logical end in an argument, that is, to persuade; the second uses words to shock the readers, in George Orwell’s description, giving the solidity of facts to wind.

Whatever the method, truths are not at stake. But if truths are rendered secondary, how then does an attack win the argument or convince a reader into its veracity?

To understand that, go back to Kadir: on the surface he is a journalist supposedly believing in some grand truths. Yet, he says, he had spent all his life, inside the cover of independent, impartial journalism on only one mission — to promote Umno’s political agenda. Likewise is the work at Malaysia Today where the facade is truth but the purpose is to lie. Woof, woof, is a dog howling in the Manchester night. It would be easy just to shoot dead that stupid mad dog.

Yet, we don’t because once something is written, it acquires a sacredness; a word, a name, a phrase pointing to a thing gives the latter an existence. With an existence, it becomes believable. Given enough time, and when driven to the extreme, those words get even a holy status. Hence, the Bible and the Quran, the so-called ‘holy’ books. Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” That is, reality is plausible only if spoken.

The barking of RPK requires no refutation, therefore. An expose shocks but only to the extent of the excitement it generates. For example, RPK said he got rich selling motorcycles to fishermen in the South China Sea. Reread the sentence again. What’s wrong with it, not with the words but the information? It might as well be the ravings of a madman: I am the Savior of Malaysia. I’ve come to deliver Malays from the sins of Manchester. It’s a madness no different from the like of the Hadi Awang’s. Likewise with Helen Ang and others. In exposes they are easily dismissed.

Rahman’s method, in contrast, relies not on mere declarations but on an analytical device known as syllogism — if P then Q — and this has a more persuasive quality, hence a more pervasive and insidious influence. It is a bit like Kadir promoting little by little, nuggets by nuggets to build the eventual picture of Umno as the protector of the Malays.

Here’s the syllogism in Rahman taken from a Malaysiakini report (below):

(a) People voted Barisan in the by-elections. (factual premise)

(b) Mahathir has been rejected. (deductive premise)

(c) Therefore, Mahathir should stop accusing Najib. (conclusion)

Rahman’s reasoning, going from (a) to (c), must pass (b). Questions, therefore: By voting for Barisan, does it mean that people don’t believe Mahathir’s accusations against Najib? Is disbelief rejection? Does it also mean Najib is innocent of fraud and corruption? The answers are obvious because people who favor Barisan over Amanah (and PAS) might do so for reasons that could have nothing to do with Mahathir’s accusations or 1MDB and Najib’s other misdeeds that, after all, have had no direct impact on their lives.

Rahman’s argument appears only valid because of the opening premise. But his logicism ends badly, the way Hadi Awang blames Allah for every one of his failures.

All of which is to say that Najib’s propaganda people are run entirely by infantile minds and if their arguments over the by-election victories seemed like a fog of confusion, it is because they came from irrationality.

In the clip above is Najib’s Attack Dog Shaharuddin Ibrahim of PAS, Padang Serai: His Penang mosque sermon is identical to Helen Ang’s daily political outpouring — the Chinese are the enemies of Islam. Get out of Malaysia, adds Towel Head, the little brown pendatang from Arabia. At different times, Ahi has alluded to the same thing and so has RPK, even Kadir Jasin who, reduced to the option of choosing Najib or the Chinese, has for the time being think of Chinese as ‘Citizens’.

From Tunku Abdul Rahman to Shah, this Malaiyoo racist bigotry is traceable to its Arabian and Islam roots, facilitated by Umno, Anwar Ibrahim, Mahathir, now Najib. It is an endless, recurring theme so there seems to be no going back. That being the case, where the Chinese votes end up, whether to Mahathir or to Najib, is there a fuck of a difference?

Let the Malaiyoos have their hudud — and their Najibs. Malays were never tolerant of the Chinese. Never. It’s a myth cultivated for ketuanan. No, they had been tolerant for the like of Shaharuddin, of Najib’s Dogs, and of Old Horse, too. We could have been such great partners, but….

Below is another Shaharuddin reminder: Malaysia is exclusively Melayu, sequestered from the Orang Asli, from history, underpinned by Islam. Each Chinese has in power and influence is just one ballot paper — not houses and money — and it is received once every several years. Let’s see how they use it while they still have the numbers. No other way is workable, not even if every Chinese become a Ridhuan Tee because then the racism will surface in another form. Evidence to this self-destructive capability is found in the birth place of Islam — the Middle-East.

From Abdul Rahman Dahlan (in Mkini)

Dr Mahathir Mohamad should retire from politics quietly and not subject himself to further humiliation, said BN strategic communications director Abdul Rahman Dahlan.

He also urged the former prime minister to accept the results of Saturday’s twin by-elections even if the outcome did not align with his personal interests.

“Mahathir has been totally rejected, not just by the people, but now by opposition supporters who he shamelessly embraced to topple a democratically elected government.

“In doing so, he betrayed those in BN who once put their absolute loyalty and trust in him. It is sad to see him destroy his own legacy,” he said in a statement.

Abdul Rahman said Mahathir had remained silent since the BN victories made the people’s rejection of the former premier clear.

“He is a master of manipulation and twisting logic, but it is hard to see how even he could spin these results. They are clearly a terminal defeat for him,” he added.

The election landslides, he said, once again proved that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak is capable of leading BN into the next general election.

On the same note, he said the results revealed the lie to Mahathir’s claim that BN would lose the national polls under Najib.“Mahathir’s Anti-Najib campaign has failed miserably, and the opposition are split, incoherent and completely unfit for government.

Abduh Aziz, the boy who claims Allah as his God and he would be Prophet, coming from among the orang utans in Kelantan jungle huts: “Listen all you Malaiyoos! And kafirs, too! There is only one stone in the world worth looking at. It’s in a desert. Face it, go down on your knees, open your mouth, pray, and your fangs will come out.”

“But Prophet Abduh. I followed your instructions and I still have a headache.”

From Nik Abduh Nik Aziz (in Mkini)

“Mahathir’s fangs have officially been extracted. I recommend Mahathir spend more time on prayer mats and face the Kaabah.

“The era of his power when fighting against (late PAS spiritual leader) Nik Aziz Nik Mat, my late father, has come to an end,” said Nik Abduh on his Facebook today.

He said he prayed for Mahathir to repent sincerely before Allah.

Nik Abduh said PAS’ Islamic struggle had allowed it to gain significant votes in Umno’s strongholds, which he said was no small feat.

“Is 25 percent clear support in Umno’s stronghold small?” he asked.

He said PAS should build on this strength instead of joining hands with those who want to “topple the government”.

Mahathir has been calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to be ousted, and urged for the twin by-elections to be a referendum on the matter.

Since young I have been taught the Islamic movement must be independent, and cannot be bound with any group.”It is haram for an Islamic movement to be bound by any government that is secular, who is reluctant to tie themselves with religion, or only pretends to be religious to draw support.

“It is also haram … to be together with opposition parties that oppose the government to the point of losing all principles of the Islamic struggle for the sake of toppling a secular government that is cruel,” he said. - shuzheng.wordpress.com