Today, Malay Muslims are following those imams -- Malik, Shafiee, Hambal, Hanifa, Ghazali, etc. But in their time they too questioned and opposed their rulers. Ghazali, in fact, wrote that we must distance ourselves from the rulers and not become close to them. In other words, do not become friends with the rulers. And this comes from famous imams whom Malay Muslims follow.
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Raja Petra Kamarudin
50 Gaps protestors stomp on PKR effigies
The tussle between BN and Pakatan over who is more loyal to the royals has spilled into the streets yet again. This time 50 protestors from Gerakan Anti-Penyelewengan Selangor (Gaps) stomped and spat on the effigies of Sri Muda assemblyperson Shuhaimi Shafiei and Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim.
Assembling at about 12.00pm, the protestors marched a short distance to Shuhaimi's service centre in Kota Kemuning, Shah Alam. They shouted slogans and called Shuhaimi a "traitor", "pondan" and "coward" for not being there to personally meet them.
They also carried with them banners and posters deriding Shuhaimi, as well two effigies, one labeled "Shuhaimi Penderhaka" (Shuhaimi a traitor) and the other "Khalid Gagap" (Khalid stammers).
However they were prevented from approaching the assemblyperson's office by a combined reaction force of about 100 policemen led by Shah Alam OCPD Zahedi Ayob.
The police presence that dominated the area since 10.00am included riot-equipped Light Strike Force personnel as well as others from the traffic and narcotics divisions from the Shah Alam police district headquarters.
Using a loudhailer, protest leader and Gaps chairperson Hamidzun Khairuddin exhorted the crowd and called upon Shuhaimi to answer their charges that he is a traitor.
"Whatever party you are from, everyone has a duty to protect the institution of the monarchy and keep the peace.”
"We shall continue to hound Shuhaimi over his treachery. We marched already to the SUK and today in Kota Kemuning, we shall do so again," pledged Hamidzun.
The protestors also requested from police to allow three of their representatives to express their protest to Shuhaimi or his aides.
However, neither Shuhaimi, nor anyone from his office, showed up.
After a brief shouting and calling for someone to come out to face them, the crowd expressed their frustration by stomping and spitting on the effigies of Shuhaimi and Khalid.
But the police soon put a stop to this after a short scuffle, and removed Shuhaimi's effigy.
Slightly mollified, the crowd dispersed and consoled themselves by dragging Khalid's effigy behind them.
"If we cannot spit and stomp, then we shall drag him," remarked one Gaps member gleefully as the crowd dispersed at about 12.40pm under the watchful eyes of the police.
The protest is the latest in a series mounted by Umno-linked Gaps against Shuhaimai for his blog posting, that they accused of "waging war against the Malay rulers".
Gaps is baying for Shuhaimi's head over the matter, and has lodged a police report against the PKR assemblyperson.
Earlier, Shuhaimi's house was splashed with red paint.
The Sri Muda assemblyperson was called in to the Shah Alam police district headquarters yesterday to give his statement about his controversial blog posting.
In the blog entry, Shuhaimi had commented on the Sultan's role in the controversial posting of former Selangor Islamic Department (Jais) head Khusrin Munawi as the state secretary without consulting the MB.
Gaps subsequently took offence at the tone of Suhaimi's comments. -- Malaysiakini
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That was what Malaysiakini reported today regarding the pro-Sultan demonstration organised by 50 Umno supporters. Basically, what they are trying to do is to pit the Sultan against the opposition and to fan the sentiments of the Malays by suggesting that the opposition is anti-Sultan.
And you know what? It might just work. And it will work because a large section of the Malays are caught in the past. For them, time has stood still.
You need to listen to how these types of Malays talk to catch their drift. They talk about Merdeka and how the Malays fought for independence from Britain. They scream slogans from hundreds of years ago such as ‘Melayu Tak Hilang Di Dunia’.
This was supposed to have been said by the legendary Hang Tuah, as legendary as the famous Robin Hood or King Arthur of England or the Three Musketeers of France.
These are stuff children’s stories are made of. They are about heroes zipping in to save the damsel in distress and to protect the downtrodden from the bad and powerful powers-that-be.
Many Malays are still living in the past and talk about the glory days long gone. They talk about the time of the Golden Age of Islam, which is actually the time of Harun Al Rashid in Baghdad. They talk about the Malay Sultanate and the great Melaka Empire. Some Malays dream of the day when they can return to these glory days long gone.
But it will never happen. You can’t turn back the clock. What is past is past. It is water under the bridge.
Do the Indians talk about returning to the glory days of the great Mogul rulers? Do the Chinese talk about returning to the glory days of the great Chinese emperors? Do the Japanese talk about returning to the glory days of the great Shogun? Do the English talk about returning to the glory days of the great Queen Victoria when they thought the sun would never set on the British Empire?
Those are days long gone and which will never return.
These protests and talk about traitor and whatnot are a throwback to the days of Hang Tuah and the great Melaka Empire before the Portuguese came to Malaysia’s shores. In those days the Sultan was the one-man government and he had power of life and death over all his subjects. He could even force you to divorce your wife if he took a fancy to her and wanted her in his bed.
Actually, those were days that were most immoral -- as were the times of Queen Victoria, the Shogun, the Moguls or the Chinese emperors. Do the Malays really want to return to the days when you addressed yourself as dirt under the slippers of His Highness -- patek yang hina mohon durhaka?
There are a handful of Malays like those mentioned in the Malaysiakini report above who are still stuck in the past and who are upholding values of more than 500 years ago.
In England, 500 years ago, if you said anything against the King, it would be considered as sedition and your ears would be cut off -- if you were not put to death, that is. The King was appointed by God and to question the King meant you are questioning God. So you were punished severely.
In fact, if you did not follow the religion of the King and declared that you do not believe in God or believe in another religion you would be burned alive at the stake. Catholics were killed and Jews were expelled from the country. Hindus, Muslims and 'pagans' were captured and sold as slaves -- so they received ‘better’ treatment.
These types of Malays need to be dragged into the modern world. The sedition law has been abolished in England, as have many other archaic laws such as criminal defamation. (Did you notice that I was charged under those two laws -- sedition and criminal defamation -- that have now been abolished in England?)
Sedition and treason against the King are laws of Henry VIII at a time when the King wanted to divorce his wife to marry another woman and they wanted to make sure no one criticised His Majesty for it (the church did not allow divorce). In short, the King wanted to do something wrong, which even the church opposed, so they needed laws to shut the peoples’ mouths.
Do these types of Malays want to keep Malaysia in the past? So what if we question the Sultan if he does something wrong? Didn’t many of the Muslim imams of a thousand years ago also question their rulers and paid a heavy price for it?
Today, Malay Muslims are following those imams -- Malik, Shafiee, Hambal, Hanifa, Ghazali, etc. But in their time they too questioned and opposed their rulers. Ghazali, in fact, wrote that we must distance ourselves from the rulers and not become close to them. In other words, do not become friends with the rulers. And this comes from famous imams whom Malay Muslims follow.
And what is this Malay fetish with pondans (transvestites)? Every time they open their mouth they talk about pondans. No wonder you find many Malays crossing the border to sample the Thai ladyboys. I must say they look extremely ravishing though so I really don’t blame these Malays. They look even lovelier than some women.
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