Written by J. D. Lovrenciear
Really to come to think of it, it is very scary. Malaysians are so divided on race and religion to the point that it is very easy to destroy this country in a very short time. These are thoughts worth pondering given the episodes of protests, counter-attacks and what have you in the country of late pertaining to race and religions.
A foreign enemy, if at all there was one, need not come guns blazing or parachute its para-military forces on our shores to lay siege to the country. Nor do they even have to go to the laborious extent of paralysig our financial economy.
All an enemy has to do is to create a racial or religious propaganda and the entire lot of Malaysians will be up in arms against each others throat.
Pandemonium will break out. And the enemy just has to watch from the sidelines as Malaysians kill, burn and loot to finish off their fellow citizens.
And once we become so imbued with our racial-religious battles, the eying enemy will move in and have the country in their palms. They do not even have to roll in their battle tanks and bazookas.
Sounds like some far fetched fiction? Crazy thoughts? No. The writings are all over the wall around us.Our race-religion divisiveness, lack of understanding, heightened levels of intolerance, extremist thoughts, political control over religion -- all of these have set our nerves all rilled up so tight that we can easily go ballistic even if it is a single-line sms (texting) pitting any particular religion or race against another.
Despite living together as a one nation of people since independence, we have failed to see rationally and emotionally beyond the lines of race and religion. Somebody has been exploiting all Malaysians for far too long using the race and religion cards. And we have collective as a nation of people fallen victim.
Today it is so damn easy to get Malaysians to war against each other. Surely somebody has to take responsibility for this acrimonious state of affairs?
We are indeed facing extremely vulnerable moments in our history. It is no exaggeration that we are at a peaking point before all hell breaks loose. Pray there will be a savior leader and truly virtous followers who can put us all on the right course so that we do not end as easy targets to any foreign power with conquest in their mind.
A foreign enemy, if at all there was one, need not come guns blazing or parachute its para-military forces on our shores to lay siege to the country. Nor do they even have to go to the laborious extent of paralysig our financial economy.
All an enemy has to do is to create a racial or religious propaganda and the entire lot of Malaysians will be up in arms against each others throat.
Pandemonium will break out. And the enemy just has to watch from the sidelines as Malaysians kill, burn and loot to finish off their fellow citizens.
And once we become so imbued with our racial-religious battles, the eying enemy will move in and have the country in their palms. They do not even have to roll in their battle tanks and bazookas.
Sounds like some far fetched fiction? Crazy thoughts? No. The writings are all over the wall around us.Our race-religion divisiveness, lack of understanding, heightened levels of intolerance, extremist thoughts, political control over religion -- all of these have set our nerves all rilled up so tight that we can easily go ballistic even if it is a single-line sms (texting) pitting any particular religion or race against another.
Despite living together as a one nation of people since independence, we have failed to see rationally and emotionally beyond the lines of race and religion. Somebody has been exploiting all Malaysians for far too long using the race and religion cards. And we have collective as a nation of people fallen victim.
Today it is so damn easy to get Malaysians to war against each other. Surely somebody has to take responsibility for this acrimonious state of affairs?
We are indeed facing extremely vulnerable moments in our history. It is no exaggeration that we are at a peaking point before all hell breaks loose. Pray there will be a savior leader and truly virtous followers who can put us all on the right course so that we do not end as easy targets to any foreign power with conquest in their mind.
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