Monday, May 26, 2008

BN or Pakatan??

So the winds of change did not just come, it brought along a hurricane along with it.
Many Malaysians have celebrated since then, and i will not deny that I was one of them.

After 4 months, the political orgasm is certainly dying down. And something not very pleasant just cropped up into my mind.
What is the future of Malaysia should the Pakatan come into power??

As we know Pakatan is a combination of Pro secularism DAP, Pro islamist PAS, and PKR which falls somewhere in between.
Just looking at the combination alone is disturbing. Lets just use the school uniform issue as an example.
While DAP was busy slamming those who said that the uniform were sexy, PAS not only agreed with that view but demanded action to be taken.
Shouldn't a Political Party share the same views and principles?? Well that just doesn't seem to be the case here, does it?
Its becoming very clear to me that DAP will always be DAP, and PAS will always be PAS.
This is indeed, a classic example of the 'Inconvenient Truth'.

I can't say much about the UMNO-MCA-MIC coalition either. Although UMNO is basically a Islamic party, it does have much more modern Malays. MCA and MIC just seem to be overshadowed and pooh poohed by their big boss all the time, although thats a statement that they most certainly refute.
And from all this, the underlying problems which in my opinion, destroyed Malaysian politics clearly speaks for itself. 1.The politicization of Islam. 2.Corruption and arrogance.(I wont touch on this since we already know what i mean, don't we?)

Don't get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with Islam. In fact, it is a beautiful religion.
The problem starts when people use religion as a base to gain political millage.
As beautiful as it may be, religion if allowed to, starts becoming a subject of manipulation to win votes. The manipulation of religion was the ultimate cause for the near downfall of Christianity during the dark ages. And i certainly hope that does not happen to Islam.

And why do i say all this?? Well thats because UMNO and PAS have been playing the Tug a War game, over who is more Islamic.(Thou Art Holier then Me) In the process, bringing everybody down with it. ( i could write 10 pages about this if i had the time)

Lets again use the school uniform issue as an example. I dare say, that if religion was not involved in this, the Non Muslims would have agreed that it is too thin. But when you start putting religion into the equation, and make stupid statements that the uniform causes rape, (which clearly is the stupidest thing i've heard on earth) it does raise eyebrows.

For starters, the non Muslims would think that agreeing to this issue would associate them with Islam.
Secondly, all educated people on earth know that rapists will rape a 50 year old woman if they want to. The real issue here is really protecting the girls modesty. And because of some fanatics saying that this uniform may cause rape, will in turn cause most people to shoot down their views, and disagree with whatever they say.

So do you see what I see?? The extent to which Islam has been politicized is unbelievable. Many would rather die then being associated with Islam- Thanks to a handful of idiots, that is.

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