DARK PAGES

I am in the midst of being at one of the lowest ebbs and moments in my life mourning the loss of a good, dedicated and special individual by the name of Suflan Shamsudin. We had an unbreakable bond and relationship for many years. Suflan and his son’s were my wife’s piano student and his daughter was my student on the violin. Whenever Suflan had this chance to share moments with me he encouraged me to write as felt my natural strength was deep rooted conscience and compassion.  Now nauseated by waves of grief and guilt at not being able to accord him care (I have been caring for palliative stage cancer patients), I can keep the flame and eloquence of his life alive in the dedication of this article to the person that he was.

    

Those fifty pompous self righteous nincompoops with their stupid actions have managed to draw out the worst possible responses in some individuals.  I refuse to ascribe this as a Muslim problem.  We must respond in a positive manner and condemn the perpetrators of such brazen unholy action in their individual capacity. To hurl stones of hate filled comment against a faith borders on criminality and displays the coarseness, vulgarity, disrespect and darkness that reside in the most educated among us.  The perverse, sick and snide comments had me reading about ten comments.

On account of fifty unthinking imbeciles, we have insensitive comments tendered against a few million innocent Muslims. Yes the action of the infamous fifty is that which can annoy the most disciplined, calmest and sanest of persons. Have we searched with real depth before passing disparaging comments as to what drives and motivates seeming common folk to descend, crawl or stoop to such profane levels of insanity and madness?  Yet after some soul searching I express that the deeper wrong committed is that those among us who in purportedly fighting for rights are wielding their pen and writing with unrelenting venomous thoughts filling the dark pages of the unending turbulent, traumatic chapter of the negatives in the Malaysian landscape.  This in effect unwittingly places anyone who has targeted the Muslim faith as collaborators of the infamous fifty in contributing to the dark episodes.

The fifty individuals have legitimate excuses if one can call it that. Persistently there are innumerable accounts of where the law breakers, bullies and thugs act as the authorities have intentionally with impunity granted immunity or just given a slap on the wrist to offenders. This has obviously communicated the wrong message and emboldened such delinquent juvenile behaviour from even the titled among the lot. I have written about the selective prosecution and precaution in the past as many others have.  We must expect quite a few worms to crawl out of the woodwork consistently and chew on the juicy structures of peace if our Government and structures of law are impotent and incarcerated by expedient policies or fear.     

As for action against the offenders, I would express the removal from any offenders of the exalted royal  titles that were awarded on the simple premise that they have desecrated and defamed the Royal institution with uncouth behaviour which is tantamount to breaching  the conventions of dignified representation. Stupidity is at its worst when it has a title as it acquires arrogance on its skin.  The offenders should not be charged with the sedition act as it dignifies and offer a pedestal for their offence which is what we should expect from a couple of knuckleheads. My take is charge them, not for protesting to remove a cross or anything like that- just charge them for ludicrous stupidity and fine them the smallest amount to purchase dunce caps that they are compelled by law to wear. We can have these fifty boorish clowns paraded  in Merdaka square  and sell admission tickets with GST (no protest on this one) included to witness original untainted stupidity – the crowd is guaranteed and that would be such a riot!  We must reclaim our laughter. The fifty want to bask in fame, give them the headlines, live TV coverage with celebrity treatment and accord them the due respect on the premise that dim wits are an endangered species and a rarity.  The caveat in all this is that we exclude any child who had the misfortune to be among these filthy fifty minds.

To prevent such occurrences and avert having our lives written in the dark pages of  Malaysian History make a bold choice to change the administration of this nation otherwise we will all be bald citizens, scratching our puzzled heads - plagued by this toxic diarrhea of ignoramus who would protest at the mere sight of cross junctions!