Najib an incarnation of Lord Muruga says the Hindus he is here to save us
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), set up after the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, is currently probing two cases involving the Hindu extremists. The government in New Delhi
In the first week of March 2011, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) wrote to the state governments and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s criminal investigative agency, soliciting their views whether they would like to hand over all ‘Hindu terror’ cases to the NIA. Given the political nature of the issue this step would lead to an impartial and ‘single agency’ investigation of the cases. Currently, some of the cases are being investigated by individual state-level Anti-Terrorism Squads (ATS) and some by the CBI.
Politics over Terror
The reality of terror attacks by Hindu groups is gradually registering in the minds of Indians, although the extent of the damage potential of these fringe formations remains a matter of debate.
According to available information, persons associated with the Hindu terror groups, such as the one ironically named Abhinav Bharat (Modern India) and the other Sanatan Sanshtha (Eternal Organisation), carried out explosions in several places across the country. Prominent among them were two blasts in Malegaon in Maharashtra state in 2006 and 2008; an explosion targeting a train that runs betweenIndia and Pakistan in 2007 in Haryana; a blast in the Sufi shrine of Ajmer Durgah in Rajasthan in 2007; and a blast in a mosque in Hyderabad
Criminal Planning
Investigations into all these attacks reveal the details of planning that went into them. They were carried out by a compact group of men and women, ostensibly to take revenge for the ‘Muslim terror acts’ against the country. A member of the group, a colonel in the Indian army, provided technical expertise and explosives from the Army’s supply, which were then placed under concrete slabs, bicycle/ motorcycles and tiffin boxes to create mayhem. The conspirators even killed one of their main organisers -- to get rid of evidence of their involvement.
Paradoxically initial suspicion for the attacks had fallen on Muslim groups. For instance, nine Muslims were arrested and continue to be detained for their involvement in one of the blasts that took place in 2006. Experts then had sought to explain the attacks on Islamic places of worship as being driven by the larger objective of Pakistan-sponsored militants to drive a communal wedge between the Hindus and the Muslims in India
Persons involved in the attacks have in some way or other been connected to the Hindu right-wing revivalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Swami Aseemanand, arrested in connection with five of these explosions has indicated the direct role played by some of the RSS leaders in the attacks. The RSS, to date, however, remains defiant and characterises investigations into the acts of ‘Hindu terror’ as attempts by ‘anti-Hindu’ forces to weaken the efforts to counter jihadi terrorism. The RSS claims that “a Hindu cannot be a terrorist”. The main opposition political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is closely connected with the RSS, cautiously remains supportive of the government’s actions, but maintains that the government must do more against the jihadi terror.
With 83 percent of its population being Hindu, any reference linking terror acts to the majority group is bound to be controversial and politically sensitive in a country where many political parties use religion to garner votes. That consideration compelled Home Minister P Chidambaram to backtrack from his ex-pression ‘saffron terror’ in 2010 in parliament. In addition to the BJP, some of his colleagues within the Congress party too objected to raking up the issue.
First of all, the dearest person in God’s book Quraan is the one who forgives and secondly Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) has clearly set up a model of behavior for Muslims; to pray for the ones who throw rocks (Taif story) at you or harm you. We simply cannot go wrong following that guidance to create better societies.
I welcome the reform Subramanian Swami has espoused to teach tolerance. Indeed, King Ashoka was a reformed man after the Kalinga war and proved it by preaching and practicing non-violence. His character was defined by who he was rather than what others were not.
Mr. Swami has the freedom to teach what is in his heart, but if he has made that transformational announcement to teach tolerance, he will have to prove that to himself through his actions and we have to give him the benefit of doubt. I hope Muslim groups take the initiative to invite him to speak and let him have a chance to change, if he does, it is good for India, if he is the same, he cannot do more harm than he has done to harm the fabric of India’s cohesion. But please give him the due respect for making that effort, even if he fails. Let the public judge and refrain from judgment. Only God knows what is in one’s heart and all we can do is nurture good will, which is more powerful than aggravating the fragile balance.
The first lesson for him to learn in tolerance is that he cannot demand from others, what he himself does not have. He has got to let go of the baggage.
The second lesson to learn is grasping the full meaning of the wisdom embedded in the idea of “Vasudaiva Kutumbukum” – when you embrace the idea, you will act and treat the world as one family. If we can learn to respect the otherness of other and accept the God given uniqueness of each one of us, then conflicts fade and solutions emerge.
I invite him to join me in becoming an Ambassador of freedom and peace, where a human can eat, drink, wear or believe what one chooses. We don’t have to emulate those whom we love to condemn, let them emulate us and let’s change the world with you and me first changing.
In the tradition of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), I pray for Mr. Subramanian Swami to become a teacher of tolerance. May God give him the same energy and zest to do the right thing.
OH LORD NAJIB SAVE US
Dengar cerita CEO NFC (suami Sharizat) dpt gaji 100k sebulan, anak sulung (age 31) dpt gaji 45k sebulan, anak kedua (age 27)dpt 35k sebulan, anak ketiga (age 25) dpt 35k sebulan. Jika ini betul, ia sesungguhnya memalukan. Ambil duit rakyat buat bayar gaji besar.
Anak saya pun graduate juga. UPSR, PMR, SPM dapat semua A. Umur 24 tahun. Kerja swasta. Dia pun work hard. Balik kerja paling awal jam 9 malam. Kadang2 sampai 1 pagi. Gaji dia RM2,700/sebulan. Adakah anak saya akan sokong BN/Umno kalau begini keadaannya? Saya dah tahu jawapannya. Umno tak boleh kelentong orang cerdik. Umno is not capable of changing, not with the current leaders.
When more than 50 per cent of our working population is earning less than RM2k/month, tak tahu malu ke mereka-mereka ini. Merompak siang dan malam, 7 hari seminggu. Perompak Ali Baba P. Ramli pun ada cuti hujung minggu.
8 December 2011 15:12
Even if we refuse to admit it, the above is an outpouring of bitterness. Although Umno people will wish it’s confined, it’s personal anecdotes such as this that strikes fear in Umno. Maybe it’s already that single initial spark that has ignited the prairie fire.
Shahrizat Jalil can huff and puff and weave her tales as her mythical namesake did in 1,001 Nights. While she can fool Umno delegates by employing attack as the best form of defence, her actions are only an exercise in futility. For her, the writing is already on the wall. Whatever she does will not extinguish her blackened image.
Dr Mahathir Mohamad has called for her exit from Umno politics. She’s finished. Incidentally, the 1001 Nights contained the story of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves, which the writer of the comment cited. Perhaps, Ali Baba and the thieves aptly describe what Umno has become.
This kind of anecdotal and very personalised tale of feeling marginalised and alienated reflects the wider bitterness of Malays with Umno. There is nothing that Umno can do about it now.
It’s a discredited brand. It’s synonymous with pillage and plunder, corruption, arrogance that can only be the result of being far too long in power. It’s the manifestation of the political dictum — power corrupts absolutely and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Last year, every big idea thrown up by the Umno president was rejected by Umno delegates. When he spoke about 1 Malaysia, delegates insisted on Malay first, Malaysia second. The deputy Umno president was even forthright in affirming that line of thinking, which is more in common with the Umno ground.
Even as Umno members deny it, there is worrisome disconnect between the Umno president and the rest of his team. When he spoke about his nebulous New Economic Model, delegates spoke about more NEP like policies.
In the end, what has Najib Razak got to defend himself?
He has only the claim that he is the son of Tun Razak, imagining such pedigree is testimony that he won’t abandon principles dear to Umno. When a person has nothing else to defend himself with but lays bare his bloodline credentials, it’s a sign he is in trouble. No one can deny that biological connection. The similarities end just there, as people are arguing whether he has inherited the leadership talent of the father.
This year, what has Umno got? It didn’t encourage delegates speaking about economic achievements. No talk on vision, policies and so forth. No one debated about how Shahrizat got the RM 250 million. No one spoke about the ETP, EPP, GTP and whatever labels the Umno president gave to his string of initiatives. None.
The Umno president pleads for continued mandate from the people as the Malay Agenda has not finished. No one spoke or elaborated about the agenda.
How is it that the agenda can only be achieved through Umno, if at all? No one puts forth convincing arguments telling us why Umno is the only qualified instrument for Malays to achieve their collective agenda.
Najib is confused about the concept that he came up when he took over from Pak Lah, which is the claim that the age of government knows best is over. Yet, by asking the nation to give him the mandate to enable him to continue the agenda, he is reaffirming the exact opposite. The government and the party is the deity and dispenser of what is good to the people.
The 2011 Umno general assembly was an occasion for an orgy of vituperative shouting matches. Umno does nothing but direct themselves to attacking and insulting its political opponents. Umno does two things actually; one, heighten the morbid patriotism and nationalistic urges of Malays. And two, it did what it hasn’t done before: speak about Malays’ greatest fear — assault on the religion of Islam.
But here is the irony, just as Najib — who last year had nothing to offer but to invoke the name of his father — similarly too this year, Umno hasn’t got anything.
Listening to the maddening speeches by Umno delegates, I am reminded of what Arthur Schopenhauer in his Essays and Aphorisms said:
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
That is what has Umno become: an inferior good. It is a good that decreases in demand as social awareness increases. Malays in rural areas are not exactly insular in their outlook. They read the papers, understand what’s written in between the lines. Their children come back and inform parents. Umno can’t fool all the people all the time with its scare mongering tactics.
Every speaker comes up before the podium, trying to outdo the previous in terms of bellicosity and vehemence. The spectre of the Yellow Peril is upon us; the Chinese will take away Malay rights, turn Malays into Christians, abolish the monarchy and so forth. It’s not going to work because of millions of people are thinking like the person sending in the comment posted above.
People know. They talk among themselves. It has become a huge money making juggernaut. The ones making money are the Umno chieftains, cronies, families. Umno operates a giant Ponzi scheme, not dissimilar to Harry Madoff’s multi-level marketing.
It can’t defend itself on its track record other than reminding people that Umno has done much for the people and country. That claim sounds hollow because ALL governments in the world carry out programmes and implement policies.
Hosni Mubarak of Egypt did the same thing. Muammar Gaddafi gave Libyans much development and personal help to people. The Tunisian president did much development for Tunisia. Therefore, what Umno did, is not unique in that it is sufficient for people to feel beholden and enslaved by Umno.
I feel sorry for the people who think of the widespread disenchantment with Umno since 2008 and that has been building up as a flash in the pan, and regarded — for self-assuring purposes — as mere protest votes.
This time it’s real. Ordinary Malays are disputing Umno’s empty claims of fighting for the interest of Malays. And Umno people realise this. This is what Umno fears most, when Malays themselves start disputing what Umno says and does.
The facts are these: the people who are ripping off Malays are the Umno elites. Since Dr Mahathir took over, Umno has evolved into a company doing a gigantic Ponzi scheme. The elite, the Umno chieftains, their families and cronies have been ripping the Malays.
Who threatened the royal houses? Umno did, during the constitutional crisis years. Umno leaders were the ones who proposed to tie up royal members on trees and let the fire ants sting them. Umno was behind the exposure of scandalous behaviour of members of the royal family.
It wasn’t the Chinese who so much as besmirched the reputation of Malay rulers. I have said it before: The entrepreneurial Chinese would want to befriend the royalty so that, through the royal houses, they can corner more businesses.
How can a numerically smaller group dominate a larger group? How can DAP convert Muslims to Christianity when the majority of DAP members are themselves not Christians?
The only way Malays lose everything, is the result of the rot in Umno. And Umno, says Dr Mahathir, is rotten to the core. It’s rotten as a result of endemic corruption. We now speak of billions and not a few hundred thousand being ripped off.
How does Umno rally Malays into its fraternity? By preying on irrational prejudices, fear and probably some bad personal experience. This is the only way Umno can rally the Malays.
It’s a reaction that reflects the fear and paranoia that is enveloping Umno now. It hasn’t got any big ideas or visionary elements to bind the beliefs of Malays anymore. So, it’s only way out is to sound and represent itself as the uncompromising champion of Malay extremism.
That approach will fail simply because extremism and the patriotism promoted by Umno are seen as measures by leaders to preserve themselves.
“Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.”
Leo Tolstoy said that a long time ago. — sakmongkol.blogspot.com
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