This image, this post and the previous one of Christians in Malaysia: Oppressed, Suppressed, Persecuted and Crucified -- they are `so unlike Mat Cendana', ya? So, what's going on here?
This is new territory to me. "Someone else's religion" and "someone else's race and culture": these are topics that I had consistently avoided ever since I was on the Internet from October 1998.
In all those 13 years (minus some `lost years' when I wasn't online), I had often come across malicious and deceitful attacks against Malays and Islam. Almost always - then and until now - these were written by those too cowardly to reveal their names. Or worse, they might usurp a specific name with the deceitful intention of giving the impression that they are of a certain race and religion.
Anyway, personally, no matter how bad the dastardly attacks and insults against
my race and religion were, I'm proud (yes, proud) to say that I had
never done the same against any race or religion.
Sure, some detractor here might snort:
"It's just your word. Who knows what you had written against others..." That's very easy to resolve: Just come up with one sentence where I had written something malicious against another race or religion. If you can (and the
whole thing is pasted here; not selective sentences that are out of context), then I will delete this blog and slither away in shame.
Contrary to what some might think, I'm not `anonymous'. Although "Cendana" isn't my IC name, there are many people who know me. And if you really want to know that, you can do so easily enough. Seriously, anyone with average IQ will know that with just three phone calls/emails, at the most, "to specific people". And with that, you can dig up a lot of dirt about me. But, unfortunately, there aren't any skeletons in the closet: they're out in the open - and buried - at "the other blog".
By the way, "Mat/Ahmad Cendana" is
not a pseudonym but my
pen-name and my identity. No, I'm not like some people who live a double life ... pretending to be something positive/honourable while in public (
left/top) but showing what s/he
really is when hiding behind the curtain of anonymity on the internet (
right).
With me, I'm proud to say - again -it's WYSiWYG (What You See is What You Get) - the `hip' term of some software programs during the days of DOS.
Yes, I know some might think:
"What a narcissist guy, more interested to talk about himself than to write about the title!" Some might
want to puke reading my
`angkat bakul sendiri' here. Well, if I don't do it myself, then who will
angkat for me?:-P And this isn't
paid writing either (as in "You didn't buy a ticket, cheapskate.") Win-Win proposal here: Commission ("pay/
bayar") me to write something that you want and like then:-)
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Okay, habis selingan & pesanan penaja, and back to the earlier matter of why I was hesitant to write about things that might hurt the feelings of other races and religions. The reason, honestly, is simply this: I don't want to hurt or even slight others; hoping that others will hold the same attitude.
I don't want to be like those who'd often claim "they have many friends who are Malays and Muslims" ... and then hurl unfair remarks and conclusions that are negative. No, I don't have many friends who are Christians and of other races (Actually, I don't have many friends, period. But that's another story).
However, I "have enough" ... two people whom I regard highly:
Brigitte Rozario of
The Star, who is the portal head of the
ParenThots website, and an American whom I'll name as just "David". They are always foremost in my mind when I do; not wanting to inadvertently write anything that might somehow offend them, even slightly. And the surest way is to
not write about it at all. So it was...
There's also another major reason: I don't really know nuts about religion.
But events - and one person particularly - have combined to impel me "to do something". This person is
the "Space Monkey from Uranus", satD aka Sat Bin Dee. Even if I don't know too much about religion, there's something that I do know very well - the ability to read and understand. And this is where satD and others that include
Jebat Must Die (JMD) etc come in and have become big influences. For the good, hopefully:-P
No, I'm not going to articulate on the finer points concerning the issues. That's because I would only be repeating what satD and JMD have clearly stated in their posts.
Instead, I want to just declare this, for I'm not among the forked tongue who'd smile and speak oh-so-sweetly... while hiding a knife behind their backs. With me, all the cards are open and on the table. Call me naive and unsophisticated if you want. And you are probably right. But that's how I am, good or bad.
So what am I declaring here? Something similar to that of October 2008 when I left the party and people whom I had staunchly supported for 25 years ... all because of the fact that I couldn't contradict fundamental issues and points articulated by
Tengku KijangMas and the
Demi Negara Community.
So, to satD, Jebat Must Die and others who share similar views, hopes and ideals:
I'm with you, body and soul.
My Brothers-in-Arms...
"Are you with us or against us?
If it's the latter, then I - Mat Cendana al-Parsi - hereby declare that you will be treated as such; even if your name might be `Muhammad Ismail Daud Bin Ibrahim Musa Adam', with two degrees from Al-Azhar, have cabinets full of red kitabs, a Taliban-style goatee plus serban, jubah and all. Thus Spake Mat Cendana."
On the sidelines? `Neutral'? Why so...why are you so afraid?!
As in the Friday prayers: "Masuk rapat-rapat dan perbetulkan saf". It's time for us TO LIVE that instead of splintering and moving away.