Comments – I think not only need rebooting the Brain but also
need new software or a serious upgrade of the present software installed since
1970 which over the years have self-mutilated and got so corrupted. If this
upgrade is not done the Malaysia are beyond redemption and only start of the reverse
evolution and even Darwin will be amazed.
New Software need new hardware and seriously the hardware have
gone under reverse engineering and the Hard drive (Brain) have shrunk in the
processing power and storage capacity. So a simple upgrade of present software
and deletion of some unnecessary files which are not relevant know can be a
stopgap measures for now until a permanent upgrade of software acceptable and
can work with the present CPU processing speed and storage capacity. Present
CPU processing speed is 50 years too late and the storage capacity of the hard
drive is only 5 to 10 MB. Need serious simple solutions and which will not shut
down the Hard drive (Brain) when in use?
Rebooting
the Malay mind
Filed under: Politics —
Hornbill Unleashed @ 8:02 AM
Before the opposition can hope to win over Malay
voters, both rural and urban, the Malays have to work on themselves. How? Just
reboot the Malay mind.
After 60 years of Umno and Umno Baru, the Malay
mind has been hijacked and rendered helpless. PAS plays a supporting role in
further incapacitating the Malay mind, and drive home its brand of religious
indoctrination.
Najib Abdul Razak and his seeming ‘running
mate’, Abdul Hadi Awang the PAS president, claim that their parties are the
only ones capable of “defending Islam and protecting the Malays”.
The irony of this statement eludes many Malays.
Umno Baru has been in power for several decades, but has failed to make major
improvements for Malays. Obviously the country also needs a reboot.
The Malay who drives a Porsche is afraid to
handle a paint brush with pig bristles because it may corrupt his soul. On the
other hand, an organ transplant from a non-Muslim donor is rendered halal in
the Malay body. Has the Malay mind considered this amazing anomaly?
The Malays benefit most from the affirmative
action policies of this government, and yet many Malays are poor.
Many scholarships are given to Malays, and yet
Malay graduates are mostly unemployed.
Planning permission is readily granted for
mosques and Malays have no problems with housing applications or business
approvals, yet they still moan about being ignored.
This is why the Malay mind needs a reboot. When
you have a problem with your computer, a geek will probably tell you to reboot
it. It may sound trivial, but rebooting can solve many computer problems and
make it perform better.
The Malays are not dumb. Social media is
probably their preferred medium of communication and instruction. Various
incentives are available for Malays to purchase smartphones, so the government
is easily able to gather statistics about their social preferences and target
them with propaganda.
Malays realise that corruption is damaging, but
the brainwashing by Umno Baru has dulled their senses.
The Malay knows it is wrong to steal, and if he
were the victim of theft, he would demand that the thief be punished and his
possessions returned.
Sometimes one wonders why many Malays have
wasted a good education and exposure to western democracies.
A thirty-something Malay professional, a
graduate from an American university, who earns around RM10,000 per month in a
multinational firm in Kuala Lumpur, was asked if she was ready to vote in GE14.
She claimed she wanted change, that she was
fed-up with the government and was worried about rising prices, violent crime
and corruption.
I pressed her further, “Have you registered to
vote?”
She said, “No. What’s the point of voting? Will
the opposition look after the interests of the Malays?”
I replied, “So, you have no issues with 1MDB and
the RM2.6 billion donation scandal? No issues about the leader’s role?”
She was silent.
Shedding unfounded fear
Can the hijacked Malay mind shed its unfounded
fear of non-Malays? Or its deeply entrenched views on feudalism and
subservience?
When the Sultan of Johor warned Malays not to
ape the Arabs, many Malays agreed with him. When I said more or less the same
thing, Malay readers claimed I was insulting Islam.
When I wrote about the tudung being used as a
tool to control Malay women, I was told that I was ignorant about Islam and
that the Quran says it is a prerequisite for Muslim women. It is not, despite
the erroneous beliefs of many Malays. This is just propaganda promulgated by
the bigots.
When I mentioned that my grandmother and her
generation merely wore the selendang (scarf) and yet were faithful Muslims who
observed the five pillars of Islam, my critics insulted the older generation
and claimed that these old people were ignorant and stupid.
Perhaps, the younger Muslim generation had not
heard of the Golden Age of Islam, when artists and scholars from various
disciplines exchanged ideas with people of other cultures in the universal
pursuit of knowledge.
My articles ‘The Malay denial’ and ‘Are Saudis better than Malays?’ invited
much criticism from Malays who professed to be “open-minded”.
They considered my views abhorrent and that I
had denigrated the Malays and Islam.
Are they really open-minded? What is their
definition of being open minded?
Are they sufficiently open minded to allow
Malays the freedom of religion, something which is enshrined in the
constitution and the Quran?
Are they so open-minded that they can treat
non-Malay as equals?
Does their open-mindedness extend to making
religion a personal issue and not a national obsession?
The Malays who work and live in the west have
been removed from the Umno Baru tempurung and transplanted into an environment
with healthy competition, where they must interact with people of other
cultures and faiths.
They flourish.
Are Malays ready to reboot and embrace this
freedom and achieve greater heights?
MARIAM MOKHTAR is a defender of the truth, the
admiral-general of the Green Bean Army and president of the Perak Liberation
Organisation (PLO).
Source : @ Malaysiakini
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