Will the real Malays of the 21st century in this 19th century country stand up?
Umar Mukhtar
Does the Australian political party, One Nation Party of Pauline Hanson, reflect Australian ideology? No. It is rightfully recognised as a splinter movement advocating trashy racial politics. But here in Malaysia, similar extreme organisations like PERKASA are spun by the alternative media as if PERKASA represents the inner wishes of the majority of the Malays.
This is most convenient because the leadership of such trashy organisations are often stereotypes that speak trash and fit into the preconception of these media’s advocacy of Malay stupidity. But really. Would the majority of Malays actually hunt high and low for the most stupid idiots to be their mouthpieces? Just so that you can brand Malays as stupid, etc? Just because their existence fit into your agenda does not not make those perceptions real.
On the contrary, believe that misconception at your own peril. Could it be that a great majority of Malays are keeping quiet either way because the prominent Malay players on either side of the continuum are not to their liking? Not much of a choice to die for?
There’s the ultra nationalists on the right; a small, inarticulate disparate and dumb PERKASA and most Malays would not want to be caught dead with them. Then there’s the Taliban-like ISIS-lovers living within their own religious dreams. Right in the middle is the immoral feudalistic ruling class propped up by the self-serving corruption of the non-Malays.
Then there is a sprinkling of oddballs like Zaid Ibrahim, Zainah Anwar and Mariam Mokhtar who are on their own intellectual ego-trip trying to tell us how to live in this utopia of their minds where self-hate is a virtue.
The non-Malays love to hate these groups and love the Mariam Mokhtar-type. For the bloody Malays are the cause of all that is not right with Malaysia or their own pathetic existence. The Mariam Mokhtars and Zaid Ibrahims articulate for them how to hate with class and finesse, which most of them by themselves are incapable of because the material and money thingy confuse them off the straight and narrow intellectual path.
The moment Zaid strays off the kiasu path of Malay-bashing, he will get hell from them. Ask Raja Petra. They don’t reason to the truth. They just want to be assured that their racist inclination is right all along. Never admitting that they are the descendants of pariahs and misfits who deserted their own 5,000-year old civilisation. Ask a mainland Chinese leader. From a Sin Kheh to a member of the commercial class by default is quite a jump. Too heady for some.
Will the real Malays of the 21st century in this 19th century country stand up?
They already are. They are all around you. Ready to surface when the right leader (not any type you have seen) comes along. This progressive generation is already testing the chinks in the armour. Some like the Anwarinas (without Anwar!), the Saifuddins (not Nasution) and an enlightened clergy-class (not Azhar Idrus/RidzuanTees) are making their stand. Do not be surprised that the Malays you love to hate and the Malays you love to love are one!
After all, some of PERKASA’s bitching are quite on the dot. They just say the right thing the wrong way. Many of Zaid’s tirades are not baseless. He just speaks over the top of heads. Mariam just wants to be somebody else. It is natural that feelings overlap and the Mahdi who gingerly picks through them with tact and truth will rule the day.
The true Malaysian non-Malays will welcome them but the closeted racists among them who use the so-called Malay stupidity as a convenient showcase for their transitory agenda will have to find a new mule to ride or just continue the family’s age-old tradition.
Does the Australian political party, One Nation Party of Pauline Hanson, reflect Australian ideology? No. It is rightfully recognised as a splinter movement advocating trashy racial politics. But here in Malaysia, similar extreme organisations like PERKASA are spun by the alternative media as if PERKASA represents the inner wishes of the majority of the Malays.
This is most convenient because the leadership of such trashy organisations are often stereotypes that speak trash and fit into the preconception of these media’s advocacy of Malay stupidity. But really. Would the majority of Malays actually hunt high and low for the most stupid idiots to be their mouthpieces? Just so that you can brand Malays as stupid, etc? Just because their existence fit into your agenda does not not make those perceptions real.
On the contrary, believe that misconception at your own peril. Could it be that a great majority of Malays are keeping quiet either way because the prominent Malay players on either side of the continuum are not to their liking? Not much of a choice to die for?
There’s the ultra nationalists on the right; a small, inarticulate disparate and dumb PERKASA and most Malays would not want to be caught dead with them. Then there’s the Taliban-like ISIS-lovers living within their own religious dreams. Right in the middle is the immoral feudalistic ruling class propped up by the self-serving corruption of the non-Malays.
Then there is a sprinkling of oddballs like Zaid Ibrahim, Zainah Anwar and Mariam Mokhtar who are on their own intellectual ego-trip trying to tell us how to live in this utopia of their minds where self-hate is a virtue.
The non-Malays love to hate these groups and love the Mariam Mokhtar-type. For the bloody Malays are the cause of all that is not right with Malaysia or their own pathetic existence. The Mariam Mokhtars and Zaid Ibrahims articulate for them how to hate with class and finesse, which most of them by themselves are incapable of because the material and money thingy confuse them off the straight and narrow intellectual path.
The moment Zaid strays off the kiasu path of Malay-bashing, he will get hell from them. Ask Raja Petra. They don’t reason to the truth. They just want to be assured that their racist inclination is right all along. Never admitting that they are the descendants of pariahs and misfits who deserted their own 5,000-year old civilisation. Ask a mainland Chinese leader. From a Sin Kheh to a member of the commercial class by default is quite a jump. Too heady for some.
Will the real Malays of the 21st century in this 19th century country stand up?
They already are. They are all around you. Ready to surface when the right leader (not any type you have seen) comes along. This progressive generation is already testing the chinks in the armour. Some like the Anwarinas (without Anwar!), the Saifuddins (not Nasution) and an enlightened clergy-class (not Azhar Idrus/RidzuanTees) are making their stand. Do not be surprised that the Malays you love to hate and the Malays you love to love are one!
After all, some of PERKASA’s bitching are quite on the dot. They just say the right thing the wrong way. Many of Zaid’s tirades are not baseless. He just speaks over the top of heads. Mariam just wants to be somebody else. It is natural that feelings overlap and the Mahdi who gingerly picks through them with tact and truth will rule the day.
The true Malaysian non-Malays will welcome them but the closeted racists among them who use the so-called Malay stupidity as a convenient showcase for their transitory agenda will have to find a new mule to ride or just continue the family’s age-old tradition.
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