Is there a conspiracy – Christian or otherwise – to make me laugh?
Art Harun
First, according to DrM, buying a Proton car is an “amal jariah.” That means, those Muslims will get “pahala” or good points from God if they buy a Proton car or two. According to him, that is because when we buy a Proton car, we are helping all those employees of Proton and many more who would get jobs with Proton.
Alhamdulillah.
Taking that further, paying toll would be amal jariah too. So is eating KFC. And renting an office space in Puterajaya too I suppose. Oh ya, racing at Sepang F1 track would be amal jariah too.
According to a friend of mine, Proton’s advertisement from now on should read:
“Syurga di bawah tayar Proton” or in English, “Heaven, under Proton’s tyres”.
May I instead suggest:
“Proton – driving you to heaven“
Or perhaps:
“Want virgins in heaven? Don’t blow yourself up. Buy a Proton“
LOL!
Err…how about building the planned crooked bridge? Yes. That would be amal jariah too?
It is also an irony that in the High Court on Wednesday the 11th, Counsel for the Home Ministry, argued that Zunar’s cartoons contained “terrible accusations.” According to him:-
“The conclusion by the (home) minister is that the content of the cartoons (was) terrible accusation (and) extreme insult to national leaders including the judiciary.
“The books can’t cause public disturbance but there is potential that the people who read it could be likely (influenced).”
Hahhaha, if the Home Ministry wishes to ban everybody who insults national leaders, I suppose the HM would have to ban about 20 million people daily.
By the way, some of the leaders would have to be banned as well. That’s because day in day out, some of them insult themselves in full public view.
It is of course a source of considerable perplexity that a cartoon book could be banned for having some spoofs on Cartoonland but a major newspaper could escape even a public chiding by publishing seditious reports of alleged Christian conspiracy to take over Malaysia and changed its “official religion.”
Last week the Home Ministry sent a letter of warning to Utusan Malaysia and summoned the Editor for serious talk. I could imagine the conversation:-
Home Minister: Asslamualaikum. Sila duduk.
Editor: Waalaikumussalam. Terima kasih.
HM: Eh, er…engko jangan tulis pasal komplot Kristian tu lagi ek. Orang tak sker. Okay?
Editor: Orait bro. Maaf. Orait Dato’ Seri.
HM: Ini I kasik amaran k. Lain kali takder amaran lagik k. Ko jangan buat camtu lagi ek?
Editor: Okay Dato’ Seri. Merkasih.
HM: Assalamualaikum.
Editor: Waalaikumussalam.
It of course escapes me and many others as to why the Home Ministry did not send a show cause letter to Utusan as they did to Suara Keadilan for publishing an article saying FELDA was bankrupt or to the Herald for using the word Allah.
I mean, if the Suara Keadilan’s and Herald’s articles could be deemed to be so “mengancam” necessitating a show cause letter, how come the Utusan shit-stirring “news” only warranted a warning?
1Malaysia. 2Standard?
Oh, by the way, Rocky’s Bru posted here that:
“The MCMC has just finished “interviewing” bloggers Zakhir Mohamad aka Big Dog and Shamsul Yunus, who was running Marahku before it was hacked last week.”
Oh, no wonder la the post alleging the now infamous “Christian conspiracy” has been removed from that blog. It was hacked rupanyer. So, Shamsul Yunos, the owner of that blog, did not actually post that article lah, kan?
As a lawyer, may I advise Shamsul Yunos to lodge a police report about his blog being hacked last week, if he hadn’t done so in the past week.
In true Malaysian tradition, a sumpah laknat would be good too. Har har har.
