There is only one crime: robbery (UPDATED with Chinese translation)
Can you see that everything in the end boils down to just one thing — robbery. Anything taken from the people or denied the people is an act of robbery. You rob the people of this, that or the other. So our struggle must be to oppose these robbers. Anyone who short-changes the people is robbing the people. And I can see robbers on both sides of the political divide. Even in Pakatan Rakyat, just like in Barisan Nasional, there are robbers.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Yesterday I wrote about lust, the foundation of humankind (READ HERE). It was a good experiment in presenting half a glass of water and then watch whether people would say that the glass is half-full or half-empty.
People with a positive mind would say that the glass is half-full whereas those with a negative mind would say it is half-empty. Most readers who posted comments saw the glass as half-empty, which means these people have negative minds.
I am not sure whether these 70 or so readers who posted comments in that article reflect the sentiments of the 800,000 readers of Malaysia Today but we certainly cannot say this is the majority view.
The funny thing is one reader even interpreted my article as a Chinese-bashing article. I suppose this reader sees everything as Chinese-bashing. I bet if I were to say that Hari Raya Puasa should be a one-week holiday just like how some Chinese businesses close for one week during Chinese New Year they would also interpret it as a Chinese-bashing comment.
Malays have this very idiotic tendency to sometimes see everything as positive. When my Tok Guru’s infant son died he praised Allah (Alhamdulillah). I could not fathom the logic in praising Allah for the death of your infant son but then Tok Guru explained that infants have no sin so that means he would be guaranteed heaven. And all parents want their children to go to heaven.
I suppose this is giving a new meaning to the concept of half a glass of water being half-full rather than half-empty.
When they crash their car they say Alhamdulillah the car is not a total write-off and can still be repaired.
If it is a total write-off they will say Alhamdulillah only the car was damaged but no one was injured.
When someone is injured they say Alhamdulillah no one died.
When someone dies they say Alhamdulillah it was a fast death and he/she did not linger in pain for months in a hospital before dying.
If that person lingers in pain for months in a hospital before dying they will say Alhamdulillah that Allah has sent us a message that death can visit us at any time without warning to remind us how close we are to death and for us to repent before something like this happens to us and it is too late to repent.
How do you deal with people who always see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty and every calamity is seen as a blessing from Allah?
That is the ‘old’ Malay, of course. The ‘new’ Malay would probably blame the Chinese for the calamity. “Ini semua Cina punya pasal. Dia orang buat jalan tak betul sebab nak untung besar dan cepat kaya.”
Anyway, today I want to write about there being only one crime: robbery (just like there is only one sin: lust — the gist of yesterday’s article). And that is why the crime of robbery or theft in Islam attracts a very heavy penalty — amputation.
Yes, believe it or not, there is only one crime, the crime of robbery. Everything else is a sub-crime of robbery.
When you do not run the country properly you are robbing the people of a good government.
When you do not manage the elections properly you are robbing the people of a clean and fair election.
When you mismanage the economy you are robbing the people of quality of life
When you do not have an independent and professional judiciary and legal system you are robbing the people of justice.
When you force religion and religious edicts/rules/laws on people you are robbing them of freedom of thought and freedom of choice.
When you silence the people and deny them freedom of dissent and the right to oppose you are robbing them of their own opinion.
When you vilify and disparage critics you are robbing them of their right to disagree.
When you do not provide a good healthcare system you are robbing people of a healthy life.
When you do not provide a good education system you are robbing people of freedom from ignorance.
When the police fail in its duty it is robbing the people of safety and peace of mind.
When you distort the news you are robbing people of accurate information.
When you lie to the people you are robbing them of the truth.
Can you see that everything in the end boils down to just one thing — robbery. Anything taken from the people or denied the people is an act of robbery. You rob the people of this, that or the other. So our struggle must be to oppose these robbers. Anyone who short-changes the people is robbing the people. And I can see robbers on both sides of the political divide. Even in Pakatan Rakyat, just like in Barisan Nasional, there are robbers.
Let me give you one example.
The religionist robbers rob gays of their right to a lifestyle of their choice because, according to them, God does not allow this. How do they know that God does not allow this? They reply that this is what the holy books say. Who wrote the holy books? They say unknown humans wrote the holy books based on quotations from the Prophets of God. How do you know they are Prophets of God? They say this is what the holy books say.
So, unknown humans wrote the holy books based on what they say are sayings of the Prophets and they are Prophets because the holy books say so. Hmm…is this not ‘I am a Prophet because the book that I wrote says so’?
Hence, based on ‘I say so’, I rob you of your right to freedom of choice. And since you do not have freedom of choice you cannot choose your own religion if you are born a Muslim (that used to be the same in Christendom until they burned all the priests alive at the stake, Alhamdulillah). You also cannot drink beer. You will also be arrested if you eat at daytime during the fasting month. You also cannot watch Elton John or Beyonce concerts (because Elton John is gay while Beyonce is too sexy). And so on and so forth.
Robbery is a foul crime. And any act is an act of robbery. And robbers should be shunned and despised. And the worst robbery of all is the act of robbing us of our rights while hiding behind various laws and using democracy as the excuse to rob us of our rights.
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只有一種犯罪：搶劫
所以你看，所有犯罪都能被簡化成一個犯罪，那就是搶劫。所有剝削自人民或拒絕給于人民的都是搶劫。你搶劫了人民的這個，那個，還有其他的。所以我們的鬥爭必須是要瞄準這些搶匪來進行對抗的，那些虧待欺騙人民的都是正在搶劫著人民。而依我看來，這些搶匪都身在執政黨和反對黨裏。就連民聯也如囯陣般是搶匪的安身処。
昨天我寫的那篇有關欲望的文章其實是個很有用的實驗；我給了讀者們半杯水，我想看看他們會說那杯水是半滿的還是半空的。
積極的人會說那杯水是半滿的而消極的則會說是半空的。很多讀者都說那杯水是半空的，所以他們應該都是些消極的人。
我不能確定這70多名讀者的留言到底能不能代表MT的800，000讀者的想法，但可以肯定的我們不能就此就講説這是多數人的看法。
很可笑的是，有一名讀者把我的文章看成是干屌華人的文章。我想在這名讀者的眼裏所有事情都是在干屌華人的吧。我敢跟你打賭，如果我寫說開齋節假期應該如農曆新年般長達一個星期的話（一般華人老闆都會在農曆新年放一個星期假）他們肯定會把這看成攻擊華人的言論。
馬來人有一種把所有事情都看成是好事的愚蠢習慣；儅我的師父喪子時他是很感謝上蒼的。我搞不懂爲何你要為你嬰兒的死而感謝上蒼，但師父的解釋是嬰兒是沒有罪孽的，所以他一定可以上天堂。所有父母都會要他們的孩子上天堂。
我想這個故事會給‘半滿的水杯’一個全新的意思吧。
儅他們發生車禍時，他們會講感謝上蒼Alhamdulillah，車子還沒全毀，修理后還可以駕。
如果車子全毀，他們會講感謝上蒼Alhamdulillah，沒有人受傷。
如果有人受傷，他們會講感謝上蒼Alhamdulillah，沒人死亡。
如果有人死亡，他們會講感謝上蒼Alhamdulillah，那個人毫無痛楚地立馬去世，不必在醫院裏拖上一兩個月再痛苦地死去。
如果那個人在醫院裏拖上一兩個月再痛苦地死去，他們會講感謝上蒼Alhamdulillah，上蒼正給我們提示說意外和死亡是會毫無預兆隨時到來的，我們應該隨時隨地地懺悔，不然意外發生了我們就無法懺悔了。
這些人的杯子永遠都是半滿的，他們所面臨的災難都是上蒼的庇佑，你應該怎樣去跟他們談呢？
當然以上這些都是‘舊’馬來人。‘新’馬來人應該都會把這些災難都怪罪在華人身上吧：“Ini semua Cina punya pasal. Dia orang buat jalan tak betul sebab nak untung besar dan cepat kaya.”
話説回來，我今天要寫的是這世上只有一種犯罪，那就是搶劫（就像是這世上只有一種罪惡，那就是欲望—-這就是我昨天要講的中心點）。這就是爲什麽根據回教刑法偷竊和搶劫是要受斷肢這種嚴重處罰的。
是的，信不信由你，這世上只有一種犯罪，那就是搶劫。其他的犯罪都是搶劫罪的分支而已。
儅你沒把國家管理好時，你搶劫了人民擁有一個良好政府的權力。
儅你沒把選舉系統管理好時，你搶劫了人民擁有一個公正選舉的權力。
儅你沒把經濟打理好時，你搶劫了人民擁有良好生活素質的權力。
儅你沒有一個獨立且專業的司法系統時，你搶劫了人民應該擁有的公義。
儅你強迫人民接受宗教思想和條規時，你搶劫了人民的思想自由權和宗教自主權。
儅你壓制人民禁止他們發表和你意見相左的言論時，你搶劫了人民應有的發表看法權。
儅你侮辱批判者時，你搶劫了他們不贊同你的權力。
儅你沒有一個良好的醫藥系統時，你搶劫了人民擁有一個健康身體的權力。
儅警察沒有能力執行他們的工作時，他們搶劫了社會的良好治安和人民的安心。
儅你沒有一個良好的教育系統時，你搶劫了人民擁有一個能夠擺脫無知的機會。
儅你對人民説謊時，你搶劫了他們的知情權。
所以你看，所有犯罪都能被簡化成只有一個犯罪，那就是搶劫。所有剝削自人民或拒絕給于人民的都是搶劫。你搶劫了人民的這個，那個，還有其他的。所以我們的鬥爭必須是要瞄準這些搶匪來進行對抗的，那些虧待欺騙人民的都是正在搶劫著人民。而依我看來，這些搶匪都身在執政黨和反對黨裏。就連民聯也如囯陣般是搶匪的安身処。
讓我來給你個例子。
那些宗教份子搶劫了同性戀者選擇他們生活方式的權力。根據他們的説法，這是因爲上帝禁止這種生活方式。他們怎樣知道上帝是禁止這的呢？他們回答是神聖的經書這樣寫到的。這些神聖經書是誰寫的呢？他們回答是一些不知名人士根據上帝的使者所講的話而卸下來的。他們怎麽知道這些人是上帝的使者呢？他們回答這是神聖經書提到的。
所以，那些不知名人士根據上帝使者的語錄寫了這些神聖經書，而他們是上帝的使者因爲神聖經書是這樣寫的。哼。。。。這不正是‘我是上帝的使者，因爲我寫的經書是這樣寫的’嗎？
故此，就因爲‘我説了算’，我搶劫了你的選擇權。既然你沒有了選擇權，如果你出生自穆斯林父母的話你就不能選擇其他宗教（基督教以前也是這樣子的，直到他們把所有的牧師都燒死爲止，感謝上蒼）。你也不能喝啤酒。你在齋戒月吃東西會被捉。你也不能去看Elton John或Beyonce的演唱會（因爲Elton John是名同性戀而Beyonce 則是太性感了).。還有更多更多的。
搶劫是個很卑污的犯罪。還有，所有的犯罪都是搶劫。還有，所有搶匪都應該被隔離和被鄙視。還有，最卑鄙的搶劫做法就是那種以法律和民主的名義為幌子來搶劫我們權力的這種做法。
