umno govt. has no honor, no integrity, no heart!
Post on Nov.26, 2009
the DPM said ‘no forgiving you, chin peng’ and refused to let him return to sitiawan to die.
has the govt. forgotten about the peace treaty signed in 1989 between the govt. and the CPM, to allow all ex communists to return to malaysia? where’s the honor!
has the govt. forgotten that they allowed ex communists like rashid maidin, abdullah CD, shamsiah fakeh to return to malaysia? where’s the integrity!
has the govt. forgotten that islam teaches them to be forgiving? as muslims, they ask for forgiveness from god and hope to be forgiven but why they do not want to forgive an old man who is going to die? they have no hearts!!
whatever happened to the PM’s 1malaysia concept? aren’t we all one – if some people can return, why not him? that’s why 1malaysia is really totally pure crap!
is the govt. showing to us how inferior our culture is when they can’t forgive an old man? this appears in comments of one of my previous post regarding chin peng:
The British, Germans, Japanese and Italians fought a horrific 2nd WW. they have forgiven each other. There must be something superior in their culture and something inferior in ours for us to exact revenge against old men. Is there no forgiveness in Asian cultures or even religions? Is what we see today limited to a few vicious and vindictive people or does it apply across the board to the whole nation?
nah, not the whole nation but to umno only. also many ex-servicemen (whatever parties, whatever religion) who does not adhere fully to their religious teachings.
somebody in malaysia today comments asked:
if Japanese did not invade Malaya, there won’t be Chin Peng… but our govt forgive and carry the balls of Japanese now but won’t forgive Chin Peng… yes, many people die during the Emergency…. but does that mean less people die during Japanese perior???
the above comment was actually in response to what one blogger with a unique name, ‘utuh paloi banjar‘ wrote. make sure you read his interesting, meaningful post. highlights of what he/she wrote:
As obedient servants of God, Muslims are guided by the teachings of Quran and practice the sunnah or preaching of Prophet Mohammad. And the majority of those who strongly opposed the return of Chin Peng are Muslims.
Have we not heard how Prophet Mohamad forgave his enemy Abu Sufian and the Jew who had the habit of throwing water on him, and Saidina Ali who forgave the enemy whom he was about to kill? Those are just a few of the countless examples of forgiving the enemy.
As Muslims, we ask for forgiveness from God and hope to be forgiven. But why the reluctance when it is our turn to forgive others!
As human beings, it is never easy to erase the pain from memory but it does not take super human effort to forgive. After all, Islam as well as other religion and teachings encourage the faithful to be forgiving.
i’m not going to say anything more because i had already said much in my previous posts on chin peng except one thing… chin peng made a grave mistake to ask for forgiveness. knowing how the umno govt. works, and how the mindsets of certain malaysians works, he shouldn’t at all ask for forgiveness, shouldn’t have ‘lose face’ like that so as to ask those idiots for forgiveness.
(see comments at susan loone’s facebook)
note: picture taken from the malaysian insider
Filed in government, politics
November 26th, 2009 on 10:39 AM
Lucia, if I may say so, UMNO have no plans to allow Chin Peng to return to Malaysia even before the Haadyai Accord was signed. Chin Peng has been conned wholesale but it should come as no surprise that this has happened because UMNO has never been known for honouring any piece of paper they signed on. If they could renegade on the Federal Constitution and the NEP, what is Chin Peng to them. I am no fan of Chin Peng as one of my best buddies was killed by the CTs in the 1974, the late Capt Hardev Singh, at the Thai border. Can you imagine he was killed just one week away from his first wedding anniversary. Be as it may, we still have to be humane especially to someone who has atoned for what he has done and who is now in the twilight of his life. When the UMNO muslims pray, they invoke “Allah the Merciful” and “Allah the Compassionate”. Are they a better Muslim now for being less merciful and compassionate to Chin Peng? Chin Peng predicament could be a test by Allah on the Muslims as to how far the exercise their faith.
November 26th, 2009 on 3:16 PM
Lucia,
Is my name unique? Never realised that until I stumbled upon your writing. Anyway, many thanks for the complimentary remark.
For your info, the names in that article are real. What I wrote was from my heart.
The village where I lived was started by my grandfather, Naib Hasan, the village head that was taken away by the communist. I am fortunate to have a mother (eldest daughter of Naib Hasan) who never believe in revenge. She taught me to be forgiving and friendly with other races as she did herself.
Those days, on every Chinese New Year, the sundry shop owner by the name of Hong Thye used to drive his battered Morris Minor to deliver to our family a carton of bottled soft drinks and oranges, year in year out.
Even now, my two Chinese neighbours did what Hong Thye did, minus the soft drinks. And on my part, I will give them Hari Raya goodies in return.
I envisage the day when we all can live in harmony, respect one another irrespective of race or religion.
Will it ever happen?
November 27th, 2009 on 2:44 AM
billy
good points you have there. yes agree with you that umno has no intentions to let chin peng return, no matter what he do/say (like asking for forgivness). it’s not more of the matter of forgivness, compassion and so on, on their part but i think more on this ‘ketuanan melayu’ er… ‘ketuanan umno’ matter.
sitadewi
yes i meant your blog name ‘utuh paloi banjar’ – looks unique to me. is it some kind of language? what does it mean?
your name ’sita dewi’ also sounds a bit unique… well because it is not common! sita and dewi by themselves are common but hardly see both together as a name.
“will it ever happen?” you asked. i don’t know. i really don’t know. i hope so but i’m afraid i have to admit it’s kind of impossible… esp. with umno around.
November 27th, 2009 on 7:36 AM
Lucia,
If you read carefully the origin of Naib Hasan…My grandfather together with my mother came from the Indonesian part of Borneo Island called Kalimantan. So, I am sort of like you and many of the so called Malays – immigrants.
What does utuhpaloi banjar mean? Banjar is one of the ethnic group in Kalimantan and utuhpaloi is just a nickname for this group similar to that of John for the English, or may be Ah Chong for the Chinese (am I right?)
Sitadewi is the name of my daughter.
Probably because of my origin, I feel at ease mixing around with non Malays. Those days when I was younger, my best friend was an Indian who is now happily living in Singapore. The rest of my friends were mostly Chinese and Indians and most of the time I was the odd one in the group.
Just to share something with you…when this Indian friend of mine got married in Singapore, My wife and myself were the only Malay in the temple. The rest were Chinese and Indians and most of them were my friends.
I hope by now, you can understand my stand on racial integrations.
November 28th, 2009 on 1:07 AM
sitadewi
thanks again for coming in and sharing. yes i can sure believe your firm stand on racial integrations.