• 30 hours ago, I escaped from being kidnapped

    As I sit here writing this, I am just so grateful to be alive. To think that 30 hours ago I had a knife to my throat, face to face with the threat of being kidnapped and raped. It was a Sunday, at 5.22PM. ...
    Oleh: Chin Xin-Ci

      • Foo Tun Chuan The reason why that thought of 'leaving ASAP' can occur to many of us, is because despite how we are born and bred here and how we call this our motherland, the current government has done very little to make us feel like we belong. Disenfranchised is the right word indeed and it works both ways. Bumi policy, local university racial quotas, racial politics, and even top government officials calling us pendatangs - these things seep into our psyche too.Lihat seterusnya..
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        Back to the application of the theory, this incident illustrates precisely the function of the (social) media to "tell us what to think about ... how and what to think about it, and perhaps even what to do about it."
        Update: 1/6/2012
        In relation to that, media scholars like James Tankard confirms that (social) media influence the way we think via a device known as 'framing', which "supplies the context and suggests what the issue is through the use of selection, emphasis, exclusion, and elaboration".
        I quote Tankard to point out the process of (social) media framing in the case of the gruesome murder of the (Malay) cosmetic mogul, Sosilawati Lawiyah. Interestingly, instead of sympathising with the deceased's family, some of the (Chinese) commentators were framing the (Indian) "perpetrators as victims" of an oppressive, racially discriminating (Bumi) regime.
        And to think that all this venom was spewing from affluent, middle class Anglophiles (Bananas - yellow skin, white flesh) who claim that they are 'Malaysian Firsters'.
        It is imperative to observe the thought processes of these "(im)posters", as regularly presented by Helen Ang, particularly in her write-up on Syed Arabi's research findings of the Chinese press in 2008.
        http://helenang.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/agenda-media-cina-memastikan-mca-akan-ko/
        And to end this posting, I'd like to quote a 'rebuttal' from a commentator whose analyses I admire:
        • 3.Wazir al-Roslan ibn Khaldun | Mei 30, 2012 at 7:19 pm
          The ‘Star” has and always been a pro-opposition rag as events in 1987 attest. Caught with its pants down back then and much of its nest of fork tongued snakes decimated, the Star reverted to subtle ways of continuing its rich tradition of treachery.
          There is a correlation between the state of the opposition and the Star’s spinning. When things are economically hunky dory and the opposition is comatose or silent as a dormouse, the Star will toe the line biding its time for the reversal of fortunes before it bares its fangs. But even in those moments of weakness, treachery is woven into its reporting ever so subtly that only the discerning who imbibe its milk of amity will sense its poison-laced potency.
          A pathological hatred of everything Malay and Islam is the the driving force hence the deliberate insults and lukewarm apologies. but the underlying issue is not merely the Star, it is the weltanschung of the ethnicity itself vis-a-vis to the Other. The notion that this virulent anti-Malay/Islam stance is a recent phenomenon fueled by Anglicized Christian Chingkies is a fallacy.
          Granted its historicity can be traced back to the pre-independence era is undeniable whence Straits Settlement Chingkie Anglophiles were trenchant in their anti-Ketuanan in the late 1940s and early 1950s (examine the Penang Secessionist Movement of 1948-1951).
          (And yes, our political gadfly Nurul Izzah Anwar is factually wrong in once naively attributing Ketuanan to Abdullah Ahmad for it was an ever-present socio-cultural construct in the Malay psyche that predates the British, but thats another story).
          The point I am keen to stress here is that the Anti-Malay/Islam sentiments amongst the Chingks were never confined to the Anglicized segment of their population only. It suffuses the entire ethnic and is founded on the ancient paradigm of Chingk superiority over the non-Chingk, predicated on the Sons of Heaven- Barbarian myth, based on the Han-Non Han dichotomy. I am sorry to upset your sensitivities in that regard Helen of Troy but the reality is that this supremacist notion is a visceral, primeval, instinctive force of nature that throbs in every Chingk. It is a cultural meme woven into the Chingk psyche which is as hereditary as a physical gene embedded in a man’s ancestry. It is something each and every Chingk is born with, the curse which once removed frees him form his ancient bondage to embrace a common humanity.
          The Chingk is the ultimate uber-racist vermin of the East in our midst. That explains why the divide between a non-Christian and Christian chingk is easily bridged for they share a common heritage, a disease of the soul very few are able to surmount. That explains Prof Syed Arabi’s and Dr Chang’s findings above. That explains why despite them being vilified as idolaters or pagans, Taoist/Buddhist Chingks can reach beyond their humiliation to embrace their Christo brethrens. That explains why 5% of Christo Chingks can hold sway over the remaining 95% and lead them by the nose into the “Promised Land”.
          It is NOT religion that is the glue, it is that ancient bond of RACIST SUPREMACY. The Chingks know it in their bones that the enemy is weak, divided, complacent. It is the moment they have been waiting for to seize political hegemony.
          Malays caught in a thrall of obduracy, rebellion and insurgency are always wont to lose their bearings. They think they are enlightened heroes when they will be cursed in future as blinded cowards. They forget easily the lessons of history in their molly-coddled prosperity even as they rush to embrace the illusion dangled by the Chingk Siren. Warnings like mine are the rantings of a madman, empty bluster invoking needless fear, an archaic racist against modern humanity but they know not, for beyond their dismissive invective lie their collective perdition.Things will come to pass but the survivors will be strong and replenish my race. Insyallah, may the enlightened Malays survive the impending tribulation and in the Almighty do we repose our faith that it will be so.
          Warrior 231
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