Funny how democracy works in this country. When DAP's Teresa Kok allegedly "advised" a mosque to turn down its volume during prayers, she was hauled up under the ISA faster than you can say 'ohmygodwhatthefuckBBQ' (OMGWTFBBQ, though i can never understand why BBQ is in this). They did release her after several days when they found out more substantial proof that she was not involved and the matter was not to turn down the volume during prayers but during ceramahs.
Then recently, when a town hall meeting was held to resolve the cow head issue in Shah Alam, some of its residents said that they were against the relocation of the temple cos it will be noisy and they do not like the smells. Where is the ISA then? One resident, a teacher!, also said that crime rates will rise if the temple was relocated there. Isn't this inciting racism? I thought teachers of all people should not only NOT be racist, but teach racial harmony to their students. No wonder I turned out like this :P.
Next, when candle light vigils were held, peaceful ones, with the singing of the national anthem to add, people got arrested, assaulted, and hulled away. And we all know what happened during the anti-ISA rally earlier last month. *Hint* tear gas, water cannons, crying kids, ripped shirts. People were charged under the ISA.
But when a group of people carrying a severed cow's head marching to the state office, banners, chants even spitting and kicking the head which is deemed sacred to the Hindu community, not a single blare of the sirens were herd, heck, road block also don't have. You'd think during this puasa month, more road blocks would be set up. ISA mana? It wouldn't take a genius to figure out that this is blatant racism. I have read that the people that were at the march was from the section of the ruling party of the nation, not the state.
I do wonder, what would happen if lets say hypothetically, one day, someone from the minority races kicked about a severed pigs head because of a relocation of a mosque. And one of its residents say the number of mat rempits will increase, what will happen to them? I wouldn't be surprised if they got dragged away by the ISA for a long long time.
After all, isn't one of the ISA's purposes is to prevent any racial disruption and to detain those who insinuate racial friction? Well, it is a fact that ISA is under the Home Minister, but when the home minister first comes out to support these 'protesters', saying they felt victimized and they had no intention of invoking racial tension, we can clearly see the double standards here. Oh, then he came out and said he was wrongly quoted in the press and now he wants those people charged in court!
Imagine those protesters thinking at first, 'tak pe la, we got support from home minister'. Then WHAM!, no more support, guess they're fucked now. These people never watch enough movies to know that they were merely pawns meh?
Btw, wasn't the first few things the PM said he'd do when he stepped into office was to review the ISA? Oh wait, I should've read properly, he said 'review' not 'change', not 'abolish', not 'suspend', just 'review'. Its like submitting a request to the exams committee to 'review' your failed examination paper, they said they review it but 99% of the time, after paying a nominal fee for the review, your result is still a fail.
I can go on and on but whats the point? More prominent figures have already done this and more yet things remain the same. We will be celebrating Malaysia Day pretty soon, will there be the slightest difference from now til then?
Oh well, its not like I hate the Malays, I do have Malay friends, good ones in fact. The Malay cuisine is delicious as well, with Hari Raya nearing, all those lemang, ketupat, rendang and curry is no doubt yummy. But as the Malays themselves say, 'Kerana nila setitik, rosak sebelanga susu'.
