Getting injured is a good thing. It forces you to stop and look back to realize that maybe it was karma hitting you back. Something that you did wasn’t right or something like that. I took the time to catchup with what’s happening in Malaysia from the tube. I’m not much of a fan watching TV, so with an icepack on my ribs I listened to how stories are being told on TV.

Looks like we’re fighting with each other about who can use the term “Allah”. Seriously, is that really an issue? I personally don’t give a fuck what God you pray to. As long as you believe that is your faith & that faith is good for you. All religious text in the world strongly profess that their religion is the best for all mankind. All of them. Including mine.

The real issue that I see here is that insecure people, people who stubbornly refuse to learn what makes other people different, are trying to deflect their own fears by using fear mongering tactics to the rest of the world. I recommend reading Erna’s strong affection towards the real Malaysian way, which kind of reflects my stand against the 1Malaysia concept. It’s an interesting concept and I believe it was a direct copy from Singapore. But we don’t need it to be shoved into our throats. That is because I believe in Malaysia. Critically & affectionately.

In my own life experience, I have seen what makes other people different in body & soul. So far, I can tell you one thing: we are praying to the same divine spirit. We just didn’t make time to catchup with everyone else. With these experience, my faith has grown stronger. Not the other way around.

Allah S.W.T is my God. Mohammad S.A.W is my Prophet. Al-Quran is my Holy scripture. These are the core values of my Islamic faith. And I chose to be liberal about it because I’ve also observed that almost every religion in the world has a similar structure: God, the Prophet & the Holy scripture. Only the names are different. Some added very good visualizations to represent their beliefs. These are differentiation in practical manners. Spiritually, they are almost the same.

It saddens me to see the rakyat wants to fight this out without any use of tolerance & any sense of thinking. They are feeding on fear and that makes them weak.

What do you believe in?

I agree with Raja Petra. We are our own enemies. Muslims have our own set of problems & issues that others don’t really understand & surprisingly, some couldn’t even believe the idea of a problematic religion. Muslims are getting major media airtime just because of the fear sentiments that has been put out about us. It’s the same tactic that some dirty Muslim quarters tried to expel to diss other religions. Sentiments of fear.

Time and time again, we defend ourselves by being ourselves. Over & over again, we’re either being ridiculed, made fun of or shamelessly being thrown insults & unfavourable comments. There is no harm if you want to understand why. It is not wrong for you to ask why.

But it gets dodgy if you try to act as one of us while you are not one of us.

I was with Kris Khaira last night, and he spoke about an unknown country in Africa, Benin. I told him I’ve never heard of it. He asked me do I know why I never heard of it. No, I don’t know I said.

He told me it’s because there is no civil war in Benin. No display of fear, poverty, trouble and nobody is killing each other.

It makes perfect sense.