Anyway, we kick off today's topic thanks to something 'interesting' i saw on facebook recently. There was a group named Malaysia Belongs to Jesus. Yes, you read the name correctly. First of all, I am not an anti-Christian as I am generally accepting of all religions and their followers given that none of them assault mine directly, by assault I mean, well, you get the picture. This group however made me quite agitated over a few things.
Their name already suggested something but the absurdity that followed was another. Its a Muslim country, even if we have secular leaders and a secular constitution the keyword there is Muslim. In Malaysia now we're campaigning for a so called 'One Malaysia' but the one thing that we cannot share is religion. Thus, we have to overcome this problem by respecting each other's beliefs and try our best not to make the other uncomfortable by any means. However, groups like this really aren't helping.
Referring to what agitated me was that these people blindly wrote on their wall to bless Israel and to forgive Malaysia for being against Israel. Now, what bible context asked them to rally with Israel? As you see, their level of insensitivity knows no bounds. Malaysia as a Muslim country of course is against the Zionist murderers and their bloodthirsty campaigns. Hell, even if you were a decent human being you'd be against what they were inflicting on the Palestinians but what about our wholehearted Christians here? They pushed it all aside to abide what was supposedly in their bible which I seriously doubt supports slaughterers.
This is where religious intelligence plays a key factor. Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism. Nobody is saying its bad to follow these religions but the degree of intelligence you carry while submitting yourself defines what kind of follower you are. Islam's hukum hudud states that a thief caught have both hands chopped off, this is true, however, the case must be studied from all aspects. If the thief is a mother who stole a tin of milk to feed her child who was suffering from malnutrition, she would be spared as she stole out of desperation. On the other hand, a man, fit and healthy to work, used his healthy body to commit a bank robbery to gain riches, he would have his hands chopped. Why? Because he most probably would have done it again. See how this would have deterred all the peragut beg in our country if the law was enforced properly? However, in a society where the law was poorly understood, the poor mother would have probably lost her hands. See how important religious intelligence is?
What I was getting at was If you look in the group I was referring to above, most of the people in it lack this intelligence and thus end up looking like, well, asses. So, as I end my note here, I would like to apologize to any of my Christian friends if you feel offended by anything I wrote here. If there is something offensive, please tell me as I'll alter it immediately. Cheerio.
