ALLAH, PLEASE VINDICATE US!

Barely only 8 days into the New Year and already we have funny rumblings from the Government. Have you not read the papers? Or perhaps you are not local, either way, here is some of the things that have had happened:-

1. Only in Malaysia you have shortages of cooking oil, flour and sugar.
2. Only in Malaysia will the Government forbid people of other faiths from building their statues.
3. Only in Malaysia is the holy word of "ALLAH" forbidden to be used by Christians who incidentally also share the same believe in the one God.

4. Only in Malaysia do you have a grandfather, who incidentally is also the Health Minister caught in a sex scandal. (talk about being sexually active at that age!)

5. Only in Malaysia will you have the increase of tolls and fuel coming up almost instantaneously after the elections (which is widely speculated to be in early March '08).

6. Only in Malaysia do you have insensitive remarks given and taken like demolishing a temple on the eve of a major religious holiday that belongs to that group?

7. Only in Malaysia do you have groups telling you that your conscience is sinful and should not listen to it.

8. Only in Malaysia do you have quotas and what not that further makes our nation less competitive!

9. Only in Malaysia do you have the Government treating its citizens like kids who do not have a mind to think.

10. And the best of it all, the Immigration Department has restricted the intake of all foreign priests into this country and those currently serving are required to leave the country....so where is the fairness and justice to all this? Why the discrimination against people of other faiths?

Ok, if anyone of you find the above a wee bit too sensitive to be written here, but its not that I'm writing something that does not exist. I write that what the papers are telling us and from what I have read, I'm worried! If you guys (locals that is) is still talking about their little own world that would be tarnished very soon, I reckon you better do something concrete about it. Don't just sit there like some arm chair critic but exercise the most important thing of all, exercise your rights as a citizen and vote. If you have not registered and say that you are not bothered, then I guess nothing will ever change.

Allah help us all!