I read theSun this morning and found this strong statement from our Prime Minister.
"The israeli attack on Gaza VIOLATES international law, human rights and is a WAR CRIME in breach of the Geneva Convention"
Equally interesting, is a statement by YB Lim Guan Eng:
"The US government and george bush deserve to have shoes thrown at them."
Kudo to all of our MPs for unanimously voted yesterday to CONDEMN israel for its terrorism act in Gaza.
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Saturday, 10 January 2009
Weekend in Melaka, the World's Heritage Site!
Pada mulanya, aku berhajat hendak pulang ke Melaka, malam tadi selepas balik dari pejabat. Tapi, aku dikejutkan dengan berita tentang rakan sepejabat aku dimasukkan ke Gleneagles Ampang, dan telah menjalani satu pembedahan pada pagi semalam. Aku bergegas pergi melawat bersama-sama Faizal dan Ija Salleh. Alhamdulillah, segalanya selamat. Take a good rest and get well soon...
Aku sampai ke rumah ibu bapa aku pagi tadi, sekitar jam 11 pagi. Mak, Lia dan Niza sedang menyiapkan bahan-bahan masakan untuk kenduri "housewarming" buat Mira dan Mus, yang dijadualkan pada malam ini, selepas solat Maghrib. Menurut Abah, majlis ini dibuat kecil-kecilan dan hanya dihadiri oleh ahli keluarga terdekat.
Sekarang ini, aku di MITC sedang melayari internet. Mak suruh aku carikan kursus MLVK untuk Lan, yang berhajat untuk sambung belajar dalam jurusan otomotif. Tapi, Mak mahukan kolej yang berdekatan dengan rumah. Nampaknya, mak belum bersedia untuk berjauhan dengan buah hati pengarang jantungnya ini!
Aku tertarik dengan kursus MLVK yang dikendalikan oleh Kolej Yayasan Melaka. Alhamdulillah, pilihan ini menepati kriteria yang Mak tetapkan. Semoga perancangan ini berjalan dengan lancar, insya-Allah...
Sebenarnya, aku memang sudah syorkan Lan untuk mengambil kursus ini selepas dia habis menduduki SPM setahun lebih yang lalu. Walaupun dia menunjukkan minat, tetapi minat dia untuk memegang duit sendiri lebih meluap-luap. Itu sebab aku dan adik beradik yang lain, meyakinkan Mak dan Abah agar menerimanya.
"Tak baik paksa-paksa dia. Biarlah dia rasa susah payah mencari duit. Insya-Allah, akan timbul kesedaran untuk memajukan diri agar dalam mencari rezeki lebih dengan kelayakan yang lebih juga."
Aku ingat kata-kata Lia, ketika dia cuba menyokong aku dalam menenangkan Mak dan Abah yang benar-benar terperanjat dengan keputusan Lan.
Alhamdulillah, doa kami dimakbulkan. Semoga, susah payah dia bekerja dengan gaji sebanyak lapan, sembilan ratus Ringgit, bisa menguatkan azamnya untuk mengejar kemahiran yang lebih tinggi.
Esok, aku akan kembali ke KL bersama-sama Lia. Pada hari Isnin ini, Lia akan mendaftarkan diri sebagai seorang guru lepasan ijazah terlatih di Jabatan Pendidikan Selangor. Aku tak tahu kenapa aku begitu excited dan tak sabar-sabar untuk menanti kehadiran Isnin.
Harap-harap aku tidak sesat!
p/s: Happy belated birthday to Rezuan Mat Yasin. All the best in your undertakings. May Allah bless you with more rahmat, berkat and joy. Aamin.
Aku sampai ke rumah ibu bapa aku pagi tadi, sekitar jam 11 pagi. Mak, Lia dan Niza sedang menyiapkan bahan-bahan masakan untuk kenduri "housewarming" buat Mira dan Mus, yang dijadualkan pada malam ini, selepas solat Maghrib. Menurut Abah, majlis ini dibuat kecil-kecilan dan hanya dihadiri oleh ahli keluarga terdekat.
Sekarang ini, aku di MITC sedang melayari internet. Mak suruh aku carikan kursus MLVK untuk Lan, yang berhajat untuk sambung belajar dalam jurusan otomotif. Tapi, Mak mahukan kolej yang berdekatan dengan rumah. Nampaknya, mak belum bersedia untuk berjauhan dengan buah hati pengarang jantungnya ini!
Aku tertarik dengan kursus MLVK yang dikendalikan oleh Kolej Yayasan Melaka. Alhamdulillah, pilihan ini menepati kriteria yang Mak tetapkan. Semoga perancangan ini berjalan dengan lancar, insya-Allah...
Sebenarnya, aku memang sudah syorkan Lan untuk mengambil kursus ini selepas dia habis menduduki SPM setahun lebih yang lalu. Walaupun dia menunjukkan minat, tetapi minat dia untuk memegang duit sendiri lebih meluap-luap. Itu sebab aku dan adik beradik yang lain, meyakinkan Mak dan Abah agar menerimanya.
"Tak baik paksa-paksa dia. Biarlah dia rasa susah payah mencari duit. Insya-Allah, akan timbul kesedaran untuk memajukan diri agar dalam mencari rezeki lebih dengan kelayakan yang lebih juga."
Aku ingat kata-kata Lia, ketika dia cuba menyokong aku dalam menenangkan Mak dan Abah yang benar-benar terperanjat dengan keputusan Lan.
Alhamdulillah, doa kami dimakbulkan. Semoga, susah payah dia bekerja dengan gaji sebanyak lapan, sembilan ratus Ringgit, bisa menguatkan azamnya untuk mengejar kemahiran yang lebih tinggi.
Esok, aku akan kembali ke KL bersama-sama Lia. Pada hari Isnin ini, Lia akan mendaftarkan diri sebagai seorang guru lepasan ijazah terlatih di Jabatan Pendidikan Selangor. Aku tak tahu kenapa aku begitu excited dan tak sabar-sabar untuk menanti kehadiran Isnin.
Harap-harap aku tidak sesat!
p/s: Happy belated birthday to Rezuan Mat Yasin. All the best in your undertakings. May Allah bless you with more rahmat, berkat and joy. Aamin.
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Monday, 5 January 2009
End the Siege of Gaza - End Israeli Occupation
I strongly condemned the occupation of Gaza Strip by Israel! I call on the Israeli authorities to withdraw immediately from the Palestinian land.
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Rabbi: It breaks my heart to see Israel's stupidity
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Rabbi: It breaks my heart to see Israel's stupidity
By: Michael Lenner
JAN 5, - Israel’s attempt to wipe out Hamas is understandable, but stupid.
No country in the world is going to ignore the provocation of rockets being launched from neighbouring territory day after day. If Mexico had a group of anti-imperialists bombing Texas, imagine how long it would take for America to mobilise a counterattack. So, Israel has every right to respond.
But the kind of response matters. Killing 500 Palestinians and wounding 2,000 others (at the time of writing) is disproportionate. Hamas can harass, but it cannot pose any threat to the existence of Israel.
And, just as Hamas’s indiscriminate bombing of population centres is a crime against humanity, so is Israel’s killing of civilians (at least 130 so far in Gaza, not to mention the thousands in the years of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza).
Hamas had respected the previously negotiated ceasefire except when Israel used it as cover to make assassination raids. Hamas argued that these raids were hardly a manifestation of a ceasefire, and so as symbolic protest it would allow the release of rocket fire (usually hitting no targets).
But when the issue of continuing the ceasefire came up, Hamas wanted a guarantee that these assassination raids would stop.
And it asked for more. With hundreds of thousands of Palestinians facing acute malnutrition, Hamas insists that the borders be opened so that food can arrive unimpeded. And in return for the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, it asks for the release of 1,000 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
Hamas has made it clear that it would accept the terms of the Saudi Arabian peace agreement, though it would never formally recognise Israel.
It would live peacefully in a two-state arrangement, but it would never acknowledge Israel’s “right to exist”. This position is unnecessarily provocative, and is deeply self-destructive for Palestinians who believe it is the only symbolic weapon they have left.
How do we get out of this destructive spiral? The first step is for the world to demand an immediate ceasefire. That ceasefire should be imposed by the United Nations and backed unequivocally by America. Its terms must include the following:
The basic condition for creating peace is to help each side feel “safe”. A first and critical step is to speak in a language that is empathic toward the suffering of each people in a climate of discourse in which both sides’ stories are heard and understood.
Yet Israel, as the militarily superior power, ought to take the first steps: implementing a massive Marshall Plan in Gaza and in the West Bank to end poverty and unemployment, rebuild infrastructure and encourage investment; dismantle the settlements or make settlers become citizens of a Palestinian state; accept 30,000 Palestinian refugees annually back into Israel for the next 30 years, apologise for its role in the 1948 expulsions and offer to co-ordinate a worldwide compensation effort for all that Palestinians lost during the Occupation; and recognise a Palestinian state within borders already defined by the Geneva Accord of 2003.
This is the only way Israel will ever achieve security. It is the only way to permanently defeat Hamas and all extremists who wish to see endless war against Israel.
The most significant contribution the new Obama administration could make to Middle East peace would be to embrace a strategy that homeland security is best achieved not by military or economic domination but by generosity and caring for others.
If this new way of thinking could become a serious part of US policy, it would have an immense impact on undermining the fearful consciousness of Israelis who still see the world more through the frame of the Holocaust and previous persecutions than through the frame of their actual present power in the world.
It breaks my heart to see the terrible suffering in Gaza and in Israel. As a religious Jew I find it all the worse, because it confirms to me how easy it is to pervert the loving message of Judaism into a message of hatred and domination.
I remain in mourning for the Jewish people, for Israel and for the world.
p/s: Rabbi Michael Lenner is editor of Tikkun magazine and this article is "copy-and-paste"d from The Malaysian Insider.
JAN 5, - Israel’s attempt to wipe out Hamas is understandable, but stupid.
No country in the world is going to ignore the provocation of rockets being launched from neighbouring territory day after day. If Mexico had a group of anti-imperialists bombing Texas, imagine how long it would take for America to mobilise a counterattack. So, Israel has every right to respond.
But the kind of response matters. Killing 500 Palestinians and wounding 2,000 others (at the time of writing) is disproportionate. Hamas can harass, but it cannot pose any threat to the existence of Israel.
And, just as Hamas’s indiscriminate bombing of population centres is a crime against humanity, so is Israel’s killing of civilians (at least 130 so far in Gaza, not to mention the thousands in the years of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza).
Hamas had respected the previously negotiated ceasefire except when Israel used it as cover to make assassination raids. Hamas argued that these raids were hardly a manifestation of a ceasefire, and so as symbolic protest it would allow the release of rocket fire (usually hitting no targets).
But when the issue of continuing the ceasefire came up, Hamas wanted a guarantee that these assassination raids would stop.
And it asked for more. With hundreds of thousands of Palestinians facing acute malnutrition, Hamas insists that the borders be opened so that food can arrive unimpeded. And in return for the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, it asks for the release of 1,000 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
Hamas has made it clear that it would accept the terms of the Saudi Arabian peace agreement, though it would never formally recognise Israel.
It would live peacefully in a two-state arrangement, but it would never acknowledge Israel’s “right to exist”. This position is unnecessarily provocative, and is deeply self-destructive for Palestinians who believe it is the only symbolic weapon they have left.
How do we get out of this destructive spiral? The first step is for the world to demand an immediate ceasefire. That ceasefire should be imposed by the United Nations and backed unequivocally by America. Its terms must include the following:
- Hamas stops all firing of missiles, bombs or any other violent action originating from the West Bank or Gaza, and co-operates in actively jailing anyone from any faction that breaks this ceasefire.
- Israel stops all bombing, targeted assassinations or any other violent actions aimed at activists, militants, or suspected terrorists in the West Bank or Gaza, and uses the full force of its army to prevent any further attacks on Palestinians.
- Israel opens the border with Gaza and allows free access to and from Israel, subject only to full search and seizure of any weapons. Israel allows free travel of food, gas, electricity, water and consumer goods and materials including from land, air, and sea, subject only to full search and seizure of any weapons or materials typically used for weapons.
- Israel releases all Palestinians in detention and returns them to the West Bank or Gaza according to the choice of the detainees or prisoners. Hamas releases Gilad Schalit and anyone else being held by Palestinian forces.
- Both sides invite an international force to implement these agreements
- Both sides agree to end teaching and/or advocacy of violence against the other side in and outside mosques, educational institutions, and the media.
- This ceasefire would last for 20 years. Nato, the UN, and the US all agree to enforce this agreement and impose severe sanctions in the event of any violations.
The basic condition for creating peace is to help each side feel “safe”. A first and critical step is to speak in a language that is empathic toward the suffering of each people in a climate of discourse in which both sides’ stories are heard and understood.
Yet Israel, as the militarily superior power, ought to take the first steps: implementing a massive Marshall Plan in Gaza and in the West Bank to end poverty and unemployment, rebuild infrastructure and encourage investment; dismantle the settlements or make settlers become citizens of a Palestinian state; accept 30,000 Palestinian refugees annually back into Israel for the next 30 years, apologise for its role in the 1948 expulsions and offer to co-ordinate a worldwide compensation effort for all that Palestinians lost during the Occupation; and recognise a Palestinian state within borders already defined by the Geneva Accord of 2003.
This is the only way Israel will ever achieve security. It is the only way to permanently defeat Hamas and all extremists who wish to see endless war against Israel.
The most significant contribution the new Obama administration could make to Middle East peace would be to embrace a strategy that homeland security is best achieved not by military or economic domination but by generosity and caring for others.
If this new way of thinking could become a serious part of US policy, it would have an immense impact on undermining the fearful consciousness of Israelis who still see the world more through the frame of the Holocaust and previous persecutions than through the frame of their actual present power in the world.
It breaks my heart to see the terrible suffering in Gaza and in Israel. As a religious Jew I find it all the worse, because it confirms to me how easy it is to pervert the loving message of Judaism into a message of hatred and domination.
I remain in mourning for the Jewish people, for Israel and for the world.
p/s: Rabbi Michael Lenner is editor of Tikkun magazine and this article is "copy-and-paste"d from The Malaysian Insider.
Sunday, 4 January 2009
graharesidenKu condemns Israel
I strongly condemned the killing of innocent people of Palestine by Israel in the Gaza Strip! I call on the Israeli authorities to stop immediately their offensive on the Palestinians. FULL STOP.
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Goodbye 2008, Welcome 2009!
Alhamdulillah, tahun 2008 banyak mengandungi episod manis buat hidupku. Kemuncaknya ialah dengan kejayaan aku menggenggam segulung ijazah lanjutan daripada University of Manchester. Biarpun aku tidak berpeluang menerima skrol Master in Development Finance with Merit di atas pentas Whitworth Hall pada 18 Disember yang lalu, namun aku bersyukur kerana segala usaha dan penat lelah berbaloi jua akhirnya. Alhamdulillah...
Tahun 2008 juga menyaksikan kelibat aku di beberapa buah negara di Eropah Barat dan Asia. Alhamdulillah, di sebalik sibuk membaca, membaca, membaca dan menulis kertas-kertas kerja, aku sempat ke (besides London, which was my second "home" when I was in UK) York, Dublin, Frankfurt, Belfast, Londonderry, Oxford, Singapore, Colombo, Liverpool, Madrid, Toledo, Cordoba, Granada, Barcelona, Brussels, Bruge, Glasgow, Edinburg, Cambridge, Venice, Pisa, Rome, Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin, Loughborough dan Nottingham. Seperti mana yang aku telah maklumkan sebelum ini, Berlin adalah my favourite city in Europe! It is clean, safe and has almost everything, from nightlife to cultural and historical thingy.
Antara yang aku pelajari daripada episod berkelana di tempat orang ialah sistem pengangkutan awam yang cekap serta keunikan setempat adalah kunci kepada kejayaan pelancongan sesebuah negara. Malaysia mempunyai ingredients yang mencukupi untuk menjadi tourism hub di rantau sini, dengan syarat, perbaiki sistem pengangkutan awam, pergiatkan usaha menonjolkan keunikan kita yang tulen (salah satu kekurangan produk pelancongan Singapura!) serta utamakan kebersihan. Insya-Allah, pelancongan bisa menjadi salah satu sumber inflow yang utama.
Selain kejayaan peribadi, tahun 2008 juga memperlihatkan hubungan aku dengan ahli keluarga semakin erat dan lebih matang. Aku mulai bisa berbicara dengan Abah. I've learned my lesson! Now, anything which might not to my liking, I take it as an alternative view from a man who might have encountered the same or similar situation, 20 years plus ago.
Dan kami sekeluarga sempat bercuti bersama-sama. The last time we had a family (including siblings) trip was in 2006, to Kuala Terengganu. The latest one, in fact very recently, we went to Langkawi during the Christmas holidays. Too bad that Fizul, Mira and her husband can't join us.
Talking about Mus, we've just received a new member to our family. Sekali lagi syukur buat Ilahi kerana majlis perkahwinan Mira dan Mus berjalan dengan lancar dan baik. Biarpun aku sedikit kecewa dengan ketidakpulangan Auntie Midah dan Tok Din (bagaimana pun, anaknya iaitu one of my closest cousins, Nurul dapat pulang menghadiri majlis tersebut), kehadiran adik beradik Abah dan Mak serta sanak saudara yang lain benar-benar memberi erti kepada kami sekeluarga. Terima kasih kepada yang membantu menerusi kudrat dan wang dan yang mendoakan kelancaran majlis tersebut. Hanya Allah yang bisa membalas jasa baik mereka semua. Syukur juga, majlis tersebut tidak berakhir dengan hutang piutang.
Tahun 2008 juga adalah tahun di mana aku bebas daripada hutang kad kredit. Biarpun hutang tersebut adalah "angkara" kawan baik aku, tetapi memandangkan aku yang telah memberikan persetujuan untuk dia gunakan kad kredit tersebut, terpaksalah aku bayar sedikit demi sedikit. Alhamdulillah, puji pujian buat Allah.
Tetapi kami sekeluarga juga kehilangan dua anggota keluarga. Pertamanya, Nek Sokyah yang menghembuskan nafas pada minggu kedua Ramadhan. Keduanya, Atok Mustapha yang telah pergi buat selama-lamanya pada minggu ketiga Disember. Semoga Allah mencucuri rahmat ke atas roh-roh arwah dan tempatkan mereka dalam golongan yang diredhai. Aamin.
Selain itu, kami sekeluarga diduga dengan satu ujian, yang alhamdulillah, merapatkan lagi hubungan kami sekeluarga. Semoga Allah memakburkan nazarku.
Aku juga disampaikan dengan berita kurang menyenangkan tentang dua kawan baik aku. Salah seorangnya telah mendapat kerumitan di tempat kerja sementara yang lagi satu telah diduga Allah taala dengan penyakit. Aku doakan agar Allah meringankan bebanan yang dipikul oleh mereka, dan dikeluarkan daripada permasalahan itu. Aamin. Insya-Allah, aku akan memasukkan doa buat mereka, usaha yang termampu daripada aku yang kerdil ini.
Tahun 2008 secara amnya adalah satu tahun yang manis buat aku. Semoga tahun 2009 juga dianugerahi Allah dengan lebih banyak rahmat, berkat dan kegembiraan. Aamin.
Tahun 2008 juga menyaksikan kelibat aku di beberapa buah negara di Eropah Barat dan Asia. Alhamdulillah, di sebalik sibuk membaca, membaca, membaca dan menulis kertas-kertas kerja, aku sempat ke (besides London, which was my second "home" when I was in UK) York, Dublin, Frankfurt, Belfast, Londonderry, Oxford, Singapore, Colombo, Liverpool, Madrid, Toledo, Cordoba, Granada, Barcelona, Brussels, Bruge, Glasgow, Edinburg, Cambridge, Venice, Pisa, Rome, Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin, Loughborough dan Nottingham. Seperti mana yang aku telah maklumkan sebelum ini, Berlin adalah my favourite city in Europe! It is clean, safe and has almost everything, from nightlife to cultural and historical thingy.
Antara yang aku pelajari daripada episod berkelana di tempat orang ialah sistem pengangkutan awam yang cekap serta keunikan setempat adalah kunci kepada kejayaan pelancongan sesebuah negara. Malaysia mempunyai ingredients yang mencukupi untuk menjadi tourism hub di rantau sini, dengan syarat, perbaiki sistem pengangkutan awam, pergiatkan usaha menonjolkan keunikan kita yang tulen (salah satu kekurangan produk pelancongan Singapura!) serta utamakan kebersihan. Insya-Allah, pelancongan bisa menjadi salah satu sumber inflow yang utama.
Selain kejayaan peribadi, tahun 2008 juga memperlihatkan hubungan aku dengan ahli keluarga semakin erat dan lebih matang. Aku mulai bisa berbicara dengan Abah. I've learned my lesson! Now, anything which might not to my liking, I take it as an alternative view from a man who might have encountered the same or similar situation, 20 years plus ago.
Dan kami sekeluarga sempat bercuti bersama-sama. The last time we had a family (including siblings) trip was in 2006, to Kuala Terengganu. The latest one, in fact very recently, we went to Langkawi during the Christmas holidays. Too bad that Fizul, Mira and her husband can't join us.
Talking about Mus, we've just received a new member to our family. Sekali lagi syukur buat Ilahi kerana majlis perkahwinan Mira dan Mus berjalan dengan lancar dan baik. Biarpun aku sedikit kecewa dengan ketidakpulangan Auntie Midah dan Tok Din (bagaimana pun, anaknya iaitu one of my closest cousins, Nurul dapat pulang menghadiri majlis tersebut), kehadiran adik beradik Abah dan Mak serta sanak saudara yang lain benar-benar memberi erti kepada kami sekeluarga. Terima kasih kepada yang membantu menerusi kudrat dan wang dan yang mendoakan kelancaran majlis tersebut. Hanya Allah yang bisa membalas jasa baik mereka semua. Syukur juga, majlis tersebut tidak berakhir dengan hutang piutang.
Tahun 2008 juga adalah tahun di mana aku bebas daripada hutang kad kredit. Biarpun hutang tersebut adalah "angkara" kawan baik aku, tetapi memandangkan aku yang telah memberikan persetujuan untuk dia gunakan kad kredit tersebut, terpaksalah aku bayar sedikit demi sedikit. Alhamdulillah, puji pujian buat Allah.
Tetapi kami sekeluarga juga kehilangan dua anggota keluarga. Pertamanya, Nek Sokyah yang menghembuskan nafas pada minggu kedua Ramadhan. Keduanya, Atok Mustapha yang telah pergi buat selama-lamanya pada minggu ketiga Disember. Semoga Allah mencucuri rahmat ke atas roh-roh arwah dan tempatkan mereka dalam golongan yang diredhai. Aamin.
Selain itu, kami sekeluarga diduga dengan satu ujian, yang alhamdulillah, merapatkan lagi hubungan kami sekeluarga. Semoga Allah memakburkan nazarku.
Aku juga disampaikan dengan berita kurang menyenangkan tentang dua kawan baik aku. Salah seorangnya telah mendapat kerumitan di tempat kerja sementara yang lagi satu telah diduga Allah taala dengan penyakit. Aku doakan agar Allah meringankan bebanan yang dipikul oleh mereka, dan dikeluarkan daripada permasalahan itu. Aamin. Insya-Allah, aku akan memasukkan doa buat mereka, usaha yang termampu daripada aku yang kerdil ini.
Tahun 2008 secara amnya adalah satu tahun yang manis buat aku. Semoga tahun 2009 juga dianugerahi Allah dengan lebih banyak rahmat, berkat dan kegembiraan. Aamin.
Monday, 29 December 2008
Grow Up!!!
Allow me to borrow that phrase by Norish Karman which I 'accidentally' heard (percaya tak?) in Spa Q II. And allow me to throw that phrase to the Censorship Unit of RTM for their puzzling decision to GAM a new song by Kopratasa, titled Aku Bukan Musuh Harta. Reason given is that its lyric, which was penned by Dr. Asri Zainul Abidin, is too KASAR. My vocabulary might not as CANGGIH as those who sit on that censorhip board, kasar to me is harsh. Mus... Zetty... please correct me if I'm wrong.
Let us go through the said lyric to find out how kasar is KASAR.
AKU BUKAN MUSUH HARTA
mereka kata:
mengapa kita tidak kaya raya?
tengoklah si fulan itu, bermewahan saja..
aku bertanya:
apakah caranya untuk aku kaya?
tapi.. secara mulia dan tanpa berdusta
bukan kita tidak tahu
jalan, denai dan liku
agar harta ditemu dan disapu
tapi semuanya cara palsu dan tipu..
bukan kita tidak mahu
tapi kita tidak mampu
takut dan terkedu
mengenangkan Yang Maha Satu
Yang Tiada BagiNya sekutu
ya, telah kaya para pengkhianat
dengan harta yang sarat
tapi mereka lupa akhirat
balasan yang berat
di dunia, jiwa bertukar menjadi keparat
ya, telah kaya para pendusta
syarat mereka: lupakan Yang Esa
harta rakyat semua disebat
harta awam semua dibekam
hukum syaitan mereka bertuhan
kita pun ingin kaya
ada harta, ada kereta yang istimewa
ada rumah mewah yang melimpah
ada hidangan yang bukan sebarangan
ada duit yang bukan sedikit
tapi jalannya hendaklah suci
bukan seperti seorang pencuri
jika ada jalan yang mulia
di hujungnya ada harta
tunjukkan kita di mana saja
kita bukan musuh harta
kita cuma musuh pengkhianat bangsa dan negara
apatah lagi pengkhianat agama..
Again, my vocab might not as good as them, but I only managed to identify two words which might fall under their classification as KASAR, namely, PENGKHIANAT and KEPARAT.
If these are harsh words, I guess they may want to GAM quite a long list of SAJAKs, including by Datuk Usman Awang and Keris Mas, which had featured these words countless times.
Or maybe I got the wrong word. Maybe phrases like "harta rakyat semua disebat" or "telah kaya para pendusta" are indeed harsher than Datuk Shahnon Ahmad's SHIT or Hasmi Haron's Perempuan-Perempuan Celaka Itu"?
Come on, SAJAKs or movies are just products of creative writing. Don't they know what creative writing means?
I'm sure this immature decision was never went through our open-minded Menteri Penerangan. To me, this is just another 'classic' act from those apple polishers. And I don't think those millionaires really care of this song.
By the way, "telah kaya para pendusta" doesn't mean all rich people are liars. And the same goes to "telah kaya para pengkhianat".
Alahai...
p/s: It's official, Mualaf has been banned by the Censorship Board!
Let us go through the said lyric to find out how kasar is KASAR.
AKU BUKAN MUSUH HARTA
mereka kata:
mengapa kita tidak kaya raya?
tengoklah si fulan itu, bermewahan saja..
aku bertanya:
apakah caranya untuk aku kaya?
tapi.. secara mulia dan tanpa berdusta
bukan kita tidak tahu
jalan, denai dan liku
agar harta ditemu dan disapu
tapi semuanya cara palsu dan tipu..
bukan kita tidak mahu
tapi kita tidak mampu
takut dan terkedu
mengenangkan Yang Maha Satu
Yang Tiada BagiNya sekutu
ya, telah kaya para pengkhianat
dengan harta yang sarat
tapi mereka lupa akhirat
balasan yang berat
di dunia, jiwa bertukar menjadi keparat
ya, telah kaya para pendusta
syarat mereka: lupakan Yang Esa
harta rakyat semua disebat
harta awam semua dibekam
hukum syaitan mereka bertuhan
kita pun ingin kaya
ada harta, ada kereta yang istimewa
ada rumah mewah yang melimpah
ada hidangan yang bukan sebarangan
ada duit yang bukan sedikit
tapi jalannya hendaklah suci
bukan seperti seorang pencuri
jika ada jalan yang mulia
di hujungnya ada harta
tunjukkan kita di mana saja
kita bukan musuh harta
kita cuma musuh pengkhianat bangsa dan negara
apatah lagi pengkhianat agama..
Again, my vocab might not as good as them, but I only managed to identify two words which might fall under their classification as KASAR, namely, PENGKHIANAT and KEPARAT.
If these are harsh words, I guess they may want to GAM quite a long list of SAJAKs, including by Datuk Usman Awang and Keris Mas, which had featured these words countless times.
Or maybe I got the wrong word. Maybe phrases like "harta rakyat semua disebat" or "telah kaya para pendusta" are indeed harsher than Datuk Shahnon Ahmad's SHIT or Hasmi Haron's Perempuan-Perempuan Celaka Itu"?
Come on, SAJAKs or movies are just products of creative writing. Don't they know what creative writing means?
I'm sure this immature decision was never went through our open-minded Menteri Penerangan. To me, this is just another 'classic' act from those apple polishers. And I don't think those millionaires really care of this song.
By the way, "telah kaya para pendusta" doesn't mean all rich people are liars. And the same goes to "telah kaya para pengkhianat".
Alahai...
p/s: It's official, Mualaf has been banned by the Censorship Board!
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