Hindraf leaders arrested in Seberang Jaya@http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/88415Athi Veeranggan Aug 23, 08 7:07pm
updated 9.35pm Eight Hindraf leaders, including national co-ordinator TS Thanenthiran, were arrested for illegal demonstration outside a Chinese temple in Seberang Jaya, Penang
Vanakam fellow HINDRAF Brothers..Well, I’m sure many will really hate me today...Hmmm
Let me start with some questions..Who is HINDRAF? WHY HINDRAF ?Do we need HINDRAF and if so what can they do or atleast what have they accomplished?.....
Their struggle? Well, I believe HINDRAF championing Hindu Temples initially since HINDRAF (Hindu Rights Action Force)..itself sound more like a religious groups or do they??..So why HINDRAF talking about community now??Well, their struggles seems like swaying away from temple to bigger issue , 'Marginalization’ by ruling government due to overwhelming feedback from Malaysian Indians in whole..It's hard to grap Malaysian Indian attention in past but not this time..I must agree,Hindu temples generate overwhelming support from almost every single Malaysian Indian..Guess BN government manage to srew big time huh..But why does BN government,using all their mean to marginalization and further supress Malaysian Indian??I'm sure Indian never been a threat for majority in Malaysian right..Ya ,that’s right, how can this small community can ever threat Government which compromise larger majority groups in total??Do you think we can succeed if ever we try to threaten Government??? Or maybe marginalization claim might well be over exaggerated??What do you think??
Well, talking about marginalization alone not enough, since we have to study the reasons 1st..And if the claim is solid, then we can shout anti-government slogan deep from our stomach...Sadly, many fail to understand, what they fighting for..Just shouting Makkal Sakhti and create numerous wasteful street demo not going to help a bit..Let we talk about the types of MAJOR marginalization as claimed by HINDRAF..Let us sit and think together 1st..
HINDU TEMPLE DEMOLITION-
Do we ever realize the amount of Hindu temples in Malaysia??I living in Puchong and as far as I concern, we have about 10 Hindu temple est.(maybe more) covering just 10 km radius..And in each temple on daily basis, we have around 10-15 devotees visit and on Friday prayers we have about average 50-100 devotees flocking these temples..Just think about this? Who really runs these temples by right? Government or Hindu Sangam??Well maybe 2 or 3 registered under Hindu Sanggam and sadly most of other temples performing unapproved rituals such as animal scarification by monthly basis or so..For record, such rituals divert real Hinduism practice..Many temples run by individu who tend to benefit from donation alone and I believe this is their motive in whole..Well in short many using bogus priest to perform countless mind blowing rituals ..I believe such practice tend to push Indian backward and not a healthy development for sure...I used to follow such believe but soon realize the type of mentality we developed slowly from such practise..I can't believe any human posses power to communicate with God and here we even have a mediator who able to be possessed by Divine Spirit to talk and advise human..Can you believe such thing??By right a real Hinduism never endorse such believe and I'm sad with Malaysian Hindu Sangam just closing their eyes on this..The act of alcoholic abuse and animal sacrification even banned in India's temples itself and here in Malaysia such things been practice widely without any crackdown..So do I really bother if such Temples torn down? Hell,not at all..
Ok ,how about temples with ethical practise, well many not registered and even worse built around someone properties..Ok, if I'm Hindu maybe I can allow such temple on my land but how if I'm not..Let me put it this way..I'm a Hindu and I got piece of land at prime area which I brought from a oil palm estate 10 years ago...Then, I got 1 Muslim surau there and of course the surau built 100 years ago to cater former estate workers(just imagine estate workers are malay)..Now since I'm just a Hindu,do I really care about the Muslim surau which blocking my dream to built commercial buildings??How about my rights? By law, I'm entitle to issue evacuation notice here..Hmm but still it's surau..Ok, then government issue another piece of land and with some fund to built elsewhere..Of course I believe this is the best solution and by right why don't we thank government and just built legally approved surau there? Of course government will study the ethnic population density and built 1 or 2 bigger mosque instead of having 10 small suraus scattered around..Hmm.so why the havoc then??So what if the surau built 100 years ago.??Atleast with this bigger mosque, we can have bigger gathering and create more unity among our shrinking society..So, it's clear some certain quarters who benefiting from the temple provoked such issues into racial one and shouting anti-government blankly and the worse still dragging racial sentiment together..
INDIAN DETAINEES DEATH UNDER POLICE CUSTODY/ETHIC CLEANSING..
Ok, many dies here & we all know how they dies..Now, do we believe police will just drag any criminals and execute them in lock-up or shot them down on street for fun or for rage on certain race???I don't think so, well the same police never for once threaten my life . I'm a Malaysian Indian myself and let me say this..Yes, you can shout or hurl any abusive language at me but please listen this..Don't you think lifes of Malaysian Indians killed by Malaysian Indians Gangsters stand higher than Police Lock Up dead toll ??..Yes thats right, violent murders, raping, beating and more by our very own race and for bigger picture, I strongly believe these thugs kill more Malaysian Indian every year..Almost all Malaysian indian family have history of murdered relative in the hand of rutless thugs from same race..And many over small petty matters like staring at each other either accidently or not...Ok let me ask this..Can an Indian family with 16 years old girl walk peacefully among 100 Indians youths during Thaipusam celebration??..I'm sure many went through horrifying experience of excessive vulgar comments and even worse the girl abused physically infront her very own male family members . Yes, by our very own Indian youths...Mind you, this is not a joke or mere fiction..I saw how a group of Indian youths whack young girl buttock infront her father and brothers..And can you imagine what will happen if her father or siblings interfere??Well ,I'm sure you know the answer..And ya, all this happen during Thaipusam celebration in Batu Caves 2007..Ok, let me ask you now..Can the same family walk peacefully between 100 Malay and Chinese youth..Hell yes, I'm sure may agrees with me..I'm not into mood of degrading my own race but this is the fact..Majority Indian Youths lack of moral value and hardly bother to respect others if they join in big group..The real issues with their attitude..Ok we can say this is because poverty and bla bla bla..But what all that got to do with moral values??Again I just mentioning about the real picture and I'm pretty sure many will agree with me if only they can extract racist sentiments in them..
Ok about Kampung Medan..I lived among hundreds of Malay in Kampung somewhere in Masai,Johor and for once I never encountered any problem there..We lived together as I big family. No matter funeral or wedding..The whole kampung get together and we help each and other..We lived in real Malaysian spirit and personally why must a race willing to kill another race in Malaysia..?? If so, why we Indian still in Malaysia??Why do Indian still freely roam around Malay kampung and live among Malays..If so ethic cleansing occur, why should we stay with our Malay neighbours??Come one..This is a very isolated tragedy due to a prolong misunderstanding among Kg.Medan residents for years..This what happen if minorities fail to respect majority sentiments and in this case, some Indian gangsters in Kg.Medan create unhealthy living environment with rampant criminal activities for a very long period..No one can deny this even we Malaysian Indian can't deny this right...They fail to respect Malays sentiment and pushing them harder..I myself afraid to enter Kg.Medan in past and same shared by my University mate who lived there before he move out a year before the tradegy..The burden is somemore heavy if you have young girls in your family..Even Malaysian Indians terrified and annoyed with Indian youths over there in past..Ok,for the record, I studied in UM during Kg.Medan tragedy and stayed in Kg.Kerinchi(almost 98% Malays here)..Never once I felt afraid living there..Can you believe ,I even went for a supper in Malay stall at wee hours during Kg.Medan tragedy..Well, if you label this tragedy as a full scale ethnic cleansing, why am I still alive??
Ok you may ask, why police never really prosecute anyone from Kg.Medan..Let me ask, how many Kg.Medan resident to be prosecute and for who shall we drag, whole Kg.Medan,Malay community ??Will such measure cool down the tense situation??The best government can do is to learn the reason and try to avoid such incident...Of course poverty and bad living condition a part of this tradegy..And yes, we can blame BN government but still don't you think only poverty can be blamed here..How about attitude??.I believe, the best is to avoid and try not to create same mishap..Better to learn from mistake..We can start by strengthening national unity and of course improve our minset and moral value..Just avoid that attitute problem and I really hope Indian youth can totally eliminate gangstarisme culture from their life..And of course, there is strong reason to believe,many BN government racial based policy fail to ensure unity in total and I'm sad to learn they still playing racial card just for a sake of securing majority Malay vote and ultimately gain power..
Conclusion..
As Indian, try to understand our self and our mistake 1st..We are not perfect and don't just jump into blaming others for what happen around us..Please understand, there is no point waiting for government aid and complaining about lack of opportunity in education ,economy and politics through street demonstration..Well, if you talk only about government, how about Malaysian Chinese owned private company, do you think it's easy for a Malaysian Indian to work there..I mean , I was employed as regional sales manager in one of Malaysian Chinese dominated multinational company and I was earning half of my Malaysian Chinese counterpart pay in that very same company..Just look at this, he doing the same job and so do I..I handling 10 countries and he just handling 5 countries..Plus, I creates more profit than him by few millions ..Sorry my Malaysian Chinese friend, I really never meant to condemn anyone here but this is the result of our government policy and loose labor enforcement to crack down such irresponsible act by employers..Do you think any employer dare to advertise, Chinese only or bumi only in United State?..I'm sure, I will get the due justice and taught my former employer a good lesson if only this happen in United State..Now,. do you think ,Indians, should fight for their rights with government(Malays) and Malaysian Chinese employer too?? See, the list never end if we point finger at others..Well, just 1 advice , please fight for our right with majority Malaysian under single race..Bangsa Malaysia....I felt delight to see how DSAI bring us together and impressed with Pertuanan Rakyat spirit....We should improve our self and work harder than ever if Ketuanan Rakyat rule Malaysian..So please stop complaining about lack of Indian rep in Pakatan Rakyat government since this is just a cosmetic lame excuse..Please throw away such racist mindset from our head..Remember, if we a racist, then don't expect other to be non-racist..We have no right to call them racist if we are racist too..Just wait and see how Ketuanan Rakyat fare since we know government fail in many area before..Just give it a chance...And please don't forget, we are the one who vote for BN for years and we shared equal responsibility since we supported them in past..What's the point shouting and begging for our rights on street if we chose them in past...We should know them better right..Come on,can't we realise for past 50 years??Why are we so dumb before HINDRAF??.What's the point of conducting countless street demostration if we fail to look at ourself , and solve the attitude problem within us 1st??
I'm as an Malaysian Indian would love to see HINDRAF supporter drop their racist stance and work towards betterment of our community ..We as a minority can only improve ourself if only Malaysian achieve true unity and ya ,don't forget , our very own attitude as well..
Vicky
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