Make a Noise. Make it Loud

If the Malaysian government has demonstrated any characteristics other than corruption and stupidity, it must be cowardice. Badawi and his fellow nincompoops must try and pay attention to this, if they can, or if they dare: Is Malaysia an Islamic state or not? Of course, it isn’t. But one has to constantly remind oneself this is a nincompoop government. Maybe it isn’t fair to label them cowards. It takes a certain level of intelligence for cowardice to kick in. One has to understand the issues at stake. Taking a stand requires understanding of what that stand entails, or the basis of that position. Maybe it is asking too much of these imbeciles. Or maybe they are smarter than their actions or statements suggest. A lot smarter, as it may turn out. They may have seen the need to take a stand, really are cowards and therefore would not take that stand, so pretend to be stupid. If that is the case, they have also excelled in misleading the people into thinking their problem is stupidity, not cowardice. Personally, I think it is both but in this instance cowardice is a darker shade ahead. They are too stupid to realise the difference (between an Islamic state and a secular state with Islam as the official religion) but in this instance, they are even more afraid to look in case they have todo anything at all.
Malaysia is not an Islamic state. The suggestion that it is was due to some mala fide of its previous prime minister. Mahathir had played this card to shore up its Islamic credentials at a time when he was embattled by the chest thumping Anwaristas. It bodes well for my point that we have to shout out loud every time we see a wrong. That wrong can come back to bite us and in this instance, post Lina Joy, the bite has become truly obvious. Kit Siang has repeatedly said this but no one in government has either the intelligence or the guts to pick this up in any way.
Malaysia is not an Islamic state. The

is not a superior court.
Malaysia is a secular state and its supreme law is the Federal Constitution. Islam is only an official religion and the

takes care of certain aspects of practitioners of that religion. It is therefore, a kuci-rat court of no significance whatsoever to non-Muslims. The imbeciles and cowards however, have so messed up the country that this otherwise insignificant institution has been turned into a monster with a roar it does not understand it should not have. It does not have the country’s best legal minds sitting on it so it is ill-equipped to administer the country’s laws. It certainly is not meant to rule on constitutional matters. Actually as an aside – the civil courts too, has for a long time now, sacrificed the best legal minds in order to have Malays sitting on the Bench. This however is an entry for another day. The government may be cowardly but the problem may be that its people too, would prefer to smoke the peace pipe than to sound the truth bugle. Maybe that’s the problem. Just as nary a whimper rose to counter Mahathir’s naughty claim, a sickly silence is likely to follow an initial thump from people like the Bar Council president and the NECF. Maybe the people do deserve the government they wouldn’t should at.