Valentine Day Celebration

It is most disconcerting that top leaders of the BN Government, including our DPM, were so parochial as to be so easily influenced by the recent ridiculous and unfounded utterances made by JAWI, JAIS, JAKIM including personalities like Siti Nor Bahyah Mahamood (Siti), a well-known TV Islamic motivator in connection with the subject of Valentine.

Some of the remarks made were most disgraceful and embarrassing. Last week Siti displayed her abject ignorance when she in an RTM programme linked Valentine's Day to a day when celebrants engaged in "immoral activities, partying and unmarried couples associating in private are traditions of the Christian community".

And, the absurdity was that she attributed the origin of Valentine Day to Christianity. I suggest that she went back to the research desk before humiliating herself before the informed Malaysian public and 'jatuh' her standard as a religious motivator.

The other baseles utterances were from JAWI and JAIS who claimed that the celebration of Valentine was conceived by the Christians and Jews with a view to corrupting the Muslims' morality. What utter bull-shit is this!

What these pseudo-religious leaders did and are doing are attempting to tighten the screws on their adherents' freedom, causing religious disharmony and discord in the process among the people of Malaysia and showing to the world how holier that were than others. You scribes and pharisees - guard your own goal-posts; we do not need your turpitudinous pontifications.

JAIS further caused a stir when it pointed out that 257,411 bastards were ushered into the world between 2000 and 2008 and ascribed this phenomenon to Valentine's Day celebrations as one of the causes.

The religious authority was trying to tell us that within a matter of nine Valentine Days 257,411 babies were sired illicitly? What about on other days?

I cannot understand what JAKIM, JAIS and JAWI are doing. They are coming out with ridiculous rules and regulations that infringe on the rights of human beings. In my view, I just liken them to doing against what our PM is trying to do. They cause interreligious misunderstanding, disharmony and disunity among the people of Malaysia. If they continue to do what they do, they should be pulled behind bars under the ISA.

These three agencies are rending and tearing the country apart not only religiously but also racially. Instead of promoting racial harmony and understanding, as they should, they are forcing the people to the walls.

I just shudder at the thought that one day the people of Malaysia, the people of all adherents - will show their power to down the corrupt and despotic regime like in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan and Bahrain.