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Tun Dr. Mahathir’s legacy

Malaysia Chroniclehttp://www.malaysia-chronicle.com
Mahathirism and twisting a corrupt legacy into 'true' Islam, 10 July 2012
by Joe Fernandez
How ironic indeed considering his alleged corrupt and godless -- as in anti-Islamic -- legacy called Mahathirism or a perverse form of cakap serupa bikin. Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has denied that there's any such thing as Mahathirism, even though he he has kept dictating to his successors since stepping down as Prime Minister in 2003, but more on that in a while.
Islam stands for justice for all and absolutely forbids slavery and all forms of racism and discrimination.
The only two discrimination, according to Nik Aziz recently, is that a non-Muslim cannot head the government in an Islamic state for the same reason that "only a communist can head a communist state". It's unfortunate that Nik Aziz could only look to communism to draw an analogy as that would seem to suggest that there are some parallels with a godless ideology.
The other discrimination is that non-Muslim are not subject to Islamic (divine) laws.This runs counter to the great principles in western and universal legal thought which upholds Rule of Law (not Rule of Man or God), that no one is above the law, that there's equality before the law, and that you cannot use two different sets of laws to judge citizens separately.
The world according to Dr M
Mahathirism is also against the two main Christian teachings which regulate the relationship between God and Man and between Man and his fellow human beings -- (1) love God with all your heart, your mind and soul and (2) love thy neighbour just as thou love thyself -- and like in other religions as well, great and small.
Just consider the following salient points on Mahathirism from Mahathir's "Little Red Book":
Vision (Mahathir's Heaven on Earth for the ruling elite): worship of money and materialism to fill the void created in a empty soul by the discarding of all sense of civics, ethics and moral values and the death of the conscience;
Mission (how Mahathir wants the ruling elite to get there i.e. Heaven on Earth): total corruption -- anything touched must be in the bad -- a la the end justifies the means as per programmes of activities driven by philosophy; principle; policy; concept;
Objectives set by Mahathir for the ruling elite:
> Only one Malay political party to exist i.e. Umno and if there's to be a two-party system -- both must be like the right and left hand (one not knowing what the other is doing to protect the Hidden Agenda)
> The strings of both must be pulled by one grand puppetmaster i.e Mahathir (Daim Zainuddin and Mahathir are reportedly trying to make inroads into Umno-breakaway Parti Keadilan Rakyat) in a perverse reincarnation of Deng Xio Ping, Mao Zedong's fallen protege, who continued to rule China until his death despite having no official position after he stepped down as the Chairman of the powerful Military Commission.
Deng, unlike Mahathir who roots for the minority ruling elite, was discreet for the collective good and was never seen in public, heard or heard of after he "retired".
Goals set by Mahathir for the ruling elite: neutralise, isolate, marginalise and scatter the non-Malay political opposition through brute force, if not eliminate and exterminate them; eliminate, if not destroy, the Islamists & other Malay political opposition through brute force;
Programmes
Programmes by Mahathir for the ruling elite: implementation of Bumiputeraism, Article 153 and the New Economic Policy in a deviationary and distorted form, racist Biro Tata Negara indoctrination programmes , a wide range of administrative laws (government policies) and "constitutional conventions" which have no bearing on the Constitution;
Philosophy (under programmes): get away with anything, even murder, to the maximum extent possible;
Principle (behind programmes): the ruling elite accumulating money for the sake of accumulating money through means foul and fair by plundering the public treasury, even to the extent of running up the National Debt Burden (spending future incomes & incomes of future generations today), under the guise of bringing development to the people for a so-called High Income economy, in reality a House of Cards plucking figures from thin air to hoodwink the masses;
Policy (driving programmes): politics of distraction and disruption -- twisting and turning every issue in Malaysia into a racial and religious issue to pit the Malay-speaking communities and non-Malays against each other to scare the former into circling the wagons and gathering under one political platform -- Umno -- so that the ruling elite can live it up at the expense of us all like latter-day sheikhs;
Concept (of the programmes): Mahathirism, a corrupt and godless legacy -- seize the moment to make a difference for the worse for others -- erode & destroy doctrine of separation of powers, federalism, and via internal colonisation, the two-tier federation;
Activities (under programmes): based on nepotism and mediocrity driven by the quota system and sapu bersih mind set;
The Islamic antithesis to Mahathir's corrupt legacy
Accused of being a murtad -- a fallen Muslim -- from his university days
, Mahathir puts on a pious show in public to the extent of tilting the Indian songkok on his head to a suitably Islamic angle to play to the Malay gallery.
No one has actually heard him recite any long prayers in public. The words may stick in his throat for all we know. It would be interesting to learn how much he really does know about Islam.
Nik Aziz sees the Islamic way as the only antidote to Mahathir's corrupt and godless legacy.
Islam (submission to God's will) puts great store on the Islamic way (how God wants it according to the Quran) i.e. the very opposite of the corrupt legacy spawned, left behind and being defended by Mahathir.
He would probably not hesitate to claim, in a distorted, deviant and political take on Islam, that his way is the true "Islamic" -- the end justifies the means -- way. This is the same man who not so long ago committed a sacriligious and blasphemous act but shamelessly declaring that Malaysia was an Islamic state.
But as always, only Mahathir believes he is right and no one else!
An Islamic state is one where God is the Head of State, the Quran is the Constitution, and the Syariah (Path of God) and Hukum Hudud is the basis of the legal system.
Malaysians in Sabah and Sarawak would want to opt out of the Federation if Muslims in Peninsular Malaysia want an Islamic state. Christianity believes in the separation of church and state based on Jesus Christ's teaching: "Render to Caesar what is Caesar, and to God what is God's." But that's another story.
In any case, one can adopt the Islamic approach as Pas has done, without the country being an Islamic state.
Would Mahathir next claim to be more Islamic than Pas?
Mahathir probably belabours under the delusion that this would be the best way for him and his faction to counter Pas' growing influence among Malay-speaking communities in Peninsular Malaysia and other Muslims.
Musilms have no choice if they remain true to their Faith.
The must follow the dictates of their Faith and not think for themselves in anti-Islamic ways or be influenced by anyone unIslamic including Mahathir.
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