Teropong Dunya Aki Andan: June 2009

Dear readers

All are welcome to leave comments.

In Dayak Iban system of belief there is no Aki Andan but only the legendary Ini Andan. Aki Andan is deliberately used here merely to denote a male counterpart and not in any way to be construed as her spouse as there being none. Ini Andan occupies a very special social and spiritual station. She is also in possession of many special skills, which among others, the ability to foretell with accuracy what is to come in the near future and also often the saviour of the wounded and downtrodden. Not specifically endowed with such skills or abilities, hence her modern male counterpart has to use the 'teropong' to look into the distant future.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Who eat pork the most in Malaysia?

Several minutes ago I was watching a video clip of a press conference of Malaysia's former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir. The press conference published by Malaysiakini, I think, was held on 28 June 2009. In that conference Tun Dr Mahathir warned UMNO members against accepting bribes,where he said, "jangan terima rasuah; itu adalah perkara yang dosa; you makan duit haram, macam makan babi" (don't accept bribes; that is a sin; you are living on sinful money, just like eating pork).

Tun Mahathir was equating taking bribes with eating pork. The reverse is that, if one is eating pork one is living on indecent or sinful money or committing sins. It means eating pork equals to taking bribes and vice versa.

For argument sake, taking the words of Tun Dr Mahathir in their proper context, I would say that almost all non-muslims are taking bribes because almost all of them eat pork. And for that matter no Muslim is taking bribes because none of them (by religious conviction) takes or eats pork.

By statistics, who eat pork the most in Malaysia? The answer is obviously non-Muslims. Therefore by rule of logic those who take bribes the most must be non-Muslims because they eat pork the most. They literally eat pork every day I would say. Thus they take bribes every day in their own homes.

Sensible and logical. But is that the truth? Tun Mahathir would know the answer better than anyone else in Malaysia. May our compassionate God save this nation from such a senile and uncalled for remark coming from a respected statesman.