This morning I read a piece of news by LA Times online and my thought was this would be nothing but bad for Malaysian.

By noon, the worse happen and it’s now all over the news media.

This one guy, Noordin Mohammed Top, born and educated in Malaysia, turn into a bombmaker that was involved in the many bombings through out Indonesia between 2002 and 2004, which has now become the Most Wanted Man in Asia.

And after the Jakarta’s JW Marriot and Ritz Carlton hotel blast yesterday, he once more becomes the headline in any part of the world.

Check out this headlines;

Report: Malaysian fugitive suspected in hotel bombs – CNN International
Malaysia fugitive terrorist linked to Jakarta’s suicide bombing – XinHua
Malaysian suspected in Indonesia hotel attacks – Los Angeles Times – LA Times
Malaysian extremist behind Indonesia attacks: official – Calgary Herald
Malaysian extremist Noordin Top blamed for Jakarta attacks – France 24

Imagine people in northern part of Germany, eastern part of China or southern part of Chile will sat in front of their TV news channel and see or read the news and what they will focus at, the word of ‘Malaysia’ or ‘Malaysian’.

As Malaysian, this kind of publicity totally isn’t good for us; PERIOD.

Why?

Linking the evil act of him to Malaysian (generally) – as a mastermind – is like poking the needle on all of us Malaysian.

I think the media always like to associate a country to any of the act of terrorism.

The problem is, Nordin Mohammed Top is always suspected living large in Indonesia – at most of the time – and he always targeted his act of terrorism in matter of Indonesian interest.

So why does the media still using the word ‘Malaysian’ or ‘Malaysia’ again and again – he wasn’t doing this act of violence when he was in Malaysia – so he wasn’t a fugitive from Malaysia or Malaysian extremist.

All the headlines sound so biased and making it’s like Malaysian are a sort of an enemy to Indonesian.

Making this matter worse, Malaysia and Indonesia always have this sibling’s rivalry and with the recent event of cold domestic relationship, it would create more tension between the two countries.

I think, the headlines should just said, the Bali’s bomber suspected again in the recent hotel bombs and should snippets in the brief description as Malaysian-borne, perhaps.

However, you can’t just control juicy headlines – it’s sold;

And this makes me wonder, does he still a Malaysian (in spirit of a common people in Malaysia like me and you)?

I think he is no longer a Malaysian and in my opinion he doesn’t practices and believes in our Rukun Negara anymore;

So, what should a country do when one of its people (or once its people) do an act of violence like this?

Should we just ignore it or maybe quoting on a news media like this by local BERNAMA, Malaysia Seriously Views Allegation On Bomber

“If there is any information, please pass (it) to our authorities. We are keen to know and will cooperate fully as we always do with our neighbours when it comes to terrorism,” said Wisma Putra

Is that good enough?

I don’t think so.

That was not enough to counter-attack the damage which has been done from the above headlines.

Is like there are two people inside the elevator and the person who fart say to another person, “It wasn’t me!”