This morning I read an article on NY Times about the recent interest on Islam, especially after the wake up Mr Obama speech in Egypt.

The Intersection of Islam, America and Identity

Some how I’m puzzled with the the articles conclusion.

Is like reading Quran without understanding the meaning of each and every word, that’s how US media interpreted and defines the meaning of Islamic Art.

It’s just become a norm of citing it without knowing the ‘muhasabah’ of every sentence;

I remember one time, I posted how American interpreted keffiyeh as a symbol of terrorism, it’s easy to stereotype the religion by the culture of the people who practice it.

Maybe what these artists trying to do is to remove the stereotype, however they are not eliminating stereotype of Islam but more towards their South Asian culture.

The art showed in the articles, A Statue of Liberty dress in a Pakistan wedding is not the right way to said this is the Islamic value  in the eyes of Islamic painter.

I feel so wrong, is like ok – A bride and groom dress in songket is what’s practices in Islam?

To me, an artist interpret religion in their own way of practicing their religious value – some are very conventional and some are very progressive;

There is many other cultures who practice Islam such us Mongolian, Chinese even people in South East Asia – they would paint their Islamic value in their own way (maybe in shape of  a fisherman coming back from sea during sunset/Maghrib) – and it’s not about the struggle of acknowledging they are Muslim.

I think what’s the painter trying to show generally is more towards their community culture who practices Islam and not as what is Islam as religion all about.

What say you?

From the voice of this guy; I can feel he’s much more scared of the strong message sent to all Malaysian rather than the bold move made by Mr Badawi.

In a country like Malaysia where multiracial people is the key foundation of the country, an act by it’s head of country to unite his own race would create an uncomfortable feeling to other races-oriented political party.

But thus the move is really to unite or instead to unified?

When two political parties (one is headed by the PM, which is on the long battle fighting over the Malay unity and the other one; the common opposition party who is fighting to unify the religious believe of Malay community, Islam) have put aside their political manifesto and sit down on one table to discuss more and more challenge faces by their similarity objective which is Malay and Islam, nothing is much more scary to others when unity will turn up as unify.

To others, when both of this party start talking about Malay unity in a same tone voices, it’s hard to let it pass without notice cause any emerging conclusion come out from this kind of meeting would show a synergy that never happen before and a force to be reckon with. 

However, I thought what was awpaulling from the remarks made by him and other Malay opposition supporters, they could not justified between the native of Malay Unity or Malay Unify.

Let start with the meaning of this two words first:-

• UNITY: the quality or state of being made one
• UNIFY: to make into a unit or a coherent whole

Malaysia would never become Sukarno’s Indonesian ethnic cleansing; Which is I would call an Indonesian Unification. Is hardly ever be any Malaysian who call themselves as Malaysian in contact of a race. Malaysian is a unity of Malay, Chinese, Indian and many other races; 

Believe me, most of us rather be like to call themselves as Kelantanis, Johorian or Kedahan instead of Malaysian. But we Malay no matter where we go, we still say ourself as Malaysian. 

Rarely you would heard someone say I’m Malay Malaysian (most of us straightly say I’m Malaysian), however we do often heard I’m Chinese Malaysian. 

This is where I would say the move by PM is good and Mr Kit Siang should shut the xxxx up.

I guess he like to create the buzz about any issues nowadays.

To talk about Malay Unity is very-very dangerous – there is still dirty tactics, spying, bribery and nepotism - all are the common art of political turf.

Sadly, everybody is so scared for another Hang Jebat goes amok around town and but sometimes we do need this Hang Jebat to make realise of our current status.

Many Malay are slowly try to separate themselves as Malay who is born to the core value of Islam and there is Malay who is try to revolutionise Islam and there is Malay who not even want to be associate with Islam anymore.

This kind of treat is important for both political parties to realise and sit down to resolved the issue for the sake of their next generation.

Some how Tok Guru and Mr. Badawi can’t be alive forever to give muzakarah, do you think?

I hope what they are doing now is been foreseen by others as a unification of Malay and Islam and to unite as Malaysian. I’ll not commenting here what other race have done to close the gap of their races since it is such a sensitive issues to talk about;

However, all of us got to stop say bad thing about others!

What you don’t want is Malay and Islam to unite and unified the Malaysian.

That would be a horror movie on Friday the 13th!