If they want a crusade, so be it. If they say that the peace that we enjoy is not good enough … we shall take up the challenge. Don’t take the silence of Muslims as a sign of fear…Before our followers fall in this battle, (Perkasa) leaders will first lay down their lives and die sprawling in blood…
- Statement by Ibrahim Ali, President of PERKASA, as quoted in “Perkasa ready to crusade against ungrateful Christians”, Malaysiakini, 15 May, 2011. A video of the speech, which is in Bahasa Malaysia, is available here.
We have to be zen about these things and transcend the scum. It you are getting high blood pressure from this, he has succeeded. The whole point of this exercise is precisely to incite.
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If a mad man screams in the marketplace, and no one is there to hear him, did he really scream? I wonder which would be the wiser choice – exposing such madness on news sites such as this, or not giving it any editorial space at all? Only Muslims get away with scandalous statements like these in Malaysia. Any one else would be arrested. It’s never been a level playing field, so why give the ‘privileged’ even more room to voice their madness?
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Agree with the above two comments……
Village idiot, every village has one.
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That is an interesting perspective William. But what if the “Mad Man” is but an instrument of the Prime Minister of Malaysia who is bent on using him to stoke religious tensions?
Read this article on Free Malaysia Today:
As many have noted, racial tensions would be very much something that the Prime Minister of Malaysia prefers and letting Malaysians and the world know this, in my opinion, is of critical importance.
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