What the fuck is Wong Chun Wai trying to prove?

Monday, January 11, 2010

What the fuck is Wong Chun Wai trying to prove?

at 12:19 PM | | 

via National Express by barred on 1/10/10

Today, Wong Chun Wai wants to talk about peace, harmony, tolerance, let common sense prevail, let us become brothers and sisters, we are all fellow Malaysians, and all that fucking crap. But for eleven years Wong Chun Wai, MCA and The Star have embarked on an anti-Islamic State campaign. Now you want to do a U-turn?

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

You can read Wong Chun Wai's latest piece below. He published it in both his Blog as well as The Star, the MCA-controlled newspaper that he heads.

Was it not The Star that challenged DAP to take a stand on the Islamic State? The Star was trying to pit DAP against PAS and it used the Islamic State issue as the catalyst in an attempt to start this inter-party war.

I remember, back in 1999, I went over to The Star's office in Petaling Jaya to insert three advertisements, three days running, on behalf of the opposition coalition, Barisan Alternatif.

The advertisements were about how the PAS government of Kelantan treats the non-Muslims in the state. It showed pictures of Chinese, Siamese and Hindu temples as well as churches in the state, some which were built after PAS formed the state government in 1990. It showed pictures of pork and beer being freely sold in the state as well as Chinese and Indian schools, and so on.

In short, it was an advertisement to prove that the mainstream media spin about non-Muslims in Kelantan being denied this, that and the other, as reported by the government-owned newspapers and TV stations, were total lies.

After the first advertisement came out, The Star cancelled the remaining two in spite of them earlier agreeing to run all three advertisements and in spite of the fact I had paid for the advertisements cash-in-advance. I can't remember exactly how much I paid but I think it was about RM9,000 or thereabouts.

The Star has been playing up the Islamic State issue to the hilt. In its very subtle way it has attempted to paint Islam as 'the enemy' and a pariah religion to boot. The Star embarked on its anti-Islamic State campaign and, therefore, in the same breath, spun its anti-Islam propaganda in its effort to not only run down PAS but also to place DAP in a dilemma if it does not come out openly and strongly in opposition to the Islamic State.

Yes, The Star used Islam as a means to try and break up the opposition. Maybe it did not quite say that Islam is shit. But the message was clear. DAP works with PAS. PAS wants to set up an Islamic State. An Islamic State is a pariah state. So DAP is a pariah party.

But would this not also mean that Islam is a pariah religion, something to be very frightened of, especially if Islam is going to be the system of government in Malaysia?

Well, as Akhramsyah Muammar Ubaidah bin Tan Sri Sanusi (Junid) said in his latest Blog posting, Torched Churches... Reaping What Is Sown. And The Star too, which has been taking the anti-Islamic State a la anti-Islam stand since 1999, you too reap what you sow.

Let this be a lesson to MCA and The Star. For more than a decade you have been slowly poisoning the Chinese with your subtle propaganda and anti-Islamic State rhetoric. You thought this would be a good strategy to create friction between DAP and PAS, and thereby see the demise of the opposition coalition. But now it has backfired. So what are you going to do now?

Today, Wong Chun Wai wants to talk about peace, harmony, tolerance, let common sense prevail, let us become brothers and sisters, we are all fellow Malaysians, and all that fucking crap. But for eleven years Wong Chun Wai, MCA and The Star have embarked on an anti-Islamic State campaign. Now you want to do a U-turn?

The worst has not even begun. It is going to get worse before it gets better. How do you undo the damage? How do you un-burn the burned churches?

Let this be a lesson to Wong Chun Wai, MCA and The Star. You just can't conduct an eleven-year anti-Islam campaign without something breaking. And it has now broken.

Well done Wong Chun Wai, MCA and The Star! Your brilliant strategy succeeded. Malaysians are no longer split racially. Malaysians are now united. Malaysians are united along racial lines but split along religious lines. But will this kill the opposition coalition, in particular the cooperation between DAP and PAS, as you had hoped?

I hope you are happy with your success. It was a long eleven-year campaign that you embarked upon, but worth every bit. You have finally divided Malaysians along religious lines as you tried to do these last eleven years or so since 1999.

Of course, your objective is to see DAP and PAS go for each other's throats, which you hope will result in the break up of Pakatan Rakyat. Maybe that will not happen after all. But at least now the non-Muslim Chinese and Indians will be able to see how 'dangerous' Islam is, as what MCA and The Star have been trying to say all these many years.