No, no, I am not in Brazil attending the World Cup, but at the Bersih rally on April 28 2012.

Bersih Yellow + Lynas Green = Brazil !

PERKASA, ISMA, JATI, JAKIM, JAIS, MAIS, UMNO BARU, etc, perhaps you fellas can learn a thing or two from one of God's beautiful creatures how to respect other people's faith.

Tee Chuan Seng in the cross hair of Malaysiakini readers

Tholu: Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, I give you four reasons why you are not a human:

1. You are a traitor to your race to call them ‘ultra kiasu’ despite you being one of them.

2. You are not a true adherent of the Islamic teachings since Islam doesn’t preach racial and religious discrimination.

Remember the story in which Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is said to have stood up as a Jew funeral procession was passing by Him?

So having forsaken the religion of your ancestors and being a bad example of a Muslim convert, you are a ‘stray creature’ without a religion (unless stray creatures can be categorised as humans).

3. Humans have, well, humanitarian instincts - filial piety, feelings of mutual understanding and respect and sensitivity towards the feelings of fellow humans regardless of their race and religion. (You do not possess any of these).

4. Respectable and dignified humans do not curry favour with the powers-that-be for material (and perhaps political) gains. You are shamelessly doing it with Umno.

Ipohcrite: "Do not be too thankful to other people and forget our own," so said Ridhuan Tee.

Now, I wonder, what he meant by "other people" and "our own" since he is still Chinese by birth and even though he has converted and embraced Islam, he is by no means a Malay at all.

Ridhuan is indeed one very confused fellow as he is still an ultra-kiasu even though he refuses to admit it. Either way, he will never be "our own." I actually feel sorry for this guy.

Speaking Sense: Ridhuan, no matter how you try to dishonour them, you were still born to Chinese parents. And it is not necessary to dishonour them and people of other races just because you choose to become a Muslim.

By all means, continue to be a Muslim and try to benefit all you can from being one, but leave the other races out of your warped logic.

When are you going to understand you can change your religion, but you cannot change your race. You curse yourself whenever you curse your race.

Casey: Ridhuan is no academician and is not worthy of being so accorded. He is just a shallow, brainless sycophant - with no substance to support an honest living but resorting to obsequious and servile acts in order to gain advantage over his fellow men.

William Shakespeare aptly described such a character, "This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Negarawan: Why is this dud lecturer still employed? He has no academic value and talks like an uneducated man in the street.

What type of "ethnic relations" is he teaching when he is causing more ethnic tension and misunderstanding?

We do not need biased and hypocrite lecturers like this in any of our institutions of higher learning. He is more of a liability than an asset to the National Defence University.

BTN: Well, if we accept this Chinese Muslim’s argument than you better watch out.

His blood and family are all Chinese and as it stands based on his admission, they are all ultra-kiasu. Don’t trust him as he is a Chinese. This is what he is telling you.

Anonnona: Ridhuan is totally immersed in hatred of the non-Malays. Something done by a non-Malay in the past must have hurt him so badly that he is blinded with hatred.

Let us not curse him but have compassion for the pain he must have suffered and is still suffering to cause him to be what he is today. Let us bless him instead of scold him.

Louis: Ridhuan, much as you like to be a Malay, your appearance really does not permit you.

Try hard as you want to change your race, the Chinese DNA in you would stubbornly lodge in every single living cell of you, and your surname Tee shamelessly trails your given name.

You are simply pathetic. No matter how much you can speak against the Chinese, your present status does not even permit you to join Umno. Real pitiful indeed.

Awakened: If Ridhuan really feels Islam is a great religion, he should have use an approach which make the people respect him as a convert.

He should have spoken in a manner which will make people want to know more about him and how he discover this great religion. But the way he speaks and behaves made more peoples dislike and even hate him.

I would think that he converted to Islam due to the fact that it will be easier for him to get a scholarship from the government and get a better job and get promoted faster. He knew that if he remain as a Chinese, he may not be what he is today.

It is his ‘ultra kiasu’ attitude to be more Malay than Malay so that he can enjoy better benefits. A really sad case.

Lionking: I really pity this guy. What is wrong with this chap? It looks like he is suffering from post-conversion blues. There is nothing positive he speaks.

We should not get angry with him, we should just feel sorry for him.

Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no .......??? Can these fellas please make up their mind?

Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) is refusing to divulge details of their plan to publicly eat Cadbury chocolates to demonstrate they are halal.

Jakim deputy director Razali Shahabuddin today tried to dodge the question of when this demonstration would be held, when met by Malaysiakini.

"I cannot answer, only the director can answer that question," he said when met at launch of a motor convoy at the Federal Territories mosque this morning.

As soon as the 250 high-powered motor vehicles were on their way, the media circled Razali and asked him about the Cadbury issue.

Shifting the responsibility to the Jakim director, he tried to escape from the eager press and headed towards the mosque.

With journalists hot on his heels, he repeated, "Only the Jakin director can answer."

On Monday Jakim senior director for Halal Hub Mohd Amri Abdullah told Astro Awani that the department has no qualms in provingthat Cadbury chocolates are halal for Muslim consumption.

This followed an about turn in declaring two of the popular chocolate manufacturer's products halal after earlier claiming tests had revealed the presence of porcine DNA.

[Source: Malaysiakini]

SO MUCH FOR CONFIDENCE BUILDING!

Oh my goodness, the stress finally takes its toll ...

Apocalypse Kuala Lumpur

There have been so many rantings of late by ISMA, PERKASA, UMNO Baru ministers, etc telling the Chinese to 'balik Cina' if they don't like it here, to the extent that the Chinese community have now been even labelled as 'intruders' and 'trespassers'

But, what is it like should the Chinese really pack up their bags and leave, every single one of the 27% of the population. It is an eerie thought but not that impossible.

Let the following pictures illustrate a possible scenario of the future ...

An empty Jalan Tun Perak

Infront of Dataran Merdeka

Abandoned buildings

This may not be the KLSE chart, but the bleak prospects are there as Chinese investors sell out to migrate.

Empty restaurants

Empty gym

IS THIS WHAT NAJIB WANTS TO SEE ...???

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ZAITUN INDUSTRIES?

With the current brouhaha on the 'tainted' Cadbury chocolates and the call by Muslim NGOs and that Tee Chuan Seng fella, to boycott all food sold by non-Muslim companies, revoked the license of Cadbury, burn down the company, etc, it left me to wonder whatever happened to a Muslim manufacturer like Zaitun Industries.

The company first started its operations in 1978 by one Dato' Seri Mutiara Mohd Eusuff Teh, a Chinese Muslim, to manufacture toiletery, cosmetic and food products to meet the needs of the Muslim market. Then came the news that the company was delisted from the stock exchange on August 11 2003 citing reason : "The company does not have an adequate level of financial condition to warrant continued listing on the official list of the Exchange." After this, it was rumoured that the company was bought over by Colgate Palmolive.

If the company's business objective was to cater strictly for the Muslim market and maybe to a lesser extent, the non-Muslim market, how could it possibly fail when the Muslim population was hovering around 16 million?

Questions that need to be answered :
1. Did the Muslims in the country find the products wanting and thus opted for other well known products sold by non-Muslims? For example, Zaitun's product range included cosmetics. Did the Muslims opt for brands such as Revlon, Shisheido or Avon instead?
2. Did they price themselves out of the market?
3. Was their A&P appealing to the Muslim consumers?

The Muslim NGOs should do a re-thinking before jumping the gun that non-Muslim companies like Cadbury was out to 'cheat' them. If Muslim consumers decided to ditch Zaitun and opt for non-Muslim manufactured products, what are we to say? Put up signs everywhere from eateries to departmental stores to pharmacies that read, "For non-Muslim customers only". That would be outright discriminatory and bad for business. If they don't trust non-Muslim companies, then it would be a good idea for the NGOs to pool their financial resources together to start a company that manufactures only halal products. QED.