Faith?

This may not be a popular opinion amongst many of my fellow muslims but i feel i must rant about it. When it comes to practicing your faith i believe that each person has their own special way of doing so, even so i agree that there are certain observances that all of us follow particularly when it comes to the Salat. However recently i have seen on facebook that there are certain parties that wish to correct how a female performs the Salat, because apparently if they don't follow it their submissions are not going to be accepted by the almighty. Now Islam claims to be a religion that eases its followers but yet now their are parties that wish to say that if you do not pray in a certain way suddenly your prayer is not going to be accepted. Now i believe that regardless of your faith, belief as well as Mazhab that if you submit yourself before the Almighty, how you do so is none of other peoples business. What matters is that you do it with the pure intention of submitting before the Almighty. Intentions are what legitimises your submissions not how you submit.

Thats all from me,
Assalamualaikum, Shalom Aleichem, Namaste

Ashli Burton Bin Amir

An Open Letter To Most of my Countrymen with Half a Brain

Dear sir's and Madams,

Recently the whole issue on the word "Allah" has been thrust into the limelight of our local media, where a raid by the Selangor Religious Department (JAIS) illegally apprehended members of the Bible society of Malaysia, on the reason of them distributing bibles that still referred to God as "Allah". Now there are stories of a protest that is going to be conducted whilst Christians are having their Sunday Mass by a group of Muslims. Since when did we revert to the days of Ignorance a.k.a Jahilliyah, why are we so worried that the usage of a word such as Allah will corrode the faith of the Muslims. Why is it that we are repeating the mistakes of the Catholics in the 15th Century that is the religious Inquisition, too root out "threats" to the faith.

Why do we always force others to accept our dominance, for is not the most dominant one the God of our faith. Does not God, Allah, Yahweh or whatever you choose to call the supreme being, say that we must respect one another, and not fight amongst each other. My friends what is needed is more critical thought over our own actions, we should not condemn those who we feel are wrong just because they are of a different belief than us, instead we should engage each other in dialogue and we will see that there is no difference between us. Alas, i know the people who really need to be enlightened by these words i have written will not be enlightened as they are too busy fanning the flames of hate and ignorance, but for those who do, please take a moment to ponder as to the beauty of all religions and how all religions are in fact one regardless of the semantics and distinctions that are made by those who claim to know better, for did not the supreme being give us all minds to think with.

Shalom Aleichem, Asalamualaikum, and Peace be Upon you all.

Ashli

Prices?

Recently there has been a widespread feeling of dissatisfaction among the people of my country, due to the rise in costs of living. So much so that it led to the recently concluded "TURUN" rally which supposedly was to urge the government to lower living costs. My problem in the whole scheme of things is that 1) I agree the government should do something to  keep the economy afloat and the price increase is justifiable to a certain extent. However at the same time this brings me to problem number 2) The government should also start cutting the salaries of the members of parliament, and other higher ranking officials who are earning salaries higher than 15K a month as well as stop this need for government aid to the people because this is what is draining our economy in the first place.

In addition to this issue, I personally believe that members of the opposition should not even participate in events such as "TURUN" because they too are partly the reason why the country is going arse over tit. They earn just as much as the Government officials do, but yet because it is a "Government" decision to increase prices they feel that they can latch on to the feeling of dissatisfaction for their own gains. At the end of this diatribe i feel that there is a need for everyone to have some minor knowledge about economics because then and only then can they rationally decide whether or not the price hikes are justified instead of just jumping on the band wagon because prices have risen.

Think For Yourselves For Once People,
Ciao,
Ash "The Dashing" Li

Words?

What is the point of telling people things when they just choose to ignore whatever it is you are saying, even if what you are saying has a legitimate basis. Why are humans so fucking arrogant that they cannot bring themselves to accept the experienced opinions of those who have legitimate views. At the end of time all that happens is someone is "wrong" and has to apologize for being wrong even though they have had a legitimate point when the discussion started off. These days unless you come from some fancy university or have money or title no one listens to what you say. Everyone is too fucking arrogant to accept the possibilities proposed by others because said possibilities do not conform to the institutionally set possibilities...

Sick and tired,
Me

Hello

Hello NSA,

how you doing? No i'm not gonna go allahuakbar or durka durka muhammad jihad and bomb your country. But could you please stop your government from claiming you guys are "free"

Ciao

Corruption?

Recently there has been a documentary about how the current chief minister of Sarawak is basically selling the natural resources of the state to the highest bidder while lining his pockets. The question is why the fuck do the westerners care so much about the corruption here?

The Sarawakians aren't dumb they know that the current Chief Minister is a massive douche, the thing is what does exposing the corruption help, Logging is still going to happen regardless of whether or not  the "white hair" is in power. Furthermore what right to these outsiders have to criticize us when they haven't the balls to criticize their own governments. Look at the United States, if they really wanted to do something positive for indigenous communities then why don't they give back all the land stolen from the Native Americans.

Corruption is Human Nature, regardless of what all the idealists say no one is free from corruption, So instead of making documentaries highlighting the negative  political aspects of a country you have no business being involved in, how's about you focus on making documentaries of people trying to make the nation a better place or even better get of their arses and come to the streets of KL when the sun goes down and volunteer yourselves.

Ciao,
Me

Voting?

The concept of voting in this nation makes me laugh to my core, Everyone seems to think that hey the governments really bad that's why we should go and vote for the opposition and counter the votes of the illegal immigrants. But really are you people truly voting for a better country or are you voting because you want to give another corrupt regime the chances of making their already fat wallets overflow.

People ask me why I am not going back to vote, and I always reply "No, what benefit does it give me knowing that regardless of what happens whether one party wins or the other party wins, the only one's who benefit are the politicians who get into power?" Then people choose to disregard me because since I am not voting I have no right to criticize the government right?.. Wrong, regardless of whether I vote or not I still have a right to criticize what the "power" holders do. I pay taxes in that i pay taxes on the things I consume in my daily life, this gives me a stake in what I want to see the government truly focus on.

I love my country, but if I was ever going to vote it would be to vote for myself.

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Ciao,
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Psyduck.