Monday, June 28, 2010

Ali Baba and the 40 Ulamas



Germany beat the hell out of England last night in 4-1. Germany was just too good for a lack lustre team that was no match. Many England fans would insist the result is 4-2 because despite all the wizardry of computerised audio-video tech, the referee could not see the goal England scored that didn't officially count.

There is some kind of scoring in Malaysia. In KL, at first there were supposed to be 100 Ulamas to join UMNO which just can't seem to have enough despite all the paid ones in JAKIM and the Religious Departments and the Universities. They must have more. But like England in the World Cup, they just couldn't score.

They had wanted 100 Ulamas. They couldn't get 100. So Ali Baba got a nice proverbial figure - 40.

Harakahdaily says there weren't forty. There were actually less than 40 and surely much less than 100. Mind you, less than RM2,000 and 6 months jail is another really contentious point.

If Ali Baba signifies wealth, he has got the wealth but hasn't the credibility. Even if we have what Ali doesn't, is credibilty in the unattended 1,001 corruption cases and abundant blunders? National prosperity seems a long way away and we still have to view the models - in hijab, kebaya, jeans or bikinis. The last Malaysian NEM (New Economic Policy) has rags on that nobody likes.

But of course, like Deng Xiao Peng said, it's glorious to be rich. Just make sure you have the right number of Ulamas with or without beards or turbans.


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3 comments:

Jong said...

Why 40 ulamas to keep those in the rural interior opiated with religion while they empty the candy jar? The sleepy one before him tried with Islam Hardhari though, and got away with murder, no?

So where are the 40 ulamas be assigned, to do what? - at each and every local airports in the country so that those 40 are able to put decent food on their dinner table?

...“Ladies & gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts, observe the ‘No smoking’ sign and, if you’re Christian, please make sure to leave Allah behind” - bledde jokers! ... make sure you don’t use “Allah” in your friday prayers! Fridays are reserved for Muslims only, yours Sundays!

Salak said...

Opiated is the right idea, songsang like! In a way it's the UMNO people who are deviationists - they make a nonsense of everything.

Quite while ago a local kampung Imam got upset with me over this "Allah" row. I had told him it mattered not what others called themselves being non-Muslims, as long as they worked towards acts of restoring "human dignity", they were better Muslims than the UMNO Muslims. Poor fellow got rattled.

Those jerks in UMNO/PBB, they say in frustration, would strangle their own grannies if they get in the way. :(

Anonymous said...

Make no mistake, these umnobabas are enlisting these cohorts to work towards worshipping the $$ god