On the other hand, the government is spinning this as a victory, having successfully made mass arrests (1600+), arrested major opposition figures, and having kept the thousands who did show up from being able to organize as they had planned. The government is also stressing the disruption, damage, and economic losses taken by downtown merchants who lost an entire day's worth of business on what should normally have been a lucrative day on a weekend.
Now that Prime Minister Najib is back from his European tour and his visit with the pope, which was all about looking 'moderate' to the dhimmis back home, he's back to playing up to his base here in Malaysia. Namely, his not-so-moderate, decidedly Islamic base. "Najib ridicules Bersih, says Umno not afraid of fair elections", from The Malaysian Insider, 10 July 2011:
KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak ridiculed and dismissed the impact of yesterday’s Bersih rally, declaring today that Umno was not afraid of fair elections.
In a fiery speech in front of 6,000 Umno members, NGOs and martial arts (silat) groups, the prime minister mocked the turnout of yesterday’s rally, claiming that Umno would have outnumbered Bersih if they had wanted to protest on the streets.
“Don’t doubt our strength. Umno has three million members. If we gather one million members, it is more than enough. We can conquer Kuala Lumpur.
“If we want to create chaos, we can. But we uphold the laws of Malaysia, we like peace,” Najib said to a roaring crowd of Umno members and supporters.
'Conquer' sounds so '1Malaysia', doesn't it? And Najib and company surely 'love peace', provided that they are able to maintain their (i.e. Muslim) domination of it. Otherwise, they're ready to go violent "...at the drop of a hat", which keeps in perfect tune with the Islamist playbook.
During his speech, Najib thanked everyone who attended the “Majlis Penerangan Perdana” event, saying that the NGOs present, including silat organisations [martial arts organisations], were waiting to defend the country at a drop of a hat.
“If you mention or question Islam, they will rise up,” he said.Wait an infidel minute, who questioned Islam here? Bersih is very narrowly focused on holding fair and clean elections and has been careful to never attack or criticize Islam. But no matter. In Malaysian politics, the quickest way to discredit and marginalize anyone is to put yourself on the side of 'good' (i.e. Islam) and to make your opponents as apostates, or worse, kufr (i.e. dirty unbelievers).
Consequently, Malaysian government newspapers are busy spinning Bersih as infidels versus Muslims and Islam. One Malay (Islamic) newspaper called Utusan Malaysia has estimated that 70% of those who attended the recent launch of the 'Bersih 2.0' movement were non Muslim. Additionally, Bersih is being reported by the same paper as being funded by unnamed foreign Christian organizations and furthermore, Bersih is inherently against Islam. See! Proof positive that non Muslim Malaysians are plotting war against Islam!
To be a Muslim, in Malaysia or anywhere else, means to see conspiracies and plots behind every rock and tree. Every infidel is suspected, and probably guilty, of plotting corruption in the land, of plotting war against Islam. Conspiracy theories and rampant paranoia are inherent in the DNA of Islam and explain, to a large degree, the intellectual barrenness and stagnation of the Islamic world. It is why Najib can come back from smiles and handshakes with the pope, and then threaten rhetorical fire and brimstone against his own people, and be immensely popular with the Muslim-Malays as a result.
Bersih means well but has made a serious mistake if they think that they can deal with this government in good faith. As it turns out, hardly to my surprise, Najib has just declared war on them. Remember this, the next time a deluded or deceiving talking head goes on about how 'pluralistic and moderate' Islam is. Najib and his Islamic ilk amply demonstrate how Muslims cannot stand criticism, rational or otherwise, no matter how well intentioned it may be.
The main problem with countering these talking heads is that no matter how politely you word it or how much evidence you bring to back your point up, they will always drag out the "racist"/bigot/"islamophobia" card.
This article is not giving full information! I'm against UMNO but I'm more against the evil alliance of the Opposition party, PR (People’s Alliance), as headed by the bizarre alliance of Muslim Brotherhood/Qardawi-loving Anwar Ibrahim of PKR party, the Communist-Maoist loving party DAP and the thuggish Iranian-Mullah like Muslim extremist party, PAS! And this is what the Bersih protest is about - a most cunning opportunistic mean by the Opposition; it's not true that most of the Bersih members are not non-Muslim, but most of them are from the Opposition. They're only interested in gaining power - by whatever means. But once they're in power - look at Selangor, Penang, East & North Malaysia - Islamic fanaticism became dominant (DAP is bowing to Islam, in order to gain some ruling power like in Penang). The Opposition doesn't care about justice and truths - I've experienced it first hand. I supported the Opposition in the last election and when I went against Islam, they treated me like dirt (they also wouldn't help me in fighting the Malaysian police and the Sharia Court in my personal cases including in my conversion from Islam)! Thus the Opposition is more dangerous than the ruling UMNO due to its hidden hypocrisy and lies! At least UMNO shows its evilness out front!
Semua parti politik di Malaysia macam gampang--"kita musnah dihembus pawanaaaaa..."
The country is 60% muslim plus they have power-basically non-muslims are screwed, unless the world wakes up and works on getting rid of this death cult-Islam.
You read enough of these articles and you see the same pattern over and over again, no matter the race or country, it's always muslims oppressing and causing trouble for non-muslims.
What's even more discouraging is that even when you try to alert your fellow non-muslims about the threat of Islam, they ignore it. They don't see that it affects them directly-their world will change if the muslims ever get their way.
Then you have non-muslim minorities like these Malaysians who are desperately trying to hold on what little freedoms they have, but it only encourages muslims to get more forceful with imposing Islam on them.
The one silver-lining in this dark cloud is that we do have the stirrings of a bona-fide anti-Islamic movement building in the West. This is critical because it will take Europe and the USA to help free other nations from the stranglehold of Islam, but first the West must be cured of this disease.
Islam is a mental disease which makes people (Muslims) insensitive, intolerant, psychotic and dangerous.
Once again. How do you tell a jihadist from a peaceful mooselip?
The jihadist will shoot you.
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