Here is the story in all its preposterousness:
Malaysian police said a popular ethnic Chinese rapper was detained Thursday [Feb.15] over complaints that his latest music video featuring dancers wearing dog masks and performing “obscene” moves insulted Islam and could hurt racial harmony.
It was the second time in two years that Wee Meng Chee, popularly known as Namewee, has been investigated over his music videos.
Police said in a statement that Wee was detained after they received four public complaints that his video marking the Chinese year of the dog had “insulted Islam and could negatively impact racial unity and harmony.”
In the video entitled “Like a Dog,” Wee sits on a chair in a public square in the government administrative capital of Putrajaya with dancers wearing dog masks around him. Several of them mimic the “doggy-style” sex move. A green domed building in the background led some people to speculate it was filmed in front of a mosque, leading to criticism, but this turned out to be false. Wee later said it was the prime minister’s office.
The video was clearly meant to comment obliquely on corruption in Malaysia, and the “dog” masks for those who dance in front of the prime minister’s office, were perfectly fitting because 2018 is, according to the Chinese Zodiac, “the Year of the Dog.” That calendrical correspondence alone explains the choice of the dog-masks, as it does the sounds of barking dogs from around the world. None of this had anything whatsoever to do with any supposed intent of Wee Meng Chee to insult Muslims, who consider dogs to be unclean. Thin-skinned Muslims, however, are eager to detect insults to them and their faith where none is meant, in order to make non-Muslim “offenders” jump through humiliating hoops of apology, removing the imagined offending text or video, or even taking off the market products Muslims claim “contain elements that look just like the Arabic for ‘Allah.’”
The way “Allah” is written in Arabic can be detected, if you are a Muslim looking for insults, in many perfectly innocent up-and-down patterns on products. These have included a Muslim in the UK who became enraged at a swirl design on Burger King’s ice cream which he said looked like “Allah,” and pledged to make it his life’s work, if necessary, to force an end to the design, and have Burger King broadcast a deep apology in every Muslim land. Or he would, he promised, “bring the country down.” To us, the offended Muslim in question merely sounds unhinged, but to many Muslims, alas, he will be seen as an admirable Defender of the Faith. Similarly, Muslim groups carried on a campaign against Nike for a line of sneakers that they claimed bore a design that resembled “Allah” in Arabic; Nike, deeply apologetic, dropped the line. A victory for Islam. And just in January of this year, the Swedish clothing brand H&M apologized for the appearance of “Allah” written, angry Muslims complained, on a new line of children’s socks. All the offending socks were recalled. Another victory for Islam. Muslims yet again had forced the kuffar to take seriously absurd Muslim complaints, to cravenly apologize for their error, and to remove the offending product.
The song of Wee Meng Chee has, in the same way, offended Muslims who are looking for ways to be offended, and to force non-Muslims to beg forgiveness — or else. The video includes the sounds of dogs barking in various countries. In an apparent reference to government corruption, Wee sings that dogs in Malaysia go “mari mari, wang wang,” which in the Malay language means “come come, money money.” Actually in China it is still popular to name dogs Wàng Cái (旺财), which means “prosperous wealth,” and comes from dogs’ barking sounds (旺旺—wàng wàng). “Wang wang” is merely the Chinese for “bow wow.” In Malay, the word “wang” means “money.” Wee Meng Chee is punning on the same sound — “wang wang” — that yields two meanings: “bow wow” in Chinese, and “money money” in Malay. The corruption to which Wee is alluding is equal-opportunity in nature: Muslim Malays, Chinese, and Hindus have all been implicated in corruption scandals. No need for Muslim Malays to take special offense, but if the shoe fits, wear it.
Muslims complained that the green building that served as the backdrop to Wee’s video was a mosque; so eager were they to find fault, that they failed to recognize that the building was in fact the Prime Minister’s Office, and some refused, even when it was pointed out, to believe it.
Several ministers have called for Wee to be arrested. He has defended the video as a form of entertainment and said he has no intention of disrespecting any race or religion.
These were thin-skinned Muslims, of whom there are far too many, the kind who assume that any up-and-down pattern ever so slightly suggesting “Allah” in Arabic — on socks, on sneakers, on a prefabricated ice-cream cone — must be a deliberately hostile act by Infidels. So they assumed, in similar lunatic fashion, that any mention of, or appearance of dogs, in a video created by a celebrated Chinese Malaysian rapper, must surely have been meant as an insult to Muslims, rather than as an apt allusion, as of course it was meant to be, to this year being the Chinese Year of the Dog.
Earlier Thursday, Wee posted a picture on Facebook of himself at the federal police headquarters as he was wanted by police for questioning.
“I am not afraid because I believe Malaysia has justice,” he said.
In 2016, he was detained after enraged Malay Islamic activists lodged complaints that a video titled “Oh My God,” which was filmed in front of various places of worship and used the word “Allah,” which means God in the Malay language, was rude and disrespectful to Islam. He was not charged.”
Race and religion are sensitive issues in Malaysia, where the ethnic Malay majority has generally lived peacefully with large Chinese and Indian minorities since racial riots in 1969 left at least 200 people dead.
Actually there were 800 dead, most of them Chinese
The reference to ethnic Malays — that is, Malay Muslims — who “lived peacefully” with “large Chinese and Indian minorities” since “racial riots” in May, 1969 — conceals several disturbing truths.
First, the “racial riots” of 1969 are vaguely described as if both sides were equally at fault. But it was the Malay Muslims who, infuriated by the results of a general election in which the opposition — anathema to the Muslims — made unexpected gains, first ran amok through Chinese neighborhoods, burning down shops, and attacking and killing any Chinese they could find. Almost all of the victims initially were Chinese. But then the Chinese, especially members of their self-defense societies, having recovered from the shock of this sudden aggression, began to fight back, and during this period almost as many Malays were killed as Chinese. The final period was again one of Malay Muslims overwhelming Chinese neighborhoods, destroying houses and shops, and while the Chinese defended themselves, almost all of those killed late in the day on May 13, 1969, not just by ordinary Muslims but also by Malay members of the army, were again Chinese. That reality, of Malay Muslims suddenly attacking Chinese is not properly conveyed by the words “racial riots.” As for the description of the three main groups having “lived peacefully” since May, 1969, that, too, is most inadequate a description. During this period, to appease Muslim Malays who were resentful of the economic success of both Chinese and Hindus, the government in the 1970s instituted the Bumiputra system, a kind of affirmative action on stilts for Muslim Malays. According to this system, all Malays are required to be counted as Muslims, and all Muslims benefit from a disguised jizyah tax on non-Muslims which is called the “Bumiputra” or “Sons of the Soil” system. Although the word means “sons of the soil,” it is not the indigenous Malaysian tribes (most of them Christians) that benefit from the “Bumiputra” policy, but Malay Muslims alone.
According to this “Bumiputra” idea, all economic undertakings, all examples of entrepreneurial flair, must have Muslim Malays as their full partners. Two Chinese who wish to open, for example, a computer consulting company, or an architectural firm, are required to take on a Muslim Malay (but not a Hindu, nor another Chinese) as a full partner, with an equal financial stake — even though he may not contribute anything of value to the enterprise. This is simply a way to ensure that the Muslims can improve their economic position, and continue to live, legally, on the backs of non-Muslims, who through this Bumiputra system pay a disguised jizyah. They are “living peacefully” since 1969 only because the Muslims have attained one of their main goals: a massive affirmative action program. But that “living peacefully” description is misleading, for there has been a steady stillicide of attacks by Malay Muslims on both Chinese and Indians (though nothing to compare with the May 12, 1969 attacks), including the destruction of hundreds of Hindu temples and the vandalizing of hundreds more. Buddhist temples and statues belonging to the Chinese have similarly been subject, though in smaller numbers, to attack by Muslims. That is what “living peacefully” together means for non-Muslims in Malaysia.
Meanwhile, the rapper Wee Meng Chee is now being held by the police and faces up to a year in jail if convicted of insulting Islam. He has already felt compelled to apologize abjectly to the Muslims of Malaysia for daring to include dog-masked dancers on his latest video, which could only have been meant, these thin-skinned Muslims insist, as a deliberate insult to dog-despising Islam.
And the thin-skinned farce will continue, wherever Muslims can find a way, however ludicrous, to consider themselves insulted, and non-Muslims will find a way, equally ludicrous, to tug at their forelocks and beg their Muslim masters to forgive them, as they promise to never ever do it again. As for Muslims ever apologizing for 1400 years of the continuous destruction of Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Hindu, and Buddhist sites, or for their subjugation of many lands and many peoples who, once conquered by Muslims, were offered only the options of death, conversion, or the humiliating and onerous status of dhimmis — of course, no apology is necessary, don’t be silly. And please check the swirl on your next ice-cream cone. You can’t be too careful.
Berengaria says
The Muslims of Malaysia are benefiting from the same type of “Affirmative Action” that we labor under in the USA. Contracts are awarded to “GOV APPROVED GROUPS” in order that they can continue to live off the backs of the American Citizens. My Sympathies are with the Chinese, who do the actual Labor, but must share the results of their labor, with the Muslims. AA is being used in Malaysia with the usual Bad Results.
Julea Bacall says
Do my leftys know how excessively ANTI Multicultural Islam is? They must be shown.
There is Nothing the Left could tolerate in Islam except that some are socialist type everything through the Mosque. I know they do not get it.
OK, I challenge myself to start asking all my lib friends why they support Islam. I can’t wait to hear the whys. I imagine it will be ‘Because we have freedom of Religion’. One person I did not even have to asked said how great the tything system was of 4% or whatever of all earning (or welfare) to the Mosque who is supposed to make sure all ‘good members’ have everything they need. He said no one else did that. I said, How about Mormons who do the same…the church gives out great food boxes (all organic, nothing cheap but Quality) close if needed. help with babies, help with bills like utilities. Really Mormons take Care of their own. Anyone ever heard why an America supports Islam? Does anyone KNOw anything about them?
b.a. freeman says
sadly, Julea, *far* too few americans understand the cult of islam and its vile gangster practices. everybody who *does* understand it needs to do all that he can to spread the word of its profound evil. i wish that i were younger so that once the hard left destroys society with its proxy army of pious muslims, then loses the war against them, i could fight for my family, friends, community, and nation, but i am old, nearing the end of life, and my soul weeps, because the treasonous leftists are well along in the process of destroying freedom for my grandchildren.
the process of the destruction of civilization has progressed beyond the wildest dreams of the hard left. i give eurabia about another 5 to 10 years before it begins to totter and collapse under the incessant attacks of pious muslims, after which the hard left will seize power. they’ll attempt to apply their usual solution – mass murder – to the muslim problem, but the word will get out to the ummah, because the idiots on the left have invited pious muslims into the government, and once it does get out, almost all of the so-called “moderate” muslims will suddenly turn pious. and then eurabia will have a couple of million hard-core leftists, along with several hundred million nominal leftists, in a fight to the death (q-t-l in arabic, in which there are many mutually-exclusive words for different types of “fighting”) against 45 to 50 million pious muslims. every single pious muslim will *want* to die in a fight with infidels, because *only* that can guarantee entry into jannah, while every hard-core leftist will be looking for a way to force the nominally-leftist to die in the fight against them in their place.
the left won’t know what hit it, especially when turkey and/or iran join the battle (they won’t be able to restrain themselves). only if patriots in the military begin to grasp the implications of what the left has done and revolt against them (which would *still* mean civil war), and do it early enough, before the left has been able to send too many officers and community leaders to “re-education” camps, does eurabia have a chance of becoming europe again. at best, i see a million or so deaths in multiple overlapping civil wars, and at worst, with nukes involved, maybe 50 to 100 million dead.
thank U, leftists! as usual, U bring the same turd to the dinner table that pious muslims have been bringing for 14 centuries.
LR says
b.a. freeman…
Well, your kids, and grandkids can stand right now for freedom. They can stand with all the artists, and writers, and politicos who do dare to question Islamic oppression, and any kind of oppression. There are more than you think. They just aren’t ‘public speakers’…
The artists that know how oppressive Islam is
BC says
“negatively impact racial unity and harmony”.
What negatively impacts racial unity and harmony is the constant vigilance of Muslims on the look out for anything which can be deemed to offend them. This found everywhere that Muslims choose to live. One rarely if ever, hears complaints from other religions about what may offend them!
Julea Bacall says
Islam HATES Multicultural. Islam will not ALLOW other traditions. Sunni want everywhere Arabized & speaking Arabic no matter what color one is. Shia is almost as bad. SUBJUGATION means no other way accept Islam anywhere and this is what they are working on and anyone can SEE it in the world (it is not indigenous to all those countries. It is not indigenous to Egypt, Persia, Iraq-and Abraham was not Muslim, or Turkey or Africa. But where are their cultures?Arabized, Islamized) What they are is what USA is supposed to Protect us from. Nazgroups or Nazimovements, KKKlan, Islam, white Supremacists are all groups we need Protection from.
J D S says
Dogs and dancing……A NO-NO in Islam!
gravenimage says
I am no fan of any sort of “affirmative action”.
Things are *much worse* in Malaysia than in the US, though.
CogitoErgoSum says
I’ve found that the best way to keep from being offended by a video is not to watch it. I know it’s amazing but it works.
Peter says
The problem is in order to show how “victimized” they are, they need to seek out all such perceived injustices, no matter how trivial or completely nonexistent, so they can tell the world how unjustly they are being treated. In order to achieve this, they will intentionally expose themselves to such material.
It goes something like this……..
Ali sees video, Ali gets insulted, Ali complains, Ali tells his friend Hammed
And what does Hammed do ?. Instead of taking CESs” advice and NOT watch the video, he watches it.
Why? …… because he NEEDS and intends to be offended. This is a procured state that Muslims seek to attain in the same manner as Buddhists seek to attain nirvana.
And so ……
Hammed sees video, Hammed gets insulted, Hammed complains, Hammed tells his friend Mustafa.
And what does Mustafa do ?. Instead of taking CESs” advice and NOT watch the video, he watches it.
And so ……
Mustafa sees video, Mustafa gets insulted, Mustafa complains, Mustafa tells his friend Yassar.
On and on it goes and as the numbers swell so does the fervent desire to react in some manner, and most here @ JW know what happens when Muslims whip themselves up into such a state.
The Koran impels them to hatred and in complying to those preaching’s they seek out anything that will bring about such a state.
Far too often this results in the death of many for the sake of something as trivial as a misinterpreted squiggly line on a wall somewhere or the irreverent depiction of the prophet or some other frivolous matter that triggers them into “kaffir attack” mode, a mode that is intentionally sought and all too readily attained by History’s most hateful people.
Julea Bacall says
I’m not sure if its completely self centered feeling it all about them. They teach they are the one and only true Abrahamic religion on earth and all others are unequal and pagan and they really do feel offended. Or if they do it as a jihad to force others into subjugation and even give up their own cultural ways. I know they HATE Multicultural. I know its just another way to conquer.
KJW says
They do it to assert their religion and they’ve been ingrained with the idea of anything insulting Islam. I recall, I think it was in Indonesia or thereabouts, they complained about a pig on some advertisement. In the US a women complained about a restaurant sign advertisement in the town’s center about their shredded pork special. They complained on the US that the Quran was at the bottom of a library shelf when books just end up how the letters fall; the library capitulated and had to rearrange all the shelves.
The companies that caved for having something on their product that looked like Allah should not have-they should have said it does not say Allah and compared it to Arabic. By caving in rather than getting them to grow up, they fed into this endless habit of complaining and seeing things that they want to see as Allah, and sometimes, such as in Pakistan that assumption has gotten people killed for alleged blasphemy with no chance of court.
Islam doesn’t like many things. Liberals should be told more about dogs. There are Muslims who like them, but plenty who don’t. They are illegal in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and sparse elsewhere.
You would think Muslims would be embarrassed that the Chinese have to take a Muslim partner and must hire 30% Muslims. It makes them look like free loaders. There are so many who are not very educated, so they get a sense of feeling better about themselves and their lot in life by saying ‘At least Muslims are the best of peoples and I believe in the true and best religion’ blah blah. It’s like a person saying I have the nicest house on the block and that feeding their ego and making them feel better about themselves. However, a nice house has nothing to do with a religion, sharia law. etc.
Steven RSA says
It’s time for International Walk Your Dog Past A Mosque While Pointing At It Left-Handed Day.
Julea Bacall says
Its time for more Chinese Parades. Its time for as much Multicultural in your face everything. Aztec Dancers with drums. Japanese Obons in the middle of streets with mosques.Hindu light fests, half naked Hula-Tahitian….YES…..lets do them all in the Open where they must watch. Maybe they even might come to enjoy it!
There is a lot we could get busy on besides just writing here (though it helps)
gravenimage says
🙂
Julea Bacall says
Islam hates multicultural. If someone in Malaysia is arrested for dog masks or Chinese NEW Year, I think USA should do as much as possible to call them out. Islam hates Hindu. They cannot arrest people here for Shiva. They cannot say one darn thing about it. Most of us Like to Say Merry Christmas. Lots of us like trees, even though it used to be some symbol of pagans. But no OTHERS threaten to kill us off or Subjugate us like Islam does. I want the left to see how Bigoted they are. Even atheists have to be shocked at this ‘religion’ is worse than Evangelicals in wanting CONTROL. Freedom means we are protected from religions/governments like Islam. So lets Show all our colors, even in front of their Mosques. Thats what I meant. There is a difference between a religion and people set on Conquering. Our religious freedom does not include an ideology that wants to Conquer, whether by politics, violence whatever subjugation. It is not against freedom of Religion to Exclude Islam and the bigoted Qur’an. Freedom means Protect us All FROM things like that. Just like we must be protected from nazigroups, KKKlans, whiteSupremacist plans. We must be protected from subjugation of these anti-American values. They are not even under freedom of speech. They Threaten!
b.a. freeman says
+1!
Peter says
+0!
Ole Pederson says
It is about time we in the West make sure Islam gets the same reputation as Nazism. Which it does not deserve, as I know of no instances where Nazi ideology supports rape, genital mutilation of children and cruelty to animals.
If we can prohibit organized Nazi groups we should be able to prohibit Islamic organizations of any kind.
Julea Bacall says
If people read the Qur’an, they see it could easily have been used to train Hitler. That is why most Muslims fought with him in Bosnia and various places. The ones who fought with Brits only did so because they were also promised a state in the Mandate for Muslims only. (That turned out to be Jordan, finalized by League of nations 1946 on 78% of the whole Mandate! Israel did not know this till the last minute and they had many discussions with the Hashemites & finally felt it would help Israel be recognized if Jordan was so they gave their permission. Israel was to be all West of the Jordan River) I try not to get too passionate about all the wrongs done to Jews (I am no religion but not atheist either) I just see constant brutal ugly dominating injustice and I am a person who gets Passionate about Justice. I am a real Lefy. Do people know it was the Muslims who first made Jews wear the yellow star or chains around the neck or one shoe one color but the other something else. This was not long after Mohammed but under another Caliphate.
FYI says
So it ..is probably too soon ..for the appearance of the rap version of the “prophet” muhammed ….P Slaam Shiddy..
too soon…after the 7th century?
Beverly says
LOL
myneighboursarefingnoisy says
LMAO Muhammad the p i m p with his dozen or so wives lol and still he commits adultery.
Peter says
Just out of curiosity, FYI
It’s commonly known that FYI stands for ” for your information”
But having seen some of your dry witted posts, and with that in mind, I’m guessing it may stand for something else ……… like ……something something Islam.
Would that be correct ?
kuriakose says
Billions of dollars have been spent on Malay muslims to educate them especially in science and technology. But to this day, Malaysia is heavily dependent on non Malay expertise to run the country. Typical regression and degradation inherent in minds that are held hostage by islam.
The May 13 riots started after the then Mentri Besar (Chief Minister) of Selangor addressed Malays in a mosque, warning the Malays of the dire consequences of the just held election where non Malays gained a lot of political power and instigating them to take action. Malays then spilled onto the streets, chopping and slaughtering Chinese and Indians burning down their shops etc
Julea Bacall says
I heard there was some big deal where many Malays wanted Qur’ans printed with the word GOD and not Allah. That could have lead to war.
gravenimage says
Julea, Christians in Malaysia use the word “Allah” for God (as do Arab Christians). Muslims were enraged over “Allah” referring to anything other than the foul deity of Islam:
“Malaysia’s top court: Non-Muslims cannot refer to God as ‘Allah’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/06/malaysias-top-court-non-muslims-cannot-refer-to-god-as-allah
jewdog says
The only thing thin about Malaysia’s Muslims is their capacity for tolerance. Maybe China can be convinced to invade and straighten things out there.
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: Thin-Skinned Muslims In Malaysia
……………..
Muslims are “thin-skinned” like this everywhere.
Just more attempts to enforce de facto Islamic blasphemy rules.
the thought offender says
The one thing I must say about Islam, is how easy it is to divine reasons why the Islamic Civilization, it tendrils, its noble holy warriors, its apologists and corrupters, the whole seditious kabuttle,, should be banned from the American Hemisphere.
Every once in a short while, a new revelation hits one in the face, ,like a SE Asian jumping carp leaping into a 40 MPH speedboat.