Of banning other religion and commonsense

I am not going to question the intelligence or the common sense of all the officials in 1Malaysia Najib's office pertaining to this:

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'Najib, apologise for un-1Malaysian directive'
Thursday, December 30 @ 05:07:18 PST

Teresa Kok slams Najib for contradicting his 1Malaysia with his directive to remove all crucifixes at a Christmas tea party.

Seputeh MP Teresa Kok is demanding an apology from the prime minister for his office's directive to rid religious elements from a Christmas celebration, which she said was “disrespectful” to Christianity.

According to Kok, who is also Selangor senior exco, the Prime Minister's Office's had issued a directive for crucifixes to be removed from the Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM) Christmas event on 25 Dec, where Prime Minister Najib Razak was a guest.

The directive, she said, also prohibited Christian prayers and hymns during the event that was held at the Catholic Church Archbishop's residence.

“Najib should apologise to the Christian Federation of Malaysia for 'de-Christianising' their Christmas celebration, that yet again denied Malaysians the right to freedom of religion,” said Kok in a statement.

“Such an order from the Prime Minister's Office shows how insincere and ungracious Najib behaved, as a guest at the celebration held at the Catholic Church Archbishop's residence.
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If Chrisitans can't sing or pray according to their religion and display sacred religious sign on the holiest day of the year, just because someone whose salary are also taken from Christians happens to drop by; well that explains a lot about Najib's Rakyat Diutamakan. Might as well not to have the party spoiler around, thank you.

Your vote I want, your religious right not my concern.

Surely Najib's officials can't be worried about the Prime Minister faith being affected merely by attending a very common religious ceremony held in Malaysia for generations?

By comparison, let's look at this brainy Singaporean Malay girl of high school age. 19 years old Humaira Ahmad, concerned about the environment and hope to make the environment better, decided to work with Keg Wei Yang and Raya Chowdhury, to produce a hybrid incense paper to reduce pollution during traditional and religious funtion.

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Gee, was she offended by Chinese customs and religion? Did she changed her beliefs after this project? The answers to both questions are probably "No".

I think she must have looked at this as an environmental issue and an opportunity to better the living condition in her country via application of scientific solutions.

Now compare to Humaira and the people who are suppose to run the country and have done so for more than half of a century....I think I know who has more reasoning power and believable. It is just sad that Malaysian tax payers have to waste money in worse ways than burning papers sustaining this lot.

Apart from Rakyat Diutamakan, which proven in the above case as totally empty sloganeering, let's see how the little red dot enable and empower it's SME.

The Net Generation Nationwide Broadband Network has been launched to enable SMEs - all fibre, ultra high-speed network so that SME can access into "Cloud Computing" and obtain software previously available only to big companies, improve their response time to customers etc

Whereas in Malaysia, we do not have comparable facilities, and the continuing application of various legislation to curb free flowing of ideas hence development of critical and right thinking citizens.

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Time for those who deal in communal politics to wake up or to be kicked out. Malaysia is a better place if we focus on real livelihood and social justice issues.