Malaysia's sex hex
Dean JohnsPublished: Nov 9, 2011 3:58 AM | Updated: Nov 9, 2011 4:04 AM
How much longer, I wonder, can Malaysians tolerate the sordid antics of the obscene Umno/BN regime and its pimps and prostitutes in the police, judiciary and media in their efforts to perpetuate their rape and pillage of the nation?
How much longer, I wonder, can Malaysians tolerate the sordid antics of the obscene Umno/BN regime and its pimps and prostitutes in the police, judiciary and media in their efforts to perpetuate their rape and pillage of the nation?
As if it’s not enough to constantly rip-off the rakyat, pervert the system of justice, procure the police force, corrupt the civil services, debauch the media, shame the Malay race and defile the good name of Islam, these moral and ethical deviants even contrive to give sex a bad rap.
In the process so confusing the gullible and the ignorant as to give rise to such idiocies as the Obedient Wives’ Club with its aims like teaching Muslim wives the difference between “Muslim sex” and “Jewish sex”, whatever that may be.
The employment of such a fundamentally natural, vital, pleasurable and indeed essential activity as sex for political ends and the persecution of so-called ‘minorities’ is an absolute outrage, and grossly hypocritical to boot.
The fact that a despoiler of the nation’s institutions like Mahathir Mohamad and a lothario if not lady-killer like Najib Abdul Razak can get away with such naked miscarriages of justice as the serial prosecutions of Anwar Ibrahim on trumped-up sodomy charges is a national and international disgrace.
As is the endless publication of the so-called ‘evidence’ in these trials in all their anal, rectal, seminal and other gory anatomical and serological detail by the prurient regime-controlled media for the mingled delight and disgust of pseudo-prudish sectors of the populace.
Yet the same Mahathir, who was happy to treat the nation and indeed the world to the tawdry and illegal spectacle of Sodomy 1, has the effrontery to support the recent and current police ban on Seksualiti Merdeka with comments like “There must be a law... you have to have a standard to adhere to.”
Warming further to his theme, he predictably proposed that there were limits to freedom. “What will happen to us when people decide they will walk naked in the streets? We can’t stop them, that is their right. If people decide, as I’ve seen in some countries, to have sex in public, what will happen to us?”
Speaking of having sex in public, I recall no objection on Mahathir’s part to the widest possible public dissemination of a DVD purporting to portray Anwar allegedly having sex with a ‘Chinese prostitute’.
And even more grossly hypocritical was the fact that the best-known of the three datuks responsible for the filming or more likely faking of this production was Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik, Malacca chief minister during Mahathir’s term as premier.
After it was alleged that Rahim had sex with a 15-year-old girl back in the 1990s, Mahathir removed him from his chief ministership, but allowed him to escape further penalties.
The girl in the case wasn’t so fortunate, however, suffering three years’ ‘protective custody’ in a house for wayward girls.
And Lim Guan Eng, currently Chief Minister of Penang, was tried and condemned to three years in jail for publishing a pamphlet detailing the allegations against Rahim.
And the latest if abortive attempt by Umno/BN supporters to create a sex scandal has been allegations of sexual misconduct by the 16-year-old son of Rahim’s former nemesis, Guan Eng, with a ‘schoolgirl’.
However, the ‘girl’ in question was quickly revealed to be a 21-year-old student at Wellesley College in the US, who stated that she has “never met or even heard of the people involved,” and that the only way in which her modesty had been outraged was through the publication of her picture in connection with “these scurrilous and unfounded rumours”.
The latest cause celebre
But then truth was never an Umno/BN strong point, and in any case it has emerged that the latest sex-related cause celebre, the police banning of Seksualiti Merdeka, is not so much an attack on sex itself, or even on alleged sexual deviance, as on human rights in general.
Race-hate group Perkasa first zeroed-in on the sex issue, to be sure, with its youth chief Irwan Fahmi Ideris ranting that “supporting gays and lesbians will destroy our country” and vowing to counter such culture “to the last drop of blood.”
But the group’s attention was more powerfully focused on Ambiga Sreenevasan, head of Bersih 2.0, who was due to officially open the event, with banners demonising her as “The Antichrist” and calling for her arrest under the ISA.
So a protest that was ostensibly against sexual licence as represented by Seksualiti Merdeka, a festival justly celebrating the human rights of people of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity which has been held annually, after all, since 2008, revealed itself as part of a larger-scale Umno/BN plot against Bersih’s call for clean and fair elections, and human rights in general.
Former inspector-general of police Abdul Rahim Mohd Noor, recently emerged from wherever he’s been lurking following his disgraceful assault on Anwar Ibrahim a decade ago to warn the 2nd Perkasa annual general assembly against “a human rights wave” that would threaten the “principles” on which Malaysia was founded.
On the same day, Rahim Noor’s former boss Mahathir, who famously claimed that Anwar’s assault injuries had been self-inflicted, said he agreed that the “human rights wave” was a threat to Malaysia, and added that “certain quarters” are using human rights “for their own purposes instead of to save people.”
He added that “while we respect human rights as a universal value, (they) should be implemented within our capabilities”, before proceeding to lambast “the West” for human rights lapses and excesses.
And another Umno/BN stooge that has since added his voice to the anti-human rights clamour has been Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, who said he fully agreed that the “human rights wave” is akin to a revival of communism, and further declared it to be a “wicked plan to destroy and erode the sanctity of Islam”.
Personally, as a civil libertarian who couldn’t give a fig for racial or religious competitiveness, I’m far more concerned with the preserving the sanctity of sex. In fact I’d rather be practising it right now with one or more other consenting adults of compatible genders than sitting here discussing the perfidies of Umno/BN.
But sadly, as long as my mind is full of libido-killing images of this repellent regime’s porno-politicians and their scumbag supporters and cronies, the very thought of sex totally sucks.
DEAN JOHNS, after many years in Asia, currently lives with his Malaysian-born wife and daughter in Sydney, where he coaches and mentors writers and authors and practises as a writing therapist. Published books of his columns for Malaysiakini include ‘Mad about Malaysia’, ‘Even Madder about Malaysia’, ‘Missing Malaysia’ and ‘1Malaysia.con’.
As if it’s not enough to constantly rip-off the rakyat, pervert the system of justice, procure the police force, corrupt the civil services, debauch the media, shame the Malay race and defile the good name of Islam, these moral and ethical deviants even contrive to give sex a bad rap.
In the process so confusing the gullible and the ignorant as to give rise to such idiocies as the Obedient Wives’ Club with its aims like teaching Muslim wives the difference between “Muslim sex” and “Jewish sex”, whatever that may be.The employment of such a fundamentally natural, vital, pleasurable and indeed essential activity as sex for political ends and the persecution of so-called ‘minorities’ is an absolute outrage, and grossly hypocritical to boot.
The fact that a despoiler of the nation’s institutions like Mahathir Mohamad and a lothario if not lady-killer like Najib Abdul Razak can get away with such naked miscarriages of justice as the serial prosecutions of Anwar Ibrahim on trumped-up sodomy charges is a national and international disgrace.
As is the endless publication of the so-called ‘evidence’ in these trials in all their anal, rectal, seminal and other gory anatomical and serological detail by the prurient regime-controlled media for the mingled delight and disgust of pseudo-prudish sectors of the populace.
Yet the same Mahathir, who was happy to treat the nation and indeed the world to the tawdry and illegal spectacle of Sodomy 1, has the effrontery to support the recent and current police ban on Seksualiti Merdeka with comments like “There must be a law... you have to have a standard to adhere to.”
Warming further to his theme, he predictably proposed that there were limits to freedom. “What will happen to us when people decide they will walk naked in the streets? We can’t stop them, that is their right. If people decide, as I’ve seen in some countries, to have sex in public, what will happen to us?”
Speaking of having sex in public, I recall no objection on Mahathir’s part to the widest possible public dissemination of a DVD purporting to portray Anwar allegedly having sex with a ‘Chinese prostitute’.
And even more grossly hypocritical was the fact that the best-known of the three datuks responsible for the filming or more likely faking of this production was Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik, Malacca chief minister during Mahathir’s term as premier.After it was alleged that Rahim had sex with a 15-year-old girl back in the 1990s, Mahathir removed him from his chief ministership, but allowed him to escape further penalties.
The girl in the case wasn’t so fortunate, however, suffering three years’ ‘protective custody’ in a house for wayward girls.
And Lim Guan Eng, currently Chief Minister of Penang, was tried and condemned to three years in jail for publishing a pamphlet detailing the allegations against Rahim.
And the latest if abortive attempt by Umno/BN supporters to create a sex scandal has been allegations of sexual misconduct by the 16-year-old son of Rahim’s former nemesis, Guan Eng, with a ‘schoolgirl’.
However, the ‘girl’ in question was quickly revealed to be a 21-year-old student at Wellesley College in the US, who stated that she has “never met or even heard of the people involved,” and that the only way in which her modesty had been outraged was through the publication of her picture in connection with “these scurrilous and unfounded rumours”.
The latest cause celebre
But then truth was never an Umno/BN strong point, and in any case it has emerged that the latest sex-related cause celebre, the police banning of Seksualiti Merdeka, is not so much an attack on sex itself, or even on alleged sexual deviance, as on human rights in general.
Race-hate group Perkasa first zeroed-in on the sex issue, to be sure, with its youth chief Irwan Fahmi Ideris ranting that “supporting gays and lesbians will destroy our country” and vowing to counter such culture “to the last drop of blood.”
But the group’s attention was more powerfully focused on Ambiga Sreenevasan, head of Bersih 2.0, who was due to officially open the event, with banners demonising her as “The Antichrist” and calling for her arrest under the ISA.So a protest that was ostensibly against sexual licence as represented by Seksualiti Merdeka, a festival justly celebrating the human rights of people of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity which has been held annually, after all, since 2008, revealed itself as part of a larger-scale Umno/BN plot against Bersih’s call for clean and fair elections, and human rights in general.
Former inspector-general of police Abdul Rahim Mohd Noor, recently emerged from wherever he’s been lurking following his disgraceful assault on Anwar Ibrahim a decade ago to warn the 2nd Perkasa annual general assembly against “a human rights wave” that would threaten the “principles” on which Malaysia was founded.
On the same day, Rahim Noor’s former boss Mahathir, who famously claimed that Anwar’s assault injuries had been self-inflicted, said he agreed that the “human rights wave” was a threat to Malaysia, and added that “certain quarters” are using human rights “for their own purposes instead of to save people.”
He added that “while we respect human rights as a universal value, (they) should be implemented within our capabilities”, before proceeding to lambast “the West” for human rights lapses and excesses.
And another Umno/BN stooge that has since added his voice to the anti-human rights clamour has been Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, who said he fully agreed that the “human rights wave” is akin to a revival of communism, and further declared it to be a “wicked plan to destroy and erode the sanctity of Islam”.
Personally, as a civil libertarian who couldn’t give a fig for racial or religious competitiveness, I’m far more concerned with the preserving the sanctity of sex. In fact I’d rather be practising it right now with one or more other consenting adults of compatible genders than sitting here discussing the perfidies of Umno/BN.
But sadly, as long as my mind is full of libido-killing images of this repellent regime’s porno-politicians and their scumbag supporters and cronies, the very thought of sex totally sucks.
DEAN JOHNS, after many years in Asia, currently lives with his Malaysian-born wife and daughter in Sydney, where he coaches and mentors writers and authors and practises as a writing therapist. Published books of his columns for Malaysiakini include ‘Mad about Malaysia’, ‘Even Madder about Malaysia’, ‘Missing Malaysia’ and ‘1Malaysia.con’.
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