Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Is Anwar Ibrahim the world's greatest Malay?

Despite the years of incarceration while suffering a bad back burdened with the knowledge that his reputation tarnished with allegations of sexual misconduct and worse betrayed by his Malay brethren who unceremoniously threw him out of the most powerful political party in Malaysia.

After some of the most tumultuous events in the history of Malaysia, were you Anwar, would you not be optimistic that the future of Malaysian politics now belongs to you? From the role confined largely to the fringe of real power, Anwar has experienced a transformation in fortunes best described in Hans Christian Andersen's Ugly Duckling.

But that is not the issue here, but how do you retain respect or affection for a government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to systematically annihilate the reputation of our most famous Malay in the world history .

Unless our leaders overnight transform themselves into paragons of candour and truth, there is no choice but witness the destruction of Malaysia 's most well known icon in the world.

The question is do we Malaysians understand that 'when one erects a throne to lies, one erects a gallows to truth."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

No. Jose Rizal is the world's greatest Malay ever!