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Malaysian Blogger On Trial For Sedition

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the because-creating-martyrs-is-good-for-civil-obedience dept.

neonsignal writes "Raja Petra Kamarudin, a Malaysian blogger, is in court under the Internal Security Act, under which he can be detained indefinitely. He is well known for his commentary on the Malaysian government, and was arrested after a piece on the murder of a Mongolian woman, who was allegedly killed by two policeman and an associate of the deputy prime minister."

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  1. When in Malaysia.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    .. I read in the local English news paper about the "victory" of a muslim group that stopped the government changing a women's ID card which had her religion as Muslim.

    Since she converted to Christianity she wanted her ID card changed. Yeah, that was big news at the time and gives on an insight into how backwards the place can be.

    I say backwards not because it's about religion, but because I can't believe these strangers that don't know her have nothing better to do then demand the government not give her a new ID if she wants one because "if you're Muslim, you're always Muslim"

    Posting Anon - I might still need to go back some day.

    1. Re:When in Malaysia.. by rhyder128k · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Or this woman who been jailed for her terrorist poetry.

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7084801.stm

      --
      Michael Reed, freelance tech writer.
    2. Re:When in Malaysia.. by XchristX · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Given that Malaysia practices the most cruel and frightening kind of racial discrimination against Chinese and Indian minorities in all of South-East Asia, with their Nazi-like (and I'm not Godwinning here) racist ideologies of Ketuanan Melayu (Malay Supremacy) and Bumiputra (meaning "sons of the soil, which literally resembles Nazi Germany's "Blut und Boden" or "Blood and Soil") and engages in state sponsored discrimination against Indians and Chinese, I would imagine that some kind of aggressive change is long pending. That or remove the minorities from the country before the Malay racists conduct genocide on them all (which is their eventual intent). I;ve spoken to many overseas Chinese and Indians in he country, and most are literally afraid for their lives. Parts of Kuala Lumpur look like Russian Shtetls, or the Warsaw Ghettoes of WW-II, with violent, Malay mob-imposed racial segregation, discrimination and stigmatization.

      Notice how the racist GP stigmatizes, demonizes and dehumanizes Chinese and Indian minorities as "not tied to identity", just like the Nazis stigmatized Jews as "alien non-Aryans and unbound to the blood and soil of Germany", or whatever.

      Numerous international NGO's have detailed files on the massive levels of Jim Crow-style racial stigmatization of minorities that takes place across Malay society, their media, their government, all their major institutions, and the like.

      Malaysia is a massive genocide waiting to happen, unless some kind of change isn't implemented NOW, preferably through international condemnations and sanctions of some kind.

      --
      l'Homme n'est Rien l'Oeuvre Tout: Gustave Flaubert to George Sand
  2. Re:A moment to admire your country by JoaoPinheiro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or maybe it's a taste of what it might become without such criticism.

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    João Pinheiro
  3. Re:Works for me by susano_otter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'll keep that in mind the next time I'm inciting your neighbors to riot, or urging them to lynch you, or advocating election fraud.

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    Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.

  4. Malaysia..... by IMightB · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Malaysia isn't such a bad place as far as countries that I've visited go... My wife is Malay, and she wouldn't move back. Every time I visit there, I get the feeling that it is slowly being dragged into the 21st century. There are still many laws that give native Malay's/Muslims preferential treatment over other ethnic groups (Indians/Chinese). My understanding is that this is fairly limited to things like low-interest government loans.... I dunno... I enjoy visiting there, I don't think that I'd want to live there though.

  5. Re:Hmm.. Sedition by SpecBear · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can you provide any examples of Muslim leaders who have been arrested in the US for preaching hatred?

  6. Re:I call bullshit. by KGIII · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Never been arrested I take it? I got arrested on a faulty warrant and then lost in a bus around the country for someone who's name, prints, etc didn't even match my own. This is in the United States of America, CCA jails, and TransCorps. This happened while I was at work. I was an eight hour drive from home, if I'd known that there was some sort of problem I could have driven home to deal with it.

    It turns out that they used my name in part and had a SSN "near" mine. That was enough for a bench warrant.

    It took me 23 days to get "home" and then another 5 days sitting in a county jail to get to court and be released with apologies.

    I don't have much experience beyond that but I can say that 2 days == 30 days == 12 hours == 1 minute.

    Nothing, at all, equates to being held against your will and powerless for something you did not do.

    --
    "So long and thanks for all the fish."