Bismillah,
I have being surprisingly unproductive for the past week due to things I've done for this past week. Of course all of those thing is the thing that will never bring me to Jannah.
Astaghfirullah.
Anyway, I got lot of thing to be said. I've thinking a lot for the couple of days about what's happening now to the world, Malaysia or in my organisation as well. Not really well for any of them.
One of the reason to not thinking a lot because it just bring bad news for me. Ignorance is a blessing? Let talk about this sometimes later.
I have watched one video my friend post on facebook and with His takdir, somehow it's related to what I've been thinking for past couple weeks. With all due respect guys, I can see your point from seerah point of view and I have no intention at all to condem or critict you guys. Perhaps or almost certain your deeds to Allah may be greater than me.
However, this thought is killing me and I have to say this at this blog or else I cant be sleeping at night!! (ok,this is too exaggerating)
Back to what I'm saying, the point is this is only my mere opinion which maybe wrong at all (eventhough I quite confident at it).
For a starter, it's better if we look at population of Malaysia.
Malay 50.4%, Chinese 23.7%, indigenous 11%, Indian 7.1%, others 7.8% (2004 est.)
One of the reason to not thinking a lot because it just bring bad news for me. Ignorance is a blessing? Let talk about this sometimes later.
I have watched one video my friend post on facebook and with His takdir, somehow it's related to what I've been thinking for past couple weeks. With all due respect guys, I can see your point from seerah point of view and I have no intention at all to condem or critict you guys. Perhaps or almost certain your deeds to Allah may be greater than me.
However, this thought is killing me and I have to say this at this blog or else I cant be sleeping at night!! (ok,this is too exaggerating)
Back to what I'm saying, the point is this is only my mere opinion which maybe wrong at all (eventhough I quite confident at it).
For a starter, it's better if we look at population of Malaysia.
Malay 50.4%, Chinese 23.7%, indigenous 11%, Indian 7.1%, others 7.8% (2004 est.)
(taken from CIA-The world Factbook)
For me, it's not very convincing statistic for Malays since they only have a major by only 0.4%. Well, in their defence it's still a big majority against any religion singularly.
But what my major concern is when I try to look at religion convertion rate. Well, someone prefer the word revert to Islam rather than convert to Islam. Let's just use revert to Islam. Surprisingly or rather expected for me, I cant find the data for it. In contrast at Britain, thousands have being reverted to Islam. It maybe a small and insignificant when we compare to the whole population of Britain but we cant deny that it is still a big number.
The problem that we have in Malaysia is Islam is too synonym to Malays to the extend that non-muslim thought that Islam is Malays which is obviously wrong. In Britain, people dont see it that way which make the reversion higher.
Let us not forget Sabah and Sarawak. Just how many Malays at there?
Speaking of which, I remember my friend told me one interesting story. He is Bajau and weirdly, he was denied to enter 'sekolah agama' since he was in standard 2 until he started secondary school but his friend who is Bajau easily got accepted eventhough he just applied it during he was in standard 5. Race vs religion dont you think?
What I'm trying to say is, we got lot of work to do and I didn't agree if we just focusing on one race only because Malaysia in not only consist of Malays. Sorry but I just can't buy it.
Well, I think this is what I believe and it's up to you whether to accept it or reject it. Not really affecting my life after all. But, what do you believe in?
p/s : tahniah pada kawan saya, Akmal Alep kerana mewarisi kerja saya yang tak berapa nak jalan. It was an interesting day for me yesterday.(funny to be exact.hahaha)
But what my major concern is when I try to look at religion convertion rate. Well, someone prefer the word revert to Islam rather than convert to Islam. Let's just use revert to Islam. Surprisingly or rather expected for me, I cant find the data for it. In contrast at Britain, thousands have being reverted to Islam. It maybe a small and insignificant when we compare to the whole population of Britain but we cant deny that it is still a big number.
The problem that we have in Malaysia is Islam is too synonym to Malays to the extend that non-muslim thought that Islam is Malays which is obviously wrong. In Britain, people dont see it that way which make the reversion higher.
Let us not forget Sabah and Sarawak. Just how many Malays at there?
Speaking of which, I remember my friend told me one interesting story. He is Bajau and weirdly, he was denied to enter 'sekolah agama' since he was in standard 2 until he started secondary school but his friend who is Bajau easily got accepted eventhough he just applied it during he was in standard 5. Race vs religion dont you think?
What I'm trying to say is, we got lot of work to do and I didn't agree if we just focusing on one race only because Malaysia in not only consist of Malays. Sorry but I just can't buy it.
Well, I think this is what I believe and it's up to you whether to accept it or reject it. Not really affecting my life after all. But, what do you believe in?
p/s : tahniah pada kawan saya, Akmal Alep kerana mewarisi kerja saya yang tak berapa nak jalan. It was an interesting day for me yesterday.(funny to be exact.hahaha)
3 comments:
Your question is valid enough. Indeed, our statistics in regard to the religious demographics in Malaysia are inadequate .
However, shouldn't we make it more interesting, more reflective of the issues surrounding the nation?
Rather than just asking about how many people convert to Islam, i personally want more. How many of people convert to other religions?
How many Malays converted to other religions beside Islam? How many want to convert but denied by the religious authorities?
How many Malaysians no longer want their race AND their religions to be asked to in forms , or br put in their IC, simply because all of that are personal matter, and if i could be frank, irrelevant.
Yup, i'm one of the people who don't actually want to disclose my faith and race because both are unimportant in regards to my status as a citizen.
Statistics bukan sekadar mencari apa yang kita mahu tahu, ia juga kadang kala untuk mencari apa yang selama ini dipendam-pendam dan tidak mahu ditangani.
In addition, with respect to your argument, i personally believe that BOTH race and religion are irrelevant to one's status as a citizen of any country. Racial politics are absurd, while religious politics is backwards. But that is me.
Have a nice day. : )
Regards,
Wk
hahaha mat, ko kena mewariskan segala ilmu ko dulu...
=)
@wk: yes, I being pondering the exact same question when I try to find the statistic and I believe it will be a good wake up call to all people in Malaysia (daie especially) about just how serious this problem is.
And I do agree with you about the politics. In the end of the day, we just want justice (which has been mention in quran way much rather than hudud or qisas) whether you are muslim or non-muslim.
Nut we slightly have different idea about revealing our faith and race. Yes it's unimportant as a citizen but the problem is not we proud to be in pur race or religion but the problem is happen when we started to look down on other people. I can see ur point because it's so hard to be humble with other group.
Have a nice day to you too in autumn.=)
@akmalep: kite cerita time family day ah btol2nnt. try give a fresh idea dulu.hehe
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