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When dogs, cows and swine can threaten security

The world is all too familiar with the war on terror today. The rude awakening on that fateful day of ‘Ground Zero’, and the unending acts of terrorism since the times of Osama bin Laden have placed the borders around the globe on heightened watch.

The latest war on Isis is today making governments account in a transparent manner where their allegiance stands.

In the wake of this world of terror that we humans are battling in solidarity around the planet, there is a new twist brewing in a tiny nation called Malaysia.

Going by the news reports breaking through the internet media, one can get rather puzzled and maybe troubled, too. It seems lately that while the nations on the world map are into serious watch and battling against terrorism and extremism, the Malaysian government led by a half-a-century experienced political party mechanism has to contend with a ‘new’ security threat.

In Malaysia, dogs, cows and swine can be deemed as extremely sensitive to national peace and threat to religion. Not that the poor God-given animals are politicking let alone matching the antics of Osama bin Laden or the current Isis militancy, but  more so for, as what some people want us to believe, creating ‘political chaos’.

With due respect and appreciation to God’s creation, the dogs, cows and pigs are not party to this growing political madness that seems to be plaguing and tormenting the powers that be in Malaysia.

It seems, going by the unfolding events on the nation’s political landscape, that not only politicians but NGOs, religious leaders and appointed authorities and some are all up in arms or in cahoots when it comes to dogs, cows and swine.

The threat - as we learn from the reported statements from leaders, authorities and the government of the day, is that dogs, cows and swine can shred the very race-fabric of this country’s population.

The most recent ‘Touch a dog’ campaign exposes the truth. And these past several years we have also seen the cow-head threats and the swine gossips in generous amounts.

What is most disturbing is the fact that while the world is battling terrorism and extremism, Malaysia has to contend with seeming ‘sensitivities’ on matters that relate to dogs, cows and swine.

And to add to that surrounding the poor creatures of creation, we also have the raging war of debates and legal tussles about how to call your God - i.e. the ‘Allah’ issue.  

The peddled argument is that Malaysia is a unique country given its seemingly out-of-this-world multi-racial and multi-religious population.

Gosh! What is ailing this nation which has been screaming to the world that it is a moderate nation? What madness is plaguing its leaders who have been trumpeting about how close they have brought this nation to a mere six years to attain a developed nation-status?  

Ask the man in the street or the executive within corporate corridors or the housewife at the market place. Hear what they have to say.

A dog is a dog, a cow is a cow

The ground reality is that for the citizens a dog is a dog; a cow is a cow; a swine is a swine. And that is all there is to it.

These creations of God have never been a security threat to each other homo sapiens either. The people have been living with all these creatures since time immemorial or at least since the very beginnings when Malays, Chinese and Indians started to dot the nation’s square metres.

Even calling God by whatever language and word had never been an issue.

So while nations around the world are bridging people across divides in their concerted effort to fight terror and militancy, in Malaysia we are seeing our leaders incapable of stopping the dogs, cows and swine or the naming of God from becoming a threat to national security and social order.

What do we do?

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