The Catholic Herald's website has been hacked as I'm writing this. I must say that it's terribly unfortunate,  but it seems as if the super vocal 'I am more -Muslim- than you' people who seem to permeate this side of reality sure know how to seek attention.

You know a few years ago several of my friends would have chided me for speaking up against the official mindsets of the ruling race. But then, I don't quite see why this need to silence ourselves just to keep the peace, and over the years, I have more than once engaged in battle with some rather narrow minded 'my faith is so much better than yours, that's why I'm going to spend the time bitching about how stupid your faith is' sort of people. It's unfortunately that they claim to represent Islam, which is the official faith of this country.

And then I got married, I got pregnant, yada-yada, I sort of mellowed, and then halfway through this life that zest for engaging in apologetics and speaking up fizzled away.

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Of course, three weeks to my expected delivery date, a friend from church tells me that 'Did you know that the Catholic Herald's website has been hacked?'

That, and of course, reading of some Catholics and Christians going on twitter, all smart and dandy and declaring, 'I am #Catholic n I dun agree with using the word – it confuses people' sort of riles me up, because it just proves that Malaysia is far far far away from heading towards that 1Malaysia vision that our smart-s PM cooked up. It's quite illogical to conceptualize 1Malaysia when clearly, many many people on this side of the sea consider our East Malaysians foreigners and think that Malaysia is only the peninsular and nothing else.

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So no, 'for the sake of keeping peace' doesn't warrant any single one of us being doormats. And if anyone from the so-called ruling race wants to threaten us with that whole 'ketuanan Melayu' shit, I'll say this now: excuse me, did you just pop out of some storybook zaman? Sure you can claim that this is Malaysia we need to live like Malaysians and accept Malaysia as it is; but I can also say the same thing to you, this is Malaysia, and like it or not we are citizens just like you – the only thing that separates us is RELIGION, and RACE, and those are quite pathetic excuses to claim lordship and sovereignity. Besides, if you truly wanted your religion and race to be revered and respected, hacking a Catholic website is hardly the smartest thing to do.

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And so 2010 begins with a sad reminder that a big chunk of Malaysia is still stuck in the dungeons of idiocy. Alas.