What's happening..?
| Today The Sun (12 Feb 08) reported "Jawi road signs in KL" and the reason given by the DBKL was "directions in Jawi was part of the government's effort to promote Islam Hadhari and tourism. It's also a chance for non-muslims to learn Jawi." Totally a stupid reason. At the first place, officers in DBKL it self failed to understand the meaning of Islam Hadhari and most of them are distancing their self from the concept. It's most stupid brains to think the non-muslim will learn the Jawi just by looking at the sign board. When majority of malay muslim's it self fail to learn or master the Jawi although after going through the official education for the number of the years, how do DBKL expect the nons will learn by just looking at the signage? Some of the malay muslim's policy makers believe they will be more Islamic then others by just converting the roman alphabets into jawi. They believe the outlook must be Islamic rather than inner says. These are the policy makers who make noises when they see english signage but trigger happy to convert the signage to jawi even though it was in Bahasa Malaysia. When it's come for the Mandarin and Tamil language this no-sense policy makers will talk about the "National Language Policy" but they ignore the policy when it's come for the Jawi in the name of Hadhari. The open secret of Malaysian Malays is identity crisis. They feel more secure to identify their self as muslim rather than Malay's but they fail to understand even the muslims in middle east are looking down at them because for the middle east, non middle east muslims are the second class muslim community. The originality of muslims belongs to middle east muslim and non middle east is "mualaf". We are in Malaysia, so called multi culture, multi racial, multi religion yet the DBKL's decision doesn't represent the concept of multi malaysian's. Supposedly DBKL should used the Tamil and Mandarin signage too rather than poking their nose to unknown language for the majority of Malaysian. It's a waste of people's money too. |
posted by Francis Xavier at 8:08 PM
