Scooping in muddy waters and laying a fish trap in between a gap. Contrarian essays no. 1

1. Many welcomed rafizis loss and rationalised it. For Rafizi he feels relieved to be free of political play and also free from palace intrigue.

2. But for many, their self serving summary of the loss is disappointing to me at least

3. These people talked of rafizis loss as a result of sandiwara politik and poltik tinggi at 2 levels.

4. At level 1, they talked in terms of Qadha and Qadar. They are acting sanctimonious and acting with pompous piety.

5. Fuuh! Qadha and Qadha and Qadar, I felt like falling off my chair.

6. I haven't felt that way since bossku Al mulut merah spoke about maqasid shar'iyah and wasathiyah. Good God!

7. Perhaps these people have just a cursory knowledge of these concepts, giving them a broad brush. Just mentioning them in passing to give the people some religious respectability in explaining the loss of Rafizi.

8. You know how malays are, sprinkle your narratives with religious words, they stopped thinking. They suffer a brain freeze.

9. The 2nd level is a dead give away of their true character. The loss of Rafizi, is an opportunity for Rafizi and us to return to politik melayu dan Islam. Ah ,..so that's it , ya.

10. Political melayu is what? Politik UMNO or pas? That's why I said a dead giveaway - the people speaking like this must be UMNO operatives .

11. Looks like many of us haven't freed ourselves from thinking in terms of temporal and ecclesiastical fascism.

12. The new PKR leadership has much to do to erase that kind of reactionary thinking especially among malays. But being revisionists themselves, can they?

13. These people are using the loss of Rafizi to scoop in muddy waters or placing a fish trap in between a gap. They think Rafizi suffers a rebound and will fall into their arms. You think Rafizi is a love sick teenager or what?

14. You may entice a revisionist into your suffocating embrace but not a true blue reformasist like Rafizi.

15. So people calling for a return to politik melayu dan Islam, go play with yourselves.

16. Instead of looking at the loss in terms of going back to politik melayu dan Islam, let's look at as a clash between reformasi forces against counter reformasi and revisionist forces.

17. The argument of going back to politik melayu dan Islam which is an unmistakably an UMNO argument, confines the issue as a Malay problem only. On the other hand, looking at the issue as a clash between 2 diametrically opposing forces, makes the issue race free. It's an issue that concerns both malays and non malays .

18. The argument of going back to politik melayu dan Islam is so blase' and does not impress us. Yeah, yeah we have heard of it many times . It's just another step of making malaysia into a Malay bully state

19. At the moment, in the clash between the two forces, the revisionists win. Rafizi who is intelligent and perceptive, knows who is behind them 20. The revisionists are eager to work with the bourgeois forces. The bourgeois forces should be taking to amiruddin, to the gol and gincu man, to ramanan, to izzah. Not to Rafizi. Title.