Black Magic on Malaysia Day?

So ... Malaysia Day ended up being part of a poker game of upping the ante.

The Red Shirts wanted to demonstrate they could match or perhaps even better Bersih 4.0, the latter seen or deliberately projected to their participants as a DAP-Chinese rally against a Malay PM.

The Malay Mail Online reported:

62-year-old Che Hassan from Pasir Puteh, Kelantan [stated]: “We’re not exactly angry at the Chinese. But we’re so angry at the DAP. They are insulting our Malay-Muslim leaders.

“They are messing around with the rights of the Malays, like what they did in Bersih 4. They insulted our leaders there, but here, we have done nothing. We didn't stir up any issues like they did.”

Once emotions have been aroused, facts, logic and reasoning went out of the window. That Bersih 4.0 had at least 20% Malay participants became unnoticed or ignored, which if tallied should worked out, in accordance with the figures given in my post 400,000 missing to be at least 20,000 Malays over two days.

And as an example of how emotions have clouded the perceptions of the Malay participants in the ethnic-centric Himpunan Rakyat Bersatu, the report by the Malay Mail Online published:

Although organisers of the Himpunan Rakyat Bersatu rally previously said the event was not meant to be racially-tinged, some participants openly admitted their objectives were to fight for the rights they claimed were trampled on by the “big-headed” Chinese.

One attendee, Muhamad Ridzuan Sulaiman, said the Malays now play too small a role in the economy, which he alleged is Chinese-controlled.

“For instance, if I wanted to open a shop next to a Chinese owned shop, they would use black magic to curse my shop,” he told Malay Mail Online as rally participants began packing up to leave Padang Merbok this evening.

The 21-year-old said although he believed the rally was not expressly anti-Chinese, it was organised due to Malay frustration over certain actions by the country’s ethnic minorities.

“The other races are just waiting for the Malays to fall,” lamented the youth who expressed interest in joining Malay nationalist party Umno.

Malays used to accuse the Chinese of being too bloody materialistic, but now they would even suspect their disliked opposite racial group of resorting to black magic (hitherto a Malay domain) to obstruct Malay progression. Preposterous as this might sound, it tells us in no uncertain terms that the ethnic divide is now far wider than it had been.

Recall the circumstances leading to Ops Lalang, that for every yin there is inevitably a yang. When the Tao had been much disturbed into a swirling disturbing disharmony by the upping of the ante in a poker game where the two players refuse to concede their hands, we should expect trouble. It's fortuitous we didn't re-witness May 13 MK II.

swirling but how will it end up?

And there's no point arguing which rally had been more noble, because in Malaysia our perception is all but a bundle of incoherent emotions and (as mentioned above) totally without fact, logic or reasoning being involved.

Yes, you may consider my statement in above paragraph as both white & black magic if you like, wakakaka.

balanced and in harmony
as we would like it

Happy Malaysia Day.